Posted by
Katy Grimes on Thursday, September 11, 2008 2:46:29 PM
A neighborhood association divided by ideology is a dangerous entity. A few board members on the Land Park Community Association are squawking loudly about the new Board members and any involvement they attempt. The old Board members want to continue operating in secrecy instead of transparancy (they voted down a Transparancy amendment), and they do not want to grow membership and be more inclusive. They have repeatedly told new board members to stop trying to do so much, and sit back and observe how things are done. Does this sound like the elite liberals in America with Sarah Palin? ...threatened by newcomers, political outsiders and real people who accomplish what they set out to do?
Recently, new Land Park Community Association (LPCA) Board member Craig Powell and I were interviewed by Channel 10 about the illegal poaching and hunting of ducks and geese in William Land Park. The story and video are here:
After the story aired Tuesday September 9th, I heard that the LPCA Board President accused me of being terribly negative in the report. She also challenged Craig Powell's authority to talk to the news about this problem, saying that only she is supposed to talk to the media. He is the Chairperson of the Parks Committee and I am the resident who spearheaded the campaign to stop the poaching. I can talk to anyone I want to.
First, I tried on my ow to get the City Parks department to get involved. I have spoken with several park employees who know of the problems with the illegal fishing and poaching, in addition to many other associated park problems. I just got lip service from the Parks Dept. Next, I wrote a letter to the LPCA outlining the problem, and asking for their help. That was met with immediate resistance from the board, except for one member who faxed my letters to each of the City Council members and Mayor. Now the cat was out of the bag.
Since then, I have been interviewed twice by local television news stations, I have written one column about the poaching in The Sacramento Union, another smaller column and follow up piece for Inside The City.
Today I heard that one of the LPCA board members has contacted the publisher or editor at Inside The City and complained that I didn't check my facts for the follow up story and am telling lies. The City is way out of line when they contact the boss of a media person to intimidate. However, I was at the meeting where a City Parks official offered to personally work with the City Attorney to make the violation for harming or hunting park birds, a misdemeanor instead of just an infraction, as it currently states. Now, on the Channel 10 video, city officials are not only denying there is a problem, they are denying that anyone offered to help make the violation tougher.
When a neighborhood association goes bad and board members work to prevent anyone else from contributing to the welfare of the neighborhood as members of the LPCA are doing, they must be replaced. They have missed the lesson on how democracy works. Which is why I refer to them as Leftists.
Lyle H. Rositer Jr., M.D., a Forensic Psychiatrist, explains the Liberal mind as political madness: “Of special interest, however, are the many values about which the modern liberal mind is not passionate: his agenda does not insist that the individual is the ultimate economic, social and political unit; it does not idealize individual liberty and the structure of law and order essential to it; it does not defend the basic rights of property and contract; it does not aspire to ideals of authentic autonomy and mutuality; it does not preach an ethic of self-reliance and self-determination; it does not praise courage, forbearance or resilience; it does not celebrate the ethics of consent or the blessings of voluntary cooperation. It does not advocate moral rectitude or understand the critical role of morality in human relating. The liberal agenda does not comprehend an identity of competence, appreciate its importance, or analyze the developmental conditions and social institutions that promote its achievement. The liberal agenda does not understand or recognize personal sovereignty or impose strict limits on coercion by the state. It does not celebrate the genuine altruism of private charity. It does not learn history’s lessons on the evils of collectivism.”
I rest my case however, I will not stop challenging these neighborhood leftists and their irrational and twisted need to control the destiny of a neighborhood made up of 6,000 individuals. They fear my pen, my opinion, my independence and my being an outsider, therefore I will continue to write.