In a message dated 10/5/02 4:33:19 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
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> From: "Marcia Ferris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Marcia Ferris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 3:55 PM
> Subject: Fw: When will we ever learn?
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> > A quote from Hermann Goering when he was
> > testifying at Nuremberg:
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> > "Why of course the people don't want war... But
> > after all it is the leaders of the country who determine
> > the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the
> > people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist
> > dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship ...
> > Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to
> > the bidding of the leaders. That is easy.
> > All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked,
> > and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and
> > exposing the country to danger."
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Keith says; This 'forwarder' failed to sign or make the post Mpls. Specific,
so I will make the connection.
We are approaching the one year anniversary of the end of a "War" on poverty,
right here in Mpls. Yes, the Mpls. DFL Machine had waged a twelve year war on
our city's affordable housing stock and the poor people who resided within.
As in war, small property owners found they had no property rights as gun
fire echoed on the mean streets of Mpls. The poor were concentrated in their
ghettos, North and South, more and more densely as battered buildings were
boarded and demolished around them.
Was the shelter a concentration camp? People were concentrated there; not
killed. But a generation's learning potential and optimism was killed when
the City/DFL Policy destroyed home life for so many poor families.
And the middle class, the small investors who owned commercial and
residential property, didn't know that the City/DFL Agenda was to board up
and tear down any building that became distressed and vulnerable. So long as
the City did not pay for acquisition, the slippery slope to the landfill was
kept well greased. Street dealing criminals were allowed sanctuary out front
while housing code and housing court outlook rewarded tenants' damage to
property. The Police Unit CCP/Safe was tainted to punish property owners for
the misconduct, and criminal conduct of tenants, and then close their
buildings, as in war.
As in war, vacant lots appeared in the war zone, and spread into whole
parcels of the hood. The normal amenities were no longer available to be
purchased. As in a war zone,
Civil rights were suspended. The presumption of innocence on the streets was
gone. The right to equal protection under the law, for families cloistered
behind bolted and shuttered doors in their homes, was gone.
The war is over now. Proof is all the prefab homes filling the vacant lots
now. Different owners, different residents. Shall we observe the anniversary?
Shall we forget and move on? Some DFL elected-office holders have different
faces now. Some DFL elected officeholders in this one-party town have
different outlooks now. Our City has less monetary might now.
But the leaders of our local DFL, the policy makers for the party, how have
they changed? Has the light of past folly been shined on their faces. Do we
know the DFL party leaders who led the DFL office-holders; who them to that
morally/fiscally bankrupt war/demolition policy? Are they still at the helm,
controlling the levers of power and policy?
When will we ever learn... to identify the people behind the officeholders?
Keith Reitman Making a transition from sentry duty to home beautiful
NearNorth
Rents uncollected/Rants Mpls Specific
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