HOW LONG WILL YOU REMAIN SILENT????????

DEAR READERS:

LAST YEAR ON JULY 6 I WROTE IN MY LETTER TO THE JOURNAL NEWS,

AND ON THE SAME WEEK IN THE NORTH COUNTY NEWS, MY BELIEF THAT

EVEN THOUGH OUR PARTICULAR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT

REPRESTATIVES WERE NOT THEMSELEVES CORRUPT, THEY WERE IN FACT

GUITLY OF BEING ENABLERS, AND IN THE PROCESS DOING US THE VOTERS,

AND CITZENS OF THIS STATE A DISERVICE BY BEING SILENT ABOUT THE

CORUPTION ARROUND THEM. DURING THE GUY VELLLA SAGA, WE HEARD NOT

ONE PEEP FROM OUR REPS. AT ANY LEVEL. DURING THE SEXUAL HARRASMENT

SAGA OF ASEMBLY LEADER SHELDON SILVER'S AIDE, AND OF THE ASSEMBLY

LEADERS OWN TROUBLE ABOUT HIS STAY IN LAS VEGAS(WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO

THAT INVESTIGATION?) AGAIN OUR REPS. AT ALL LEVELS SILENCE IS AND HAS

BEEN DEAFENING. WE ALSO HAVE AN ONGOING INVESTIGATIO INTO REP.

CLARENCE NORMAND OF BROOKLYN FOR SELLING JUDGESHIPS(AGAIN THE PRESS

HAS KEPT US IN THE DARK ABOUT THAT) AND OUR REPS. ARE SILENT. IN THE

N.Y.C. COUNCIL , COUNCILMAN JENNINGS IS CENSURED AND FINE $5000.00

FOR HIS BEHAVIOR TWARDS WOMEN ON HIS STAFF. BACK TO THE GUY VELLLA

SAGA, EVEN AFTER HE WAS CONVICTED, THE STATE SENATE BOOSTED HIS PAY,

THERE BYE ALLOWING HIM TO COLLECT AN EVEN HIGHER PENSION. YES, I DID

SAY HE WAS ALLOWED TO COLLECT HIS PENSION, EVEN THO HE WAS CONVICTED

OF TAKING BRIBES. CITY CONCILMAN JENNINGS WAS STILL ALLOWED TO KEEP

HIS COUNCIL SEAT. IF YOU REMEMBER, STATE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SOL

WATCHLER, EVEN THO HE WAS CONVICTED AND SENTENCED TO JAIL, WAS ALLOWED

TO KEEP HIS PENSION, AND IS NOW A PAID STATE LOBBIEST. ALL THIS, AND OUR

REPS. AT ALL LEVELS ARE SILENT. SURE THEY TALK ABOUT REFORM, BUT NOBODY

REFORMS THE FACT THAT STATE OFFICIALS WHO VIOLATE THE LAW CAN ESCAPE

ALL PUNISHMENT BY RESIGNING. THEY CAN BE CONVICTED OF CRIMES AND STILL

BE ALLOWED TO KEEEP THEIR STATE PENSIONS THAT WE THE TAXPAYERS PAY!!!

TRY THAT IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR! NOBOBY AT ANYLEVEL OF GOVT. SPEAKS UP,

OR CHANGES THIS!!!! I BELIEVE THEY REMAIN SILENT FOR THREE REASONS.

1) NOBODY ON THE STATE SIDE WILL SPEAK UP OUT OF FEAR OF LOOSING THEIR

COMMITEE ASSIGNMENTS AND THE STIPPEND THAT COMES WITH IT.

2) ON THE LOCAL LEVEL THEY ARE AFRAID OF LOOSING STATE GRANT MONEY

BY EMBARASSING THEIR COLLEAGES BY TALKING ABOUT THIS TO THE PUBLIC.

3) YOUR SILENCE EMBOLDENS THEM TO REMAIN SILENT, FOR BY NOT SPEAKING

OUT BY E-MAIL OF LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, THEY BELIEVE (AND RIGHTLY SO IT

SEEMS) YOU DON'T CARE. AFTER ALL YOU KEEP RE-ELECTING THEM.


THIS IS ALL ON THE ELCECTED REPRESENTATIVE SIDE, IN A FUTURE BLOG I WILL

SHOW HOW THIS HAPPENS ON THE JUDICIAL SIDE FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN

JUDICIAL FIAT. I BELIEVE IT IS BOTH A DISERVICE AND ETHICALLY WRONG

FOR ELECTED REPS. CHARGED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUST, TO REMAIN SILENT

IN THE WAKE OF THE CURUPTION ARROUND THEM OUT OF POSSIBLE FEAR

OF RETAILIATION, LOSS OF MONEY, OR EVEN LOSS OF ELECTED OFFICE. I

BELIEVE WHEN EXPLAINED TO THE VOTING PUBLIC , THEY WILL ALWAYS SIDE

WITH THE OFFICIAL WHO KEEPS THE PUBLIC TRUST. ANOTHER "BAZZOISM"

"WHEN YOU DO WHAT'S RIGHT THE POLITICS WILL TAKE CARE OF ITSELF."

I BELIEVE THAT AN ELECTED OFFICIAL DOES NOT LOOSE HIS FIRST

AMMENDMENT RIGHT TO SPEACH BY VOICE, LETTER OF E-MAIL THEIR

OUTRAGE WHENEVER ABUSE OF THE PUBLIC TRUST TAKES PLACE. I BELIEVE WITH

THEIR VOICE ALONG WITH THE VOTERS AND THE PRESS , CHANGE CAN TAKE

PLACE. THAT AS ELECTED OFFICIALS IT IS THEIR DUTY TO VOICE THE

OUTRAGE OF THE VOTERS THAT PUT THEM IN OFFICE.

I KNOW THIS SOUNDS "PIE IN THE SKY", BUT I ALSO BELIEVE PUBLIC OFFCIALS

SHOULD APPEAL TO OUR AND THEIR BETTER ANGELS, THEN SIDE WITH

CYINISISM. POLITICS AND PUBLIC SREVICE SHOULD BE A NOBLE ATTAINMENT,

AND COULD BE WHEN ELECTED OFFICIALS PUT THEIR TRUST IN THE PEOPLE.

THE SAD FACT IS THAT NONE OF THIS IS POSSIBLE WHLE YOU THE VOTER, YOU

THE TAXPAYER, YOU THE CITIZEN REMAIN SILENT. IN OUR REPRESENTATIVE

GOVERNMENT, POWER COMES FROM THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED, AND

SO WHATEVER ACTIONS THE ELECTED REPS. CHOOSE, IT IS WITH YOUR CONSENT,

BY VOICE, BY VOTE OR BY SILENCE. IT IS UP TO YOU TO CHOOSE THE POWER

YOU WISH TO YEILD.

BAZZO 04/24/05

THE BAZZO MANIFESTO

RECENTNLY I HAD SOME VERY GOOD FRIENDS OF MINE WHOSE OPINION

I GREATLY RESPECT ASK WHY I DO THIS? THEY TELL ME I AM WASTING

MY TIME NOTHING WILL CHANGE. I DO THIS BECAUSE I BELIEVE THEM TO

BE WRONG. THAT KIND OF THINKING IS WHAT THE POWERS THAT BE IN

GOVT. AND THE MEDIA ENCOURAGE. WHAT I BELIVE TO BE THE ROSSETTA

STONE OF POWER, IS THAT THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO HAVE IS FREE ACCESS

TO INFORMATION AND OPINION WHICH THEY DON'T CONTROL.

EVEN THE MEDIA WANT TO CONTROL WHAT YOU KNOW, HOW MUCH YOU

KNOW AND WHEN YOU SHOULD KNOW IT. WHAT THEY WANT YOU IS TO BE SO

FUSTRATED AND HELPLESS THAT YOU WON'T DO ANYTHING, EVEN VOTE,

UNLESS THEY TELL YOU WHO TO VOTE FOR, SO THOSE IN POWER CAN RETIAN IT.

AFTER ALL, THAT'S WHAT POWER IS ALL ABOUT, THE GROWTH AND RETENTION

OF IT. THE MEDIA, WHICH OPERATES ON A FOR PROFIT BASIS CAN BE

PREASURED TO COVER WHAT YOU WANT TO KNOW BY YOUR ABILTY TO CONTACT

THEM VIA LETTERS AND E-MAIL AND LET THEM KNOW WHERE TO DIRCT THEIR

RESOURCES FOR YOUR BENEFIT OR ELSE YOU WON'T BUY THEIR PRODUCT.

THERE- BYE THEY CAN'T SELL ADVERTISING. BOYCOTTING ADVERTISERS WON'T

WORK AS WELL AS BOYCOTTING THE PAPER. ALSO REMEMBER THERE ARE MORE

VOTERS THAN SPECIAL INTERESTS. MORE VOTERS THAN CONTRIBUTORS.

IT IS YOUR VOTE THEY NEED MORE THEN MONEY, WITHOUT YOUR VOTE

THE CANNOT STAY IN OFFICE. THIS IS WHY I AND OTHER BLOGGERS EXIST.

TO GIVE YOU INFORMATION WHEN YOU WANT IT, NOT WHEN THEY DEEM

YOU SHOULD HAVE IT. DON'T LET THEM FOOL YOU WITH THE CANARD THAT

YOU WILL ONLY LOOK FOR WHAT YOU WANT TO RE-ENFORCE YOUR PREDJUSES.

WHEN THEY DO IT, IT IS TO EXPAND THEIR KNOWLEDGE, WHEN YOU DO IT,

IT FOR YOUR PREDJUCE. BULL....YOU ARE ALSO EXPANDING YOUR KNOWLEDGE.

A BAZZOISM: AN EDUCATED AND ACTIVE CONSTITUANT IS THE BEST VOTER.

BELIEVE IT...DON'T FORGET IT...IT IS WHAT PEOPLE IN POWER FEAR MOST.


BAZZO 04/01/05