DEAR READERS:
I KNOW THAT YOU HAVE READ THAT THE PRESENT SECESSION OF THE SUPREME
COURT HAS MADE A FEW RULINGS THAT HAVE IN EFFECT PUT YOUR PROPERTY
IN JEOPARDY OF STATE SEIZURE NO LONGER FOR "PUBLIC USE" AS OUR FOUNDERS
LIMITED IT TO, BUT NOW FOR"PUBLIC GOOD" WHICH IS OPEN ENDED, AND CEEDES
MORE POWER TO THE STATE THEN OUR FOUNDERS BELIEVED THE STATE
SHOULD HAVE. IF YOU READ THE PREVAILING STORIES ON THEESE RULING,
YOU WOULD BE UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT ALL IS LOST, AND YOU HAVE
NO POWER TO SAVE YOUR PROPERTY FROM THE WHIMS OF THE STATE.
..........NOT TRUE.....NOT TRUE...NOT TRUE.......
AS ABHORENT AS THEESE RECENT RULINGS ARE TO A FREE PEOPLE, AND
AS MUCH AS THEESE RECENT RULING HAVE OUR FOUNDERS TURNING OVER
IN THEIR GRAVES, THESE RULINGS ALSO HAVE THE EFFECT OF GIVING THE
STATES BACK THEIR RIGHT OF SELF- DETERMINATION. THIS STATE RIGHT
PUTS BACK INTO YOUR HANDS THE THE POWER YOU HAD LOST TO THE
JUDICIARY. IN OTHER WORDS YOU, BY YOUR VOTE, CAN NOW FORCE
YOUR STATE AND LOCAL LEGISLATORS TO TIGHTEN THE RULES OF EMINENT DOMAIN
OF YOUR STATE AND LOCALITY. YOU HAVE BEEN GIVEN BACK YOUR POWER OF REDRESS
AT THE VOTING BOOTH. IF YOU DO NOT LIKE THE WAY THE STATE OR LOCAL GOVT. IS
EXERCISING IT'S POWER OF EMINENT DOMAIN, BY LIMITING THE POWER
OF THE FEDERAL GOVT. TO INTERFERE IN STATE BUSINESS, THE COURTS
HAVE NOW LIMITED HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE NECESSARY TO EFFECT CHANGE.
ON A STATE AND LOCAL LEVEL, YOU NEED FAR LESS PEOPLE TO GET GOVT.
ATTENTION ON A STATE OR LOCAL LEVEL THEN YOU WOULD NEED ON A FEDERAL LEVEL. ALSO BY GIVING
BACK TO THE LEGILATOR THE POWER OF EMINENT DOMAIN, IT TAKES POWER
AWAY FROM JUDGES IN WHICH THEIR WOULD BE NO REDRESS SHOULD YOU
FEEL ABUSED BY EMINENT DOMAIN.
SO PEOPLE, LETS TKAE THIS LEMON OF RULINGS AND MAKE
LEMONADE. PREASURE YOU LOCAL AND STATE REPRENTATIVES AND
DEMAND THAT THEY TIGHTEN THE RULES OF EMINENT DOMAINE OR THEY
WILL RISK YOUR WRATH AT THE VOTING BOOTH IN NOVEMBER. IT IS
WELL TO REMEMBER IT IS YOUR PROPERTY THAT IS IN JEOPARDY IF ON THIS
ISSUE YOU REMAIN SILENT.
BAZZO 06/26/05
Sunday, June 26, 2005
Monday, June 20, 2005
REFLECTIONS AT FIFTY
DEAR READERS:
ON SATURDAY JUNE 18 I TURNED 50. I THINK AS A LIFE LONG RESIDENT
OF YORKTOWN, A LITTLE PERPECTIVE IS IN ORDER. WHEN I GREW UP, YORKTOWN
AND CORTLANT WERE BUGALOW COMMUNITIES. YOU WANTED TO BANK, YOU WENT
TO PEEKSKILL. YOU WANTED TO SHOP FOR FOOD OR CLOTHING OR EVEN SHOES,
YOU WENT TO PEEKSKILL. PEEKSKILL WAS THE CITY. ROUGHLY 60 PERCENT OF
YORKTOWN AND CORTLANT DISSAPEARED FOR THE WINTER, AS MOST HOMES
WERE ONLY SUMMER HOMES. THE POLICE KNEW WHO YOU WERE AND THERE
WAS A PERSONAL RELATIOSHIP BETWEEN THE LAW AND THE PEOPLE. YOU
COULD FIND YOUR LOCAL GOVT. OFFICIAL WHENEVER YOU WANTED, AS THEY
WERE MOSTLY LOCAL BUSINESS PEOPLE. YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO WAIT FOR
A MEETING. MOST IMPORTANT, YOUR LOCAL GOVT. PRETTY MUCH STAYED
OUT OF YOUR WAY WHEN IT CAME TO YOUR PRIVATE PROPERTY OR PRIVATE
BUSINESS. THEY DID NOT PRETEND TO KNOW BETTER THEN YOU, HOW YOU
SHOULD LIVE YOUR LIFE, RAISE YOUR CHILDREN, RUN YOUR BUSINESS.
THEY DID NOT PUNISH SUCCESS, NOR DID THEY LIVE TO SEPERATE YOU
FROM YOUR MONEY. SOMEWHERE ALONG THE WAY, THIS HAS CHANGED.
AS PEOPLE FROM THE N.Y.C. MOVED UP TO THE AREA, THEY BROUGHT WITH
THEM THE CITY MENTALITY OF GOVT. KNOWS BEST. AS LONG TIME RESIDENTS
HAVE EITHER MOVED AWAY OR DIED, AND WITH THEM RESISTANCE TO THIS
NANNY MENTALITY, LOCAL GOVT. HAS BECOME MORE INTRUSIVE, AND
DISREPECTIVE OF THE RIGHTS OF PRIVATE PROPERTY AND PRIVATE BUSINESS.
NOW LOCAL GOVT. BELIEVES THAT BECAUSE THEY COLLECT TAXES ON SAID
PROPERTIES AND BUSINESS, THEY ARE ALSO PARTNERS. THAT THEY WITHOUT
PUTTING UP A DIME OR TIME OF INVESTMENT, HAVE THE RIGHT TO TELL
THE OWNERS OF THAT PROPERTY OR BUSINESS, WHAT TO DO FIRST. THAT
SAID OWNERS IF THEY WISH TO DO ANYTHNG, MUST COME BEFORE THEM,
THE GOVT. AND ASK EITHER PERMISSION OF GET A PERMIT, NO MATTER HOW
MENIAL THAT, WHICH THE OWNER MIGHT WNAT TO DO MIGHT BE. THE
OWNER MUST GENUFLECT BEFORE GOVT. OFFIALS OR WORSE, UNELECTED
BEAUROCRATS, BEG AND PLEAD FOR WHATEVER THEY WISH, THEN AFTER
THEY GOVT. HAS REQUIRED THEM TO GRAB THEIR ANKLES, THANK THEM
FOR ALOWWING THEM TO LIVE.
NOW IF THE GOVT. DOES NOT LIKE WHAT YOU MIGHT WANT TO DO WITH
YOUR LIFE OR PROPERTY OR BUSINESS, THEY WILL PASS A LAW, OR TAX YOU
INTO THAT WHICH THE GOVT. THINKS IS BEST. THE GOVT. DOES NOT LIKE
YOU TALKING ON THE PHONE WHEN YOU DRIVE...PASS A LAW. THE GOVT.
DOES NOT LIKE THE ADDS BEFORE A MOVIE...PASS A LAW(THIS IS NOW
BEFORE THE N.Y.C. COUNCIL AS WE SPEAK). THE GOVT. DOES NOT LIKE
SMOKING IN BARS...PASS A LAW.....THE GOVT. DOES NOT LIKE SMOKING
IN YOUR HOME...PASS A LAW(THIS IS BEFORE THE ASSEMBLY AS WE SPEAK....
RIGHT KNOW THEY ARE LIMITING IT TO COLLEGE DORMS AND PUBLIC
HOUSING, BUT IT WILL NOT STOP THERE). TO STOP DRINKING AND
DRIVING BY A FEW...PASS A LAW TO MAKE ALL CARS COME WITH A DEVICE
THAT ALL PEOPLE HAVE TO BREATH INTO BERFOE DRIVING( THIS IS ALSO
BEFORE THE ASSEMBLY). LAWS MANDATING CHILD SEAT FOR UP TO
SEVEN YEARS OLD, LAWS THAT YOU MUST WHERE HELMETS WHEN YOU
RIDE A BIKE, NO MATTER HOW OLD, SEATBELT LAWS FOR ADULTS IN
THE BACK SEAT OF CARS...ON AND ON AND ON. SCREW YOUR RIGHTS, SCREW
YOUR PRIVACY, THE GOVT. KNOWS BEST.
THIS ONLY CHANGES WHEN TOUGH DECISIONS HAVE TO BE MADE.
SEVEN YEARS OF A TRAFFIC STUDY, ALL TO AVIOD DOING SOMETHING,
BUT IT ALLOWS THE GOVT. TO CONTINUE TO TRAMPLE ON THE RIGHTS
OF PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNERS BY CONTINUING THIS TEMPORARY BUILDING
MORITORIUM(WHICH WILL BE CELEBRATING IT'S FOUTH YEAR OF TEMPOARY)
AFTER ALL, THERE IS AN ELECTION COMMING UP AND WE DON'T WANT TO MAKE
ANY DECISSIONS TILL AFTER NOVEMBER. YOU WANT SEWARS, YOU'VE WAITED
SEVEN YEARS, WELL YOU HAVE TO WAIT LONGER TILL WE CAN FIGURE OUT
A WAY TO DUMP IT ON PEEKSKILL, INSTEAD OF UPGRADING OUR OWN
TREATMENT PLANT.
YES, THERE WAS A TIME WHEN LOCAL GOVT. DID NOT THINK THEY WERE
YOUR MOMMY OR DADDY OR GOD. THEY PRETTY MUCH LEFT YOU ALONE,
THINKING YOU COULD WALK AND TALK AND BREATH WITHOUT OUT THEIR
INTERFEARENCE. THERE WAS A TIME WHEN LOCAL GOVT. DID NOT KICK
THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD AND MADE TOUGH DECISIONS WITHOUT HIDING
BEHIND ENDLESS TAX WASTING STUDIES. THESE TOWNS WOULD NOT HAVE
GROWN TO BE WHAT THEY ARE WITHOUT THE LEADERS WE HAD IN THE PAST
WHO BELIEVED IT WAS THE GOV'TS DUTY TO INVOLVE ITSELF ONLY WITH
THE IMPROVEMENT AND GROWTH OF THE TOWNS...AND STAY OUT OF THE
PRIVATE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE.
I AM NOW 50 YEARS OLD, AND I MISS THOSE LEADERS, AND TO TELL THE
TRUTH, I SURVIVED QUITE WELL WITHOUT THE NANNIES.
BAZZO 06/20/05
ON SATURDAY JUNE 18 I TURNED 50. I THINK AS A LIFE LONG RESIDENT
OF YORKTOWN, A LITTLE PERPECTIVE IS IN ORDER. WHEN I GREW UP, YORKTOWN
AND CORTLANT WERE BUGALOW COMMUNITIES. YOU WANTED TO BANK, YOU WENT
TO PEEKSKILL. YOU WANTED TO SHOP FOR FOOD OR CLOTHING OR EVEN SHOES,
YOU WENT TO PEEKSKILL. PEEKSKILL WAS THE CITY. ROUGHLY 60 PERCENT OF
YORKTOWN AND CORTLANT DISSAPEARED FOR THE WINTER, AS MOST HOMES
WERE ONLY SUMMER HOMES. THE POLICE KNEW WHO YOU WERE AND THERE
WAS A PERSONAL RELATIOSHIP BETWEEN THE LAW AND THE PEOPLE. YOU
COULD FIND YOUR LOCAL GOVT. OFFICIAL WHENEVER YOU WANTED, AS THEY
WERE MOSTLY LOCAL BUSINESS PEOPLE. YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO WAIT FOR
A MEETING. MOST IMPORTANT, YOUR LOCAL GOVT. PRETTY MUCH STAYED
OUT OF YOUR WAY WHEN IT CAME TO YOUR PRIVATE PROPERTY OR PRIVATE
BUSINESS. THEY DID NOT PRETEND TO KNOW BETTER THEN YOU, HOW YOU
SHOULD LIVE YOUR LIFE, RAISE YOUR CHILDREN, RUN YOUR BUSINESS.
THEY DID NOT PUNISH SUCCESS, NOR DID THEY LIVE TO SEPERATE YOU
FROM YOUR MONEY. SOMEWHERE ALONG THE WAY, THIS HAS CHANGED.
AS PEOPLE FROM THE N.Y.C. MOVED UP TO THE AREA, THEY BROUGHT WITH
THEM THE CITY MENTALITY OF GOVT. KNOWS BEST. AS LONG TIME RESIDENTS
HAVE EITHER MOVED AWAY OR DIED, AND WITH THEM RESISTANCE TO THIS
NANNY MENTALITY, LOCAL GOVT. HAS BECOME MORE INTRUSIVE, AND
DISREPECTIVE OF THE RIGHTS OF PRIVATE PROPERTY AND PRIVATE BUSINESS.
NOW LOCAL GOVT. BELIEVES THAT BECAUSE THEY COLLECT TAXES ON SAID
PROPERTIES AND BUSINESS, THEY ARE ALSO PARTNERS. THAT THEY WITHOUT
PUTTING UP A DIME OR TIME OF INVESTMENT, HAVE THE RIGHT TO TELL
THE OWNERS OF THAT PROPERTY OR BUSINESS, WHAT TO DO FIRST. THAT
SAID OWNERS IF THEY WISH TO DO ANYTHNG, MUST COME BEFORE THEM,
THE GOVT. AND ASK EITHER PERMISSION OF GET A PERMIT, NO MATTER HOW
MENIAL THAT, WHICH THE OWNER MIGHT WNAT TO DO MIGHT BE. THE
OWNER MUST GENUFLECT BEFORE GOVT. OFFIALS OR WORSE, UNELECTED
BEAUROCRATS, BEG AND PLEAD FOR WHATEVER THEY WISH, THEN AFTER
THEY GOVT. HAS REQUIRED THEM TO GRAB THEIR ANKLES, THANK THEM
FOR ALOWWING THEM TO LIVE.
NOW IF THE GOVT. DOES NOT LIKE WHAT YOU MIGHT WANT TO DO WITH
YOUR LIFE OR PROPERTY OR BUSINESS, THEY WILL PASS A LAW, OR TAX YOU
INTO THAT WHICH THE GOVT. THINKS IS BEST. THE GOVT. DOES NOT LIKE
YOU TALKING ON THE PHONE WHEN YOU DRIVE...PASS A LAW. THE GOVT.
DOES NOT LIKE THE ADDS BEFORE A MOVIE...PASS A LAW(THIS IS NOW
BEFORE THE N.Y.C. COUNCIL AS WE SPEAK). THE GOVT. DOES NOT LIKE
SMOKING IN BARS...PASS A LAW.....THE GOVT. DOES NOT LIKE SMOKING
IN YOUR HOME...PASS A LAW(THIS IS BEFORE THE ASSEMBLY AS WE SPEAK....
RIGHT KNOW THEY ARE LIMITING IT TO COLLEGE DORMS AND PUBLIC
HOUSING, BUT IT WILL NOT STOP THERE). TO STOP DRINKING AND
DRIVING BY A FEW...PASS A LAW TO MAKE ALL CARS COME WITH A DEVICE
THAT ALL PEOPLE HAVE TO BREATH INTO BERFOE DRIVING( THIS IS ALSO
BEFORE THE ASSEMBLY). LAWS MANDATING CHILD SEAT FOR UP TO
SEVEN YEARS OLD, LAWS THAT YOU MUST WHERE HELMETS WHEN YOU
RIDE A BIKE, NO MATTER HOW OLD, SEATBELT LAWS FOR ADULTS IN
THE BACK SEAT OF CARS...ON AND ON AND ON. SCREW YOUR RIGHTS, SCREW
YOUR PRIVACY, THE GOVT. KNOWS BEST.
THIS ONLY CHANGES WHEN TOUGH DECISIONS HAVE TO BE MADE.
SEVEN YEARS OF A TRAFFIC STUDY, ALL TO AVIOD DOING SOMETHING,
BUT IT ALLOWS THE GOVT. TO CONTINUE TO TRAMPLE ON THE RIGHTS
OF PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNERS BY CONTINUING THIS TEMPORARY BUILDING
MORITORIUM(WHICH WILL BE CELEBRATING IT'S FOUTH YEAR OF TEMPOARY)
AFTER ALL, THERE IS AN ELECTION COMMING UP AND WE DON'T WANT TO MAKE
ANY DECISSIONS TILL AFTER NOVEMBER. YOU WANT SEWARS, YOU'VE WAITED
SEVEN YEARS, WELL YOU HAVE TO WAIT LONGER TILL WE CAN FIGURE OUT
A WAY TO DUMP IT ON PEEKSKILL, INSTEAD OF UPGRADING OUR OWN
TREATMENT PLANT.
YES, THERE WAS A TIME WHEN LOCAL GOVT. DID NOT THINK THEY WERE
YOUR MOMMY OR DADDY OR GOD. THEY PRETTY MUCH LEFT YOU ALONE,
THINKING YOU COULD WALK AND TALK AND BREATH WITHOUT OUT THEIR
INTERFEARENCE. THERE WAS A TIME WHEN LOCAL GOVT. DID NOT KICK
THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD AND MADE TOUGH DECISIONS WITHOUT HIDING
BEHIND ENDLESS TAX WASTING STUDIES. THESE TOWNS WOULD NOT HAVE
GROWN TO BE WHAT THEY ARE WITHOUT THE LEADERS WE HAD IN THE PAST
WHO BELIEVED IT WAS THE GOV'TS DUTY TO INVOLVE ITSELF ONLY WITH
THE IMPROVEMENT AND GROWTH OF THE TOWNS...AND STAY OUT OF THE
PRIVATE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE.
I AM NOW 50 YEARS OLD, AND I MISS THOSE LEADERS, AND TO TELL THE
TRUTH, I SURVIVED QUITE WELL WITHOUT THE NANNIES.
BAZZO 06/20/05
Monday, May 09, 2005
I WENT TO THROW MY HAT INTO THE RING....AND DIDN'T STAY LONG ENOUGH TO TAKE IT OFF....
DEAR READERS:
LAST MONDAY (05/02/05) I DECIDED TO PUT MY MONEY WHERE MY MOUTH IS.
I WENT TO MEET WITH THE YORKTOWN G.O.P. NOMINATING COMMITEE TO BE
INTERVIEWED FOR A POSSIBLE NOMINATION TO RUN FOR YORKTOWN TOWN
COUNCIL. I SUBMITTED AS MY RESUME ALL MY PRINTED WRITINGS (WHICH
INCLUDED ALL LETTERS TO THE EDITOR AND ALL ENTRIES INTO MY BLOG
UP TO 04/O8/05). I THOUGHT THAT THE COMMITEE SHOULD KNOW I WAS
SOMEONE WHO HAD TAKEN SOME STANDS THAT I BELIEVED THE PARTY
NEEDED TO ADRESS, AND I WAS THE ONE TO ADRESS THEM. I HAD THE
PRECONCIEVED NOTION THAT CHARACTER AND CONVITION IN A CADIDATE
MATTERED. IT DOES, IF YOU WISH NOT TO RECIEVE A NOMINATION. PARTY
LINE AND TEAM PLAYER ARE MUCH MORE IMPORTANT THAN INDEPENDENT
THOUGHT. I WAS TOLD THIS IN ADVANCE BY SOMEONE IN ELECTED OFFICE
WHOSE ADVISE I SOUGHT. I WENT ANYWAY. YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT I WAS
LAST TO BE INTERVIEWED, THE OTHER CANDIATES HAD AT LEAST 25 MIN.
I HAD 10 MIN. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE OTHER CANDIDATES TOLD THE
COMMITEE, BUT IN MY CONVERSATIONS WITH THEM, I FOUND THEM TO BE
THE SAME OLD, SAME OLD THAT ARE ALREADY REPRESENTING YOU, ALL
READY TO TOE THE PARTY LINE. IN OTHER WORDS, I DON'T THINK THEY
CAN BEAT A SITTING INCUMBENT. I WENT INTO THIS MEETING BELIEVING
THAT THERE ARE A BLOCK OF VOTERS ACROSS PARTY LINES WHO'S VOICES
AND CONCERNS ARE NOT BEING HEARD, AND THAT SOMEONE OF THAT
GROUP NEEDED TO BE REPRESENTED ON THE BALLOT. ON TO THE MEETING....
THE FIRST QUESTION ASKED OF ME WAS WHY DID I WANT TO RUN?
I ANSWERED THAT I WANTED TO RUN TO STOP THE PARTY I GREW UP WITH
FROM THEIR CONTINUED SLIDE INTO THE INTRUSION IN THE THE LIVES
OF PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNERS AND PRIVATE BUSINESS OWNERS. I USED THE
OLD STONE CHURCH AS AN EXAMPLE. THEY THEN ASKED MY WHY I THOUGHT I
COULD BE ELECTED. I TOLD THEM THAT AS SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN INVOLVED
I BUSINESS IN THIS TOWN THAT DEALT WITH PEOPLE EVERYDAY SINCE I WAS
14, I COULD REACH PEOPLE THEY COULD ONLY DREAM OF. THAT I HAD A FEEL
FOR WHAT WAS ON THIER MIND, THAT THEY AND THE OTHER CANDIATES
ALREADY ELECTED AND SEEKING ELECTION DON'T REALLY HAVE AS THEY ONLY
MEET WITH THE PEOPLE AT MEETINGS AND PUBLIC EVENTS. I WAS THEN
MENTIONED THAT I DON'T REALLY TRUST POLITICS AND I POINTED OUT
THAT I WAS NEVER GIVEN A REASON TOO, WHICH IS ANOTHER REASON WHY
I WANTED TO RUN. I WAS THEN ASKED IF I WAS WILLING TO GO DOOR TO DOOR?
I SAID I WOULD DO THAT AS I THOUGHT WAS NECESSARY. I WAS THEN CUT OFF
BEFORE I COULD POINT OUT THAT BECAUSE OF MY TAXI BUSINESS I HAVE
THE VOTERS IN MY CAR BEFORE THEY GET TO THEIR DOOR. AGAIN MY
EVERYDAY ACESS TO PEOPLE THEY DON'T HAVE. THEY THEN POINTED OUT THAT
I WOULD HAVE TO RUN AS A TEAM PLAYER AND WOULD I DO THAT? THIS IS
WHERE I LOST THEM. I TOLD THE THAT IF IT MEANT GOING AGAINST WHAT
I ALREADY SAID IN PRINT, THAT IF IT MEANT THAT I HAD TO STAND FOR THAT
WHICH I BELIEVED THE TEAM WAS WRONG, I COULD NOT DO THIS. I COULD NOT
GO BACK AND DISAVOW WHAT I ALREADY HAD SAID. IT WAS AT THIS POINT,
EXACTLY 10 MIN. INTO THE MEETING I WAS ASKED TO LEAVE. I WAS NOT EVEN
INVITED TO STAY FOR COFFEE. I WAS SHOWN THE DOOR. THIS IS WHY I
BELIEVE THE POWERS THAT BE WOULD PREFER A CANDIATE WHO PLACED
MORE EMPHISIS ON PARTY LINE AND BEING A TEAM PLAYER, THEN ON
A CANDIDATE WHO COULD REACH OUT TO THE PART OF THE PARTY WHO
STILL BELIEVES IN A LESS INTRUSIVE GOVT. THE PART OF THE PARTY
WHO STILL BELIEVES IT IS THE ELECTED OFFICALS JOB TO HELP BUSINESS
GET STARTED, TO HELP CREATE PRIVATE SECTOR, TAX PAYING JOBS.
THAT IN DOING THIS, A BUSINESS DOES IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE
FOR THE COMMUNITY IN WHICH IT SITS. THAT IT IS NOT THE GOVT.
JOB TO MAKE PROSPECTIVE BUSINESS JUMP THROUGH HOOPS TO GET
STARTED. I BELIEVE THERE ARE ENOUGH OF YOU VOTERS WHO BELIEVE THAT,
TO BE ELECTED, AND DEFEAT A SITTING INCUMBENT. I BELIEVE THERE ARE ENOUGH
OF YOU WHO BELIEVE A CANDIATE SHOULD STAND FOR PEOPLE ABOVE AND
BEFORE PARTY AND POLITICS. THAT SAD PART IS THE POWERS THAT BE WOULD
RATHER PLAY IT SAFE, THEN TRUST IN YOU AS I DO. I TRIED, I FAILED, AND
FOR THIS I AM TRULY SORRY I LET YOU DOWN.
BAZZO 05/09/05
LAST MONDAY (05/02/05) I DECIDED TO PUT MY MONEY WHERE MY MOUTH IS.
I WENT TO MEET WITH THE YORKTOWN G.O.P. NOMINATING COMMITEE TO BE
INTERVIEWED FOR A POSSIBLE NOMINATION TO RUN FOR YORKTOWN TOWN
COUNCIL. I SUBMITTED AS MY RESUME ALL MY PRINTED WRITINGS (WHICH
INCLUDED ALL LETTERS TO THE EDITOR AND ALL ENTRIES INTO MY BLOG
UP TO 04/O8/05). I THOUGHT THAT THE COMMITEE SHOULD KNOW I WAS
SOMEONE WHO HAD TAKEN SOME STANDS THAT I BELIEVED THE PARTY
NEEDED TO ADRESS, AND I WAS THE ONE TO ADRESS THEM. I HAD THE
PRECONCIEVED NOTION THAT CHARACTER AND CONVITION IN A CADIDATE
MATTERED. IT DOES, IF YOU WISH NOT TO RECIEVE A NOMINATION. PARTY
LINE AND TEAM PLAYER ARE MUCH MORE IMPORTANT THAN INDEPENDENT
THOUGHT. I WAS TOLD THIS IN ADVANCE BY SOMEONE IN ELECTED OFFICE
WHOSE ADVISE I SOUGHT. I WENT ANYWAY. YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT I WAS
LAST TO BE INTERVIEWED, THE OTHER CANDIATES HAD AT LEAST 25 MIN.
I HAD 10 MIN. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE OTHER CANDIDATES TOLD THE
COMMITEE, BUT IN MY CONVERSATIONS WITH THEM, I FOUND THEM TO BE
THE SAME OLD, SAME OLD THAT ARE ALREADY REPRESENTING YOU, ALL
READY TO TOE THE PARTY LINE. IN OTHER WORDS, I DON'T THINK THEY
CAN BEAT A SITTING INCUMBENT. I WENT INTO THIS MEETING BELIEVING
THAT THERE ARE A BLOCK OF VOTERS ACROSS PARTY LINES WHO'S VOICES
AND CONCERNS ARE NOT BEING HEARD, AND THAT SOMEONE OF THAT
GROUP NEEDED TO BE REPRESENTED ON THE BALLOT. ON TO THE MEETING....
THE FIRST QUESTION ASKED OF ME WAS WHY DID I WANT TO RUN?
I ANSWERED THAT I WANTED TO RUN TO STOP THE PARTY I GREW UP WITH
FROM THEIR CONTINUED SLIDE INTO THE INTRUSION IN THE THE LIVES
OF PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNERS AND PRIVATE BUSINESS OWNERS. I USED THE
OLD STONE CHURCH AS AN EXAMPLE. THEY THEN ASKED MY WHY I THOUGHT I
COULD BE ELECTED. I TOLD THEM THAT AS SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN INVOLVED
I BUSINESS IN THIS TOWN THAT DEALT WITH PEOPLE EVERYDAY SINCE I WAS
14, I COULD REACH PEOPLE THEY COULD ONLY DREAM OF. THAT I HAD A FEEL
FOR WHAT WAS ON THIER MIND, THAT THEY AND THE OTHER CANDIATES
ALREADY ELECTED AND SEEKING ELECTION DON'T REALLY HAVE AS THEY ONLY
MEET WITH THE PEOPLE AT MEETINGS AND PUBLIC EVENTS. I WAS THEN
MENTIONED THAT I DON'T REALLY TRUST POLITICS AND I POINTED OUT
THAT I WAS NEVER GIVEN A REASON TOO, WHICH IS ANOTHER REASON WHY
I WANTED TO RUN. I WAS THEN ASKED IF I WAS WILLING TO GO DOOR TO DOOR?
I SAID I WOULD DO THAT AS I THOUGHT WAS NECESSARY. I WAS THEN CUT OFF
BEFORE I COULD POINT OUT THAT BECAUSE OF MY TAXI BUSINESS I HAVE
THE VOTERS IN MY CAR BEFORE THEY GET TO THEIR DOOR. AGAIN MY
EVERYDAY ACESS TO PEOPLE THEY DON'T HAVE. THEY THEN POINTED OUT THAT
I WOULD HAVE TO RUN AS A TEAM PLAYER AND WOULD I DO THAT? THIS IS
WHERE I LOST THEM. I TOLD THE THAT IF IT MEANT GOING AGAINST WHAT
I ALREADY SAID IN PRINT, THAT IF IT MEANT THAT I HAD TO STAND FOR THAT
WHICH I BELIEVED THE TEAM WAS WRONG, I COULD NOT DO THIS. I COULD NOT
GO BACK AND DISAVOW WHAT I ALREADY HAD SAID. IT WAS AT THIS POINT,
EXACTLY 10 MIN. INTO THE MEETING I WAS ASKED TO LEAVE. I WAS NOT EVEN
INVITED TO STAY FOR COFFEE. I WAS SHOWN THE DOOR. THIS IS WHY I
BELIEVE THE POWERS THAT BE WOULD PREFER A CANDIATE WHO PLACED
MORE EMPHISIS ON PARTY LINE AND BEING A TEAM PLAYER, THEN ON
A CANDIDATE WHO COULD REACH OUT TO THE PART OF THE PARTY WHO
STILL BELIEVES IN A LESS INTRUSIVE GOVT. THE PART OF THE PARTY
WHO STILL BELIEVES IT IS THE ELECTED OFFICALS JOB TO HELP BUSINESS
GET STARTED, TO HELP CREATE PRIVATE SECTOR, TAX PAYING JOBS.
THAT IN DOING THIS, A BUSINESS DOES IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE
FOR THE COMMUNITY IN WHICH IT SITS. THAT IT IS NOT THE GOVT.
JOB TO MAKE PROSPECTIVE BUSINESS JUMP THROUGH HOOPS TO GET
STARTED. I BELIEVE THERE ARE ENOUGH OF YOU VOTERS WHO BELIEVE THAT,
TO BE ELECTED, AND DEFEAT A SITTING INCUMBENT. I BELIEVE THERE ARE ENOUGH
OF YOU WHO BELIEVE A CANDIATE SHOULD STAND FOR PEOPLE ABOVE AND
BEFORE PARTY AND POLITICS. THAT SAD PART IS THE POWERS THAT BE WOULD
RATHER PLAY IT SAFE, THEN TRUST IN YOU AS I DO. I TRIED, I FAILED, AND
FOR THIS I AM TRULY SORRY I LET YOU DOWN.
BAZZO 05/09/05
Sunday, May 01, 2005
Sunday, April 24, 2005
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
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
Friday, April 01, 2005
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
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
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
LET ME INTRODUCE MY SELF
MY NAME IS BAZZO AND THIS IS THE BAZZO MANIFESTO. WE WILL PAUSE HERE FOR
FIVE SECONDS WHILE YOU SAY WHO CARES AND THEN PROCEEDE.
THIS PAGE WILL OPERATE ON THE PREMISE THAT FEDERAL GOVT. AFFECTS YOU ONLY IN A PERIFIAL WAY, WHERE AS STATE AND LOCAL GOVT.'S AFFECT YOUR EVERY DAY LIFE.
NOT JUST IN PROPERTY TAXES AND SCHOOL TAXES, BUT ON YOUR ELECTRIC BILL, CELL PHONE BILL, CABLE BILL,THE GAS YOU PUT IN YOUR CAR ETC.
EVEN THOUGH I LIVE IN N.Y, HOPEFULLY YOU WILL START PAYING ATTENTION IN YOUR STATE AND WHAT GOES ON UNDER THE RADAR AFTER YOU READ MY UPDATES.
I WILL TRY ON A REGULAR BASIS TO PUT THINGS ON YOUR RADAR THAT YOU ARE MISSING WHILE GOING ABOUT YOUR DAILY LIVES. MAYBE TOGETHER WE CAN HAVE AN AFFECT ON LOCAL LEGISLATION AS MOST OTHER BLOGS TRY TO GET YOU
TO HAVE AN EFFECT ON NATIONAL POLICY. UNLIKE NATIONAL POLICY,
WHERE YOU NEED THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE TO BRING ABOUT
CHANGE, ON THE LOCAL LEVEL ONLY HUDREDS OF VOICES CAN DO THE SAME
THING. TOGETHER WE WILL MAKE OUR VOICES HEARD. ALSO I WILL KEEP YOU POSTED WHEN MY MONTHLY LETTERS APPEAR IN THE LOCAL PAPERS.
BAZZO 3/29/05
FIVE SECONDS WHILE YOU SAY WHO CARES AND THEN PROCEEDE.
THIS PAGE WILL OPERATE ON THE PREMISE THAT FEDERAL GOVT. AFFECTS YOU ONLY IN A PERIFIAL WAY, WHERE AS STATE AND LOCAL GOVT.'S AFFECT YOUR EVERY DAY LIFE.
NOT JUST IN PROPERTY TAXES AND SCHOOL TAXES, BUT ON YOUR ELECTRIC BILL, CELL PHONE BILL, CABLE BILL,THE GAS YOU PUT IN YOUR CAR ETC.
EVEN THOUGH I LIVE IN N.Y, HOPEFULLY YOU WILL START PAYING ATTENTION IN YOUR STATE AND WHAT GOES ON UNDER THE RADAR AFTER YOU READ MY UPDATES.
I WILL TRY ON A REGULAR BASIS TO PUT THINGS ON YOUR RADAR THAT YOU ARE MISSING WHILE GOING ABOUT YOUR DAILY LIVES. MAYBE TOGETHER WE CAN HAVE AN AFFECT ON LOCAL LEGISLATION AS MOST OTHER BLOGS TRY TO GET YOU
TO HAVE AN EFFECT ON NATIONAL POLICY. UNLIKE NATIONAL POLICY,
WHERE YOU NEED THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE TO BRING ABOUT
CHANGE, ON THE LOCAL LEVEL ONLY HUDREDS OF VOICES CAN DO THE SAME
THING. TOGETHER WE WILL MAKE OUR VOICES HEARD. ALSO I WILL KEEP YOU POSTED WHEN MY MONTHLY LETTERS APPEAR IN THE LOCAL PAPERS.
BAZZO 3/29/05
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