If my memory is serving me correctly, this afternoon, a time or two I have referred to the Fort Worth Police as the Fort Worth Gestapo, due to their, at times, heavy handed Storm Trooper like behavior.A brutal bar raid here, a brutal tasering there, with little consequence for the bad behaviors.
Well, I got an email from Don Young, today, he being Fort Worth's Top Watch Dog as determined by those who determine who Fort Worth's Top Watch Dog is.
In the email DY makes an interesting analogy between North Texas in 2009 and Denmark and much of the rest of Europe in 1941.
I'll copy DY's email in its entirety below....
I saw a great movie yesterday called, Flame and Citron, a true story about a pair of heroic resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Denmark. It's WW2 and the Danish people have a mixture of fear and anger at the way the Nazi's have taken over their Motherland. The tag-line of the film is:
"Do you remember when they came?"
If my overburdened email INBOX is any indication, there are lots of people around the USA who are asking similar questions nearly 70 years after the Nazi's plundered Europe. Not to tarnish the meaning or memory of WW2, but the parallels to then and now - to Nazi's and gas drillers, are chilling.
Nearly every day I get a new message from a homeowner, a rancher, a mother with children or a distraught father asking what can be done. What can be done to stop gas drillers from poisoning their air and water? What can be done to stop the degradation of their property and the ruination of their investments? What can be done to stop the poisoning of their animals and wildlife?
As you might expect, the answers are complex and not easily resolved. The enemy is entrenched and seems unstoppable. Just like in WW2, gas drilling companies are aggressive, arrogant, in control of elected officials and the courts. They laugh at our laws and manufacture their own version of truth, as needed. But this is 2009 not 1941.
There are signs of growing resistance to the blitzkrieg that gas drillers have unleashed. Activists are being created every time a driller bulldozes a fence, dumps poison near our drinking water, sets up a pad-site next to a school or releases a cloud of toxic gas in the name of profit.
For some of us, patriotism is gaining new meaning. But this is NOT about radical political ideology. This is about fundamental rights to clean air and water. The stakes are getting higher every day. What is your tipping point?
"A patriot must always be ready to defend her city against her government."
-Edward Abbey
DY
Wonderful email from Mr. Young. I once told a friend I believe that it's government's responsibility to protect my pursuit of happiness and once that protection is no longer there, then it's up to me to guarantee it for myself. I'm at my tipping point.
ReplyDeleteCT2---Mr. Young does have a way with words, doesn't he? So, you're about to your personal D-Day? Gathering forces and preparing to attack? I can be the propaganda wing of your operation if you like. I prefer to work underground.
ReplyDeleteThe greater threat to our nation and our safety is posed by those driven by greed/selfishness abusing our system than by a handfull of fanatics driven by hate fantasying about blowing themselves up and then getting b--- by a certain number of virgins (or maybe camels, depending on the translation). Vigilance, always.
ReplyDeleteOoh, I would so have you do my propaganda...you're great with words as well. ;)
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