On Monday, at 3 p.m., the Onamia city council will once again hold a public hearing on rezoning the Nexus (former Onamia/Grosslein/Bye) property. They are providing this forum only because under state law, public hearings are mandatory. Believe me, they have no interest whatsoever in anything we have to say. They will allow us, the citizens to "air it out one last time", and then, ignoring us, they will unanimously pass an amendment to a city ordinance which will classify this sex offender facility as residential with conditional use. (You don't have to be clairvoyant to see this coming.) What this means, basically, is that the Mille Lacs Academy will have the city council's blessing to build a huge, multi-million dollar mega-complex forcing 94 sex offenders next to day cares, elderly widows, children, and vulnerable disabled adults. But with conditional use, the institution will be required to hood their outdoor streetlamps surrounding their several buildings, roads, and over the vast parking lot in order to keep from disturbing the neighbors should they ever look up again after what has been done to them. If its any consolation, at least they get shaded lighting... well, except for the flood lights at the bottom of the MLA flagpole, which will be shining brightly up at Old Glory (and the sky beyond), thrusting light at a flag that symbolizes heart-in-the-throat patriotism and lets people know that indeed, if ever there was a doubt, these sex offenders are the Future of AMERICA, god damn it! (ooh, just a minute while I remove a tear from my eye. The thought of all those shoeless PTBs saluting our country's flag with their spermy little hands always gets me...) And let us not forget that some of these "children" are old enough to be fighting in Iraq, instead of playing with their balls in the new gymnasium the taxpayers are building for them.
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"We're not Liberals," the mayor said at the last meeting, grinning like a wolf. "We're not Liberals here." What did he mean by that, I wonder. There are so many possibilities. My knee-jerk reaction was "Well, duh!" No Liberal could strip the Rights from We The People so forcefully, so thoroughly and absolutely without conscience. Swatting a fly with a bulldozer. Since he said it twice, it must have been important. What was he saying? That since I am a Liberal, its okay for THEM to do this to ME? I deserve this torment and torture? (I assume he meant me since I might be the only Liberal in the neighborhood as far as I know; well, besides Poncho and my mom of course... They're cool.)
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I don't even like the term "Liberal". I prefer "Liberty Oriented." And Liberty is definitely not something found in the small town of Onamia. I'm not a "fish out of water here." I've been thrown into the city sewer, drowning in a sea of shit and stupidity. But that's okay. It must be. The mayor has proclaimed and ordained my doom. They all said "Its a Done Deal, there's nothing you can do about it." D'Angelo said, "We WILL be neighbors." Its perfectly acceptable to destroy somebody's life - as long as they are a Liberal. Or Jewish... or black... or red... depending on if you live in Onamia, in 1940 Germany, in the 1960s South, or ... in Onamia. "With Liberty and Justice for all"? Not in Nexusville. You want to get ahead in Nexusville, you'd better be prepared to molest a child. I'm beginning to think that's what it takes.
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The parallels of what has happened in Bradbury Township to the Iraq War should be eye-opening. But of course they aren't. I suspect that most people in Mille Lacs County haven't given it much thought, just like few Americans think about all of the Iraqi civilians who have been killed during the invasion of their country. A tyrant, a bullying president, used to getting his way by whatever methods necessary, invaded a country under false pretenses, using a pack of lies to garner public support. Iraq had something he wanted: oil, of course, and land on which to set up a base or two to gain control over the area - for future oil. As they say: Location, location, location.
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The same thing happened here. I could get in trouble for what I'm about to say next, however it would be pretty weird to see a lawyer in a defamation law suit against me stand before a judge and declare: "Your Honor, she compared my client to the President of the United States!" Definite defamation in my opinion.... But that would be even weirder than "Your Honor, she called my client POOPSIE!" which is my reality, by the way.
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The mayor is indeed comparable to the President. Both are at the center of their own universes. They have small, narrow minds filled to capacity with their own agendas (25 cents per page, if you please), their own self-serving schemes to obtain greater wealth for themselves and their cronies, "friends" whom they need in order to assuage their own insecurities and affirm their power. Why be a god if you don't have anybody to worship you? I could go on and on. It took me awhile to figure out that Mickus, the vice mayor is a lot like Cheney, the vice president. It took awhile because the councilman has missed so many of the meetings, to me he was an invisible force acting behind the scenes - much like Cheney. The others are basically Yes-men. Hill is useful like Condoleeza is useful, but they have no power. Their purpose is to spread the canned message, lie to the public if necessary (and its always necessary), convert the naysayers, and to smooth over any ripples caused by their clumsy, ogre bosses. Like so many of the Bushmen, Loch and Kryzer just occupy chairs in the room, voting along and trying to win favor with the Big Cheese. Well, at least that applies to Loch. Kryzer doesn't vote along because he doesn't live here in the winter. If he were here, he'd probably, in my opinion, do as he was told. The clerk resembles Harriet Miers.... there to stand by "her" man and do his dirty work for him while trying to make him appear to be honest and decent and... competent. (Again, my opinion.) Of course, there is only so much a person can do before the Truth gets out, whether in Washington or on Main Street. Personally I find them all disgusting creatures. But that's just my opinion. Fortunately, there isn't a Karl Rove on the Onamia city council. As bad as they are now, think how dangerous they would be if they had a brain...
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So the Onamia city council invaded Bradbury Township and took over 38.81 acres. Believe me, there's a lot of "oil" for the mayor in this deal. And of course, by setting up a "base" across the Rum River, we've heard rumors of industrial parks, trailer courts, double-wides, etc. Hell, why not a Walmart? They have ruined their own area. Now they want to ruin ours.
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Come Monday, the city council will once again ignore We The People and proceed with their evil deeds which will illegally squeeze sex offenders into a residential neighborhood, like using a shoehorn to fit size twelve feet into a size seven loafer. They have absolutely no right to this spot zoning. They will ignore We The Insurgents, who oppose the forced occupation by a foreign government into our country. Even after all of this, there is no purple ink for our fingers here in Bradbury Township. We are voiceless and voteless. To put it bluntly, it is unfair and it sucks.
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Yesterday, "Harriet Miers" - the town clerk - answering my question about what the city council has discussed or thought about us (the neighbors)and how we'll handle it when they pass the ordinance; she told me, "Actually, we don't talk about you. We don't think about you much." My knee-jerk reaction was, "Well, duh!"
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