People are starting to ask me why I’m against the DeKalb Public Library expansion.
I’m not against AN expansion of DPL. I’m against THIS expansion because I disapprove of secrecy, corrupted processes and the lack of proper public participation. I’m against letting the current library board, a group of proven lawbreakers, run the show.
Pick anything under the DeKalb Public Library tag at this blog for details, and check out DeKalb County Online for Mac’s view of the latest developments. This is about making sure government follows the rules, and creating a fuss when it’s not. Period. It always has been.
This is sad for me because I’d much rather be talking about how the library fits into DeKalb’s future.
Now, for those of you who are inclined to let the library board off the hook because “so-and-so board member is such a nice man,” please consider that unless you live a very sheltered life, some of the people you really like also can be shown to drive drunk, rip off their insurance companies and kick dogs when you’re not looking. Do you really want to go there? Do you really want to apply the law based on some sort of likability factor or scale of niceness?
And for those who want to give the benefit of the doubt to these nice folks because “maybe they don’t know the rules,” in my view that’s pretty much the same as saying incompetence is OK. In which case, you deserve the government you get.
But some of us don’t.
One comment
Comment by Ivan Krpan on November 19, 2011 at 9:36 am
What I really do not understand is what many people are thinking Lynn. Just because one demands accountability and that the proper process dictated by laws that we are ALL supposed to live and abide by that many always resort to saying that one is against something.
There is a reason there are laws to follow but many in todays government think THEY are beyond the reaches of the law and govern under some idiotic notion that since they won the election, that whatever they happen to be thinking at the time their vote is required is the MANDATE of those who elected them. I would say that is BS. What people vote in a candidate is that they like similar things and thinkings but expect them to follow the laws that we have in place. Not this new regime here locally that will do whatever it takes and means means illegally if need be to get done what they desire and at what appears to be at any cost to the future citizens of this community.
I am going to repost a rant that I recently placed on my FaceBook page. This rant was my reaction to the library expansion and how the City of DeKalb has overlooked and shirked their responsibilities to each and every citizen of this community. Thanks.
Why and what for?
It’s bad enough that those who are elected to Washington DC to enforce laws set by our US Constitution and the Bill of Rights completely disregard it today and do what favors them, their party, and their politicos.
State wise is no better as they continue to drive the opportunity for quality jobs and a chance for a somewhat reasonable chance at living day to day by overspending…, overtaxing, and over patronizing their campaign supporters and close politicos.
Locally, and this is truly sad, locally where WE all do have the potential to be much more in control and have much more say in the day to day operations of local government have literally thrown in the towel and allow complete incompetents and crooks run our communities into the ground with overspending which thus causes over taxation. DeKalb is completely out of control. Now allowing for the expansion of our public library when not even God know how we are going to pay for the $80 million high school we just built, the $13 million police station which is now approved and to be paid for by increased taxes and increased fines to local citizens. TIF spent for downtown redo’s, a fire department now hoping and needing more station space and equipment updates, and now a library that is going to be made bigger when we as a society do not even have a clue as to what the future of electronics has in store for the written medium.
Foreclosures continue to grow faster in this town than do some of our farmers crops. New home construction down, local employers cutting jobs, pay, and benefits but leave it to our local officials to know better than all other market and economic analysts that we, “City of DeKalb” are immune to all that is going on around the world an other comunities who are now starting to resort to Chapter 9 Bankruptcy.
Why do we continue to allow these idiots into office? Oh yes, many are so pissed off that they have decided to sit at home and NOT vote. For those who are participating in that train of thought, HOW’S IT WORKING OUT FOR YOU? The next time you bitch, whine, moan, threaten to not buy locally, please d me a favor. Look into a mirror when you are complaining because by not voting, you have helped grow this uncontrollable monster of a government.
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