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2005-05-13 - 12:40 p.m. another pause for Mr. Clause GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCEMENT:The government today announced that it is changing its emblem from an Eagle to a CONDOM because it more accurately reflects the government's political stance. sigh... perhaps it is all of Florida, or the south, or the US, or the world, but Volusia County seems to always be in the forefront of turning people away based on paranoid fears of the worst that can happen when large groups gather... if the rest of the country was as frightened and negative-thinking as Volusia County officials, there'd be no Mardi Gras in New Orleans, no Sundance Film Festival in Colorado, no New Years Eve gathering in Times Square... it is the typical result of giving small minds with fear-based philosophies power to rule... the irony is that the religions of these people preach about goodness and kindness and yet given power, these same people will not trust their fellow humans to exercise the freedoms they have be law... the right of the people to lawfully assemble, like every other right of the people, gives way to right of the government to tax and police and use scare tactics to therein restrict the rights of the people... and in the end, fear and greed rule... so I read the article and noting the inaccuracies, I wrote the following letter to the editor: Why do Volusia County officials compare Floridians in 2005 to New Yorkers in the Sixties in order to stir up opposition at the last minute to a music concert that has an excellent history over the past few years? I kept it very brief because long editorials are ignored... one key inaccuracy points to the real motives behind the county officials last minute actions... Mary Brennan, a county land-use attorney, is quoted as saying "Apparently they decided it would just be fun to have a big party out in a cow field and charge people to camp." The fact is the fee is clearly for the concert, for the music, and camping is free... the ridiculousness of the county official's stand is clear in the following quote from Carol Kerrigan, county code administration manager: "With that number of people performing, and if each group brought one or two people, you're talking about a lot of people. We just see the potential for it drawing a lot more people, like a Woodstock type of thing." "That number of people performing" might have been a hundred acts... how anyone can compare several hundred people to the half million that became the legendary Woodstock defies logic and borders on the ridiculous and paranoid... it seems obvious that the county officials wish to undermine the event and stir up public fears... it is also just as obvious to anyone who attended any of the events during the past few years that those fears are unfounded... a few events each year for the past few years have come off without major incident... apparently the right people in government were not paid off in time to get a stamp of approval on this event... the fact that the county officials ignored phone calls from the event coordinator is not mentioned... the fact that in the one phone call that was responded to by a county official, the official assured the organizers that they would not need a permit because the event is on private property... alas, humans piss in their pool all the time... and the longer I live, the less hope I have that humanity will survive it's own petty power trips and desperation to control based on fears and prejudices and greed... but then, who knows, maybe if power is abused and peaceful people are hassled enough, maybe there'll be another groundswell of opposition to the fear-based powers and another love-based generation will, en mass, pass flowers and smiles to the fear-based people carrying clubs and guns... so I wrote this to the author of the article... Dear Christine, yeah, me on my soapbox... I didn't think much, I just responded from my gut (which is poor administrative tactics, but hey, who'm I supposed to be administering, anyway)... I don't know quite where we will be staying once we get there, but dang if stupid government types will stop the music or keep me from being part of the party... it is sad that The Pause of Mr. Clause is as true today as it ever was...
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