SO PRETEND TO MONITOR THEN WHEN THAT FAILS PRETEND TO CLEAN UP THE MESS AFTERWARDS

 

That is quite a strategy. I wonder if there actually is a book titled "Playing with Democracy and how to Fool most of the People Most of the Time". It's all about lying constantly to the public while either buying, mollifying or intimidating the media. You want the media on side and if that means destroying them first well all good and well. The media 36 years ago appropriately were all over Uniroyal Chemical and the Ontario Ministry of Environment. They made them pay for their decades of "trust us, we know what we are doing". Alleged state of the art waste handling plus following all provincial rules/legislation were their shields from public scrutiny and or condemnation. In fact it all turned out to be a fantasy. The company basically threw their weight around in a small community and no one wanted to oppose them including our authorities who were elected and paid to protect all of us, not just the wealthy and influential.

Now I will say that the efforts since the 1989 Elmira Crisis have been considerably increased. Not only have they included Pump & Treat remediation but also fake Public Consultation. The Township literally took over that with the aid of Pat Mclean and Susan Bryant and my fellow twits on UPAC went along with it with the exception Of Dr. Henry Regier and Esther Thur. Even then mind you the Township made sure they had two councillors on UPAC (Grace Sudden & Quentin Martin ).  

This is what Democracy has become. Rule by the smoothest liars.  Make sure that the party anoints only those with the "right stuff" to begin with. That right stuff could be a penchant for believing that the ends justify the means or it could be that they are "true believers" in the Party's ideology. At the very worst the two ruling party's don't want candidates who are likely to leave them mid term if they become disillusioned with the Party. Other than that they want candidates who are motivated by being in the public eye and who know how to behave thusly. There are of course exceptions not only in the Party's least likely to form a government but also occasionally in the Liberals or P.C.s.