ARE THEY SOCIOPATHS, BULLIES OR JUST NOT TOO BRIGHT?

Why do politicians think that once they've made a decision, no matter how self-serving, contoversial or just plain wrong that suddenly it's done and over and they can move on to the next attempt to screw over and exploit the public? Woolwich Council in their infinite capacity to rationalize and justify the unjustifiable might just be beginning to understand that there are long term implications to screwing members of the public. Normally Councils and legislatures do most of their dirty work early on in their term and then bribe a few segments of society with goodies just prior to upcoming elections. Isn't democracy grand?

Any long held past misconceptions on my part that somehow the people elected and in authority have some sort of unseen attributes and skills, much less inherent ethics and morals, has been gone for a very long time. Yes like most citizens I was brought up to respect authority figures and to assume, until proven otherwise, that they were inherently honest and decent. Oh my how naive I was. Our psuedo mayor, Sandy Shantz, likes to pretend that informed critics and activists are conspiracy theorists. The reality is that all politics are conspiracies. Partisan and rabid individuals lusting for power and authority over the rest of us unite in self-serving alliances and political parties just for those purposes. Money, power and influence are the motives behind politicians. This is however no excuse to brand all politicians thusly simply because it applies to 95% of them.

Woolwich Council with their usual five minute study and research on a subject allowed themselves to be led by the noses by Sandy and Mark Bauman in regards to throwing out the last CPAC. Manipulating attendance at private meetings, manipulating CPAC Applications and good old fashioned lying ruled the day. This behaviour has been commonplace in Woolwich politics for a very long time with some Councillors routinely massaging facts and opinions to support their own biases and agendas. None of these biases and agendas are remotely in the public interest. In this case they are in the interests of two to three Councillors, Chemtura and the provincial government through the M.O.E.C.C.

Council have and are receiving pushback. This includes pushback via the Ombudsman and perhaps by the Privacy Commissioner. The latter remains to be seen as I have just recently sent him some correspondence regarding Council's vicious, vitriolic attack upon CPAC last year. The two prior Councillors mentioned put their lies and Chemtura/M.O.E.C.C.'s in writing in order to present "evidence" to their Council colleagues and probably others. Staff (CAO etc.) have been advised by myself in writing that this matter is still unresolved.