HOW THE GUILTY PARTIES IN ELMIRA HAVE GOTTEN AWAY WITH THE BIG LIE

Most of today's posting will come directly from Gwynne Dyer's Opinion piece in today's Waterloo Region Record. The title is "Lucky Joe Biden comes to power at a time when his opponents are in utter disarray". In this article by Mr. Dyer, a very well known historian and military expert, he discusses the " Big Lie", both Mr. Trump's (wah...the Democrats stole the election) to Adolf Hitler's various Big Lies. In fact Mr. Dyer quotes extensively from Adolf's infamous "Mein Kampf" with specifics as to how to get away with outrageous lies to the public. .............................................................................................................. "In the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility because ...in the primitive simplicity of their minds (the great masses) more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation.". Wow and there folks is the psychology behind getting away with blatant public lies. ........................................................................................................................ Do you think that dishonest, unethical politicians and private interests have actually stopped doing the same thing? Clearly Donald Trump got away with it and continues to do so to a large extent. Here in Elmira there have been a number of Big Lies. For example: 1) The cleanup will be world class and the drinking aquifers restored to drinking water standards by 2028. Horse crap! 2) Uniroyal Chemical were the only contributer to the destruction of the Elmira Aquifers with NDMA, chlorobenzene and ammonia. More horse crap. 3) A local citizens group sucessfully challenged a multi national corporation and forced a cleanup. Unbelieveable. Just look at the first big lie. Thirty plus years later and Lanxess (Uniroyal) are receiving a new Control Order extending the cleanup deadline. The citizens group leadership have been very sucessful in promoting themselves. Two of them ran for mayor of Woolwich Township. The third didn't because she's not a Canadian citizen. The creek and the aquifers haven't done nearly so well. 4) Canagagigue Creek will be restored to its former beauty and health. Ridiculous. The entire cleanup has been based upon dilution is the solution to pollution. Everything either flows and dilutes in the groundwater or eventually (centuries?) flows into the Canagagigue Creek and is carried downstream to Waterloo, Kitchener, Cambridge and eventually Lake Erie. ...................................................................................................................... The private and political guilty parties have used and abused the principles of the "Big Lie" from long before the November 1989 shutdown of the drinking wells in Elmira. 5) NDMA was "discovered" in Elmira in 1989. Bullcrap! 6) In the early 1980s Elmira residents were advised that their drinking wells were safe and that there were ample monitoring and warning wells between Uniroyal and the wellfields. Really! So what happened? To this day the public really don't want to know the truth. It is too abhorrent. It is too outrageous. It is too infamous. It would destroy their faith in government and all our authorities. Right now especially, the public need and want to trust and have faith that our authorities are competent and trustworthy. It would crush them to know the truth.