Shoulda, coulda, woulda

Disclaimer:  everything contained in this blog is MY OPINION.  Every attempt is made to present the truth through actual facts or to identify statements which are in doubt; otherwise there will be no deliberate presentation of gossip, rumor, or innuendo which can't be proven as factual.

Thanks to Michael Dozier of the Electra PD for his courtesy and attention on a break-in report.

'Negativity.'  Now, there's a dandy word.  It's a prime example of 'disinformation' in that it provides a misleading and denigrating  name with which to label the opposition,  And it's so easy!  Just replace the word 'truth' with 'negativity' and run with it.  It's a common ploy which will be familiar to anyone who has had military training in psychological warfare.  It's meant to  undermine the credibility of those who disagree and to shame or frighten them into retreat and silence.
Hey, * Machiavelli,   it ain't gonna work.
(*Please take note  that a name has been replaced here)
What the city commission, school authorities, and medical complex don't, can't, or won't understand is that we don't object to some of the things they've done.
We object to the WAY THEY DID THEM.
Electra isn't a town that approves of things that are devious and sneaky, or for that matter illegal. Most of the people here are pretty law-abiding and have a  highly developed sense of ethics by which they live. They're polite. They listen when others are talking. They try to help.  They try to do the right thing. They have an instinct for things that are simply Not Done. They expect others to have the same sense of common decency.
Some of those in authority just don't comprehend this because they apparently don't have that inbred sense of right and wrong themselves.
They plot a course that is calculated to get what they want, regardless of how it's done. Why do they think it's necessary to be ugly and underhanded about it?
The result is outrage.
Johnny Morris should have been removed from his position (legally) without  scandal.
The school bond could have passed without the hidden agenda and the unwelcome (and illegal) annexation of city park.
Health care would be adequate without the often rude (and sometimes illegal) mix of politics which causes unease and distrust.
And that's just a sample from each.
So you can stop milking the media and your groupies for sympathy by saying you just don't understand why people are mad.
THAT'S WHY.

And here's a new 'negative' for you: 
Page 4 of the proposed city budget:
Expenditures for 2015, line 20, under 'Sheriff Dept.-Police Services,' column #3 says 'Actual 7/31/14    $145,560.50.'
That is presumably the actual billed expense for September-December 2013.
Column #4, 'Proposed' is blank.
That's the money budgeted to pay the Sheriff's Department for  their security work.
Zilch.
And it looks like that's what city hall 'proposes' to pay the Sheriff's Department for the rest of the debt.

4. Who manipulates word meanings to excuse illegal actions?

AHM Negativity, PhD.