The Secret Cornell 2

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Doug Baird

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The Secret Cornell

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It’s not surprising that a world-class university like Cornell and the uber-powerful agricultural lobby can combine to thoroughly crush the most marginalized and unrepresented sector of New York State’s population. It’s also not surprising that no one is willing to stand up for us.
When Cornell’s rural policy planner publicly stated that no one but farmers “deserved to live there,” she helped lay the groundwork for Tompkins County’s most recent “vision of the future”: one in which the present rural community no longer exists.
With an elitist policymaking that has closer ties to the Khmer Rouge than the Constitution, Tompkins County is a college destination with the sort of moral compass that lands people a spot on American Greed.
What is The Secret Cornell?
It’s a betrayal of trust that makes the College Admissions Scandal seem like throat-clearing at a political rally.

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If someone were to ask you to do something; if there were even the smallest chance of it injuring your child – you would say; “No, I won’t gamble with the life of my child.” But when technologies inherently risk all life on earth – you are willing to take that small chance; for a small benefit. If words like “Extinction,” and “Apocalypse” are written too big for anything but videogames and movies: you need to step back a bit. We now have the power to do incalculable things — and we have authorities who are eager to use that power. Government isn’t impersonal; it’s personal. It’s a matter of life and death. . . January 15, 2022.
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The Secret Cornell 2

This is a good place to recap the four step defense of politicians, bureaucrats and criminals: 1) Discredit the source, 2) Discredit the facts, 3) Discredit the situation, 4) “It’s legal.” Their quibbling is frequently not with any intent to correct or clarify – but to avoid the issue. If they make the questioning too difficult: they hope you will give up.

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The Secret Cornell

Where should I start? If Tompkins County’s policies are not lies: they are certainly fraudulent. Policy making is a jenga of misrepresentations: whose cunningly shaped pieces are glued together with power, cronyism, and corruption – to prevent the removal of any piece and threaten their collapse. There is no meaningful participation by the people – just the assertion that there is.
The County’s policies are released with the trumpeting of a royal proclamation – and a “take it, or leave it, but there’s nothing you can do about it” arrogance. The smugness of plans well laid by superior intellects.
In this college controlled fiefdom; there are many strata – and the lowest is occupied by the rural poor. We are treated like the tenants of the Irish Landlords: disposable goods. And when you’re disposable — you can’t be a victim.
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