The Secret Cornell

I could say: “The other shoe has dropped” — but their actions are always carried out in a dismissive silence: the “needed repaving” of Lansingville Road, that it’s residents were never informed of, is half done — and Tompkins County has widened the road by four feet.

What was once a neighborly community of long-established families, has become an “Ag ghetto” of health-debilitating factory farms, cheap foreign labor, drugs, and poverty. Many families have been taxed out of their homes, which are then remodeled and repurposed into low income apartments for the county’s unwanted. And the only mandate for law enforcement is to keep it all contained.

Lansingville’s rural community is already prostrate; with Cornell’s boot on our necks, and Cornell’s spittle on our faces. Now, the dwindling pocket of rural families is being targeted for even more repressive Urban Colonialist policies. Policies that strip us of almost every permitted land use, and establish an unregulated raceway through the middle of our hamlet: creating a “do whatever you want” highway for big trucks and speeding commuters — an attractive shortcut, without any of the speed reductions placed on the state highways that surround it.

How many of our Town and County politicians, administrators, and authorities were aware of probable outcome of these policies?

From their documented statements, questionable behavior, and refusal to help; I would say: “All of them.”

With the conscious superiority of the elite: Cornellians moved into our 200-year old community, and cut, shaped, and discarded what existed to create a suburban pastiche, for their comfort and short term gain.

The Secret Cornell is more than a tale of greed, misconduct, and corruption: it’s a window into an unchecked progressive government: One Thought, One Taught, One Voice, One Choice — Theirs.