Zone Alone

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Doug Baird

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Tompkins County and Tammany Hall [I can’t seem to find any difference at all]

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A circumstantial case for further investigation and adjudication of government misconduct. All the incidents in this book are unresolved. The complete lack of any meaningful or substantive action on the part of authorities in Tompkins County and New York State was a driving force behind continued efforts to publish this book and get a positive resolution for the county’s marginalized rural community. My “closure” in writing these narratives was not the bureaucratic closing of a file; but the act of keeping those files open and exposed to public view — and, hopefully, public pressure. The circumstantial nature of these accusations is greatly strengthened by a singular lack of any contradictory evidence. Every incident I was able find has the same “earmarks” and points in the same direction. The sole basis for selection was the amount of documentation available through public records and my personal involvement. Any effective circumstantial case depends on the number of facts that support a single conclusion: I have sometimes sacrificed readability in an effort to present those facts. This is not a Detective Story, it’s not a “who-done-it”; it’s a “what-are-you-going-to-do-about-it?” In our government’s “vision” of society; there seems to be no room for public participation, approval, or oversight of its actions — we need to replace that vision, and that power, with ours.

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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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Zone Alone

Tompkins County’s attack on the rural community goes far beyond a passive and stony gaze in the face of poverty and need – Ithaca’s expanding resettlement government uses a high maintenance, urban sprawl bedroom community policy to increase taxes beyond what the original residents can afford; while choking off services and bombarding the stubborn with iniquitous laws to speed up their “constructive eviction.”

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Tompkins County and Tammany Hall [I can’t seem to find any difference at all]

ZONE ALONE

03/18/2015 – Local Law Amended
APPENDIX II: ADULT ENTERTAINMENT ORDINANCE

1) INTENT
“It is the intent of this local law to regulate sexually-oriented businesses, to promote the health, safety, morals and general welfare of the citizens of the Town of Lansing and to establish reasonable and uniform regulations to monitor the location and concentration of sexually oriented businesses within the town of Lansing.”
“A sexually oriented business, as defined herein, may be operated only within a rural agricultural district in the TOWN OF LANSING”
Adult arcades, Adult bookstores/Adult video stores; including Instruments, devices or paraphernalia which are designed for use in connection with “specified sexual activities” – Adult nightclubs and bars, Adult theaters, Massage parlors, Escort agencies, and Sexual encounter centers.
Instead of placing this Adult Entertainment in a well-trafficked and lit commercial district; this “reasonable” law restricts all sexually-oriented businesses to an area where the families are poorer and more isolated, there is little traffic, no street lights, and no deputy’s patrols — the perfect hunting ground for the kind of sexual predators these unmonitored and out of sight businesses would draw.
Why? Because, I was told by the Town Supervisor: “People in the other parts of town would get upset if it was allowed near where they lived or could be seen.” No reasons for how this decision promotes “the health, safety, morals and general welfare” of rural families have ever been given.
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Doug Baird

Tompkins County and Tammany Hall [I can’t seem to find any difference at all]

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Tompkins County and Tammany Hall [I can’t seem to find any difference at all]

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