Danny on Politicians

Dear Editor:

"For the good of the Municipality", say's one; "for the good of Nova Scotia" say's the other. I'm talking about the local Warden and the Minister of the Environment at two levels of government which hold our well-being in their hands, (but hardly in their hearts), with regard to Wind Farms. I think they confuse their understanding of "good" with what we have revered through the ages as "the common good."

But to appease the "religious" in me and perhaps some of like-kind, I quote:
"Caiaphas,who was High Priest that year,said: "What fools you are! Don't you realize that it is better for you to have one man die for the people, instead of having the whole nation destroyed?" (Jn.11:49-50 Good News New Testament,4th.ed)


Our elected politicians see "the good" with dollar signs in their eyes; while the humanist of religious faith or none sees "people." People don't need all that much save for quality of life, health, home,respect,happiness and security. But when my politician with neither training in the humanities nor the sciences dictates to me in year 2009 (and to you) what they have learned from "paid underlings" who may well be in bed with the proponents of consumerism and greed, as to what is the "common good", I say "taurinal excrement" Sir! or M'am!

The recent history of Digby Neck and Islands bespeaks catastrophe to me. Our unlearned leaders listen not to me or anybody else who at least may have read a book, and like the ostrich, bury their heads in the sands of utter denial and of any possibility that I or my compatriots may know something they don't.

Quarry after quarry; water bottling plant; and wind turbines, I am sure, outstretched from East Ferry to the Digby Town line is what's ahead......n'ere to traverse Islands nor the stretch between the affluent Lighthouse and Shore Roads....Mark my words! Thank God, by then I shall be dead but hardly as dead as they are now to truth.

Daniel Mills
9396 Waterford
RR 4,Digby NS
BOV 1AO

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