Working Together for Our Inherent Governing Authority! Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate systematical job of reducing us to slaves." --Thomas Jefferson
February 18, 2009, John Crane, of the Danville Register and Bee, quoted the Chairman of the Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors, Coy Harville (known by some as "King Coy") as saying: "Davis’ authorship of a resolution without telling the board ahead of time was "sneaky." However, Harville said he voted for it because the resolution, when given to the Coal and Energy Commission’s Uranium Subcommittee, won’t make much difference anyway."
"It’s just a piece of paper," he said.
Harville, who had initially voted for the combined resolution before supporting Davis’, declined to reveal his opinion of uranium mining, saying instead there’s a state moratorium on the practice.
This is in response to Supervisor Hank Davis' motion to resolve that the "Study Commission", currently considering a study to lift the moratorium on uranium mining and milling in Virginia, must find that there be "no damage or harm to Pittsylvania County, its businesses, institutions, environments, and its citizens by uranium mining, as opposed to a cost/benefit approach to this issue or simply accepting minimal damages". Supervisor Marshall Ecker seconded this motion.
In other words, the "Study Commission" must find that this criterion is met conclusively and absolutely before recommending that the current moratorium on uranium mining be lifted.
The above language is EXACTLY what Mr. Davis submitted to the County for the BOS Packet for the 2/17/09 BOS meeting. It appears that, at least Mr. Sleeper (County Administrator), felt a need to rewrite Mr. Davis' resolution to be submitted to the full Board. TALK ABOUT SNEAKY!
Could it be that Mr. Sleeper was directed to do this by a higher authority? The County Administrator is subject to the Chairman of the Board's direction when the BOS is not in session...
Mr. Davis did not accept this weak, groveling, resolution and submitted his original material.
After a nonsensical debate of "combining" the two resolutions, Mr. Davis' resolution was passed unanimously.
As a member of the audience watching this comedy of errors, I must tell you that, in my mind, this unanimous vote nearly didn't happen. My impression, watching Mr. Harville, was that he found himself surprised that EVERY hand was up in favor of Mr. Davis' resolution. It appeared to me that, this being the case, as opposed to the usual "gang of 4" block vote - Harville, Pritchett, Snead and Barber, that he is used to, he found himself the odd man out, so stuck his hand up and declared a "unanimous" vote.
Harville's inane comments recorded above proves out my impression and shows, in my mind, his complete and utter disdain of Pittsylvania County, its businesses, institutions, environments, and its citizens.
It is obvious that his vote was meaningless to him! One must wonder why? It is SHOCKING that an elected "servant" of the community would react this way!
So, other than producing a "wasted" piece of paper (by the way, as much as I hate to admit it, Harville's statements are TRUE), what was accomplished Tuesday night?
Tuesday night proved that people, working together for a common cause, CAN have control of their future and take back their inherent GOVERNING AUTHORITY! King Coy and his ilk DO NOT RULE US! They REPRESENT US! They do not, and will not, work for CORPORATION'S INTERESTS ON OUR DIME!
Davis and Ecker deserve our thanks and support. They have helped us to achieve a major, if inadequate step.
The next step will be to codify into law protections that will forever protect "Pittsylvania County, its businesses, institutions, environments, and its citizens".
GV
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4 comments:
Hi, I attended the presentation this evening and I did not get a program with, the names of the presenters. I was wondering if you could pass that info along. Also, I was wondering why the lady on the far right didn't say anything (Katherine Muller? Like I said, I couldn't hear very well, so I didn't quite catch her name).
Thanks!!
I fully understand how much time and energy go into planning such an event and moreover that it is all being done by volunteers. Everyone responsible should be commended.
Appropriately, the meeting was billed as an educational seminar because we do need to educate. But I assume as well that our purpose is to persuade and to rally people to the cause. This life-threatening issue, therefore, must be presented in a much more powerful way. New people hearing about it for the first time must come away feeling threatened, alarmed and endangered! Only then will this movement grow and succeed in making the moratorium permanent. Therefore, I was very disappointed in the energy level of the moderator—who lost control toward the end—and of the panel. One panel member, in fact, declined to speak and then during the Q&A said nothing at all.
We also need to emphasize over and over and over again what this is really about: (1) corporate greed at the expense of human welfare, evidenced by the pro-uranium folks being unable to offer anything new, and (2) who decides what happens where.
Facts and figures are great but by themselves they will not grab people’s attention. Perhaps a slide saying “COMING SOON TO A RIVER NEAR YOU: TOXIC WASTE!” superimposed on a Southside pastoral landscape or some such attention-getter might get some blood coursing through our old veins.
Speaking of old veins, I also wonder where all the young people are, whose future is much more at stake than ours. High school students, college students and young adults need to see this as their issue also, although I have no immediate suggestions as to how to reach them. But they certainly would help to get people fired up about this. Any ideas out there?
(The Rev.)Christopher Ross
South Boston
Rev Ross, thank you for your comment! Your enthusiasm is shared by virtually all of SCC in this quest.
We had a most unfortunate situation occur in the line-up of speakers and presentations that could not have been foreseen by any of the planners. The fervent and energy you missed had been planned by a presentation of one of SCC's senior officers.
A dynamic, hard-hitting Power-Point presentation had been developed exclusively for this Seminar by the officer. However, an emergency health issue arose almost immediately before the Seminar that prevented the officer from making the presntation himself.
It was the judgment of the other senior officers that we would postpone this special until the health issue was resolved due to the symmetry that the presentation and the affected officer brought as a pair to the overall effect!
We promise that it will be available soon with the proper presenter and in another well-publicized venue!
Again, thank you for your support and if you are not currently on our Email Alert List, please request to be so by emailing sccChatham@yahoo.com.
I visited another blog today and happened to notice this post which I thought was worth posting here. The blog is http://uranium2008.blogspot.com/ and is authored by Cavalier. Give it a whirl sometime!
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Group sponsors seminar in Danville
We apologize for not knowing further details, but we have been notified that a regional group of concerned citizens "The Alliance" is hosting a free seminar about uranium mining & milling (right?) 6:30-8:30 p.m. April 30 at North Theater, 629 N. Main St., in Danville, Va.
Meanwhile, this blurb (with link) below popped up in a Google alert:
Come one, come all....By varockstar2008(Virgina Uranium) Bring your torches to vilify the devil uranium. Oh, and don't forget your checkbook. Green hats don't buy themselves! I hope they have a ball. I entertained the notion of going, and then I thought to myself, Why? ...
We checked it out and, for one, the blogger may want to fix the spelling of Virginia after the author's name (that's not our error); two, we found false information at the top of the blog when it states it passed the Senate unanimously (it didn't); and we also are quite curious as to the assumption incorrect information would be relayed during this seminar. How can that be determined if the author doesn't attend and specifically note - and later clarify - such information? It's a shame, really. To cast such stones without explaining precisely and clearly why Exhibit A, B or C is baseless will not provide any credibility whatsoever to the very audience that blog is attempting to pursuade. Don't simply say something is smoke and mirrors -- Fan the fog and shatter the glass (but do so responsibly, factually, maturely). Prove your case as you would ask others to do. That will help advance the community discussion.
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