Leo
Gilbert,#2Consumer Suggestion
Mon, September 30, 2002
I laugh a lot when I hear this or that legislator talk about "pork barrel legislation". This whole part of the Valley is run and administered for the express profit of a small circle, and it serves no other purpose. The rest of us are just "contributors", who money they steal in the form of taxes, to divide amongst the select group of inner circle cowards who run everything. Up to a point, this is how towns everywhere are run, but here, it is becoming ridiculous. Mesa, especially, has gone so far in its use of eminent domain, police powers, construction projects, and other flim-flam actions that if Mel Brooks did it as film farce, it would be so far from believeable it wouldn't be funny. There are half-a-dozen such money-sucking scams going on right now, visible to me every time I drive through Mesa and Gilbert. Most of these people could be replaced with octupi. I think I will leave, and soon. My business is being double-shuffled and lied to and about daily, licenses held up to silly levels of scrutiny, hidden charges hit me like torpedoes, and I seem to notice my LDS competitors have none of these problems.
The Fist
Mesa,#3Consumer Suggestion
Sat, September 21, 2002
Good point made recently by a novelist/nonfiction author who has more integrity and honor in her little finger than this entire city government has, from one Mormon end to the LDS other: "Democracy is largely about the crew and passengers enunciating their right to assume the bridge before an iceberg is struck. It is about dissent and responsibility." This city lacks the latter two, and the citizens-watching this "ship of state" submerge hard by the bow, under the criminal and incompetent leadership of the GOBN--have not yet stood up for themselves. Do ANY of you have ANY guts at all???? You live in a concentration camp, very similar to the that old TV series THE PRISONER... If you don't enjoy dealing daily with the local n**i right wing filth, you better do something. Remember, freedom isn't free, and standing up for it begins RIGHT NOW in this stinking cess pit. Forget the right wing crap and the left wing b.s. This fight is about fairness.
Gower
Mesa,#4Consumer Suggestion
Thu, September 19, 2002
Orwell was correct. The misuse of language and the use of lies as the fodder of the state are the ultimate forms of corruption. Mesa is the heart and soul of that formula. The putrification of this community and its selective, theocratic pressures, and most especially, its lack of any genuine and truly meaningful sort of law enforcement is the primary reason it cannot attract major, cosmopolitan business. Whether the grand muftis, dimwits, incompetents, and criminals who people the inner sanctum of rot here understand it or not, they are killing this city. Some people call it "The Mormon Thing"... that is a mis-statement. It is the Racketeering Thing ... Giving it a religious identity at all sanctifies the sleaze entirely too much. When finally the revolution comes--and it will be a LEGAL one--and after some justice and clean light falls in the dark corners of this conspiracy, we must make sure that the men and insitutions who replace the tainted ones are vastly superior, and fair. There is a price to be paid in blood and incarceration. Those who oppose the currently ensconced monsters will be sought out and dealt with much as Hitler tried to deal with his tormentors, and for the same reasons: exposing the decades of lies and coverups is the only sword sharp enough to cut. There will be arrests and murders. Count on it. These are the descendants of a Vigiliante tradition. In the end, it will blow up in their collective, criminal faces, but it will take time. And patience. And we must grind exceeding fine.
Ray
Mesa soon to be elsewhere,#5Consumer Comment
Sun, June 09, 2002
Mesa is largely a concentration camp, run by people who belong in prison. Thousands of us know this, and do nothing. I have spent more time in this dunghole speaking to criminals (aka: "scumbag Mesa cops") than I have doing actual business. I tried to organize some real opposition to this rats, and after eight or nine years, at tremendous loss, I am leaving. I have fought city halls and won before, especially when fighting filthy n**i slime like Hutchinson and his equally criminal cohorts. Their maximum real support in this town is maybe 10% or less. But they are ruining everything. EVERYTHING! His predecessor, Luster, was even worse. This police chief...WHAT A JOKE!Unfortunately, the jokes are sick and the city administration even sicker. I am "voting" with a U-Haul. I retire soon, and I cannot be jousting with windmills with no support. This town's citizens are as spineless and gutless as the small cadre of pukebags who run it, but not as clever.