But say you stick with the vocal advocate role, and pride yourself on advocacy and protest. What is your strongest weapon? Truth. It is my contention that if you are speaking truth to power, then you better make sure of your facts. In advocacy, if you lack the facts, if you just demonize and repeatedly attack the enemy without facts, then you become just an annoyance, an ineffective propagandist.
And so I come to Berta Lambert:
On July 19th, the Park Board cut down a dead tree in Washington Park. My wife happened to be walking by and took a picture as they started:
That morning when they were beginning to remove this tree, Jim Burkhardt a Manager with the Parks Department was there. Jim is an arborist by training and he said he planted the tree in 1996 at the community's request and now he unfortunately had to remove it. I've met Jim several times at different public forums, and he seems to be exactly what you want in a City employee. He loves Cincinnati, and he is completely dedicated to his work in the parks. Oftentimes his job involves removing dead or diseased trees.
The tree It wasn't very big, it was obviously dead, (click on the picture for a bigger view where you can see the leaves are all gone). Did 3CDC have anything to do with this? Highly unlikely. They have stated at numerous public meetings that they will be removing dozens of trees, many of them older and larger than this. They have not started any of the park renovations. They have no reason to kill a single tree out of dozens they plan on removing. The Park Board completely controls the park up to the point sometime in the upcoming months when construction starts.
How many lies can you fit in one simple sign with only 5 words?
So I also noted some of the other signs Berta was displaying:
Later Berta put the tree sign down where the tree was cut. Notice the car parked in the grass!!?? Some things never change.
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Thoughtfully written. I've noticed that he sometimes brings a little rig so that he can swap out signs while he's out and about -- I guess that's clever, but it also makes him seem a bit nutty and incredible.
I love the sombrero. Makes him all that more nutty
Maybe he is simply mistaken. Have you disabused him of his error, or just posted this?
The Dean is the king of propaganda.
I did not talk with him that day, but why would he just assume such a position?
It is perfectly possible that the same Trilateral Commission that spawned 3CDC imported Dutch Elm Disease to the U.S. in the 1950s (the Japanese Beetle spreads the blight, wouldn't you know) knowing that it would come in handy for 3CDC when it became necessary to murder the Buddy Memorial Elm.
I endorse Radarman's analysis with two caveats; both Global Warming and the El Nino weather phenomenon contributed to these chain of events.
they must have needed it for fire wood.
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