julianpenrod
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evidently about the most evil township in New Jersey
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Julian Penrod
4 Fairfield Avenue
West Caldwell, New Jersey 07006
(973) 220-1601
julianpenrod@comcast.net
May 14, 2005
Letters to the Editor
Dear sirs:
As malignant as it is to engage in the foul and underhanded, it can be just as loathsome to be aware of them and not acknowledge it.
A massive public works project is in the works in the Township of Roseland, New Jersey. It constitutes a complete refurbishing of the ballfield at the intersection of Fernwood and Eagle Rock Avenues. Bleachers will be installed, drinking fountains replaced, a new scoreboard and netting set in place. All of this will take place around the single most important feature of the project. Rotating the ballfield 90 degrees clockwise!
The entire project is estimated, now, to be about a half a million dollars!
The purpose of this, it is opined, is the inconvenience of the present positioning. For late day games, it is necessary to halt play for about 5 or 10 minutes at about the seventh inning, because, as the field is laid out now, at that time, the setting sun is in the batter's eyes! Obligatory defenses for this immense operation invoke prospects such as concerns about kids getting "beaned" by a fast ball, and the present inconvenience of batters having to wear sunglasses to play games.
To be sure, those can be said to be completely legitimate complaints. And it is the reasonableness that can be said to be present in these concerns that shills for government waste and patronage use to defraud the unwitting into agreeing with the apparent theft of taxpayer money that this represents. But it is the eminent underlying underhandedness that the unwitting silently sense, yet cannot put into words, that puts the lie to the evident pretense of "compassion" by advocates of the project, and utterly undermines raping the public for more money to funnel to their contractor cronies!
And that is the clear and simple fact that the ballfield should never have been built facing into the sun in the first place!
You can make innumerable justifications for moving a field so the sun doesn't shine into players' eyes, but those same justifications existed when they were placing the field originally! And should have prevented them from building it so home plate faced almost exactly westward!
The Star Ledger newspaper, which seems to function as an obsequious organ of apologia for every questionable expenditure and conniving machination by New Jersey government, appropriately blames the entire situation on "a design oversight when the field was created by volunteers in 1988".
But there is no way anyone designing the field could fail to notice that it pointed toward where the setting sun would be! And, even if they did, others would have noticed it! They certainly had time to! An “oversight” is something that takes place in a moment, and affects an action that takes a second! It is patently impossible for an “oversight” like the wrong positioning of the field could possibly have failed to be noticed during all the time it took to construct the field!
It does seem that local government is trying to take responsibility away from itself, with The Ledger’s quisling cooperation! The Ledger obligingly describes the field as having been “created by volunteers”! It is also patently unlikely that anything on public land would be the pure and complete work of “volunteers”! It is authorized by local government! Money is apportioned! Studies are made! A contractor is hired to design it! Local firms are hired to do the job! By laying the project at the feet of “volunteers, local government seems to be trying to get the blame for the incompetence off their hands!
In this way, then, Fernwood Field in Roseland joins such things as “The Millenium Bug” as one of the evident more obvious, outrageous, and apparently calculatedly expensive, cases of programmed obsolescence! The designers of Fernwood Field reportedly failed to realize that the sun sets in the West, and, reportedly, completely ignored that fact all the while the field was being built! Now, at least a half a million dollars in essential and gratuitous construction will be authorized to repair that “oversight”! And the “rank and file” are ordered to willingly eat the dung of evident deceit, and accept that it was all “innocent”! Just as the engineers at Microsoft either never realized that the year 2000 would come, or didn’t anticipate their company being around then! They used an incomplete system for specifying dates, using only the last two digits of the year. When 2000 came around, then, systems around the world were supposedly on the brink of accessing erroneous information for everything from scheduling to billing! It required expensive patches in every major computer system. And the public are expected to just roll over and believe what they are told!
Another connection between the two is that, after this evident display of connivery, both the government of Roseland and Microsoft demand not only that they be exonerated of all blame, but that the “rubes” let down their guard and let themselves be raped in the same way, over and over again!
Microsoft is still not off the hook for their apparent orchestrated program of constantly increasing the need for bigger and bigger - and more and more expensive - memory through a campaign of ever expanding software and - through the ILM protocol arrangement with Intel and Lotus - ever more intricate operating system requirements! They also have a lot to answer for for their evident planned inclusion of security breach after security breach in their software. The version of Windows from 2000, and supposedly expressly geared for work on the internet, was supposedly more vulnerable than Windows 98! And their evident willful refusal to provide important information to those who purchase their products has apparently left many whose systems had been contaminated with spyware and adware feeling that their computers were irretrievably damaged, requiring them to buy new ones! And even that may only be the tip of their iceberg.
Roseland’s evident corrupt involvement in Fernwood Field - funneling construction money into the pockets of developer cronies, then funneling money for its correction into cronies’ hands – itself only joins a rapidly expanding list of evident infractions of the township against the welfare of its people, and against the law itself!
In fact, an unbiased view would demonstrate Roseland, New Jersey to be one of the most corrupt municipalities, per capita, in the state! Small, as most communities, go, it has seen an involvement in evident unethicality and even criminality that rivals or surpasses examples of such large, and questionable, cities as Newark! Indeed, the smallness of Roseland plays a part in its being arguably one of the most evil towns in the state, since there are so few people that just about everybody in the community has some connection with government! In this way, the town and the government are practically one! It’s as if the White House had declared itself a separate nation! In most cases of government corruption, intransigence by members of the community outside the government’s machinations could at least mount a reasonable obstruction to acceptance of their crookedness! When everyone in the town is, essentially, “in on the scam”, it makes the township, basically, “move as one body”, almost like an armored tank!
Fortunately, such a patent solid show of connivery can tend to create a particularly fervent air of opposition among those they would try to oppress! That seems to be growing now.
Roseland’s apparent unscrupulousness has covered a wide range of expressions. Real estate connivery seems only one level. But it is potent. Very recently, for example, Roseland - and, let’s be frank, we’re speaking not just of Roseland’s government, but, apparently, the community as a diseased whole! -evidently sought to ruin property values in an important stretch of neighboring Livingston, apparently with the intent of making it possible for residents of Roseland to steal property from Livingston residents! Eventually, the long range “master plan” seems to have called for actually annexing that property to Roseland’s rolls! On the basis of Roseland “popular opinion”! The method for ruining Livingston property values was the conniving use of a stretch of property along bordering Becker Farm Road. Without even consulting Livingston, Roseland set about trying to convert the land into a collection of athletic fields! Even though they already had Fernwood Field and at least six other fields, they supposedly felt the need to build more. The nearness of the proposed fields to residential areas in Livingston, though, would subject them to light pollution, sound pollution, traffic congestion, litter and even the prospect of people crossing their land to get to and from games! For their part, though, Roseland never even contacted Livingston, to try to arrange an equitable compromise. In fact, the story goes, the first anyone in Livingston heard of Roseland’s plans was when some joggers accidentally saw at least a half a dozen dump trucks surreptitiously unloading gravel in the Becker Farm area before dawn! Using apparently criminally misappropriated “Green Acres” funds, what can apparently be rightly termed the Roseland Mafia apparently planned to go ahead with no thought of the harm they would do to Livingston. Concentrated opposition by Livingston caused the Roseland Mafia to retrench, and funnel the “green Acres” money, equally inappropriately, into a “nature center”. For its own evident quisling part, The Star Ledger capers about the matter approvingly, pretending that they believe the nature center to have been Roseland’s plan from the start!
In the face of this, such things as the apparently suspicious leveling of a venerable building near the intersection of Roseland and Eagle Rock Avenues, only to replace it with an ugly brick mini mall, seems a “light day” for the machinations of the Roseland Mafia!
Indeed, so safe within the walls of their compound do the members of the Roseland Syndicate seem to feel that many seem to have given up on subtlety in their connivery. An eminent example of this was the recent mayor of Roseland, Louis DeBell. One of his most notorious involvements was his arranging to bypass state legislature rules and summarily enact an ordinance that prohibited all guns within 1000 feet of a school. In addition to addressing a problem that the quiet township had never faced, and imposing a system that threatened the rights of gun ownership of law-abiding residents, the new ordinance actually tread on the toes of already existing state laws designed to handle such situations! It all came across as a case of evident conniving political grandstanding by DeBell, all the way up to when the State Supreme Court struck the ordinance down! But ruthless self-promotion was a commonplace of DeBell’s administration. When the evidently illegal ordinance was imposed on the township, DeBell arranged to have a picture of himself posing atop a jungle gym be featured in local newspapers! DeBell also had an apparently eminently vested - if cowardly - interest in the overdevelopment desecration of the state. The steady ripping up of wilderness areas has produced a significant by-product, the mass migration of wildlife into residential areas. The politicians can lie - and apparently do! - about the extent of the rape of the state’s natural legacy, but the hordes of skunk, rabbit, deer, bear and wild turkey showing up on lawns in Orange and Camden won’t! For this reason, literally annihilating this silent, but potent witness, has become paramount among those who wish to defraud the public about the extent to which government has broken the law by colluding with developers. The apparently utterly illegitimate bear hunt was only one step in this process. Ordering the use of Nazi concentration camp methods to exterminate Canada geese is another! Louis DeBell cravenly entered the fray by characterizing deer populations as a problem at town meetings, and even promoting extending the use of the Nazi death camp techniques to handle wild turkey that gathered on his lawn! And, when indicted Essex County Executive James Treffinger was carrying out his campaign of extorting local contractors for his cooperation in criminal awarding of contracts, and extorting communities to accept the contracts, DeBell was his evidently crooked “liaison to Essex County communities”. Basically, DeBell just told them how many times Treffinger intended to rape them, so Treffinger could stay safely away from the crime!
But these can all be “overlooked” as cases on individual malfeasance, against a backdrop of a community government opposed to such things. But the fact of the matter is that criminality has apparently actually become a part of the normal process of business in the township!
One of the most eminent examples is in their apparently utterly corrupt “traffic court”!
Evidently endlessly ravenous for money, and concurrently ruthless in the methods of acquiring it, the entire court system in the township has apparently become contaminated, and works toward illegally procuring it from individuals!
The apparent swindle works in this manner. To begin with a cop, evidently just as criminal as the town’s court system, issues an illegitimate traffic ticket. This is evidently not uncommon, since any visit to Roseland’s “traffic court” will reveal many standing there with proof of the invalidity of the charges against them. They will have photographs, copies of regulations and eyewitness testimony. They will have complete proof that the ticket was not deserved! This is a commonplace, since it seems usually to be out-of-towners who are targeted for the scam - the leech doesn’t feed off it’s own blood! They will all be unaware that the “court” procedure is stacked against them; they will believe that in “court” truth will win out over treachery!
This is where the next step in the evident swindle comes in. Before their case is “heard”, they are each sent in for an interview by someone the township calls one of their “prosecutors”! This is completely out of keeping with standard court procedure, to have a member of the township’s legal team interview you! Normally, members of the township would be allowed to speak with you under a deposition, but this is not a deposition! No records are kept! There are compelling - and evidently criminal! - reasons why records are not kept! Because, during the “interview”, there is no attempt by the “prosecutor” to ascertain the facts of the matter. There is no need to, since the “court” apparently already knows that the charges are invalid! The only purpose of the “interview” is for the “prosecutor” to inform you, essentially, how the apparent swindle is going to work! You are told that, if you plead “guilty”, you will be let off with only a $150.00 fine, and no points on your record. If you decide to plead “not guilty”, you are informed that the fine will be doubled, and you will be levied 4 points on your record! The evidently fraudulent tickets are apparently all written for 4 point offenses! Even if you are willing to risk the sentence, working on the basis of the strength of your evidence, the “prosecutor” then reveals the third piece of the evident scam. Your evidence will not count! The “judge” will not even consider it! They will just mouth the platitude, “Why would the policeman lie?”, and, on the basis of that alone, the “judge” will find you guilty, and assign penalties! In other words, what is called a “court system” in Roseland in engineered not to operate on the basis of proof and truth, but only for the purpose of finding the innocent guilty before the fact! Visit the “traffic court” in Roseland, which meets twice a week, and you will likely see no less than six or seven drivers being raped by the evident criminal enterprise that is Roseland, New Jersey! That amounts to at least $1000 every session, or at least $2000 a week! And that, likely, amounts to no less than $100,000 - apparently to be split by the criminal and corrupt members of Roseland government! And that’s just from “traffic court” alone! In the eyes of Roseland, the law and government exists only to be ruthlessly and cravenly employed to rob from the “rank and file”, to rape society!
When it becomes evident that criminality has seeped so deeply into government that it seems the only thing that powers it, the public have to depend on themselves to oppose it!
They must never frequent the streets of Roseland! To be innocent in Roseland, and be an outsider, seems to target you for rape by that bestial community!
People have to refrain from purchasing housing there, and definitely refuse to patronize any businesses there!
Those savaged by the evident criminal operation called the Roseland “traffic court” should not be afraid to reveal their having been raped, to every newspaper, magazine and radio and television station! They must also be willing to spread the story of the connivery by word of mouth, and instruct everyone they know not to trust Roseland in anything!
And even those not directly involved can take action, and must!
They must flood editors’ desks at newspapers, magazines, and radio and television stations with letters, informing them that they know the truth that the media seems determined to hide! They must let them know, among other things, that the Fernwood Field situation in Roseland is evidently nothing more than an attempt to steal more money from “Green Acres” coffers!
They must bombard the desks of town council, judges, mayors, county executives, governors, Senators and even the president, ordering them to reveal the truth about such evident crooked manipulations of government! They must insist that the government move in and take command of Roseland government, just as they would with any organized criminal enterprise, so situations like Fernwood Field will not be allowed to make the underhanded even richer than they have already made themselves! They must demand that government also fully investigate Roseland’s evidently filthy dealings for at least the past 35 years, so the unscrupulous are not allowed to keep any of the money they stole from the public!
Most importantly, they must involve themselves, deeply, with the goings on in government around them, so, when the next case of criminal malfeasance in office comes up, they can denounce it, immediately and loudly!
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