Monday, May 29, 2006
The last stand
The city has fallen into the hands of nature terrorists. The same environmental creeps that are responsible for sinking protected nature areas have joined forces and formed a majority in Reykjavík's city hall. This is the worst possible outcome of the municipal elections. Now not only do we have a corrupt government willing to sell their grandmother for yet another smelter, but the city that could have been a counterforce is now a playing field for these power-hungry war mongers that think nature is something that can be sold to the highest (or actually the lowest) bidder. The leaders of these same two parties agreed three years ago to put Iceland's name on the despicable list of the willing to invade Iraq. That decision was utterly illegal since it was made by two men without the consent of the Icelandic parliament and certainly without the consent of the Icelandic people. With people like that controlling the city as well, I fear that soon more vulnerable nature areas will be offered to international corporations on the altar of greed. Alcoa and similar companies will be able to roam freely around our country building enormous polluting aluminium factories, emitting massive amounts of toxic fumes into the atmosphere. Even more birds, seals and reindeer will consequently lose their breeding grounds not to mention rare plants that will be lost. Renewable energy my arse! Just look at the cost; here are some photos of the land that will be lost forever in about three months time because of these "citizens" http://www.inca.is/photosiv2.asp?flokkur=kara.
These populists probably wouldn't mind the planet looking like a borg globe if it would get them a few votes, hence the picture of one to your left. The inhabitants of a country with a unique environment voted poorly and now nature will have to pay.
The other thing that hurts is that this new majority is not a real majority. These two parties only have 49% of the votes. This is not the will of the 51% of the voters and is therefore treason towards the inhabitants of Reykjavík and to democracy.
Now is the time to act. We have to rise up and object to this assault on democracy! We voted and we didn't vote for them dammit!
# posted by Björkin : 4:31 PM
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Wow, quite dramatic! So what are you going to do..?
I don't quite understand what you said about the majority not being one - either they won the election or they didn't, how can they be in power if they're actually not..? (-Saying that, I just thought of a certain superpower across the Atlantic where they even let a monkey govern who wasn't elected in the first place, so I guess it's all possible.)
Anyway, on a more cheerful note, looking forward to a chai with you in bonny old Scotland! (Where the hills are treeless but always green...)
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I don't quite understand what you said about the majority not being one - either they won the election or they didn't, how can they be in power if they're actually not..? (-Saying that, I just thought of a certain superpower across the Atlantic where they even let a monkey govern who wasn't elected in the first place, so I guess it's all possible.)
Anyway, on a more cheerful note, looking forward to a chai with you in bonny old Scotland! (Where the hills are treeless but always green...)
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