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Thanks for the heads up. I'm all for keeping politics on the table and upfront here on the Ojai Post.

I'll be there even though I can hardly bear to sit through another powerpoint presentation. Most of these so called powerpoints dis-empower through oversimplification, propagandizing, and overwhelming unnecessary and trivial information.

If the city really wanted to do something about chains, they would have allowed Jeff's initiative on chains to be placed on last fall's ballot. By the way, if anyone is listening, I wish an author would keep those initiatives on page one here so I could comment. If I could, I would make politics page one every day. It's that important. But not to worry, I'm not an author, and after this, even if I aspired to such a high nomination, have hereby reduced the likelihood considerably.

So, let's be kind, and show up at the planning meeting, and with eloquence and civility, say that chains are "chains of slavery" which:

1. are a quick fix money addiction.

2. undercut individual initiative (except for misinformed, aggressive moneyists).

3. drain money out of the community (6% directly and more indirectly).

4. seduce young people into the corporate "climb the ladder pyramid scheme" where only the really aggressive ones are rewarded with what? Money and stress?

5. serve cheap fast food and cheap globalized products.

6. drive a wedge and set a precedent for more to follow in the absence of a strong municipal code which will be long in coming (if ever) from the present administration).

7. suck business away from established small town, small businesses.

8. seduce people into the corporate mindset which mesmerizes lazy sheep and aggressive money addicts.

9. reinforces the exact opposite message to sustainability and smallness.

10. forces the ugly aesthetics of corporatism onto small town beauty. (Older types like Ben Franlin are benign, and gas stations can't be localized without a very srong local government and citizenry opposed to the automobile culture. The new strains are malignant cancers due to globalized metastasis).

11. contradicts the real service a real small town does for visitors by feeding into their already damaged corporate, greedy, ignorant lifestyle.

12. are moral morons in the context of immoral globalization which chains the poor to an unjust speculative, stockmarket gambling system, rigged to reward non-producers.

*** In summary, chains are providentially, prophetically named correctly. Chains are prison chains, carefully advertised as jewelry for the neck, while actually being nooses to choke economic, cultural and spiritual life out of a community. The world is self-destructing because of chains. Listen to the chimes of freedom, not the clunking of chains. Just because the chain masters tone them down and make them look innocuous, don't be fooled. They are obnoxious and toxic at their core.

//This unbiased, objective report brought to you by Dennis Leary of the Red Brown and Blue Party on behalf of The Lover Government.//

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