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2015-08-17 OPPL Locks Public Out of Meeting
At the August 2015 OPPL-BoT meeting, they tried a new trick: this time, they locked the doors at 7pm so people could not get into the meeting. Several people tried to come into the meeting to raise their concerns, but they were denied the right to petition because the doors were locked. If you got up to leave during the meeting, you had to have someone get up and let you back in because the doors were locked. The library's attorney, Dennis Walsh, from Klein Thorpe Jenkins, sat there reading papers and didn't pay attention and allowed the doors to be locked and people to not be able to get into the meeting. I do not think this was legal. Another new trick by the OPPL-BoT to silence people and keep the public out.
Have you ever looked back on some of the predictions that the Left has made while using scare tactics, especially on teens and children? The movie Pleasantville (from 1998) has a scene at the very beginning that's set in a high school. It's a montage where different teachers tell the kids all sorts of grim and soul-killing predictions about all of the apocalyptic calamities on the horizon. The science teacher gives an Alarmist, terror-inducing lecture on -- wait for it -- OZONE DEPLETION. I forgot that they used to terrify people about "the hole in the ozone", which they said would be our doom by the year 2000…and then when that didn't happen, they started saying "by 2010". Now, they pretend they never talked about a "hole in the ozone" and are on to other things. The science teacher (speaking in the year 1998, to kids who were 16 at the time) says: "By the time you are 30 years old, average global temperatures will have risen two and a half degrees, causing such catastrophic consequences as typhoons, floods, widespread drought, and famine". The kids this teacher was talking to turned 30 in the year 2012 or so. None of those Alarmist predictions came true. But, the Left is very heavily invested in promoting Alarmism as a kind of new, secular religion. Make people afraid of something…tell them they are committing sins (in this case, "sins against the planet"), convince them they are doomed and have no hope. This is how the Left seeks to control people, through FEAR, through a sense of hopelessness, through a pessimism about the future. Why rebel against the Left and work forward a future for yourself when you are taught there is no future because the world is doomed. And then, when the apocalyptic things the Left predicts doesn't come true…the Left just pretends they never said those things. Nothing to see here. Time to move along.
