EDITORIAL
ANGRY CITIZEN EDITORIAL
HYPOCRISY DEFINED
This month, we define hypocrisy.
The dictionary definition of hypocrisy
is:
hypocrisy (hɪˈpɒkrəsɪ)
— n , pl -sies
1. the practice of professing standards, beliefs, etc,
contrary to one's real character or actual behaviour, esp the pretence of virtue
and piety
2. an act or instance of this
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th
Edition 2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
The Swinomish Tribal newsletter Kee Yoks professes to be opposed to plastic because of its
severe impacts on fish and marine life in general.
See below:
Meanwhile,
Anacortes Mayor Dean Maxwell is building a massive expansion to his water
treatment plant after his municipality “recently gave Tethys Enterprises a
contract for five million gallons per day of Skagit River water without any
environmental review or meaningful public notice. This water will be exported
from the Skagit Basin, forever. Unlike exempt wells, the water sold to Tethys
will not be recharged into the groundwater table. The water will be hauled on
railcars, permanently taken out of the Skagit River Basin. To put this quantity
of water into context, five million gallons per day represents approximately 25
percent of the existing U. S. market in bottled water--a massive amount of
water. In the face of climate change, shrinking glaciers and a reduced water
supply, the Skagit estuary will need this water in order to keep producing
threatened Chinook for the Tribe's commercial and ceremonial needs. The issue is
directly connected to a viable fishery for future generations.” (See:
5/9/2012
Letter
to the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community)
Perhaps this explains why in December 2010, the Anacortes City Council “approved
three contracts totaling nearly $60 million for construction of a new water
treatment plant on the site of the current plant in the Riverbend area of Mount
Vernon” (Source:
12/14/2010
Anacortes Now).
So what does Tethys Enterprises do with 5,000,000 gallons of
water per day?
They put it into plastic bottles and the Swinomish Tribe does not protest
the same. This is the same Tribe
that protests individual property owners from developing private wells because
it “might” harm salmon.
Hypocrisy never had a
finer hour…
A true and tried statement of politics
is politics makes strange bedfellows.
Strange indeed when a Tribe allegedly dedicated to preserving the salmon
and is opposed to the use of plastics but yet has no problem when their cohorts
in crime want to build a plastic water bottling plant.
Follow the money… because it is always about the
money!
LETS DO IT OURSELVES!! LETS DO IT NOW!! LETS DO IT WITH VOTER
APPROVAL!!
May your fields be ripe and budding and your rivers full and flooding (because its the only time people pay attention).
The Angry Citizen
