IT JUST HAS TO BE SAID by Bob Strasburg

Proverbs 12 (New International Version)

11 He who works his land will have abundant food, but he who chases fantasies lacks judgment.

12 The wicked desire the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes. Our nation was founded on Judeo-Christian ethics and values. One only has to read the founding documents of our Country and truth is continually represented as being truth, by referencing the scriptures. America’s ills can easily be defined as the fruit of variance from these truths and principles.

I have presented two verses above for your consideration. Verse 11 of Proverbs 12 announces that the end result of work will be provision and goes on to say that chasing fantasies (illusions) is representative of foolishness. The leaseholders want the rest of Cohocton to accept the negative and dangerous impacts of industrial wind turbines overflowing on our land so they can get a check from developers.

Work, at a desperate fervor is and has been done to propagate the fantasy (illusion) that life will be just wonderful living around these supposed magnificent monuments testifying of the supposed wisdom of man. Full backing has been offered by leaseholders joining in with the efforts of the developer to convince Cohocton residents toward this project.

Now I would ask you to look at verse 12. It represents that wicked people desire the “plunder” of evil men. As you know, plunder is “something taken by force or theft”. Here is where ethics, or lack thereof, come in to play. If a wind power developer operating in America is a willing participant of a scandal that bilks American taxpayers of Billions of tax dollars in the name of green energy that is neither green nor beneficial, when compared to its cost, actual production and other more cost effective choices, and a leaseholder accepts a bribe or “lease payment” from the developer to be part of this scandal, is he or she (the leaseholder) defined by God to be wicked as in verse 12? What is the penalty of being wicked?

On the same line, if the government of a Town weakens in fear from the challenges it faces, does that justify it to share in the plunder of evil men? Does the lack of proper government planning justify such action? Without a doubt, government officials that hold that mentality deserve to be voted out and replaced with competent, ethical leaders that will reform to the standards and ideas that have proven to produce stability. Cohocton does not have to wait and see the choices of our Town government leaders, their actions are self evident. Are you registered to vote in Cohocton?

Now, five times I have publicly asked those who support this Cohocton wind project to come out in public and debate me on the very points you propagate by voice and print and none of you have taken my challenge. You know, all of you, that I will defeat you in public. I will expose you to your neighbors and consume your propaganda like heat does butter and the end result will be your shame. Again, I ask you to search amongst your ranks and see if there is even one of you with courage enough that will publicly debate me on the subject: Is this wind project, as proposed, good for Cohocton? I tire of deceptive cowards.

Robert C. Strasburg II