I'm not one to engage in hyperbole to make a point. However, I think in this case I will demonstrate how I felt as I was reading through all the cards that you filled out at the
CCA / ICE prison "informational" meeting that was held on November 5th in Pembroke Pines. We have just picked up copies of all 333 cards that you were required to fill out and state your position on the prison as a requirement to enter the public meeting. This was after you were questioned by our police apparatus if you were "here as protesters." This document trove came from a public records request made of the Town of Southwest Ranches.
As I was reading through the
NEAR UNANIMOUS opposition to the prison, I crossed one card that first hit me in the gut and then brought a tear to my eye. At that point, I was harshly reminded of what we are fighting for. Here's the card that shook me. Tell me if it hits you the same way it hit me:
It shook me to realize just how perverted in thinking that Democratic
National Committee Chairwoman and FL-20 Representative Debbie Wasserman
Schultz, Senator Bill Nelson (D) and Southwest Ranches Mayor Jeff Nelson
are in trying to
CONVINCE us that we want a post American century
corporate-police-state-type world. A world where they, as leaders, have
created an environment so devoid of hope and so lacking the
quintessential aspects of the American dream (for all,
INCLUDING
immigrant families) that all they offer us are 300 near minimum wage
jobs as private corrections officers in our
"upscale community."
If you oppose this prison and
EVERYTHING wrong that it stands for, email us at
notprisontown@gmail.com and ask what you can do to help
YOUR community.
WE live here and
WE have a right to say that we don't want this facility irrespective of what our
COMPROMISED politicians tell us.
THEY work for
US. Not the other way around.
Also note that Senator Bill Nelson, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Mayor Jeff Nelson are
ALL up for reelection in 2012. Don't forget that
AFTER this meeting, Mayor Jeff Nelson went on the record saying that he
believed the majority of SWR residents support this prison.
We will blog the very interesting statistics regarding those who attended the ICE meeting on November 5th and their position(s) on the prison within the next couple of days. Stay tuned.
Yes, the comment shook me too. But, I've heard it before. I work in an elementary school in Weston, where many of the students live within a mile of the proposed prison site. They are scared. They say they'll no longer be able to go outside to play or ride their bikes to the store. They ask why isn't anyone listening to them or their parents. One 5th grade student created a petition. Almost 100 of his 5th grade classmates have signed AGAINST the prison. He proudly claims, "Even the principal signed it!" I can't tell him that an administrator at the high school he may attend has been instrumental in bringing the prison to his neighborhood. When did money become more important than our children? This is disgraceful!
ReplyDeleteIt really paints a bleak outlook for this area. Would you like to email a copy of it so we can include it in our submissions? Or would he like to give it to someone? I think the congresswoman would be an appropriate person to give it to. Let us know and we can arrange something. notprisontown at gmail dot com
ReplyDeleteThere is no good or logical justification for placing a prison facility in the midst of schools and residential neighborhoods when there is plenty of isolated land just 30 minute up the road on North US-27. Such a location would keep the prison at least 10 miles from ANYBODY. There is plenty of old sugar cane land available since the Sugar Industry moved much of the operations to Mexico.
ReplyDeleteAs a resident of SWR I protest the construction of this MONSTROSITY I thank those comments above for including our children. Some of these children will have to walk past this JAIL on their way home from school. That's assuming they get a ride in the A.M. Isn't sad that an Administrator at school who is involved with these children ADAMANTLY APPROVES it's CONSTRUCTION, and is forcing it down our throats.
ReplyDelete19,000 school children within a 5 mile radius of this proposed facility!! This is about the safety of our children! How dare they jeopardize it! Does Debbie Wasserman Schultz and SWR not care about children? Apparently!!
ReplyDeleteyou should personally hand in the letter the 5th grader wrote to SWR town clerk.
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