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NOW I HAVE MY PERSPECTIVE ’26 OBSERVATIONS  ON THE NEWS YOU NOW KNOW AND WHAT IT MEANS.

 

THE NEWS THIS WEEK BASED ON THE PUBLIC  STATEMENTS FROM OUR REPRESENTATIVES  HAS TWO SIDESTO IT:

 

THE NEWS SIDE: RELIEF THE LEADERS ARE TRYING  TO PROVIDE FOR WESTCHESTER CITIZENS SUFFERING THE RATES THE STATE LEGISLATURE AND PUBLIC  SERVICE COMMISSION APPROVED WITH VERY LITTLE CHANGE THAT INCREASED ELECTRIC RATES SUBSTANIALLY DURING THE SUMMER.  THE WARNINGS THAT IF THE STATE DOES NOT SUPPLEMENT THE SNAP LOSS LOCAL TOWNS AND COUNTIES  CITIES WILL  HAVE TO RAISE TAXES.  AND CUTTING PROPERTY TAXESFOR VETERANS ACTIVE SERVICEMEN. MEANWHILE THE ALBANY LEGISLATORS AND SOME CONGRESS REPUBLICANS FROM WESTCHESTERH HAVE VOTE FOR THE CUTS..

 

BUT THESE CUTS HAVE BEEN KNOWN SINCE MAY.

THE LEGISLATORS IN ALBANY HAVE NOT MADE PUBLIC THE AMOUNT OF DEFICIT THEY FACE THAT COUNTIES WILL HAVE TO PAY, OR LEAVE TO THE CITIES TO RAISE PROPERTY TAXES.   WHY HAS NOT THE STATE COMPTROLLER  THE  GOVERNOR’S BUDGET PEOPLE ROLLED UP SLEEVES AND IMPACTS BE DEFINED  WHAT THE WASHINGTON CUTS WILL COST EACH COUNTY, AND ASSIST IN DEVELOPING HOW EACH TOWN AND CITY CAN PLAN NEXT YEAR’S FISCAL YEAR.

 

KNOWLEDGE IS ACTIONABLE, WORRYING SOLVES NOTHING. PLANNING IS SOMETHING LEADERS IN GOVERNMENT DO NOTDO MUCH.IT IS WORK.

 

NOW IS THE  TIME FOR ALL POLITICIANS IN ALBANY TO STOP MAKING APPEARANCES AND DEMAND SOME SOLID NUMBERS FROM THEIR NUMBERS PEOPLE. SO MAYORS AND COUNTY EXECUTIVES EVERYWHERE KNOW WHERE THEY STAND. BUT MAYBE THEY DO BECAUSE THEY HAVE ALREADY BEEN TOLD. I HOPE THE ALBANIES HAVE DONE  THAT BUT NOT RELEASED IT PUBLICLY.  THEY THINK WE CANNOT UNDERSTAND.

 

LOCALLY   WHITE PLAINS MAYOR JUSTIN BRASCH’S STATEMENT ON THE YONKERS INCIDENT INVOLVING THE PALESTINIAN FAMILY BEING TARGETED AND COMING OUT STRONGLY IN SUPPORT OF EVERYONE’S RIGHT TO LIVE HERE IS OUTSTANDING. HATE SHOULD BE CALLED OUT FOR WHAT IT IS A THREAT TO LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS OF ALL.

 

NOW ON THE RECENT  MATTER OF THE DECISION BY THE GOVERNOR TO HAVE A SPECIAL COUNSEL  EXAMINE THE CORNELL SEXUAL ASSAULT CASE.

 

I WENT TO UNIVERSITY IN THE MIDDLEWEST IN THE EARLY 1960S. WHILE I WAS THERE A MEMBER OF MY FRATERNITY WAS ACCUSED WITH 6 OTHER STUDENTS FOR SELLING DRUGS ON CAMPUS.   THE ADMINISTRATION CALLED THE STUDENTS IN AND QUESTIONED THEM WHO DENIED THEY HAD DONE THAT. THE  UNIVERSITY EXPELLED ALL 7 IN A DAY.

 

THIS WAS A WARNING FOR ALL THAT ILLEGAL BEHAVIOR WAS NOT GOING TO BE TOLERATED.

 

REGARDING SEXUAL ASSAULT  CRIMES. I DO NOT KNOW WHETHER CAMPUS POLICE AT CORNELL HAVE RAPE KITS THAT MOST POLICE DEPARTS HAVE. BUT THEY SHOULD.

 

UNIVERSITIES SHOULD OF CONDUCT HANDBOOKS TELLING HOW TO REPORT ALLEGED CRIMES ON AND OFF CAMPUS INVOLVING STUDENTS  WHETHER FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT, BEING DRUGGED, AND THE NECESSITY OF HAVE RAPE KIT EXAMINATION TO PROVE SHE OR HE WAS ASSAULTED.

 

THE COLLEGE SHOULD SPELL OUT CONSEQUENCES FOR STUDENTS, FACULTY AND ALL UNIVERSITY EMPLOYEES INVOLVED IN ILLEGAL ACTIVITY OR CONDUCT: SUSPENSION OR EXPULSION OR TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT.  THIS PROTECTS UNIVERSITIES FROM LAWSUITS–MAYBE OR MAYBE NOT. THE REFLEX OF COLLEGES TO COVER UP AND THE PATHETIC WHINING INSTITUTIONS LAMENTING THE DAMAGE LACK OF ACTION ON DISPICABLE BEHAVIOR BY EMPLOYEES OR STUDENTS IS SANCTIMONIUS PIETY.

ON THE  LAW THAT HOLDS CONSENT TO DRINKING AS A DEFENSE IS OUTRAGEIOUS.

NEW YORK STATE HAS TO GET RID OF THE PROTECT THE POOR SEDUCED MAN LAW THAT PROTECTS  SEXUAL ASSAULTERS IF THE PERSON ALLEGING ASSAULT HAD ACCEPTED DRINKS OF HER OR HIS OWN DECISION.

CONSIDERING THE AMOUNT OF SEXUAL ASSAULTS ON CAMPUS THIS DRINKING CAVIATE IS A JOKE ON THE WOMEN OF AMERICA PERPETRATED BY THE MALE-DOMINATEED  NEW YORK STATE LEGISLATURE THAT PASSED IT.

REALLY?

 

THE FIRST THING WHEN PLANNING A SEXUAL ASSAULT  IS OFFERING THEIR TRUSTING VICTIM THEM A DRINK WHICH THEY THEN SPIKE WITH A DATE RAPE DRUG.  HOW PATHETIC ARE THESE PEOPLE CONDUCTING A SEXUAL ASSAULT?  SEXUAL ASSAULT  MEANS YOU DO NOT CARE THAT THIS IS A PERSON WHO ACTUALLY TRUSTS YOU.

THE NOTION THAT  ACCEPTING A DRINK LEGALLY MAKES VIOLENT ASSAULT LATER ON NON-PROSECUTABLE IS A LEGAL WEASLE—ESPECIALLY IF IT  (THE DRINK) WAS SPIKED WHICH WOULD SHOW INTENT TO ASSAULT. YOUR STATE LEGISLATURE PASSED THIS LAW.

EVERLASTING SHAME OF THE EXCUSE-MAKERS  IN THE NEW YORK STATEE LEGISLATURE NO RESPEECT AT ALL FOR THE ASSAULTED.  PROTECTING MEN FROM PROSECUTION WHEN THEY GO VIOLENTLY OUT OF CONTROL.

I SAW A PLAY IN NEW YORK THIS WEEKEND “In Honor of Jean-Michel Basquiat.” 

Performed at the New York Theatre Workshop, The play is one act play performed by Roger Guenveur Smith harrowingly painfully grief loved ones of the  deceased experience with the violent loss of the gifted deprived of their future.  The actor invited the audience to come with him to a Haitian American demonstration at a mural a little ways down The Bowery to pay respect to  those  Haitian Americans who have contributed to American culture.

He also spoke another Cornell incident at a fraternity in 2011 in a hazing incident resulting in the death of Haitian student,

George Desdunes

. The students were prosecuted but acquitted. It led to a ban on liquor consumption at Cornell fraternities.

THIS IS JOHN BAILEY REPORTING FOR WHITE PLAINS WEEK…GOOD NIGHT AND THANK YOU.