Posted on 12/13/2008 1:30:00 PM PST by Doctor Raoul
By WILLIAM J. KEMBLE
Correspondent
WOODSTOCK — The Town Board is considering acting locally while thinking globally. Specifically, members are discussing whether to try to prohibit the local manufacture of parts used for military equipment.
The concern arises from the fact that Ametek Rotron Inc. has a manufacturing operation on Hasbrouck Lane in Woodstock, and a letter submitted to the Town Board by 14 local residents notes the company makes parts for helicopters, rocket launchers, tanks and armored personnel carriers.
Rotron’s Web site confirms the company manufactures those parts, but it does not say which, if any, are made at its Woodstock plant. Company officials could not be reached for comment.
Councilwoman Liz Simonson, agreeing with the residents’ letter, suggested town officials ask the company for a list of items it manufactures in Woodstock.
“For a town that prides itself on trying to create a zoning law that protects the environment, I can sort of see that the environment has a global scale,” Simonson said. “We’re protecting our own little hub of livelihood here, but it doesn’t speak well of us to say we’ll protect our own resources from degradation but we’ll manufacturer things that we can ship to other parts of the world (that will) destroy other parts of the world.
“I like the idea of trying to start a dialogue,” Simonson added. “I don’t want to be the person who says, ‘No, we don’t want you here because you’re making this,’ but to make them understand that perhaps people of Woodstock don’t want to be shipping these things to the rest of the world so we can destroy their environment while we sit in a nice little tidy place and protect our own.”
The letter signed by the 14 town residents said: “We’d like to know exactly what weapons systems have components that are made in Woodstock. We believe that the people of Woodstock can and should work together with local business people and the town government to create a local economy that is sustainable and ethical.”
The letter said studies conducted by the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts show “conversion from military to peaceful production can be done without jeopardizing jobs.”
*SIGH*
Failed hippies. They remain stupid.
TC
“You live in freedom because rough men are willing to do violence on your behalf.”
Who said it?
“I’ll take 20th century pundits for 50 Alex”
Woodstock, NY
Population in July 20072,235.
Males: 1,058 (47.4%)
Females: 1,177 (52.6%)
Median resident age: 47.6 years
New York median age: 35.9 years
Estimated median household income in 2007:
$51,776 (it was $38,594 in 2000)
We believe that the people of Woodstock can and should work together with local business people and the town government to create a local economy that is sustainable and ethical.”
Note how this is condescendingly stated as if business people are some strange subculture. I suppose if you are a liberal parasite you have trouble understanding the productive. I worked for a school system for two years, and got this kind of treatment all the time. I was the subhuman who had to lower himself to dirtying his hands at labor.
From the Woodstock News story about Bumper Stickers;
Through our rambling conversation, I learned that McMahon’s formative influences included the Sixties classic “I Brake for Hallucinations,” but that his taste now ran towards minimalism. “’CAR’ is one of my favorites,” he said. “It’s so hilarious to see a bumper sticker that says ‘CAR.’” While listening, I leafed through his thick portfolio. Not only had he extended the “Welcome” series (”Welcome to Saugerties...The Original Woodstock”), but he’d coined many other wonderful one-liners: “Honk If You Love Honking,” “Inner Child In Trunk,” “Save the World, Win Valuable Prizes,” and “How Dare You Assume I’m a Homosapien?” His most popular one I already knew from sightings around town: “I Brake for Turtles, Frogs, Snakes, and Big Leaves.”
I fault the company for not moving the jobs to a place where they are wanted.
Woodstock = sister city of Berkeley, CA
I fault the company for renaming the facility to include “Military and Aerospace” in the title.
When the place was owned by EG&G , they didn’t call it “components for the nuclear industry”
They should have called it Rotron, “We have fans everywhere”.
Who is Orwell?
The town board of Woodstock should be aware of two things, one is that peace has no other source than a strong military. The second is that every state governor with half of a brain and a rocky economy will be making a call on Ametek Rotron Inc. in the next week.(Are you listening, Governor Grandholm?)
Who is Orwell?
Damned double post.
Therefore everyone in Woodstock must immediately stop using all devices created for the military. No more GPS trackers, no more internet. In the interests of peace and sustainability.
They should be sent to north Africa to live.
There's no environment to protect when your citizens are unemployed and foreign powers come in and nuke everything to glass. Morons.
Words fail me.
I am simply stunned at stupidity beyond comprehension.
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