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We are always looking for open meetings to attend with our cameras. Sometimes we are assaulted verbally and sometimes criminally hit just because we show up and ask questions. So it was nice to show up and be greeted so warmly on June 8, 2016 at of all places the Sioux Falls Waste Management Plant (A.K.A. the sewer department).
Brandon and Sioux Falls Joint City Council meetings are always interesting. A trip to look at our waste management plant is right up there.
The Marks and Trent did a great job showing the six city council members just about everything they could at the plant. This video is being presented raw so everyone can see how polite and respectful Mark Cotter’s staff was even to Cameraman Bruce during the tour.
If our town’s chief marketing officer and the rest of his staff was as open and straightforward with us, we might actually consider what they tell us has some truth. As long as Tracy, Kendra and the others are allowed to throw crying sissy hissy fits as they run from the rooms when we show up, we will never believe anything they propose.
When the administration beats their points in with fancy PowerPoint propaganda or with wild tennis elbows we will never believe them or should you. Our new city council members are doing their research the right way, it is hard to do but with their efforts we may finally be getting some controls in place.
Detroit’s note; I was very impressed by the staff’s presentation. I learned a lot about how solid waste is toggled before it is released. I also found the ‘free fertilizer’ proposal useful. Stay tuned, Bruce and I will be visiting another facility the city has a partnership with later this month. I promise it won’t be about poop.
I’m personally aware of occassions when Bruce was sequestered, assaulted, and/or jailed. Every citizen in a free open society is entitled to freedom of speech. This means evidence collection and video reference proof. There are lots of living black men who didn’t get beat to death because someone recorded Rodney King. There’s a video of an unarmed cooperative teen shot 7 times. These and others are what protects us from government that’s worse than a criminal threat. When a cop shoots or a politician assaults be sure your cell phone is recording. Cameras aft and ahead on cars are equally useful in traffic and for recording police bullying. Public servants were once respected but must now fake it with a camera rolling.