Governments employing bullying tactics
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Editor,
There seems to be a lot of concern lately about bullying. We focus on the event at our schools, make reference to it in the workplace, but seem to totally ignore it in the course of our daily lives when it’s related to our dealings with all of our various governments and the multitude of departments and agencies they spawn. We grant them the right to bully us at will — their will.
Exactly how is it okay for public servants or elected officials or commission appointees to exercise unofficially assumed powers over us at the expense of our rights and dignities, while it’s morally wrong when experienced by our children in school? Why do we find one outrageously grievous and the other acceptable?
It seems to me that wrong is wrong, across the board. Bullying is bullying whether it’s done in your face or behind your back. How do we give the bullies our permission to perform their act of oppression? Beats me; I personally just watch the charade until it conflicts with my orbit, and then I deflect its path away from me. What’s your technique; do you even have one? Or, do you just expel a breath, shrug your shoulders and let it happen, again and again and again, until any sense of resistance would be futile in your mind?
Maybe, just maybe, there’ll come a time when we stop painting our outrage for things we do not accept with a narrow, fine-point artist’s brush and begin using the 6-inch handyman’s version with wide strokes.
You think maybe it’s time to acknowledge that all the whitewash our Reserved Water Rights Compact Commission has put on their “last compact” is simply intended to hide their bullying tactics to push through our state legislature the worst “negotiated” agreement ever conceived or contrived by silver-tongued devils, right here in the Flathead Valley?
When the State of Montana is ready to admit this attempt at negotiation has failed and wants to perform a reset, let us know; we’re ready for some truth and Constitutional protections.
Michael Gale
Ronan
