Taxation Without Representation Tyranny

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The people in the colonies had no representation and the  King of England decided to use the colonies as a bank account. England kept taking until the people had nothing left and they still took more. The English gave the people no voice in the government. All the English did was raise and invent taxes.

Our mayor and our city council keep taking until we have nothing left. We have no voice here in Cape Coral (Florida), just as the colonists had no voice.  The people here go before the council and speak. The mayor and council just ignore the people as if we don’t exist. The only time we appear to exist is when the city wants to make a withdrawal from its bank account from us.  We are nothing more than a bank roll for the administration. This has been going on for years and  must stop now. It’s time to “Fire the Shot that will be Heard”. We need enough volunteers  to be able to make our vote a deciding factor in elections and to help collect enough signatures on petitions to extract elected officials if need be. We need to join with other groups in a show of solidarity.  

Is History Repeating Itself?

The situation in Cape Coral is so similar to what happened in Colonal times that it’s hard to explain how three hundred years later, we can have the same situation our forefathers had in the 18^th century. We have fought many wars against tyranny since our revolution and what do we end up with in Cape Coral ? We have nothing less than a dictatorship here. The Colonals had a dictatorship in the `18^th century. The only difference between what we have and what the colonists had are the players. We have a mayor instead of a king and we have a city council instead of The House of Commons. Our mayor and council are no less indifferent to us than the King of England and the House of Commons were to the colonists. The only difference I can see is that our administration doesn’t wear red and carry muskets and swords. The administration’s arsenal consists of unaffordable assessments and taxes. Like the English, the administration has a contingent of foreign troops. The English had Hessian Soldiers. Today our mayor and council have special interest groups. The administration has builders, large land owners construction companies like MWH and speculators.

Out of Sight - Out of Mind

The King of England and the House of Commons were thousands of miles away so, to some degree, you can understand their actions. There is no excuse for what the mayor and city council are doing to us. If the administration wants to run the city like this, then maybe the name Stalingrad should be considered.

The City of Cape Coral does nothing for the people aside from emptying  our pockets.  People are losing their homes and quality of life and the administration couldn't care less. People here can no longer afford to support this administration. This administration has become too abusive and is completely out of control and out of touch. The administration has become too much of a financial burden so, we must get this expensive and abusive 300-pound gorilla off of our proverbial backs. It’s a sad day when people have to move out of their homes because the government takes care of the special interests at the expense of the residents. The rich get richer and the people are bankrupted so the special interests can live in the lap of luxury. The utility expansion projects are being used as a tool to financially drain the residents so the special interests can be given a free ride. This is nothing less than extortion.

Another Tea Party?  Yes.....And, You're Invited

When are we going to have our Tea Party in Cape Coral? The time is right and we must stop the administration before they put any more people through the financial meat-grinder. Enough is enough! The first thing on our agenda must be to stop the utility expansion projects. The projects are being used to extort money from the residents and therefore the water and waste water utilities must be taken out of the hands of a city that cannot be trusted. We need to start a water and waste-water authority or it must be converted to a non-profit entity or a Co-op.

We need to band together and assemble an army of foot soldiers so we can strip these tyrants of their power and “send them down the road kicking rocks”. We will not fight with musket and saber but we will fight with pen paper and ballots. Our weapons will be any legal device that can be used to extract this cancer from out town. We need to run these people out of town on a proverbial rail.

We need to start campaigns to force our representatives in the State Capital sit up and take notice. We must keep their phones ringing off the hooks. Clog their e-mail until they grow weary of hearing minutemen.  We need to run their fax machines until they break down.  We need to hear them cry out; “What in the name of God in going on in Cape Coral”. We must put the pressure on and keep it on.

We must persist until our voices are heard. We need to get petitions in the street and start recall processes. This will take work and it will take money to bring these monkeys into court. If we can’t get them on criminal charges, then we will have to work in the civil court system. We need to remove their power and return the power to where it belongs, with the people.

Hard Work - And, For a Good Cause

This will not be an easy task just as it was not an easy task for our forefathers. It will take time and effort and we must be ready to have rallies and fill the council chambers at a minutes notice just as our forefathers picked up their muskets and swords and went out the door to fight the red coats. We need to show the administration that we mean business. We must recruit active people and we need to maintain a show of force at city hall the likes of which they have never seen before. We must place people there week after week and put constant pressure on the mayor and the council.

Large numbers of volunteers will be essential for the membership as a whole. Once we've achieved getting enough minutemen and minuteladies, we will be able to maintain a presence without relying on the very same people every week to attend council meetings. Simply stated, on a per-capita basis, the greater success we have enlisting new volunteers, the fewer signatures each of them will need to get from friends, neighbors and relatives while still achieving greater support for our cause. 

We have already read our Declaration of War before the city council. We must let this administration know that we mean business. We must make them understand the garbage they have been shoving down our throats will no longer be tolerated. We need to overthrow this government and must modify it to give more representation to the people. The city manager and all his flunkies must get out of town and never look back. The politics in this town has been rigged so that the people running the government are not elected officials and “we the people” can’t even vote them out of office. We must insure the will of the people will prevail.

Tea-Time is Over - It's Time to Act!

We need to change our form of government. The people running this city are not elected officials and appear to have more than their fair share of incompetence. We need to form another type of government to insure that We the People are heard. 

So, we must all join together and get involved in order to shake this monkey off our backs. We need to make this a town we can call our home rather than a place where we are treated as a bank roll to be tapped by the city at its convenience. If you want to put a stop to this join us in our revolution.

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