There's no better look at the contorted perspective from which an OPie views the world than this special bit of logic from OWASA apologist and profiteer, builder Marc Marcoplos.
”Wow - that link to Squeeze the Pulp alerts us to the smear campaign they are gearing up toward Bernadette Pelissier. In a bizarre rant, they sought to blame her for everything they deem wrong with the county, including the wrongful proposed siting of a transfer station on Eubanks Rd., before she has even served as a commissioner. One might ask, where the hell have they been for the last decade with their passion for environmental justice? Maybe if they had stepped up a little sooner than this year and actually done some organizing instead of blowing smoke then maybe they could have effected change. It looks like at least we'll be treated to some nose-holding entertainment by these local swiftboaters and slimebaiters.“
Notice how Mr. Marcoplos ignores the following facts:
1) Ms. Pelissier was on the Orange County planning board approving developments without once mentioning the carrying capacity of the land for water consumption.
2) Ms. Pelissier was on the Orange County planning board approving developments without once speaking up about where the trash from those developments were going and who was being affected.
3) Ms. Pelissier was on the OWASA board and never once mentioned the carrying capacity of the land for water consumption.
4) Ms. Pelissier was the head of the local Sierra Club and declared that there was no environmental injustice issue surrounding the Eubanks Road landfill.
5) Ms. Pelissier was invited to hold a Sierra Club forum on the Eubanks landfill issue and ignored the invitation.
For all these acts, Ms. Pelissier is to be excused because in Mr. Marcoplos' mind, “she wasn't a commissioner yet”.
In a classic OPie move, the problem is not the message, but the messenger. If only the Pulp wouldn't mention these INCONVENIENT TRUTHS, then all would be well.
Perhaps the most revealing move by Mr. Marcoplos, who has never once shown up before the Orange County Commissioners advocating for the people who live around the landfill that receive his trash, is that he accepts without question that for over ten years the commissioners have been unable to correct their injustices. He reserves his enmity for those who point out the problem. Talk about blowing smoke!
No, the local Orange County swiftboater award goes to Mr. Marcoplos, poseur and apologist extraordinaire! (See Phictionary).
I got news for you, waterboy. Ms. Neloa Jones is serious about getting environmental justice in Orange County. And when those who back her and her cause are done, your eco-posing, developer rights support group stroking (local Sierra Club, see Phictionary), do-it-if-it-sounds-good, clear-cutting, carbon neutral breathing, fellow clubber Bernadette will not have a ”pot to Pelissier” in. At long last, the ǘberProgressive, usufructing anarchists like you and your buddies that have trashed this little town have competition from people who have their feet on the ground.
If that makes you nervous, then maybe you should quit drinking the cumbayah cool-aid (see Phictionary).
Since you are such a highly skilled builder, perhaps you can go stock up on R-40 insulation. You'll need something to deflect the heat that is coming.
