Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch

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Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Dear reader:

We must look beyond the venality of the present Hillsborough County School board and its creature Ms. Elia.

We must look to eternity. The older I get, the more I realize that one of my heroes Gandhi was right when he said what I quote on my picture below. We work not just for now but for the future. Our efforts speak to future, to our children's and grand-children's world and beyond. Unless good people outnumber bad people at any time in history, evil triumphs. Sometimes it does. The Third Reich is an example. But in the end evil does not win. That is the story of civilization.

If evil wins, we have no civilization. But we still do. So evil or even the sophomoric wrongdoing of Ms. Elia and the Hillsborough County School Board does not in the end prevail.

Elizabeth Cady Stantan was right--the second quote on my picture-- when she implied the abiding timidity of people. Few will step out in front and challenge wrongdoing. They see things are wrong, but for some reason they don't challenge the wrongdoing. They think that someone else will do this job, that some other super person will rescue them. There are no super people. There are only ordinary people who rufuse to take it any more.

The best super person to rescue you is you yourself. It's not impossible to do. You just have to take a deep breath and speak up and refuse to go along to get along. That's what the Americans did who rebelled against King George's tyranny and began our country.

Changing things for the better is as simple and as revolutionary as that: just say no. We can do it at the school board or at the national level or even in the world. We just have to dare to oppose wrongdoing. lee

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post " I am righ...":

What is sad is that Elia and the board members will never understand how corrupt they are to allow all this corruption in the system to go on. They have done studies in which even serial murderers justify and twist and rationalize that they are actually good people. Same with these people. Elia rationalizes everything she has done. Each school board member does too. They believe they are good people who are doing their best for the school district. When they hear about something that is corrupt or wrong they look the other way and let it happen, but they justify or rationalize it. They never learn. Yet I believe what you are doing is right, and you are right that one day the truth or justice wins out, but it takes a while, and they may all be long gone before justice finally comes about. They will have retired and passed away naturally before the truth of their corruption is exposed.

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