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the park is broken

the journal of Michael Werneburg

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Halifax, 2004.03.28

Today I went out to breakfast with Charlie, Andrea, and Kerry. Then we went to Point Pleasant park. That place has been simply devastated. It'd been a good decade (almost to the month) since I'd last been to the park, but it was nothing like I remember it being. Honestly, I think it's going to look a lot better once the fallen wood is out of there and they've got a chance to make a modern park out of it, perhaps with some gardens and specialty areas. One thing's for sure - the view at the tip is amazing now that you can actually see the water.

Halifax has a habit of being pretty conservative, though. I'm not sure they'll have the vision. They thought that the park compared with places like Vancouver's Stanley Park. Here's there chance to make it happen.

rand()m quote

Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.

—Hermann Goering