I find it interesting that letters in favor of GPAC are longer and given their own web pages at the local paper of record. (You know, the paper that keeps "loosing it's archives" each time the shit hits the fan.) while letters against GPAC are confined to a few words and bundled with all the other LTEs of the day like this excellent letter by Greensboro's Maureen Parker.
" City can do without new performance hall
A performing arts center in Greensboro would not necessarily mean happier times for the city as a whole. Adding another competitor to the mix of currently available options would put a strain on established downtown businesses and on taxpayers struggling to support what’s already here.
Most people have limited budgets. Dollars spent on “A” cannot also be spent on “B.” A new performing arts center would stretch entertainment dollars away from Triad Stage, Carolina Theater, the Children’s Museum, the Aquatic Center, the Historical Museum, the Civil Rights Museum, the skating rink, local restaurants, bars and other smaller, less prestigious venues.
Let Durham have its DPAC. Fiscal responsibility demands prudence, careful thought, discretion and loyalty to our own."
To which I might add, GPAC may already be hurting existing venues.
Sad, isn't it, that a newspaper that was once committed to democracy and free speech has now become but a tool for the Fashist elite? Perhaps, on 911, instead of the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, the terrorist should have flown their hijacked planes into newspaper and media outlets to prevent to Fashist takeover America didn't see coming? No, that probably wouldn't have been any better but one can't help but wonder what went wrong and why it is that those "nice people" cannot understand how wrong they are to force such burdens on the rest of us.
