On a regular basis, Tinpot Emperors and their minions make announcements and issue press releases. Sometimes these amount to little more than fluff and self-promotion, but at other times, useful information is provided to the citizens of the empire.
In accordance with this theory, the local Town Crier carries a page near the start of each month called "What's on in your city" which lists useful information like School Holiday and Christmas Carol activities. It also lists details of Kerbside Cleanups and Free Immunisation Clinics.
This week also saw the appearance in 97,000 letterboxes across the empire of "Our Logan" and also claimed that it is our "City Magazine". It is also a fluff and self promotion document which devotes 1 page to each of the 11 minions and also a page for the Tinpot Emperor. The remainder of the pages are a brightly coloured mix of advertisements, propaganda and announcements the likes of which are also listed in the "What's on in your city" portion of the Town Crier's page.
Interestingly on one page of "Our Logan" there is a suggestion that each copy costs 40 cents to produce and deliver. So this means that the citizens pay a total of approx $38,800 for the minions to rehash the fluff pieces and useful information which has already been circulated by the Town Crier.
Thus the average citizen could reasonably expect that the Emperor and minions would be right up to speed with the theory of how to circulate information to all of the Citizens effectively and efficiently.
But recent events would suggest otherwise.
Whilst information regarding kerbside cleanups is widely circulated by the aforementioned means, there is no mention anywhere other than on the Empire's website regarding Free Tip Days. For those who were unaware, Free Tipping Open Day for all Logan residents are this Sunday December 6th and then Sunday June 6th 2010. This means that there are two days of the year when former BSC Empire Citizens can pretend for a short time that they are back in the good old days again because the Logan Empire makes residents pay to use the Tip.
So why is it that the Logan Empire does not wish to widely publicise the existence of such things ?
The cynical citizen might suggest that perhaps if there is a low usage of such things then it is easy to discard on the basis of low usage .... nobody cares etc etc....
Simple easy to implement concepts such as issuing "1 or 2 Dump at Tip for free passes" with a rates notice (as is done in some other empires) would upset said plan and perhaps even cut down on revenue from Tips ....
and we can't have that !!!
Similarly a minion (who once was Emperor) is lacking in a few rather basic communication skills and has upset many of the citizens particularly those who were once in the BSC Empire.
On November 11 in the Town Crier's document the minion claimed that the empire had got things right regarding new rules about citizens parking a truck on their own land. In the old empire this did not incur a fee but in the brave new Tinpot Empire of Logan apparently the act of letting you continue to live your life as you had done previously is an actual service which may incur a fee (cash grab/tax). A cynical citizen might suggest that this fee is no different to any other fee charged by the empire as there is often little or nothing to show in return for monies paid at rates time.
Not content with bothering the truck drivers, the same minion ( Nov 25) has launched a door to door search for revenue sources promising to fine bad and evil people $200 if they had failed to register their dog.
The reason for the door to door search ?
Desexed Cats must be registered by June 30th 2010 and not enough people have registered their cats yet despite the fact that this is not mandatory for another 6 and 1/2 months.
Minion Tough Guy has also said "We have tried and tried to educate cat owners about their responsibilities and reminded them that fines will be imposed when the amnesty is over but not enough people have responded".
So let's just get this straight for a moment...
a) Desexed cats must be registered by June 30th 2010.
b) Not many cat owners have registered their cats despite the fact that if their cat is desexed, they are not required to register it for anoher 6 and 1/2 months.
c) As a result of cat owners not doing something which they are not required to do for another 6 and 1/2 months, there will be a door to door inspection of every property in the empire in search of unregistered dogs.
d) Apparently the empire is so determined to fine citizens that they will employ extra witch hunters to deal with the workload of writing out fines.
e) The Empire has apparently tried and tried to educate the citizens about this, despite there not being a single article about the new rules in the month prior to the article quoted.
In fact, there have been no articles since, there is very little information on the Empire website and there is no mention at all in the fluff and self promotion document "Our Logan".
A cynical citizen might think that it is all just another fee for no real service (cash grab/tax), particularly if the fees for registering a cat in the Logan Empire were compared to the fees in other empires which are nearly half the cost of those in the Empire of the People's Mayor.
A cynical citizen might also be concerned that the witch hunters may also have instructions to search out other potential revenue streams (excuses to issue a fine) whilst hunting down dogs because cat owners failed to do something which they did not have to do.
Of course there are the other effects of the cat registration scheme ie a likely increase in each of the following unfortunate occurances kittens & cats being dumped, abandoned, killed and of course an increase in the number of feral and homeless cats.
But don't you worry about a thing because a minion who apparently has to have emails read out to him is "trying and trying to educate us"....
Aren't we lucky ???
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After watching parts of the series, "Twilight" I have to say I know where the Emporor and the minions get their strength, it seems that it is from sucking the life blood from the citizens.
ReplyDeleteYou've touched on a very important issue, that of reducing our rights, or blatently taking them away, for no other reason that to take revenue from the act of using your own land for the purpose you have always used it for, the minions claim they have put a size limit for exemption over a couple of acres but typically have mad ethe description of a heavy Vehicle include light commercial vehicles , how absurd is that.
The transport departments accross the country all have got it wrong according to these cash grabbers we call councillors, who obviously know better than alll the governments and their departments all over the country exactly what is a Heavy vehicle, although there is no evidence that they actually called QT to find that out and i don't expect that ever happened.
My personal theory is that one councillor is having a dispute with a neighbour, said neighbour happens to own a small truck and this is a way of attacking that neighbour with some new rules.
So the minions, too dumb to investigate for them selves, and too lazy to care just voted in a precursor to creating policy that will have many many truck owners charged a fee and have their rights reduced, i wonder If these minions are also on drugs ?
This is not the end of this issue either, and I'm talking about losing our rights because it seems on of the minions has a hatred for people who might grow veges in their back yard and dare to sellthem and make a living out of it, those evil . vile and repugnant individuals are called, market gardeners and are to be feared as killers, polluters and horrid people, monsters really.
Yes one of the minions has had it in for the evil market gardeners, and the other dumb as dogshit minions are going to vote to stop people doing that on their land as well.