Residents in and around Bessemer are furious over Project Marvel, a plan to build a 4.5-million-square-foot data processing facility on 700 acres of wooded land. Public officials have been sworn to silence.
A city with 70% black people, and they find the one white guy to put on the front page of the article.
It’s amazing that a company can get public officials to sign an agreement making it illegal for them to give any information to their electorate about a project that would have a huge impact on them in every possible way. No elected official should ever sign such an agreement. Why would they? But, they did. Corruption is the only reason I can think of.
And why is there no law against elected officials agreeing to become agents of a corporation against the interest of the electorate? Same answer, probably.
But all these people were elected by the ones they are hurting. And the electorate most likely elected their leaders based on some emotional non-existent issues instead of picking leaders based on commitment, honesty, competency, and a desire to help people. From what I see from the rest of the country, and we are talking about Alabama here, they may have gotten the government and outcome that they deserve and are actually responsible for their own problem. I think American voters are bringing all of this personal damage upon themselves.
I’m a disillusioned American, by the way.
