A Window Onto INterior Rot...

Despite the Masquerade, it’s the little things that give you away!

Want to see how a government performs, see how they deal with their priorites—even how they handle some of their smaller issues. If they cannot handle the public’s needs with objectivity and dispatch, it may be a sign of a much more severe malady.

The perfect example, it seems, is how we are addressing the problem of the missing bees.

While the bee keepers seem to be the most well informed observers of what has happened, it seems that they have had trouble getting officials to listen to them.

Listen to what they’ve been through, and you can almost figure out who the culprit is…

But that’s not how the authorities view it.

They go through the whole litany of potential causes for the problem seemingly unawares that they are operating against a closing window. If they miss that window, it could be all over, not only for the operators, but the bees, themselves.

Viewing how they are approaching the challenges stuns one with incredulity.

Instead of taking the best possible suspect and working back from there, they are treating all potential maladies, some of which don’t even apply, equally.

To me, it seems to be a case of anti-profiling eliminating all of the obvious non-causes, before dealing with those with Saudi passports..

Nonetheless, if they really wanted to address the program, they’d begin to talk to the hive owners and the bee keepers. For, surely, when it comes to the challenges facing the bees, they seem to be most knowledgeable of all.

Witness the 60 minutes repeat of an earlier show that tracked the disappearance of virtually entire hives….

And why is that important?

Specifically, it’s important because most fruits and nuts depend upon the bees pollinating the plants.

Listen to the bee keepers and then the government, and you can shake your head so often, it could be in danger of falling off.

The fact of the matter is that this is not a new problem.

Owners have been observing this anomaly for more than a year.

They have reported it in detail but nobody listens.

The government insists upon going through all of the possibilities in its own slow, methodical way that suffers from a lack of logic or the ‘profiling’ of events leading up to the original losses of the bees and the current challenges facing the hives.

It seems that the problem stems from memory loss, the bees are being distracted, lose memory and forget how to return to their hives; whatever is causing this aberration is causing the hives to break down and even other bees in related hives, are no longer interested in these some-how affected hives—which is highly unusual in bee circles.

One of the biggest potential losers pointed to a relatively new insecticide that seems to reduce deaths to ancillary species, a product made by Bayer that contains a by-product of caffeine as a primary ingredient.

Most bee keepers think that this new product is the culprit.

Why?

Because the bee problem happened after it was introduced.

Yet, the agencies charged with investigating the problem seem to go on in their almost blaze way to begin with the hives and the various challenges and other problems associated with the hives trying to rule them out one by one.

The trouble is this is a foolish luxury and that time is running out.

Many bee keepers have had to incur big loans to continue in business.

And many are facing staggering losses yet the government bureaucracy seems to move like molasses on the problem.

Anyone who has dealt with the government over the last eight years has noticed this reluctance to point the finger at big business as the probable cause of virtually anything.

Their lobbyists effectively keep the government snoops from the door. And we have seen this tendency time after time….

In the old days, this problem would have been likely solved at the university level or through private researchers; today, most of these are under contract to government or the private sector and deprive the country of one of its most important research sources.

Nonethless, in following what the government has done, we see all of the problems of moving industry people into government jobs to which they will return when they complete their tours with the government. They are not anxious to rock the boat or point their fingers at a possible future employer; nor is the government anxious to pursue a possible cause and lose a major source of political funding.

For many who observe the workings of our government, it has come down to inefficiency and sinecures and the power of the lobbies that is deciding the way our government functions and it is not functioning well at all no matter where you look. From the postpone of OSHA regulations to the way we clamp down on China.

With the bees, time is running out. Those who pooh pooh the issue, will discover that if we don’t act intelligently and objectively to resolve this problem within the next year, the fruit and nuts we enjoyed could literally disappear from supermarket shelves.

But it doesn’t end there, this methodology is also instructive because it applies on a much broader scale.

The tendency to blame everything else but the real cause stems from the government to rewrite facts in order to prove their own case.

If it is happening with bees, it is also happening with Global Warming, alternative energy, perverse changes in habitat, the loss of species, the postponement of OSHA clean air acts, the failure to prescreen what enters this country ad infinitum.

Little lies often lead to big problems.

And through the bees we begin to see how interior rot can eat away all the good things done by previous administrations.

It’s not enough that we will see the end of this crew forthwith, it is more important that we recognize that we have to right the ship of state now….

Les aaron
The Committee for Positive Change…

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