Posted by fayeroe on October 12, 2006, at 13:56:22
In reply to More deputies and equal treatment is solution!, posted by zazenducky on October 12, 2006, at 12:57:01
Impartiality.... treating everyone fairly and equally......
there's the ticket....more professional I'd say.
I propose Bob add that to the job description :)
I'm not certain how I am going to cover what I want to in one post, but I'm going to try it.Choices about where one lives: when one is the great, great, great, etc. grandchild of a Spaniard who's possession of the land upon which one lives came from Onate coming from Spain and seizing the very village, that one resides in, from the American Indians, there is little or no choice concerning where one will live.
say that by some splashing around in the gene pool that is where you ended up. you are very poor and your education ended at the fourth grade in the schoolhouse that one of your ancestors built more than one hundred years ago.
you have a wife, a grown daughter who had a stroke and she lives on your property also and you have your grandchildren that you and your elderly wife take care of. you live from the SS check that your daughter draws monthly. 8 of you do. you've never considered choosing to live down the river in Rinconada, instead of Velarde, because you can't.
when the neighboring potter decides to burn his trash on a windy day and starts a huge fire, you are very kind when the volunteer women firefighters in your village come to your aid before the volunteer truck arrives from Riconada.
you don't even laugh when the men, from Rinconada, argue over who will hold the hose because you've been such a good neighbor to the women who are now surrounded by flames by your house that you know they will do whatever it takes to save your house and they do.
even after the men in the truck become angry and back up over their tools and break them, you still had faith that your neighbors will continue to use their own tools to fight the fire. your choice was to always be a good neighbor and in turn you have friends who are willing to risk their lives, or at least incur 2nd or 3rd degree burns, because they want to save your small house.
the choice of being a good neighbor, without a chance of moving, in that small village in New Mexico and also being the kind of neighbor that the volunteers responded to, in spite of the dangers that were involved that day could apply to the posters and the moderators here very easily. AND as i said before, there is your choice of whether or not you post here and now i point out that you have the choice of how you "live" here.
IF there are people here who BELIEVE, in their hearts, there should be more moderators and more professionalism, i suggest that the proper thing to do would be to volunteer and start studying up on professionalism and kindness towards ones fellow man.
oh yes, the villager who's house C and I helped save was our "mayor domo"........
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