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Very timely and topical and deserves loads more discussion and exposure than ‘What Newt said about Mitt after Mitt said something about Newt.’

This sort of thing is the primary method used to ram home everything from zoning variances to school levies to nonsensical transportation expenditures. It’s also used in schools to pressure kids/parents into whatever social engineering issue is in vogue at that particular time.

Nothing aggravates me more than someone putting words in my mouth and/or insulting my intelligence. I hate to use the term ‘it OFFENDS me’ but it applies here.

A ‘facilitator’ who shows up with prefab handouts or PowerPoint slides is not to be trusted especially when they are a poor public speaker and end up reading (ugh) the information verbatim as they do their clockwork soldier routine.

It all sounds and looks rather innocuous even when watching only a few bits of it on public access channels but the result is always the same: more creeping statism.

Several of my Conservative friends got wise to this manipulation technique years ago, and we soon learned to split up when we got to meetings, and sit at different tables or in different areas, and present our own set of facts to present (leading the group to the outcome WE wanted, rather than the pre-determined outcome the government facilitators wanted.)

Government employees spend a lot of time in training to be facilitators, and they get in a lot of trouble if their plan gets thwarted, or if attendees come up with their own plan. The government works using long-range plans, and they use the Delphi Technique to these plans "approved" by the sheeple, thus it is vitally important to attend any public meeting where a long-range plan is being discussed and throw in a monkey wrench at every opportunity.

The facilitators will do virtually anything to turn the discussion back to their predetermined outcomes. Be polite and upbeat to sway the attendees over to your "side". However also count on the fact that the audience will be packed with government employees (in civilian clothes), so much so, that the public will frequently be outnumbered. Liberals fight dirty in order to win!

I went to a couple meetings where long-term policy decisions regarding our local National Park were being discussed, and nearly every single park employee was there... in casual clothes, not in uniform. During the meeting it was obvious they had orders to force the government plan through at any cost.