why CDS only has five sims today
Tor says: "the xigalia's are back again" , Pip says : "that's easy enough, Run 'em outta town", Gaius and Pat say: "last time was easy, let's have some fun"
About Sundown towns:
[quote]"In some
cases, the exclusion was official town policy or through restrictive covenants
agreed to by the real estate agents of the community. In others, the policy was
enforced through intimidation. This intimidation could occur in a number of
ways, including harassment by law enforcement officers." *[/quote]
I asked questions, and I heard more than one person in the CDS group explain to me how it was
important that we all know each other well in CDS and how the thing that
mattered more was who we are and how we all get along more than the government
and the constitution and the rules. And that this is just a "quiet time " for CDS, disregard the fact that the land is half vacant and the tier isn't being covered, its okay to be quiet... "Sudane doesn't mind" I was told. I was told that following the rules wasn't necessary if we
all know and trust each other. In fact, the government part of CDS, its more of a burden than anything and we really could do with less of it, not more.
Well .. hmm..they all made it sound so lovely and
peaceful. Consensus. A place where we
all know each other, don't need laws or rules, don't have to bother to have
meetings or debate... mess with protocol. It sounded nice for the ones who were
doing it ...if half the parcels in five sims are vacant.. and a person can buy
one.. pay 1400 L a month for it, a little less a little more, and have rez rights on the government and
vacant land! Well! For them, what a deal! And a huge pot of money to buy
things for public land, and getting paid to do events.. Best deal in sl.. what
do you do when you find a great deal ? Well if telling everyone will end it for
you ? maybe stay quiet about it? The
more vacant land the better !
If the RA has at least three who members are
five friends who have no disagreements, what's the point in the meeting ! In fact by the end of the 19th
term, it got so bad..... two RA members couldn’t show up at all, leaving three people in RA to
serve anyway, so great, only two of the remaining have to agree now ! The two who left btw were encouraged NOT to resign so we didn’t
have a by election, even though they
were not able to log into SL. Basically we had a three member RA. Leaving the
chancellor with two cronies who could rubber stamp anything non constitutional
he wanted to do. All they had to do was have three people show up to a RA
meeting.
Over the three years, CDS was certainly in decline in every way.. to the point of being almost
dead it seemed. That was how it looked from the outsider looking in at least.
The people inside saw it as doing well!
No biggie, sell off a sim, raise tier.. we are fine, they said! And really, why debate things…they said , we
all agree… if we all think alike or just give in to our friend to make them
happy , right or wrong.. then...Sounded like paradise to them, something worth
fighting to keep… but it sounded like anarchy
to me.. and maybe even a covert dictatorship but certainly not a DEMOCRACY. Not the CDS I remembered.
Especially disturbing to me was that the person who
"owned the CDS on paper" the land and the money, was without
reproach.. What I mean is there was and still an unspoken rule of the group :
it is TABOO to speak anything but kind
words to and about the person who owns CDS on paper.. People are seen in
meetings to flower the EO with glowing praise that contradicts the persons
known preferences. And certainly anyone who dares ask a question that could
shed light on something done by the EO is bombarded with nastys. I mean the person is okay and has volunteered
a lot but .. the TABOO was quite powerful and so strong you could taste it.
I moved back to CDS anyway in 2011 and tried to help with the problems in CDS, as confusing as it was to me. The real problem was that CDS was half empty, I thought it was logical that they would want CDS full. Everyone kept saying they were doing thing to try to promote CDS, but it wasn't working. But I kept seeing things happening that seemed to indicate that even though they said they wanted it to grow, well, they really didn't.
So at first I feel
like I am a blind man trying to discover what is the elephant... I wonder why
the sims are half empty ... when I know they will sell easily... I hear talk of
trying to sell them.. but I see them running people off... its all so confusing
...I had to find out for myself. Is CDS unable to be sold. Is it not desirable
anymore to the grid at large. I found
that CDS was spending a lot of money on ads that didn't work at all, but infact
the owner of the radio station who has the ads also owned a sim which the
chancellor and one of the EMs lived in... hmmmm>>???? maybe its
nothing..i told myself. I did some research on it… As I uncovered bits and bobs of information
about whats going on . Reading the financial statements, asking questions. Why
is someone in the SC getting paid
many times the going rate to DJ ( and is
in the SC and a good friend of the CDS
owner?) hmm… I learned quickly don’t ask that question ! …
I kept trying to be positive, maybe they
don't know how to sell land... ??? its
not that hard… But I found out that also
if I just made a tiny effort to bring people to CDS ... they loved the idea and
moved there ! The I was actually asked
to help bring people to CDS at one point.. but when I did it and did it well ….... I was told to stop .
Then I was bullied. A member of the RA started griefing me and my husband. A LOT ! I was
frequently lied about and called names. It was odd, they said they wanted CDS
to grow.. but they didn't want it to grow ? Or maybe they just don’t like me.
Fair enough…. Only the "right kind of people" should be in CDS ? Not
my friends.huh? . but I wasn't just showing cds to my friends, I was simply
asking anyone who was interested in CDS from anywhere I met them to move to CDS.
..In appropriate groups, and such ... So the sims were full again.. despite
them saying to stop selling land, despite them saying that i should stop ...because .. CDS is my home
too ! So .. they continued to bully me
and everyone I helped get there..... to the point I left, too, and after I did they ran the rest of the new
people off, unless they agreed to ONE thing. If they didn't agree to own the
idea, they had to shut up or leave. ... CDS, Sundown Town. So I left. When I left the five sims were full, I had filled them up with the help of some friends, but we were all being harassed and bullied to get to leave. So ... I did.
I peeked at the forums from time to time during my absence, hoping that CDS would grow and thrive while I was gone. But at some point I read that Tor was going to raise tier. Or sell of LA . So I came back.
Without CLEO around
no one showed up seriously wanting to join CDS very often, and if they did they
could be either ignored or indoctrinated.. and sent away if they didn't follow
the lockstep.. Factions were removed, RA shrunk to five, no reason to have the
legitmization of diverse thought when we have but one way of looking at things
and all the people we need anyway ….. And our way of seeing things is right.
and cant be questioned. ....
I read one day on the
forums that my former home, CDS was about to consider either getting rid of an
entire region... and/ or raise tiers to stay in the black ...................I
was sad. ............................such a neat
place.............................how could it be, it was so easy to bring
people to cds only two years
before........................things were better even now than then in the
economy.....they were quite mean to me before but surely they need help selling
land, I know I can help … and also CDS might be lost ! it was about to SHRINK
…………………...........I had to know why.
So I logged in and was met by TOR.. still chancellor. And he
told me not to return to CDS………..whoAAAaaat ! ! He said they didn’t want me. Leave. ( I
didn’t know then that my name was on a coffin in the kirche. ) Most of the square in CN was for sale. I stood in some of the parcels looking
around. ... the next day the parcels were sold to Pip or Shep or someone
.. .. and that was good ! I didn't really think that they were buying
them to keep them from me. I hoped the problem was getting solved. … It was
good that less land was for sale. That was my goal, help CDS grow. But not just
in numbers of parcels sold, numbers of Citizens.
We needed more people to fill offices in the government, not
to shrink the government like they had done, I thought. So finally I bought a
shop in CDS. It was successful and a friend wanted a shop next door... Then
another. .. meanwhile I noticed that Gauis was doing his best to harass Alexia,
who finally left CDS due to the Guild and RA, especially Rosie Gray. Alexia had
had a shop in CDS for a long, long time , but didn't really follow the lockstep
of the group from what I saw....l . Was CDS still a sundown town..i didn't want
to believe it. But indeed it still was.
The new citizens were being picked off and harassed, again, one by one. But this was a
new crop of people. More aware. More
mature. And the “gang” was so bold by then after being in power so long. Is it
true that “absolute power corrupts absolutely” ? That the “three year reign of
Tor” had turned into a REIGN? A reign
of bullies and terrorists condoned by the leader of a tight knit group, all
under the nose of the one who had the EO rights. I hoped it wasn't. I saw it was. That was the end of the 19th RA term. I ran
for RA in the 20th to try to make sure it never was a sundown town again .
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