CITY LEADERS YOUR FAILING – I IMPLORE YOU
If a clear workable plan was offered by a Citizen that would effectively remove most crime, including murder and the opium epidemic from Syracuse neighborhoods with a result that would attract untold business and create astounding potentials, I am sure you would agree it would be the right thing to implement. If the City simply refused to entertain this unique, highly effective, intelligent, cost efficient and rare idea for any reason, would you feel neglected?
That is your reality. I mailed a plan to the Mayor and each Council member. A copy was sent to 53 City Leaders. As well the plan was published in Table Hopping in three parts, December 2021, January 2022 and February 2022. The plan is still available at (word on the street tablehopping.com). I pray that leaders have cared enough about the people that live in Syracuse to take an hour and read the plan. 
The Mayor and City Leaders should be denounced for “NOT” doing this project, not for doing it. That is how messed up Leadership is. I am aware I am being critical of authority. It is because their weakness must be pointed out and made clear to them as they are not getting it. Their entire value set is on backwards. They know I am right but for some unspeakable reason they acquiesce to the status quo, a faulted failed system. Let’s be very clear hear. In the eyes of justice, in the eyes of compassion, in the eyes of decency, in the eyes of right, in the eyes of beauty, in the eyes of goodness, in the eyes of fairness, in the eyes of equality, in the eyes of the true intent of our founding, and in the eyes of a just a God, you do not get to a high position and then fail your responsibility to the suffering and the poor without failing yourself.
Opposition can only be based on cruelty, or bureaucratic bull rules within a failed system, or the instincts of superiority or narcissism. Leadership needs to understand they evolved into this kind of governing. These three evils play a major role in today’s politics and decisions for the poor are filtered through them. The outcome is the massive suffering and neglect we have today. (If you live in suburbia, please know this heartless reality and grave suffering is lived within City neighborhoods and is preventable.) City Leaders must find a path for just, and right, and decent, and fair and the American way. If they do this, they will do the plan. If you read the plan every deterrent, every faulted thought, and every concern is addressed and a way is shown. The plan ‘WILL WORK’.
City Leaders are failing to consider that they are mired in systemic gridlock that demands action that embraces new good thinking. They are failing to consider that the City’s troubled and impoverished and suffering need them. Most poor don’t vote and have little to give in return. These should not be the incentives for leaders. The need itself and the human suffering should be enough. And right there in that sentence is the tragedy of Syracuse Leadership. The gravity of that sentence is not enough. So far. And so far, reaches back decades.
“It should be noted that the plan not only addresses the poor but the welfare of the entire City. If you do this wealth and big business will come. They will even help.”
North, South, East and West all have small pockets of a well-off constituency that our leaders serve. They are less than 20% of the City. These are the people that receive quality inclusive representation. The rest are not served well, their vital needs are ignored and representation is token. Well-meaning Community Activists are appeased not served. There is no representation that prevents the crime, or the suffering, or fearful and impoverished quality of life. Meaningful reaching effort that fixes social ills and reverses each difficulty have not been the honest target. Right under the nose of well-intended City Activists and caring citizens cosmetic efforts appease. While nothing changes for the folks living in each house. While nothing addresses the poison and scourge that has invaded and become the way in the neighborhoods. So, the murders continue, the woundings, the beatings, the rapes and the fear and the failure of leadership continues. 
THE CITY IS REFUSING THE PLAN DESCRIBED HEREIN THAT WILL SET A COURSE TO REVERSE THE TRAGIC HUMAN SUFFERING, AND THE PLIGHT OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS. A PLAN THAT MAINTAINS. A PLAN THAT WILL SET A STANDARD OF WONDER AND SUCCESS THAT WILL BECOME THE BLUEPRINT FOR OTHERS TO FOLLOW. WHY. MY GOD, WHY?
Let’s look at the status quo within the neighborhoods. Then tell me these people are cared for and governed with regard.
We have a small manageable City. The suffering and pain and neglect that goes on in these neighborhoods, North, South, East and West are reprehensible. Baby carriages cannot be used on sidewalks. Old folks must walk with great care and many fall. Streets will ruin your car. Danger and suffering prevail in every neighborhood. Landlords have inadequate responsibilities and fair guidance. There is no safety because crime fighting is designed to maintain the status quo not to prevent. There is gunfire every day. Death, murder and rape of the addicted goes on constantly. The daily statutory rape of young addicts is rarely reported. Addicts suffer alone, their bodies and their souls used and abused by the evil in the streets. The suffering you see on the surface is astonishing and the suffering that goes on beneath the surface veneer is massive and terrifying and real. The plan will reverse all this and set a course that will stun our citizens with disbelief. Despair will turn to hope. The economy will thrive.
I am going make this offer one more time. It is not necessary that it be me. I am not seeking a job. I am seeking what I say here and I will do it. I am extremely good at this kind of thing. I will do it for and with you. I am a Former Green Beret. We were not just taught about the specialties of warfare. But more importantly we were taught to befriend and care for villages. We were taught how to change hope to reality and introduce real quality of life to villages. I am 76 years old. I have stunning capability. I have references that are your friends and peers. What they needed me for I did. I did it far beyond any normal standard. They will tell you this. If you ask, I will provide these references. I have been in Syracuse since 1956. I am the last City Manager of the Western Union Telegraph Company. I also trained telegram messengers. I have 50 years in the Taxi Business and ran the Taxi Airport Operation for 17 years. I drove a taxi off and on for many years. 6 years at night. Few come close to knowing and understanding this city and the streets with the degree of thoroughness as I. Few understand the crime and the perpetrators as I do. I know every street and the history of each area. I unbearably watched the leadership failures over administrations and generations and witnessed the heartless, heartbreaking decline of a real GEM of a City. I have always loved those left behind. Today they are entire neighborhoods. And I will work for their welfare. If you turn me lose, I am telling I am unique and if you decide to use my special skills, we will reverse decline and we will fix this City and it will become a GEM again and Syracuse will set the standard that others will follow.
This cannot be done without the Mayor on board. He will need all of your support. So will the plan. If you are interested Mayor Walsh, my e-mail is w173@aol.com.
Nothing good starts until you make a beginning. If you call me in, I will explain why and how this team effort will work. If ye break faith with those who die. Let’s remember the reasons for our white crosses. They are here in this column. W173@aol.com 
