| On April 18, 2006, San Francisco will
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| | university of note, including MIT. He
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| commemorate the centennial of the San
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| | expanded his lectures every year, adding
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| Francisco Earthquake and Fire, an event
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| | new films and insights. He was determined
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| that leveled that city. The number of
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| | that the miracles of the natural world be
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| people who died has never been more than
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| | understood, that their truth be
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| estimated. The other loses of various
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| | accessible to everyone.
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| kinds ran into what today would be
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| | In 1927 Arthur Pillsbury completed the
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| billions of dollars.On that first day
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| | invention of the microscopic motion
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| this photo was taken from the St. Francis
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| | picture camera. Seeing the world beyond
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| Hotel, showing the city in flames. Less
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| | the scope of the human eye awakened
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| than 24 hours later the St. Francis would
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| | people to another aspect of nature. After
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| also have been gutted.Behind that
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| | that time there was an explosion in
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| crumbling facade of human invention stood
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| | related research.Pillsbury went on to
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| a man with an active, analytical mind.
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| | build the first X-ray motion picture
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| One man taking action would change what
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| | camera and the underwater motion picture
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| others refused to see because of those
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| | camera opening up more new vistas.
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| tragic days. Arthur C. Pillsbury would
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| | Pillsbury refused to patent his
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| capture in film a lesson that would
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| | inventions. He wanted their use to become
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| change all of our lives. The sound and
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| | common to all of us. He had solved the
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| sight of a city burning awakened him to a
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| | problem he identified during those
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| human truth.The accompanying photo went
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| | hideous days when San Francisco
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| out around the globe, carrying the
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| | burned.Arthur C. Pillsbury died in
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| enormity of the event to human eyes. As
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| | Oakland in 1946. The scope of human
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| catastrophic as that event was it
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| | vision had expanded, thanks to his
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| vanishes into nothingness compared to the
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| | inventions and tireless lecturing. He had
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| specter we face today from our own
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| | made nature visible as it had never been
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| government.Some disasters are natural;
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| | before but that was not enough. He had
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| some happen because of what we fail to
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| | not calculated for the impact of those
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| understand.
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| | greedy for money and power.
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| The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
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| | Government had not changed; it continued
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| was an event that began as a natural
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| | an upward trend for control coupled with
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| disaster. The plates of the Earth
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| | the corruption. Those who profited
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| slipped, readjusting themselves and for
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| | through generations came to accept this
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| hundreds of miles the resultant impact
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| | as their prerogative.
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| was felt. But that devastation and loss
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| | We need to see government for what it
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| passed the boundaries of what is natural,
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| | is; a system that has been converted from
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| multiplied by the corruption of San
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| | service provider to wealth source for
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| Francisco's government.San Francisco had
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| | those who control it.Disaster is endemic
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| no disaster plan because the corrupt city
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| | to all politics and for the same reasons.
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| administration was far more interested in
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| | Coupling a lack of accountability with
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| continuing to enjoy the graft and
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| | the temptation to take always draws those
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| privileges that come with power.
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| | inclined to steal.Katrina has illustrated
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| Emergency workers were untrained; the
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| | just how bad it can be within our own
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| preparations that had long been asked for
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| | shores; Iraq has demonstrated how bad
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| had never been enacted. Many buildings
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| | America can be when the tools of
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| blown up to create fire breaks simply
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| | corruption are applied internationally.
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| burst into flame, spreading the
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| | These are not examples of incompetence,
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| conflagration and destruction. Both
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| | rather they illustrate sophisticated
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| looters and the innocent were gunned down
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| | schemes for converting the institutions
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| by the military contingent that would
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| | of government into profit centers for
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| never be held accountable. The corrupt
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| | those holding power.Government is
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| officials also evaded liability.
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| | efficiently doing exactly what those in
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| Accountability is something government
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| | power want it to do.Our Founders did not
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| learned to avoid early on.San Francisco
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| | expect this government to last 20 years.
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| survived. Eventually sanity returned and
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| | They viewed the government they
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| the people came together to rebuild.
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| | established as a kind of model needing
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| Sometimes even in the face of completely
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| | beta testing, expecting it to operate
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| incompetent care the patient lives.
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| | within a set of defined and limiting
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| The image above was taken by Arthur C,
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| | principles.Government is not supposed to
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| Pillsbury on that first day. It was a day
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| | be doing anything we can do ourselves. In
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| that changed his life's focus.Pillsbury
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| | the Bill of Rights Numbers 9 and 10 make
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| had just left his job as the
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| | that clear. So why did government
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| photojournalist at the San Francisco
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| | steadily take over jobs being handled
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| Examiner to start his own photography
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| | privately?For the same reason bank
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| business, the Pillsbury Picture Company,
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| | robbers rob banks. That is where the
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| a month before. For the next weeks he
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| | money is.
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| caught the immediacy of events as people
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| | We are unused to the idea that we can
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| struggled to survive and save what they
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| | examine government and change the tools
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| could from the consuming flames. His
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| | we use to carry out what we want done.
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| developing facility, located in Oakland,
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| | But that right is ours whenever we
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| was the only one functioning. Orders
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| | choose; that is enunciated in the
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| poured in from across the globe.Later the
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| | Declaration of Independence.The present
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| same year he used the profits from the
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| | state of government would have shocked
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| San Francisco photos to achieve a long
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| | our Founders.Consider what life looked
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| time goal and bought the Studio of the
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| | like to Founders at the turn of that
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| Three Arrows in Yosemite.Pillsbury was an
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| | century.Our Founders lived and died in a
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| engineer who majored in Mechanical
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| | world of small shop owners, farmers, and
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| Engineering at Stanford He had invented a
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| | craftspeople. Homes and businesses
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| specimen slicer for the microscope and
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| | provided for their own needs. Innovation
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| circuit panorama camera before leaving
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| | came with its own rewards and problems
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| college. He was not the kind of guy to
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| | and people learned by seeing what worked
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| settle for systems and tools that did not
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| | and what didn't. That is the classical
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| work as expected.
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| | form for the transmission of human
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| In Yosemite he found other systems that
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| | wisdom, used even by chimps with no
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| were failing to do their jobs.The
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| | governmental intervention.The tools for
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| Cavalry, then in charge of the Park, had
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| | government the Founders assembled assumed
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| long made a practice of mowing the
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| | a population that controlled most of the
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| meadows to provide fodder for their
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| | infrastructure directly through town
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| horses. Pillsbury noticed that the number
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| | government and through the people's power
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| of wild flower species was decreasing
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| | of purchase. Corporations did not exist
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| every year in those areas and also that
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| | in their present form. Our Founders
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| the Cavalry was not concerned. So,
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| | failed to see the ramifications of
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| applying his skills as an inventor he
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| | allowing legislation that brought the
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| built the first lapse-time camera to be
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| | actions of individuals under the control
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| used with plants, producing the first
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| | of government. They were imperfect as are
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| motion picture image of a wild flower
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| | all of us. They did not hand us a
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| gracefully raising its head to the sun.
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| | finished product but one that needed to
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| By than he had been showing and narrating
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| | be tested and repaired.But some things
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| nature films for two years.Now the wild
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| | they did right.Until the end of the
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| flowers could speak for themselves.That
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| | Nineteenth Century all school children
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| first lapse-time movie was made to
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| | studied the Bill of Rights and read the
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| persuade those in power to do the right
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| | Federalist Papers. They knew, therefore,
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| thing and stop the mowing and move
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| | what their rights were supposed to be.
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| towards conservation.Arthur C. Pillsbury
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| | Understanding the operating principles,
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| believed that all people need is the
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| | as we can see, is a critical factor.
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| truth. If they saw the reality, he
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| | When people know it is much harder to
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| believed, they will choose to do the
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| | delude them. But politicians were
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| right thing voluntarily. He was right
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| | persistent. They had a lot to
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| about most people, most of the time.After
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| | gain.Katrina illustrated a lot of things
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| seeing the film those in power stopped
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| | about government today. It took a week
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| the mowing the same day. The year was
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| | from the time the storm hit to announce
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| 1912.
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| | plans for redevelopment; people were
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| Most of us do the right thing if we know
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| | still awaiting emergency help but
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| what that is. But sometimes failing to do
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| | 'gentrification' of the area was already
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| the right thing is not a mistake;
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| | planned. Today families who have tried to
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| sometimes there is another agenda.
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| | return have been refused access to their
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| Pillsbury assumed that when those in
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| | homes and property. If you watch what
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| power must be mistaken or lack
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| | those in power do, instead of believing
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| understanding or simply be too lazy to
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| | their rhetoric the truth seeps through.
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| care. Those were possibilities that made
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| | Government consumed through taxes the
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| sense to him; but that was an incomplete
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| | resources that should have protected New
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| understanding. When those in power are
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| | Orleans.What has been proved is that
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| acting on another agenda they cannot be
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| | Americans would have been better served
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| changed with the truth.The photo
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| | to keep the FEMA money within local areas
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| Pillsbury took that you see here, one of
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| | to fund local emergency services. Because
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| hundreds, shows both the power of nature
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| | every level of government above the local
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| unleashed on a city and the power of
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| | was more corrupt in New Orleans last year
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| corruption by government unchecked. Most
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| | there was none of the oversight residents
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| people did not understand the risk they
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| | expected and believed they had paid for.
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| faced, having delegated that work to the
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| | Those funds went into other pockets.
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| city government.Pillsbury learned one
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| | Big government did not come into
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| essential lesson from what he observed.
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| | existence because the people could not
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| He decided to make sure that the people
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| | find ways to handle their problems as the
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| themselves had direct access to the
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| | country grew and the complexity of their
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| information they needed. In 1912 he
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| | society increased. It came into existence
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| invented the lapse-time camera to connect
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| | because those in government were greedy
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| people to the world of wild flowers,
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| | and the citizens were both too trusting
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| which had been overlooked even by such
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| | and did not understand that government is
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| conservationists as John Muir. Muir's
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| | just a contracting service center; that
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| energies were focused on saving the Hetch
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| | knowledge had been withdrawn.So what can
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| Hetchy, a battle he lost.Pillsbury kept
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| | we do to clean up this mess?Their system
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| working. He began lecturing and showing
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| | has been designed to create our perpetual
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| his motion pictures. Eventually he would
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| | and inescapable dependence. We can change
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| speak at every major town forum and every
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| | that.
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