Stand up for what you believe in Rally!

A perfect storm of screw ups by the leadership of the APS
points to a record turn out at public forum at the board meeting next Wednesday at 5pm.

Whether you think;

• they should tell the truth about the corruption in the APS Police Department, or
• they should tell the truth about their abdication as role models of the Student Standards of Conduct, or
• they should honor their obligation to provide review and approval of whistleblower complaints, or
• they should begin an immediate and impartial standards and accountability audit of the entire leadership of the APS, or
• they should give stakeholders a seat at the table where decisions are being made that affect their interests, or
• they should respond candidly, forthrightly and honestly to any legitimate question about the public interests or their public service, or
• any other legitimate petition of the government should not only be allowed, but treated with respect.

you have an opportunity, some would argue a responsibility,
to stand up for what you believe in for two minutes;
either at the podium or in the audience.

A number of people will summon the courage to stand up and
petition their government; face to face, eyeball to eyeball.

If you cannot stand up with them, then
at least, stand up behind them.

The hardest part of standing up alone is the wondering, why?

Martin Luther King wrote;

“We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.”

Edmund Burke wrote;

All that is necessary for evil to prevail in the world, is for good men to do nothing.

Ayn Rand wrote;

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

and;

It is not justice or equal treatment that you grant to men when you abstain equally from praising men's virtues and from condemning men's vices. When your impartial attitude declares, in effect, that neither the good nor the evil may expect anything from you - whom do you betray and whom do you encourage?

You pick a side, when you don't pick a side.