On the boarder of Utah and Arizona there is a small town just below the Vermillion Cliffs. The town is in big trouble the local school district is in big trouble. There is polarization throughout the community and fraud is the rule not the exception. Several years ago a religious cult moved into town and over a period of time permeated all aspects of that community. The same folks that pulled strings on the school board were the same people that pulled the strings in town hall, the police force, everyone that was anyone was associated with this cult. The values of the community were dictated by the cult, multiple wives were allowed in this sect, under aged (preteen) girls were given to forty year old men as third and fourth wives by the sect leaders. The leaders of the cult had total control of its members and conversely control of the town.
The corruption of the school district was so complete that the State of Utah had to pass a special law to allow the state to come in and take control of the public school system. The money was all gone; no one is exactly sure where it went and probably never will. They discovered gross miss uses such as $250,000.00 expenditures of school board funds on an airplane for the cult leader. The town funds were also decimated but worst of all was the corrosion of the community standards, there were several cases of statutory rape by cult elders brought to the police but being cult members the police did nothing. Business have all left leaving the community without income, but the cult lives on, now polygamy and corruption is the standard, it is the value of the community.
When does a town’s corruption become the standard? If a certain clique of peoples have bastardized the standards in a town to the point that corruption is tolerated, understood, excused who is left to clean it up?
Is any of this ringing a bell?
What is the tolerance for corruption in Estes Park, so far I would say you have mighty low standards. You all stand on the side of the road and look the other way as a small group continues to erode the standards of our community even lower. Shame on all of you this is Estes Park, Colorado not Utah, we Estes Parkians choose not to stand still we choose to fight.
LETS GET READY TO RUMBLE!!!!!!!!
