The Lehigh Valley needs some humor.

I decided it was time to fill a void in the Lehigh Valley and beyond. Nobody wants to really take a shot at properly snarking many of the politicians and bureaucrats in the valley.
I volunteer to be that person! I don't have any friends anyway, so what do I have to loose?

We should be laughing at all the people who think they are important, and want to remind us everyday that we should know how important they are.

I am starting off today by commenting on Allentown Park Director Greg Weitzel's plan to save the park system he has been entrusted with, in particular, Cedar Beach between Broadway and Hamilton Boulevard.

A long time ago, the American Military adopted a strategy in Vietnam of destroying a village to save it. It was insanity, and it was abandoned.

Who would have thought of using that strategy on a beautiful Rose garden? Hell, who needs bull dozers, Greg, just go ahead and napalm the damn thing while you are at it, might get rid of the goose crap problem as well.

It kills me that proponents accuse those against the idea of making the park playground handicap accessible of being against "kids." You know, "it's always for the kids." The people against the playground are also , and say it quietly, subtly, people.... RACISTS!

Meanwhile, the anti-playground/remodel/chainsaw trees/ riparian buffers/ I don't know what the hell is going on forces say they are not racists, they only want to protect the integrity of the park, don't want it over utilized, but admit they fear for their property values.

Here is what they are really afraid of:

The folks of Allentowns' West End that live near Cedar Beach park are afraid that a gang of Hispanic kids in Wheelchairs are going to be regularly throwing down with a gang of black autistic kids, when they are not having rumbles with the ADHD white kids driving down from their trailer parks in their 1991 Dodge Dakotas.

You know it will happen, honestly, and the police won't be able to handle it.

You give autistic kids weapons, and put droolers in mechanized wheelchairs rolling down a macadam path, and you have an arcade game that the third graders with a drivers license won't be able to resist.

Greg Weitzel has declared War on park blight, if he and his grand plans are to be believed.

If you ask me, (and I know you wouldn't) all he has done is make himself look busy, but that is what bureaucrats do, right?

And where is Mayoral challenger Tony Phillips while all this is going down? This guy is hiding better than Hitler in his bunker in April of 1945.

I will get to Tony Phillips next time. As always, Lehigh Valley Politics is a circus, and it is time to Send in the Clowns.