More on the Nov 16th hearing

Another article came out in the Fresno Bee Sunday, October 7 2012.  The story has an interesting closing line quote from rail authority CEO Jeffrey Morales: "Everything about this project is going to be aggressive," he said, "but we believe it's do-able."

Oh really?  The HSR project began in the early 90s and the time line has been shoved back so many times and the Authority (a different agency than the origination entity) has changed the intent of why the project was proposed.  It was originally proposed as a high speed train to serve the public but, the project has become just another tool in the political process to benefit a few politically connected individuals who are receiving tremendous personal profit.  This is merely a statement of the way things are; unintended as a negative attack.

The point of this post is to question the statement made by the HSRA CEO.  What does the definition of the word:  'aggressive' equate to?  The proposed project has been completely changed since its inception but, what does aggressive mean: over complicated?  Dysfunctional?  What does aggressive say?  That there is a demand for it to begin because there is no funding available to complete the proposal within the faulty business plan?  Does it mean the proposed project needs to be aggressive to figure out where the funding will come from?  Does it mean that the proposed project should have rights-of-ways as to where it is proposed to be located?  Perhaps aggressive is defined as suggesting that no one is smarter than the government workers who act as instructed to take what they want and do as they please: damn to the voters who are too stupid to know what they want.  Some might even go as far as interpreting this 'aggressive' stance as abusive.  Others could claim this aggressive stance is ignorance.  

In civil cases the law finds little justification to force one's own desire upon others.  Clearly, the HSRA CEO did not intend the term aggressive to be synonymous of abusive but, look at the available synonyms of the word 'aggressive': violent, hostile, destructive, belligerent, antagonistic, forceful and insistent.

So then, who can question the stance of the HSRA regarding this proposed project?