There’s a High Road and a Low Road*#8212;the Low Road has a Bridge
by Gabriel of Urantia
Hey, did you notice the Friday, November 7, 2003 front page article by John Walsh of the Sedona Red Rock News called “Many Favor Second Route”? The article indicated that Citizens For an Alternative Route (CFAR) paid a research firm, Robinson & Muenster Associates, to conduct a survey of “400 households in the Sedona area” in September about their preferences for an alternative route in and out of Sedona, alternate to the two that already enter and leave the area—Highways 179 and 89A. According to the article, the survey showed that 55%, with an error margin of 4.9%, of the respondents favored a bridge at Red Rock Crossing. I find that very interesting due to the fact that Yavapai County Supervisor Chip Davis is not in favor of a bridge at Red Rock Crossing and has been elected to his office twice, with that being a major issue for his platform.
Boy, I bet they knew what questions to ask and which doors to knock on to get that percentage. (How the questions were phrased on that survey would determine the outcome. The actual survey area would also be critical in determining the outcome.)
And then in the same issue there was a letter to the editor by a Village of Oak Creek (VOC) resident who says that the Red Rock Crossing area isn't pristine. Now, I realize that many living in VOC want to get to Bashas’ (supermarket) faster, but if this site is not pristine, why is it that it's probably the most photographed site in all of the Sedona area and people from all over the world take pictures right where the proposed bridge is to be? Do you think Sedona would be as well-known if the bridge took the place of Cathedral Rock? The location where photographers stand to capture the view with the horizon is where the proposed bridge would go in.
Did you also note that the next issue of Sedona Red Rock News on Wednesday, November 12, 2003 had an editorial by its managing editor, Ryan Van Benthuysen, in support of an alternate route at Red Rock Crossing? And, of course, he used the previously mentioned survey to support the paper's stance.
I bet the Sedona Red Rock News wouldn't headline a story about the majority of people in this area who actually do not want any type of route at Red Rock Crossing. It's obvious to me that with their let's-build-a-bridge-at-Red-Rock-Crossing stand right on the front page and their editorial in the following issue that, again, certain secular powers are attempting to change public opinion to coincide with their development plans, and have been using the Sedona Red Rock News to do so. Is it possible that the motives behind the Red Rock News’ stance for a bridge at Red Rock Crossing are: “Let’s build a bridge, so that we can build more homes, so that we can sell more newspapers”?
By the way, there is an interesting comment about democracy in The URANTIA Book. “Democracy, while an ideal, is a product of civilization, not of evolution. Go slowly! Select carefully! The dangers of democracy are: glorification of mediocrity, choice of base and ignorant rulers, failure to recognize the basic facts of social evolution, danger of universal suffrage in the hands of uneducated and indolent majorities, and slavery to public opinion. The majority is not always right.” (p. 801)