PSA Public Apathy

This is an actual recording of a portion of the public hearings held at the December 2009 Rochester City Council Meeting. In all there were 4 public hearings and (as is typical) nobody stood up to speak on any of the matters to be heard.

The video features this famous quote:
"I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing."
—Daniel Webster (June 1, 1837)

* Notes about editing:
1) Outgoing Council President Gladys Santiago missed the meeting due to illness, therefore I blurred her name placard in order to avoid misidentifying outgoing Council Vice President Bill Pritchard.
2) The matters to be heard were silenced in this video, because they are irrelevant to the PSA; they change from meeting to meeting; and it's not our job to inform people what the Council is hearing. They are not silenced at any actual meeting.

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News & Politics

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• psa
• public service announcement
• apathy
• city council
• rochester
• public hearing
• daniel webster
• designing men