EDITOR’S NOTE: Shortly before 2 p.m., the city website came back up with a rotating picture graphic of city services on top.
Confidence in the city’s leadership and its motives has reached such a low point that the latest breakdown of the city’s website where you can see what the City Council and mayor are up to has triggered a wave of paranoia across the activist community.
I’ve heard some several people who normally see bungling incompetence and greed in City Hall’s action who suspect that the website breakdown as part of a disinformation conspiracy at a time when critical decisions our being made this week on the city budget crisis before the Council takes an unearned vacation next week.
And it comes at a time when next week the DWP Commission plans to rubber stamp massive rate hikes by April 1 for an undefined green energy plan and to pay worker salaraies inflated by the latest round of pay hikes.
Said one reader: “Don’t you think its odd the city web site is down? I don’t think they want people reviewing the motions this week. Too many hot buttons issues.”
At OurLA.org, a reader who believes the city deliberately wants to keep people in the dark tracked the city website’s changing its story over the last 12 hours:
“This page is temporarily unavailable due to scheduled maintenance on [very old date]”
Much later, they changed the message:
“This page is temporarily unavailable due to scheduled maintenance on Sunday, March 7, 2010”
Today, they changed the message to read:
“This page is temporarily unavailable due to scheduled maintenance on Monday, March 8, 2010”
Today, they changed the message to read:
“This page is temporarily unavailable due to scheduled maintenance on Monday, March 8, 2010”
I don’t personally believe much in formal conspiracies, just conspiracies of consciousness achieved by everyone involved understanding marching orders that don’t actually need to be spelled out since that might create evidence of criminality.
In this case, I prefer to think they are just bunglers and not smart enough to plot this. But then as the saying goes, you can’t spell W-R-O-N-G without R-O-N.