alt Hacker News> We are angry that our local city council is representing a corporation instead of the citizens that they are supposed to. We're protesting against citizens losing their rights in their own city. No amount of money is worth that.
What rights are they losing?
Representative government in which sufficient time is granted for all with an opinion to speak, a broad community vote on specific decisive issues.
You know, the opposite of a very few deciding without paying attention to the many that stood outside locked doors in the cold.