A Winner

A most clever and discerning subscriber to this blog correctly deciphered a riddle that has been posted for some time. Not only did the reader solve it, but also described its significance for the grand prize.

What riddle?

The background picture to the slide show at the top of this blog is part of the key, as well as some of the articles. The subscriber correctly identified the individuals and the correlation to the salient present-day events here in the soon to be regained paradise.

The perceptive and historically savyy reader writes:

The four in the front row, from left to right, are: Goering, Hess,von Ribbentrop, and Keitel. Goering was the War Minister, Hess was one ofHitler's deputies, von Ribbentrop the Foreign Minister, and Keitel a field marshal - precisely the people needed to convince everyone that everythingis going well, when it is not. Goering himself said it best:

"Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But afterall, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is ademocracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. ...Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders."

That last sentence is eerily relevant to our issues given the small number of city apologists that can be “brought to the bidding of the leaders” irrespective of what their “leaders” do or fail to do and the resultant consequences on health, our inalieanable rights and the environment.

For solving the significance and correlation, the intuitive reader won a stay at a suite (no, not on Marco Island). The reader has chosen to remain anonymous for reasons we naturally understand.