Yes, Open the Books, Springtown, PA, we have been duped by Michael Perrucci and Sheldon Adelson, both principals of BethWorks Now, city of Bethlehem officials, NMIH President Steven Donches, Executive Director of Musikfest and ArtsQuest, and The Morning Call, as seen in the scholarly work of Sharon Ann Holt, titled “Report from the Field.”

BethWorks Now, consisting of the Sands Casino, Musikfest, ArtsQuest, and other venues, is Pennsylvania’s biggest fraud since the infamous Walking Purchase of 1737, when son Thomas of the commonwealth’s founder William Penn defrauded the Delaware and Lenape Indian tribe of hundreds of acres of land in Northampton County, including 315 acres in Forks Township, headquarters of the Binne & Smith Crayon Crayola Corporation.

Centuries later, Binney & Smith would later insult America’s indigenous people by creating a new crayon color it called “Indian Red,” a politically incorrect public-relatations disaster that forced the corporation to apologize publicly to all of America’s native population and to cease production of the new color line.

Also later, Binney & Smith relocated its Crayola Factory and retail Crayola tourist attractions from Forks Township to the Centre Square of Downtown Easton, wooed there by generous tax exemptions and the gifts of free public services such as police and fire protection.

In a classic “bait and switch” deception, the above-named officials from the public and private sectors - an oligarchy - used the prestigious institutions of MARCH (Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities; Rutgers University, Camden Campus; the University of California; the National Museum of Industrial History (NMIH); and the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C.; St. Luke’s Hospital; Northampton Community College; and the local mainstrream news media like The Morning Call and its today’s article by reporter Madeleine Mathias regarding Jeff Parks’ ArtsQuest.

The fact that the Pennsylvania Gam(bl)ing Control Board issued the Sands Casino a slot machine license (Class II) on December 20, 2006, is proof that the ogligarchy’s South Side Bethlehem was preselected long before that date - at least as early as January 3, 2005, when the author of this blog posting formally requested Northampton County Council to conduct public hearings on the proposed casino.

This preselection of the Sands and six other Class II gambling licenses and seven Class I licenses legalizing gambling at horce-racing tracks (called “racinos”) is going to be a major issue in Pennsylvania’s upcoming general elections in November.