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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, April 9, 2003
(Following is part of a therapy session between Dr.
Bill Kostalott, a psychologist; and the publisher of a cer-
tain weekly newspaper.)
Doctor: So Boob, I mean Bob, you have questions about
why you insist on writing too frequently about your youthful
trips to El Paso, Texas.
Patient: Well, yes, I …
Doctor: How often do you find yourself doing this?
Patient: Well, I …
Doctor: Don’t let me interrupt or influence you. Just go
ahead and tell me what you think. What you are feeling.
Patient: It seems to me that …
Doctor: Did you enjoy being tall on those Greyhound
buses, or was it because of all the attention your aunts gave
you, or perhaps because once in a strange city, where no one
would make fun of you, you could act in different ways than
you could at home.
Patient: I would say that maybe …
Doctor: These are all good questions, and perhaps the
answer is tied into the fact that as a young boy you felt as
though you were the man of the house at your grand-
mother’s residence, as there were no other men present. I’m
also thinking that the fact you often were the only person up
from around 5 a.m. to noon, with the run of the house, and
able to make great quantities of toast smothered in butter,
that you were feeding your ego through your stomach.
Patient: Well, I think that …
Doctor: What is your perception of all this discussion?
Do you think that there is some validity to the toast theory?
Patient: I’d like to think that it …
Doctor: We need to end now, as our time is up, but next
week let’s continue to pursue this train of thinking.
Patient: Hey, I like trains too …
Doctor: Time’s up. See you next week.
Patient: OK, well, good-bye, and I’d like to say …
Doctor: Please pay on the way out.
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‘Transport plan’
From F. Bellerman
Selma
In response to Robert We-
ber’s solicitation for com-
ments regarding the Rural
Transportation System Plan
(RTSP), I have asked that the
following be included in the
public record of the open
house meeting.
I dispute Robert Weber’s
assertion that Josephine
County is capable of solving,
or empowered to get involved
in, transportation logistics.
Further, I deny Josephine
County the right to coerce citi-
zen residents to pay for such a
scheme. As a realist, I recog-
nize the fact that misguided
efforts will go forward to in-
stitute just such a government
operation.
Weber, the future trans-
portation czar, has already
decided, “When completed,
the Rural Transportation Sys-
tem Plan, will
be
adopted…” (emphasis added).
I wish to go on record in op-
position for fundamental, as
well as practical reasons.
Since it is unlikely that he,
or the majority of sheep citi-
zens are able to understand or
appreciate the philosophical
standards involved in a princi-
pled rejection of such govern-
ment activity, I shall restrict
my comments to pragmatic
and fiscal arguments. This is
not to imply, however, that I
can be swayed by arguments
to “make government work”
or calls to be “reasonable” and
compromise. There are few
things more terrifying than an
efficient government and
compromise of principle is
treason to liberty.
It is notable that a “wide
variety of people and organi-
zations with an interest in the
project have been invited to
help shape the plan.” I wonder
which variety of people and
organizations have been in-
vited to challenge the plan?
Like it or not, there is a
minority who oppose it. Liv-
ing in the last remnants of the
Republic, we should voice our
rights and point to the folly
that will be paid for by every-
one.
Here are some pragmatic
objections:
*Our “rural way of life”
was chosen precisely to get
away form “public” transpor-
tation. RTSP is the Californi-
cating antithesis of the way of
life many of us chose.
*RTSP surely subsidizes
those too poor or lazy to buy a
car, own a horse, or ride a bi-
cycle. The expansion of this
free ride will attract more with
the same mind-set to the area.
*In every instance that has
been aggressively audited, the
cost of providing paid private
taxi service for every public
rider fare is lower than the
aggregate cost of government
associated with the attempt to
deliver an inferior product few
people want or need.
*In this era when exagger-
ated transfer payments meet
the inevitable budgetary con-
straints, it is ludicrous to com-
mit additional non-existent
surplus wealth to a scheme
designed to grow and perpetu-
ate itself without limit.
*Truly alternative solu-
tions have not even been dis-
cussed. To whit, why is Red-
wood Hwy. being widened
instead of narrowed?
*The space gained could
serve as a bicycle-horse-
moped path. Rights-of-way
exist for a never-realized Ore-
gon-California Railroad. An
electric light rail track would
be infinitely more “rural,” es-
pecially if entirely private.
*If all else fails, we can
always erect barricades on
Thursdays and collect road
tariffs for an autonomous Jef-
ferson Republic, but that’s a
ludicrous idea that has never
been tried.
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‘Letter To America’
From Ryan Cox
(Written March, 15, 2003)
The strong, the brave, the
free. What happened?
Let me start with an intro-
duction. My name is Ryan
Patrick Cox. I am an Ameri-
can, born and raised in Cali-
fornia. Currently, I am a U.S.
Navy Corpsman attached to
the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine
Regiment, in the country of
Kuwait on the border of Iraq.
Waiting, waiting for war.
Today I ran across an arti-
cle in “Time” magazine show-
ing thousands of the American
people in New York protest-
ing what I am doing here.
Now, to tell you the truth, I
don’t like being here any more
than any of us do. We are un-
derfed, dirty, living in dirt,
and angry from being so far
away from friends and family.
But when I read that arti-
cle, it infuriated me, and made
me feel ashamed, not because
of the actions of the military,
but the inaction, or incorrect
actions of my fellow Ameri-
cans back home.
Do they so quickly forget
Sept. 11, 2001? How we as a
nation were brutally attacked?
Do they forget the claims of
Saddam Hussein to give
money to the families of the
suicide bombers, (“the he-
roes”) against the (“evil”)
West?! Did they forget that?
Or are they just afraid of an-
other attack?
How can I put this gently
to my countrymen? “Land of
the free, home of the brave,”
you have turned into passive
sheep. You let the wolf attack
and instead of rising up in
your greater numbers and
striking the wolf down, you
returned to grazing. You pre-
fer inaction now out of fear!
What happened to my
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*Friday, April 18 - Christian Rock on Good Friday
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