Hitting below the belt
Io the recent contest, we noticed that
certain members of certain parties seemed
to be overly concerned about what was
going on "below the belt', as in our private
parts and our wallets, for instance We are
told this was the dirtiest campaign to date
And as we contemplate the victors we see
some real "street fighters" An example of
this crap is the Furse/W itt campaign
Mz Elizabeth is as good a creature as
walks this earth A human being does not
work for a goal like Peace for as many
years as she has for the money, the ego, or
the power, no, she loves the work of what
some call the "Lord'. God, The Great Spirit,
Buddha, Mohammed, the work of the
Golden Rule, in all its facets And we have
been lucky or wise enough to let her work
for us
When the type of marketing produced by
the 1/2 W itt succeeds to gather 1/2 the
vote, who, we wonder, are these people’
These who profess to hear the word of the
Lord at the new 1-600 FAX number, and
shoot doctors from hiding No, the beloved
reverend can not see the convicted thief,
(he was fined, for a violation of the law)
point to an honest woman, and well, say
the things he said
We are not amused
Ms Furse, by a narrow margin, w ill be
returned to Congress to work for all of us,
for two more years We w ill all be
thankful in the long run
A heretic. . . t e a tettow who dtea& w s
with you r e n t i n g something neither
of you knows anything about
W C. Braun
C asual D in in g
O v e rlo o k in g th e fte s lu c c a K lver
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To lha Editor
I respond io your November issue Politics is
the A rt of the Possible
politics can o n ly do the
possible not the impossible like make
e v e ry th in g perfect
I th in k politics is subservient to perceived
public opinion So f i r it s been a cin ch to make
public opinion appear to be v h a i the power
people want it to be
I th in k this can change S tarting as a c h ild a
b u lly is able to seem ingly co ntrol public o p inion
and cause other c h ild re n to side w ith (h im h e r)
o r stay quiet as a meek person is being bullied
1 ve been victim of th is seeming to side w ith the
b u lly and later regretted it I ve been a coward
On the positive side I ve often sat around the
d in in g room table here and listened to people
who may
io be meek but boy do they have
stren gth And are th e ir ideas w o n d e rfu l1
The th in g that has to be figured out is how the
voices o f people like th is s u p e rfic ia lly seeming
to be meek can be heard and contribute th e ir
part to public opinion in time to put pressure on
the politicians
1 have fa ith that not o n ly can it happen but
that it is already s ta rlin g to happen ! don t
know how but 1 have trust that some day the
meek
shall in h e r it the e a rth" And by
meek I don t mean iust human beings
Joseph L M ille r Jr
To the Editor
The L U B A oral argum ent h e a rin g look place
on Wednesday November 2 in Salem OR. fo r our
appeal o f the Sahhalie condom inium proposal on
the Necantcum estuary The fo llo w in g is a b rie f
summary o f the proceedings
Bart Brush attorney representin g the Chinook
trib e look five m inutes to discuss two
assignments of e rro r contained in his b rie f
essentially establishing that the City of Seaside
has not shown that there are no c u ltu ra l
resources on the b u ild in g site Mr Brush cited
the developer s own archaelocial re port
compiled by Dr Rick M inor regarding phase two
results o f th e ir analysis yet to be released He
also cited eye witness accounts describing
c u ltu ra l resources (By the way in November of
93 r ig h t a fte r a rushed construction of a bridge
p ilin g we made an in q u iry of the City of
Seaside s b u ild in g inspector M r Jim Brien He
reported s ig n ific a n t c u ltu ra l artifa cts have
been found and they are w o rk in g it out )
Lyn Mattel ONRC land use director then
discussed the w ild life biological values in w h ich
we are all fa m ilia r but a c ritic a l argum ent to
make
Peggy Hennessy attorney fo r the Petitioners
addressed the skewed conditional use process fo r
the bridge the c o n flic tin g zone designations and
the City of Seaside s refusal fo r a continuance
request made by ONRC in December 93 (This
pertains to the record being closed before our
documents could be file d to show Cascade Trust s
boundary survey to be flawed )
M ichael Robinson then argued fo r the City of
Seaside attorney fo r Cascade Trust the
Respondents
1 ) His argum ent regarding the conditional use
fo r the bridge
that the ONRC was loo late to
appeal th is decision
2 ) A rgum ent regarding the mis zoned salt
march
conceded that in re a lity the marsh is
designated c o rre ctly in Necanicum Estuary Plan
but contends the mistaken zoning map should be
basis fo r approval c rite ria
3 ) A rgum ent on n o rth boundary issues
contends that the City of Seaside has a r ig h t to
believe what we a ll know to be a Hawed survey
done by Mark Mead and that his registered
sum p on the o rig in a l site plan is enough to
satisfy Seaside requirem ents
4 ) Argum ent reg a rd in g continuance request
contends ONRC was late in m aking request and
was done in c o rre c tly
Peggy then had 4 m inutes le ft fo r rebuttal in
w h ich she c la rifie d the salt marsh designation in
the Necanicum Estuary Plan fo r the referees and
answered questions re garding the north
boundary issue
In summary it was g ra tify in g to be audience
to a forum in w h ich s ig n ific a n t questions were
asked and explored by the three L U B A
referees This was ve ry u n lik e the Seaside
Council hea ring The focus o f in q u iry was
directed at im portant ce ntral issues, leaving us
hopeful that a remand w ill be fo rth co m in g
w ith in a few weeks
Chris Covan fo r
Friends o f the Necanicum
Ah, December, the cruelest month. It's
time once again for our annual holy days
column. It's not fun for any of us, so the
sooner we gpt it over w ith the better
We spent a week last month in Eastern
Canada. No. we re not someone who
plies up frequent flye r miles. In our
income bracket, vacations usually boil
down to w ild weekends in Scappose We
had a chance for an expense paid tn p to
Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec, and we
went for it like a tro u t
In six days, we heard one siren. It was
in Ottawa, about four in the afternoon;
everyone stopped and stared. In six days
we saw no one pushing a shopping cart
and were panhandled twice, both times in
French. Tnere were no mental patients
wandenng the streets like human ghosts.
There were no gangs of angry young black
men. Canada never practiced slavery,
and it shows. We walked the dark
streets of Old Montreal at three in the
morning. There ware women walking
alone who nodded as we passed on the
sidewalk. We felt like a stranger In a
civilized land.
Even Portland, one of the most liveable
cities in America (or The States as we're
called in Canada) is a w ar zone by
comparison It's an apt term America is
the front line in what can only be called a
culture making w ar on itself. We discuss
human rights in China while denying
health care to our children. We fight
wars over oil w hile our young men fight
wars over crack. We pit religion against
politics and, confusing the sacred w ith
the profane, manage to gut both We pit
brown people against beigp people, haves
against have note, women against men.
Ft) ra ttin g the distinction between
freedom and license, we elevate political
correctness, a hilarious contradiction of
terms, to the level of moral philosophy.
We are, in sh o rt in senous trouble.
Beardless how one feels about last
m onth’s power shift in Washington (we re
still gagging), nothing could be more clear
than this: for the America we dreamt of
to survive, the citizens must nse above
their gpvem m ent The revolution is not
about seizing power. It's about regaining
our humanity, if we win, w e 'll w in one
human at a time. To be or not to be
comes down to hanging together or
hanging separately.
Which brings us to the holy days. We
do not say Christian Holy Days because,
like the rest of time, they belong to
everyone What we celebrate Is the
holiness of all days, all births, all acts, all
beings. We celebrate the human spint
and the web of space/time th a t by
connecting us w ith all parts, renders us
whole. Its the reality the Carpenter from
Galilee called love. Salvation is as close
as the person next to you.
God bless us all.
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