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 s p irits • Mot Sandwich«» 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. W H I-L E I. P R E S S , IN C , J A S W I SI A v e n u e »■»»iVwwl