C o u n te r C u ltu re
Steamrollers, taunting them Iront the sidelines w ithout
being smashed flat It takes cojones in Clatsop
County. Censorship, even at the local public radio
station, is more the rule than the exception, and is
practiced without the public ever becoming aware of it,
in most cases. I am honored to have been asked to
join this endeavor, and thank the w hole gang for
letting me play. By the way, if you have wondered
how controlling ULF has been with its columnists,
here’s the scoop The Beloved Rev Billy (whom I
have yet to meet) instructed me thusly, "Write
anything you w ant.”
So, true to that tradition, my last column for him
will deal with the predictably underhanded string
pulling in w hich the Seaside chamber of commerce is
currently engaged
To make a long story short, the chamber, in yet
another attempt to leech tax dollars of the city (and
not have to account for how they are spent), is hiding
behind a fictitious group called something like
Citizens For Responsible Siphoning Off ol Tax Bucks
Sounds pretty straight when you read it, until you
realize it is a decoy for the chamber, which BY LAW.
is prohibited from participating in any political
campaign, which would jeopardize its non-profit status
with the state. The front man - a GEARHART
resident — was presented as the author of an
amendment to the Seaside city charter! (Truth is
indeed stranger than fiction.) In writing about this to
local papers, I have been roundly sliced and diced b\
the cham ber’s executive director’s husband, but have
never been able to coax the so-called author out of
hiding, even when he was invited to appear with me on
Marty W acj’s “Behind the M ike" on KSWB February
1 1th.
To my fellow Seasiders: This particular amendment
to the charter would do much more good to your
vegetable garden than the city. It is a bogus political
campaign being waged by the chamber, it looks like a
duck, walks like one, and DARNED if I didn’t step in
something that I could sw ear came out of a duck. Put
it out back, vote against this quacker.
by S a n d y R ea
I spring from a culture that celebrates the absurd,
canonizes the odd It is a chosen culture, one with
universal perimeters. The now-trendy phrase "D on’t
GO there!”, is verbatim Of COURSE, we would go
there, in a damned jet, on skis, in a covered wagon
Some of my generation would sell tickets It is not, as
some have labeled it, being contrary simply for the
sake of argument In fact, some times it is as
necessary to our form of democracy as the
constitution -- which, incidentally, was written by a
whole bunch o f 24-karat fruitcakes whom King
George would gleefully have had committed, given the
opportunity
During the ‘60s I was involved in civil rights
marches and demonstrations against the war in Viet
Nam The issues were separate, but the bottom line
was the same: Someone without power was being
steamrolled by someone with lots of it The Great
Steamroller pressed on for decades, crushing any in its
immediate path I still grieve them Critics of both
these movements claimed that the participants were
only in it for “fun” A second war was waged at
home against those of us who didn't perceive the John
Wayne genre as heroic, who questioned the true
purpose of our children’s deaths. It wasn’t “fun”,
seeing the vivid hatred for me in the eyes of a stranger
who resented my inability to hate blacks and/or
Asians.
I am now' considered a political activist (although
those o f you who have seen me know' that "active”
has no meaning in my life. I recently found and
bought a T-shirt that says “TEAM HAAGEN DAZS”,
proclaiming my athletic preference to the world).
Seriously, the ethics that were instilled in the ‘60s have
continued to have meaning. Here, political activism,
when necessary , usually has to be achieved via a letter
to the editor of one of the local papers Sometimes
the papers have failed to print letters that tread on the
toes of the Little Steamrollers in the county Lately,
that practice seems to be abating Huzzah!
The Upper Left Edge , along with the North Coast
Times Eagle, has chosen to walk alongside the
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