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Dev.
Hults
Nader
Notes
Editorial
Now & Then
So here we are. Senators, at your doorstep: We the
people. How did you dare think we do not care
about our country? How did you dare think that we
would not come here to these steps to denounce
your corruptions in the name of all who have given
their lives to our country's defense and
improvement? How did you dare think we were so
unpatriotic to have forgotten all those rows upon
rows of graves that mark how much we, as a people,
care for our freedom and our equality?
Vote for Yourself!!!
October once again finds us looking at a blank
sheet of paper. The humble Ms. Sally is off to the
Upper Right Edge for a few months, so your
beloved editor is left to bang out the rag alone, thus
any typo’s, mistakes, or general lack of style and
grace should be considered par for the course, of
course.
So many things are going on one wonders where to
begin. Okay, let’s start big and work our way down.
Globally the Multi-National Oil and Gas folks are
once again bringing about an ‘energy crisis’ as
winter starts in the Northern Hemisphere. Isn’t this
the sort of thing the WTO is suppose to prevent?
No? Humm? Then what is it they are suppose to
do? The Democratic Candidate pressured the
President to release the Strategic Oil reserves, and
was predictably chastised by the Republican
Candidate, who has a vested interest in oil prices, as
does his Vice Presidential Candidate, and well, the
Current Vice President, if only because his Mother
was willed stock in an oil company. But none the
less it’s not about them, or us, it’s about the guys
who own the oil. And it has been argued that the
last few wars we have been a part of were basically
about oil, and who gets to make money off oil. So,
if we vote for the Democratic Candidate, we will
have a better chance of avoiding an oil crisis than if
we vote for the Republican Candidate? Not
necessarily.
Now we must go on to the State level. The two
volume Voter’s ‘pamphlets’ lists a slew of
initiatives and candidates and could be very
confusing. We are tempted to fall back on the old
adage, ‘When in doubt vote NO!’ It holds true for
any measures sponsored by O f Billy Size-less, or
the bom again OCA. Measure 9 for example is not
only cruel to children, it violates the First
Amendment by prohibiting speech. Measures 2
and 7 supporters plan to spend over a million dollars
to help developers profit from our environmental
protection laws at an estimated cost to taxpayers of
5.4 Billion annually. So, if we must, we suggest
with all humility that you consider voting as follows
on the Ballot Measures; #1-Yes, #2-No, #3-No, #4-
Yes, #5-Yes, #6-Yes, #7-No, #8-No, and #9-Hell
No!
There is also a list of Measures numbered from 83
to 99 which as best we can figure voting No on all
but 83, 84, 89, 94,96, & 99 seems reasonable.
As for candidates, well since your beloved editor
has finally left the Grand Old Party and registered as
a Pacific Green, he recommends voting for any
Pacific Green candidate on the ballot, and failing
that voting for the Democrat, or write in your own
name.
Locally we have three candidates for two seats on
the City Council. We strongly suggest you vote for
Betsy Ayers. We have worked with her for years
and hold her in high esteem, she is the best kind of
person to serve the community as a council person,
and we thank her for running. We also must thank
her for her dedication to Head Start, and her
numerous other contributions to the well being of
our village. For the other position we have two
good intelligent people running. The incumbent has
served the community, the region and the state in
various capacities for years and has served them
well. The challenger has served the community for
years as well and has volunteered to do more. We
thank them both for running and recommend you
vote for one of them, perhaps the challenger,
simply so the incumbent can have more time for his
other worthy projects.
Jam es M assa, Happy 22nd Birthday Oct. 22!!
Okay, we know you are all pretty tired of having
people tell you to vote and who and what to vote for
these days, and we promise this will be our last
effort to encourage you to try to make this great
experiment in self-governance work, this month.
Faithful readers will recall our story about the Nader
event in Portland that drew 12000 people at $7 a
head. Well, it worked so well, there is a series of
them scheduled before the election. One in Seattle
asked $10 per person to listen to Nader and LaDuke,
and Michael Moore and Jim Hightower speak truth
to power. Over 10,000 people attended. In Michigan
Nader drew 12,000 at $7 each. It is a completely
new way to campaign. Never has anyone ask the
public to pay to hear a political speech. They
usually ask seven people to give $12,000 each to
have lunch with the candidate. What Nader has
done is make lobbying affordable to the average
citizen. We here at the Upper Left Edge encourage
any one who is planning to vote for Al Gore to go
right ahead, and anyone who is planning to vote for
George Bush to seek counseling, but if you are not
planning to vote at all we beg you to reconsider you
decision. A vote for Ralph Nader this year could be
the most important vote of our life. A vote for
Nader is not a vote for a personality it’s a vote for a
program. A vote for Nader is not wasted anymore
that a wish for a better future is wasted. A vote for
Nader is a vote that demands that the two political
parties begin talking about things that really matter
to the average consumer. We find it pathetic that
the ‘major candidates’ spend so much time talking
about sex and violence. Oh, they are both against
sex and violence, but they seem to enjoy talking
about it. They don’t seem to enjoy talking about the
environment, globalization, abortion, the idiotic war
on drugs, homophobia, and a lot more. When they
say they want to make television, movies and the
internet a safe place for our children. We say, fine,
but first, let’s make schools, our city streets, the
food we eat, the air we breath and the water we
drink, safe for our children. Issues are driving the
Nader campaign not money. The people are
demanding this change not the corporations. So, if
you don’t care who is the next President but you do
care about your future and the future of your
children, vote for yourself and your children, vote
for Ralph Nader.
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The locals whooped it up once again at the annual
Pig Party. Serious drunkenness, gluttony, and lust
held sway at the Stumblefoot estate, and culminated
with the weekly meeting of the Thanatopsis Literary
& Inside Straight Society . A fine time was had by
all and no life threatening injuries occurred. The
photograph on this page depicts Pigu the Destroyer
an ancient God of Drunks, Gluttons and Women of
Easy Virtue.
The People of our nation do care. They have told
me. They laugh with disgust about you on the
beaches of California. They shake their heads about
you in the native village of Hashan Kehk in
Arizona. In Toyah, Texas, they pray for deliverance
from your corruption. In Little Rock, they
understand in anger how you undermine their best
dreams for our society. And in Memphis and in
Louisville and in Chillocothe and Clarksburg,
through Pennsylvania and Maryland and into this
city today, the people see you for what you have
become and they are prepared to see you another
way: boarding the trains at the great train station
down the street. They are ready for real leaders,
unselfish and principled leaders who will prove their
worth by voting for meaningful campaign finance
reform this year.
The time has come, Senators, for reform or for some
new Senators. Tell us which it will be, and then we
will go vote.
In the name of the people who have sent me along
to you, and in the name of the generations before
who have sacrificed so much for the sanctity of our
free institutions and who stand with us in spirit
today, I make this demand.
Doris "Granny D" speaking on the east steps of the U.S.
Capitol Tuesday, February 29,2000
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To the Editor,
How did Cannon Beach come by its reputation as a
hell raising tree hugger town and indeed, where are
the fabled tree huggers? Non-existent vigilance is
not incompatible with fake activism. All seems
balmy here in Ecotopia, where the distracted
guardians of the view shed are clucking over the
still unproven relevance of vague exaggerations like
global warming and rumors of open water at the
North Pole.
Lest it pass without comment, I refer readers to the
August 31st Gazette, wherein lies a press release for
the Oregon Forest Resources Institute, trumpeting a
new Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Interpretive trail
within Ecola State Park, offering, “exciting
opportunities to educate visitors about local forests.”
Imagine that! I know it will be a good deal but I
can’t figure out why. OFRI was created by the state
legislature and is funded by taxes on the sale of
timber. Organized as the propaganda arm of, by and
for the timber industry, it operates within a fog
bank of deception. In an act of supreme villainy
OFRI will oversee development of this trail in
Ecola, home of some of the most beautiful vistas in
North America. The splendid results of many years
of state park stewardship will be foisted on the
unknowing as an example of the natural
consequences of accepted industrial forest practices,
when in truth the culminating moments of intensive
forest management are repetitive clear cuts. Local
history will be revised in order that the facts support
these same old conclusions. Forest health demands
we log it to save it.
Today’s timber managers are as apt to be masterful
dissemblers as they are foresters. Harvest planners
must now provide experience zones that move the
focus beyond the stealth logging in sensitive
watersheds, while maintaining scenic backdrops and
impermeable view sheds where sanctioned
recreational opportunities and retention of visual
quality objectives are integral to the sustained
management of public perceptions. In case you
didn’t know, privately held timberland is a gated
community, and gates monopolize and fragmentize
the community space. There is a rightness to public
access and a need to take in the views that these
physical barriers withhold. Therein lies the rub,
served up as an OFRI designed state park trail while
local people remain locked out of their homeland,
the very land that surrounds and sustains them. A
nod is a good as a wink to a blind horse.
Gary Duheim
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