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TO THE EDITOR stop sign, just sure that the police were there to make an example out of me. Critical Mass wasn’t last week; we didn’t have the mass to make it critical. I feel sad that I live in an environment where the Eugene police think they have to watch four bicycles with eight officers. My kids now have evidence that a police officer is some- one we have to watch out for. I feel sad about that too. We will come again, but I’m not sure when. We live rurally and have to drive into town to support Critical Mass (driving our bio-diesel station wagon, of course). I love Critical Mass, the concept and the party it was (and is) in Berkeley. I hope Eugene will be that way someday, too. Kaseja Wilder Eugene BLUR THE BORDER WHO YOU GONNA BLAME? The problems of illegal immigration are not going away. With upwards of 11 million illegal immigrants living in the U.S. and more millions on the way, there is no solution under the present system. A fence is not the answer; enforcement is not the answer; nor is amnesty. The only real solution is based on the model provided by the European Union, whose member nations allow for the free movement of its citizens to live and work where they choose. This system, applied to North America (beginning with the U.S. and Mexico and expanding to other countries later) would solve the major problem of en- tire families moving to the U.S. and then hid- ing from the authorities and not participating in our culture. An open border would allow wage-earn- ers to travel and work freely, allowing fami- lies who choose to stay home to stay home, but also allowing those wage earners to travel home at will. It would also solve another major problem by increasing the local tax base. EDITORIAL Editor Ted Taylor News Editor Alan Pittman Associate Editor Melissa Bearns Executive/Arts Editor Lois Wadsworth Contributing Editor Anita Johnson Reporter Kera Abraham Calendar Editor Molly Templeton Contributing Writers Brett Campbell, Rachael Carnes, Michael Cockram, David Constantin, Rachel Foster, Kate Rogers Gessert, James Johnston, Sharleen Nelson, Mary O’Brien, Sylvie Pederson, Vanessa Salvia, Steven Sawada, Sally Sheklow, Lance Sparks Interns Danny Cross, Dan Hoyt, Tim O’Rourke ART DEPARTMENT Art Director/Production Manager Kevin Dougherty Graphic Artist/Webmaster James Bateman Graphic Artists Todd Cooper Intern Barbara Cooper Contributing Photographers Kurt Jensen, Paul Neevel ADVERTISING National Sales Manager Mark Frisbee Display Marketing Consultant Jennifer D’Angelo, Patrick Oden, Rob Weiss Advertising Traffic Coordinator Geneva Miller As the huge black-market labor industry is legitimatized, workers will pay taxes in the jurisdictions in which they work. The con- verse would be the free movement of U.S. citizens into Mexico to work and live, bring- ing new opportunities to exchange ideas and cultures to the benefit of all. The final stipula- tion is the retention of citizenship for those coming and their children, whether born in the U.S. or brought into this country, who would not become automatic citizens but would need to earn it as people from other na- tions now are required. Open the border: the result will be a level playing field for all norteamericanos. Mark Sixel Eugene THE BUZZ ON 10TH Let’s see, mosquito net- ting? Check. Protective clothing? Got it. Toxic citronella coils? Better get 200. And some of that repellent spray with TOTAL DEET — the kind they issue to Special Forces jungle warfare platoons? Better give me 10 — no, 20 of those. What? Am I planning a summer rafting trip up the Amazon River to learn na- tive basket weaving? Nope. Amazon Creek, maybe. I’m expecting a biblical mosquito plague to emerge from that festering exca- vated pond on 10th Avenue, across from the library. Bzzzz! Anybody else getting early season bites yet? Ron Ramsey Eugene DEFY TEMPTATION I was talking with an out-of-state friend about the plans for a Whole Foods store in Eugene and my plans not to shop there. “Oh, that store is so seductive,” she replied. “Everyone will want to shop there.” Her re- mark reminded me of another seductive Classified Manager Jeffrey Stout Classified Marketing Consultant Nathan Kruse BUSINESS Director of Sales and Marketing Bill Shreve Circulation Manager Danica Stiles Controller Paula Hoemann Distributors Bob Becker, Kevin Greene, Seth Lawson, Susan and David Lawson, Benjamin Newman, Tim Risch, Quick Draw, Pedalers Express Printing Signature Graphics HOW TO REACH US BY E-MAIL: (letters): editor@eugeneweekly.com (advertising): ads@eugeneweekly.com (classifieds): classy@eugeneweekly.com (personals): personals@eugeneweekly.com (calendar): cal@eugeneweekly.com (music/clubs/special shows): music@eugeneweekly.com (art/openings/galleries): visualarts@eugeneweekly.com (performance/theater): performance@eugeneweekly.com (literary arts/readings): books@eugeneweekly.com (movies/film screenings): movies@eugeneweekly.com (circulation): distribution@eugeneweekly.com Eugene Weekly • 1251 Lincoln Street • Eugene, OR 97401 • 541.484.0519 • fax 541-484-4044 APRIL 13, 2006 5
