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scattered JFK into a thousand pieces.
The military and fi nancial powers
which prevented the President from
ending endless war are the same who
have ignored decades of warnings
about ecological, energy and fi nancial
overshoot. The political autopsy starts
with Nov. 22, 1963, but it is too important
to mention in polite conversation.
We need a South African-style Truth
and Reconciliation Commission about the
National Security State’s coup in Dallas.
Mark Robinowitz
Eugene
UNSAFE UNDERPASS
The proposal from ODOT to spend a
few million taxpayer dollars on yet another
pedestrian bicycle underpass near the I-5
Beltline overpass (news story, 6/16) is about
accommodating sprawl on the outskirts of
Eugene and Springfi eld, not promoting
safer bicycle routes.
I based this conclusion on the fact that
since 2008 both entities have ignored
repeated requests to create a safe bicycle
route from Eugene and Springfi eld via
Franklin Boulevard. I have made these
requests since 2008 after I was sent to the
hospital by a head-on collision with another
bicycle on a dangerous S curve railroad
underpass tunnel along the river path near
the Franklin Boulevard overpasses.
I requested that the city of Eugene via the
mayor to at the very least place some warning
signs to inform users of the path to approach
the S curve underpass with caution. To this
day, after numerous emails back and forth
to ODOT, the mayor and other offi cials, not
one sign has been installed.
I suggest that anyone who has a
head-on collision at that S curve tunnel
underpass to fi le suit against the city,
mayor or ODOT for injuries because
they have known about this danger since
October 2008.
Shannon Wilson
Eugene
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COP FLAUNTS RULES
At 2:32 pm Friday, June 17, I was
sitting in front of the Eugene Public
Library eating a sandwich, respecting that
institution’s rule against bringing food
inside, when I saw a police offi cer riding
his bike on the sidewalk. He rode past
the sign that says “No Smoking, Carry
Skateboards, Walk Bikes” and has the
name of the city of Eugene (the offi cer’s
employer, being me the taxpayer) without
a thought for how his open hypocrisy
might be perceived. Well, perhaps he
didn’t see the sign, I thought. But no, he
rode back past the sign yet again. Even
going so far as to ride in a circle around
the sign. Am I to understand that those
who enforce the rules are not subject
to them? Or is it that somehow all city
employees are above the law? If I can’t
skateboard or smoke or ride my bike, why
can he?
Basic governmental accountability
and adherence to the rules it creates are
two of the core tenants of our American
Democratic system. These concepts have
already been abandoned or erased on our
national level; let’s please not let them
ring hollow in our fair city as well.
Ron Miller
Eugene
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