LET TERS
of a motion that would have reimbursed
Chappel almost $5,000 for personal legal
expenses. During the same meeting that
Chappel requested reimbursement, Parrish
requested to have his budget increased
by $6,000. While Chappel, Jordan and
Parrish predictably voted in favor of each
other, Ron Davis and Katherine Schacht
refused to vote for these expenses.
I don’t think it’s any coincidence that
Schacht is constantly under scrutiny by
these very three board members. Nor do I
think it’s any coincidence that these very
same board members would go to such
great lengths, like recording and listening
to private telephone conversations, to try
to discredit those whose votes consistently
keep them from achieving their personal
agendas.
Emma Higley
Springfield
CURB YOUR BEHAVIOR
I have to ask, just what do the drivers
in this area think the yellow curb stripes
mean? Hint: It doesn’t mean, “Hey, it’s OK
to park here!”
Bill Smee
Springfield
DEBUNKED ARGUMENTS
Besides sending a message that
couldn’t be more clear, the thrashing of
Measure 88 provided a textbook example
of how some on the left react to being on
the losing side of a debate.
“Rednecks!” “Bigots!” “Xenophobes!”
“Inbred pieces of white trash!” “Stupid
racist a__holes!” “Racist pieces of s__t!”
These are some of the invectives,
repeatedly hurled in print and online
against the opponents of the driver card
measure. Did anyone see any of this vitriol
from the opponents against the supporters?
If so, please forward to me.
Faced with “inconvenient truths” that
debunked their central arguments, some
M88 supporters resorted to name calling
as expected. These are the folks who
preach the loudest about “tolerance.” We
see time and again that’s true only if you
agree with them.
Measure 88 was not a right vs. left issue
— it was a right vs. wrong issue. Even in
deep blue Oregon the voters recognized
that.
Jerry Ritter
Springfield
WEAKENED PROTECTIONS
The U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency and Corps of Engineers have
released draft rules and a background report
that address headwaters and groundwater,
which provide the foundations of water
quality that the larger downstream rivers
and creeks depend on. The report’s purpose
is to educate five members of the U.S.
Supreme Court regarding connectivity
in headwater streams with main streams.
The 13-page executive summary provides
an outstanding watershed hydrology brief.
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The full report is titled “Connectivity
of Streams and Wetlands to Downstream
Waters: A Review and Synthesis of the
Scientific Evidence.”
Headwaters and groundwater were
protected for the first three decades of
the Clean Water Act, but two Supreme
Court decisions severely weakened these
protections. They are essential building
blocks that, when protected, provide
higher water quality for downstream
waters. Impacted are millions of acres of
wetlands, critically important trout and
salmon spawning habitat in headwater
streams, lakes and drinking water.
My graduate research covered the
analysis of surface flow and groundwater.
Most of my 37 years of water resources
engineering work addressed the water
quality and hydrology aspects covered
in the report. Without adequate water
quality controls on groundwater and the
sometimes dry headwaters, our drinking
water and aquatic ecosystems are seriously
threatened.
A few centuries ago we didn’t have
many people, industries or agricultural
chemicals, so such rules were not
essential. It’s a different world now, and
the rules should be implemented!
H. Tom Davis
Sisters
JFK’S INTENTIONS
Maya Lin, the architect of the Vietnam
Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.,
will speak in Eugene on Nov. 20. Her design
is different from most war monuments,
not triumphalist nor militarist, and it is
a respectful recognition of the American
lives lost.
This memorial only commemorates a
small fraction of the victims, since about
three million people were killed if one
includes the Vietnamese, Cambodians
and Laotians. A wall listing all their
names would stretch from the current site
to the U.S. Capitol and beyond.
Official histories of the war on
Vietnam ignore the inconvenient truth
that President Kennedy issued National
Security Action Memorandum 263
in October 1963, an order to start
withdrawing U.S. “advisors.” If this order
had been implemented, nearly all of those
58,000 American and three million Asian
deaths would have been avoided. His
decision was immediately reversed by the
new president after Kennedy was removed
from office on Nov. 22, 1963.
The website jfkmoon.org/vietnam.
html has links to primary documents plus
commentary from RFK Jr., Wayne Morse,
James Galbraith and an interview with the
son of (North) Vietnam’s General Giap.
Unfortunately, the aborted withdrawal
from Vietnam remains a radioactive topic
for academia, and few professors dare
discuss it.
What would the “legacy of the sixties”
have been if the war on Vietnam had
ended in Kennedy’s second term? Would
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