Page 2, Portland Observer, October 9, 1906
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EDITORIAL/OPINION
Eliot and King residents should
support crime prevention programs
Last Thursday, the E liot and King Neighbor-
hixxl Association, Crime Prevention Committee
sponsored a rally and preparation for picket lines
to combat the problem o f prostitution and drug
dealing in their neighborhoods. The N eighbor
hood Association plan calls for picket lines to be
out on Union and Alberta for six hours on Thurs
day, October 1 Oth. There will also be a Commun
ity M arch on this date. Marchers w ill assemble
at King Neighborhood f acility and proceed to
Union and along Alberta Street.
D uring the ra lly the fo llo w in g question was
asked o f Captain J. T. Davis o f the Portland Po
lice Bureau Vice U nit, "W h y hasn’ t the bureau
stopped the prostitution and drug dealing along
Union and Alberta?’’ Captain Davis responded to
the question by saying police cannot solve these
problems by themselves. Davis told the small
crowd o f about 25 that the community must band
together in an effort to rid their neighborhood o f
prostitutes and dope dealers. The police can only
make arrests, it ’ s the responsibility o f the courts
to prosecute those who are charged with a crime,
said Davis.
Captain Davis is correct. The problem o f pros
titu tio n and drug dealing can only be extricated
from the Eliot and King neighborhoods through
citizens’ involvem ent and participation in their
neighborhood sponsored crime programs.
The low attendance at the E lio t and King
Neighborhood rally gives one the impression that
many residents who live in the area affected by
the drug dealers and prostitutes are not very con
cerned about the problem. This is why the major
ity o f prostitutes return constantly to Union Ave
nue after they are forced out o f other neighbor
hoods as a result o f com m unity involvem ent
against their presence.
Prostitutes believe they can use Northeast Port
land as a place to display their bodies for “ johns”
who, in most cases, live outside o f the Northeast
area. This exhibition o f sex for sale can be seen
24 hours a day, seven days a week. The prostitutes
and “ johns” assume the community is tolerant o f
their criminal behavior in these neighborhoods.
The same can be said about the dope dealers
who sell their drugs openly along Alberta Street.
Anyone driving or walking in the vicinity o f A l
berta and Union Avenue is bothered by the pres
ent group o f drug pushers soliciting customers to
buy their illicit products.
When the com m unity allows its streets to be
come a place where drugs can be sold, a strong
message is being sent to the rest o f the city. Also,
this permissiveness encourages young people to
enter a life o f crime. The chance o f youths enter
ing a life o f drug dealing is more likely in the Eliot
and King neighborhoods since the unemployment
rate is very high.
Ban the Kian
Along the Color I me by Dr Manning Marable
No group in American history has
a more vicious, undem ocratric and
racist tradition than the Ku Klux Kian
The cowards and demagogues who
have hidden their faces beneath white
robes, lake pride in bombing churches,
defacing synogogues, m aim ing and
murdering children Racism and anti-
Semitism are the d rivin g ideological
force behind those who jo in their
ranks.
But it seems curious that this legacy
o f blood and terror finds defenders
among many who disavow the Kian's
politics. This year, a disturbing trend
to protect and defend K lansm en's
"rig h ts " has taken shape all over the
nation, according to the Klanwatch
project o f the Southern Poverty Law
Center.
This A p ril, fo r example, a news
paper editor at Harbor College in ( all
fomia whti had been fired fix his Kian
associations was reinstated to his po
sition by a federal judge. The judge
claimed that the youthful Klansman's
"rig h ts ” had been violated when col
lege officials demanded his dismissal
In May, the federal Communications
Commission ruled by a 5 to 0 vole
that the broadcasting o f racist and
anti Semitic propaganda over the
radio " is no grounds fo r revoking
the license ot a radio sta tio n ." W hile
supremacists and Nazis who utter
threats and racist diatribes are " p ro
texted" by the first Amendment.
On June 5. a judge in I ouisville,
Kentucky, dismissed charges against a
Kian leader and three o f his followers
who refused to lease a public meeting
sponsored by the Kentucky Alliance
Against Racist and P olitical Repres
sion, a c iv il rights group. The fo u r
meu had been arrested after they re
fused a request to leave and a refund
o f their $5 admission fee. But the
judge defended the Klansmcns* right
to attend the meting, claim ing that
"th e y could not be expelled unless
there was evidence they had created a
disturbance.”
I ast m onth, the Ku Klux Kian's
New Jersey chapter demanded a per
nut to hold a racist rally in the city o f
Newark W ith a p opulation more
than 60 percent Black, Newark could
have become another Greensboro —
a violent confrontation between rac
ists and Blacks who refused to be
in tim id a te d by te rro rism W isely,
Newark mayor Kenneth Gibson re
fused to grant a permit to the Kian.
But instead ot praise, Gibson be
came the target ot intense media c riti
cism. The New York lim e s editor
ialized that Gibson did "h is city and
the law a disservice by denying the
perm it." I he limes admitted that the
KKK was "lo a th so m e ," and its " h is
tory o f violence and te rro r was " i n
disputable." Nevertheless, the mayor
liad no right to curtail the Kian’s pub
lic protest. Unless the Kian rally
"posses an immediate threat ot uncon
trollable violence, the rights to assem
ble and speak freely are, and should
be inviolate " In short, the while su
premacists must "em os equal protec
tion o f the law ."
It is interesting the observe the
hypocrisy o f these inconsistent c ivil
libertarians in the media. Three dec
ades ago, when W . E. B DuBxxs and
Paul Robeson campaigned fo r world
peace, their passports were illegally
seized, their families were harrasxed,
and the press was cither silent or ac
tively called for the suppression o f
their rights W hen civil rights activ
ists are victimized by local, state, and
federal authorities, the national media
is often the last to document such
cases But when Klansmen crawl out
o f the gutters to call fo r " w h ite su
prem acy," the cry o f free speech and
First Amendment rights becomes a
chorus.
No one lias the legal right to yell
" f ir e " in a crowded theatre. No one
has the right to in tim id a te others
through racist and vigilante violence,
fhe Ku Klux Kian and other anti-
Semitic and racist organizations are
explicitly dedicated to systematic acts
ot terrorism When the laws and
courts are used to " p r o te c t" their
“ rights," few Black. Hispanic or Jew
ish Americans can feel secure. De-
mocracy should not be distorted to
prom ote the violence and hatred
which the Kian represents. The Kian
must be banned
Dr Manning Marable teaches p o
litical sociology at Colgate University,
Hamilton, New York.
Healthwatch
by Steven Hailey N. D
EDITORIAL/COMMENTARY
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Letters to the Editor
To the Editor,
To the Editor,
letter to editor
We arc citizens concerned about the
N ortheast U nion Avenue c o rrid o r.
The closing o f the U nion Square's
Sunshine Pizza restaurant, and the
lack o f other consumer businesses in
the area is distressing, p a rtic u la rly
since the problem results fro m u n
controlled prostitution and its negative
impact on our local environment. I t ’s
frightening when a very small element
o f the population can exert that much
control over a total community.
While pondering this problem , its
effects, and what should and could be
done to tight it, I came up w ith the
following idea:
Install ads on area billboards and
posters on power poles w ith the fol-
krwing message:
AIDS ♦ PROSTITUTION
D EA TH
Since there is su ffic ie n t p ro o f to
connect prostitutes to A ID S , poten
tial customers m ight be frightened
away by the signs Furtherm ore, the
customers themselves become c a r
riers thereby in flic tin g their wives,
friends or other prostitutes
This is W A R !!! And all is fair The
community belongs to those who want
to see it grow and prosper, not to
prostitutes, pimps, dope dealers, and
their customers I hey don't care
Renaming Raineesh it's o rig in a l
name o f Antelope does not cure the
problems As long as the Rajneeshees
control the city, we w ill still have con
stant police "p ro te c tio n " (six officers
for 115 residents — the highest ratio
in the slate) and outrageous city taxes
(at approximately $20 per $ I ,<XW), also
tlx highest in the state). Only disincor-
p o ra tio n o f the city w ill stop the
abuses W e've asked the Rajnecsh
C ity Council to voluntarily disincor
porate, but they've refused
We thank O regonians fo r their
generous fin a n cia l and em otional
support w ith the p e titio n to repeal
Rajneesh's city charter Hut there is
still a long way to go! W’e continue to
need money for printing and postage.
We need help circulating petitions We
need everyone's signature on a peti
tio n . I f we have 100,000 signatures
by July 3, I9H6, the petition w ill be
ixt tlx November, I9H6 ballot.
Only after Rajneesh's city chattel
repeal will Antelope rcallv be Antelope
again.
I hank sou seis much tor carrying
ixir message; we apprec iate the positive
coverage. It is often d iffic u lt tor the
press to distinguish between close
similarities in oig.iinzation.il titles, as
is the case this tune.
I he article highlighted the National
Black United I ront when it should be
the National Hlaik I hited h in d . Ini
I noticed this erior in the September 4.
I9K5 issue ot the P ortland Observer
We would again appreciate I tie posi
live coverage when a correction is
issued
Again, thank sou vers much.
J IM A JE A N O P R A Y
. To the Editor,
Fasting—safe and healthful
I ast week I wrote on digestion and
indicated that much energy is requited
in the process ot digesting a norm al
meal Part ot the basic benefit ot a
juice last or o ilie r simple diet is the
treeing ot this energy tor other body
(unctions. O t pa rticu la r interest to
many people is the accelerated break
down ot tat and the lib e ra tio n and
melabohzaiion ot chemicals that are
no, completely eliminated in the daily
lite Some ot these substances include
resins trom tobacco hi smokers, petro
chemicals (i e , pesticides) which bind
to tat cells and oilier chemicals which
your bodv stores rather than elim
mates through the urine or skin ( >ne
ot the essential needs in a last is to
make certain tliat the tai breakdown
is slow enough to nor create a toxic
state (winch means adequate calories),
and also io optimize elimination ot the
waste products
In addition to accelerating elimma
lio n ot wastes, a juice diet w ill pro
vide individuals wtio have lood sensi
tivities to elim inate these foods and
subieclively challenge their systems
with these toods on rein tro d uctio n
Many ot our patients wtio have ctiron
ic sinus congestion, nazal drip, swollen
lym ph glands and other sym ptom s
associated with their allergies w ill be
come sym ptom free bv the th ird or
fo u rth dav ot puces and sometimes
w ill experience a dram atic return ot
symptoms when they first eat the ot
tending toixl(s)
Weight loss is a com m on occur
rence in a juice program , yet proper
eating habits and exercise are much
more healthy way to adjust weight
Possibly the best rest o f periodic fast
ing programs is (he com m only o b
served occurrence that most o f our
patients are able to break the tax,
w ith new " h a b it s " as the return to
doughnuts and coffee is a consciously
visible departure trom the whole fixxJs
diet which we use as a re-introduction
ot solid toods So now some general
guidelines
Pie Iasi S|x-nd three or more day s
lust eating fruits and vegetables, most
Iv taw Intestinal cleansing programs
may prove useful. D u n k plenty o f
fluids and assure gixxl bowel activity.
You don't wan, to go from a high fat
or low libel diet Io juices Six glasses
ot mice, water or herb tea is a b a ll
park figure which vanes bv such lac
tors as tem perature, sweating, exei
else and how much fruit or other high
fluid tixxfs vou consume
lime I asi W lien vou go from solid
toixl to a liquid diet, your intestinal ac
tivity slows down You may become
cixtshpatcd, and often over a couple ot
davs w ill start to reabsorb bowel bv
products I or tins reason daily enemas
are helpful to minimize tins toxic teel
mg G etting close to sour norm al
caloric intake is important to maintain
blood sugar and to minim ize the lat
conversion (beta O xidation) and sub
sequent release o f chemicals I wo
q u a ils ot fresh vegetable and once
quart o f (n u t juice (all diluted w ith
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one-third water) is the base amount we
use at our clinic. You can have more if
your appetite indicates. In addition, so
that your blood is not lo o concen
trated w ith chemicals fro m the fat
release, you must d rin k a d d itio n a l
water. Six quails pci day is an average
amount.
Réintroduction: Breaking a fast is
an im p o rta n t process. Just as we
would not go from a sedentary life to a
26-nnle marathon, we likewise should
not go from a simple sugar vegetable
juice such as carrot to heavy foods
such as cheese, nuts and meat. The
first day should be fruit and vegetable
and some authors allow a piece o f
melba oi whole wheat toast. Introduc
tio n o f grains and beans next and
dairy, nuts and meat around the fourth
or fifth day
I asling should be done in warm
climates as the caloric need fo r heat
production as winter sets in is a strain
on tlie lasting condition Authors such
as Paavo A irola, Ihom as Brugg and
I )i (. hristopher. offer ideas and guide
lines that may prove valuable, and
most N aturopathic Physicians have
considerable training in therapeutic
tasting O ut clinic offers organized
group lasts that will begin again early
next spring I f you have had a less
that desirable experience on a previous
last maybe some o f the above Hems
may help im prove your next one.
Fasting, it done p ro p e rly, can be a
safe and rewarding experience.
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