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Vol. I
No. 10 Blue Ox A Eureka Asset Letters to the Editor
The Blue Ox makes wood moldings and turned work that is used to restore historic buildings across the nation. Among the buildings restored with Blue Ox millwork are the White House and the California governor's mansion.. With clients around the country, the Blue Ox has put Eureka on the map. The Blue Ox also is a museum and an educational center that teaches children and adults how to make beautiful things by hand and with historic tools. The owners of the Blue Ox restored one of Eureka's oldest buildings (perhaps the oldest) and the City moved three endangered buildings to the site in the 1990s. Now the Arkleys are proposing to move the Blue Ox to Samoa because they are planning an RV and motor home park next door and want the Blue Ox land. They have proposed to relocate the Blue Ox to Samoa so that the Blue Ox can rebuild and expand (as it needs to). Why not put the RV park in Samoa and let the Blue Ox expand onto the
Arkley;'s land in Eureka? A fancy boat could bring the people from the
RV and motor home park in Samoa to Old Town in Eureka. Not A Good Friday For The Least Of Ours Couple of things that came to mind when I heard about the shooting of Cheri Moore, first was why wasn't Tear Gas or some other non lethal weapons used? We treat rabid animals better then we treated this poor woman. A park ranger can drop a bear with a tranquilizer dart, yet in our progressive society we treated the poorest and sickest, worst then we treat animals. Besides the fact that if Cheri came from a family with money she would have been treated differently, as I’ve seen in the past, old boys with guns don't even get charges pressed by the EPD. On top of all that it was Good Friday right before Easter, the same day an ancient Swat team killed another person that that society proclaimed a mentally ill homeless man. As HE said, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.' Matt. 25. 40 We NEED a Citizens Police Review board. Eric Heimstadt (heimstadt@juno.com) Voters Are Too Smart For Measure T
It just doesn't make sense that someone from outside of the county, with
a financial (or even personal) interest on what goes on in Humboldt, should
be barred from contributing to campaigns for - or against - measures that
have an impact on their interests. There are already, too many faults
in our elections rules and regulations, lets not add another. Deja Vu Of Bigotry At Eureka Council As Yogi Berra might have said, it’s deja-vu all over again. At the Tuesday night meeting of the Eureka city council in the discussion of the gay marriage resolution, several speakers and a couple of councilpersons indicated that they had gay friends 'but...' I heard these same statements during the civil rights debate in the 60s except that where the speakers Tuesday night used gay, the speakers in the 60s used negro. In reflecting on why so many people who were opposed to equal rights for African-Americans said that they had good friends who were negro 'but...' I came to the conclusion that they knew that they were bigots but were trying to convince others that they weren’t bigots. I think the same thing can be said for all those who said that they had gay friends but opposed the council resolution. One of the councilpersons in explaining the reason for her/his negative vote on the resolution stated that since he/she hadn’t campaigned on this issue, it was unfair to the voters who elected her/him to vote yes. I suspect that a survey of her/his campaign literature and votes in the council would show that she/he has violated that reasoning many times. It was also interesting that God was on both sides of this debate as he/she/it has been on other civil rights issues such as slavery, segregation, and women’s sufferage . Jack Munsee (munsee@csulb.edu) There it goes again – much controversy about the evil “big box,” to wit Home Depot coming to town as part of an effort to develop and detoxify the woebegone downtown Balloon Track. And again, nay-saying scribblers to progress in the North Coast Journal and The Times-Standard, demonize Arkley and Security National – as surely as inbred villagers with torches and redwood signs ran every worthy employer out of Humboldt before they got here so that lumber barons and fishmongers could keep the county pristine in its hegemonical monopolization. San Francisco at least used to be called the city that knew how (never mind the toilet they’ve flushed themselves down into). Can Eureka, the jewel of Humboldt, ever learn to know how? That remains to be seen, but I will keep an open mind. Dan Barrett (danbrw@cox.net)
Among those thorns was a candidate that I took upon myself to destroy by asking the tough questions and revealing the sordid rancid underbelly of city gov't. Did I know what I was in for? No. Do I have regrets? No. Regrets would suggest that I had the knowledge then that I do now. I learned more about myself in running than I could have ever learned otherwise. Did I bring down the house of cards? Yes, to a great extent. Their star candidate crashed and burned. The local media exposed itself as a governmentt puppet. People's psyches were shattered with truth. Where does Anon fit into all of this? He has been a staunch defender of Harmony Groves, the HSU student running against me. He has over the years left me clues to his identity. I have never heard him claim or deny to be the person I think he is. Then again, since he is by nature Anon.r.mous I will never trully know who he is even if the evidence strongly suggests a particular person. In essence I'll naever know because they hide in the shadows like demons whilst I boldly throw myself into the light. What's funny is that so many of these people are still so incredibly bitter about the whole affair, they still can't get over it. True, I did destroy Rob Amerman's political career and whilst I'm certain he'll run in '08 for city council I have faith that my friends and allies still in Arcata will see that he fails again. There's just so much work to be done everywhere. Every city, every nation has it's corruption in varying degrees. All I can do is try to make the place I'm in a little more Just than when I found it. Of course next time I do something major like get into politics I will already be aware of an enemy far greater than Rob, or Anon. The enemy is my own inner demon who likes nothing more than feed off of the bitterness of those such as Rob and Anon. To my self-proclaimed enemies in Arcata, thank you! For lessons and wisdom I would never have recieved without your slings and arrows, thank you! Nicholas Bravo (btvs1001@yahoo.com) Another Shot To Be Heard Round 'Da World
Please excuse me for not getting up to shake your hand during the break at the May 17, 2006 meeting. That was my third handshake with a public officer in over 9 years of corruption fighting. The second was from Arcata Councilman Dave Meserve on February 16, 2005, when I first attended an Arcata City Council meeting. The next evening I shook the hand of Sebastopol City Council Member Larry Robinson after he wonderfully added language to a Bush/Cheney, Rumsfeld/Gonzalez impeachment/resignation resolution to "repeal Public Law 107-243." Public Law 107-243 legalizes mass murder and plunder in Iraq for corporate gain and population management. Its repeal will bring an end to 59 years of congressionally authorized undeclared wars and a new era of humanity. $72 billion more blood debt for undeclared wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in $110 billion 2006 "emergency" supplemental appropriations bill HR 4939 has been stalled in House-Senate conference committee, after the Senate added $14.5 billion of pork. 9-11 Non-Commander Bush threatened to veto it if it was over $92 billion. So far, any showdown over depriving persons of life, liberty, or property without due process in an optional undeclared war has been evaded in an election year. Da 9-11 Truth Campaign and we, the abused People of California now urge other local and state governments to not only call on Congress to repeal evil Public Law 107-243 but to bring a cease fire in undeclared war of congressional "choice not necessity," as U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer told the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco on July 6, 2005. On March 16, 2005, you said in chamber, "There needs to be a cease
fire in Iraq," and Please schedule agenda items to consider calling on Congress to declare cease fires in undeclared wars of choice, which the council recognizes are "illegal," and, following Sebastopol, calling on Congress to repeal Public Law 107-243, which legalizes depriving persons of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. John Jenkel (9-11bountyhunter@neteze.com)
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I
can't believe no one has questioned the wisdom of the Arkley's plan to
move the Blue Ox Millworks Historic Park from Eureka to Samoa. The Blue
Ox is an Eureka icon, an Eureka original. It's an Eureka ASSET!
Measure
"T"...It might be right for you, but it's not for me.
When
I ran for Arcata City Council I did not realize what I was getting into.
When I ran I scared a lot of the key players whose carefully constructed
house of cards was about to fall. I had a fellow HSU student running against
me, there were something like seven candidates running for two city council
positions. She was well known and liked on campus and before the ink had
dried on the papers indicating my intention to run I had people, who I
would later found out were her good friends, telling me to drop out of
the race. She then teamed up with the inner circle of Arcata city gov't
wickedness...a circle of black thorns if you will.
Honorable
Arcata City Council Member Paul Pitino: Please call for "a cease
fire," again.