FIRST ENRON, THEN PG&E
Editor,
Last Spring I was sitting in Fort Bragg’s City Council considering a potential no Smartmeter resolution and listening to a man address the ruthless utility known as PG&E regarding rate tiers and the evolving multi-family home. His children had returned to co-inhabit his home with their families in this banker-destroyed economy. The man wanted a different process that considered multi-family homes. These homes readily move into the highest penalizing tier of power charges. In higher density homes facilities are shared, consumption is at best the same or less for the average. Clearly many shared utilities results in spreading out costs. Yet PG&E applies the highest tier of rate charges. The PG&E representative said she would report back to the base (following PG&E militaristic language, “deploying Smart surveillance devices…” The ratepayer victims point should have been considered by the California Public Utility Commission and Utility support system. However, it will probably take a major Occupy event to distract them from their coffee breaks and utility paid junkets. Silly me thinking that the CPUC was there to protect ratepayers. Note, that at the top of all of the CPUC’s web pages is a photo of Jerry Brown. Also note that it was the Enron disgrace that took down Governor Gray Davis. Wait until the SmartMeters work to rake in the time of use charges.
At this same meeting, the PG&E representative said that PG&E only made a piddling 15% profit and that it was a fair deal. How much return do you get at the bank? PG&E charges us directly for all changes in their grid. I was surprise to hear from several friends who had bid on PG&E projects to extend power to their homes, that the cost was actually double. As a contractor I know what my clients would do with a doubled bill, but what do you do with a monopoly with the utility friendly CPUC? Nothing, just pay up! That is why many in Mendocino, are off the grid. It's cheaper than hooking up the ICU grid known as PG&E. These same folks scoff at us grid tied residents enjoying continuous power during raging winter storms. I was off the grid at one point and will soon be again as we do not want to have a dangerous SmartMeter or support a corporation with absolutely no moral compunction. Oh my, you'll have to service batteries. Big deal. Once a month, add water. Sure it cost more, but your home is self-sufficient. Go for it. Stop the monopoly! As power costs go through the limit your home system will quietly pay for itself on the cheap.
Also consider that the San Bruno debacle occurred via PG&E negligence under the tight scrutiny of President Michael Peevey’s PUC. CPUC should be fined as individuals for allowing PG&E to do and continue to do, in terms of the SmartMeter roll-over, which is harming many Californians. If California has 10% electrically sensitive folks (documented,) then PG&E is either torturing them or leaving them literally powerless as these folks can not live with power. In the US, corporate leaders are rewarded for serious fiscal errors rather than penalized. Time to nix that, put them in prison for crimes against the citizens!
The evolving nuclear family is amassing a density that could lead to a melt down even without utilities bilking them. Imagine two or three families in one household?
Pay attention,
Greg Krouse
Philo
PS. Two great seasonal events just occurred. The AV Solar Grange and the Local Food folks put together the annual Holiday feed which was well attended (~200) with great local savory turkey, hams, potatoes and scrumptious potluck and I mean scrumptious. The tables were filled and entertainment was provided by Lynn Archambault playing Christmas tunes on the piano, serving up the AV Chorus and then leading a seasonal sing-along. If you missed it, you missed a great social event.
Last Saturday night, Lynn did her annual Christmas sing-along and filled Lauren’s Café with cheerful singers and Lauren’s mull wine and cider. Families attended and donned the accumulated Christmas head gear and jingled bells. A good time for all!
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ECLIPSED
Editor —
Hitch is dead. Disagreed with 50% of his stated beliefs. In awe of the mind. Recognized his personal evolution and his courage.
What (who) is left for reasoned political expression?
PJ O'Rourke, Paul Johnson, Cockburn when not flacking, (you?) Coulter.
Hideous transgressions of reason:
Maher, Matthews, Maddow, O'Reilly
Robots — Corn, O'Donnell, Olberman, Morning Mika.
Upon reflection on the above, maybe Hitch's star was so bright because of the darkness at noon that currently exists.
In sadness,
Gene Pietila
Ukiah
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GEORGE HITS THE BOOKS
Editor,
I recommend a book I recently read by Charles Mann, 1493. It presents the dramatic changes the world experienced as a result of the discovery of America. These changes we continue to experience today. One subject I found interesting was the whats and whys of slavery in the Americas.
Adam Smith correctly wrote that there were economic disadvantages to slave economies that made them economically noncompetitive, but slavery was a standard in the Americas regardless of it's huge economic down side. Slaves escaped, slaves revolted, escaped slaves formed new societies that rampantly fought and looted European colonies and trade routes. The population of escaped slaves and their descendants often out numbered slaves and their European handlers. The remnants of these escaped slave societies exist today, particularly in Latin America. The reason slavery persisted for so long? The marriage of the African slave culture, to Malaria, and Yellow Fever in the Americas. Africans were exposed to Yellow Fever when young, and were immune. They also were genetically more immune to vivax malaria and some, through the sickle cell trait, were immune to falciparum malaria. These escaped slaves had families with American Indians, and the cultural and ethnic result is what we see in much of Latin America today.
In another book, I am currently reading, on the early history of Leavenworth, Kansas written in 1906 by one of its founders, the writer necessarily goes into the details of the pro-slave vs. abolitionist conflict that permeated Eastern Kansas and Western Missouri at this time immediately before the Civil War. The book: ‘Early History Of Leavenworth City and County’ by Henry Miles Moore. If you are interested in the single most important movement that led to the Civil War, this is a good book to read. The author is an abolitionist but was a plantation owner from Louisiana who had slaves before coming to Leavenworth. He goes out of his way to avoid the arguments pro or con regarding slavery in his book. But I found an interesting quote regarding a judge Elmore who moved to Kansas at this time with ten slaves.
“Although Judge Elmore was a Southern man and believed in the institution of slavery and as an earnest believer of his faith, brought his slaves with him to Kansas to the number of at least ten; he told me in the spring of that severe winter here of 1855 and 1856 in canvassing the question of slavery in Kansas, that nature and nature's God had settled that question to (Elmore's) entire satisfaction in Kansas; that during the winter Mrs. Elmore and himself had been obliged to work themselves to death to keep their darkies comfortable, they having been accustomed to the mild climate of Alabama, could not endure the rigors of a Kansas winter. That the men could not cut wood enough to keep themselves worm, and the women to cook their food, and that he and Mrs. Elmore had been obliged to nurse and take care of them and do their work to keep them from freezing. If anybody wanted to fight about slavery in Kansas they could count him out.”
George Hollister
Comptche
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UPSIDE-DOWN PRIORITIES
Editor,
Our country allegedly doesn't have $5 billion to ease the Postal Service transition to the realities of e-communications (“Postal service's gloom of night,” Editorial, Dec. 13), just like we allegedly didn't have $2 billion to rebuild Joplin, Mo., after it was struck by an unprecedented tornado. Yet we had billions to spend on disastrous wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and we had billions to spend on the military budget.
This is just another reflection of the terrible priorities that haunt our economy and promise to keep this country mired in recession and decline. The militarization of our foreign policy and economy must be challenged and changed if this country is ever to get back on its feet.
Gary Rose
Los Gatos
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GET CYCKED!
Editor,
Cycked, the Mendocino County group planning a bicycle and walking path known as The Valley Trail, from Boonville to the Coast is moving forward with fund raising. Over $5000.00 has been raised since the group formed in late August of 2011. Cycked’s immediate goal is a Cal-Trans Planning Grant of approximately $130,000.00 which would be used for mapping, engineering, surveying and book keeping.
The Boonville Hotel hosted a pizza feast attended by 60 people with wine donated by local wineries on October 15th. A custom-made bike valued at $900.00 has been donated and it was raffled off at a community pot-luck dinner held at the Anderson Valley Grange on December 11th.. $1400 worth of tickets were sold. There was a yoga night benefit as well as an evening of pumpkin carving at the Boonville General Store. Cycked will sponsor a comedy show benefit at Lauren’s Restaurant in Boonville in early February featuring local comedian Christopher Balson, a student at Anderson Valley High School. A dance with Rockin’ Boogie Joe Blow will follow the comedy. A Cycked T-Shirt has been produced and is being sold at all Cycked events as well as at local stores and the Boonville hotel.
The group will sponsor a 72 mile bike race in the summer of 2012. The course will go 72 miles from the Boonville Fairgrounds to Elk on Highway 128 and the Greenwood Road, down Highway 1 to the Manchester Road and over the Manchester Road to end at Faulkner Park just above Boonville. 200 to 300 participants are expected.
More information can be found at the Cycked website:
Boonville
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NOT GETTING IT
Editor,
“Well, that was something, wasn't it?” the well-kept woman of middle years steamily exhaled as she lustfully greeted the complete stranger who, she wanted to believe, held the theater door open for her so invitingly and suggestively after the showing of “Shame.” “It's pretty far from this man's experience!” huffed He Who Isn't Getting Any, oblivious to her blatant attempt to pick him up. The wanton slut tried again, subtly directing his gaze to the concession stand where popcorn splutted noisy from the machine's hot aperture. “I sure could use a man like Fassbinder!” she breathed, dreamily and half-lidded. This sin-drenched hussy could not be more ignorant of her own degradation! “Madam, every encounter of that driven satyr, which we have just witnessed, was utterly joyless, and a reasonable man would rather be celibate than engage in such soulless and self-destructive activity!” She gave up on the old fool, and he turned his attention to the rampant absurdity of young morons attired in funeral wear, covered with stupid tattoos, and capped off with dumb little hip-hop hats.
Clearly, a film that focusses on destructive sexual obsessions is a candidate for Best Picture, while a film that focusses on pleasurable obsessions, such as a well-made porn movie, is a candidate for thunderous condemnation from the Junior Anti-Sex League whose banner you have raised from the dust of cultural indifference. Way back in the Auld Sod of the Priest-Ridden Isle, your ancestors fumbled in the darkness to expose only enough of their naughty bits from the enveloping sleepwear so as to attempt the creation of a new generation of self-hating hell-terrorized moralizing curmudgeons. O that these damnable emissions were not my cross to bear! Save me, Jesus! Then, once forced through the Gate of Satan into this fallen vale of tears, little Bruce IV and his twin Brucella, propped up in their crib in front of the tube, are free to witness 15,000 lurid murders before they are old enough to masturbate.
But this is God's will, and it is a cultural imperative to immerse the young in the necessity and righteousness of the purifying perforation of their devilish flesh by the penetration of high-velocity shrapnel. And after they have been so blessed, it is well and good that the memory and remains of those now returned to a better world are enshrined in well-manicured marble cemeteries and pristine battlefield parks, and honored by constant parades and bands and flags and fulsome speeches of praise for the glory and greatness of it all. Our God is an Awesome God! It is even a saintly hobby, demanding in time and money, for thousands of death-worshippers to equip themselves in period costumes and weapons, assemble in faux armies on the old killing grounds, and reenact these mass slaughters. Of course, these wars without gore lack the essential element of the original sacraments, that which in fact they were actually all about, yet they are still considered to be wholesome and edifying, in contrast to that unnatural and repulsive sex without “love” the blue-noses would oblige us to condemn. As we lash ourselves along the Path of the Truth that Pain is Most Enobling, there are yet those who are foolish enough to innocently enjoy images of sexual acts, but Ayatollah Anderson has a constitutional amendment to ram up their Asses of Evil, and he won't be using any lube. It is supposed to hurt, thus sayeth the Lord!
Well, I could go on and on. These rich veins of stupidity are so easily mined that I even bore myself. But what I want you to do, O Mighty and Esteemed Editor, with All Due Respect, is to publish your draft of your model law that will “ban all pornography,” as you have repeatedly called for. Now, you will have to calm down and try very hard to think clearly about this, if possible. Put your lawyer hat on and give us the text of your dream legislation that will define and excise from the First Amendment That Which No One May Hearafter Be Witness To. Make sure that the language is so totally bulletpoof that it will withstand assault from all those criminal pervert ACLU types who dare to openly film and distribute depictions of sexual activity. O Grand Ayatollah, with the help of God, you can do it! And if you cannot do it, then please take your withered old bone home and leave those of us who can still get it up alone.
Yours,
Jay Williamson
Santa Rosa
PS. Keep the Saturn in Saturnalia!
PPS. I look forward to Alexander Cockburn's eulogy for Christopher Hitchens.
Ed reply: I've made the simple and obvious point made most forcefully and convincingly by Susan Brownmiller that the ritual humiliation of half the human population for the titillation of the other half contributes mightily to crimes against women, and is just one more contributing factor in making America the loony bin it has become. BTW, how do you happen to know so much about the appearance and functioning of my repro organ? Really, Jay, and not that I ordinarily give tours, but if you'll come to Boonville I can probably arrange a private, corrective viewing, suitably chaperoned of course.
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SHERIFF’S LOG, THEN
Editor,
Since I missed your last Sheriff’s report I am submitting this letter for your edification:
Wellington Journal and Shrewsbury News, 21 November 1874
Before the Hon. R.C. Herbert and H. Corbett, Esq.
GAME CASE: Four youths named Andrew Dunning, William Dunning, Joseph Round and John Bailer were charged with trespassing in pursuit of game on lands at Lawley, in the occupation of Mr. James Jones, over which Mr. Parker of the Rock has the right of shooting. Mr. A Marcy appeared to prosecute. Police Constable Greatbanks deposed that about quarter past twelve on the day in question he was on duty at Lawley in company with Police constable Jones. Defendants were sitting on a gate encouraging two whippet dogs to hunt in the field. Police constable Jones gave corroborative evidence.
Fined: 1 pnd, 5 S 10 d each.
31 November 1878 — Chimney on fire John MacDonald of high street Wellington was fined 1s and 7s 6d costs for allowing the chimney of his dwelling house to be on fire on the 9th of November. Police constable Darbyshire proved the case.
Disorderly prostitutes Agnes Rushton and Sarah Fletcher were charged with being drunk and behaving in a disorderly manner in Station Road and Nailers Row Wellington on the 23rd of November. Police constables Owen and Watkins having given evidence the defendants were each committed to gaol for 14 days.
Highway offence: W. C. Calcott farmer Norton was charged by Police constable Tomlinson with allowing a cart to be used upon the highway at Wellington on the 19th of November without his name being painted thereon. Fined 1s and 9s 10d costs.
Submitted by
Fred Martin
Philo
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A MODEST PROPOSAL
TO: AV School Board
Re: Job Description- a tool for effective, respectful, accountable job performance at all levels of employment.
I propose a system of annual revision of each employee, trustee and administrator job description. Base expectations on a careful analysis of actual tasks performed. Individuals need acknowledgement and recognition for work they actually do. Supervisors and administrators need to make clear what is expected.
When used as an evaluation tool an accurate job description can raise morale, avoid duplication of work, assure that needed functions are covered, and contribute to mutual trust among those who serve.
Our goal should be open, cooperative individual and group responsibility for the safety and education of our students.
I propose that the School Board present at the January meeting a job description of each Board members responsibilities. This should include a long-term team goal which reflects vision for the future.
Patricia A. Beverley
Boonville
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HOW TO SAVE HENDY
Dear editor,
Close the state parks because of budgetary insufficiencies? Have any of the politicians or higher echelon bureaucrats offered to cut their own salaries? Do they offer any alternatives other than closing the parks? If they can't think of any solutions then they aren't worth their fine salaries. Why not solve more than one problem at once?
No jobs: both college and advanced graduates experience the lack of jobs. We have a shortage of affordable housing. We have a clean energy problem.
So, why not look for a naturalist or field biologist or arborist to become an on-site park caretaker? The estimated cost to the state to keep Hendy Woods open is $500,000 per year. The local community can do better than that. Start with a mobile home or trailer. Planning ahead, local people can build an energy conserving straw bale house or construct an Earthship into a steep hillside. Or possibly an adjoining landowner would donate or sell a couple of acres for a caretaker's homestead. When the Ukiah Players playhouse was built by member volunteers, building costs were substantially reduced. Traditional Amish people could raise a large barn in one day with the whole community participating. The danger of vandalism, poaching or even tree cutting in an abandoned park would be eliminated. Paying a modest yearly salary plus local contracts for specialized tasks is still an improvement over the state's estimated figure, according to Jared Huffman, of $500,000 a year to operate the park.
Why are career politicians like Jared Huffman and unaccountable state bureaucrats so bereft of solutions? Choose Norman Solomon for Congress, a man with an impressive activist track record.
A plan for keeping Hendy Woods open could serve as a model for other state parks faced with closure, deterioration, theft of park property and vandalism.
Occupy,
Dorotheya M. Dorman
Redwood Valley
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MY CONSPIRACY BOOK
Editor,
Was Bob Dylan Joan Baez's son, lover or both? In my new book (still looking for a publisher) I explain that he was not only both, but was, in fact, his own love child. I go on to explain that he is also the author of every song attributed to Lennon/McCartney and quite possibly those of Randy Newman too.
The evidence is irrefutable: Lennon/McCartney were known to actively despise each other and lived miles apart. Also, even if we ignore the fact that Paul was killed in 1968, John was much too preoccupied with bedding half the female population of England after about 1965, and Paul, being “the cute beagle,” to ever have a met amassed such a catalog.
Further, I contend that Dylan's famous motorcycle “accident” was in reality an assassination attempt perpetrated by none other than Edward De Vere who, as we all know, was responsible for the disappearance of Judge Crater, Jimmy Hoffa, and the kidnap/murder of the Lindbergh baby. (I am still trying to verify his presence on the “Grassy Knoll” in 1963 — and his whereabouts on the day my bike was stolen in 1971.)
The sequel to my book which I hope to start penning soon will also reveal the villain Edward De Vere's ties to Al Qaeda, the KGB, the ICI, the RNC, and the DAR.
D. Bullock, loyal subscriber
Ione
PS. Where, oh where have you gone, Diana Vance?
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SHAKESKI, RATTLE & ROLL
To the Editor,
Ahem! Regarding the Shakespeare authorship question answered by writer/poet Michael A'dair (Letters to the Editor, 12/7/11) in his recently published book on the subject: Alas, I say it's much ado about nothing.
Among reputable literary scholars it's common knowledge that Shakespeare was in fact Wanda Tinasky, an activist writer/poet from an obscure hamlet in Poland who fled the country after her paramour, Willem Shakeski, was sentenced to be drawn and quartered by uptight Polish royalty for the heinous crime of inventing the Polish joke.
Tinasky, as an illegal émigré, was forced underground and used an anglicized version of her lover's name to publish Shakespeare's satirical canon. Remember the old greeting, “Shake, spear, kick in the rear”? Shakeski spears royals and commoners alike.
A trio of Willits thesbians presented me with a copy of Mr. A'Dair's book after my recent poetry reading and I highly recommend it to scholars and dullards alike because it's well-written, impeccably researched, and contains juicy tidbits about Elizabethan decadence.
I'll be reading excerpts from the book during my upcoming radio performances.
Yours,
Aubrey Conover, aka Shakespeare man
Fort Bragg
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LETTERS LIKE THESE
To the AVA:
It is true that Chris Diaz made some mistakes and got some bad breaks, but it isn't true that he is going to Texas because his public defender did not fight for him. I suggest we back up and look at this again.
1. The two deputies did not have to arrest Chris. They oftne decide not to arrest people, like drunk driving cops and friends of friends.
2. The Deputies' supervisor could have said, Turn them loose.
3. The jail could have said, We don't have room to hold him; we have to turn him loose.
4. The sheriff could have said, Due to our shrinking budget, we have to turn him loose.
5. The sheriff could have not passed the case to the District Attorney, or,
6. Passed it and asked the district attorney not to proceed.
7. The District Attorney could have taken no action — kind of like they do when cops get drunk and have sex with underage girls at Lake Mendocino. Or like the cops did when that man they thought had been stabbed would not consent to be interviewed so they got the hospital to release him early, arrested him, and threw him in jail where he bled to death.
Now I'm not an attorney but it seems to me that after the District Attorney charges someone, the judge's options might be limited as are the options for a defense attorney.
I think you might have put the cart before the horse. I know this newspaper is backsliding into becoming just another cheerleader for law enforcement. Pretty soon you might stop printing letters like this.
Sincerely,
Teddy Smith (an obviously fake name)
General Delivery, Ukiah
Ed note: Here we have a person making vague allegations about police misconduct under a phony name from no return address and no verifying telephone number. But we're printing this one because we get letters like it all the time. "Heh-heh. I want to take a few shots at powerful people and institutions' but I'd rather do it under your name." Dude! Please! If you have the names of the cops sampling underage girls at Lake Mendocino, let's have those names. If you're alleging that the cops deliberately allowed a jailed man to bleed to death, let's have the names of the persons responsible. We've complained about the Public Defender's office for years. She was appointed by the Supervisors because the Supes and the CEO knew she could be depended on to stay within her budget, the thinking being they're all guilty anyway so what the hey. If you can afford a capable private attorney here or any other place in this country your chances of justice are dramatically enhanced. Is that news to anybody? Short of an all-out Occupy movement here, there and everywhere, the present low-down, third-worldish, money-rules functioning of the justice system is not going to change. As for Diaz, we agree. I thought that would have been clear from all the space we devoted to his case. If Diaz was, say, Chris Diaz-Pelosi, he would not have gotten the pro forma fast shuffle he got in the Mendocino County Courthouse. Anybody out there going to argue that one?
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BEWARE OF OLD BUTCH
Editor,
John was in the fertilized egg business.
He had several hundred young layers (hens), called 'pullets,' and ten roosters to fertilize the eggs.
He kept records, and any rooster not performing went into the soup pot and was replaced.
This took a lot of time, so he bought some tiny bells and attached them to his roosters.
Each bell had a different tone, so he could tell from a distance, which rooster was performing.
Now, he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report by just listening to the bells.
John's favorite rooster, old Butch, was a very fine specimen, but this morning he noticed old Butch's bell hadn't rung at all!
When he went to investigate, he saw the other roosters were busy chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing, but the pullets, hearing the roosters coming, would run for cover.
To John's amazement, old Butch had his bell in his beak, so it couldn't ring.
He'd sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one.
John was so proud of old Butch, he entered him in the Renfrew County Fair and he became an overnight sensation among the judges.
The result was the judges not only awarded old Butch the “No Bell Piece Prize,” but they also awarded him the “Pulletsurprise” as well.
Clearly old Butch was a politician in the making. Who else but a politician could figure out how to win two of the most coveted awards on our planet by being the best at sneaking up on the unsuspecting populace and screwing them when they weren't paying attention.
Vote carefully next time, the bells are not always audible.
Name Withheld
Ukiah
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THE DEVIL MADE US BORROW IT
Editor,
Who’s in worse shape? Us or Italy?
Italy has a debt of $2.6 trillion and a population of 60 million people. We have a debt of $14.3 trillion and some 300 million people. Since we have five times as many people we should have only $13 trillion dollars to be on par with Italy. But even that wouldn’t be so bad. But Italy is a financial basket case which in the debt ridden housing market are called subprime debts. Therefore we should be a subprime basket case.
Italy is not alone in this category, but major parts of Europe are in this category and can’t or won’t do anything about it. This now includes us since we turned into a socialist government. Yes, I said socialist, since our government doesn’t have a thing called competition anymore.
Our state had a $29 billion debt last year and I never heard what puff of smoke made it disappear. And now there seems to be more money short. How surprising. I just couldn’t believe my ears since they have all this money to tear down perfectly good fire stations all over the state and build new courthouses all over to satisfy the egos of our judiciary. They must have gotten a grant from heaven — or was it from the devil?
Emil Rossi
Boonville
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THE NEW LEE OTIS
Dear Editor,
Can you put in a good word about our Medical Marijuana Patients Union Adopt-A-Highway litter pick-up on Highway 128 Sunday Xmas day?
We are meeting at high noon in Philo at the Grocery Store and will fan out in both directions (toward Boonville and Navarro) with pick-up sticks and orange vests.
Chris Diaz' family is part of our team, in honor of their son who sits in Mendo County jail awaiting extradition to Texas where he faces 5-99 years prison for half an ounce of cannabis.
A Free Chris Diaz defense committee is forming to involve the public. Beth Bosk is now completing her video, where she interviewed you and others on the steps of the Ukiah Courthouse after the extradition hearing. It's slated for local TV, Channel 3, etc. within days.
I remember black activist Lee Otis Johnson at a Texas political rally in the 60s. Unbeknownst to him he was standing between two narcs who passed a joint from one to the other and Lee Otis got 40 years for a marijuana cigarette. That's Texas for you.
Chris Diaz is the new Lee Otis. Marijuana association is the new black. It's a matter of civil rights in the context of the “drug war.”
Last Easter, the Patients Union had a clean-up day on Highway 101 (our second site) just north of Cloverdale at the Mendo/Sonoma County line. A friend of one of the women on our team drove by and saw her and later asked, “What were you doing out there picking up trash on Easter?”
She answered, “Being unselfish.”
Pebbles Trippet
Elk
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