Letters to the Editor
From our weekly issue dated May 27, 2009
(Editor’s Note: Views and commentary, including statements made as fact, are strictly those of the letter-writers.)
Typed, double-spaced letters are considered for publication. Hand-written letters that are double-spaced and legible also can be considered. “Thank you” submissions are not accepted as letters.
City park … not
From Loren Mailes
Cave Junction
Regarding what’s referred to as the Old City Park at the south end of Old Stage Road, it is not a city park and never has been.
It was a county park that was closed in the early 1970s due to vandalism. The county made up a sign that it was closed, and I put it up myself when I was the Cave Junction chief of police.
To set the record straight, it’s not a city park, but I hope to see one there.
Dog folks drop $$
From Paul Bodeving
Cave Junction
During the weekend of May 16 and 17, the St. Bernard Club of Southern Oregon rented a good portion of Lake Selmac for our specialty show.
We had an entry of 104 dogs, numerous motor homes camped at the park, and attendance by around 120 people from all over the West Coast.
I would like recognize two employees. Everyone loved Linda and Jeff (park host and park employee) who made everyone feel welcome and went above the call of duty to assure that a good time was had by all. They are a real asset to Josephine County Parks Dept., and were instrumental in making the show a success.
During the three days, the 120 people spent money on food, gas, restaurants, and motels in the Cave Junction area. They also bought parking permits in the park, visited local attractions and generally loved the area. Some of them already are talking about maybe finding a retirement home in this area.
Studies show that the average exhibitor spends $320 per weekend (akc.org/pdfs/GEECON.pdf), which results in an economic effect of $38,400 for this small community. On average, that money turns over seven times in a community before it leaves, leaving a total impact of a small specialty show of close to $268,000 for the Cave Junction community.
All of this positive effect on our community is made possible by efficient, practical use of our natural resource: Lake Selmac Park. The St. Bernard Club of Southern Oregon is looking forward to next year’s show.
Guantanamo important
From Susan Chapp
Cave Junction
How the Guantanamo Bay prisoners are handled is a critically important issue which will define our moral world leadership or lack thereof far into the future. First we have to decide what the charge is, by which we judge the guilt or innocence of these individuals.
It is not a crime to defend your country or to wage war against the enemies of your country. So that cannot be the charge. Perhaps the crime is terrorism. We then need to define what terrorism is that sets it apart from the attack and defense actions of war and that makes it specifically criminal.
Whatever standard is set up has to be able to be equally applied to our actions, as well as those of other countries. The word “terrorism” is often loosely applied today to cover any actions against us, an inadequate standard.
Another problem is the quality of evidence used to select the people to imprison at Guantanamo. People were imprisoned based on testimony offered by antagonistic tribes or religions whose motives were simply to make trouble for rival ethnic and religious groups. Our people were unaware of, insensitive to or simply indifferent to the motives of the accusers. So we imprisoned a number of people on weak evidence.
Because of the way we have treated these prisoners, we have succeeded in making them our enemies if they weren’t already. Probably our crimes against them are at least equal to whatever their crimes against us may or may not have been.
I do not think it will be possible to acquire reliable testimony to their guilt, if we are even able to properly define what the crime is. And we have to take into account our guilt in imprisoning and abusing people based on highly questionable evidence and faulty procedure. I am inclined to think we need to walk away from deciding guilt or innocence in this situation and simply declare that time already served covers that part of the situation.
This still leaves the problem that was created when these people were imprisoned, called: “What do we do with them now?” By now, due to their treatment, they are indeed our enemies. This is a huge problem, and it is one that we created and have to solve and answer for.
A response
From Raymond Ronald Karczewski©
Cave Junction
In Letters to the Editor (Illinois Valley News, May 13, 2009) Christopher Smith wrote: “I have a wonderful suggestion for George Lee McElroy and Raymond Karczewski: If they don’t like the laws, rules and regulations of the State of Oregon, the United States of America, etc., they should move away.”
It isn’t a matter of my “not liking them.” It is simply the fact that they are not law. The ignorance of the public regarding how they have been reduced to human “chattel” --in other words, slaves -- seems to know no bounds. Smith exposes his ignorance with such comments.
I follow the law, God’s law and common law, and demand that my public servants abide by their contract with the Sovereign People of these United States of America via the DeJure Constitution of 1789, the “Supreme Law of the Land.”
Smith goes further: “I wonder why he felt obliged to pull over for Deputy Cory Krauss if he supposedly is not subject to the laws of the state and county. If he felt that he was doing nothing wrong, then why stop and let himself be subjected to all this drama being brought upon him by these people that he feels have no authority over him?”
Emergency lights were flashing. I pulled over because I follow the law of common sense. There was no emergency occurring. In 2002, after being stopped similarly by Josephine County Sheriff’s Office deputies, and told four times that I was not under arrest, but that they were going to impound my automobile, I got back behind the wheel and proceeded on my way. Then in a distance of some 150 yards, I was pulled over again by flashing lights, only this time the cops had their guns drawn. I was handcuffed and taken into custody for “felony eluding an officer.”
Long story short, I sought to hold these corporate agents of the County of Josephine Sheriff’s Office, judges and district attorneys of the State of Oregon accountable and responsible for their errant application of “Color of Law” policies and regulations designed to “police” and regulate the driving behavior of those engaged in commerce while using Oregon highways and/or for those who have waived their Inalienable Rights to Liberty which include the Right to Travel, in return for a “driver license,” which converts one’s Right to Travel into the state’s permission to “drive.”
By their own ignorance of true law, sovereign men and women have been hoodwinked by their political officials into binding themselves as Subjects to Corporate “Color of Law” (pseudo law) by contracting away their rights. To each his/her own.
The fact that most who read this are ignorant of who they truly are and have accepted instead what they have been conditioned to believe they are is the reason our country is in its sad state. Ignorance breeds its own destiny. War is being declared on us by these corporate agents, and slaves will justify their chains when they see themselves contrasted by the likes of a Free Man.
Smith goes on to say: “There is, after all, a law against driving without license plates and with expired tags. By choosing to live here, I also subject myself to follow the laws, and will accept punishment for breaking those laws.”
Smith is correct, for those who engage in commerce while using the publicly owned highways and those who are 14th Amendment “citizens” and regarded by the courts as “Wards of the State” i.e., “infants” in the eyes of the law, who are not responsible to handle their own legal affairs, indeed the courts will treat them as the ignorant “children” they are and will punish them for deviating from their heretofore agreed upon contract to obey “corporate policies” via the licensing contract.
I am not one of them.
I called their bluff when they brought me up for sentencing in the issues of two trials dating to 2002, wherein I refused to accept the court’s offer of Contract of Sentencing as they have repeatedly refused to follow the “true law” and prove “in writing” their jurisdiction over this living, sentient, natural man, and not the fictional juristic person whose name is spelled in all capital letters.
From an original threat of 35 years as a “Paper Terrorist” they wound up throwing me out of their jail. No jail term, no prison term, no probation. Does anyone find that a bit curious?
People should check their driver license, library card, bank account, and bills they receive. They will see that fictional name which they give assent to through accepting that they and it are one in the same. The courts do not have any power over us unless we violate common law by harming or causing damage to another, damaging the property of another, or infringing upon another’s rights or unless they contract away their God-given rights via licensing or agreement.
I cannot blame most.
They have been educated in state schools to become “human resources.” And human resources they are indeed. Who can argue that?
Here is a chance to find the truth.
It could be demanded that District Attorney Steven D. Campbell and/or the presiding judge answer the questions once and for all of jurisdiction accompanied by affidavit over Raymond Ronald Karczewski© or any other man who has the audacity to stand up to public servants who have usurped their power from the real government, the Sovereign People of America.
Our public officials are currently on the hook for commercial default in excess of $40 million in State of Oregon and Josephine County taxpayers money. Is that the behavior of responsible stewards of our money? Of course, sticking one’s head in the sand is and always has been the favored option of cowards and slaves.
The future lies in your own hands.
Sovereignty eroding
From William Schneider
Cave Junction
Never in all my spewing of disgust and dismay as to our national state of affairs, never once did I advocate surrender of sovereignty any more than I would give up my personal freedom, or anyone else’s for the sake of a group. I may give up some personal things or time for the betterment of a group, but never my person.
Nothing, including our government’s involvement in the mass murder of 9/11/01, makes me more nervous these days as the leaps and bounds made in the erosion of the sovereignty or the person, if you will, of the “United States” of America. Again, I’ll say that while I have an undying rage directed at the crimes of murder, robbery and treason committed by the Bush administration and friends, I have a great concern for the well-being of the people of this country and the freedoms they are losing rapidly under the false flag of economic stability throughout the world.
As is being discovered by the no-longer individual countries of Europe, they have given up the rights to govern themselves and have handed that power to the European “UNion,” or in other words, a few individuals whom few know and no one elected. Now those pathetic yahoos that call themselves our representatives and upholders of the “divinely inspired” (in my opinion) Constitution of the United States, are allowing just this sort of de-personalization to happen to the sovereign entity called the United States. You cannot sacrifice sovereignty and remain free any more than you can call red blue or two men a marriage.
For those who know how to read, look up marriage in the dictionary. Shall we rewrite the dictionary to accommodate a lifestyle or personal desire? Shall we rewrite or ignore the Constitution for the sake of banks, murderers, thieves and comfort zones? Actually, people can do whatever they want, but sooner or later you gotta’ get real. Just as real as the results of what we do or don’t do. Amen.
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