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Committed to excellence in investigative journalism Volume #1 - Number - 2 Keeping At Risk Children in The Party’s Over for Club 71 Harms Way: Dysfunctional DHS By Investigative Reporter patio area Lacey has created a Ron Lee permanent expansion which By Investigative Reporter would require permits to be filed. Edward Snook So the siding must come down, The debate may soon be over again, maybe. Medford, Oregon In late regarding the Sunny Valley strip According to club employees October of 2004, concerned club, Club 71, owned by Richard this tactic by the County has parent Steve Hartman of Larry Lacey. Local opposition Lacey's patience wearing thin Gold Hill, Oregon went to residents, who have organized a and he is very concerned with a the Central Point Police to community action group, held court date that has been twice inform them that Robert regular meetings and staged pushed back. On April 6th the Graham, a “convicted, weekly protests have now County will address the untreated, predatory sex brought their cause to the numerous code and County offender” according to the US~Observer where Editor-In- Charter violations. Oregon Department of Chief, Ed Snook simply said, "It's Representing Club 71 is local Human Services (DHS) was now just a matter of time before Grants Pass attorney, Dwayne residing at Sandra Graham’s these good people are vindicated, Schulz along with an outside 1st (Steve's ex-wife) residence the club is closed, and Mr. Lacey moving interior walls, replacing his already approved awning and Amendment specialist. with his 7 year old daughter. is made to realize he can't just ceilings, creating new bathrooms, patio area. The initial filing According to club sources they Mr. Hartman was more than bully people and the system." building a raised metal walkway against Lacey by the County plan to fight all the way on the alarmed due to the fact that Lacey's previous restaurant, in covered in glass, and putting in made him take down the metal grounds that the County Charter the same predatory sex the same location, Dirt Bike new wiring. All done over the 4½ sheets that enclosed the patio. is unconstitutional, a tactic which offender had lived with Ms. Diner, was unsuccessful and had month renovation. Calling it Then County Planner, Terri has worked in other states. Graham 8 years prior, issues with the wage and labor redecorating he was able to clear Dickerson, came to review the But Club 71 faces more spending time around her commission for non-payment of the interior with county planning, site and it was then determined challenges than just the County. older children. Mr. Hartman employees in a legal manner. who either didn't realize or were that the square footage was such Recently, Washington Mutual had also been concerned over Upon the closing of the Dirt Bike not that intent on making issue of that Lacey didn't need an has exercised its right to refuse other highly questionable Diner and over the following the construction work that had independent engineer to sign-off service and they have told Club men residing with his ex- months the idea for the strip club taken place without permits. on the structure, and the siding 71 that they must bank elsewhere. wife. took hold. The County has chosen instead was allowed to be put back up. This, however, was just the Club The Central Point Police Major interior and electrical to pursue a building violation that Now the County is asserting 71 account and monies have been contacted DHS in Medford, changes ensued which included Lacey committed by enclosing that by enclosing the awning and transferred over to the still Continued on page 5 Continued on page 2 Jackson County Deschutes County Corruption Chicken Trial Aborted! Leads Oregon in Attorney Ingram Continues “Legal Charade” Ex-DA Johnson Sat on Rotten Egg Implementing Ingram seems By Investigative to be saying, By Investigative Reporter Sanders. Midnight had come and “Where am I?” Measure 37 Reporter “Who am I suing John Taft gone on the morning of March Edward Snook next?” and “Is 24th, 2004, and careful planning By Investigative Reporters there an Alzheimers doctor in the house?” Grants Pass, Oregon - Five of and strategy were ready to be set Jeanne Wollman & Bend, Oregon- them carefully crawled over a in motion. It was the beginning of Curt Chancler On March 7, gate and proceeded along a 200 2005 Roger foot graveled drive towards a Continued on page 2 Southern Oregon’s Jackson Weidner, the house and barn. Probing County is abuzz with activity 1998, Reform flashlights illuminated the night as the commissioners step Party candidate while they searched for their forward to enforce the for Governor of Weidner right confronting Ingram left objective. The temperature was a people’s wishes to use their Oregon once chilly 40 degrees, cold enough to land as expressed in Measure again appeared in a Deschutes much unlike a prior hearing make a man shiver if he wasn’t 37. Oregon voters County courtroom with Attorney conducted by Jefferson County dressed warmly. Their mission, overwhelmingly passed Claude Ingram of Eugene, Judge Gary Thompson wherein to get a chicken. These men were Measure 37 in the Oregon. Thompson had Weidner jailed for the elite of the Josephine County November, 2004 election, Ingram had filed a motion to 10 days when Weidner simply Sheriff’s Office Chicken Swat sending a clear and decisive have Weidner held in contempt of asked the judge a question. The Team. They always get their message to the state to free court and jailed for refusing to Observer believes the arrest was a chicken. Some say they received private property from the answer questions in the foregone conclusion between special OP training from Col. “Speckles” before Daniel. greedy grasp of those more discovery process of an on-going Thompson and a highly interested in control than the barrage of civil lawsuits between questionable Deschutes County constitutional mandates and the two. Sheriff’s Office (DCSO). The god-given rights regarding The hearing was held on March Observer has compiled private property. Measure 37 7, 2005 before Josephine County complaints against Judge made a giant step forward in Circuit Court Judge Loyd Thompson for years and he can wresting control of private O’Neal. Rather than have now look forward to his property from state control. Weidner jailed Judge O’Neal placement into the Observer’s Within most Oregon county gave him until March 18, 2005 to “Hall of Shame” in May, 2005 governments we find a cabal respond to Ingram’s questions. where he will receive the of elected officials scurrying The questions mainly consisted recognition he deserves. of inquires into Weidner’s It is clear that the DCSO has Continued on page 7 financial status. This hearing was Continued on page 2 Sheriff Dave Daniel. Thanks Dave: “Speckles” after.

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Continued from page 1 The deputies didn’t allow him to get Continued from page 1 establishment until they stepped in. Chicken Trial Aborted! ... dressed. Nick is a diabetic and walking The Party’s Over ... Should County Officials get serious, barefooted on sharp gravel could easily as they say they are, and contact Federal cause bleeding cuts that are dangerous agencies like OSHA and State agencies the famous chicken raid at the home of a to a diabetic. That was of no interest or existing Dirt Bike Diner account also like Bureau of Labor and Industries, Good Samaritan, Nick Gombos. concern to these deputies. With no held by Washington Mutual. Also, with there would be no way for Club 71 to go clothes and no blanket it was a cold 30- the nature of the business, there has been on as is. A Short Synopsis of the minute trip in the patrol car to the Grants a high turn over rate with employees and Members of the Sunny Valley action Pass, Oregon, county jail. Nick’s wife there are now rumors of prostitution in group have stated that they aren’t Events Prior to the Raid on later told me it broke her heart to see him the parking lot. against Lacey having a successful the Hen House being forced down the gravel drive with All of this, however, may be moot as business. They just don’t want to see the no clothes and bare feet by these brown many issues could prove to be Club 71’s business focused on flesh. “We just The following is a short synopsis of the uniformed Josephine County deputies. downfall. During the US~Observer's 3½ don’t want this in our community,” they events leading up to the infamous Sheriff Daniel didn’t comment on this decry. And to all of those who chicken raid. The story published in the alleged Gestapo type police action support the right for Lacey to have US~Observer (usobserver.com) in May during a radio interview. this type of business they say, “Sure. of 04 gives more detail. Nick Gombos is Just have him put it next to your a good-hearted fellow and was on his Speckles Neck Wrung house.” way home at night from working out at a And with plans to expand closer spa. He stopped at Ray’s Market in The deputies returned the chicken to into Grants Pass, local supporters Murphy, Oregon, to pick up a free the store, and in a matter of days may just get their chance. Lacey has advertiser newspaper and found Speckles’ neck was wrung by a man been looking into buildings in the Speckles the hen huddling next to a box alleged to be intoxicated. He was fined area and there has even been rumor for the night. Thinking the hen wasn’t and ordered to do community service. that a building is already secured. safe from predators Nick took her home, But that didn't stop the prosecution or No matter the opinion on the and the store was later advised where the persecution of Nick Gombos. The establishment, the fact remains that hen was. It wasn’t a secret; there was no former District Attorney Clay Johnson Lacey did things illegally by not intent to steal a $2 dollar chicken, only seized the case with a convulsive death Club 71 dancer “Kira” posing for pictures. following County codes, by allegedly compassion for the welfare of the bird. grip. I understand Johnson wanted to fraudulently representing himself The manager of Ray’s Market realized come back and try the case from month investigation we have uncovered and supposedly trying to blackmail this and shortly after the chicken raid by retirement but wasn’t allowed to do so. possible collusion with Mr. Lacey by county officials. Not to mention the deputies said, “Mr. Gombos’ heart was Nick hired Attorney Foster A. Glass to one public official as well as Lacey's questions raised about a home near the in the right when he took the chicken.” defend himself from this publicly own attempt to "bully" his way through club that burned down and then was Nick’s wife had called the sheriff’s funded attack. Deputy Matt Tripp’s the issues by threatening key officials bulldozed before fire inspectors could office with a complaint regarding a chicken arrest brought Sheriff Dave with pulling cable records and publicly complete their investigation. threatening phone call. No action was Daniel under intense heat from the disclosing who subscribes to adult With the legalities far from over, one taken on this complaint, but the public laugh factor. One story I heard programming. Furthermore, Lacey thing is for sure, Lacey will be spending complaint did set in motion one of the was that at a meeting of sheriffs from signed-off on County documents which quite a bit on attorney’s fees. Something most bazaar arrests and prosecutions in around the state of Oregon Daniel’s contained false statements regarding that could perhaps empty his coffers. Josephine County (JoCo) memory. A representative at the meeting was given key planning issues and then bragged to But then again, where does his money deputy then talked to the store manager a rubber chicken to take home to the employees about doing it. He continues come from anyway? Perhaps something who asked that the chicken be brought sheriff. Daniel was the butt of many to pay employees "under the table" - this the IRS may be interested in. back as customers were asking about the jokes and snide remarks during the against the wishes of his management Speaking on the overall situation, Ed hen. In the confusion it appears that initial outrage over the chicken team who, from the beginning, wanted Snook stated, “The committed people of someone at the store initially told Nick prosecution. Speckles the hen has to run a professional, legal, business and Sunny Valley and County Officials will he could keep the Barred Rock hen. seriously affected Daniel’s credibility to their credit they have made every not let this business continue. Period. and reputation with residents of attempt to do so. At times they have even Looks to me like the party’s over .” Nick Arrested: Clad in Josephine County. gone against Lacey himself, who was Editors Note: Look for more This past October Sheriff Daniel was allowing his underage son into the upcoming articles on Club 71! Briefs, Forced Down Long on a KAJO talk radio show and was Drive, After 1 A.M. at 40º asked about the chicken story. Nick Gombos called in with a dramatic Nick was under heavy medication rebuttal to the sheriff’s comments. Sheriff: “That’s right, everything citation to appear. That’s the way we prescribed by his doctor the evening of could have been handled right there. normally handle these type of cases. The the chicken raid. Between midnight and It Hasn’t Gone to Court Yet This fellow not only said no to the fellow refused to take it. By his refusing 1 a.m. Nick and his wife were awakened deputy, he made some threats against the to take it the deputies were forced to take by activity outside their home. Nick Announcer: “Sheriff, a lot was made deputy. The deputy came back to the him to jail. So it’s a case first of all that went outside to confront the intruders, of the chicken thing ... do you want to office followed standard procedure he could have been handled at the very dressed only in his red speedos (briefs). comment on that?” got a search warrant signed by a judge beginning, it wasn’t. Now could the A short time later Nick would be under Sheriff: “I can’t go into real (The deputy woke Judge Gerald deputies maybe waited until the next arrest and forced by five JoCo deputies particulars because it hasn’t gone to Neufeld at midnight to get the search day to taken care of it? Could three down his long drive to the road where court yet. But I’ll give you a general warrant signed) and uh it just so deputies gone out or two deputies? the patrol cars were parked on the other synopsis of it. A fellow took some happened at the time that the search That’s all possible, however I stand by, I side of a locked gate. The time of the property that didn’t belong to him. A warrant was signed it was uh the change stand behind the deputies and the arrest was 1:08 in the morning on March deputy went out and asked him, one of shifts between swing shift and procedures they followed.” 24, 2004. Nick was charged with deputy went out to this fellow’s home graveyard shift. There were a number of interfering with a police officer and third and said hey, return the property and deputies there, there were no calls My Name is Nick Gombos degree theft. Nick had no clothes on we’ll call it even it’s all over with pending. One of those nights it was just and I Want You to Tell the other than his red briefs to protect him because the store didn’t really want to quiet, nothing going on. So four Truth, Sheriff Daniel from the cold 40º night air, and no shoes. prosecute at that time.” deputies and one sergeant went out to Announcer: “So you’re saying it this fellow’s house uh recovered the could have been over right there.” chicken um tried to give the fellow a Continued on page 19 Continued from page 1 Deschutes County ...

sided with Attorney Claud Ingram in month sentences in federal prison for when charged with assaulting Wishon that they have failed to act on Weidner’s embezzling nearly $600,000.00 from Weidner’s Involvement accepted a plea bargain to avoid a long citizen’s arrest of Ingram, yet when Deschutes County organizations. Long with Property Owner prison sentence and spent only six Weidner left his March 7th hearing he before Brown was caught the Observer Patricia Wishon months in jail. was taken into a side room by Captain warned the citizens of Deschutes Wishon informed the Observer that Edwards of the DCSO and informed that County that he was involved in fraud Weidner, a fearless arbiter for people she had fired her attorney Anthony Ingram wanted Weidner arrested for and illegal activities and we would warn he considers victims of frivolous and Albertazzi of Bend for having secret harassment, but that Edwards was just Sheriff Stiles at this juncture that he vindictive lawsuits became involved meetings with Torres and his attorney going to issue him a ticket forcing should fully investigate the charges with LaPine, Oregon property owner Linda Hasse also of Bend. Wishon Weidner to appear on April 6, 2005 to against Ingram and not choose to ignore Patricia Wishon and her attempt to stop continued, “After I fired Albertazzi he answer the charge. The actions and the and or become complicit in this her estranged husband Santiago Torres continued to represent me by preparing lack of any investigation by the DCSO matter… Just as Sheriff Brown learned, from obtaining property left her by her and executing an agreement on my concerning the serious charges leveled Stiles and the judges involved in late husband Paul Yeager. Wishon has behalf that gave 25% of my property to at Attorney Claud Ingram by Weidner protecting Ingram, his so-called clients continuously claimed that Torres Torres who only married me because of and others might just place the and his scams will soon learn as well mentally tortured her and physically my property and this was done without Deschutes County Sheriff Les Stiles in that they are really not “gods” but rather beat her on numerous occasions. my knowledge or consent.” nearly the same category as former public servants…And that it is possible Wishon stated, “He beat me so severely When Weidner became involved he Deschutes County Sheriff Greg Brown for the public to both expose them and that I thought he was going to kill me.” who is spending three concurrent 33- hold them accountable. According to Observer sources Torres, Continued on page 19 www.usobserver.com US~Observer • Page 3

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THE ABUSE OF THE The Art of War, FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT Part 1 of 3 Divide & Conquer

By Frosty Wooldridge & children born in the U.S. are seldom John Newby men. In other words, individual freedom Stephany Gabbard, RN deported. That's why their children are NewsWithViews.com is eliminated for the greater cause of the NewsWithViews.com called "anchor babies" - they anchor group. Here we are, back to the epic their families securely in the USA. In war, the ultimate successful strategy struggle of good versus evil, individual My commute to work exceeds fifty It doesn't have to be this way. Most utilized always centers on the strategy of freedom or government control. History miles but it gives me time to reflect. It is European countries have done away “Divide and Conquer.” It goes without isn’t a kind judge, without fail; 1987 and I am an obstetrical nurse with birthright citizenship because they saying; spreading the enemy thin keeps historically government always proves working in the crowded San Fernando experienced the same abuses we are them on the defensive. Thus, the state of to be a colossal failure. Valley of California. Tonight I drive to seeing. The Irish Supreme Court America during these troubling times in Many Americans sense something is my job in "Labor and Delivery," recently ruled that immigrant parents our history. The government utilizes terribly wrong, but are caught in the knowing the scenario before I arrive. could be deported even if they have an their biggest asset, the media to keep daily grind of just getting by. They fail to Eight other nurses will battle through Irish child. "It was becoming common everyone in the dark to those issues that make the time to educate themselves the night in this very busy obstetrical for ‘single pregnant woman’ to come to matter most. While I suspected this for a properly. This is by design. Everything unit. Our patients are 99 percent Ireland from countries outside the 15- long time, it was recently driven home. has been shaped to keep the people in pregnant illegal alien women who have nation EU, most frequently from After watching FOX news spend hours this constant state of mind. A common broken United States immigration law Nigeria, to claim political asylum," in their own wonderland analyzing question I get, “Yes, I know, but what to birth an American citizen child. states Shawn Pogatchnik, AP writer. Michael Jackson’s Neverland, it’s can one person do to make difference?” This will be their families’ entry ticket Ireland saw a wave of immigration become clear the media’s top priority is Being realistic, there is little one person into the United States. For them, no abuse and promptly put a stop to it. feeding us mindless information. In can do. That is also by design. Having pesky visa applications and no waiting Recently, the Irish voted to end other words, to use a campaign slogan, people feel helpless makes them assume in line for several years like so many birthright citizenship. Britain and “take our eye off the ball.” While we are it’s hopeless. Watch the division of the millions that enter this country through Australia both changed their citizenship busy watching this mindless many of the third parties, all fighting for the front door. Pregnant Third World laws in the 1980's for the same reasons. information being spewed forth from more freedom, but against each other. women have discovered that the only If you are born in Switzerland you will our media watchdogs, the pit bulls Watch as National church leaders such thing they have to do is cross the U.S.-- not automatically become a Swiss operating under the guise of as Falwell and cartel, stump for Mexico border. The Fourteenth citizen. Why should Americans allow conservative or mandated government conservative (despite the fact the major Amendment is their ticket. our country to be invaded by people are instigating a full frontal attack on our parties haven’t run a true conservative in It is now seventeen years later and who do not honor allegiance to our constitution, our liberties and our years) candidates thus leading their things have worsened. The babies I laws? freedoms. flocks right into the belly of the beast. I helped deliver are older teenagers. Allegiance is the key word. Senator As I talk with everyday Americans via suspect there are many wanting to help, When they turn 21, they will be eligible Jacob Howard, co-author of the work, e-mail and so forth; I can’t help but feel they have no place to go to voice to bring their family members from citizenship clause of the 14th but feel that most Americans regardless their views and be heard. Mexico, Central America and South Amendment, stated in 1866, "Every of race, party affiliation and background These people have one thing in America, i.e., chain migration on an Person born within the limits of the have many of the same core beliefs and common; they believe in individualism ever-accelerating spinning wheel. United States, and subject to their feelings. But when we listen to the and shun collectivism, understanding Whole industries have now developed jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law media, we are all placed neatly into a government is best when governing around abusing the Fourteenth and national law a citizen of the United political category that few can even little. That’s the cause all Americans Amendment. Pregnant Korean tourists States. This will not, of course, include explain the meaning of. We have the need to embrace. David O. McKay come to the U.S. on travel visas to have persons born in the United States who conservatives battling the liberals, the proclaimed, “the greatest battle of life is their "anchor" babies. Coyotes dealing are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the right-wingers battling the left-wingers; fought within the silent chambers of in human traffic are paid $1,500.00 to families of ambassadors or foreign the progressives, socialists, your own soul, it is a good thing to sit $25,000.00 per person to shuttle ministers accredited to the Government communists, fascists, neo-conservatives down and commune with yourself, to pregnant illegal aliens across our of the United States, but will include and the list could go on. come to an understanding with yourself southern border. Our politicians and every other class of persons." And then to further compound the and decide in that silent moment what elites wink at this blatant law breaking The Fourteenth Amendment problem, we have everyone’s pet your duty is to your family, your church, and do nothing. The colonization of our states,"(A) Persons born or naturalized governmental issue. This is where the your country and to your fellowmen.” country continues with the cooperation in the United States, and subject to the media excels, time to divide and By doing this, it will bring those of our government. That means your jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the conquer. Instead of acknowledging most together that really understand what is at senator and representative aid this United States." Americans revere the family unit, let’s stake. illegal baby invasion. None dare call it However a proviso limits foreigners cast doubt and make the homosexual © 2005 John Newby - All Rights treason. Most Americans mistakenly who have babies in America. It couldn't cause a civil rights issue. Instead of Reserved trust their politicians to do the right be clearer, children of foreigners, aliens acknowledging most Americans thing. Congressional members from or diplomats, who are subject to the understand that abortion is wrong, let’s every state betray that trust daily. jurisdiction of their home country, are make it a freedom to choose issue. The Fourteenth Amendment: It's a ineligible for citizenship. At the time the Instead of acknowledging most simple document, a constitutional Fourteenth Amendment was ratified we Americans want to drastically curtail Put the Power amendment drafted after the Civil War didn't have immigration laws. One illegals entering our country, let’s ignore to assure that newly emancipated black hundred and thirty eight years later we it and focus our stories on those dying in of the Press to slaves would never be denied are paying for the misinterpretation of the desert as they break the law. While citizenship by the States. The drafters it. most agree the environment is work for you had no idea that years later it would be Congress has the power to step in and important, the media blindly distorts the used to make a mockery of our correct this wrong, but don't hold your facts and makes it most difficult for even immigration laws. Alan Wall, an breath. There have been several bills the most knowledgeable to understand and your cause! American journalist living in Mexico dealing with this issue and most have reality. states, "An illegal alien can cross the died in committee. Except for a few In the end, we can throw out all labels border, have a baby five minutes later, brave individuals like Tom Tancredo of and issues and focus on two words. and that baby is automatically declared a Colorado and Rep. Goode of Virginia, Collectivism and individualism. citizen of the USA automatically.” there isn't enough chutzpah on Capital Collectivism means our rights are Call for more The illegal aliens don't have to go Hill to fill a thimble. Where are the granted after birth by government; the through any legal doors. They are Thomas Jefferson's and Ben Franklin's group is more important than the information. exempt from that. They are, in fact, when we need them? individual; democracy is more rewarded for disobeying U.S. laws by An important case, Hamdi vs important than the republic; individuals having their children granted automatic Rumsfeld was recently heard by the don’t have responsibility – the group has citizenship. In addition, the happy U.S. Supreme Court. Yaser Hamdi was a responsibility to raise kids, pass laws family is entitled to welfare benefits. captured during the Afghanistan war etc,; and finally the government’s proper And, illegal alien parents who have roll is to take initiative in all the affairs of (541) 474-7885 Continued on page 5 www.usobserver.com US~Observer • Page 5

Continued from page 1 Keeping At Risk ... on Monday November 8th, however on daughter’s to live around “alcoholics” has also been required to take classes November 5th Hartman received a call and abusive individuals and in and we have been informed that he will Oregon and Hartman's young daughter from Tina Amela at 1:55 p.m. informing November of 1999, Ms. Graham “was be allowed back in the home with was taken into state custody. him that “the problem had been transported to the Rogue Valley Medical Hartman's daughter once he completes On Thursday, October 28th Steve resolved and that he needed to take his Center on a police hold for a mental his course successfully. Hartman received a call from his daughter to his Mother's home at 3:30 health evaluation.” Sandra's detainment In a recent interview with Steve daughter's caseworker Tina Amela and p.m. so Sandra could pick her up.” In was the result of her informing Steve Hartman he stated, “It's obvious to me was informed that he needed to pick up shock, Hartman did as he was Hartman that she was going to kill that Tina Amela is inexperienced in his daughter immediately at the Central instructed. Later, as Hartman regained herself. Upon receiving phone calls these matters. She has caused me, my Point Police Department. Steve his composure he began asking from Sandra wherein she claimed she daughter and my entire family a great Hartman was granted physical custody questions and he received all the wrong was going to kill herself Steve Hartman deal of mental anguish over this in Juvenile Court of his daughter on answers, a trademark of DHS's called the Central Point Police (CPP). situation by not knowing her job. The October 29th at 11:30 a.m. Earlier on the involvement in many of the cases they According to the CPP “Ms. Graham said supervisors at DHS are trying hard to 29th Ms. Amila informed Mr. Hartman open. In short, DHS routinely takes that she made comments about taking a cover up her ineptitude. I've heard many that he could stop paying child support. (steals?) children when they shouldn't bunch of muscle relaxers and putting horror stories about DHS and now I've Mr. Hartman was informed by Sandra and in this instant case they chose to herself out of her misery.” experienced one personally.” Graham that there would be a court leave a child in a dangerous It is the well qualified opinion of the The US~Observer plans to start a hearing on November 3rd, and after environment under the guise that the US~Observer that DHS is too busy campaign much like we did when the numerous attempts to contact the problem was resolved as Robert stealing children from innocent parents director of DHS was Kay Toran. Kay caseworker he finally received a call Graham had been arrested and removed (to create permanent placements and Toran was removed from her position from Tina Amela on November 1st from the residence. It's incredible that a therefore more federal dollars) too and Children's Services Division (CSD) informing him there would be no court dysfunctional agency can remove a afford them time to properly investigate had to change their name in an attempt to on November 3rd and not to worry about child from an obviously dangerous the cases where children should be remove the stench. it. Mr. Hartman then asked if he should situation, have the Father place her in a removed from a dangerous Don't miss upcoming editions of the enroll his daughter in school at Rogue new school, fail to properly investigate environment. US~Observer wherein we will continue River Elementary because of the great the case and then within one week To date Steve Hartman really hasn't to report on this case and others in our travel distance between Rogue River reverse everything by placing the child learned much from DHS other than there effort to change the way in which DHS and Central Point and she said that he back with the dysfunctional will be no hearing to hold the mother does business. should, because it would be 4 to 6 weeks mother…and get away with it. accountable and thus protect his young Editors Note: As we go to press we until a dependency hearing. Hartman An Observer investigation has shown and vulnerable daughter. are informed that Robert Graham enrolled his daughter in Rogue River on that Sandra Graham has two older According to Hartman, “DHS is was sentenced to 20 days in jail, two November 2nd and she started school on children who have had severe making Sandra take classes so that she years supervised probation and November 3rd. disciplinary problems, some involving can learn to both recognize and then mandatory counseling for failing to Sandra Graham was scheduled to have law enforcement. Sandra Graham has supervise sex offenders in her home.” register as a sex offender while he was supervised visitation with their daughter made it a practice to allow her Amazing policy DHS! Robert Graham living with Steve Hartman's child…

Continued from page 4 The Abuse of the Fourteenth ... Immigration Law Enforcement, Thursday you can catch yours truly in the world. Five nights a week, Edwards submitted a ‘friend of the court’ or Las Vegas, Nevada on Mark Edwards’ engages patriots from across the nation Amicus brief. They asked the Supreme "Wake Up America" talk show on to bring you the latest on this nation- fighting for the Taliban. It was later Court to address the issue of whether 50,000watt KDWN-Am-720 10:00 PM destroying invasion. If you are affected learned that he had been born in Hamdi should be considered an to midnight PT, or on the internet at by illegal aliens, please write 600 to 800 Louisiana to Saudi nationals when his American citizen at all, since at the time wakeupamericafoundation.com. words for national publication. Your father was employed as a chemical of his birth his parents were foreign On the home page, click on name will remain confidential. engineer on a work visa. The family nationals with no fealty to this nation. americanvoiceradio.com heard around subsequently moved back to Saudi The decision came down last year and Arabia where Hamdi was raised. just like the rest of the elite Hamdi sued the U.S. government for establishment in this country the U.S. holding him in a Navy stockade for two Supreme Court ignored the issue of years. He demanded full rights of U.S. birthright citizenship except for a brief citizenship since by accident he statement by Justices Scalia and happened to be born here. The U.S. Stevens stating Hamdi was a “presumed government wanted Hamdi charged as a American citizen.” non-combatant and denied due process. So we live to fight another day. In the Rumsfeld representing the U.S. meantime the invasion/colonization of government didn’t raise this issue our country marches on. South Korean because he wanted to end birthright women can continue to visit citizenship but other groups saw the www.birthinusa.com and plan their possibility to finally challenge this fatal very pregnant United States vacations! flaw in our immigration law that is Write for that 28-point action letter to wrecking havoc on our country. stop this nation-destroying madness. One such group, Friends of For you West Coast night owls, every

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(AP) GRANTS PASS, OR - Loggers fish and wildlife. On Friday morning, February 11, 2005 many folks, mainly we just concentrate went to work without interference But the judge also said the Silver as most people driving to work were on living our lives. So, the thought of Tuesday, March 15th at the site of a 2002 Creek Timber Co. stood to lose entertaining pleasant thoughts about the preparing and delivering a plea to the forest fire, felling old-growth trees after $190,000 a week if logging is halted, upcoming weekend, and citizens Josephine County Board of the U.S. Forest Service closed off the and contractors working for the gathered at the steps of the Grants Pass Commissions seemed an overwhelming area to keep out protesters. company would lose $322,500 a week. Courthouse to protest an issue of task.” Citing safety concerns for loggers and Meanwhile, three of 27 protesters genuine concern to most people, the On Friday, February 11, 2005, less protesters alike, officials in the Siskiyou being held in the Josephine County Jail final drama of a nine day battle was than 8 hours from the scheduled National Forest on Monday closed the said they were on a hunger strike to quietly reaching its climax in the euthanasia, the Commissioners held a 700-acre area and roads leading to the protest jail conditions and the criminal boardroom of the Josephine County special conference with the Russells to timber sale. Protesters had impeded charges against them. Board of Commissioners Office. The hear their arguments in favor of rescuing loggers going to work. Sheriff's Lt. Howard Banks said six fate of two dogs known as 16974 in the dogs known as 16974 in kennel run Forest Service spokesman Tom inmates had filed grievances. He said he kennel run 13 impounded at Josephine 13. Lavagnino said a crew of loggers had no could not confirm whether protesters County Animal Control would “We were really nervous and the trouble getting to work Tuesday, and claiming to be on a hunger strike were ultimately be determined by Jim Riddle, Commissioners hit us with some very rangers had not spotted a tree sitter who eating. Chair; Dwight Ellis, Vice Chair; and Jim stringent questions. They were tough logging opponents said was in a fir tree. Raffenburg, Commissioner. and we knew that the fate of the dogs not Protesters are trying to stall the It all began the previous week when Jj only rested in our correct interpretation harvesting of trees killed by the fire in Did You Know? Jones, a Grants Pass resident, went to of the ordinances, but perhaps even old-growth forest reserves until federal Animal Control in Merlin to report an more so on convincing the judges can rule on two lawsuits The flag of Oregon is the only aggressive dog that had threatened her Commissioners of our abilities to challenging the timber sales. state flag with different when she was riding a bicycle. While protect the community from ever having Forty-three arrests have been made pictures on each side. On the there, she inquired about two Labrador to be threatened by these dogs again,” since a federal appeals court injunction reverse appears a beaver the Retrievers that had been impounded for said Ms. Jones. Mr. Russell added, “My barring the logging was lifted March 7. state animal. Both sides have a chasing a goat. After being informed wife and I have lost livestock to dogs field of navy blue with design in Tom Link, timber program manager gold. The front picture includes that it didn’t look like anyone was going and we realize the tremendous for the forest, said he was happy work a heart shaped shield with an to claim them and that the dogs would be economic impact it places on an could continue. eagle on top, surrounded by euthanized if the owner didn’t come agricultural community when "We realize there is a lot of litigation thirty-three stars. (The number forward, she volunteered her expertise irresponsible dog owners allow their involved in this, and there are more of states in 1859.) as a dog handler to rescue the dogs, pets to run loose and attack the decisions yet to be made by the courts," rehabilitate them, and place them with livelihood of others. Therefore, I was Link said. "So we'll just continue to do responsible owners ensuring that they impressed with the Commissioners’ what the court directs us to do." would no longer be a hazard to livestock genuine concern about the safety of the Also Tuesday, a federal judge in and the community. community, as well as their compassion Eugene denied the latest request from “I never expected that Animal Control for these dogs.” environmentalists to halt the logging. Officers Donnelly and Powell would The meeting adjourned with Jim Judge Michael Hogan said reject my offer of help with such blatant Riddle, Chair; Dwight Ellis, Vice Chair; environmentalists had raised serious rudeness and indifference,” said Ms. and Jim Raffenburg, Commissioner questions, including a suggestion that Jones. “I felt that their minds were made shaking the Russell’s hands and the Forest Service did not properly up that these two dogs were evil and promising to call them later that day ensure it was meeting its own guidelines needed to be destroyed no matter what.” with their decision. for preventing erosion and protecting Ms. Jones went on to explain that she “By the time we drove home, the researched Oregon State Statutes with Commissioners had left their answer, as respect to dogs chasing livestock and to the fate of the dogs known as 16974 in could find no precedent that dogs kennel run 13, on our answering absolutely must be destroyed, especially machine,” said the Russells. “We were when they did not actually bite or harm almost afraid to play the message, but the livestock in question. In fact, she did happily it was in favor of sparing the find that the option of rescue that she dogs’ lives,” they continued. proposed was, indeed, clearly written Now the dogs known as 16974 are into the code. called Riffle and Jackson and the “I tried to reason with the officers and behavior modification process to turn brought them copies of the ordinances, them into good dog citizens has begun, but with each effort I made, the wall thanks to the Josephine County Board of between us seemed to grow,” said Ms. Commissioners who set aside time, to Jones of her experience. The point of deliberate on the fate of two abandoned contention appeared to be whether or not dogs having no voice of their own. a citizen could act on behalf of the dogs (Postscript: Riffle and Jackson were if they were abandoned by the owner. fortunate to have someone give them a “Again,” said Ms. Jones, “I could find voice. You can help other dogs and cats nothing in the statute that indicated that that have no voice. If you are unable to only an owner can act on behalf of an adopt a pet, you can volunteer your time animal by filing a Writ of Review.” at a local shelter. And finally, if this Ms. Jones desperately sought the touched you in any way, please donate assistance of local Labrador Retriever any amount in the name of “The Dogs PROFESSIONAL FLOORS breeders, rescue organizations Known as 16974 in Kennel Run 13.” nationwide, and even Jackson County Send a copy of this article with your and COUNTERTOPS Animal Control in her efforts to gain check to your local shelter, or animal support for the dogs. Ms. Jones support group. Come on folks, just commented, “After receiving such write a check for even $1.00 and send it. positive responses from these sources, I Animals with no voice will appreciate Residential knew there had to be a chance to save it.) these dogs, but I didn’t know how to Editors Note: The US~Observer Commercial accomplish it.” commends the Josephine County The answer came during a meeting Commissioners for properly Installation Repairing with Josephine County Animal Control representing the public in this matter. Supervisor, George Witherington, Please read Ms. Jones letter to the which after a frustrating two day delay, Editor in this edition for an update finally took place Thursday morning, regarding Jackson and Riffle, “the February 10, merely hours before the dogs known as 16974 in kennel run dogs were to be euthanized. It was 13.” Seamless Dean Classic Installation Supervisor Witherington who pointed the way to the Board of Commissioners. CCB# 74744 “My husband, Jim Russell, and I are It’s your contributions that Licensed • Bonded • Insured 503-515-7051 not politically minded people,” said Ms. make these and other articles Jones. “We try to keep abreast of the in the US~Observer possible. Low Prices High Quality Free Estimates issues and vote responsibly, but like We thank all our supporters! www.usobserver.com US~Observer • Page 7

Continued from page 1 Jackson County Leads ... officials and their minions made efforts private property rights through to twist and obfuscate the issue but to no more government control. to side-step voter approved law…but avail. The people sent a resounding Planning Commissions in every city and compensation. not in Jackson County, Oregon. message to Salem that they want to county made it nearly impossible for the Measure 37 is only the first step in Jackson County Commissioners Jack control the use of their land. Even now, people to use their land as they wished. restoring land use to the land owner but Walker, Dennis C. W. Smith and Dave however, state officials are working to There was a myriad of government it certainly is a step in the right direction. Gilmour stepped forward to process undermine the wishes of the people. Boards, Departments and Panels that One major factor in halting the unfair requests brought by those who have In many Oregon counties governing worked overtime to deny land-owners taking of land by the state is to make been denied use of use of their land. It them compensate the landowner when their land for years by was a costly racket he is not allowed the use of his land. In the local planning beneficial only to America when someone, whether commission, the state those with an private or government, wants something Land Conservation interest in lining they must pay for it. No law should be and Development their own pockets made without compensation for a Commission (LCDC) and increasing taking. If the government has denied the and the Land Use government property owner use of his land and the Board of Appeal control over the owner has not been compensated for (LUBA). These private sector. For that taking the order should be void. government agencies every openly Nothing more nor less. and others have governmental Land use must be restored to the assiduously used policy and owner. If local government wishes to every legal department there impose restrictions on local properties mechanization Dave Gilmour pictured here on the left with Jackson County Commissioners was a half dozen they should have to bring these wishes to available, even those Dennis C.W. Smith (center) and Jack Walker (right) more quasi- the people and have them act on them. far outside their governmental Metropolitan areas should not have constitutional rights, to control private bodies are using every means possible parasites that lived off the land use control of rural land use. Land use issues property and deny Oregonians the use of to deter property owners from filing to regulations. should and must be locally directed. their land. have their property’s value restored. The planning commissions in each If the people of any town, city or One of the major forces working to From excessive fees to outrageous county became the sole arbiter of who county want control of their property return land use to the private property liabilities, property owners are now could use their land and who couldn’t. they had better step forward at election owners was Oregonians in Action led facing out of control leadership openly Thousands were denied not only the use time and vote in pro-property by Bill Moshofsky, Frank Nims and circumventing the vote of Oregon of their land but they were not candidates. The only way for people to Dave Hunnicut. They, with others, citizens and Amendment V of the US compensated for this taking. When maintain their rights is to exercise their effectively directed the fight for Constitution…But not in Jackson questioned, land use planners always rights! returning at least some private property County, Oregon where Commissioners fell back on the authority of the LCDC. Editor’s Note: Jackson County rights back to land-owners. Hopefully C.W. Smith and Jack Walker readily It was never anyone’s fault locally that voters definitely made the right this effort will begin an avalanche of chose to represent their constituents and the landowner could confront directly. decision in the last election by electing interest and effort to return property the supreme law of the land, recently Owner after owner, across Oregon, was C.W. Smith to the Jackson County rights to the people. reiterated by Measure 37. In turn, stymied by government stone-walling Board of Commissioners. It appears Even with millions of dollars poured Commissioner Dave Gilmour who and effectively denied the use of their that the Observer has finally located into the state by outside agitators wanted to impose a permit fee on property. The process was made so county commissioners (at least two interested in state control of private applicants was forced to side with them. costly and time-consuming that few anyway) that haven’t chosen lands Oregonians, in both metropolitan Since the 1960’s those in Oregon could afford to proceed past the local “MONEY and CONTROL” as their and rural areas, voted for private government have been slowly and board’s decision. They simply lost the god… property rights. State government insidiously maneuvering to erode use and control of their land without

Roseburg Optimist Club - The Race Over the Rapids

Team Race Event April 2nd April 2nd and 3rd. We are limiting the alternate paddlers in the event a team safety reasons. A suggestion might be race this year to 24 teams. The member can’t participate. caps or t-shirts, or banners and materials Summary of Event: racecourse is from Amacher Park to The race organizers are supplying to be placed at a potential “victory This feature of the Race Over the River Forks Park, and depending on the almost everything that’s needed to barbecue” after the team runs its course Rapids, in addition to the new kayak, water level will take an estimated 2-3½ participate; the raft, helmets, life or at the start or finish line. canoe and one man raft races, is hours. It is important to note that with jackets, paddles, etc. The one thing that It’s important to remember that any intended to allow local businesses, and higher water, this can be a more paddlers will need to provide for limitations imposed by the race their employees and families, to challenging race than individuals may themselves is a wet or dry suit. The organizers are only for the safety of the participate in an event that is exciting expect. Some of the rapids are technical water will be very cold in early April, participants, not to limit creativity or to and fun to watch and be a part of. in nature when the water is higher. With with a risk of hypothermia should a team keep teams from enjoying themselves. This is a race of 6 team member river winter water levels, even some larger member be forced to swim. Suits will be This is the first year of the addition of the rafts, all of professional quality, with craft such as jet boats have difficulty in available to rent at a cost of $20 per paddle craft races to the annual Race each raft captained by an experienced navigating some areas of the planned person. Over the Rapids, and there has been an river guide. It is intended to be a fun course. The schedule for the Raft Team The cost to the business is $250 per outpouring of enthusiasm for the race. race, perhaps where friendly rivalries part of the race is as follows: team. Our cost for the rafts is $75 per We are supported and aided by local and with other businesses can be developed, Saturday, April 2 team. Again, all profits go to the chosen statewide paddle craft professionals and as well as giving the sponsoring 8:30 A.M. Optimists children’s charities. the Northwest River Rafters business an opportunity to obtain First 6 teams attend a safety The races will be timed, and the 1st Association. It appears that this will be exposure as an employee oriented orientation along with kayak, through 5th place teams will get a tremendous addition to the Race Over company. Businesses that sponsor a race canoe and one man raft racers. “bragging rights” trophies. The first the Rapids, and as it grows, should team can pick anyone they want as a 9:00 A.M. place trophy will be a huge 3ft. trophy, become a Douglas County favorite. team member, and give those teams and First 6 teams of Rafters depart. second place will be 2½ft., third 2ft., If you need additional information, or their families the opportunity for a 1:30 P.M. fourth 1½ft. and fifth 1ft. to be displayed wish to discuss your participation, call pleasant outing sponsored by their Second group of teams arrive and proudly at the sponsors place of Ron Ellsworth, Ron Ellsworth Financial employer. As with all the other facets of attend safety briefing. business, or any other place the sponsor Services, at 677-0844 or Bill Blodgett, the Race Over the Rapids, all the profits 2:00 P.M. chooses. Oregon Ridge and River Excursions, at from the Rapids Team Race go to Second group of teams depart. Sponsors are allowed and encouraged 496-3333. Roseburg Optimist Club, children’s charities in Roseburg. The Sunday, April 3 to provide any means of identification P.O. Box 221, Roseburg, OR 97470 Optimists have donated over $30,000 to The schedule is duplicated from and promotional material for their various children’s needs over the last Saturday. paddle teams to set them apart from three years as a result of the Race Over The first 6 businesses to sign up will other business. The limitation to this is the Rapids. The business may be able to be given their choice of race time and that nothing can be attached to the team US~Observer take a tax deduction on the sponsorship. date. After that, businesses will be rafts and must be approved for safety by 233 Rogue River Highway The Raft Team, canoe, kayak and one allowed to choose the time and date of the race committee. In planning this, man raft races will be run on the North their run based on time slots left sponsors need to remember that this is a PMB #387 Umpqua River, at the same times as the available- first come, first served. The RACE, with paddlers shifting from Grants Pass, Oregon Jetboat Races are being run on the South teams contact person will be notified of place to place as the race dictates and 97527-5429 Umpqua River. the time and date of their run one week under the direction of the river captain, 541-474-7885 The Raft Team division will be started before the event. Sponsors may want to and that materials that hinder these www.usobserver.com at four times on Saturday and Sunday, pick 6 man teams and a couple of activities must be extremely limited for www.usobserver.com US~Observer • Page 8 “A Republic, If You Can Keep It” By John F. McManus any more than they should be violated by an unrestrained king or monarch. In Knowing that a democracy is a fact, they recognized that majority rule government of men in which the tyranny would quickly degenerate into of the majority rules, America's mobocracy and then into tyranny. They Founding Fathers wisely created a had studied the history of both the republic - a government ruled by law. Greek democracies and the Roman On Constitution Day, September 17, republic. They had a clear 2000, President Bill Clinton spoke at the understanding of the relative freedom ground-breaking ceremony for a and stability that had characterized the National Constitution Center at latter, and of the strife and turmoil — Independence Mall in Philadelphia. On quickly followed by despotism — that that occasion the president remarked had characterized the former. In that the men who signed the drafting the Constitution, they created a Constitution "understood the enormity government of law and not of men, a of what they were attempting to do: to republic and not a democracy. create a representative democracy." He But don’t take our word for it! heaped praise on "Washington, Consider the words of the Founding Franklin, Madison" for having created Fathers themselves, who — one after our form of government. another — condemned democracy. President Clinton turned the work of • Virginia’s Edmund Randolph the Founding Fathers on its head. participated in the 1787 convention. known as the "Father of the government." Washington, Franklin, Madison, and the Demonstrating a clear grasp of Constitution," wrote in The other men who gave us independence democracy’s inherent dangers, he Federalist, No. 10: "... democracies 20th Century Changes and our form of government never set reminded his colleagues during the have ever been spectacles of out to create a "representative early weeks of the Constitutional turbulence and contention; have ever These principles were once widely democracy." Those men recognized in Convention that the purpose for been found incompatible with understood. In the 19th century, many of democracy a danger to freedom just as which they had gathered was "to personal security, or the rights of the great leaders, both in America and deadly as that represented by the worst provide a cure for the evils under property; and have in general been as abroad, stood in agreement with the despotism. Mr. Clinton is not the first which the United States labored; that short in their lives as they are violent Founding Fathers. John Marshall, chief politician to claim the Founding Fathers in tracing these evils to their origin in their deaths." The Federalist justice of the Supreme Court from 1801 established a democracy. But the fact every man had found it in the Papers, recall, were written during to 1835 echoed the sentiments of Fisher that this error is widespread does not turbulence and trials of the time of the ratification debate to Ames. "Between a balanced republic make it any more accurate. democracy...." encourage the citizens of New York to and a democracy, the difference is like • Samuel Adams, a signer of the support the new Constitution. that between order and chaos," he wrote. Intent of the Founders Declaration of Independence, • George Washington, who had American poet James Russell Lowell championed the new Constitution in presided over the Constitutional warned that "democracy gives every The deliberations of the Constitutional his state precisely because it would Convention and later accepted the man the right to be his own oppressor." Convention of 1787 were held in not create a democracy. "Democracy honor of being chosen as the first Lowell was joined in his disdain for strict secrecy. Consequently, anxious never lasts long," he noted. "It soon President of the United States under democracy by Ralph Waldo Emerson, citizens gathered outside Independence wastes, exhausts and murders itself." its new Constitution, indicated during who remarked that "democracy Hall when the proceedings his inaugural address becomes a government of bullies ended in order to learn what on April 30, 1789, that tempered by editors." Across the had been produced behind he would dedicate Atlantic, British statesman Thomas closed doors. The answer was himself to "the Babington Macauly agreed with the provided immediately. A "... democracies have ever preservation … of the Americans. "I have long been Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia republican model of convinced," he said, "that institutions asked Benjamin Franklin, been spectacles of turbulence government." purely democratic must, sooner or later, "Well, Doctor, what have we and contention; have ever been • Fisher Ames served destroy liberty or civilization, or both." got, a republic or a in the U.S. Congress Britons Benjamin Disraeli and Herbert monarchy?" With no found incompatible with during the eight years Spencer would certainly agree with their hesitation whatsoever, of George countryman, Lord Acton, who wrote: Franklin responded, "A personal security, or the rights Washington’s "The one prevailing evil of democracy is republic, if you can keep it." of property; and have in presidency. A the tyranny of the majority, or rather that This exchange was recorded prominent member of party, not always the majority, that by Constitution signer James general been as short in their the Massachusetts succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying McHenry in a diary entry that convention that elections." was later reproduced in the lives as they are violent in their ratified the By the 20th century, however, the 1906 American Historical deaths.” Constitution for that falsehoods that democracy was the Review. Yet in more recent state, he termed epitome of good government and that years, Franklin has – James Madison democracy "a the Founding Fathers had established occassionally been misquoted government by the just such a government for the United as having said, "A democracy, passions of the States became increasingly widespread. if you can keep it." The NRA’s multitude, or, no less This misinformation was fueled by Charleton Heston quoted correctly, according to President Woodrow Wilson’s famous Franklin this way, for the vices and 1916 appeal that our nation enter World example, in a CBS 60 ambitions of their War I "to make the world safe for Minutes interview with Mike He insisted, "There was never a leaders." On another occasion, he democracy" — and by President Wallace that was aired on December 20, democracy that ‘did not commit labeled democracy’s majority rule Franklin Roosevelt’s 1940 exhortation 1998. suicide.’" one of "the intermediate stages that America "must be the great arsenal This misquote is a serious one, since • New York’s Alexander Hamilton, in towards … tyranny." He later opined: of democracy" by rushing to England’s the difference between a democracy and a June 21, 1788 speech urging "Democracy, in its best state, is but aid during WWII. a republic is not merely a question of ratification of the Constitution in his the politics of Bedlam; while kept One indicator of the radical semantics but is fundamental. The word state, thundered: "It has been chained, its thoughts are frantic, but transformation that took place is the "republic" comes from the Latin res observed that a pure democracy if it when it breaks loose, it kills the contrast between the War Department’s publica — which means simply "the were practicable would be the most keeper, fires the building, and 1928 "Training Manual No. 2000-25," public thing(s)," or more simply "the perfect government. Experience has perishes." And in an essay entitled which was intended for use in law(s)." "Democracy," on the other proved that no position is more false The Mire of Democracy, he wrote that citizenship training, and what followed. hand, is derived from the Greek words than this. The ancient democracies in the framers of the Constitution The 1928 U.S. government document demos and kratein, which translates to which the people themselves "intended our government should be correctly defined democracy as: "the people to rule." Democracy, deliberated never possessed one good a republic, which differs more widely A government of the masses. therefore, has always been synonymous feature of government. Their very from a democracy than a democracy Authority derived through mass with majority rule. character was tyranny; their figure from a despotism." meeting or any other form of "direct The Founding Fathers supported the deformity." Earlier, at the In light of the Founders’ view on the expression." Results in mobocracy. view that (in the words of the Constitutional Convention, subject of republics and democracies, it Attitude toward property is Declaration of Independence) "Men … Hamilton stated: "We are a is not surprising that the Constitution communistic — negating property are endowed by their Creator with Republican Government. Real does not contain the word "democracy," rights. Attitude of the law is that the will certain unalienable Rights." They liberty is never found in despotism or but does mandate: "The United States of the majority shall regulate, whether it recognized that such rights should not in the extremes of Democracy." shall guarantee to every State in this be based upon deliberation or governed be violated by an unrestrained majority • James Madison, who is rightly Union a republican form of Continued on page 11 www.usobserver.com US~Observer • Page 9 J u r Judge Forbids Board to Pray at Meeting i s BY FRED BATISTE basically what decided the case against behalf. It accused the board of endorsing D Staff Writer - Daily Star it, Wilson. prayers or religion at Loranger High i AIG Insurance, who holds the School School football games, during the s NEW ORLEANS -- A federal judge Board's errors and omissions insurance, school day and at School Board P ruled to permanently forbid the hired New Orleans-based law firm meetings. r Tangipahoa Parish School Board from Adams and Reese in January 2004 when Berrigan ruled the School Board failed u beginning its meetings with prayers that the board turned the case over to the the U.S. Supreme Court's Establishment d violate the First Amendment's company. Lawyers from the firm had Clause tests created after the 1971 e "Establishment Clause.” recommended a policy stating the board Lemon vs. Kurtzman case. n U.S. District Court Judge Ginger could open meetings with a brief A government practice is c Berrigan ruled in favor of John Doe in "nonsectarian, nonproselytizing" unconstitutional under Lemon if it lacks e the Loranger parent's federal lawsuit invocation. a secular purpose, its primary effect against TPSB. Board attorney Chris Moody told The either advances or inhibits religion or it The decision against the School Board Daily Star in August 2004 that excessively entangles government with marks the third time in more than nine nonproselytizing meant the invocation religion. years that the board has lost a lawsuit does not try to convert someone or bring Citing the Sept. 3, 2003, board Ineffective Assistance when the American Civil Liberties them into a particular religious fold. meeting, Berrigan stated School Board Union acted on the plaintiffs' behalf. Nonsectarian meant it cannot be invocations lacked a secular purpose, Claims Spur New "It showed what they were doing had a directed to any one belief. despite the board asserting it had a religious purpose. Essentially, Moody said Friday the School Board secular purpose on that date. Trials unfortunately for them, they reached a will have to honor Berrigan's injunction, "Furthermore, the School Board point where they decided we're going to and he assumed the board will want to specifically refused to adopt a written By BILL BRAUN do it our way and not be concerned with appeal. The board has 30 days from the policy that would provide nonsectarian World Staff Writer how a federal court decides," attorney ruling to file an appeal to the 5th U.S. and nonproselytizing prayers. Ron Wilson, who represented Doe, said Circuit Court of Appeal. Accordingly, this court holds that the The issue of adequate counsel in Friday. "It's sort of a lack of willingness "I can't count those votes. This issue is School Board's practice of opening each capital cases is getting more attention. to do what was equally right." very important to them. I expect they meeting with a prayer lacks a secular Convicted child murderer Wayne The Tangipahoa Parish School would appeal," he said. purpose," the judge wrote in her ruling. Henry Garrison returns to a Tulsa Board's August 2004 unanimous refusal The case was originally filed in © Hammond Star County courtroom this spring with a to adopt a proposed prayer policy was October 2003 by the ACLU on Doe's new opportunity to avoid the death penalty. Garrison got some relief on the matter Irate Federal Judge Imposes Lifetime Ban on Defense Lawyer of punishment because of an appellate court's finding that he received By Anthony Lin based subsidiary, IV Phoenix Group Inc. according to the hearing transcript, "ineffective assistance" from his New York Law Journal The plaintiffs claimed DRS and suggested that the defense counsel had lawyers. another group of defendants, engineers used his declaration to goad the judge That is an issue that has been regularly A federal judge on Long Island has formerly employed by IV Phoenix who into declaring a mistrial. raised for years, but apparently has banned from his courtroom for life a went to work for DRS, misappropriated "And now by this ploy to just infuriate grown in visibility on the local level. defense lawyer who claimed the judge trade secrets, infringed patents, you by putting in misstatement after In another Tulsa County case, a panel improperly communicated with a co- breached confidentiality agreements misstatement after misstatement, he's of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals defendant's lawyer. and interfered with business finally going to get what he wants," heard arguments last week concerning Eastern District Judge Leonard D. relationships, among other claims. Lysaght said at the hearing. "And it the fate of Lonnie Wright Richie, who Wexler said the "lies" contained in an Trial in the matter began in February. would go against every notion of justice received a death sentence for a woman's affidavit submitted by attorney Joseph The lawyer for the engineers, William if that were to occur." hanging in 1991. J. Fleischman made him so furious that Heller of Newarks' McCarter & English, Fleischman, who declined to A Tulsa federal judge decided last year he could not proceed with an ongoing met with the judge Feb. 25 to discuss a comment, said at the hearing that he had that the 1993 trial performance of trial in which Fleischman represented possible settlement dismissing the not behaved improperly in any way. Richie's lawyer was sufficiently the main defendant. "I think the half- engineers from the case. It was this The judge disagreed and asked deficient to require a new trial, a truths and the lies by Mr. Fleischman discussion Fleischman apparently Fleischman: "[W]hy didn't you put in decision the state Attorney General's have messed this up," Wexler said, declared an improper ex parte that [Mr. Heller] spoke to you about Office is challenging. according to a transcript of a March 1 communication. what he came in to see me about? ... Why And in a Tulsa County case where the hearing. "And therefore I declare a According to the transcript, the judge didn't you put that in so someone who death penalty is not a factor, Randy D. mistrial." defended his discussion and pointed out does read this will know what the truth Barrett awaits a May retrial on a murder The judge barred Fleischman from that Heller and Fleischman were both is? It was a half-truth, which are lies." charge linked to the freezing death of a ever again practicing before him and he paid by DRS and had appeared to Wexler said he did not want to give man who was beaten and abandoned also barred Fleischman's law firm, behave as co-counsel. The judge noted Fleischman an advantage in the outside. Bridgewater, N.J.'s Norris McLaughlin that he had also spoken to DRS's in- litigation but said he felt he had no Barrett, who was convicted of & Marcus, so long as Fleischman house lawyer in a similar context. choice but to declare a mistrial under the manslaughter for a 1989 killing, got a remained a partner at the firm. Heller said he had told Fleischman circumstances. life prison term in 2002 for the Fleischman is representing DRS about his discussion with the judge. The The judge apologized to the plaintiff hypothermia homicide. Technologies Inc., a Parsippany, N.J.- plaintiff, represented by Brian Lysaght before addressing Fleischman. The state Court of Criminal Appeals based maker of defense electronics, in a of DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, had "You got what you wanted," the judge reversed that result in 2004 and found suit brought in October 2001 by an also consented to the discussions. said. "But let the record indicate you are that his lawyer was ineffective for Alabama-based competitor, the Miltope Fleischman had requested a mistrial on barred for life. And so is your firm.” misinforming Barrett, during strategy Corp., and Miltope's Hauppauge, N.Y.- several occasions and Lysaght, talks, about potential parole eligibility. "I think the courts are being more careful in review, particularly of death- about that lawyer's ability to continue to Oklahoma Indigent Defense System -- have necessarily required a close penalty cases, because of increasing prosecute," Harris said. awareness of wrongful convictions," at a 2004 hearing regarding the examination of his "horrendous past." Defense lawyers who are judged to effectiveness of Garrison's trial lawyers In that stage, prosecutors presented Tulsa attorney Rob Nigh said. have been ineffective "actually get "The perception we have is different -- "failed to ask trial counsel any evidence that Garrison killed two small rewarded" by getting relief for a questions" regarding preparation, children when he was ages 13 and 14. than 10 years ago. Courts are reviewing defendant, he said. ineffectiveness claims against a investigation, strategy or the case for Two of Garrison's trial lawyers, Art In Garrison's case, jurors in 2001 mitigation. Fleak and Kurt Hoffman, said they did backdrop that did not exist" in years imposed the death penalty after finding past, said Nigh, who did not defend Lumpkin's opinion described the their best to defend him. him guilty of murdering 13-year-old circumstances of that hearing as "unique From a defense perspective, bringing Garrison, Richie or Barrett. Justin Wiles in 1989. "There is a heightened degree of and utterly bizarre." up Garrison's past was "extremely In a Nov. 30 ruling, the Court of When oral arguments were presented difficult," Hoffman said recently. accuracy required in a death penalty Criminal Appeals upheld the first- case," and a defense lawyer assumes "a in May, Lumpkin told OIDS attorney "A trial attorney has to temper his degree murder conviction but decided Michael Morehead that the defense actions so as not to alienate the jury," he heightened responsibility for doing your that Garrison deserves a resentencing job correctly," Nigh said. approach to that earlier hearing "causes said. trial. me consternation." Appellate lawyers and courts, relying District Attorney Tim Harris is He was "likely denied the effective troubled by an attitude that he perceives But Harris has noted that the reversal on transcripts of words spoken at trial, assistance of trial counsel" regarding of the death sentence means this "goes in make "an evaluation after the fact of an within the defense ranks in which there presentation of mitigating evidence, is "no stigma attached" in getting a case the victory column" for OIDS. attorney's performance," he said. that order says. According to the appeals court, the If a death verdict results, lawyers reversed for ineffectiveness. The opinion by Appeals Judge Gary "If that was said about a prosecutor of defense's sentencing stage presentation should expect the effectiveness issue to Lumpkin noted the word "likely" was "did little to educate the jury" about be raised, he said. mine, I think I would have to think hard used because appellate lawyers with the Garrison's adolescence, which would Continued on page 10 www.usobserver.com US~Observer • Page 10 Continued from page 1 Nevada Agency Run Amuck The US~Observer An informed electorate is the Open Letter to Congressman Jim Gibbons foundation of a Free Society! Dear Congressman Gibbons:

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injury and arson crimes but granted That ruling vacated a no-parole life her death by strangulation. Continued from page 9 Ineffective Assistance ... Jackson a new murder trial based on term imposed in 1997 when jurors On Richie's behalf, defense attorney uncertainty about whether public convicted Richardson of murdering a Melody Brannon failed to elicit critical defenders discussed a key strategy man outside a Tulsa restaurant in 1995. testimony from a medical examiner to "It's not about our egos," Hoffman matter with him. The death penalty was not pursued in oppose the prosecution's "hanging" said. "It's about the system and justice At a hearing, Chief Public Defender that case, and a retrial was avoided when theory, U.S. District Judge Terence Kern for the clients." Pete Silva and Assistant Public Richardson pleaded no contest in wrote in a new-trial ruling. To establish ineffective assistance, a Defender Paula Alfred "amazingly" September to a reduced charge of Last year, Tulsa County judges defendant must show that his counsel's testified that "they could not recall second-degree murder. changed their pay practices to increase performance was constitutionally whether they did or did not discuss the He accepted a 20-year prison term in substantially the compensation deficient -- violating a Sixth strategy of conceding guilt" with which he got credit for more than eight available for lawyers appointed to Amendment right -- and that the Jackson, that appellate ruling says. years already spent behind bars. A capital cases. performance prejudiced the defendant, Alfred said she and Silva decided that Department of Corrections Web site The system "needs to figure out a way with a "reasonable probability" that it "it would be best to concede guilt" in the indicates he is scheduled for a parole to get more people in the bar who are impacted the trial result. first stage and present mitigating hearing in February 2006. able to do death-penalty cases," Harris said he is training prosecutors evidence in the second stage in an effort In Richie's case, jurors convicted him Presiding District Judge Tom Gillert to be "proactive" in court to preserve a to save Jackson's life. That was "clearly of murdering Laura Launhardt, who said. "There really aren't that many." sufficient record on defense-related acceptable trial strategy," but Jackson disappeared after shopping at a Tulsa James Rowan, an Oklahoma City issues that could be reviewed on appeal. insisted that neither lawyer discussed it store. Her bound body was found days lawyer with ample experience in death- Finding that Tulsa County public with him before his trial, and he wanted later in an abandoned house. penalty defense, said that in trying to defenders did not give effective to assert a claim of self-defense, The defense's theory was that she had minimize ineffective assistance issues, assistance, the state appeals court in according to the opinion by then- been left alive and unintentionally it is "the right idea to increase the 2001 reversed a murder conviction and Appeals Judge Steve Lile. hanged herself while alone and training and skill of capital trial death sentence against Shelton A 2003 retrial, where Jackson was struggling to get free. Prosecutors lawyers." Dewayne Jackson and gave him a new defended by OIDS attorneys, produced maintained that Richie actively caused trial in the beating-stabbing death of his the same outcome on the murder count - girlfriend, Monica Decator. - guilty and a death sentence. Prosecutors theorized Jackson killed Benton Eugene Richardson, on the Decator in 1997 after he inflicted life- other hand, faced the prospect of never threatening injuries to her 2-year-old leaving prison until U.S. Senior District son, Oz. Judge James Ellison ruled in 2004 that The appeals court affirmed sentences attorney Michael Wehba provided of life plus 35 years in prison for child- ineffective assistance.

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Continued from page 8 which was later published and widely Chesterton put it in the 20th century: for the socialist revolution, and the A Republic ... distributed in pamphlet form, amounted "You can never have a revolution in socialist revolution is the inevitable to a jolting wake-up call for many order to establish a democracy. You sequel to the democratic revolution. The by passion, prejudice, and impulse, Americans. In his remarks, Welch not must have a democracy in order to have ultimate aim for which all communists without restraint or regard to only presented the evidence to show a revolution." strive is to bring about a socialist and consequences. Results in demagogism, that the Founding Fathers had Communist revolutionary Karl Marx communist society." license, agitation, discontent, anarchy. established a republic and had understood this principle all too well. Still another champion of democracy This manual also accurately stated that condemned democracy, but he warned Which is why, in The Communist is Mikhail Gorbachev, who stated in his the framers of the Constitution "made a that the definitions had been distorted, Manifesto, this enemy of freedom stated 1987 book Perestroika that, "according very marked distinction between a and that powerful forces were at work to that "the first step in the revolution by to Lenin, socialism and democracy are republic and a democracy … and said convert the American republic into a the working class is to raise the indivisible.... The essence of perestroika repeatedly and emphatically that they democracy, in order to bring about proletariat to the position of ruling class, lies in the fact that it unites socialism had formed a republic." dictatorship. to win the battle of democracy." For with democracy [emphasis in the But by 1932, pressure against its use what purpose? To "abolish private original] and revives the Leninist caused it to be withdrawn. In 1936, Means to an End property"; to "wrest, by degrees, capital concept.... We want more socialism and, Senator Homer Truett Bone (D-WA) from the bourgeoisie"; to "centralize all therefore, more democracy." took to the floor of the Senate to call for Welch understood that democracy is instruments of production in the hands This socialist revolution has been the document’s complete repudiation. not an end in itself but a means to an end. of the State"; etc. underway in America for generations. In By then, even finding a copy of the Eighteenth century historian Alexander Another champion of democracy was January 1964, President Lyndon manual had become almost impossible. Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee, it is Communist Mao Tse-tung, who Johnson boasted in a White House Decades later, in an article appearing in thought, argued that, "A democracy proclaimed in 1939 (a decade before address: "We are going to try to take all the October 1973 issue of Military cannot exist as a permanent form of consolidating control on the Chinese of the money that we think is Review, Lieutenant Colonel Paul B. government. It can only exist until the mainland): "Taken as a whole, the unnecessarily being spent and take it Parham explained that the Army ceased voters discover that they can vote Chinese revolutionary movement led by from the ‘haves’ and give it to the ‘have using the manual because of letters of themselves largesse from the public the Communist Party embraces the two nots’ that need it so much." What he protest "from private citizens." treasury. From that moment on, the stages, i.e., the democratic and the advocated, of course, was a Marxist, not Interestingly, Parham also noted that the majority always votes for the candidates socialist revolutions, which are an American, precept. (The way Marx word democracy "appears on one hand promising the most benefits from the essentially different revolutionary put it was: "From each according to his to be of key importance to, and holds public treasury with the result that a processes, and the second process can be abilities, to each according to his some peculiar significance for, the democracy always collapses over loose carried through only after the first has needs.") But other presidents before and Communists." fiscal policy, always followed by a been completed. The democratic after have advanced the same goal. Of By 1952 the U.S. Army was singing dictatorship." And as British writer G.K. revolution is the necessary preparation course, most who support this goal do the praises of democracy, instead of not comprehend the totalitarian warning against it, in Field Manual 21- consequences of constantly transferring 13, entitled The Soldier’s Guide. This more power to Washington. But this new manual incorrectly stated: CABLE EMPLOYEE lack of understanding is what makes "Because the United States is a revolution by the ballot box possible. democracy, the majority of the people SOUGHT The push for democracy has only been decide how our Government will be For possible because the Constitution is organized and run...." (Emphasis in being ignored, violated, and original.) Information circumvented. The Constitution defines Yet important voices continued to regarding and limits the powers of the federal warn against the siren song for government. Those powers, all of which democracy. In 1931, England’s Duke of David are enumerated, do not include Northumberland issued a booklet agricultural subsidy programs, housing entitled The History of World White’s programs, education assistance Revolution in which he stated: "The innocence. programs, food stamps, etc. Under the adoption of Democracy as a form of Constitution, Congress is not authorized Government by all European nations is to pass any law it chooses; it is only fatal to good Government, to liberty, to Possibly employed by authorized to pass laws that are law and order, to respect for authority, Schenck Communications, constitutional. Anybody who doubts the and to religion, and must eventually Underground Specialties, intent of the Founders to restrict federal Gibson Tech., or Blue produce a state of chaos from which a Mtn. Telecom. powers, and thereby protect the rights of new world tyranny will arise." the individual, should review the In 1939, historians Charles and Mary language in the Bill of Rights, including Beard added their strong voices in favor the opening phrase of the First of historical accuracy in their America Amendment ("Congress shall make no in Midpassage: "At no time, at no place, law..."). in solemn convention assembled, As Welch explained in his 1961 through no chosen agents, had the speech: American people officially proclaimed ... man has certain unalienable rights the United States to be a democracy. The which do not derive from government Constitution did not contain the word or at all.... And those … rights cannot be any word lending countenance to it, abrogated by the vote of a majority any except possibly the mention of ‘We, the more than they can by the decree of a People,’ in the preamble.... When the conqueror. The idea that the vote of a Constitution was framed no respectable people, no matter how nearly person called himself or herself a unanimous, makes or creates or democrat." determines what is right or just During the 1950s, Clarence Manion, becomes as absurd and unacceptable the dean of Notre Dame Law School, as the idea that right and justice are echoed and amplified what the Beards simply whatever a king says they are. had so correctly stated. He summarized: Just as the early Greeks learned to try "The honest and serious student of to have their rulers and themselves American history will recall that our abide by the laws they had themselves Founding Fathers managed to write both established, so man has now been the Declaration of Independence and the painfully learning that there are more Constitution without using the term permanent and lasting laws which ‘democracy’ even once. No part of any cannot be changed by either sovereign of the existing state Constitutions kings or sovereign people, but which contains any reference to the word. [The must be observed by both. And that men] who were most influential in the government is merely a convenience, institution and formulation of our superimposed on Divine government refer to ‘democracy’ only to Commandments and on the natural distinguish it sharply from the laws that flow only from the Creator of republican form of our American man and man’s universe. Constitutional system." Such is the noble purpose of the On September 17 (Constitution Day), constitutional republic we inherited 1961, John Birch Society founder REWARD from our Founding Fathers. Robert Welch delivered an important speech, entitled "Republics and Our constitution works. Our Democracies," in which he proclaimed: $3,000.00 great republic is a government "This is a Republic, not a Democracy. of laws, not of men. Let’s keep it that way!" The speech, --Gerald Ford www.usobserver.com US~Observer • Page 12 Teens' Risky Behavior US~Observer’s Down Since 1993 Hero Spotlight Grandparents By KEVIN FREKING epidemic and an expansion of Associated Press Writer community policing, including more for Family Justice officers in schools. WASHINGTON - In many ways, Parents, too, have played a role in the Mary and Ordell Regeth founded children today are doing better than their gains. Grandparents for Family Justice in 1985 parents did. They take fewer drugs, Parents who grew up in the 1970s and and have saved many children from commit fewer crimes and have fewer early '80s saw or experienced the effect falling into the system and away from babies. If they would just lay off the of drug use and have been more their families when in 1997 they chips and soda. assertive about controlling their own succeeded in establishing the Kinship A huge increase in obesity and children's behavior, he said. Law. increases in young people living in But Butts cautioned against linking Prior to their involvement most poverty and in single-parent homes have trends to specific policy changes children were turned over to state-run held back even greater progress in without further study. For example, he homes and foster care which sets them children's overall well-being during the said that linking lower juvenile crime on a possible journey down a road that Mary & Ordell Regeth past three decades, according to the rates to funding police officers during can lead from home to facility to Founders of Grandparents for Family Justice Foundation for Child Development. the Clinton years sounded more like possible dysfunction and poverty. The Child Well-Being Index, which political speculation to him. tracks 28 separate measures, shows that Butts also said improvements in such The US~Observer would like to extend our thanks for their since 1993 children have been engaging diverse categories as drug use, teen outstanding display of humanity and commitment to justice. in less risky behavior. And while all is pregnancy and crime are hard to explain not rosy, the report says the overall well through government initiatives. being of children is improving. "I think it's not so much a sign of Among the findings: policy-making as it is a fundamental Are Certain Lives _The adolescent and teen birth rate has cultural shift," Butts said. dropped from 20 births per 1,000 girls in The study was based on a series of Not Worth Living? 1992 to an estimated 10.9 births per statistical reports from the Census 1,000 girls in 2004. Bureau, the National Center for Health www.jewishworldreview.com – Dr. how their influence began and grew, and _Binge drinking among high school Statistics and other government Leo Alexander served with the Office of tells of patients who have been subject to seniors has fallen from 36.9 percent in agencies. The section on smoking, the Chief Counsel for War Crimes in final decisions by doctors -- often 1975 to about 29.2 percent in 2004. drinking and drugs used data from Germany after Hitler was defeated. He against the patients' wishes and the Binge drinking is the consumption of University of Michigan research. interviewed the physician defendants, wishes of their relatives -- because it was five or more alcoholic drinks in one In some categories, particularly German doctors who had been involved thought that their lives were no longer setting, and respondents were asked health, America's children aren't doing in practices such as euthanizing worth living. It's called involuntary whether they had consumed such so well. The obesity rate among mentally handicapped Germans that led euthanasia. amounts within the past two weeks. children 6 to 17 has tripled since 1975 to the "final solution" for Jews and As Smith says in "The Culture of _The number of youth offenders — — from about 5 percent to nearly 16 others. In a prophetic article in the July Death": "With the exception of assisted and victims — has fallen dramatically percent. 14, 1949, issue of the New England suicide -- due mostly to the widespread since 1993. The number of youths age Test scores measuring academic Journal of Medicine, Alexander media coverage of Jack Kevorkian -- 12-17 who were victims of crime in achievement have remained stagnant examined the initial causes of the most people are but dimly aware of what 1994 stood at 120 per 1,000 children. during the three decades studied — Holocaust. "The beginnings," he wrote, is happening." "Popular culture," he The number of crime victims in that despite increases in per-pupil spending. "were merely a subtle shift in emphasis adds, "promotes many of these practices same age group is projected at about 45 Also, the number of children 18 and in the basic attitude of the physicians. It as a compassionate response to the trials per 1,000 in 2004. under in single-parent households has started with the acceptance, basic in the and tribulations of illness." Jeffrey Butts, director of the youth increased over the past three decades. In euthanasia movement, that there is such Like Alexander in 1949, Smith is justice program at the Urban Institute, 1975, about 17 percent of children lived a thing as life not worthy to be lived." trying to alert all of us to the falling said the report speaks well of today's in single-parent households. By 2003, The Nazis described the patients they barriers against killing. Moreover, he teens. that number had increased to 27.5 killed as "useless eaters." warns that a consequence of this "Maybe we have the next 'greatest percent, with most of the increase Not long before Alexander's death in devaluing of disabled and otherwise generation' coming along here," Butts occurring in the 1980s. 1984, he warned that the same lethal fragile lives is the creation of "a duty to said. "We can do better and we are doing attitudes were taking root in this country. die." I have debated academics who Kenneth Land, a professor at Duke better, but not better enough," said He cited the rise of the "death with seriously believe that people who are no University and author of the report, said Fasaha Traylor, senior program officer dignity" movement, which advocated longer "productive" should die rather a number of factors contributed to the at the foundation. what later became more widely known than expect their families and the rest of improvement. The Foundation for Child as assisted suicide -- doctors providing society to pay what it costs to keep them For example, the declining crime rate Development is a national philanthropy the means for patients to kill themselves, alive. could be attributed to a better economy, dedicated to helping children, which is now legal in Oregon. In the Cambridge Quarterly of the waning of the crack cocaine particularly the disadvantaged. Recalling his research for the Healthcare Ethics last fall, there was this Nuremberg trials, Alexander said of medical advice by Drs. Lawrence J. what was happening here: "The barriers Schneiderman and Alexander Morgan NRA Leader Advocates Guns against killing are coming down." Capron: A new book by Wesley Smith, "The "A judge who orders that a severely for Teachers Culture of Death: The Assault on disabled child be kept alive rarely sees Medical Ethics in America," documents firsthand the long-term consequences of PHOENIX (AP) - All options should "No gun law, no policy that you could Alexander's concerns more fully and that decision, which remain a be considered to prevent rampages like implement now or that was already lucidly than any volume yet published continuing vivid experience for the the Minnesota school shooting that took implemented, I think, could possibly on whether humanity will be able to health professionals who must provide 10 lives - including making guns prevent someone so intent on remain humane. care for the child." available to teachers, a top National destruction," she said. "I think Writing about "The Culture of Death," Therefore, so that these Rifle Association leader said Friday. everything's on the table as far as Dr. N. Gregory Hamilton, president of "professionals" can be relieved of such a "I'm not saying that that means every looking at what we need to do to make Physicians for Compassionate Care, "vivid experience," a compassionate teacher should have a gun or not, but our schools safe for our students." points out that "prominent bioethicists judge should order that the child not be what I am saying is we need to look at all Froman said if it is the responsibility now claim the value of each human life kept alive. That is the culture of death. the options at what will truly protect the of teachers to protect students in a can be traded off in complex cost- Smith ends "The Culture of Death" students," the NRA's first vice school, "then we as a society, we as a benefit ratios. ... Members of the with the following words: "We all age. president, Sandra S. Froman, told The community have to provide a way for bioethics elite have quietly convinced We fall ill. We grow weak. We become Associated Press. the teachers to do that." many of our judges, hospital disabled. A day comes when our need to Gun-control restrictions would not Froman cited the 1997 school administrators and doctors that some receive from our fellows adds to far have prevented Jeff Weise, 16, from shooting incident in Pearl, Miss., where human lives have relatively less value, more than our ability to give in return. killing nine people and himself Monday a teacher retrieved a gun from his car and therefore less right to equal When we reach that stage of life ... will at Red Lake High School near Bemidji, when a student opened fire, then held protection." we still be deemed persons entitled to Minn., said Froman, an attorney the student at bay until police arrived. I have known and read Wesley Smith equal protection under the law?" expected next month to be elected A law prohibiting guns in schools "is for a long time, and I have often cited If only in self-defense, you ought to president of the NRA, which claims 4 not going to stop someone who has evil him in this column because of the range, read "The Culture of Death" and discuss million members. in their heart and who has the capacity to depth and accuracy of his research. His it with your doctors and your family. The presence of an unarmed guard at commit those crimes from doing them," new book names a number of these And put your wishes in writing. the school failed to stop the siege, she Froman said. bioethicists -- whom I called, years ago, noted. "the new priesthood of death." He shows www.usobserver.com US~Observer • Page 13 Judges Say Overhaul Would Weaken Bankruptcy System

By Peter G. Gosselin have let the system spin out of control. that 10% or more would be able to pay. The legislation would require debtors Times Staff Writer "They're part of the … problem," Those opposed to the changes contend to agree to repayment plans with a five- declared Jeff Tassey, a Washington that most people who file for bankruptcy year minimum repayment schedule, up WASHINGTON — For nearly a lobbyist who heads the coalition of are truly distressed financially — and from the current three-year minimum. It decade, proponents of overhauling the credit card companies, banks and others say the success that courts have in would also boost the chances that nation's bankruptcy laws have described that has spearheaded the overhaul drive. collecting as much as they do under debtors would be required to continue their aim as ensuring that Americans "They're not real judges, not Article 3 Chapter 13 shows the system is working. paying some debts even after a plan's who enter bankruptcy court do not judges," Tassey said. He was referring According to figures from the U.S. successful completion. escape bills that they can truly afford to to Article 3 of the U.S. Constitution, Trustee Program, a Justice Department Todd Zywicki, a law professor at pay. under which judges in the regular agency, Chapter 13 debtors repaid George Mason University in Virginia, But only weeks before Congress is federal court system are appointed for almost $3.6 billion in 2003, the latest said the shift away from the "fresh start" likely to approve the long-sought life. Bankruptcy judges are appointed year for which figures are available. philosophy is justified because another overhaul, bankruptcy judges across the under Article 1 to 14-year renewable But critics say the courts' success with bedrock American value — that people country warn that the measure would terms. Chapter 13 is threatened by several who incur debts should pay them — is undermine the very section of the law As matters now stand, financially little-noticed elements of the proposed being sullied under the current system. under which debtors are now repaying distressed Americans generally have legislation: But many bankruptcy judges and more than $3 billion annually to their two options in bankruptcy. They can file independent experts warn that equally creditors. a Chapter 7 case, in which they forfeit Auto Loans compelling values would be lost if the These judges say the effect of the most of their assets in return for proposed measure becomes law. overhaul would be to discourage most cancellation of most debts and a debt- Under current law, those who file Practically, they warn, debtors who forms of personal bankruptcy, which for free "fresh start." Or, they can file a under Chapter 13 must repay car loans would no longer qualify for Chapter 7 nearly two centuries has served as a Chapter 13 case, in which they get to only up to the amount the car is worth at and fail to complete Chapter 13 safety net for people in economic keep most of their property but must the time they enter court, or they risk repayment plans would either have to trouble. agree to repay a portion of their debts losing the vehicle. A debtor who bought keep paying creditors indefinitely or "The folks who brought you 'those over a period of time. a $24,000 sport utility vehicle and filed drop out. who can pay, should pay' are pulling the Some advocates for changing the for bankruptcy two years later, for "If you're confronted with a mountain stuffing out of the very part of the system have contended that these example, might have to pay far less of debt and have no hope of getting out bankruptcy law where debtors do pay," provisions should be rewritten to because the vehicle had depreciated. from under it, you're either going to go said Keith Lundin, a federal bankruptcy address a kind of moral laxness in By reducing what debtors owe auto underground or turn to crime," said judge in the eastern district of Tennessee bankruptcy practices. lenders in this fashion, the law ensures Kenneth N. Klee, a former Republican in Nashville and an authority on "When you have seen a system that more money for other creditors. And, congressional staffer who was one of the bankruptcy repayment plans. has gone from a few hundred thousand according to bankruptcy experts, it chief authors of the last major "The advocates aren't trying to fix the cases to 1.5 million last year — most of means that auto lenders are treated on an bankruptcy law change in 1978 and now bankruptcy law; they're trying to mess it that increase during the fat years of the equal footing with other "secured" teaches law at UCLA. up so much that nobody can use it," Clinton administration — you must creditors — they are promised More broadly, say judges and others, Lundin charged. conclude something is not right," said repayment only to the value of the item the ability to start over after running into In interviews, a dozen current or Edith H. Jones, a federal appellate court they could repossess. financial problems should not be former bankruptcy judges, whose judge in Houston who served on a blue- Under the new measure, debtors discounted. names were suggested by proponents as ribbon panel to review bankruptcy law would have to pay the full amount on "Loads of people have filed well as opponents of the overhaul in the 1990s and is widely believed to be any vehicle purchased within 2 1/2 years bankruptcy — Mark Twain, Buster legislation, described what they saw as seen as on President Bush's short list for of bankruptcy, or risk losing the vehicle. Keaton, Walt Disney," said Lundin, the the problems that could result from key a position on the Supreme Court. The change may seem minor to an Nashville-based bankruptcy judge. provisions of the new measure. "People have been encouraged to see outsider, but not to Chapter 13 debtors or "Bankruptcy is a very American safety Judges now have broad discretion to bankruptcy as an easy way out of bankruptcy judges. "That's going to be a net. determine how much a debtor must pay uncomfortable situations," Jones said. big deal," predicted A. Thomas Small, a "It's part and parcel of the American to creditors and on what schedule after Overhaul proponents have also said bankruptcy judge for the eastern district dream." declaring bankruptcy under what is that the new measure is so narrowly cast of North Carolina in Raleigh. It would known as Chapter 13. But under the that it would affect no more than 15% of mean that many repayment plans that legislation, that discretion would be bankruptcy filers. work now would fail under the new substantially curtailed. The legislation would require courts measure, he said. Colorado: Jurors' The new legislation would bar courts to check whether people make more from reducing the amount that many than their state's median income and can Repayment Plans Bible reading cited; debtors would have to repay on their pass a "means test," which gauges cars and other big-ticket items. It would whether they have enough to cover Under current law, the debtor and his penalty altered also extend the length of time people allowable living expenses, pay secured lawyer work out a repayment plan that would have to make repayments and creditors such as mortgage lenders and they think represents the most the debtor DENVER (AP) -- The Colorado impose repayment schedules that critics still have some left over for unsecured can pay and still cover basic living Supreme Court on Monday threw out describe as so onerous that many creditors such as credit card companies. expenses. A bankruptcy judge must the death penalty in a rape-and-murder debtors would fall behind. Those who are above the median and eventually approve the plan, which case because jurors had studied Bible The result, the judges said, would be have the means would no longer be usually has reduced or stretched-out verses such as "eye for eye, tooth for the collapse of more repayment plans, allowed to file under Chapter 7 and payments to creditors. In the meantime, tooth" during deliberations. forcing debtors out of bankruptcy court wipe out most of their debts, but would the debtor immediately begins making On a 3-2 vote, justices ordered Robert protection. Creditors then could try to have to file Chapter 13 cases and agree payments to a court-appointed trustee. Harlan to serve life in prison without force debtors to pay the full amount to a repayment plan. Under the legislation, many debtors parole for kidnapping 25-year-old owed — not the reduced amount a judge Nearly all congressional Republicans, would have to make full payments on cocktail waitress Rhonda Maloney in had ordered — by moving to repossess together with many Democrats, support such big-ticket items as houses, 1994 and raping her at gunpoint for two their belongings or bringing legal the overhaul measure, which the furniture and appliances. They would hours. actions. Many people would have to pay president has warmly endorsed and said have to make those payments directly to The jurors in Harlan's 1995 trial creditors far into the future, the critics he would sign. The Senate passed the the lenders. And at the same time, they sentenced him to die, but defense said, and thus be unable to restart their measure this month in a 74-25 vote. would have to start paying the court- lawyers discovered five of them had economic lives, a long-held aim of Approval from the House is expected appointed trustee for debts to doctors, looked up Bible verses, copied them bankruptcy. next month. credit card companies and other down and talked about them while Repayment plans "are pretty fragile However, largely overlooked in the unsecured creditors. deliberating a sentence behind closed documents to begin with, but they're debate has been a series of proposed Many bankruptcy judges say debtors doors. going to get a lot more fragile under changes in Chapter 13 that critics say who come before them often do not have The Supreme Court said that "at least these conditions," said Ronald Barliant, would make it harder for debtors to stick enough income to make both sets of one juror in this case could have been a former bankruptcy judge from the with repayment plans — the opposite payments. influenced by these authoritative northern district of Illinois in Chicago. effect of what supporters say they want. The result, they warned, would be that passages to vote for the death penalty "It's going to take away of lot of the Critics, including bankruptcy judges many debtors' plans would quickly fail. when he or she may otherwise have incentives" for people to enter in California, North Carolina, voted for a life sentence." repayment plans, said David W. Massachusetts, and Florida say there is Starting Over During oral arguments before the Houston III, a bankruptcy judge from nowhere near the fraud in the system Supreme Court last month, defense the northern district of Mississippi in that advocates claim. Under current bankruptcy law, two attorney Kathleen Lord said the jurors Aberdeen. They cite a study by the nonpartisan guiding principles are that debtors had gone outside the law. "They went to Overhaul proponents respond to such American Bankruptcy Institute, which should not be required to repay the Bible to find out God's position on criticisms by contending that the current concludes that only about 3% of those indefinitely, or they effectively become capital punishment," she said. bankruptcy system is rife with fraud and who wipe out their debts in Chapter 7 indentured servants to their creditors, Prosecutors had argued that jurors abuse and is stacked against creditors. could afford to repay a portion in and that they should eventually be given should be allowed to refer to the Bible or Many proponents are deeply scornful of Chapter 13. Lobbyists for the credit a debt-free "fresh start" on their other religious texts during bankruptcy judges, who they charge card and banking industries estimate economic lives. deliberations. www.usobserver.com US~Observer • Page 14 Incredible Shrinking Colorado Governor Bill Owens

By Frosty Wooldridge said the bill would NewsWithViews.com create fear in the immigrants, but “It’s a sad day in America when law refused to say they makers side with law breakers against were illegal aliens. If law abiding citizens.” African- you were there, you American Ezola Foster might think you Two weeks ago, after hearing 28 were hearing Colorado citizens speak in favor of rationalizations from Representative David Schultheis’ H.B. nut cases on Judge 1271, which prohibits illegal aliens Judy. from gaining taxpayer If you rob a bank, benefits—Democrat Terrance Carroll you fear jail. If you stood up and announced that all 28 men cheat on an exam, you and women in favor of upholding the fear being flunked. If law—were racists. you broke into Quite a few of those who spoke were America illegally, you grandmothers and grandfathers in their fear deportation. If 70’s. Carroll, an African-American, you are a legal somehow ‘knew’ they were racists immigrant, you have no fear of other states. He said, “At one time, facilities. Never mind that 24 hospitals because they supported the rule of law. whatsoever. California suffered 250,000 illegal and ER wards bankrupted in California He purported they were ‘racists’ Last month, writer Terry Graham aliens, but today, they have three last year. They passed Proposition 187. because they asked their representatives exposed Governor Bill Owens for million. Arizona follows with 500,000 They must be racists. to abide by their oath of office to stand endorsing and promoting a booklet illegal aliens and their hospitals are in Contrary to Carroll’s racist charges, for Coloradans. They were ‘racists’ welcoming illegal aliens into Colorado. financial crisis. Arizona approved African American Terry Anderson because they didn’t want their tax Owens boldly showed illegal aliens Proposition 200 to stop illegals from supports H.B. 1271. African American dollars paying for federal criminals who how to find employment, gain free gaining services for which they have no Ezola Foster supports it. Hispanics broke into America against our laws. medical services, avoid deportation and business gaining. Virginia’s House and Haydee Pavia and Priscilla Espinoza They were ‘racists’ because they send money back to Mexico in his Senate passed the same kind of bill a support H.B. 1271. Are they racists? expressed their First Amendment rights. “Guide to the Mexican Migrant.” The week ago. Idaho gathers its forces to In 1994, the U.S. Commission on Of the seven who spoke against the problem--Owens stands in violation of stop illegals. Iowa passed a bill to stop Immigration Reform, chaired by highly- bill, two were hospital administrators federal laws: USC 8, Section 1324, 274, illegals from gaining driver’s licenses. regarded African-American who didn’t want to report on those they 275, 276 and 277. He was touted as the Arkansas moves toward its own bill to Representative Barbara Jordan, served who resided in Colorado best governor in America in the stop illegals from receiving services famously stated "...it is both a right and a illegally. When asked who they billed September 2, 2002, National Review, they do not warrant. Let’s face it; they responsibility of a democratic society to for unpaid services by illegals, hospital John J. Miller, “America’s Best are illegally in our country. They are manage immigration so that it serves the administrator Hudson said, “We bill the Governor: For Republicans—A Rocky federal criminals that can be deported.” national interest." State of Colorado.” In other words, he Mountain High—Bill Owens.” Representative David Schultheis According to Terrance Carroll in doesn’t mind making us pay for 250,000 Ironically, he serves illegal aliens better showed the committee a Colorado poll Colorado, Barbara Jordan must be a illegal aliens using our hospitals, but than citizens of Colorado. showing 80 percent of voters approved racist! he’s upset that he might have to report Speakers for the bill included of H.B. 1271. According to Carroll, It’s a sad day in Colorado when that fact. With his perspective, Dr. William Herron of they’re all racists. Never mind that lawmakers like Terrance Carroll call law California suffered 24 hospitals www.defendcoloradonow.com. He Arizona is overrun with 500,000 illegal abiding Coloradans who participated bankrupting in 2004. They failed offered persuasive reasons for passing aliens while suffering 57,000 car thefts with reasoned speeches as “racists.” It’s because three million illegal aliens in the bill. He moved to Colorado from per year and has become the drug route a pathetic moment in history when a California use hospitals without paying. Los Angeles because of crime, loss of of choice. They passed Proposition 200, sitting governor breaks federal laws in After those hospitals bankrupted, English, gridlock, drugs and chaos of which according to Carroll, they must be favor of federal criminals from foreign American citizens lost their medical that city. “We’re driving Colorado into racists. Never mind that California with countries. It’s a sad day in Colorado care. the same nightmare as Los Angeles if 3.1 million illegals looks like the Titanic when those who are elected to represent ACLU spokeswoman, Cathy Hazouri, we continue this magnet of freebies for sinking with $38 billion in debt. Never us; instead, represent illegality, growing said that the bill was an invasion of illegal aliens in Colorado…does mind California’s exploding crime, crime, growing educational chaos and privacy for illegal aliens. It’s okay that anyone here want Colorado to add a schools in chaos, air pollution and the loss of the rule of law. illegals invaded our country but it’s not million illegal aliens?” gridlock along with a state cost of $9.2 Editors Note: For more articles like okay that we invade their privacy. That One speaker attempted to show the million for illegals using schools, this one, go to NewsWithViews.com. makes a lot of sense! Another woman committee the crisis from the standpoint welfare, education and medical Immigration Minuteman Project Begins This Week By Gentry Braswell "The message is for President Bush he has met with Minuteman Project And since March 14, she said on Herald/Review and Congress to remember who they organizers to tell them to obey the law or Friday, there had been a 1 percent drop work for," he said. face the law. in apprehensions, relative to the same TOMBSTONE - Emotions and But local law enforcement worry Simcox said members of an anti- 10-day period during 2004. opinions vary in Cochise County and about unforeseen results, and the American, racist group from California This, however, could be just as much a beyond regarding the controversial Border Patrol's official stance is it "have threatened to come out and result of the recent increase of Border Minuteman Project. doesn't need the project's assistance. confront us with weapons. To instigate a Patrol field personnel and equipment, But no matter what the view, the U.S. Rep. Jim Kolbe said Wednesday confrontation to taint the mission." and not necessarily because of next border watch effort is set to start on during a speech in Tucson that the "We must be exemplary in our month's Minuteman Project, Zortman Friday. project will only complicate the efforts behavior to succeed," he said. said. "Well, volunteers continue to pour in," of border enforcement, as well as the The project's objective is to prove that Simcox said Minuteman collaborators said co-organizer Chris Simcox of issue itself. saturating the border with patrol will will hold informal rallies next Saturday Tombstone. "We have 1,100 confirmed Simcox said he and co-organizer Jim prevent illegal immigration, he said. and Sunday, at both Douglas' and Naco's RSVPs from people we've screened and Gilchrist have contracted with private But, he said, that must be done Border Patrol headquarters. deemed as responsible, rational citizens security officers for their own personal scrupulously and peacefully to be seen These rallies are to be "pro-Homeland who understand that this is a peaceful protection after receiving threats. as legitimate. Security" demonstrations, he said. political protest." "Border Patrol is already seeing a "We're inviting people to show support The Minuteman Project is a "We've got some personal security, for decrease," he said, because "we have for the Border Patrol," Simcox said. monthlong endeavor where organizers especially myself and Mr. Gilchrist, in publicized that we're going to patrol." "And demanding that the president give plan to deploy civilian volunteers at case there's any violent opposition," he The Tucson Sector has recorded them our blessings on spending Cochise County's U.S.-Mexico border, said. 210,718 apprehensions since Jan. 1, whatever it takes to support that border." in turn reporting any illegal border Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever according to Border Patrol The message, he said, is directed activity to the U.S. Border Patrol. The has expressed concern about the two Spokeswoman Andrea Zortman. She toward Washington, D.C., not at Mexico project is focusing on the San Pedro organizers' safety, as well as his concern said this is a 6 percent increase of City. Valley, a hot spot for illegal border for the many other participants, apprehensions from the first quarter of crossings. onlookers and Mexican nationals. And 2004. Continued on page 15 www.usobserver.com US~Observer • Page 15

Continued from page 14 Immigration Minuteman ... Bills Aim to Limit Lawsuits Against Weapons Makers

On April 16, there is scheduled another By Karen Dandurant the 34th to prohibit politically use of the their product is wrong." demonstration, which he called the motivated, "frivolous" lawsuits against Hamm invites gun manufacturers, like "Boston Tea Party rally," to demonstrate PORTSMOUTH, New Hampshire - the firearms industry. The New Sigarms in Exeter, and Sturm, Ruger & against what Simcox calls "taxation Gun manufacturers, including Sigarms Hampshire bill prohibits lawsuits Co., Inc. in Newport, to come up with misrepresentation" in terms of federal of Exeter, don’t want to be sued by third dealing with the illegal use of guns by sensible legislation on their own. border-security spending as it relates to parties when someone illegally uses third parties, those who obtain guns "Create something that passes the local taxpayers. their products. legally. It does not prohibit suits based laugh test and I’m sure we could make On Friday, those volunteers that show Gun control advocates, on the other on allegations of defective products or progress," said Hamm. "However, they up in Tombstone for the project will hand, oppose legislation that would negligence of a dealer. create products that kill people and are spend all day being briefed at an prevent civil liability actions against the Gun control advocates are lobbying occasionally going to get sued. There’s a orientation and registration seminar at gun industry. against the two bills. clear liability risk." Schieffelin Hall. That’s how the political battle lines are The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun The bottom line, Erhardt said, is that Official participants will be issued drawn as, once again, bills are pending Violence is conducting an online the gun control lobbyists are trying to Minuteman identification cards, in both the U.S. House and Senate that petition drive asking citizens to urge bankrupt the industry. He said the information packets and maps to their would limit legal action against gun their legislators not to support the bills. money the industry is spending to assigned patrol areas. companies. "If this passed, it would be the first defend itself is not being spent investing Simcox said estimations regarding the HR 800 is under consideration by the time in U.S. history, and possibly world in new machinery, engineers, upgrades, local economic boost anticipate about a House Subcommittee on Commercial history that a single industry was singled research and development or product half-million-dollar influx from visiting and Administrative Law, while S 397 is out to be immune to suit," said Peter testing. media, participants and curious slated for a future Senate calendar. Hamm, director of communications for Hobbs said cases against the industry onlookers. The legislation was introduced last the Brady Campaign. "There’s no are often thrown out of court, but are still "This is going to be a boom event for year but was defeated in the Senate after precedent to it. It takes away the rights of costing the industry millions of dollars. our local economy," Simcox said. amendments were attached to it, all victims of gun violence." "This is a jobs bill as well as a Second Tombstone Councilman Moe Sinsley including one that would have extended Hamm said the problem with the bill is Amendment issue - the right to bear agreed that it could be a windfall for for 10 years the ban on assault weapons that it would make gun dealers who turn arms," said Erhardt. "They want to drive Tombstone if all goes well. that expired last year. a blind eye to straw purchasers immune us out of business, but 40 million "In talking to most of the motel In New Hampshire, both Republican from their negligence. Americans enjoy the hunting and sport owners, and the RV park owners, they Sens. Judd Gregg and John Sununu "There are a number of cases of industry." have a lot of booking," Sinsley said. voted against the measure, while Reps. victims injured because of the Sigarms supplies weapons to the But, he added, it remains to be seen Charlie Bass and Jeb Bradley voted in negligence of a gun dealer," said Hamm. Homeland Security Department, whether all of these people arrive to favor of it. "A guy and woman walk into a dealer. including the Coast Guard, as well as fulfill their reservations. Barbara Riley, representing Sununu, He points out the guns he wants, gives state and local police in several states, "For a lot of people it will be their first said the senator supports the bill and did her cash. She does the background check Erhardt said. time in, so there will be a curiosity so last year, until the assault weapons and turns over the guns." factor," he said, which is a significant amendment was attached. Kelly Hobbs, spokesperson for the PRO-GUN CONTROL VIEW variable in predicting any economic Last year, former Gov. Craig Benson National Rifle Association, said the bill impact. signed a bill into law that made the state is intended to save the lawful American Information compiled by Physicians firearms industry from frivolous for Social Responsibility for the year lawsuits, based on the actions of 2001, using data sources such as the criminals. Centers for Disease Control and the Richardson Bill Holds "The gun ban lobby has not been able Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and to achieve their goal of legislating guns Firearms: Agencies Accountable When out of existence, so they’ve taken to the court in an attempt to litigate them out of ! 29,573 people were killed with a They Sue Citizens and Lose existence," said Hobbs. "This bill does firearm in the United States, including not provide blanket immunity, and I 91 N.H. residents. Rep. Richardson recently introduced agency’s primary argument was based suggest the Brady people read it before ! 802 people died from firearm-related House Bill 3085 to hold state agencies on an administrative rule written 11 taking a position. Any dealer who breaks homicides in the U.S.; three were fiscally accountable when they sue months after Kerivan’s original arrest. the law or sells a defective product will residents of New Hampshire. private citizens and lose. Specifically, it Through his attorney, Kerivan argued not be immune from prosecution." ! Suicide with a firearm was the leading enables citizens to recover what they that Oregon Revised Statues exempted There are changes that could be made cause of violent death in New spent for attorney fees and costs after him from having to secure any type of to the legislation that Hamm said might Hampshire. Homicide with a firearm they have prevailed in court. The bill permit for his agricultural activities. On make a difference. is the fourth leading cause. may help curtail what many believe are April 25, 2001, a Josephine County "Should Smith & Wesson, or any other ! For every firearm fatality in the United frivolous and vindictive lawsuits against Circuit Court judge agreed with gun manufacturer, be responsible if a States, there are two non-fatal firearm private citizens. Kerivan and determined the state’s bad guy shoots someone with a gun that injuries. "I know Southern Oregonians who analysis flew “in the face of the plain was sold legally?" asked Hamm. "Of ! There are eight times the number of have been unjustly sued, repeatedly, by reading of the statute…” Throughout course not. But if a manufacturer sells to firearms dealers as there are state agencies," Richardson said. "This the legal battle, Kerivan spent more a dealer who traffics, and they are McDonald’s franchises in America. bill warns the Executive Branch of our than $100,000 in attorneys fess and informed of it and do nothing, then yes, government that unnecessary lawsuits other costs to defend himself. they should be accountable." PRO-FIREARMS VIEW against the people will not be tolerated." Current law provides for the recovery Hamm said the court system has a way Richardson cited the case of Robert of attorneys fees and other costs when of dealing with frivolous lawsuits: The Statistics released by the National Kerivan, a Cave Junction farmer who citizens prevail in court. However, the suits are dismissed. The precedent this Rifle Association, the National Center has been sued four times by the Division Court’s narrow interpretation of the law would set could be devastating, he for Health Statistics and the National of State Lands (DSL). Kerivan has since has prevented many citizens from being added. Safety Council: received an injunction against DSL to reimbursed. HB 3085 improves law that "Let’s immunize the pharmaceutical prevent further harrassment from the was originally passed by the Legislature industry, the auto industry," said Hamm. ! The nation’s violent crime rate has agency. in 1981. "They are all sitting, watching this. decreased every year since 1991 and is DSL sued Kerivan, and had him "HB 3085 offers additional protection You’d not be able to ever sue anyone. It’s now at a 27-year low. arrested, for removing materials from a to citizens by making current disgraceful, and the industry knows ! Firearm accident deaths have been stream bed (located on his own farm) accountability statutes more effective this." decreasing for decades. Since 1930, without first getting a permit from the and applicable to failed agency their annual number has decreased 76 agency. DSL claimed Oregon lawsuits," Richardson said. This bill is SIGARMS’ VIEW percent, while the U.S. population has Administrative Rules gave them the for Mr. Kerivan and other citizens who more than doubled and the number of jurisdiction to require permits for “fill have been the target of merciless and Paul Erhardt, spokesman for the firearms has quintupled. Among and removal” activities. According to a relentless litigation by the state.” Exeter-based gun manufacturer children, such deaths have decreased witness present at court proceedings, the Sigarms, said the precedent spins in a 89 percent since 1975. different direction. ! The firearm accident death rate is at an "If any manufacturer makes a all-time annual low, 0.26 per 100,000 Have the Web Site Design and defective product, or sells a gun population, down 92 percent since the Implementation illegally, we still have that liability under all-time high in 1904. US~Observer for your Small, this bill," said Erhardt. "If we can be ! 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UMATILLA, OREGON LAKE COUNTY, OREGON Judge Garry Reynolds Judge Lane W. Simpson

JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON Sheriff Dave Daniel

Send us your nominations for our HALL OF SHAME

Please send FACTUAL accounts of your candidates incompetencies or corruptions. Be sure to include a photo suitable for Framing in “The Hall of Shame” JOSEPHINE COUNTY, NEVADA STATE OREGON Governor Kenny Guinn The Observer Staff will deem if they are worthy. D.A. Clay Johnson

Anywhere, USA All too often today innocent people are convicted or wrong rulings are handed down from incompetent or corrupt judges, in concert with incompetent or corrupt attorneys, which literally ruin the lives of those on the receiving end of the injustice.

The US~Observer has a “Hall of Shame” for the corrupt or incompetent. This section of the newspaper will be permanent, meaning that once a corrupt or incompetent official, judge or attorney is listed, they will remain there until they reverse their corrupt or incompetent acts and write a sincere letter of apology to their victim. This is unlikely to ever occur, so those listed can look forward to the public seeing their picture in each future edition under the “Hall of Shame” heading.

Our first inductee was Judge Lane W. Simpson of Lake County, Oregon. Judge Simpson issues false findings of fact from his office in Lakeview, Oregon. Our most recent inductee is Josephine County, Oregon Sheriff Dave Daniel (see his corrupt or incompetent actions on the front page of this edition).

We could literally fill the entire paper with pictures and stories based on accusations. This won't happen. Our readership should (as always) know that we are speaking first hand and factually when they see an Observer reporter’s name attached to the by-line.

In Oregon a defendant can have a judge recuse him/herself for the simple reason that the defendant believes he/she can't receive a fair and impartial hearing from the judge appointed to their case. If a judge or attorney is listed in our “Hall of Shame,” don't dare use them. They are there for a valid reason and therefore should be shamed instead of paid. If a politician is listed, don't vote for them and be sure that you inform as many voters as possible that the politician is corrupt and/or incompetent.

If a corrupt or incompetent judge or attorney has damaged you, please send their name and picture along with the proof of their corrupt or incompetent acts against you and we will do everything possible to see that they receive “Hall of Shame” status. www.usobserver.com US~Observer • Page 19

Continued from page 2 outrageous amounts to the conscious- the call. At this time how can our justice a personal or political agenda within the Deschutes County ... less Ingram and his clients. system explain the 91 court registry criminal justice system. There are no While Oregon judges continue to entries, waste of DA employees’ time, whistle blowers in the local CJS to tell. signed onto Wishon’s property with her plead for more jail space and tax dollars judge’s time, postage, paper work, etc? Judge Neufeld signed the search warrant and subsequently filed a motion to quiet to conduct our courts their pleas fall on All this to prosecute over a $2.00 that gave Deputy Matt Tripp the title. At this juncture Hasse and Torres many “deaf ears.” If our court system chicken and the store management authority to set up the legal dominos that hired Claud Ingram to represent them. would stop allowing frivolous suits, wouldn’t sign a complaint. What about would later collapse. Tripp is the deputy Ingram, who has made it a practice to start conducting hearings with justice in the thousands of dollars citizen Nick that Gombos refused to allow to enter file frivolous lawsuits, then filed civil mind rather than procedures, and if law Gombos will pay to his defense the ranch property without a search actions against Weidner and Wishon and enforcement would properly attorney? How can all this be justified warrant. In obtaining the search warrant anyone who supported them, including investigate before charging a person, when the DA dropped the charges? it wasn’t the midnight ride of Paul the Observer for reporting on Wishon’s we would certainly have a windfall of Weren’t the charges as valid at the time Revere; this was the midnight ride of accusations and the public record funds for our justice system. of dropping them as when the DA’s Deputy Matt Tripp who woke a concerning the case. As for Claud Ingram, he will office filed them? In this case justice has slumbering Judge Gerald Neufeld to At the conclusion of Weidner’s March eventually have to face the Observer in not been served. Discovery evidence sign a search warrant. Tripp showed up 7th hearing Weidner’s mother Francis a courtroom where he and his clients was reportedly suppressed by the DA’s at Gombos’ home less than an hour later informed Captain Edwards and another will lose…period. Then Ingram and his office, when requested by Nick’s with four more deputies in tow to help deputy that they should be ashamed of clients will face the dreadful experience attorney. One tape turned over to the snatch Speckles the sleeping hen. When themselves. of being exposed and sued to the hilt for defendant had missing or deleted these human foxes got in the hen house, Victims of Ingram’s frivolous lawsuits their destructive practices. This is a segments. This and other aspects of the they reportedly injured a hen not often include people who can’t afford to promise from the US Observer to Claud case lead to the conclusion that, the involved in the snatch. Five members of hire expensive attorneys and his victims and his worthless clients. former DA (Clay Johnson) never the DA’s office spent time and money usually “settle with him rather than pay The US~Observer prompts anyone intended to take the case to trial! pursuing this case. They are: Plaintiff out thousands in fees to defend with information on any of the for the State of Oregon Linda Marie themselves.” Others who choose to participants or matters involved in Deputies Get Hundreds of Wingenbach, Lisa Marie Turner, Scott represent themselves usually get caught Ingram’s lawsuits to contact the Dollars in Overtime K. Titzler, Michael Sanchez OSB # up in procedural errors and lose Observer at 541-474-7885. 95159, and Cynthia Zamorski OSB # Five deputies (Gombos claims seven) 04461. These names all appeared on Continued from page 2 made the one o’clock hop out to the various documents in a failed attempt to Chicken Trial Aborted! ... Ray’s Market on February 14th, 05. ranch to secure Speckles the hen. As a convict Gombos. The judges that signed Daniel is either deliberately lying or is chicken Speckles was worth a couple of documents are Judge Gerald Neufeld, confused on the facts. On April 12th, 04 dollars. Some deputies were on their Judge Michael Newman, Judge Allen Announcer: “Let’s go to our first a representative for Ray’s Market stated regular shift and others were on Coon, and Judge Lindi Baker. Baker caller, good morning.” in a victim impact statement with a overtime. The overtime is reported to signed the civil compromise document Gombos: “Yes, hi, I wanted to touch of humor, “We at Ray’s believe have cost taxpayers around $300. The to drop the charges against Gombos. comment to Sheriff Daniels. My name is this whole mess was the result of an sheriff never mentioned this information And the last on the list is none other than Nick Gombos, and I’m the one that was unfortunate misunderstanding. … We on the radio. Also, the several patrol Sheriff Dave Daniel. Although he took a arrested for the chicken issue. First, think that Mr. Gombos’ heart was in the vehicles on location that night suck rear seat in this melodrama, Daniel what Sheriff Daniel is talking about is right when he took the chicken. expensive gasoline like a thirsty sheriff applauded and said, “I stand behind the absolutely false. Ah there are sheriffs Therefore, we would like to say, ‘no who recently cost the taxpayers well deputies and the procedures they that came out to my property and harm, no fowl.’ We do not favor jail over a hundred thousand dollars in two followed.” threatened to arrest me if I would not time. In fact, the charges against Mr. lost lawsuits arising from Daniel’s give back the chicken. I told them they Gombos should be dropped.” That wrongful firing of two deputies. Credibility is Everything had no proper right to come onto my contradicts Daniel’s last statement as to property. I’m going to make this long the store wanting to prosecute. Daniel Did a Deputy Come Out to The public relations (PR) aspect of story very short. Also in Ray’s Market in needs to read that last sentence very Investigate Your Burglary? arresting and prosecuting Nick Gombos their report itself said they did not want carefully, “Charges against Mr. by the JoCo Criminal Justice System has anything done whatsoever and that I Gombos should be dropped.” The Burglaries are rampant in Josephine been an absolutely miserable PR failure. could have the chicken. Now the search warrant that allowed JoCo County, which can be verified by This will no doubt hamper the full sheriff’s department, because I told deputies to invade the ranch where Nick checking the daily police reports in the effectiveness of law and order in this them to get off my property because they and Speckles were was signed March local paper. I talked to a fellow recently, county for the foreseeable future. When had no right, woke up Judge Neufeld, 24th, 04, and the victim’s statement was and he complained that thieves had hit these folks ask the voters for additional which is another good old boy of this signed 19 days later. I recently spoke to his place and got off with $1,000 worth funds to fight crime, how can the voters town, woke him up at twelve o’clock in the manager at Ray’s Market and asked of tools and personal effects. A deputy possibly trust their credibility? The the morning to get a warrant to come him if the store had ever wanted to did return his call, but none came to his good and responsible people within the onto my property to arrest me to get a prosecute Nick Gombos and he replied place to investigate and gather evidence. JoCo Criminal Justice System who find chicken. And they are lying after a writ without hesitation, “No.” The chicken However, deputies did turn out in force their jobs tougher to do can remember about a citation that was read to me. mess the deputies and the DA’s office for a $2.00 chicken that was being well the deputies, prosecutors, and judges Now, Sheriff Daniel, you know exactly personnel stepped in was of their own cared for. The reality is, it’s a rare whose names are listed in this article. what I’m talking about. And I want you creation. A fowl waste of public burglary in JoCo that gets investigated These public servants helped make this to tell the people the truth, and I want the resources, money, and a public relations by the Josephine County Sheriff’s county the laughingstock of the Oregon, people to know that if you are voting for nightmare. Office. They will tell you they don’t sheriffs and the nation. It all comes a levy that he needs more money he is have the manpower, resources, or down to what kind of people do you manipulating the situation and we are Hypothesis: funding. But who can forget Matt Tripp have running the store? All they have to going to be paying money for nothing. and four other Jim-Dandy deputies and show the public for the arrest and (This was the November Jail levy that DA Never Intended to Take Speckles the hen. The JoCo sheriffs prosecution of Nick Gombos is a fistful failed.) Now let me tell you something, Chicken Case to Trial office’s inefficiency is known to many of worthless feathers. he had seven police officers five patrol and articles describing this problem can Editors Note: John Taft has written cars out there for a chicken. Absolutely Sheriff Daniel made the statement, be found on newswithviews.com. and one more, in a long list of award ridiculous! Of course he will tell you “You know all I can say is uh Mr. usobserver.com The taxpayers are the winning expository articles on something else because he wants his Gombos has a trial upcoming and uh ones that get stuck with the bill (chicken Josephine County’s incompetent money….” (Money for the jail.) let’s wait and hear the results of that bill) and have poor protection from sheriff. In all fairness to Josephine Announcer: “Gentlemen, trial.” Fact, the case the JoCo Dave Daniel’s sheriffs office, while County’s new District Attorney comments?” prosecutors feverishly pursued against getting the boot. Stephen Campbell, he did drop the Sheriff Daniel: “You know all I can Nick Gombos, for nearly a year, was false charges and the Observer is say is Mr. Gombos has a trial upcoming simply unplugged. The case was Why the Voters Say No to aware of other cases in which and uh let’s wait and hear the results of dropped along with all the charges by Increasing the Criminal Campbell has acted that trial. I’m not going to come on and using a legal term, “civil compromise” fairly…Something that a worthless justify any of his remarks, certainly we that saves the new DA from looking like Justice System’s Budget. Clay Johnson would never do. As for have a disagreement. I can tell you that a fool. Former DA Clay Johnson is the Deputy District Attorneys listed the people that run Century Market gone. The new DA Steven Campbell The following is a listing of who’s who above, the public should realize they (Ray’s) did want to prosecute. There didn’t want the specter of Speckles the in the Josephine County Criminal did not initiate the chicken case and wouldn’t have been any reason for our chicken hanging around his neck, like Justice System that signed documents that they were directed by and officers to go out and contact him if they an albatross, stinking up the office, and that went into the case registry and took working at the pleasure of DA Clay didn’t.” affecting his persona. He did what legal action moving the chicken Johnson, a permanent member of the Johnson wouldn’t do, he got rid of the prosecution forward toward a trial date Observer’s Hall of Shame. In the Is the Sheriff Confused, chicken and Gombos by pulling the that never happened. The prosecution of future the Observer would encourage or is He Lying? plug. This should have been done last Nick Gombos by the DA squawks of Mr. Campbell to return phone calls, March, and wasn’t. It was a smart move duplicity, inefficiency, and the wasting we commend him for not pursuing The fact is at no time did Ray’s Market by Campbell. I called DA Campbell at of time and money on a grand scale. It questionable and ridiculous charges want to prosecute Nick Gombos for the time I received information on the indicates this case may not be an isolated and we wish him the very best at his taking the chicken home. I got that dropping of charges to confirm that the one in which taxpayer dollars are used to new and often strenuous job. information directly from a manager at case was over, however he didn’t return punish without going to trial to promote www.usobserver.com US~Observer • Page 20

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The [email protected] that trains Assistance Dogs as a to do any good with our population. department would be useful to arrest possible placement for Jackson. And stop talking about what should any who protest his war goals. These dogs have great potential be done, and do it. What is the man-in-the-street Please No Faxes they may lead to and we are so glad that the Board of interpretation of the first part of: errors. US~Oregon Observer Commissioners allowed them to be Sincerely Yours, “Section 3? Notwithstanding any reserves the right to edit for clarity rescued. Wendy Haberman other law limiting expenditures…” and for space requirements. Lastly, my husband and I are Gabbs, Nevada Opinions expressed in Letters starting a rescue group for Labs. Joe Spenner to the Editor, guest editorials and There is no Lab rescue in southern Stayton, Oregon submitted articles represent the Oregon. We named it the Empathy opinions of the authors and are Program Lab Rescue. It is named To the Editor not necessarily those of US~ after the Empathy Program that my Observer or its advertisers. husband and I conceptualized, Get a list of all the bills sponsored The Sonnentag Saga The goal of US~Observer is to developed, and briefly trialed before by Governor Theodore R. ensure “due process” and “equal my husband became ill four years Kulongoski, especially HB 2101 and Editors Note: The Observer has protection under the law.” ago. The program was designed as HB 5054. worked on the Sonnentag case Citizens who have founded and an aid to teach empathy for all living HB 2101 establishes “The Oregon much of the past two years in an support it believe in the Bill of things to school age children (grades Homeland Security Department.” To effort to vindicate him. Our efforts Rights and Article 1, Section 1, 2 - 4). Now that my husband is well accomplish this sneaky-feat over 70 finally paid off on December 16, of the Oregon Constitution again, hopefully we can rekindle the ORS laws are amended. This is the 2004. To appreciate the letter and which states: Empathy Program in schools here. Nationalizing of our police fax below our readership should Meanwhile, there is much work to be departments and entire government read the entire Sonnentag case “We declare that all done getting set up as a Lab rescue in one big grab. history on our web site at group. Presently, we are a "group" of 44 pages of legal language are used, usoregonobserver.com or men, when they form a two, but soon hope to be able to with only number references to laws usobserver.com. Our readership social compact are enlist the support of volunteers amended to fit the desires of the should also consider reading the equal in right; that all within the community. Governor and the Eastern elites, who letter from Attorney Houston I look forward to meeting you, Ed. pull his strings. below and then the letter to Mr. power is inherent in the We elect our county Sheriff’s Houston. This case makes for people, and all free Thanks again, which gives assurance of control fascinating reading. governments are Jj Jones-Russell over their Quality, and the Oregon State Police keep a clean record, so, Letter to Sonnentag from founded on their closely check “WHO,” is putting Attorney Houston authority, and instituted himself at the top in the Oregon for their peace, safety, To the Editor, branch of that system in the Dear Bud: “authors” own words in: and happiness and they I live in Gabbs and have so for ten “Section 3. The Governor shall I arrived in my office this morning have at all times a right years. I love this place. appoint the Director of the Oregon to find yet another letter from you to alter, reform, or I moved here from Condon, Homeland Security Department, that I have difficulty understanding Oregon because of the weather. I who holds office at the pleasure of or explaining. I had written you and abolish the government needed more sunshine for health the Governor.” faxed you yesterday indicating I was in such a manner they reasons. What happened to: copying your entire file for delivery. think proper. This I have followed with personnel “…Government derives its power Yet you write me a letter like you experience your articles on Gabbs. I from consent of the governed…” haven't heard from me. I find that to enumeration of rights, would like to add my opinion. I have Where does he get the notion he has be somewhat unusual and somewhat and privileges shall not a strong belief in the saying: I have a all “The Pleasure?” alarming. If you are not receiving my be construed to impair right to my opinion, just as you have “Section 3. For purposes of faxes, please advise. If you are the right to yours, just don’t put your administration, subject to approval receiving my faxes, please quit or deny others retained opinion on me or anyone else. of the Governor, the director may sending me letters as though I am not by the people.” There is a lot of drug use in Gabbs, organize and reorganize the being responsive to your illegal and legal…As is true almost department as the director considers communication. I do not know what everywhere. If there is a place I necessary to properly conduct the your purpose is, but as stated above I Continued on page 21 On the Internet: www.usobserver.com Windows 541-474-4499 1569 NE 6th St Grants Pass, OR Doors DIAMOND WINDOWS Siding Skylights www.usobserver.com US~Observer • Page 21 Letters to the Editor Submit your Letter to the Editor! [email protected] find it of some consequence you unacceptable. It has never happened. Bud has! He wanted it all out in the Global Warming? continue to write letters as though Your implication we have not done open because he has done nothing you are not receiving adequate all you have asked is unacceptable. It wrong and has nothing to hide…Bud Many seem concerned about communication. never happened. We have done is an honorable, upstanding and law Global Warming. Dr. Arthur I will be perfectly blunt. I am everything you have asked and abiding Gabbs citizen of twelve Robinson has covered this topic a copying your entire file. It will be more. I have put up with everything years. It is disheartening to see what number of times in his publication mailed out today. Not only that, your you have thrown as roadblocks and The Justice System has done to him "Access to Energy" case has been dismissed. Not one more. I do not want to have in the past two years. (www.AccessToEnergy.com) and case, but all three cases. For some accusations leveled against me that It is beyond his control that a was concerned enough to circulate a reason this does not seem to please are neither fair nor accurate. It is for “dysfunctional family” (an petition among the public, mostly you. I am uncertain why. To write a that reason that if you have issues, investigation of their background scientists. So far 19,500 (including letter to me to say you are not afraid please contact me only in written would confirm) can make some false 17,500 scientists) have signed the of me suggests for some reason I correspondence because I do not accusations. Since then Bud has been petition. He is now campaigning to have threatened you. This is think telephone conversations “drug through the mill” by the Nye raise the number of signers to over absolutely false and I find it to be would be productive. County Justice System and his 20,000. somewhat disturbing you have Attorneys. He has been falsely The most significant portion of the adopted this tone. I do believe from Sincerely, arrested, harassed by the accusing petition is as follows: now on your communications to me David R. Houston, ESQ party, harassed by the local deputy, "There is no convincing scientific will be in writing. I will not speak lied to, deceived, his freedom to evidence that human release of with you telephonically because I am come and go revoked, and his carbon dioxide, methane, or other uncertain as to what you're up to. The Sonnentag Supporter outstanding reputation exploited! It's greenhouse gasses is causing or will, consequence of your last letter puts no wonder he has lost his faith in the in the foreseeable future, cause me on notice that you do not appear Justice System! Yet, they take people catastrophic heating of the Earth's to be dealing with me in good faith. Dear Mr. Houston, like the Kepharts' (Bud's accusers) atmosphere and disruption of the I have done nothing but help you and pat them on the back and tell Earth's climate. Moreover, there is and respond to every difficult Bud Sonnentag has let me read the them everything will be OK…These substantial scientific evidence that situation you have put in my path, fax you sent him on 2/2/05 (fax to people are suspended with pay from increases in atmospheric carbon from your continued refusal to follow this letter). You accused Bud the Nye County School Dist and dioxide produce many beneficial cooperate, as well as providing of “passing” out the papers in Gabbs. have been since Oct 2004 when they effects upon the natural plant and newspaper articles that simply Mr. Houston, you owe Bud an were arrested on drug and child animal environments of the Earth." inflamed the situation. As you are apology…My kids and I passed out endangerment charges. Our tax You may view a lecture titled aware, when this case was due to be every US~Observer paper in Gabbs dollars are paying for them to be off "'Global Warming' Truth" which Dr. settled a newspaper article was and further I have no idea what you and also for the people who are Robinson delivered at Southern published in the Oregon Observer, are talking about when you say replacing them at the school. Only Oregon University. The lecture may once again inflaming this problem. “posted.” We door to door delivered for Tonopah Justice Court to keep be downloaded from or viewed on You indicated to me this was done by those papers and that's it! continuing their court dates. Twice, the above mentioned website. Dr. Ed. However, in my discussions with Remember? Bud had an “invalid” so far…? It will be interesting to see Robinson mentions that water vapor Ed I am advised that you were not restraining order against him, even how the education budget comes out is the most significant of all the only aware of it, but were assisting though “invalid” he would have for Gabbs Schools this year. greenhouse gases. You can verify by passing the article out in Gabbs, been arrested like he was the first It has been too long happening, but this on a daily basis by watching the as far as posting it in different spots. time he WAS honoring it! NO Way I am glad that Bud's charges have weather reports on TV. If the It seems as though you did not want that he drove those papers around finally been dismissed. It has just humidity (water vapor content of the your case to end, but rather wanted to Gabbs!! been very draining for all of us atmosphere) is low it will cool off a continue to live the drama. Your Mr. Houston, I am one of three morally conscious people to try and lot more during the night than if the drama could have cost you a witnesses who sat behind you in the understand…? humidity is high. The meteorologist considerable period of time in courtroom on Dec. 16, 2004, and Mr. Houston, I realize that I will on Channel 12 (Medford; Scott prison. While you may not be afraid was introduced to you in the lobby probably not get a response from you Lewis) has mentioned this on of anyone, no one has made any by Bud. We are a few of the many in regards to this letter, but I needed numerous occasions. threats against you. The only thing witnesses in Gabbs who know that it to clear up your discrepancies in Here is a link to a scientific review this office has done is successfully was not a “younger girl” who regards to Bud Sonnentag! paper (8-pages PDF format) on conclude your cases. If for some accused an “older man” as you stated global warming: reason that troubles you, then in your 2/1/05 fax to Bud. It was her Thank you very much for your http://www.oism.org/oism/lecture/ certainly you are free to create parents! I would like to understand time. resources/review.pdf additional problems in your life and why none of Bud's witnesses were simply start the cycle over again. ever questioned by you, or Ken Ward Sincerely, Larry Brown Obviously, it will not be with my either for that matter? I realize that Lita Lance Sutherlin, Oregon assistance when you attempt to we did not go to court, but if we had Gabbs, Nevada extricate yourself. been contacted, I think we might The short version is, I do not enjoy have put a different perspective on Cc: Robert S. Beckett having unhappy clients. You have no things. If nothing else maybe we Joe Maslach reason to be upset with this office could have helped you to understand Donn Ianuzi Our Advertisers and you are being completely unfair where Bud was coming from. If you Ed Snook as to your treatment of me and my knew you were innocent of an Dr. William E. Roberts Get Business efforts toward you. Your implication allegation such as this you would Charlotte Curtis that threats have been made is probably feel and act the same way see page 23 for details

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In one case, "It just grew naturally as more truly for you, and you're not in background and to sort of "By expanding our indulgent the person died, while in and more people discovered that competition with anybody or incorporate more than just the breakfast sandwich menu, Burger another, the person you could be into yoga and you anything," she said. physical part into their lives, I King restaurants now offer even developed a suspected case don't have to be Indian, you don't Yoga has become a lifestyle for don't think they ever let it go. I more alternatives for our guests of progressive multifocal have to be Hindu, you don't have Turlington. 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United States is supermodel with 320 calories and 17 grams of Avonex, the companies said. "You can get a tight butt, an "I feel like without that Christy Turlington. fat. It has fire-grilled onions, ham "Our ongoing open heart and a calm mind all in connection to myself and really Turlington, 36, says she began and melted American cheese commitment to MS patients an hour and a half," Lee said. where I was going emotionally practicing yoga when she was 18 inside a folded egg on a croissant. has led us to take these Today's yoga comes in many every day, it would have been a years old. "I would say it's given The omelet sandwich will stay steps,'' said Dr. Burt different forms. 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Chronic Illness Can Be Cured With Raw Foods By Dr. James Howenstine, MD. from bone weakens the bone structure. feedlot cows contains NewsWithViews.com Weak bones are constantly exposed to only about 25 % of the torques from the activities of daily CLA found in grazed How much raw foods can accomplish living. Human bones lay down bony cattle. in treating chronic illnesses is well projections from their surfaces when illustrated by the immigrant Russian, they are being stressed (injury to bone •Cows are currently Igor Boutenko’s family. Son Sergie age framework when weakened by mineral given bovine growth 9 was a heavy consumer of dairy loss, excessive exercise, repetitive hormone BGH (Posilic) products who had become obese and small injuries etc.) to try to maintain the which increases milk developed juvenile diabetes with blood bone’s strength and function. These output three fold. This sugars ranging from 200 to 400. His projections are called bone spurs and increased milk output mother was encouraged to have him they are the prime clue that helps a has a price. These cows stop the use of dairy products and radiologist diagnose osteoarthritic are vulnerable to udder cooked foods and eat only raw foods. He changes in bones. When excessive infections and must take initially balked but when confronted protein is no longer being consumed by antibiotics frequently. with the prospect of a life full of insulin a raw diet the alkaline minerals Thirty eight percent of injections decided to give the diet a try magnesium and calcium begin to sampled cow’s milk (high intake of dairy products is known reenter bone restoring strength to the contains antibiotics. to produce juvenile diabetes). Within bone. As the bone becomes stronger the Also the lifespan of BGH treated cows is healthy bacteria found in milk. The two weeks he felt so much better he bony spurs are no longer needed and the decreased. German veterinarians result is impaired absorption of vitamins asked his mother if he could continue the body proceeds to dissolve them refused to approve BGH because of and minerals. raw food diet. Five months later his returning the bone xrays to normal. concern about the welfare of cows. blood sugars had returned to normal. He We know that countries where dairy •Butterfat is absent from pasteurized remains in good health at age 20. consumption is low (Thailand) have •BGH treated cows have increased milk. This butterfat has anti-cancer Father Igor at age 38 had developed almost no osteoporosis while nations quantities of insulin like growth properties. hyperthyroidism with white hair, eating lots of dairy products (Germany, hormone IGF-1 in their milk. IGF-1 is insomnia, fatigue, heart rate of 150 and a Scandanavia, United States) are believed to stimulate the growth of •Some patients with Crohn’s Disease progressing arthritis. He was advised to afflicted with an epidemic of malignancies in persons with cancer and have been found to have mycobacterium have radioiodine therapy. Igor began the osteoporosis. I think that terminating also appears to promote the start of avium paratuberculosis MAP organisms raw food diet and in a few months all his the high protein intake from dairy breast cancer in females and prostate in blood cultures. Cultures of ulcerated symptoms were gone. products and meat when Dr. Graham cancer in males. areas in the intestine and human breast Daughter Valya had been ill from switched to eating a raw diet could have milk have also grown MAP. Cows have infancy and developed asthma at age 9 permitted Dr. Graham’s bones to restore •Cows taking BGH are thinner than a disease called Johne’s Disease caused with fatigue. On the raw diet her asthma the proper balance of minerals normal. The decreased quantity of fat by MAP that mimics the pathologic disappeared as did the fatigue. (calcium, magnesium) needed for tissue to store pesticides results in findings seen in Crohn’s disease. Forty Doug Graham DC grew up taking strong bones. Over a period of time the increased levels of pesticides in milk. per cent of large herds of cows are antibiotics. He had nasal tubes to drain bony spurs in his neck vertebrae might known to be infected with MAP. A seven his sinuses and was annoyed by severe disappear. Reversal of arthritic •In the process of homogenization, year old boy developed enlarged lymph dandruff and a progressive spinal problems by an alkalinizing diet full of which nearly all milk receives, fat nodes in his neck which cultured MAP. arthritis. At age 23 he already had severe fruit and vegetables is a worthwhile particles surround and protect the Five years later he developed classic changes of osteoarthritis in neck xrays. endeavor for all persons suffering from enzyme zanthine oxidase. This permits Crohn’s disease of the intestines. At age 25 he started a raw food diet. arthritis. zanthine oxidase to go directly into the Antibiotics directed against MAP have Within 3 years all his symptoms had blood stream where it proceeds to helped most patients with Crohn’s disappeared and his neck xrays had What’s Wrong With Milk? oxizidize cholesterol producing Disease to recover. There is thus returned to normal. The healing of bony arteriosclerotic plaques. Normal considerable evidence that Crohn’s abnormalities by simple dietary changes Milk is a perfect food for calves. God cholesterol has anti-oxidation Disease is an infectious illness caused gives strong proof about the importance designed it so it would cause a calf to capabilities. The incidence of heart by MAP organisms from contaminated of what we eat. triple in size in 12 months. However, as attacks in Great Britain underwent a milk. I am not certain why Dr. Graham’s currently presented to the consumer, striking rise when homogenization of The Milk Council has done a superb bone abnormalities disappeared on a milk has serious problems for humans: milk was introduced. job of merchandising dairy products. raw food diet. One could guess that a The hazards of milk ingestion have been person who needed nasal tubes and •The protein content of cow’s milk is •The most common food allergy in the thoroughly covered up by this effective required nearly continuous antibiotics far too high for humans. Protein United States is allergy to milk. advertising. My wife and I have limited was probably allergic to milk and that he metabolism creates acidic residue Multitudes of infants have frequent our intake of dairy to unpasteurized goat consumed considerable dairy products. (phosphates, sulphates). Continued recurring ear infections. These yogurt which is used on cereal. Persons Excessive antibiotics in children intake of large amounts of acidic foods “infections” usually subside when milk who are uncertain about whether almost certainly stops normal causes loss of alkaline minerals from intake ceases as they are often caused by stopping dairy products could improve maturation of a healthy immune system. bone that prevents the body from allergy to milk. Many children have their health might wish to try 3 or 4 Lack of healthy bacteria in the intestines becoming acidotic. Bones losing these tubes placed in their ear canals because weeks away from dairy to see if they caused by antibiotics creates an structural minerals becomes weak of these “ear infections”. This procedure experience loss of symptoms. environment in which pieces of partially prone to fracture. has recently been discovered to lead to digested proteins are able to penetrate decreased hearing as adults. This whole What’s Wrong With the barrier of the intestinal lining. When •Diets high in dairy, meat and eggs infantile ear infection problem is usually these abnormal proteins enter the blood produce large quantities of arachidonic milk allergy not bacterial infection. Cooked Food? the body properly reacts to them as acid. The body forms series 2 foreign substances. The foreign proteins prostaglandins from arachidonic acid. •Cows milk contains large amounts of Cooking food destroys the natural cause an antigen antibody reaction The series 2 prostaglandins are highly phosporus as do soft drinks. Children enzymes found in food which facilitate producing symptoms and setting the inflammatory. For this reason persons consuming large amounts of milk and digestion. There is no doubt that stage for a possible auto-immune illness with an inflammatory illness such as soft drinks must eliminate this uncooked food is much easier for the to develop. Food allergies can also arthritis, multiple sclerosis, ulcerative phosphorus. The phosphorus combines body to digest and assimilate. When appear along with impaired absorption colitis, Alzheimer’s Disease, etc. will with calcium in the intestines which cooked food is the primary source of of nutrients which may lead to poor fare better with diets restricted in dairy, decreases the quantity of calcium nutrition the body’s digestive enzymes health. meat and eggs. absorbed. The decreased absorption of are forced to work overtime to Milk from cows is an unusually high calcium and increased loss of calcium in overcome this loss of food enzymes. As protein content food. Cooked meat also •Currently cows are being raised on the urine when calcium combines with we age production of digestive enzymes contains considerable protein and Dr. soy protein in feedlots instead of green the acidic ions generated by a high usually diminishes in quantity and Graham’s dietary intake included grass. Lack of green grass as food protein diet causes softening of bones. nutrition may suffer. cooked food so it probably contained sharply reduces the quantity of Vegetarians do well with 50 % lower Some persons are able to live long meat. In the metabolism of protein from conjugated linoleic acid CLA contained calcium intakes because they do not healthy lives eating cooked food. Also milk and meat, acid is produced which in milk. CLA is important because lack have the urinary loss of calcium brought there are some individuals who do not must be neutralized by calcium and of CLA in the human body causes fat to on by the excessive protein intake. do well on a vegetarian diet. Knowing magnesium leached from bone. If the stop being burned for energy. Instead fat that raw food might end a chronic illness body failed to neutralize the acid becomes stored in fat cells where it •Almost the total milk production in gives you a simple inexpensive possible residues from a high protein intake a remains until the dietary intake of CLA the U.S. is pasteurized. This heating of solution for a significant health dangerous chronic acidosis would is increased by CLA supplementation. milk destroys the enzymes needed for problem. appear. This continuing loss of minerals The meat and milk obtained from absorption of milk and also kills the www.usobserver.com US~Observer • Page 24 Demanding Accountability

Polk County Legal Abuse? Monmouth, Oregon - Tim Grant of Eddyville, Oregon and Catherine Grant of Corvallis( at the time of divorce) were legally divorced on March 24, 2003; however their legal battle was just beginning. Catherine subsequently moved to Little Rock Arkansas and Mr. Grant was deceived into accepting an agreement in Judge William M. Horner's courtroom, which was not in his or his young daughters best interests. Was Judge Horner involved in pushing the agreement? Does Judge Horner have a special relationship with Catherine's attorney Joseph Penna? Has collusion occurred in the Polk County legal system? Don't miss our next article on the Grant divorce case and much more regarding Polk County, Oregon and Judge William M. Horner…

No Due Process! DHS Incompetence, Lies and Abuse? Multnomah County, Oregon In March of 2004, Shannon Harding's daughter accidentally broke her femur bone. Neither Shannon nor her boyfriend were present at the time as young Kahleah was in her bunk-bed awakening from a nights sleep. Shannon rushed Kahleah to the emergency room at Meridian Park Hospital and then on to Emanuel Hospital in Portland, Oregon where she explained to the doctors that she believed Kahleah had caught her leg in the bed- frame. Little did Shannon know that her nightmare was just beginning. The doctor contacted the authorities and soon thereafter a detective and a representative of the Department of Human Services (DHS) showed up, questioning everyone present. After Kahleah had received the proper medical treatment Shannon and her boyfriend Bobby Carter took her home and made her as comfortable as possible. Two hours later Shannon answered a knock at the door and found a police officer and a DHS caseworker who proceeded to treat her like a criminal, telling her that her mother needed to pick up Kahleah and Tate because they weren't going to allow the children to remain with Shannon. Shannon's mother Shirley Rowland picked up her grandchildren and took the two home with her. Ms. Harding was devastated as she had never been arrested before and was a law abiding citizen as well as a loving and protective mother…with absolutely no support whatsoever from her children's fathers. Shannon and her boyfriend were then questioned repeatedly, “made to feel like low-life criminals” and then forced to take polygraph tests, which are factually nothing more than witch-hunt tests, devised by police-state minded people. Shannon passed her ludicrous test 100% but Bobby didn't, so Shannon was instructed that Bobby could no longer be around the children. To make a long story short, Shannon and Bobby are no longer together, no criminal charges have been filed because no crime was committed, yet DHS continues to keep Kahleah and Tate from their mother. Realizing that she couldn't fight such a monstrous and abusive system, Shannon decided to allow the children to stay with her parents. This wasn't good enough for DHS, so caseworker Marina MacMichael began lying about the grandparents in an attempt to have the children split-up and removed from the Rowland's custody. Now DHS is having Kahleah's and Tate's fathers take parenting classes in an effort to remove the children from an exemplary home where they have adjusted well, are overly taken care of and where they want to be. Multnomah County Judge Kneofler has ordered Shannon to take parenting classes with known criminals, drug abusers and the like and Shannon has refused. A termination of parental rights hearing is scheduled for April 18, 2005 and DHS's butt is now on the line. Director of DHS Gary Weeks is responsible for this crime along with Judge Knoefler and the Observer will be present. It is the Observer's hope that the responsible individuals will do what is right, but if they don't they can rest assured that the Observer will…that is to make their names household names throughout the entire state and country. Stop abusing the innocent DHS. Stop sentencing innocent people who have been afforded no due process whatsoever Judge Knoefler and please give the Observer reason to print something positive about you…

Lincoln County, Oregon False Charges? Newport, Oregon On February 6, 2005 Oregon State Police (OSP) Recruit Trooper Justin McGladrey and Trooper Greg Plummer of the Newport Patrol Office were dispatched to Beverly Beach State Park on the Oregon coast to investigate an alleged domestic assault. In reviewing the police reports we find that Michael Cross of Salem was charged with felony assault for spanking his daughter for her continued disobedience. The report states that “Mrs. Cross struck him (Michael Cross) on the face,” however no charges were filed against her. The reports contain other disturbing information and the Observer is investigating…

Acosta vs. Century 21 … Possible Fraud and Collusion? Gold Hill, Oregon Bob and Linda Acosta purchased their final retirement property and home in Gold Hill, Oregon in January of 2002. Their agent who was also the seller's agent happened to be Jeanie Moore of Harris & Taylor Century 21 Real Estate. Moore assured the Acosta's their property backed up to BLM land which was a major consideration when the Acosta's decided to purchase. In August of 2002, Bob and Linda discovered that their land in fact didn't back up to BLM land. They contacted their Real Estate agent and her Brokers and the Acosta's were ignored repeatedly as well as talked to disrespectfully and in a vulgar manner on several occasions. They then filed a claim with the Oregon Real Estate Agency and in February of 2004 Jeanie Moore was found guilty of the Acosta's charges. Unfortunately, Bob Acosta who suffered from a severe illness passed away before seeing Moore held accountable and witnesses including this writer attribute the stress created by Century 21 as a contributing factor to his death. Century 21 continued to lend a deaf ear to this severe case of abuse, thinking they could run over the now widowed Acosta and in June of 2004, Linda Acosta was forced to file suit. Instead of being responsible for their “fraud” Century 21 then filed a motion to dismiss Acosta's complaint or in the alternative send it to arbitration. Following a January 31, 2005 hearing in Medford Circuit Court where oral argument took place between Acosta's attorney Foster Glass and Century 21's attorney Mark Clarke of the Frohnmayer/Deatherage law firm, Circuit Court Judge Mark Schiveley ruled against Century 21. Subsequently, Century 21 filed a “Motion to Reconsider” claiming they had discovered a “missing page six” which would strengthen their position. Upon review of the “all too convenient” missing page Linda Acosta knew that she had never seen the highly questionable, produced document, so she went to her escrow company which was First American Title in Rogue River, Oregon to look at the file in an attempt to prove that Century 21 had provided the court with a fraudulent document. Mysteriously the escrow file had disappeared and even after supposed advanced searches First American reports they can't find it and that they won't be able to help Ms. Acosta further. First America Title Company's attitude in and of itself begs for an investigation into possible fraud and collusion. Attorney Foster Glass claimed in his response to the Motion for Reconsideration, “The evidence we have suggests these documents may have been fabricated, and altered after the defendants received the Judge's Opinion following the hearing on January 31, 2005. Judge Schiveley denied Century 21's “Motion for Reconsideration” on March 14, 2005 stating, “There do appear to be disturbing differences between the exhibits attached to the “Motion for Reconsideration.” The court is not prepared to say that any documents have been altered or in some other way prepared for the “Motion to Reconsider,” because the court does not have to.” Amazing! Now Ms. Acosta can have her day in court where Century 21 will definitely leave with much egg on their face and a well deserved, large judgment against them. Large corporations like Century 21 will soon learn that they can't simply take their clients money, cheat them and then basically tell them to go to hell…At least not when the US Observer is involved. Anyone with information on Century 21, this case, or any special relationships between Harris & Taylor Real Estate and First American Title Company is urged to contact Edward Snook at 541-474-7885.