Letters to the Editor
Airports manager ‘needs to share his I.V. vision’
From Jack McCornack,
McSquared Design at Illinois Valley Airport
In this column last week I read that Josephine County Airports Manager Alex Grossi has a definitive long-term vision for the future of I.V. Airport; and, “That’s the direction I’ve been pointed in for the last five or six years.”
Perhaps the advisory board would have been more productive if he had shared his vision with the board and with the public. If Grossi is holding back local use of the airport to make way for future “… medical flights and freight flights,” I’m wondering what medical and freight demands Illinois Valley should expect.
I guess it’s going to be a pretty big deal, and more than the 10-passenger business jets can handle. Those guys manage to get in and out without hitting any parked cars on Smokejumper Way, as did the smokejumper planes and other fire suppression aircraft for the 50 years before Grossi arrived.
But now he says that it’s “… pretty obviously a hazardous situation,” and alludes to FAA regulations; regulations which apply if you’re bringing in airliners.
Emergency medical flights are fairly common, and don’t demand any restructuring of the airport. What possible need is there for airline-size medical flights in the valley? Charter flights for organ donors, perhaps?
What freight will be flown out of the valley, and if it’s so bulky that it needs an airliner, why not save 50 grand or so by putting it on trucks? It’s not like lumber has a critical sell-by date. Or is the plan for bulk airfreight coming in, something the state highway department won't allow on the roads?
Alex Grossi and I don’t chat much these days. Perhaps your reporters will have better luck getting him to define his definitive long-term vision for the future of I.V. Airport, which to some extent will define the future of Illinois Valley.
Uncle Sam spending needs to come home
From Paul Grad
Cave Junction
Sue Norman-Jones’ letter of June 27, decrying a proposal to cut timber for revenue and suggesting a sales tax instead, caught my attention, for it seemed to well illustrate the attitude of “if only we had more money, and how do we go about raising it?”
I believe this is the wrong attitude. The right one is: how do we cut big government spending which sucks up so much of our current tax revenues?
Is Norman aware that we spend $100 billion a year on farm subsidies, which are collectivist giveaways of your money to farmers, the majority earning well above the average American’s income and many owned by wealthy corporations?
The bipartisan collectivist mantra is “rob the non-union worker, the small businessman, the small investor and the artisan, and give the loot to the wealthy corporations.” A thousand cotton farmers alone receive $10 billion in subsidies.
Then let’s look at the $100 billion plus that we spend defending the European socialists, who then turn around and use that money to provide all kinds of collectivist perks to their people, and massive farm subsidies to their very affluent farmers. Let the European socialists pay for their own defense, instead of sucking off of the U.S. taxpayers.
If we divide the more than $200 billion saved each year by eliminating these two programs alone, and that money were to be turned over to the states, it would provide $4 billion for each state in the union.
Further dividing that sum by the 30-odd counties in Oregon, we find that Josephine County’s share would come to more than $115 million, almost 10 times what the county was seeking from Washington.
As we see law enforcement and the libraries shutting down, remember that the money that would have paid for those services is going into the pockets of French farmers, and giant American agri-corporations.
When we recall that these are only two programs, and that there are many other useless and unconstitutional programs that could be cut, we can see why the American people continue to live without those basic necessities like law enforcement that would make life in America so much better.
Our current county fiscal woes are the price of collectivism and continuing to vote for bipartisan collectivists.
9-11 demonstrators unhappy with ‘News’
From Toni Starr, Gina Pitts, Sara Austin, Catherine Austin, and Rachael Starr
Cave Junction
We are extremely disappointed by the quality, accuracy and depiction of our 9/11 Truth street action that took place Wednesday, July 11. First, you mistakenly reported that it occurred on July 12, which is neither true nor representative of the 11th-of-every-month actions occurring nationally.
Second, we did tell you at the time that we will meet in front of the county building at noon on the 11th of each month, and resent the implication that we were attempting to withhold this information.
Third, you reported that the deaths on 9-11 included those of 19 terrorists, when it has been proven in the mainstream press that at least seven of the “supposed” hijackers are still alive. Fourth, we feel that you misquoted our statements to make it appear that we were uncertain and had no basis in fact to substantiate our accusations of a 9-11 cover-up.
We have spent thousands of hours researching the events of Sept. 11, 2001 and subsequent reports. All the information is completely verifiable and accessible through the Internet.
Several Websites are available. We invite your readers to join us as we stand for 9/11 Truth on the 11th of each month at noon to demand a new and truly independent investigation.
If you are serious about reporting the news, you should avoid the term “seems” when covering a story. You failed to verify facts given you at the time. You must strive to be reputable and conduct your own investigative research, which it “seems” you have yet to do.
What’s going on? Who’s on first?
From Bill Schneider
Cave Junction
Between treasonous vice presidents and presidents, and tire-slashing contractors, what the hell is going on?
And what exactly is Dick Cheney hiding? In the words of Jon Stewart on the Daily Show, “We don’t know Dick.”
And speaking of contractors, this guy must have been drunk or something to do something so stupid. Just suppose for some reason the people whose tires were slashed needed to get to a hospital or had some other emergency.
Does he have any idea how it could have ended for him had it been any number of people other than who it was whose tires he slashed? Like Tony Soprano’s niece. I venture to guess he knew the threat level before he acted, knowing that whoever it was wouldn’t come creeping in the night. Or in broad daylight.
How law enforcement deals with this incident will surely be noted next time hands are stuck out pleading for our money.
Speaking of law enforcement, why are Dick Cheney and George Bush not impeached? We spent $40 million investigating Bill Clinton’s sexual trysts and only $600,000 investigating 9/11/01. An event that, according to some polls, more than 100 million Americans believe was either allowed to happen or was actually orchestrated by our government. One out of three Americans is no “small lunatic fringe with the 9/11 virus,” as one wise gal put it.
Yet the most grievous crime ever committed against this nation by people inside our government goes unaddressed. People are more enraptured with Paris Hilton. Oh yeah, and the coming Circus ‘08. You know, with the Black guy and the girl running for who-the-hell knows what these days. God, I feel like slashing some tires.
On the Website patriotsquestion911.com there are 100+ senior military, intelligence service, law enforcement and government officials, 160 engineers and architects, 140 professors and 80+ entertainment and media professionals all questioning the government’s pathetically weak, untrue criminal report as to what took place that fate-filled day. And that’s just a few.
I doubt seriously, in lieu of the evidence I’ve seen, that there is anyone in Washington, D.C. who really in their heart believes that Al Queda blew up the Twin Towers and Bldg. 7 at the World Trade Center. However, as I have said, honor and integrity have gone to hell under this administration and apparently in most of U.S. government and law enforcement.
How can something of this magnitude with so many unanswered questions pointing to complicity or actual orchestration by people in our government go unaddressed?
None of the candidates running for office have mentioned this elephant in the room. None of the candidates are even in the same league as the criminal element involved in 9/11. Who of them could carry that torch lit by the fires of hell?
The same people will be running the show in ‘08 that are running it now. Behold on the horizon the 22nd Amendment, which I believe gives the president the power to postpone elections in time of war. What a scenario.
We are in deep s---, and we are the only ones who can pull us out. And no amount of tire slashings ever fixed anything.
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