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posted June 3, 2009, from March/April 2009 issue
HAPPY SAINT PADDY'S DAY!
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Reader Mail
Eyman Will Strike Again
It is outrageous that our government leaders are again intending to build a new stadium in spite of the people’s overwhelming vote against it. This stadium is called the waterfront tunnel.
Don’t they remember what happened when they pushed the Mariner stadium over the people’s objections? That spawned Tim Eyman. Eyman successfully cut state revenues in initiative after initiative precisely because the people were fed up with the arrogance of government officials deciding what’s best for us.
And now the budget is $8 billion in the hole and still counting. It is ludicrous that Gregoire, Nickels, and Sims would choose the most expensive solution to the viaduct at a time like this. They just handed Eyman his next initiative--and it will be a slam dunk.
Janice
Van Cleve
War Is Hell, Dad
War, from its origins, is the murder of the sons by the fathers: so few fathers murdering so many sons. “Son, go over to that village and kill that man’s son. Otherwise, don’t come back alive.”
Leland
Mellott
Outsmarting The Next Blagojevich
I understand that due process requires the presumption of innocence until guilt is proved. But there are numerous court cases that bar certain actions before guilt or innocence is decided, if doing so is in the interest of the public.
Did the New York court not order Madoff to cease financial transactions before his guilt was proved?
In the case of Rod Blagojevich, all Prosecutor Fitzgerald had to do was ask the court for an order barring Mr. Blagojevich from making an appointment because of the nature of the allegations in the complaint against him. Simple and done.
By the same token, perhaps it is my extensive legal expertise that accounts for my current residence at a state correctional facility.
[On another note] I would like to bring people’s attention to the Program On Corporations, Law, and Democracy (POCLAD). In their words, they are devoted to “the critical work of claiming our promised rights of self-governance.”
In a nutshell, they are in the field of separating corporations from a government vested in the people.
You see, in the 1800s, our US Supreme Court began ruling that corporations are “persons” for the purpose of equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution. A manifestation of such rulings is that these entities, formed by contracts and charters, actually have a constitutional right to support political candidates and agendas.
Ironically, non-profit corporations are limited in this ability.
POCLAD’s website is at www.POCLAD.org.
Patrick Drum