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November 8, 2007 Opinions |
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Letters to the Editor
All Children Are Special
To The Record-Courier:
It seems as though when watching the news, etc., especially issues with children, and birth defects and all, a lot of emphasis seems to be getting placed with children being affected with autism more so than children who have other defects that are just as gifted in some small way. I believe there should be a balance in such issues. I myself was born with a few defects, but overcame those obstacles, without anyone really knowing the history. I am gifted in my typing skills, etc. Everyone has a special gift that is unique in character. But just because of how we are we should not be exempted from voicing our opinion, etc.
If anyone has ever watched the show called Home Makeover Edition, here lately they had a family of a girl and two brothers who were diagnosed with cancer and the girl and the boys associated with those of their age who also had cancer. She had a dream of all the children getting special toys, etc. It was very moving as to what the producers did for this family out of Corvallis. I encourage everyone to watch this show. They seem to help families, and hardships they go through.
My gift is making a little humor and making sense with my letters. It was mentioned to me the babies who were born the day before all the special holidays had special sayings for such occasions. Two of them that I recall are peek-a-boo or just boo, is a favorite to entertain children, and another one is punkin, children at that age seem to be live-wires, with all the excitement, anything for attention truth be known. Here at dinnertime a while back, we mentioned that to a couple who had a little girl, the husband without hesitation agreed what we had said about her. This is a Happy Birthday message to those born the day before Halloween, and all other Holidays! Smile.
Coffee anyone?
Brenda Dickison
Baker City
Domestic Violence In The Workplace
To The Record-Courier:
We here in Oregon have recently been riveted by a story about a teacher in Medford who was carrying a concealed weapon in her classroom. To date the debate has raged on about the rights of gun owners to carry a licensed and permitted weapon on school grounds. I would like us to take this opportunity to refocus the question.
This teacher has begun carrying a concealed weapon because, as a victim of domestic violence, she fears for her life.
We know that domestic violence doesn’t stay home when a victim goes to work.
Why is that? For starters the workplace is likely to be the one place a batterer knows to find the victim.
Beyond that, victims report an inability to concentrate on their work, they report being preoccupied with the abuse and report that many times the place they are most likely to disclose their abuse is at work.
Did you know that 70% of victims of domestic violence HERE IN OREGON are employed at the time of the abuse. And that 89% of batterers are employed at the time they perpetrate their crime.
So if you think domestic violence is not an issue for the state’s Labor Commissioner, think again.
I am launching a program here at the Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) that addresses the rights and responsibilities of employers. My goal is to train employers to recognize the signs of abuse, to know who to contact in a crisis, and to understand what their responsibilities are under the law.
Workplace safety should be a high priority for all employers - and we at BOLI will do everything we can to bring the needed information to employers about this important topic.
Let this situation be your call to action. When we have victims of violence and sexual assault right here in Oregon who are afraid to go to work, who resort to carrying a concealed weapon, then we need to stop and take a serious look at what we doing for those victims.
What are YOU, as an employer, doing?
Do you have a policy on domestic violence in the workplace? Do you have a safety mitigation plan? Have you reached out and gotten trainings for you and your employees?
Trainings and materials are available through our agency. Contact us at 971.673.0782 for our Technical Assistance for Employers hotline, register for our Employment Law Conference on Dec. 5 and 6 where we will host a three-hour panel with the state’s top Domestic Violence experts, or get online at www.oregon.gov/boli to find out more about what you can to help victims of Domestic Violence in YOUR workplace.
Dan Gardner, Labor Commissioner
Elizabeth Mazzara
Legislative & Communications Director Oregon Bureau of Labor & Industries
There’s A Movement To Eliminate Citizen’s Right To Own, Hold Gold
To The Record-Courier:
I was fascinated, as a claimant myself, about the U.S. Dist. Court holding up the “alleged” claims against the U.S. Forest Service.
I myself have been following the 1872 mining laws and holding claims in both California Sierras and Oregon’s Blue Mtns. since my discharge from the U.S. Navy after World War II in 1946 (age 21). At age 81 now, I have lived almost half my life here in the eastern “Blues” of Sumpter Valley since 1970.
My largest nugget was a 6 1/2 ounce nugget taken out of Sierra City, Yuba River North Fork in the mid-1960s, of 27 ounces total take in three days. Then, and since then I think many pounds have been taken there.
My point is that there is a vast movement (evolution) by the left i.e., Greens-NGOs to nationalize and eliminate the right to own and hold gold by U.S. citizens since FDR’s move to prohibit it in 1933 and Pres. Nixon to break the tie of gold as a commodity, since the 1970’s. In Carter’s administration we had a double digit inflation because of it (free floating dollar) and now we have almost $100 barrels of oil and corn as fuel and gold at almost $800 per ounce as an indicator that the liberals “pot” of socialism is “boiling over.” Now there is a concerted effort by the left to hold the “Fort” by forces of controlled politics?
The Measure 49 and USFS and other liberal groups called “non governmental organizations (NGO’s) as “bed partners,” are out in force (concerted) to control the uses of private properties including all uses of mining and minerals extraction/excavations, which include not only precious metals, but “base” metals such as copper, zinc, mercury, lead, iron, and other mining related (non metal) resources such as oil, gas, gravel pits, cement and related lime deposits. This “grab of power” is now evident, by the citizens, in recent elections and the liberal judiciaries (called liberal judges) and State and Federal agencies combining “central” power via the State and Federal cabinets of the Executive branch i.e., unitary State government as called “partners” with the citizens? Measure 49 is an example to retain this “partnership,” which is unequal in nature as it eliminates the checks and balances that the founding fathers put in the U.S. Constitutional laws.
In the article in The Record-Courier about the Greenies (NGO’s) the USFS, the miners and their claims on the N. Fork Burnt River; As “property rights,” under 1872 Federal grants by U.S. Congress and the courts to ignore the 5th Amendment “takings” of the miner’s rights by Congress under U.S. Codes was trumped by a liberal “Star Chamber” to dump rights to property by the miners in favor (biased) of the liberal’s movement to usurp as to an “end run around” of the Statutory rights under federal mining laws under federal USC 30, Section 22 and 26 and Article 1; Sec. 1 to Sec. 8 “to make only rules of the government and regulations of the land.”
Article IV, Sec. 4 “to guarantee a republic form of government” as this means that judges can’t “trump” legislative authority by the representations by “elected” officials to their constituents where as un-elected officials under the Executive branch and “promulgation” of their rules can’t “trump” legislative authority of our Republic” (Representation by the people by elections).
As an example, if the 1872 Federal Mining Law gives rights to property as to real estate in a real sense of the word (“tenure” rights as the possessory right is called) including riparian sites as tenure by Federal laws and USC’s and the State’s legislative branch “confirms” this under Oregon Revised Statute: (ORS) 517.090 that states that mining claims are “real property” and be deeded as such as to transfers of titles, inherited, etc. as real estate (it’s under the 5th Amendment civil liberties and tort claims-civil suits?)
In the civil suit against the USFS, by the NGO’s (conservationists) the U.S Dist. Court seems to ignore the basic rights to property, as an issue that excluded the 49 property owners (of claims) in the contested arguments by the defendants (USFS). It would appear that an appeal by the defendants (USFS) would “railroad out” the 5th “takings” in the (process) legal contest, as an “award” to the NGO’s , and as the loser (USFS) would be “silent” to (dead issue) an appeal? There seems to be a “Kangaroo” somewhere in the process of due process of law of the 5th takings, 6th and 7th Amendments to trials by a jury and a “Republic” form guaranteed under the Art. IV, Sec. 4 of U.S. Constitutional law that only the Legislative branch can trump (pre-empt) Administrative promulgation of rules and not the other way around?
Republic form means that the elected officials of government have to answer to its constituents, where as non-elected officials under the Executive branch, don’t have to do this? When the court (in reviews) the DEQ administrative rules of (laws of nature?) bureaucrats over our “elected officials” “by the people” laws of the U.S. Constitution as “oath” to uphold the Bill of Rights over the nature’s conservancy advocates, dictates and courts backings? The real question is (then) who is the “Kangaroo” in court of law, as charges by NGO’s is “moot” to civil liberties as an issue? Conflicts. (1964 Civil Rights Act?)
Bruce Parke
Sumpter, Ore.
The Mythical Assault Weapon
To The Record-Courier:
As I went out for coffee the other morning I was listening to a city police chief rant on about “assault weapons.” I’ve often challenged the gun banning crowd to describe one of these mythological weapons to me. I contend that they are a figment of the Clinton administration’s campaign to scare the urban dweller into voting Democrat.
A little background information is in order to clarify why I call the whole assault weapons spin machine a myth.
Let’s go back to the 20’s and Mr. Thomson’s development of the Thompson submachine gun. Space is limited here, but the History Channel’s history of the gun series is the defining straight dope place to go for gun information. Thompson made a fully automatic light machine gun, selector and all. It would fire fully automatic, whereby you held the trigger and to use the banning bunny term “sprayed” bullets at a rate of hundreds of rounds per trigger pull.
Thompson wanted to sell it to the military, but had trouble getting contracts. Prohibition gangsters bought them though and Al Capone’s thugs used them in the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre against Bugs Moran’s gang. This brought about a movement to ban the fully automatic, but Congress being aware that the second amendment prohibited banning guns went through the backdoor and passed the 1934 Fire Arms Act by requiring a stamp on fully automatic weapons and then issued few stamps. In effect they banned the fully automatic weapon for American civilians in 1934.
So what are we really talking about? All firearms in America, since 1934 have had the same rate of fire, one projectile per trigger pull, except for the shotgun, since 1934. An “assault weapon” terminology refers to the military M16, M14, or AK47 that does fire multiple rounds per trigger pull. When you hear a banning bunny, be it police or senator talking about assault weapons they are speaking with forked tongue. If an Ak 47 is on the streets of America it has been modified to fire once per trigger pull. It is a 308 caliber, many hunting rifles are 308 caliber. If someone has an M16 they are going to jail, the civilian model is AR 15, and Mini 14 and others are .223 caliber, having one shot per trigger pull capacity. Tech 9’s are 9mm and they fire one projectile per trigger pull. It is the same for all calibers and all makes of guns. None that fire continuously are legal and haven’t been since 1934.
Hollywood is full of assault weapons but America is not.
So what the banning bunnies are really after is an Australian type gun ban, they want you to have single shot weapons, locked in a safe so the criminals will be safe and you won’t. The images of thousands of privately owned rifles being ground up in machines in Australia brought fear to the hearts of middle America and joy to the likes of George Soros of Move On. George Soros and his point gal Rebecca Peters count on the people who haven’t ever owned or fired a weapon to jump on the band wagon and give to the party most likely to ban a gun. I’ll leave it up to you guess which one that might be.
So here is where we are now. We have millions of gun owners who say the government will have to pry their guns from their cold dead hands. Most have a few rounds left over from the last hunting season. Most aren’t politically active and are not members of the NRA, Gun owners of America or a state groups like OFF, Oregon Firearms Federation while big cities have many well financed gun banning organizations. And it looks like the prime “assault weapons” point people, the Clintons, are headed back to the White House.
I find it ironic that those who abhor violence are the very ones who just might bring about wide-spread violence by over reaching if they get back into power and over reaching is what you can count on the gun haters to do because there is a basic divide in this country between those who would use the power of the potential police state to bring about their idea of utopia and those who realize, as the founders did, the state is your worst potential enemy. Remember that’s why they had divided government and included a Bill of Rights. To check the power of the state. Then they added the second amendment to make sure all the rest of the Bill of Rights was safe.
Gun violence is again on the rise and if we are to be honest about it, the reason for that can be found on the border. Illegal alien gangs such as MS 13 and others involved in drugs and crime are killing each other. Naturally in the minds of the banners the logical thing to do is disarm the American law abiding citizen.
Steve Culley
Baker City
What Did Satan See On The Day Of Pentecost?
To The Record-Courier:
Have you ever thought of this? I have. Because the cross was a mystery to him, and when Jesus became obedient to death, Satan thought he’s won by Jesus being on the cross, even took His spirit to the dark regions of hell. This Jesus, whom God had made to be sin for ALL was justified in the spirit and RAISED to a NEW life by God for ALL! Jesus was born into the NEW-Covenant witnessed in the pit of hell, and there conquered Satan! In the Upper room Satan witnessed the results. He saw men and women recreated, saw them receive eternal life, saw their sins removed, blotted out as though they had never existed. He saw the POWER that cast him out of heaven enter men, the Holy Spirit of God! He became aware these NEW CREATION PEOPLE had become his master for they’ve been given the AUTHORITY to use the name of Jesus. He saw the tears he caused turn to joy! He saw his slaves shaking off their chains, being made free! He saw God’s nature enter the hearts of men and the FAITH of God begin to operate so that others were snatched from his authority. He saw the fear and doubt he had enthroned in men’s hearts replaced by FAITH, LOVE, and FREEDOM. He heard a new Language of praise and communication. He saw men become Kings and Priests! He had slain Jesus to annihilate Him; instead Jesus’s death gave birth to a new race. He saw them multiply so rapidly that he realized he must destroy them before they destroyed him. He saw righteousness become a reality, men and women actually being born over again with a NEW Father (God) and a NEW Lord (Jesus). All that Jesus did in His earthly ministry and at Calvary would have been to no avail if it were not for what He is doing TODAY! All too little is being taught and preached about what He is doing NOW, TODAY!
So that is His ministry today, how is it preformed? Is there a difference in attitude between the early church body and the modern church body? How is it that the early church reached the entire known world at their time, but we the modern church find it hard to reach the local cities? Could it be that the early church knew no walls, and we stay behind our walls much too much? Jesus said, “Go ye, and these signs SHALL follow you.” First two letters of God spell GO. First three letters of Satan spell SAT. The earthly church had fellowship with one another, do we? When asked at the judgement, “where are your disciples, the ones Jesus sent you to?” Will your answer be Glad or Sat?
Richard Fox
Baker City
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