Neighbor Please, Be Your Brother’s Keeper!

A recent city council summary reports 359 calls for illegal camping.  That’s almost 359 Eugenians who’ve basically declared, “I am not my brother’s keeper–come, remove these homeless campers, and exclude them from our community, and please hurry!”

During past discussions I’ve had with police officers about camping, much to their credit, some actually confided to me almost apologetically, wishing they were not being used to deal with homelessness in such a manner, that their time could have been used towards more important priorities.

This proved to me, that the way in which the city uses the anti-camping ordinance to enforce compliance, is a perfect example of good cops having to enforce bad law.

People, simply because you are freely invited to report such incidents, does not absolve you from the karma of additional suffering, you place upon already hopeless and hurting individuals.

Stop complaining, and using our police as proxies for your anger and frustration!  Stop using our police and volunteers to do such dirty work, in denying the homeless what little they have!  If you must call, please request that they check the welfare of those campers instead.

This way, your concerns will be investigated, but you won’t be placing either side under such tense, adversarial situations, complaints will drop, and you’ll feel better about yourselves as first responders, as good Samaritans, instead of overzealous, contemptuous, malicious, and selfish neighbors, having a turf war with themselves.

Danielle R. Smith

Behave Does Not Mean Get Out Of Town, Mr. City Attorney!

There are times in heart and mind, when something desperately needs  to be said, yet we realize that only we know what that is, how to say it, or if we should, knowing if we don't, nobody else will.

The result is that others will continue to suffer needlessly, because no one challenges the devil’s advocate, or his absurd, false accusations; whose use of Prohibited Camping Ordinance 4.815, violates the equal protection clause of the constitutions of the State of Oregon and the United States.

When fewlegal options exist, campers are forced to choose the lesser evil as willful violators, and they are damned well justified in defending their freedom of travel, personal privacy, and right to sleep!  Choice of Evils was already used to defend a camper in court; the City did in fact dismiss charges, and set a precedent against its self.

Attorney Glenn Klein, citizens of Eugene–those stripped of citizenship rights, who are at risk of being stripped of all personal belongings–deserve to know in exact detail, how they are expected tobehave.

Before your homies make fools of themselves, and hurt more innocent homeless homies, as willful violators having no compelling state interest, the unconstitutional portion(s) of the ordinance should be severed–not standing in court–because to the best of my knowledge, the amendment was illegally inserted in violation of law, which requires a 10-day public comment period that the citizens of Eugene were denied.  Now, who is the willful violator?

Danielle R. Smith

Are you now, or have you ever been–a member of the Republican Party?

Is There An Urgent Need for New McCarthy-Like Trials, and Investigations: “Are you now, or have you ever been–a member of the Republican Party of the United States?” Opinion
By Danielle SmithShould we assemble a new House Committee on Un-American Activities?  I say, absolutely!Only this time, we’re not actually talking about bringing back Joe McCarty’s past phony accusations, or witch-hunts against innocent workers, artists, government employees, educators, or the many dedicated, congressmen and senators, who are  statesman-like politicians, sincerely engaged in economic recovery, and what is best for All Americans, not just the wealthy, and the transnational corporations.It must be to investigate the actual, true and documented, un-American activities of Republicans (and money-corrupted Democrats), during past and present administrations, and damage to our manufacturing base, caused by following the anti-regulatory, and trade policies of “Reganomics” and “Clintonism”

These aggressive investigations along with impeachments, and arrests, should have been begun long ago; but Obama, for some strange and frustrating reason, has insisted on not looking back–or re-litigating the past–in other words, he has pardoned his predecessor’s economic class warfare, war crimes, torture, and other acts of treason.  This, in and of itself, is and will continue to be the crime of the century, if not the cause of our future total enslavement and subjugation, under martial law. That we have not done this yet, will be a huge significance to our continued freedom, unless unified, continued prosecutorial pressure is

the Republican party, the two Supreme Court Justices, Roberts, and Alito, and those sympathizer Democrats, who all together, are the self-avowed, corporatist terrorists, who are hell-bent on the total collapse and destruction of our constitutional,  democratic republic, by their political acts war, sedition, and treason, against the citizens of the United States of America.

I am, along with many other progressive democrats, independents, and registered voters of all other parties, feeling personally threatened now, by this hijacked, Republican party of corporate-fascists, and we must fearlessly face their absolute defiance!

It is they who have vowed to bring down President Barack Obama, and to obstruct and prevent any change, reform, or economic relief for Americans.

The anti-communist, McCarthy era trials and witch-hunts for suspected members of the communist party, was indeed, an ugly, shameful chapter of American history, instigated and contrived by Senator Joe McCarthy and the House Committee on Un-American Activities.