[Vision2020] Moscow City Council's Megaload Discussion

[Ted Moffett]

Interesting critical comments.  Thanks.

As you may know, given local newspapers had pictures of the "protests,"
there were several public actions recently (though I don't think these
events qualified as "civil disobedience" given my understanding that this
involves breaking a law) opposing the mega-loads with those involved
carrying supposedly mega-load sized signs, and so forth.  Why those involved
in these actions did not post about these events to Vision2020, I wonder.
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Saundra Lund <v2020 at ssl1.fastmail.fm>wrote: . .

Hey -- if anyone reading this knows of any civil disobedience plans for
if/when the mega-loads come through Moscow, ***please*** let me know.  For
obvious reasons (including the Council not giving a rip about full input
from Moscow citizens), I'm not interested in attending public meetings or
writing letters.  However, Steed's stunt -- along with the other lemming
Council members' disinterest in the input of their constituents -- has
annoyed me enough that I'm willing to participate in civil disobedience if
needed, and I've got some friends who would also probably like to
participate   :-)  For a variety of reasons (including the fact that even I
get tired of tilting at windmills, and since our governor & his henchmen had
sold us out *long* before we'd heard a word about the mega-loads defiling
Idaho qualifies as tilting at windmills), I'd made a conscious decision not
to get too involved in the issue.  However, given our Council's blatant
disregard for and disrespect of citizen input on this highly controversial
issue, I'm ticked enough that I'm willing to express with action my absolute
disgust at the Resolution.

Saundra Lund
Moscow, ID

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
nothing.
~ Edmund Burke

-----Original Message-----
From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Sue Hovey
Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2011 2:43 PM
To: MoscowCares at moscow.com; Moscow Vision 2020

> Cc: Jane Kauzlarich; Borg Hendrickson; Friends of the Clearwater; Fritz
> Knorr; Jeanne McHale; Marilyn Beckett; Joann Muneta
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Moscow City Council's Megaload Discussion
>
> Somewhere I had a thread in this discussion where I stated Randy Fife had
> teamed up with Walter Steed to blindside the mayor.  Walter sent me an
> email
> to tell me Randy had nothing to do with it.  Yesterday I saw Nancy at
> Farmers' Market and she agreed.  So the video should not be interpreted
> with
> an inference that Fife was helping Walter create council chaos.  He did it
> all by himself, with council members who were willing to support him.
>
> Sue
>
>
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