[Vision2020] Award Well-Deserved

[Donovan Arnold]

"He bemoans the lack of respect given for drivers and flaggers who were "just earning a living." There were employees at Auschwitz who were just doing their jobs too."
 
I believe the writer lost her audience's sympathies when comparing truck drivers and construction workers to Nazi concentration camp guards. Otherwise, I think many would have agreed with the stated concerns.
 
There is a bigger problem here than just oil. The problem is that corporations are able to influence politicians with cash donations and the public with "more jobs" rhetoric to the extent in which they do nothing about the planet being irreparably harmed and altered.  The ladies at the Triangle Shirt Factory all had jobs, but it didn't do them any good when the environmental and safety standards were cut. 
 
Donovan Arnold

From: Joe Campbell <philosopher.joe at gmail.com>
To: Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> 
Cc: Aaron Ament <aaronament at moscow.com>; Jim Prall <bermanprall at gmail.com>; Lois Blackburn <loisb at q.com>; Kathy Judson <ponysnpups at gmail.com>; Borg Hendrickson <chicory at wildblue.net>; Friends ofthe Clearwater <foc at friendsoftheclearwater.org>; Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com>; Jeanne McHale <jeannemchale at hotmail.com>; Fritz Knorr <fritzknorr at gmail.com>; Brett Haverstick <bhaverstick at yahoo.com>; Marilyn Beckett <marilynbeckett at gmail.com>; CherylHalverson <basketmakeart at yahoo.com>; Linwood Laughy <lin at wildblue.net>; HelenYost <helen.yost at vandals.uidaho.edu>; Dr. Dinah Zeiger <dzeiger at uidaho.edu> 
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 6:12 AM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Award Well-Deserved


Ouch! Nice letter!




On Apr 27, 2012, at 5:06 AM, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:


Courtesy of today's (April 27, 2012) Moscow-Pullman Daily News.
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>Award well-deserved
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>Dan Carscallen wants everyone to know that the Mayor's Earth Day award to megaload protesters was not his idea (Letters to the Editor, April 20).
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>Perhaps he is smarter than the climate scientists who decry mining the Alberta Tar Sands as the final act of irreversible, anthropogenic climate change. Perhaps he doesn't mind that indigenous people of northern Alberta are suffering from alarming rates of rare cancers and being robbed of their livelihood as fish and other wildlife are poisoned.
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>He bemoans the lack of respect given for drivers and flaggers who were "just earning a living." There were employees at Auschwitz who were just doing their jobs too. And he cites the need to have police "out in force" because "there was no telling what a protester might try." This statement implies that police were needed to prevent protesters from committing some unknown but apparently heinous act Carscallen imagines us to be capable of.
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>Police outnumbered protesters most nights because they were hired to protect the interests of ExxonMobil/Imperial Oil, not because there was any real threat to the transports. It would make more sense for our police to protect the citizenry from this rapacious corporation, rather than the other way around. Did we really need local, county and state police officers to intimidate protesters as we exercised our constitutional rights?
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>We chanted, we held signs, we played horns and drums, we sang songs and, yes, some of us entered the crosswalk. All of these are perfectly legal actions except, apparently, when our state officials (and some local ones) invite Big Oil to use our roads on their climate-killing, genocidal mission.
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>Perhaps they'll remember us when they plan their next route. To Mayor Chaney, thank you. To Dan Carscallen, you're welcome.
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>Jeanne McHale, Moscow
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>Earth Day Award for Megaload Protestors - April 16, 2012
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>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm64L_ozZwQ
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>Seeya round town, Moscow.
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>Tom Hansen
>Moscow, Idaho
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>"If not us, who?
>If not now, when?"
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>- Unknown
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