[CRNMC] Arguments For Measure S

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Excellent synopsis: Thank you for your efforts.

Baile Oakes <baileoakes at gmail.com> wrote:

>Excellent Tim !
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>great thanks to all who helped to bring these words forth.  
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>just a typo or two and a little more polish and it is set to go !
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>love
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>baile
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>On Aug 15, 2014, at 5:03 PM, Tim Rice wrote:
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>> 
>> Using Shannon's and Thomas's words, adding a few of my own, here
>> is a possible starting point.
>> ...............................................
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>> In a free society, the people tell their government what it can and
>> can not do.
>> In a free society, all people have the same rights and privliges.
>> 
>> In an opressive society, government tells the people what they can
>> and can not do.
>> In an opressive society, favored groups are granted sepcial privliges at
>> the expense of others.
>> 
>> In our country today, corporations (property) have been granted more
>> rights than the people of this country.
>> 
>> The people that wrote the Declaration of Independence understood
>> that governments derive their just powers from the consend of the
>> governed and when a government becomes destructive the people
>> have the right to alter or abolish it.
>> 
>> Measure S will establish a Community Bill of Rights for the people and
>> natural environment of Mendocino County  new civil, political, and
>> environmental rights. All built on the right of local, community
>> self-government These include the right to live in a healthy and safe
>> ecosystem and the right to protect local water from danger. In order to
>> uphold and protect those rights, the initiative bans all fracking related
>> activities within the County including the transportation of fracking
>> fluids, and the use of local water for fracking. 
>> 
>> Measure S elevates the rights of the people of Mendocino back where they
>> belong, above the claimed "rights" of corporations and state agencies
>> that enable fracking corporations to profit from the destruction of
>> local ecosystems and to harm residents and communities.
>> 
>> This measure is about putting the freedom back in "the land of the free".
>> 
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>> On Fri, 15 Aug 2014, karinajoy wrote:
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>>> I'm working on the Arguments now. 
>>> 
>>> 300 words is not very long, but I don't want to miss an important point, so Im asking again, What is your best argument for Measure S? Even just an idea, a phrase, a sentence could be helpful.
>>> 
>>> It's due next wednesday, 8 /20, but I need to have the first draft by tomorrow, so now is your chance! 
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Karina
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>> tim at multitalents.net
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