[CRNMC] just the Argument For Measure S

[Shannon Biggs]

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On 8/21/14 4:20 PM, "karinajoy" <karinacotler at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Argument For Measure S
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> Measure S establishes a Community Bill of Rights for the people of Mendocino
> County, built on the right to local community self governance, in order to
> exercise and secure our unalienable right to protect our health, safety and
> well being. These rights include the right to live in a healthy and safe
> ecosystem and the right to protect local water from harm caused by
> unconventional gas extraction. In order to uphold and protect those rights,
> this initiative bans all fracking related activities within the County,
> including the transportation of fracking fluids, and the use of local water
> for fracking. 
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> Our nation was founded on the concept that government is instituted to secure
> our unalienable rights and derives it¹s just powers from the consent of the
> governed.  Activities such as fracking affect our health and safety, our
> quality of life, the health of our natural environment as well as our property
> values and must be decided by the Citizens who live here and who will be
> directly affected, or there is no ³consent of the governed.²
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> Yet States routinely issue permits to chartered corporations that make it
> ³legal² for them to violate the rights of the people and refuse to recognize
> our right to say ³no!¹ to harmful activities.
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> Measure S challenges those illegitimate laws which violate our fundamental
> rights. This measure elevates the rights of the people of Mendocino 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.
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> Measure S protects our water by banning fracking and asserts the right of the
> people of Mendocino to make those kinds of decisions now and into the future.
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