<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail-gs" style="width:1095.0919189453125px"><div class="gmail-"><div id="gmail-:n4" class="gmail-ii gmail-gt"><div id="gmail-:n3" class="gmail-a3s gmail-aiL"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal"><em style="box-sizing:border-box"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">Introduction: Alicia Bales is program director at <span class="" style="" id=":1cj.1" tabindex="-1">KZYX</span>, <span class="" style="" id=":1cj.2" tabindex="-1">Philo</span>, a publicly-funded, tax exempt <span class="" style="" id=":1cj.3" tabindex="-1">fm</span> radio station. Ms. Bales is leading a slander campaign to defame Liz <span class="" style="" id=":1cj.4" tabindex="-1">Evangelatos</span> Barney, a social media public information officer who works in this capacity for the Sheriff’s Department. </font></em></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal"><em style="box-sizing:border-box"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">***</font></em></p><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">December 22, 2020</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">My letter is in response to the slander campaign against Liz Barney by Alicia Bales. Alicia "Little Tree" Bales was the former Mendocino Environmental Center president where I was a board member. She, along with Naomi Wagner, who names herself as the current board president without an actual election, cried "racist" to a then <span class="" style="" id=":1cj.5" tabindex="-1">MEC</span> board member after he posted on his personal <span class="" style="" id=":1cj.6" tabindex="-1">Facebook</span> page<b> a theory </b>about the Mexican Cartel and the rash of fires going on a few years ago. <b> The theory </b>posited by the board member was that the Cartel may have played a role in starting fires to destroy marijuana crops and thus, remove competition. T<b>he board member did not emphatically say this was a fact.</b> This person was/is extremely knowledgeable about the Mexican cartel and growing marijuana in our County having been a grower for many years and was expressing an idea on his personal <span class="" style="" id=":1cj.7" tabindex="-1">Facebook</span> page.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">Bales and Wagner launched a campaign to remove the "racist" person from the MEC board. He eventually removed the <span class="" style="" id=":1cj.8" tabindex="-1">FB</span> post and was forced off the board and labeled a "racist."</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">On December 2, 2020, the AVA ran a story about six Mexicans living in Round Valley who tortured and executed Traci Bland and Kyle McCartney. Traci and Kyle, who were white, were kidnapped, tortured and killed. The six defendants are known as the <span class="" style="" id=":1cj.9" tabindex="-1">Covelo</span> Six with the head of the group led by a woman. All six had extensive criminal pasts. One member, S<span style="color:rgb(17,17,17)"><span class="" style="" id=":1cj.10" tabindex="-1">amson</span> <span class="" style="" id=":1cj.11" tabindex="-1">Musellini</span> Little Bear Joaquin's</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> criminal past includes being arrested and charged with domestic violence battery after allegedly attempting to choke and hit his pregnant partner. The <span class="" style="" id=":1cj.12" tabindex="-1">AVA's</span> article writes: "</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Perhaps the most troubling detail revealed in the charging document are counts six and seven asserting the <span class="" style="" id=":1cj.13" tabindex="-1">Covelo</span> Six "willfully, unlawfully, with the intent to cause cruel and extreme pain and suffering for the purpose of revenge, extortion, persuasion and/or for sadistic purpose" inflicted great bodily injury on both Bland and McCartney.</span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">To view the story: </span><a href="https://kymkemp.com/2020/12/02/covelo-six-charged-with-first-degree-murder-kidnapping-and-torture-of-traci-bland-and-kyle-mccartney/" target="_blank">https://<span class="" style="" id=":1cj.14" tabindex="-1">kymkemp</span>.com/2020/12/02/<span class="" style="" id=":1cj.15" tabindex="-1">covelo</span>-six-charged-with-first-degree-murder-kidnapping-and-torture-of-<span class="" style="" id=":1cj.16" tabindex="-1">traci</span>-bland-and-kyle-<span class="" style="" id=":1cj.17" tabindex="-1">mccartney</span>/</a></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Who made Alicia Bales the "racist police" for Mendocino County? Where is her outrage over this serious crime committed on two innocent people? To naively think that the Mexican Drug Cartel isn't active and present in our County is arrogant, ignorant, and stupid. </span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Ms. Bales: You need to publicly apologize to Liz Barney for your own racism and sexism. BTW, using your old CB handle "Little Tree" doesn't make you a Native American. You insult indigenous people everywhere.</span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">P.S. To the Editor: You might want a reporter to look into <span class="" style="" id=":1cj.19" tabindex="-1">KMEC</span> Radio being off the air and the <span class="" style="" id=":1cj.20" tabindex="-1">MEC</span> completely shut down. <span class="" style="" id=":1cj.21" tabindex="-1">MEC</span> owns the broadcast license for <span class="" style="" id=":1cj.22" tabindex="-1">KMEC</span>. Funny how the "board" doesn't see this as a problem. Are you listening Ms. Wagner?</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-yj6qo"></div><div class="gmail-adL"></div></div></div><div class="gmail-hi"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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