Is This America?

As James Madison wrote in the Federalist No. 39, “If we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we may define a republic to be, or at least may bestow that name on, a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure, for a limited period, or during good behavior. It is ESSENTIAL to such a government that it be derived from the great body of the society, not from an inconsiderable proportion, or a favored class of it; otherwise a handful of tyrannical nobles, exercising their oppressions by a delegation of their powers, might aspire to the rank of republicans, and claim for their government the honorable title of republic. It is SUFFICIENT for such a government that the persons administering it be appointed, either directly or indirectly, by the people; and that they hold their appointments by either of the tenures just specified; otherwise every government in the United States, as well as every other popular government that has been or can be well organized or well executed, would be degraded from the republican character.”

Oregon Constitution Article I, Section 1. Natural rights inherent in people. We declare that all men, when they form a social compact are equal in right: that all power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority, and instituted for their peace, safety, and happiness; and they have at all times a right to alter, reform, or abolish the government in such manner as they may think proper.

But what happened here is what James Madison warned us about factions in The Federalist paper No. 10;

“By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.”

Mr. Lance Masters with the assistance of Eva Zerfing turned this little American City government into monarchy, socialism, fascism, communism, imperialism and all the other forms of government America is not. We are not ruled by Kings or Czars. We elect people to serve the people in this great Country and our State. But Government does not appoint a government by choosing a select class of people. A class of people who opposed the recall Lance Masters. They choose it on ability not as a reward to fraud the people.
They are all fraud's citizens and they have now stolen your vote as a first act.

Two of those that were rewarded an appointment pledged to pay $500.00 to the very Political Action Committee.

Yes Gail Lewis and Jeff Helfrich through his wife paid $500.00 and his wife was a registered officer of the political action committee that took public records and tampered with them. Yes they deleted sentences and added sentences and sent it as a political slate mailer to oppose the recall of Lance Masters to every citizen. The idiots even printed this is public record on the very slate mailers they tampered with. Do you have any idea of how many crimes were broken? I do as I am working with the State Police and Department of Justice.

Yet do you here them speak out against such injustice? How about you Lance Masters you were saved by a criminal act intended specifically to unduly influence the votes of the people.

So Mr. Masters how does it feel knowing you only won because your side had to cheat by committing criminal acts and committing fraud upon the voters.

Yet you say nothing about it and you reward them with a seat of government.

And in turn they rewarded you with the crown and the keys to the kingdom.

But Mr. Masters Madison also gave me the remedy.

“There are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other, by controlling its effects.

So citizens remember this.

Article IV, section 4 of the Constitution reads: “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government.”

I have already proved to you that every public body in Oregon must guarantee all citizens a republican form of government.

So if you believe in the Constitution you cannot believe in this Council. You must oppose every action they take.

What this Council needs to do is call for a special election like the law says they will do if there is not a quorum required by law to do any City business.

ORS 221.160 Special elections to fill council vacancies; appointment of council members when all positions vacant. (1) Whenever because of death, resignation or other cause the number of the members of the governing body of any city is insufficient to constitute a quorum for the transaction of the business thereof, and the charter of such city does not otherwise provide, the mayor, or if there is no mayor, a majority of the remaining members of the governing body, may call a special election for the purpose of electing a sufficient number of persons to fill all the vacancies then existing in the governing body. For the purposes of such election the mayor, or if there is no mayor, a majority of the remaining members of the governing body, may appoint persons to act for all offices necessary to the holding of such election where such offices may be vacant. The appointments shall continue until a successor is selected as provided for by the charter or law governing such city.

Now these appointee’s may well be good for the city but unless they are voted in by the people they will always be known as cheats, scammers, fakes, and criminals. Better yet frauds as it is fitting to the cause.

Now I can live with knowing this is what they are but can they? Knowing a city feels this way about them may guarantee their terms are short.
As it is turning out worthless SOB's is the new names going around.

As it is they have been proving the things that the previous council got blamed for, there were no other options for their actions.

I now want you all to read an email from our interim City Administrator to me.

From: "Paul Koch" <pkoch@cascade-locks.or.us>
To: "Cody Steelman" <codysteelman@embarqmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 8:33:27 AM
Subject: RE: 192.660 (e)? and Jan 1st is the deadline. No excuses accepted.

Cody:  Thanks for the alerts, I appreciate them.

1. Mr. Smith has already been paid $4,000 for the easement.  The payment to Mr. Smith occurred a few years ago, but there was not a survey or legal description.  The problem is that the City accepted a FEMA grant in partnership with all the other safety agencies in the county (and spent it) then located Mr. Bates tower outside of the easement.  We find no legal right to his tower and he is rightly upset.  We now are in the final stages of survey and will take his tower down and give it back as we have no legal right to it.  I have regularly informed this Council and the previous Council that they can expect to have to pay an additional $20,000 to $25,000 to get this done right.  That cost will be shared by all the other agencies in the county, they will not be happy about that, but it is what it is.  I expect to have the total new cost in a week or so.
2. On the old fire hall, yes there are all sorts of issues, but I think the place to start is with the easement and clear description of both properties.  Then Council will know what they are dealing with.  From there, meetings with real estate professionals would help Council understand the market realities.  From there, they can make a decision about what to do.  From what I have been able to pull from the files, it appears that  there would not be much use for the building without either significant  owner or tenant improvements.

On the affordability issue, I am afraid that the city is way past that pint.  Once you accept government money and spend it you still have a responsibility to complete the plan you proposed.  The fact that it was not done correctly is unfortunate, but the reality.

Thanks again Cody for your time and expressions.  I for one appreciate it.

Thanks.

Paul

What 1 tells you is the city liberated (stole) an communications tower for the 911 system and got caught. Then they installed it on private property that did not belong to the city and they had no permission. That this is going to cost $20,000.00 to $25,000.00 estimated to resolve. That the City expects that the County will pay? And most revealing is that the 911 grant was spent and the City has to finish the project. I wonder how the County is going to take this good news?

And to think they shut down our 911 system to save the former chief and raised all the hell they did to save our former administrators for this type of behavior.

And look at their supporters who caused all the problems we now face. They are now the government and the first thing they did was took away our constitutional and lawful rights. Yep they stole our right to vote for our public officials. What’s next witch burning? Political prisons? Book burning?

You voted for it and you got it. I hope you can live with yourselves now.

Cody