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I’m a long-time biodiversity and allow life to continue. resident of Lane County and have seen We humans have had something like and met plenty of the homeless citizens COVID coming for a long time. of Eugene over the past couple of years. Most environmental groups are still THE Some have kept in touch — most have refusing to take a stand on growth. I moved on and I lost track. recommend supporting CASSE (Cen- Many times in the media, articles ter for the Advancement of the Steady have stated that a homeless person died State Economy.) It’s way past time to here or there and never is the individu- stop human supremacy, the idea that we MAGIC al’s name ever mentioned. And I won- humans are the most important species der: Is the deceased person someone and have the right to decimate other I’ve met or helped? species and take over most of the planet So it is truly a blessing to hear the for our own needs, desires and amuse- stories of our deceased homeless citi- ment. FLUTE zens. What you have written is exactly Sharon Blick what I’ve discovered. Most of our home- Eugene less citizens have emotional or mental LET THE VOTERS problems, some refusing to get onto or DECIDE ON KRISTOF stay on their meds. Then there are the drug-addicted who find it more difficult Who gets to run for governor in Or- FRIDAY, JAN 28, 2022 | 7:30 PM to recover when there are so many deal- egon? ers on the streets. Seems some career politicians want SUNDAY, JAN 30, 2022 | 2:30 PM Keep on showing the public that it to keep Nick Kristof off the state bal- Silva Concert Hall | Hult Center, Eugene takes a village to help our homeless. lot. Political insiders in the Democratic Holly Sombs Party apparently pressured Secretary Sung in German with English dialogue and English supertitles Eugene of State Shemia Fagan to rule against TICKETS eugeneopera.org | 541-682-5000 including Kristof on the gubernatorial STOP HUMAN SUPREMACY ballot. The ruling came just weeks be- Bob Emmons (“The Failure of fore March’s filing deadline. COP26,” EW 1/13) is absolutely right Fortunately, others with less politi- about the root cause of climate change. cal stake in the decision have weighed I would argue that the loss of biodiver- in. One former Oregon Supreme Court sity is an even greater crisis in threat- justice and three previous secretaries of ening the future of life on Earth. Both state have said Kristof should be on the crises are caused by unlimited growth ballot given his lifelong affiliation with in both human population and human the state, including property ownership consumption of resources. and paying property taxes. His exclu- I recommend Eileen Crist’s book sion seems entirely political. Abundant Earth, where she thoroughly Oregon has become a national leader documents the destruction of our plan- in promoting democracy by increasing et's formerly abundant life and then voter access and voting rights, allow- advocates “scaling down and pulling ing more people to participate. For that back” to a human population of 2 billion reason, voters should have the final say with greatly reduced consumption. This when it comes to deciding who’s best to would also reduce future pandemics. lead Oregon. Life depends on other forms of life, In 2020, Kristof wrote specifically and life needs diversity in order to con- about political, economic and cultural tinue to exist. Any form of life, including challenges to his hometown and Or- 2 JANUARY 20, 2022 EUGENEWEEKLY.COM EUGENEWEEKLY.COM JANUARY 20, 2022 3 letters egon more broadly. We need his voice depressing, desolate, droning noise fusal to be vaccinated against COVID-19. How’s that? and leadership to address a wide range which vibrates through the walls of our I am writing only because I think there That’s like saying no one can buy a of problems in Oregon from homeless- dwellings. It is unrelenting and invasive, is too much anger and ridicule in what home in America because Ted Turner ness and economic fairness to climate and does not let up from its single fre- should be a respectful acknowledgment owns millions of acres of land. No Amer- change. quency. Frankly, it is the stuff of night- of concerns, both for and against the ican uses topsoil or water from Africa, His name must be on the 2022 prima- mares. use of vaccines. and no home builder uses wood stolen ry ballot. Voters, not career politicians, It is produced by Zip-O-Laminators, To accuse people who resist the vac- from South American forests — illegal should pick their leaders. and no appeal has produced a cessation cine of being crazy, stupid or anti-social loggers do that. The profits from com- S.M. Summerlight in their early, early morning startup. We is not productive. Probably some are in modities we purchase overseas are used Eugene have written to our councilwoman, Clair one of these categories. But I also know as those governments see fit and some Syrette, who mouths promises to inter- of concerned and intelligent people on are very corrupt. EUGENE SHOULDN’T vene to change the city code, as there both sides of this issue whose judgment In 1900, petroleum in the Middle BE SO PROMISCUOUS is ostensibly nothing to be done via the I respect. Some are sure the vaccine is East was controlled by sultans, imams Before it is too late, I hope our city laws. beneficial; some question vaccines that and sheiks who had absolute power and leaders and executives will stop acting Hey, if I play my music too loud late are technically experimental and pro- granted concessions to British compa- like a Chamber of Commerce, cheer- at night, the cops show up to tell me to duced by pharmaceutical companies nies. In the 1930s the modest proceeds leading and incentivizing developers quiet down, yet this company can dis- better known for their cupidity than were split 50/50 with the dictators. In who are industriously turning Track- turb the peace in far worse fashion ev- their probity. It’s normal to cite experts, 1960, the emir of Kuwait made $260 mil- town U.S.A. into Anytown U.S.A. — over- ery single morning and the city says its but “experts" have been known to be ei- lion, and he chose, purely at his own dis- crowded, unaffordable and indistin- hands are tied. ther right or wrong. cretion, to use two-thirds of that to im- guishable. Let's lower the pom poms What's wrong with this picture? I make no recommendation here, prove living standards in his kingdom. and recycle the ticker tape. Remember Would the city fail to act if Zip-O-Lam- only a plea to be less accusatory and Stable societies like Japan are able former Gov. Tom McCall’s warning for inators abused the neighbors in the more respectful of diverse conclusions. to purchase whatever they lack. Most our state: “Oregon is demure and lovely, South Hills? But they're too smart for Patricia Spicer “famines” in Africa are caused by war- and it ought to play a little hard to get. that, instead opting to set up in the Eugene lords who steal food-aid shipments and And I think you'll be just as sick as I am Trainsong/River Road area, where they disrupt commerce and government. DON’T BLAME US if you find it is nothing but a hungry can get away with it. “Developing countries” (60 years now?) hussy, throwing herself at every stink- Shame on our city government for I knew there was a “blame America” with too many people create rivers of ing smokestack that's offered.” Better not reining in corporate abuse when it line somewhere in Robert Emmons’ oth- raw sewage, every known communi- late than never to see Eugene is better affects large swaths of the citizenry! erwise excellent article about overpopu- cable disease, preventable AIDS, etc. than that. Jennifer E. Sunseri lation (“The Failure of COP26,” EW 1/13). American taxpayers, technology, and Benton Elliott Eugene He said, “To be sure, developed na- the Peace Corps are called on every day Eugene tions (America chief among them) con- to fix others’ homemade problems. BRING BACK CIVIL sume a majority of the world’s resourc- Greg Williams ZIP-O-HELL DEBATE ON VACCINES es,” and, “developing countries, which Noti We who live in the Trainsong and Riv- I realize that this letter is not in ac- consume far less, are suffering most er Road neighborhoods are awakened cord with your editorial stance or with from the catastrophic impacts of those every morning at 4 am by a profoundly most current opinions concerning re- enjoying a grosser domestic product.” Local Vocandal BLACK GIRL FROM EUGENE BY AYISHA ELLIOTT Loss want to go, and most importantly what you do not need race and equity enthusiasts. It is human, without the false to continue to do, to reckon with, to face and — to let go. directive of social separation. Seems reasonable. Can we give each other grace in this massive The process is terrifying. To let go is to transform. When transformation we are globally and very personally you change so dramatically, especially traumatically, you experiencing? Suuuurrre — but harder yet, let us allow OUR HUMBLED TRUTH do not know what, who or how you will continue to “be.” the space and time to be whatever we need to be in order A mental health crisis doesn't always require CAHOOTS. to feel whole. Can we imagine what letting go of urgency T he time of COVID — 2020, 2021 — was It also doesn't mean permanence or a diagnosis. A may look like for ourselves, for our family, for our business, incredible for many many reasons. crisis is just that: a time of intense difficulty, trouble or for our community? What if we all consider this forced One poignant reason, I think we danger, and is generally seen as negative. Change is hard. transformation as a sort of mental revision that any of can agree on is loss: loss of income, Transformation is complicated. us could be trying to work through — at any given time? loss of housing, loss of security, self The truth is, experiencing the social construct of our Can we acknowledge the courage it takes for each other assurance, mental health, loss of realities — like race, social economic status, gender, family to just show up to any table at this point? direction, loss of inspiration, loss structure — all collides and melds into our collective This is different. Our lives have been touched by loss, of a loved one. Everywhere you look, there are more conscience. Of course our coping skills vary, we all have either personally or we have witnessed it. The best way questions; even within the answers there are more different boats in the same storm. In other words, my to “let go” is to recognize how to face what we’ve known questions. This is probably no different, to be honest. loss is your loss. My oppression is your oppression, my to be true and pick up something necessary and new Spiritually, it’s said that in order to grow or evolve houselessness is your houselessness. for all of us. ■ you must let go. Let go of what no longer serves you. It's This social transformation, this global crisis, weighs Ayisha Elliott’s podcast Black Girl From Eugene is raw and uncensored a beautiful thought and expression. The reality is, the on our mental health. This crisis weighs on our senses monologues and conversations about living while Black in the PNW. “let go” part comes down to acceptance. Accepting that as a whole. In the midst of such loss, can we allow space Listen locally at 11 am Sundays on FB Live; simulcast on KEPW 97.3 FM. Audio found on all major podcasting platforms. you recognize the truth of where you are, and where you for each other? Inclusivity is not just a term for diversity, 4 JANUARY 20, 2022 EUGENEWEEKLY.COM EUGENEWEEKLY.COM JANUARY 20, 2022 5 news further right, out of frustration,” Gomez says. “What we need is to bring people around and gather around some real, down-to-earth practical solutions that are going to help bring our state together.” One issue that Gomez brings up is child care and its impact on the workforce. During COVID-19, young parents have had to juggle remote school for their children while working from home, and not every household has had family support to help with child care, she says. “What I’d like to see is a path forward where employ- ers would offer at-work child care. There are some regu- latory barriers, including zoning, to really do that,” she says. “And make sure it’s tax deductible for the parent and the company.” Making child care more accessible for families is a way to get people back to work and advance the parents’ careers, she adds. The biggest problem that Gomez wants to address in the state is its homeless crisis, which she says is a mental health and addiction problem at its core. “There is this misconception that leaving people on the street to live like that is somehow compassionate, and it’s absolutely the wrong thing to do,” she says. “You never see this in any country as rich as ours. We have failed to deal with this problem.” The state doesn’t have the infrastructure to deal with the root causes of homelessness, she says. She proposes a three layer care model: closed, assisted living and indepen- A ‘Forward-Thinking’ dent living. “We’ve got to get people into these programs where they can’t leave and they have to accept the help to deal with these underlying issues, so we can make them healthy enough to make good decisions,” she adds. Republican Gomez says she experienced homelessness in the ’90s as a teen, but her grandmother stepped in to get her off the streets. “Not everybody has that,” she says. She says the state has the money to implement such a model but wastes so many resources on services related JESSICA GOMEZ IS A TECH CEO AND IS RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR TO to the homelessness crisis, from acute care at hospitals TRANSFORM HOW OREGON ADDRESSES HOMELESSNESS to the jails. “We’re spinning our wheels,” she adds. “We have to reprioritize and spend our resources in a mean- By Henry Houston ingful way.” Without a place to take someone experiencing homelessness where they can stay for months to address their J essica Gomez is one of the few Latina CEOs Gomez shies from the designation “moderate,” instead mental health and restore their footing, all of the CAHOOTS in the U.S. and wants to be Oregon’s first saying she’s a “forward-thinking” Republican. She says services in the world won’t solve the issue, she says. Latina governor. the state won’t function with someone in the governor’s Before entering the race for the current Republi- But she doesn’t see running the govern- office who has an activist agenda. Instead, she’s calling can gubernatorial primary, Gomez ran for 3rd district ment like operating a business, a common for more practical solutions, saying if Oregon can’t work Oregon Senate seat in 2018. According to OreStar, she Republican view on governance. “Govern- together, then the state won’t be able to move forward. raised and spent more than $500,000 to try to unseat ment exists for the public good, but it is She’s entering the race at a time when the Republican the Democratic incumbent, Sen. Jeff Golden of Ashland important to recognize who the customer is, and that’s Party has shifted far to the right over the years. The Oregon (who raised $190,000). But Gomez lost the race by about the taxpayer,” Gomez says in a recent interview with Republican Party has echoed many of former President 10 percentage points to Golden. Eugene Weekly. Donald Trump’s narratives, even after the Jan. 6 insur- So far, Gomez’s campaign finances look slimmer than A Medford tech entrepreneur, Gomez is running for rection. After the insurrection, the Oregon Republican her 2018 campaign and less than her Republican competi- the Republican nomination in the Oregon gubernato- Party released a resolution via Twitter that the event tors. She’s raised about $260,000. Her competitors have rial race at a time when the state’s Republican Party was a “false flag,” meaning it was staged to appear as if raised more: Bud Pierce $831,506, Christine Dragan has stepped further into right wing ideologies. She says conservatives had invaded the U.S. Capitol. The party $797,500 and Bridget Barton $513,634. it’s time the Republican Party offers more solutions for also criticized on Twitter the 10 House Republicans who Among Gomez’s contributors who’ve given the most Oregon’s problems. And for Gomez, who experienced voted to impeach Trump over the insurrection. money are Ashland philanthropists Syd and Karen DeBoer homelessness as a teen, the state’s biggest problem is Gomez tells EW that Trump “clearly did not win” the (each gave $12,500); Gomez’s company Rogue Valley homelessness. 2020 election. But she recognizes some of the questions Microdevices, which contributed $12,000; and the Long In 2013, Gomez founded Rogue Microdevices, a tech about election integrity, most of which have been brought Beach, California-based health insurance company Molina manufacturing company in Medford. She serves as the up by Republicans and the right wing. “It’s really impor- HealthCare, which gave $10,000. company’s CEO and she has won several awards from tant that people feel good about elections and that their The list of Republican hopefuls is crowded, but Gomez tech industry organizations for her entrepreneurship. vote matters,” she adds, saying she supports audits if it says there are some candidates who stand out, including But she’s running for governor because she says the helps people trust the election process. herself. “I have a different background than the rest of state needs a leader that can make taxpayers feel like “Republicans want to have a ‘big tent,’ but I think we’ve the candidates,” she says. “I’m a business owner, I have their money is being used well. “We haven’t had that in a had one party in charge for so long that now the Republi- a lot of lived experience and understand the struggle while,” she adds. “Things have gotten pretty expensive cans as the minority party are so frustrated that they’ve that everyday Oregonians have. I think that will reso- and we’re still struggling with many of the issues.” taken on this tactic that they’re going to go further and nate well.” ■ Local and Vocal Support Journalism Your contribution, or your purchase of a T-shirt or subscription goes directly toward printing pages and keeping this paper alive and in your hands. Visit support.eugeneweekly.com 4 JANUARY 20, 2022 EUGENEWEEKLY.COM EUGENEWEEKLY.COM JANUARY 20, 2022 5 news Winningham-Melcher says those agencies — as well as the U.S. Coast Guard — took preventative measures of pulling equipment from the water to protect it from the wave. She says the tsunami didn’t cause any damage. The county also worked to clear the beachfront so that people weren’t there when the tsunami waves arrived. Lane County used various notification systems to those in the coast area, including reverse-911 calls to landlines and wireless emergency alerts. But it didn’t use its Emer- gency Alert System that’s broadcast countywide on TVs and radios. “Everybody would’ve known about it, and I feel like the saturation was adequate with the news media,” Winningham-Melcher adds. However, she says an unfortunate result of warning the public about the tsunami means attracting people to the scene, which is what happened that Saturday. “The most important takeaway is that we need to be able to figure NOAA’S GOES WEST SATELLITE out how to inform people to not flock to the oceanfront to CAPTURED ANOTHER EXPLOSIVE watch the waves come in,” she says. “I don’t know if we’re ERUPTION OF THE HUNGA TONGA-HUNGA HA'APAI VOLCANO, ever going to change that.” LOCATED IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC Allan says he saw social media posts of people traveling KINGDOM OF TONGA to the coast after the tsunami advisory was published, and he cautions people against doing that. He says the waves Wave of Warning that hit Newport were measured at .6 feet amplitude. That measurement looks like a small wave but he says there’s a lot of energy in the wave. “It can knock people off their feet,” he adds. “When these warnings are issued to stay WEEKEND TSUNAMI ADVISORY SERVES AS REMINDER off the beach, that means exactly that — because you can be knocked off the beach.” TO BE PREPARED FOR CASCADIA QUAKE For tsunami waves caused by distant events, there’s time to prepare, Winningham-Melcher says. The county By Henry Houston had hours to prepare and work with agencies. But when the Cascadia earthquake hits, the tsunami alert \is the earthquake itself, “and you’ve got 10 minutes — if that — I t took several hours for a tsunami wave to hit the The volcanic eruption happened at 8:27 pm Pacific Time to get out of the way of a potential wave.” West Coast after the underwater volcanic eruption on Jan. 14, he says, about 5,500 miles from the Oregon The Cascadia subduction zone is off the coast of Oregon, in Tonga Jan. 14. But when the Cascadia earth- coast. But it took hours for the Tsunami Warning Center Allan says, and DOGAMI simulations predict that a tsunami quake hits, a tsunami wave will arrive in minutes. in Alaska to figure out that it would result in a tsunami. wave would hit the coast in about 10 minutes at Gold The weekend tsunami wave caused by the under- An advisory was sent out at 5 am Jan. 15, notifying the Beach to the south and arrive in 20 to 22 minutes to the sea volcanic eruption was an unusual event, says public that strong currents and waves were expected in northwest beach of Seaside, where the community would Jonathan Allan, coastal geomorphologist with the marine waters, on beaches and in ports and harbors, then be inundated in about 30 to 34 minutes. Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries telling people to stay away from those spaces, he says. “That obviously includes the three to five minutes of (DOGAMI). It took 11 and a half hours for the tsunami to reach Port earthquake shaking in that timeline, so it’s a very rapid The activity served as a logistical exercise for Lane Orford in southern Oregon from the volcanic epicenter response,” he adds. “That long and slow earthquake move- County’s Office of Emergency Management, and as a in Tonga in the South Pacific. ment would be your signal to evacuate to high ground as reminder to the public to be prepared for the tsunami that Lane County Program Emergency Manager Patence soon as possible.” will hit the coast after the Cascadia earthquake, which the Winningham-Melcher says she received a call at 5 am from During an earthquake, it’s not recommended to go U.S. Geological Survey estimates could be bigger than an the National Weather Service about the tsunami advi- outside, so Allan says it’s important to know your local near- 8.0 magnitude, based on past activity. sory. “We mobilized pretty quickly,” she says. She then est evacuation route and have a “go-bag” ready so you can “If you’re on the coast, you need to be aware that we contacted county and city of Florence first responders, get to high ground as soon as the ground is done shaking. ■ are impacted by distant and locally generated earthquake including fire chiefs and the Lane County Sheriff’s Office, Visit this article at EugeneWeekly.com for links to information on how and tsunami events,” Allan says. and utility companies and local hospitals. to prepare for a tsunami on the Oregon coast. • The shooting at at Matthew Knight Arena. You don't even have to • And on the topic of the governor’s race! EW slant the WOW Hall Friday, like basketball to like this. has teamed up with Oregon Capital Chronicle Jan. 14, rocked Eugene and other media and nonprofits to find out what and Lane County. Six • We're sorry to hear that The Register- readers want candidates for governor to talk people injured, one criti- Guard, like Gannett papers across the country, about as they compete for votes. Find out how cally, and a lot of people traumatized. We didn’t will cut Saturday print publication in March, to weigh in at EugeneWeekly.com. need another violent reminder that we need stron- and we're not sure what that means for the future ger gun laws. Our hearts go out to the victims, of our daily paper. This community needs the • Thanks to the readers who let us know about the witnesses and the WOW Hall. And our ire goes Guard every day of the week, and cutting print the anti-vaxxers stapling propaganda to our out to those who care more about their holsters sends the wrong signal to readers. Cuts or not, pages in EWs around downtown. Petty acts by anti- than they do their own hearts. Gun control, now. please continue to support the local reporters’ vaxx folk like ruining print copies won’t change our dogged journalism in the face of all the challenges. science-based pro-COVID-vaccine editorial stance • If you want to escape all the bad news out or change our readers’ minds, but they will annoy there, we have a suggestion: Watch University • Speaking of the RG, we are disappointed to the people who want to do their crossword in peace! of Oregon’s Duck basketball — both the women see that gubernatorial candidate Nick Kristof and the men. They don't win every game, but when seems to be taking a page out of Donald Trump’s • It was a good choice for 4J school board they do win, it's terrific. On one trip to southern playbook and only speaking to media who he thinks member Mary Walston to conditionally with- California, the men beat both UCLA and USC. will give him a positive report. Dan Kahle’s Jan. draw her complaint against two fellow members Coach Dana Altman was even smiling when he left 14 column in the Guard was sweet, but we need of the 4J school board. Her condition is that the Pauley Pavilion after the UCLA game, and that substance from our political candidates. Eugene board set up a work session with an outside facili- is unusual. The women beat Arizona after falling Weekly would be happy to interview Kristof, but tator to discuss staff and board communication. far behind, mostly because of the play of Sedona he’s not returning our calls. We assume as a jour- We will watch to see if that happens. What will it Prince, the Ducks six-foot, seven-inch star, then nalist he’s not afraid of the press? cost? How is the rest of the board responding? took down ninth-ranked Connecticut on Jan. 17 6 JANUARY 20, 2022 EUGENEWEEKLY.COM EUGENEWEEKLY.COM JANUARY 20, 2022 7 Local Vocandal VIEWPOINT BY TOM COFFIN The Iconoclast American Political Party THE PARTY FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE GOP IS TAKING DIRECT AIM AT AMERICAN DEMOCRACY T he term “Iconoclasm” stems from the involved executing some on a gallows erected nearby on as heresy or treason — and in so doing it is destroying Greek description of the movement to Capitol grounds. what our nation used to proudly represent. destroy cherished beliefs or venerated In the wake of this violent uprising against democracy Lastly, I do not want to overlook another institutions on the grounds that they we now are hearing talk about the looming spectre of civil “deconstructed” icon — the Supreme Court. are erroneous or pernicious (Oxford war, secession and bloody internecine conflict as party The party obstructed the President’s prerogative of English Dictionary). It is typically members flash military weaponry in their Christmas nominating candidates to fill vacancies on the court in associated with opposition to the use of greetings to constituents, asking Santa to bring more President Barack Obama’s last year of office on the basis religious images (I.e., “icons”) as objects of veneration, ammo (smashing the icons of peace and goodwill in a that it was an election year, yet hypocritically reversed that but is equally applicable to cultural, political and other season that’s sacred to many and that’s already wounded premise in President Trump’s last few months in office. societal norms in general. by another mass school shooting at a high school in This maneuver changed the composition of the court to We are witnessing political iconoclasm today, as the Michigan). a supermajority conservative court for possibly decades. Republican Party methodically embarks on a mission to Beyond normalizing a violent motif, disparagement Another norm was shattered, and the collateral demolish traditional norms and principles en route to of certain racial, ethnic, religious and sexual identity has consequences from this disrespect of tradition was the completing the execution of democracy in the birthplace flamed like wildfire. Acceptance or even tolerance of the implosion of the court’s image as a non-partisan impartial of modern democracy — the United States — and its over disfavored categories is scorned as “woke” sentimentality. tribunal above the fray of political ideology. In the public’s two centuries of Constitutional government. As to what remains of the Constitution after four eye, and even in the words of some of the justices, the Over the past five years, this anti-Constitutional years of pillage, the answer is very little. The rule of law integrity of their decisions is at substantial risk. momentum has accelerated at a breakneck pace. If I had has been effectively riddled with corrupt exceptions, This is no small blow to our Constitutional system to select a defining moment from a cast of thousands, it the emoluments clause swept into the trash, the of government. If we are not viewed as being governed would be when Donald Trump stoked the idea during a appropriations clause and its authorized spending under the rule of law, and if we lose the confidence that 2016 campaign rally that if his opponent won the election pirated away to build a symbolic Great Wall or dangled the law is being applied equally and correctly to all the there was nothing his supporters could do to keep their before a foreign potentate to extort a black eye optic people, we become a fake democracy where liberty is guns except perhaps “Second Amendment” solutions. investigation of a domestic political opponent of the fragile and our Constitution negotiable. If the court were Thus was introduced the concept of violence against party leader. to suffer the loss of its institutional respect, the nation one’s political opposition (and frankly his thinly veiled Worst of all, the impeachment process which the would lose its guiding compass. cover of subtlety has never risen higher than middle founders envisioned to be protection against the tyrant The party is no longer recognizable. It has turned school level). This remark, coming from no less than they foresaw as our democracy’s greatest danger has been against the principles it used to embrace. It has become a candidate for the highest office in the nation, was an shelved, as that prophesied tyrant proved too strong the Party of Iconoclasm, and we need to open our eyes to unmistakable warning sign of what was to befall our for the branch of government the founders trusted with its transformation. That is the reality of Jan. 6. political system after the election. the task. The founders never dreamed that its carefully To save democracy we must, at a minimum, recognize And, predictably, we were indeed treated to barely constructed political system would produce a party so that truth. We must also have a sobering discussion with disguised threats against political opponents, against subservient and lacking in principles that it would slavishly ourselves. Do we really want our political and ideological media critics and against those who placed duty above adopt a platform consisting not of fulfilling the will of differences to lead us down a path that culminates in the demands of the Party leader — such as whistleblowers the people — but only the whims of the party’s leader. totalitarianism? and honest election officials — and overt undisguised Indeed, the party is now at work to coordinate voter If anyone harbors any doubt about where the party threats and acts of violence by his followers became suppression, gerrymandering and a major facelift to the desires to take America, please ponder its admiration for common grist on nightly news. For the first time in Electoral College system to create a model wherein the the policies of Hungary under strongman Victor Orban, memory we experienced election overseers and volunteers popular vote in the next presidential election cycle will who has transformed that country from democratic ideals at voting polls seeking police protection while they did be reduced to a mockery, entirely subordinated to the to a de facto white supremacist authoritarian regime. their patriotic duty. manipulation of party apparatchiks in state legislatures. A conservative political delegation from America This new order of political non-etiquette reached Thus, in the event the party’s candidate is again soundly headed by former Vice President Mike Pence paid homage its zenith on Jan. 6 (another date joining Dec. 7 on the rejected by a majority of the people who actually vote or to Orban recently by making a pilgrimage to Budapest calendar as historical days of infamy) when a mob was who are eligible to vote, but who are denied the opportunity to do him honor at an ultra right wing nationalistic incited to storm the Capitol to prevent the transition by the party’s suppression tactics, their voices will be conference focusing on authoritarian anti-democratic of power to the president overwhelmingly chosen by irrelevant. agenda. Orban, some of us may recall, is notable for once the people to replace the rejected incumbent and his This is truly the ultimate disassembling of the principles having unilaterally dismissed his country’s parliament, increasingly authoritarian agenda. and foundational values of our Constitutional democratic which then later conferred virtually absolute power on As this essay is being written, an ongoing Congressional system of government. Steve Bannon, one of the architects Orban, including authority to imprison members of investigation into this violent insurrection is unearthing hoping to contribute to the new order that will emerge the media for criticizing him. The European Union has evidence that the planning surrounding the Jan. 6 violence from the rubble of the old, refers to this demolition process considered declassifying Hungary as a democracy. included a powerpoint presentation by highly placed as the “deconstruction” of the state. That is much too And the Iconoclast Party sitting at Orban’s throne to officials and advisers occupying sensitive positions with polite a term, and perhaps so is “Iconoclasm.” Yet mine take notes and learn from him is a frightening portent access to the White House regarding details on exactly is accurate enough to make the point. The party being of its intended final destination. ■ how the election results were to be nullified to allow the diagnosed and soon to be judged by history is no longer Thomas Coffin is a retired United States magistrate judge. He served losing incumbent to remain in office indefinitely. The attached to the guiding principles it once espoused. It 24 years in the United States District Court for the District of Oregon, insurrectionists included those contemplating physical is instead tearing down that venerated heritage and from 1992 to 2016. harm to targeted political representatives, which even turning its direction towards what it previously regarded 6 JANUARY 20, 2022 EUGENEWEEKLY.COM EUGENEWEEKLY.COM JANUARY 20, 2022 7 Local Local Vocandal Vocandal VIEWPOINT BY SCOTT McKEE VIEWPOINT BY DOYLE SRADER A Death Get Over Yourself Dishonored TOO OFTEN OUR ANGER IS LIKE TRYING TO THREAD A NEEDLE WHILE SHOUTING CURSES ATTACKERS WHO BEAT A HOMELESS O ver my decade and a half in No, I can’t: I don’t know anyone’s backstory but MAN AND LEFT HIM FOR DEAD IN 2017 Eugene, I’ve shared the city my own. I do know that at least some of the time, with Sabrina Ionescu and anger can be reframed out of existence. Ever get WENT FREE WHEN THE LANE COUNTY Marcus Mariota, and I am not mad at what someone did, only to find out you were DA DROPPED CHARGES in their league. What they mistaken? For you to stay angry, the underlying do takes talent, hard work facts have to be correct and your interpretation and discipline. But there are has to be the best one. If either of those gives way, S teven Ray Scott was beaten and left for dead during a benefits to staying active, and whenever I lace the anger goes with it. senseless argument over a crack pipe in Springfield. up my ASICS and go for a run, I spot neighbors The parents of the girls killed at West Nickel The reason his known killers are still free is best down in my league, not in any danger of making a Mines School in the 2006 shooting chose described in hyperbole. Sports Illustrated cover, just moving their bodies forgiveness over hatred, and so did family members Hypothetically, a police officer is smashed in the to stay healthy. of Dylann Roof’s victims. No one could question head with a golf club during a dispute and left for dead. I also know people who never get off the couch, their right to be angry, but they set it aside. Their Soon after, Eugene Springfield emergency service but I don’t know enough to say more. Some can’t; lives were halted by social malignancies, and they personnel intubate the unconscious but alive officer and transport they have invisible disabilities or chronic health didn’t reach for the sledgehammer. him to Riverbend Hospital, where he dies. conditions that are not my business. Others are They are the Sabrina Ionescus and Marcus A woman and her adult son are arrested by Springfield police, just couch potatoes; they don’t want to exercise, Mariotas of emotional intelligence, and not charged with intentional murder. Later, an autopsy confirms the so they don’t. And some self-diagnose with an everybody has their gifts and self-discipline. I’m suspected cause of death: “blunt force trauma.” invisible disability or chronic health condition just a Butte to Butte nine-minute miler, trying Still later, in a rare court motion, the Lane County district attorney as an excuse for inactivity. to stay active enough to be healthy. And some dismissed the murder charges, the killers released on their own From the outside, I can’t tell who’s what, so I people never get off the couch because they can’t, recognizance, pending, according to a statement released by the DA, make my choices and keep my mouth shut about and I try to have compassion for them. But some further investigation because of information discovered at autopsy. theirs. Nevertheless, people who get active reap a choose not to, and some delude themselves that The autopsy discovery: a snarl of entangled gastrointestinal lot of rewards, and people who don’t, pay a price. they can’t when they really could if they stopped tubing in the back of the throat; easily of size and proximity to The exact same thing could be said about making excuses. have contributed to death by asphyxia. The unintended result of emotional intelligence. With emotional intelligence, we don’t put up mal-inserted intubation by EMS personnel during on-scene life Nearly every public problem people get saving measures. Truth: This all happened Sept. 3, 2017. The known suspects remain free today, but the victim was no cop. angry about is complicated, and real Reality: Cop killers would experience justice and it would come swiftly. Regardless of complications or mitigating circumstances discovered at autopsy. solutions would require smart planning, Harsh reality: The actual murder victim in this hypothetical example was really a homeless, meth influenced Black man. execution, patience and a cooperative spirit. But there is nothing made up about the circumstances of his death. Hypothetically, if someone you loved met a similar fate, their attackers would see justice from the Lane County DA. The reality is that not all lives carry the same value for justice by practice of Last September, Eugene Weekly published an posters of Sabrina and Marcus; we join in the the Lane County DA. essay I wrote about loneliness. The next week, chorus with the couch potatoes. But a new year The police officer example is rhetorical hyperbole to emphasize the Timothy Gardner replied that the real problem is here, and we should resolve to get in shape. desperate treatment in the murder of Steven Scott by the Lane County was some mix of poor mental health and willful We don’t need to “get tough on homelessness.” criminal justice system. What possible discovery at autopsy would ignorance, and concluded that the sane and We don’t need to insult the vaccine-hesitant. We ever throw off course the criminal prosecution of known and arrested informed “have a very clear right to be angry.” I’ve don’t need to brag about our road rage and blame suspects in the murder of a police officer? The erroneous placement of heard that from my neighbors, directed at many it on other people’s bad driving. Those responses intubation by EMS personnel in good-faith life-saving measures does local problems: covid, homelessness, politics, hate are to anger as airport security theater is to fear: not erase the intentionally criminal blows to the head that lead to the speech, drug trafficking, porch pirating, other satisfying, but useless. Nearly every public problem murder of this human — cop or civilian, Black or otherwise. people’s bad driving. people get angry about is complicated, and real Fact: Every human deserves to be treated with dignity and I’m betting none of them are oncologists, or solutions would require smart planning, execution, respect at death regardless of the circumstances of their life. The at least I sure hope not. patience and a cooperative spirit. dead cannot demand justice. If you’re diagnosed with cancer, you don’t The disintegration of trust underlying all this The unpunished murder of Steven Scott is a travesty. A bigger erupt with rage and pound your tumor with a seeds belief in conspiracy theories, but there’s only one will be when the unpunished strike again. Perhaps next time sledgehammer. Instead, you come at it from many one conspiracy I truly believe in: the folks perched at they kill it will be someone whose life matters to the Lane County angles, amassing all reliable clues and promising the top, holding the levers of power, are safest when District Attorney. treatments toward getting you from patient to we’re at one another’s throats. Anytime I point out Email or phone your elected Lane County District Attorney and survivor. I’ve seen enough cancer diagnoses among insults and hostility aren’t productive, and float the demand justice for Steven Scott. There is no statute of limitations friends and family to know anger is something idea that conversation and listening are necessary for murder, but four years is long enough. ■ you might experience, and you mustn’t bury. But first steps, I immediately hear, “Oh, there’s absolutely it’s not helpful. It’s like trying to thread a needle no point to trying to talk to those people.” Scott McKee, who is a private investigator, licensed in Oregon, is a 34-year police veteran in the state. You can watch the two-part October 2020 “Special Report: The while screaming profanity at it. And that’s exactly what they want you to think. ■ Death of Steven Scott” on KEZI for more on this case. So am I saying people have no right to be angry? Doyle Srader lives in Eugene. 8 JANUARY 20, 2022 EUGENEWEEKLY.COM EUGENEWEEKLY.COM JANUARY 20, 2022 9 Local Vocandal VIEWPOINT BY DEB McGEE Woodmen, Spare In addition, research shows that cutting mature trees makes forests more vulnerable to drought and wildfire. Large, old trees of fire-resistant species are the ones most Those Trees likely to survive a fire. No scientific justification exists for logging or thinning our mature forests. As last summer’s heat dome and the devastating 2020 wildfires demonstrated, catastrophic climate change is MASSIVE TIMBER PROJECT IS DISASTROUS FOR OLD already occurring. Protecting the stability of the climate is the most urgent task our world faces. If we are to have a GROWTH AND DISASTROUS FOR THE PLANET sustainable future, our endangered natural forests — forests that serve as huge carbon sinks — should be protected. T housands of majestic old trees in the That’s not the only danger we face when we clearcut older We urge the Forest Service to choose “Alternative 4” mountains east of Eugene will soon forests. These forests play a critical role in protecting all of in the draft Environmental Assessment. This alternative be headed for lumber mills. us from the ravages of climate change. Recent research has would provide 50 to 60 million board feet of timber, On the heels of the 2020 post-fire documented that older forests in the Cascade Mountains supporting schools and roads in timber communities. salvage logging of millions of trees, provide some of the highest carbon sequestration on the Most importantly, it would focus solely on thinning the Forest Service is selling yet more planet. Climate scientists say that decreasing logging on previously logged, younger forests and eliminate logging timber. The Quartzville-Middle Santiam national forests in the Pacific Northwest is one of the most in old growth stands. All trees more than 80 years old timber sale, planned for the Willamette National Forest effective land-use strategies to mitigate climate change. In should be excluded from the project. between Sweet Home and Santiam Canyon, covers almost fact, older trees are able to store carbon for 800 years or more. Tell the Sweet Home Ranger District to provide 90,000 acres, borders on wilderness, and will decimate Tragically, Oregon’s forest carbon stocks have been stewardship that responds to our unprecedented planetary some of the most scenic places in the western Cascades. severely depleted by large-scale industrial logging. With climate crisis. Older trees in the Quartzville-Middle Santiam Dense stands of previously logged younger trees might each new timber sale, they are increasingly compromised. project should not be reduced to shingles, shelving or benefit from thinning, but the vast scale of the planned The rapid rate of clearcutting in Oregon mountains has decks. They have a critical role to play in sequestering project is troubling. Most alarming are plans to clearcut resulted in a sharp increase in carbon sequestration “dead and storing carbon, and they are the last remnant of a mature and old growth trees. Older forests throughout zones,” wastelands that emit more carbon than they absorb. magnificent heritage. They are worth far more standing. ■ the Pacific Northwest are becoming increasingly rare, with In fact, a report released by the Center for Sustainable Deb McGee is a retired school counselor, mental health professional only 10 percent of Oregon’s original old growth forests still Economy and Geos Institute shows that the forestry sector and college instructor. She and her partner, Patty Hine, lead 350 standing. 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