The Distinct Honor, and High Privelege....

Friends, I have been honored! Not as a soldier. Not as a staesman, even. I have been honored to have been described by Councilman Mark Camara as "becoming increasingly hostile" in relation, I think, to his perceptions of my fierce defense of Article the First of the Bill of Rights. The First Amendment, on three occassions lately.

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It is a High Honor and a High Privilege to be on the other side of Messer. Camara on such an issue.

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Councilman Camara is proposing restricting by way of making a change by rule the way citizens can address the city council for the 5 minutes stated on the agendas for the meetings.

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The councilman has proposed that change out of plain fear, in my opinion. He is afraid. He is actually scared. He has somehow finally achieved total transparency in the council chambers by showing us he is in fear of us while sitting on the dias.

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He is afraid that some past mention of owning firearms on the part of one of my opponnents, Ed Johnston, and his stated willingness to use them to protect himself from some perceived harm he might befall from the police (Beats the hell out of me where Eddie gets these ideas from too!) is some actual threat to the city council and would merit the changes in proceedures the good Councilman is proposing.

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I too own firearms, Councilman.

THIS IS OREGON!

Maybe up in Providence, Rhode Island, "Little Rhoddy" you would think of MAFIA soldiers owning guns, but

This Is OREGON!

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Don't get me started on my firearms! I only have a few, but I prize them! Oh, hell... I may as well go ahead and brag........

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Just a week or so ago I bought a Springfield 9 mm semi automatic 17 shot pistol! What a beauty! Came with two clips and holds 16 rounds in each clip and 1 round in the chamber if you dare. I was going to send it down to Philippines ahead of an expected trip next year as my "backup" weapon when I am in the Boondoks down there and have to really be concerned about my own personal safety.. Like, from the National People's Army (NPA, a national long term communist gurilla lose knit bunch of groups.) and even the Abu Saif-Al Quida boys, Y'all know them, the Muslim boys? Yup, and I mean boys some as young as 11 and 12 even!... They all pack AK-47's and assorted hand guns. I'm making a guess a couple of 9 mm shots as return fire to them might help me keep from being kidnapped for randsome or killed outright if my M-16 i keep down there down there jams up.

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Ummm... Those are real threats Americans soujourning in Philippines live with every day. I frankly haven't felt the level of fear from either Messer. Johnston or Messer Smith. The level of fear that would cause me to slip the little lever on the M-16 from Single Shot to Rock and Roll, automatic fire!

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This isn't me being afraid of Eddie Johnston blustering in council chambers what he will do to defend himself against the police! Some of these guys are just little boys, but they know how to shoot and they do! tehy have gunfights with the National Police and the Philippine Marines often!

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Go figure. This guy, Mr. John Smith life long resident of Toledo goes to a city council meeting and is red hot mad about his wife being called an inapropriate name, along with her partner, another woman swimmer.

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I mean this guy, Smith, is hot! And he has a loud voice, having been used to hollering out there making a living in the woods logging all the years the good councilman was studying and playing with genetics at Brown University and other such institutions of higher learning.

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Where they teach you, no doubt, to be afraid of common ordinary Oregon folks who are a little upset?

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Anyone ever been to a New England Town Hall Meeting? maybe yu saw one on TV?

man, those people get loud,they get raucous, they swear, they stamp their feet! man! They are real noisy while making their right to petition their government heard!

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AND THEY ARE THE GOVERNMENT!

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It is called Town Hall Government! Real government of, by, and for the people!

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Look, if this guy John Smith, was a dangerous guy, he wouldn't have been at the city council meeting at all! He'd have been in the County Jail under arrest for having whipped the living what all out of the guy who his wife said was saying the inappropriate things about her! Wouldn't that figure? If Mr. Smith was a danger, he would never have gotten to the city council meeting!

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Geez... Does it take a Phd. to figure out we live in a mill town with hard working guys and gals all around us? Fishermen, truck drivers, Skilled Hands all! Big strong guys! And gals too! Guys who you see walking around bent over from pain of arthritis contracted out in the wet woods or on the fishing boats, or driving the trucks around here!

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HANDS! Y'ALL!

Common Everyday working Class Stiffs We Call

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HANDS!

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HANDS! THE GUYS AND GALS WHO MAKE OREGON WORK! Our dads, our moms, our grandmas, our grandpas, our uncles, our aunties, the "folks" who are Oregon!

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I ain't afraid of them! I want to feel what they feel! I want to know how Mr. John Smith really feels about some guy, his wife says, calling her an inappropriate name!

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Councilman Camara is afraid something might happen to him up on that dias!? He sent out a link to a story about some guy shooting up a city council meeting Geez, Louise! Don't worry, Councilman, I've got your back, and others do too. We've got your back! In case someone rushes the dias, we'll run 'em down, tackle them, and the Chief of Police will handcuff them and take them to jail.

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See, Councilman, it's all in a day's work for most of us. Tackling each other on the football field, tackling the logs, the tie down gear and cables... the gear on the fishing boats, it's all in a Day's Work for us,

Councilman!

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Don't forget folks,

I'm running for mayor!

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I'm

Lowell Neal a.k.a. Bob Valdez

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the people's voice

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and I am not afraid of you!

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Call me and we can talk, folks.

541-336-5504

cell

542-270-6254

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