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McRae refuses to talk to the press
by Mary Ann McNeiU
Gazette staff
Cam, Cam, Cam. How soon we forget Marty Drexelius
and last summer's fire department story. The Gazette
pursued the story and that whole episode significantly
impacted your fire department and political careers.
At the June 17 commission meeting I asked you why
you haven't returned my more than 6-7 telephone calls that
I have placed to you since I returned to the Gazette. I'm
quoting you exactly here, as you replied:
"I made a decision that I'm not going to talk to the
Gazette. Now that may change." You said this in the same
breath that you agreed that I have only been fair and
objective with you in everything that I have done.
What does this mean, Cam? If I only print good stuff
SS)bout you in the future, you will talk to me? Do I have to
" Catch you out on the golf course? I haven't been golfing for
twenty years and I was never terribly good at it. Or do we
have to play games and I have to pursue you? I haven't
pursued a man in my entire life and I don't intend to start
now. This ain't no way to treat a lady, Cam.
I personally don't care whether you talk to me or not,
because this political stuff bores me to tears. But, there is
a significant amount of the public who want to know, and,
you know the guys will have a field day with this.
You did this same thing to me 1 1/2 years ago when I
first came to the paper and you turned me over to Drexelius
for fire department news. We started hearing about some
significant problems with the department and printed the
stories. You only responded to us when it was necessary
to get yourself out of hot water.
Was Harley Kulkin right when he said at the meeting
that you didn't want to talk to him? Is this what the public
elected you to do? By not talking to the Gazette, you're not
letting a significant portion of the electoral public know
your view of what's going on in Nye County.
You know I believe you have done many good things
for the town of Pahrump and for the entire county. I watch
you work with the public and with the other commissioners
and you always seem to be well prepared and have good
questions to ask those seeking approval for a project. But
when any of you do something that's not so good, as a good
journalist, I have to mention that as well. It's called
objective journalism, and that's what I try to do.
Newspapers don't NEED politicians, so much. Politi-
cians need newspapers to keep them in the publics' eye.
Not talking to newspapers has always been a suicidal blow
for politicians, but maybe you don't care about the '98
elections. Are the rumors I've been hearing true, then?
Should I let the public know what I know?
But that wouldn't be responsible journalism if I can't
check it out with all sources, would it?
Letters to the Editor
Highwayman or Highway Patrol
You tell me. Anybody that confiscates your money with
a gun or a badge is a Highwayman. Taking $20,000 from
out-of-staters with out-of-state tags doesn't make it right.
I say this has gone too far when the cops are taking the
property of citizens on suspicion of some law being violate.
It's time for the pendulum to swing the other way. Stand up
for your fights America, while you can still stand.
Ray Mallow
Pahump
Corporations: man-made unlawful
monsters
, The word "corporation" is derived from the Latin word
° icorpus," which means "body." In modern legal parlance, a
corporation is an artificial body, an entity which is not
natural but which possesses de facto privileges (granted by
government bureaucracy) giving it a great advantage over a
natural entity. The only natural entity is a person.
Corporations need never die. They can theoretically
amass wealth forever, and, by this means, corporations or
perhaps a single corporation over time can take possession
of theentire earth. Perhaps the United Nations, which is a
gigantic and growing corporation of sorts, will be the one
great corporation which will consume all of the others in the
end.
Federal and state governments claim to have the author-
ity to create these artificial Frankenstein monsters for an
initial fee, plus additional fees ad nauseam.
Said fees and taxes paid by corporations are always
passed on, as price increases, to the consumers who pur-
chase the goods and services provided by the corporations.
Thus, these unnatural entities never pay anything them-
selves but only act as powerful clearing houses for com-
merce as dictated by central bureaucracy, acquiring profits
with little or no regard for the individual human beings
whom they may impoverish and whose natural sovereignty
and liberty is subsequently subsumed.
Of course, the power of central government grows expo-
nentially thereby. The more corporations paying tribute to
government bureaucracy, the greater the de facto power, not
granted by constitutional law, but nevertheless compound-
ing in said bureaucracies. As this occurs, the rights of
individuals become officially less important, and private
people become in fact quite subservient to the state despite
talk to the contrary.
The corporate privilege, coupled with other special privi-
leges "granted" to the elite, are the tools of global conquest
which also are gradually spelling demise for the Constitu-
tional Republic of the United States of America along with
the Common Law principles of individual liberty which
formed the basis for the only free country in the world.
The small corporation is certainly not knowingly in on
this conquest but merely goes along to get along. Seeing an
advantage to be gained and being inherently ignorant of the
elemental facts behind this connivance, the average small
business owner seeks to be like the big dogs and to avail his
or her respective company of special protection and tax
advantages.
Any detrimental effect which may eventually befall the
children and extended descendants of these owners are not
faced in the rush to profit, and besides, they may think any
such negative results will be displaced by accumulated
wealth?
Capitalism, when practiced ethically, is nothing more
than advanced free-enterprise. But, combine greed driven
capitalism with the power to incorporate and you have a
most fearful monster indeed. In fact, big-business as a whole
and big-government become the same single powerhouse to
conquer the common people.
Afte r all, government could not grow into a monster at all
without financial support and direction from the most wealthy
cartel. And then government bureaucracy becomes only a
tool of the extremely wealthy from behind the scenes in
perfecting their conquest and final hegemony of permanent
and complete control over the rest of mankind,
Paul J. Miller
Pahrump
Do your business in Pahrump
If the people of Pahrump want a new library, new school,
and other projects, why are they not more supportive of
businesses in Pahrump?
Some will do business out of town even though the
products might be of superior quality and available in
Pahrump.
Doesn't make sense to me.
Do your business in Pahrump so it will get the benefits
from taxes and provide Pahrumpians with jobs. Jobs mean
revenue which translates into taxes for local growth.
Ann Nusbaum
Pahrump
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