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A Bunker Hill Moment
I support the protests that will ramp up all over our nation and on Saturday, April 15 at 11:00 a.m., at the corner of K St. and 7th St. in Grants Pass, Oregon. It’s a hugely patriotic moment to save our Democracy; just like the Bunker Hill battle set the stage for our American Revolution in 1775.
Trump, Musk and his administration, continue to engage in actions that are illegal, unconstitutional, criminal and even seditious. It’s offensive that they support the war criminal Putin over brave Ukraine. They broke into the United States Institute of Peace, a non-governmental agency with armed force. They kidnapped legal Valensuela immigrants without due process of law and sent them to be tortured in a disgusting prison in El Salvador. They ignored our Civil Rights Laws by trying to ban Transgender folks from serving in the military. They fired thousands of Civil Servants without cause and must rehire them. And now they want to shut down our Social Security System for 70 million Americans; and they passed a budget to deprive countless millions of Americans from Medicaid and health care services. Outrageous!
Americans did not vote for any of this. We love Canada and our Nato allies. No invasion of Panama, No invasion of Greenland, No invasion of Denmark or Mexico. Stop the stupid tariffs.
We the people stand on Bunker Hill: Congress, hold impeachment hearings for all those responsible for these High Crimes and Misdemeanors right now.
Gary Eby
Cave Junction
Reader wants to know
Like all municipalities in Oregon, the City of Cave Junction is a corporation in its foundation structure.
All corporations must have a Board of Directors and some may have shareholders.
What is the structure of the Municipal Corporation?
Are the elected City Councilors considered the Board of Directors for the corporation called the City of Cave Junction?
These residents have very short terms of service, compared with the some-90 years the City has existed. The union-protected staff seem deeply rooted and appear to be completely insulated from public concerns about city management. This city has never consulted local public opinion on any subject. Whose interests are being served here?
In addition to the City Council, is there a Board of Directors for this City
corporation? If so, who are these People?
We the People would like to know. Please publish the answers to these questions in the IVN.
Christine Perala Gardiner, Ph.D.
Cave Junction
Megalomania
A megalomaniac is a pathological egotist, that is, someone with a psychological disorder with
symptoms like delusions of grandeur and an obsession with power.
We also use the word megalomaniac more informally for people who behave as if they’re convinced of their absolute
power and greatness. Your garden-variety egomaniac might be self-centered and overconfident but he’s a little softy compared with the megalomaniac who wants to control the world.
If you seriously think you’re the only person smart enough to solve the financial crisis, and you demand to be put in charge, people will think you’re a megalomaniac.
From:
Vocabulary.com
“Megalomania is an obsession with power, wealth and fame, and a passion for grand
schemes”:
From Wikipedia
“Someone who has an unnaturally strong wish for power and control, or thinks that they are
much more important and powerful than they really are”.
From: Cambridge English Dictionary
“A delusional mental illness that is marked by feelings of personal omnipotence and grandeur”
From: Merriam-Webster Dictionary
You say you didn’t vote for this, well yes you did.
The opposite of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is: Uniformity, Injustice and Exclusion. Is this what you voted for? Yes you did.
Michael Baldwin,
Takilma