LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
- June 19, 2007
To The Editor;
On Friday June 1st a grass fire started in the ditch on the side of Hwy 3 just below the Upper Similkameen Indian Band property adjacent to Princeton Wood Preservers Ltd.
The USIB use this property as a base for their logging operation, and at the time there were 3 large pieces of equipment and two storage tanks full of fuel on site.
A supplier for PWP happened to be driving by and reported the fire to Blair Noel. Armed with fire extinguishers Blair investigated, however the blaze was already too large to combat with extinguishers alone.
Calls were made to the USIB logging operations manager Doug Willis and to Ministry of Forests, and in the meantime Blair and several PWP employees began working to control the fire using PWP's own fire truck and loaders.
Doug Willis and two USIB employees arrived and also joined the effort to build a guard around the fire and keep it from the fuel tanks.
With much hard work, perseverance and at great risk to themselves they managed to bring the fire under control and prevented what could have potentially been a devastating fire, particularly if it had spread to the PWP plant site.
Those who fought the blaze were: From Princeton Wood Preservers Ltd., Blair Noel, Gary Zieske, Larry Pryor, Jim Dixon and David Mansfield with Monique Carlson manning the phones and radios. From the Upper Similkameen Indian Band Doug Willis, Dave Brewer and Butch Ashley, and the coach of the Princeton Posse Dale Hladun who lives across the highway.
I would like to extend my personal thanks to all that were involved. All of your efforts are greatly appreciated by me, and all the employees at PWP and the USIB who would have been negatively affected if this fire had gotten out of control.
Thank you.
- Elizabeth Everitt, President, Princeton Wood Preservers Ltd.
To The Editor;
The recent Supreme Court ruling in favour of unions, as a fundamental component of democracy, comes as a welcome respite from the delinquent laissez-faire globalism of recent provincial and federal governments. It is remarkable that the Campbell regime's anti-democratic, anti-human rights, anti-Canadian, anti-union legislation lasted as long as it did before being appropriately, officially, and undeniably labeled as trash.
The Globalist political-media machine is consistent in attacking any who invoke political reference to Hitler or the Nazis. It's as if we are being coerced, on general principle, to arbitrarily dismiss any who initiate a comparison to the methodology of the Third Reich.
It may well be that analogies to the Nazi regime are rejected by Globalists, simply because they so accurately apply to Globalists. Hitler was fiercely anti-union. The 'rule of law' referred to whatever Hitler decided the law to be on any given day. The comparison of Nazi technique, and the extreme globalism of the Campbell, Harper, and Bush governments' is certainly legitimate.
Unfortunately, we are being programmed to believe that the only acceptable historical reference to the Nazis is within the general context of the holocaust.
I find it shameful that the Globalist political-media machine, by insisting on a singular (holocaust based) Nazi focus, actively restricts our ability to understand, recognize, or refer to the signs of currently ongoing, absolute oriented, political power consolidation. Obviously, they are not interested in spreading knowledge of the fact that so many of the policies being imposed on us by Globalists, today, are simply regurgitated political strategies utilized by Hitler, yesterday.
Gordon Campbell's contempt for the human rights of the people of British Columbia is consistent, in the Globalist sense, with the general institutional movement away from the rule of law currently being implemented by Stockwell Day.
Liberal or Conservative label aside, Campbell and Day are one and the same; they are Globalists.
I have to respect the Premiers of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, not because they are Conservatives or because they are going against Conservatives but, because they are standing up against Globalists. They are representing the people they have sworn to represent. If only Gordon Campbell or Stockwell Day were familiar with the concept!
For her part, Carole James may be delinquent in not committing to legislatively reject Globalist arrangements such as Stockwell Day's 'Deep Integration' or Gordon Campbell's TILMA, neither of which comply with even the most basic requirements of democracy.
A public notice of intent to prevent the implementation or enforcement of these controversial agreements, prior to their imposition, may come in handy somewhere down the road.
Neither Campbell nor Day have a legitimate mandate to eliminate either the government of British Columbia or the government of Canada, therefore any legislation to that effect must be unlawful.
If these two want to destroy either level of government, let them call an election on the issue, and we'll see if they can garner the mandate.
- Robert MacKay, Merritt
