Letter for The World newspaper editors mail box
Google “Baksheesh”. How business has been done since camels first traveled the Silk Road; how it’s being done now; how it will be done in the future. During an earlier time, I carried a few bags of my employer’s money somewhere on this planet.
Can you be bought? I can – for the right 8 figure number; certainly not for a chance at $5,000.
After we have experienced all possible to divide our community in two over the proposed LNG factory matter; suddenly, out of nowhere, comes the pipeline man with his bag of money; a man who will make many hundreds of millions of dollars from the proposed 36 inch pipeline across your, and apparently former Coos County Commissioner Messerle’s, farm land.
I am neither for nor against a local LNG factory. But, I refuse to let my neighbors be bamboozled. According to The World newspaper of 25 March, page A2, for reasons unknown, the pipeline man will undertake the distribution of a few “up to” $5,000 grants to a few local “eligible” non - profits that are coincidentally located in communities along the planned pipeline route – provided your organization has neither a political or religious affiliation. Who defines “eligible”; and, could be $20.
Did you choke when you read that the pipeline man wants to give his small bag of money for many things dear to the opposition of his pipeline such as “enhancement of open space”; for “enrichment of wildlife habitats”; for “purchases of property to access public lands”? Wouldn’t a less costly solution be not to lay the pipeline?
Could it be that the pipeline man wants to be seen as Santa, hoping that you will look the other way while your neighbor’s property is being seized through the eminent domain process for the benefit of a private Canadian company?
Isn’t this an appropriate time to be asking - Do you really want to be bought for a few pieces of silver?
Fred Kirby
Coos Bay
Google “Baksheesh”. How business has been done since camels first traveled the Silk Road; how it’s being done now; how it will be done in the future. During an earlier time, I carried a few bags of my employer’s money somewhere on this planet.
Can you be bought? I can – for the right 8 figure number; certainly not for a chance at $5,000.
After we have experienced all possible to divide our community in two over the proposed LNG factory matter; suddenly, out of nowhere, comes the pipeline man with his bag of money; a man who will make many hundreds of millions of dollars from the proposed 36 inch pipeline across your, and apparently former Coos County Commissioner Messerle’s, farm land.
I am neither for nor against a local LNG factory. But, I refuse to let my neighbors be bamboozled. According to The World newspaper of 25 March, page A2, for reasons unknown, the pipeline man will undertake the distribution of a few “up to” $5,000 grants to a few local “eligible” non - profits that are coincidentally located in communities along the planned pipeline route – provided your organization has neither a political or religious affiliation. Who defines “eligible”; and, could be $20.
Did you choke when you read that the pipeline man wants to give his small bag of money for many things dear to the opposition of his pipeline such as “enhancement of open space”; for “enrichment of wildlife habitats”; for “purchases of property to access public lands”? Wouldn’t a less costly solution be not to lay the pipeline?
Could it be that the pipeline man wants to be seen as Santa, hoping that you will look the other way while your neighbor’s property is being seized through the eminent domain process for the benefit of a private Canadian company?
Isn’t this an appropriate time to be asking - Do you really want to be bought for a few pieces of silver?
Fred Kirby
Coos Bay
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