As you Read This, Keep in Mind what the State of Montana Defines as a Victim (much more on this later, it seems Montana Law defines victim differently then the Federal Law, wel will be discussing that in great detail at a later date). So there is not a Victim if there is no crime... the crime has to first be determined by the Local and State Judicial System, the Courts, that it "really happened" and once there is a crime then and only then is there a victim.
Article Below
Grace Poisoning Prosecution May Disrupt Bankruptcy
By Bob Van Voris and Steven Church
Feb. 19 (Bloomberg) -- W.R. Grace & Co., the bankrupt chemical and construction-materials maker, faces a criminal trial for allegedly contaminating a Montana town in a case that may disrupt a reorganization plan that’s taken eight years to craft.
The 155-year-old company and six of its former executives are charged in connection with the asbestos contamination of Libby, a town with a population of about 2,500 where Grace mined and processed asbestos-tainted vermiculite until 1990. About 1,200 people in and around the town died or were sickened, the U.S. Department of Justice alleged.
If convicted by a jury to be selected beginning today in a Missoula federal courtroom, Grace may be fined $280 million or more, the company said in a securities filing. Such a fine may threaten its proposed $2.4 billion trust for people injured by asbestos, a fund at the heart of Grace’s reorganization plan.
“A large enough fine would upset any Chapter 11 plan because it is going to mean dollars out the door,” said bankruptcy attorney Evan Flaschen, with Bracewell & Giuliani LLP, who isn’t involved in the case.
Greg Euston, a spokesman for Columbia, Maryland-based W.R. Grace, declined to comment on the bankruptcy case or the criminal prosecution, citing an order by the trial judge limiting what the parties can say publicly.
Grace is charged with conspiracy, violating the U.S. Clean Air Act and obstruction of justice. The six men face between five and 15 years in prison if convicted on the counts they each face. Grace and the former executives have all pleaded not guilty.
Reorganization Plan
Grace said in a Nov. 7 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it spent $108.3 million through September defending the case. The company said it may be forced to pay a $280 million fine if convicted, according to SEC filings.
Grace sought court protection in 2001 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Delaware, in response to more than 100,000 asbestos claims. Since then, the company has fought with asbestos lawyers and creditors over how best to set up the trust to compensate people damaged by the company’s products. Last year, it settled on the outlines of the trust.
Grace told the SEC it may need to borrow as much as $1.5 billion to help fund the $2.4 billion asbestos trust and to pay other creditors owed more than $1.5 billion.
The company’s reorganization plan would need to be rewritten should a large criminal fine be levied, since the proposal does not currently provide any money to pay such a penalty, according to bankruptcy court records.
Shareholders would be disappointed should a large fine delay Grace’s plan to exit bankruptcy later this year, an analyst said.
“They don’t want to operate in bankruptcy any longer than they have to,” said Dan Natoli, a senior analyst with Matrix USA LLC. Natoli recommends selling Grace shares and doesn’t hold any.
1,200 People
Prosecutors claim 1,200 people were injured or killed in the Libby area. The government alleged that many workers and residents of the town are dead or dying from asbestos-related diseases, including asbestosis, a scarring of the lungs, and mesothelioma, a fatal cancer.
A grand jury in 2005 indicted Grace and seven current and former executives for allegedly conspiring to release asbestos- filled vermiculite in Libby and then covering up the dangers.
Grace mined and processed vermiculite, a mineral used in fireproofing, insulation and potting soil, outside Libby from 1963 to 1990, the company says on its Web site.
Prosecutors said workers brought asbestos into their homes on their clothing. Other people were exposed to asbestos when they used vermiculite for gardens or as paving material on their driveways, they claim.
Children Exposed
At a hearing last month, a toxicologist for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency testified that children swung on a rope and dropped into piles of asbestos-filled vermiculite at the Grace mine’s export plant. They ran on the material at the high school track and played on it in ball fields.
The individual defendants are William McCaig, former manager of operations at the Libby mine; Robert Walsh and Robert Bettacchi, former presidents of Grace’s construction products division; Jack Wolter, ex-general manager of the construction products division; and Henry Eschenbach, a former director of health and safety.
Grace is paying their defense costs, the company said in a regulatory filing. Former Grace legal counsel Mario Favorito will be tried separately beginning in September 2009. A seventh man charged in the case, Alan Stringer, a former general manager of operations in Libby, died in 2007.
No Comparable Prosecution
“There’s no environmental prosecution that is comparable to the Grace case in its scale and complexity,” said David Uhlmann, formerly the Justice Department’s top environmental crimes prosecutor and now a professor at the University of Michigan Law School. As chief of the Justice Department’s Environmental Crimes Section, he led the team that investigated and sought the indictment of Grace.
“It is unquestionably the most significant criminal prosecution” the U.S. has filed against an alleged corporate polluter, Uhlmann said.
U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy, who is overseeing the case, has said the trial may take as long as four months.
Missoula is a 3 1/2-hour drive from Libby, which is on the Kootenai River in the northwest corner of the state.
Uhlmann said the length of the alleged conspiracy, the large number of people killed and sickened and the fact that senior Grace officials were charged, including several who worked in the company’s Maryland headquarters, makes the case unique.
Two Year Delay
The case comes to trial after a delay of more than two years while prosecutors appealed a series of unfavorable pretrial rulings to the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco.
In September 2007, that court, which has jurisdiction over Montana federal district courts, reinstated a key conspiracy claim against the defendants, reversing a ruling by Molloy. Grace shares dropped 5.5 percent in response.
Grace rose 14 cents to $6.94 at 9:37 a.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading
Molloy entered a series of orders designed to avoid local anger over Libby from affecting the trial. For example, prosecutors may not refer to “victims” in their opening statement.
The judge also declined to characterize 34 government witnesses who claim asbestos exposure as victims for purposes of the Crime Victims’ Rights Act. The decision means those witnesses won’t be allowed in court during other victims’ testimony.
“If you’re a victim of a rape or a robbery and you survive it, you get to have your day in court and face your offenders,” said Gayla Benefield, an advocate for asbestos victims who has lived in Libby all her life. “A lot of Libby residents won’t get that chance.”
Benefield, a miner’s daughter whose parents both died of asbestosis, has also been diagnosed with the disease.
The case is U.S. v. Grace, 05-CR-00007, U.S. District Court for the District of Montana (Missoula).
To contact the reporters on this story: Bob Van Voris in U.S. District Court in Missoula, Montana, at rvanvoris@bloomberg.net and; Steven Church in Wilmington, Delaware, at schurch3@bloomberg.net. Last Updated: February 19, 2009 09:46 EST
More on W.R. Grace in the News
http://www.kalispellmontananews.com/
2009/02/wr-grace-and-lack-of-victims-rights-in.html
In case you need to Know: the "Victims" as they are NOT allowed to be called in Montana, they are suffering Endless Pain, dying a slow and painful death in their homes or in hospitals and WR Grace has no mercy. The Montana Court systems, in my opinion, is not on the right side of this, but hey who am I, I don't KNOW the Law Right? And all I can see is the Suffering of those living in and having lived and worked in Libby Montana. "Victims Rights" another infamous Oxymoron that Montana is famous for.
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In my opinion, Montana got the Libby Montana Residents into this, and yet they let folks suffer needlessly with no end in site. I heard awhile back that due to Real Estate Boom Montana had Millions upon Millions of surplus Money from Capital Gains Taxes. I mean there has to have been a way to help these folks... Priorities Does not Seem to Be those Suffering in Libby Montana. Seriously, a Death Sentence to Libby is Disgrace on everyone in Montana that has the power to make a difference and NO end in Site.
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Watch all this closely folks, because from my vantage point, I believe that the person with the most money has the most influence over the courts ( i am in no way suggesting bribary) I am simply saying that the court system, as your local montana newspaper, seems to want to "Please" the Big Names and the Big Money Players and hey if your dying and suffering intensly along the way, that's just "Collateral Damage".
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Your simply not as important in the big picture.
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"Alleged Victims" Not allowed in to the Courts... hmmmmm
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Montana Victim Definition Resource (much more coming soon)
http://www.montanarecall.com/2009/01/when-is-victim-victim.html
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www.EurekaMontanaNews.com
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Thursday, February 19, 2009
Tobacco Valley News - Never Ever Forget this Blatant Attack on the Victims of EVERY Crime Committed here over Decades. This is a Disgrace....
Shameful, Disgracful Quote from the Tobacco Valley News... This makes ALL victims feel even more violated. Steve Newman lives in a Land of Fantasy if he believes any of the Trash Talk and Irresponsible Speculation.
Hasn't the Tobacco Valley New's Version of Reality and Version of the News made us all crinch over decades and haven't they got to say enough, do enough damage ?
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You have to go out of town to get your news of what really is happening in your neighborhood. Steve Nueman goes to most all political meetings but your certainly do not get the whole story on the, "You Can't Handle the Truth". But you pay for those Newspapers, you pay for those meetings and for the folks that sit there and decide what is best for you.
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Steve Newman gets the almighty power of telling you what to believe, printing the news he wants you think is the whole truth and nothing but and he influences your lives every single day. Enough is Enough.
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If Steve Newman Does not Stand with an endless array of victims, well then who does Steve Newman Stand with... Commissioners, Politicians, Mayors, Detectives, Sheriffs, and Advertisers? Is this the Kind of News you want to Believe when Big Daddy Steve Newman tells you once again what to do.
Steve Newman Quote"Reject Recall Petition
Dissatisfaction over investigations into alleged rapes has prompted a number of North Lincoln County residents to consider a recall of the sheriff.
Organizers promise a petition to that effect.
If one is actually circulated, other residents would do well not to sign it for two reasons.
First, there is no sufficient legal grounds to recall the sheriff.
Second, and more importantly, a recall solves nothing.
Montana is one of 17 states that allow citizens an avenue for removing elected officials from office. But that power is limited. State law allows recall of an elected official for lack of physical or mental fitness, incompetence, violation of oath of office, official misconduct, or conviction of a felony offense.
None of these in fact apply to Sheriff Daryl Anderson.
The law that subjects Anderson and every other elected official to recall specifically states: "A person may not be recalled for performing a mandatory duty of the office that the person holds or for not performing any act that, if performed, would subject the person to prosecution for official misconduct."
It's one thing to disagree with the sheriff on decisions he makes. We certainly have had occasion to do so. But it's quite another to allege misconduct and incompetence when neither apply.
A recall is therefore inappropriate.
And recalling the sheriff solves nothing. Implementing a public affairs protocol would.
We've pointed out in the past that the sheriff's department in Libby sorely needs a trained liaison to deal with the public, which has every right to raise questions and expect answers.
The tempest brewing over these investigations is another case in point of failed communication.
It can be done right. Officers right here in North Lincoln County are evidence of professional, courteous communication.
Equal treatment from Libby solves a problem.
Backing a doomed recall of the sheriff does not.
Lincoln County knows full well from a former justice of the peace in Libby that elected officials must on occasion be removed from office. " Unquote...
The Crimes that really going on here, would bring any one of you good people of Eureka Montana to your knees. If you really knew the whole truth and nothing but you would drop to your knees in despair and in prayer.
You may think it odd, but i am tearful, actually crying as I write this at our local paper having the nerve to smack down victims in this public display of pure disrespect.
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This quote tells all victims they don't matter, they deserve what they got; be it raped, beated, robbed or whatever was done to them.
I am HERE, not to disrespect the law in any way, but to hope that justice is actually served based on the Crime and not on Who you Know or how much money you Have.
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I am Here to tell ALL victims of Lincoln County Montana over Decades that you Do Matter, you do deserve to be heard and you Did NOT deserve what you got. This is NOT the Lincoln County I know and love, this is not the help thy neighbor - let's go fishin' and drivin' in the woods - picnicing - good loving - hard working Tobacco Valley that I know and Love.
Hasn't the Tobacco Valley New's Version of Reality and Version of the News made us all crinch over decades and haven't they got to say enough, do enough damage ?
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the Tobacco Valley News does NOT print real news.
they don't Dare !!!
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You have to go out of town to get your news of what really is happening in your neighborhood. Steve Nueman goes to most all political meetings but your certainly do not get the whole story on the, "You Can't Handle the Truth". But you pay for those Newspapers, you pay for those meetings and for the folks that sit there and decide what is best for you.
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Steve Newman gets the almighty power of telling you what to believe, printing the news he wants you think is the whole truth and nothing but and he influences your lives every single day. Enough is Enough.
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If Steve Newman Does not Stand with an endless array of victims, well then who does Steve Newman Stand with... Commissioners, Politicians, Mayors, Detectives, Sheriffs, and Advertisers? Is this the Kind of News you want to Believe when Big Daddy Steve Newman tells you once again what to do.
Now Sit Down Eureka, Shut Up, Get your Coffee and Read what Steve Newman asks of you, and you Darn Well Better DO as he says.
Steve Newman Quote"Reject Recall Petition
Dissatisfaction over investigations into alleged rapes has prompted a number of North Lincoln County residents to consider a recall of the sheriff.
Organizers promise a petition to that effect.
If one is actually circulated, other residents would do well not to sign it for two reasons.
First, there is no sufficient legal grounds to recall the sheriff.
Second, and more importantly, a recall solves nothing.
Montana is one of 17 states that allow citizens an avenue for removing elected officials from office. But that power is limited. State law allows recall of an elected official for lack of physical or mental fitness, incompetence, violation of oath of office, official misconduct, or conviction of a felony offense.
None of these in fact apply to Sheriff Daryl Anderson.
The law that subjects Anderson and every other elected official to recall specifically states: "A person may not be recalled for performing a mandatory duty of the office that the person holds or for not performing any act that, if performed, would subject the person to prosecution for official misconduct."
It's one thing to disagree with the sheriff on decisions he makes. We certainly have had occasion to do so. But it's quite another to allege misconduct and incompetence when neither apply.
A recall is therefore inappropriate.
And recalling the sheriff solves nothing. Implementing a public affairs protocol would.
We've pointed out in the past that the sheriff's department in Libby sorely needs a trained liaison to deal with the public, which has every right to raise questions and expect answers.
The tempest brewing over these investigations is another case in point of failed communication.
It can be done right. Officers right here in North Lincoln County are evidence of professional, courteous communication.
Equal treatment from Libby solves a problem.
Backing a doomed recall of the sheriff does not.
Lincoln County knows full well from a former justice of the peace in Libby that elected officials must on occasion be removed from office. " Unquote...
Never Forget this and Never - Ever
Forgive the Tobacco Valley News for this.
rThe Crimes that really going on here, would bring any one of you good people of Eureka Montana to your knees. If you really knew the whole truth and nothing but you would drop to your knees in despair and in prayer.
You may think it odd, but i am tearful, actually crying as I write this at our local paper having the nerve to smack down victims in this public display of pure disrespect.
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This quote tells all victims they don't matter, they deserve what they got; be it raped, beated, robbed or whatever was done to them.
I am HERE, not to disrespect the law in any way, but to hope that justice is actually served based on the Crime and not on Who you Know or how much money you Have.
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I am Here to tell ALL victims of Lincoln County Montana over Decades that you Do Matter, you do deserve to be heard and you Did NOT deserve what you got. This is NOT the Lincoln County I know and love, this is not the help thy neighbor - let's go fishin' and drivin' in the woods - picnicing - good loving - hard working Tobacco Valley that I know and Love.
I am HERE to Say to you Victims; the Naysays, the Tobacco Valley News, and the folks saying you asked for it or some how deserved it,
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THEY DO NOT SPEAK FOR ME !!!!
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This quote says you are not a Victim unless The Tobacco Valley News says you are. And it boldly states that all laws and efforts of investigation were done properly in every circumstance and that a recall is "inappropriate" and "doomed.
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How in the world can Steve Newman of Tobacco Valley News know this, a legal genius I guess, memorized all laws, knows all details of all crime scenes, and looked into his Crystal Ball and decided all has been thoroughly investigated and all actions were appropriately taken, So Be It.. Steve Newman has Spoken and that's the way it is... NOT...
I am a lifetime resident here, I am a Lincoln County Graduate and a Daughter of those timber dollars. I am a 4th generation Montanan and I say Sign the Recall, Demand Justice, and I even have the audacity to say Boycott the Tobacco Valley News for Violating Public Trust.
I say, I have talked with endless people over decades and I certainly know, without a doubt, how nasty - vile - and disturbing the crime has been in Lincoln County with seemingly no end in site.
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I have spoke with you folks out there over and over, I know that you don't believe all the TVN tells you to believe, I know that you are frustrated with Steve Newman's version of the News and that you weep for victims of all crimes. You write letters, you beg for help and no one has ever listened. You have Been Ignored, and in that things did not magically get better, but instead they got worse.
You may not like me, you may not approve of me, but EUREKA you know me. And this is not about our differences, this is about what we have in Common.
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I am connected to old and new rexford, I am a product of this valley, I love Eureka Montana. And what has been happening here is very wrong and has been happening a very long time.
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We now have a newcomber to our area with the Backbone to Stand up for us all and the patience and knowledge to wade throught the Montana Judicial Process to do it right.
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If we do not back up this Tobacco Valley "stranger", this white knight passing through our lives, then we will have no say in the future as these crimes continue to be unpunished and SHOCKINGLY unbelieved.
Sign the Recall, Find Out More...
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Don't Believe Me, Don't Believ the
Tobacco Valley News or your Beloved Commissioners.
Believe your Friends and Neighbors, Find out All you
can and make an informed decision on Your Own.
We used to go to Camp 32 and have gatherings, tons of people in our area would come out, we ate fish, and played games, it was a BLAST from babies to elderlies were there and today at camp 32 people are beaten at teen parties.
WE Get One Shot to Take our Town Back only one, if this don't work then Eureka will never be the reason you moved here, the reason you stayed here or the reason you chose to raise your family here. This Recall is not a Miracle, but it is One Shot at a long awaited Change.
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Link to Opinion, it most likely won't last long...
http://www.tobaccovalleynews.com/page_09.html
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Email Steve Newman grizpaperboy@me.com
and tell him what a good job he is doing, your in total support,
you love his paper and hang on his every words...
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Oh and PS. if you Believe Steve Newman of the
Tobacco Valley New's version of the News,
I gotta Bridge to Sell you !!!
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www.EurekaMontanaNews.com
This quote says you are not a Victim unless The Tobacco Valley News says you are. And it boldly states that all laws and efforts of investigation were done properly in every circumstance and that a recall is "inappropriate" and "doomed.
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How in the world can Steve Newman of Tobacco Valley News know this, a legal genius I guess, memorized all laws, knows all details of all crime scenes, and looked into his Crystal Ball and decided all has been thoroughly investigated and all actions were appropriately taken, So Be It.. Steve Newman has Spoken and that's the way it is... NOT...
I am a lifetime resident here, I am a Lincoln County Graduate and a Daughter of those timber dollars. I am a 4th generation Montanan and I say Sign the Recall, Demand Justice, and I even have the audacity to say Boycott the Tobacco Valley News for Violating Public Trust.
I say, I have talked with endless people over decades and I certainly know, without a doubt, how nasty - vile - and disturbing the crime has been in Lincoln County with seemingly no end in site.
r
I have spoke with you folks out there over and over, I know that you don't believe all the TVN tells you to believe, I know that you are frustrated with Steve Newman's version of the News and that you weep for victims of all crimes. You write letters, you beg for help and no one has ever listened. You have Been Ignored, and in that things did not magically get better, but instead they got worse.
You may not like me, you may not approve of me, but EUREKA you know me. And this is not about our differences, this is about what we have in Common.
r
I am connected to old and new rexford, I am a product of this valley, I love Eureka Montana. And what has been happening here is very wrong and has been happening a very long time.
r
We now have a newcomber to our area with the Backbone to Stand up for us all and the patience and knowledge to wade throught the Montana Judicial Process to do it right.
r
If we do not back up this Tobacco Valley "stranger", this white knight passing through our lives, then we will have no say in the future as these crimes continue to be unpunished and SHOCKINGLY unbelieved.
Sign the Recall, Find Out More...
e
Don't Believe Me, Don't Believ the
Tobacco Valley News or your Beloved Commissioners.
Believe your Friends and Neighbors, Find out All you
can and make an informed decision on Your Own.
We used to go to Camp 32 and have gatherings, tons of people in our area would come out, we ate fish, and played games, it was a BLAST from babies to elderlies were there and today at camp 32 people are beaten at teen parties.
WE Get One Shot to Take our Town Back only one, if this don't work then Eureka will never be the reason you moved here, the reason you stayed here or the reason you chose to raise your family here. This Recall is not a Miracle, but it is One Shot at a long awaited Change.
r
Link to Opinion, it most likely won't last long...
http://www.tobaccovalleynews.com/page_09.html
r
Email Steve Newman grizpaperboy@me.com
and tell him what a good job he is doing, your in total support,
you love his paper and hang on his every words...
r
Oh and PS. if you Believe Steve Newman of the
Tobacco Valley New's version of the News,
I gotta Bridge to Sell you !!!
rr
www.EurekaMontanaNews.com
Monday, February 16, 2009
Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act
Carole King Joins Rep. Carolyn Maloney in Supporting the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act
Washington, D.C. -- Today, pop music legend Carole King joined Representatives Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) in announcing the introduction of the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA). NREPA would protect some of America's most beautiful and ecologically important lands while saving taxpayers’ money and creating jobs.
“Many of America’s most precious natural resources and wildlife are found in the Northern Rockies,” said Rep. Maloney.
“NREPA would help protect those resources by drawing wilderness boundaries according to science, not politics. NREPA would also help reduce global warming by protecting the corridors through which vulnerable wildlife can migrate to cooler areas.”
“I am proud to cosponsor this legislation to protect the Northern Rocky Mountains, one of America’s great natural areas,” said Rep. Grijalva.
“A bold plan is needed to preserve and protect what remains of the Lewis and Clark legacy, and this bill would do just that.”“NREPA protects land and water belonging to all Americans, mitigates the effects of global warming on species, saves taxpayers millions of dollars and creates jobs.
If not now, when?” asked Carole King. Grizzly bears, caribou, elk, bison, wolves, bull trout and salmon still thrive in the Northern Rockies. The bill seeks to safeguard both these species and the lands on which they live. The Northern Rockies is the only place in the lower 48 states where native species and wildlife are protected on lands that are virtually unchanged since Lewis and Clark saw them.
Click here for complete text of the bill. The Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act: *
Designates as wilderness more than 23 million acres of ecosystems and watersheds in the Northern Rockies;
Connects natural, biological corridors, ensuring the continued existence of native plants and animals and mitigating the effects of global warming; *
Restores habitat that has been severely damaged from roads that were built, creating more than 2,300 jobs and leading to a more sustainable economic base in the region;*
Keeps water available for ranchers and farmers downstream until it is most needed; and
Eliminates subsidized development in the designated wilderness areas, saving taxpayers $245 million over a 10-year period.
http://maloney.house.gov/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=1787&Itemid=61
http://maloney.house.gov/documents/environment/20090129_NREPA.pdf
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Shame on the Tobacco Valley News, Enough is ENOUGH ! Not in Our Town - Not on Our Watch !!
The Tobacco Valley News does not archive their stories such as the Daily Interlake in Kalispell Montana or even the Western News in Libby Montana. r
So if a VERY important article makes the Small Town Headlines in Eureka Montana, we are left to Keep a Copy of the Paper for our Reference.
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Every now and then a VERY important article is “Allowed” to be in the Tobacco Valley News. This is quite rare due to local politics and a basic fear of what will happen financially and physically if the Truth were to find it’s way to the Citizens of the Tobacco Valley.
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Recently the Lincoln County Recall Committee posted the articles on the local rapes on our Blog at MontanaRecall.com. We posted this article on the Montana Recall site to educate the Public, to Keep the Story Alive, and to assist in the wishful thinking of Justice Someday Being Served.
Every now and then a VERY important article is “Allowed” to be in the Tobacco Valley News. This is quite rare due to local politics and a basic fear of what will happen financially and physically if the Truth were to find it’s way to the Citizens of the Tobacco Valley.
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Recently the Lincoln County Recall Committee posted the articles on the local rapes on our Blog at MontanaRecall.com. We posted this article on the Montana Recall site to educate the Public, to Keep the Story Alive, and to assist in the wishful thinking of Justice Someday Being Served.
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Steve Newman the Owner of the Tobacco Valley News Demanded that WE remove “their” article from Our Website / Blog.
I Ask, What Could Possibly be the Motive for NOT wanting their Article Seen again?d
Steve Newman the Owner of the Tobacco Valley News Demanded that WE remove “their” article from Our Website / Blog.
I Ask, What Could Possibly be the Motive for NOT wanting their Article Seen again?d
Why not give us permission to Promote Their Paper?
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The article was on the Rapes in Eureka Montana and the Tobacco Valley News Does not Want our Blog reprinting the Article. So basically this important article gets swept under the rug just as the Rapes. Why Not let the article be reprinted, the Associated Press allows bloggers to reprint news as long as they link back to the original writer or owner of the article. Not the Tobacco Valley News in Eureka Montana. They have to “Lay Low” they have to do what politicians and Big Money Advertisers tell them to do, or they will lose ad dollars.
Rapes, and Other Horrifying Crimes are NOT the Concern of the Tobacco Valley News in Eureka Montana.
In order to Keep the News Monopoly in Eureka Montana and to Keep those Ad Dollars coming in, the Tobacco Valley News has to do what they are told.
If this is not true and they simply don’t want their “article” to be on someone else’s site then why not give a place on their website so that we can link to the article there. We Gave them FULL credit.
The Tobacco Valley News in Eureka Montana Demands that MontanaRecall.com NOT print, post, or in any other way promote or reproduce their article on the un-prosecuted Rapes in Eureka Montana.
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I am so sick of politics as usual
in Eureka Montana.
I am so sick of politics as usual
in Eureka Montana.
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It is Basic. It is Simple.
It is Basic. It is Simple.
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What is Right is Right.
And What is Wrong is Wrong.
What is Right is Right.
And What is Wrong is Wrong.
Those who believe ALL 10 rapes were “alleged” and those who believe the women who were raped “Asked For It” or they were raped because of what they were wearing, SHAME ON YOU. All TEN “Deserved It” What ?
Who in their Right Mind, on any level, would go through this kind of public humiliation, speak in front of commissioners and put their entire life as they know it on the line to LIE about being Raped.
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Many under went Rape Kits, it is A Fact. Yet Almost Daily I hear someone say “Alleged Rapes”, “they asked for it” or it was because of how they were dressed. Shocking and Yet So VERY True, people are actually saying this stuff, lots and lots of people.
The Tobacco Valley News not allowing MontanaRecall.com to Post their Article is Flat Out Wrong.
When will the Tobacco Valley News have the Balls to Stand up for What is Right instead of What fit’s the advertisers or the politicians needs.
Mamby Pamby headlines about pottery businesses or other “Topics” that comfort instead of inflame, that is where the ad dollars are.
This is Not News, this is Not the Truth of What is Really Going on in your town.
The Tobacco Valley News not allowing MontanaRecall.com to Post their Article is Flat Out Wrong.
When will the Tobacco Valley News have the Balls to Stand up for What is Right instead of What fit’s the advertisers or the politicians needs.
Mamby Pamby headlines about pottery businesses or other “Topics” that comfort instead of inflame, that is where the ad dollars are.
This is Not News, this is Not the Truth of What is Really Going on in your town.
It is a watered down version of the Reality of Rapes, Dog Murders and Heinous Acts and Crimes that Lincoln Montana has No Intention of Prosecuting.
I get it, the truth is VERY stressful, the hate that was in the paper around election time when the Tobacco Valley News actually printed the editorials that came in without extreme bias, was a small hint of the Uprising that the Tobacco Valley News must get when they actually print the truth.
I get this Fence Riding, and the Ad Dollars that Come with it.
However, why NOT let this article be put on a Blog Promoting Victims Rights?
Is the Tobacco Valley News afraid of repercussion ?
If so why did they ever “Allow” the article to be printed in the first place?
f An article on the Problems with local rapes and them not being prosecuted, this is NOT the Style of the Tobacco Valley News that I am Used To.
The Tobacco Valley News knows the Truth of What Has Really “Went Down” over 30 years and they have NO Intention of being “perceived” in any way as being connected with this so called Lincoln County Recall Committee. s
The Tobacco Valley News knows the Truth of What Has Really “Went Down” over 30 years and they have NO Intention of being “perceived” in any way as being connected with this so called Lincoln County Recall Committee. s
Better to just Deny access to information, ignore the Brutal Rapes and Dog Slaughter and hope and pray that this all goes away, while the Tobacco Valley News talks about Things at Growth Meeting for Example that did not quite happen that way. Or things like the Town Water Outage issue, which the Missoulian told more of the suffering and Hardship in Eureka Montana then the Tobacco Valley News did, why is that ? Oh Don’t Make Waves !!! I know people are suffering, but if I just look the other way, my life can stay the same.
Let’s talk about High School Sports, on a 2 or 3 pages every week and IGNORE those trivial things like Rape, People in 20 below temperatures without water, and decades of Crimes Unpunished.
Most of the time I understand the “Fence Riders Unite” motto at the Tobacco Valley News but NOT this Time, Keeping this Story down is Wrong.
I Say EVERY Blogger in Montana SHOULD put this article on their site and see if the Tobacco Valley News has enough money from their loyal Advertisers to Sue Every Website that Does Care about Rapes in Eureka Montana, Men and Woman that are being slipped the Date Rape Drug, and other Crimes against the Tax Paying, Hard Working Men and Women of Lincoln County Montana.
I say the Article should be posted in Video on YouTube and hundreds of other video share sites. This article should be on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and every other site in the World that Cares More about the Victims of Crime in Eureka Montana then the Tobacco Valley News Does.
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I say the Tobacco Valley News article on the Rapes in Eureka, that Steve Newman Will NOT allow to be reprinted ,even though it could make a big difference in JUSTICE for innocent Victims, I say this Article should be put out as a press release everywhere, and that we should get bloggers all over the world to join our cause by posting this Article on their Website.
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The Tobacco Valley News has spent years upon years riding that proverbial fence and it is TIME to Come Down and Pick a Side.
The Tobacco Valley News has spent years upon years riding that proverbial fence and it is TIME to Come Down and Pick a Side.
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What Good Are Laws if they are Not Enforced?
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What Good is a Jury if a Judge can Overturn their “Verdict”?
What Good is a Jury if a Judge can Overturn their “Verdict”?
What Good is an Attorney if a local Justice of the Peace or a Local Sheriff Does not NEED a Law Degree and yet they have the Ultimate Say over Matters of Local Law, Over your Life and Your Rights?
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Maybe if We Ignore "Their Tears in the Darkness of their Room" the problem will Just Go Away.
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Maybe if we say the Rapes Were "Alleged" or it was "Just a Dog" it will make us feel better. If we sheepishly hide in the shadows while others in our community, whom some of us have known our ENTIRE Lives, if we hide while they suffer, who are we ?
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We Can No longer ignore Brutal Animal Cruelty, Disturbing Rapes of Drugged Young Women, Date Rape Drugs slipped to men just to watch them suffer.
We Can No longer ignore Brutal Animal Cruelty, Disturbing Rapes of Drugged Young Women, Date Rape Drugs slipped to men just to watch them suffer.
We can No Longer Sit Silent while Meth takes over our county because our criminals are NOT prosecuted unless Idaho or some other state catches them when they are traveling through.
If Lincoln County Montana is Your Home, Stand up... It is Time to Clean House.
I will Not IGNORE their Suffering Just Because they are not family, someone I know, wealthy, a mighty "Name" of the Tobacco Valley or Because the Tongues May Flutter About Me.f
If I Lose Business for Standing Up for Those who No One is Listening TO, then So be it. I DO NOT Value the Dollar over Their Suffering.c
I will Not Ignore their Screams, their Pain, because I don't believe in the Same God as they Do or "Approve of their Lifestyle". t
Community is About what We Have in Common and Not What Separates Us. c
We DO NOT have to all be friends, we do NOT even have to Like Each Other, but I will be Damned if If I will Ignore 10 Rapes, Ignore Dog Slaughter, Ignore Animal Abuse and the Total Loss of Victims Rights and NOT stand behind someone with the Balls to Stand up to Our Local Justice system in a way that NEVER has been done Before.
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The Truth is the Truth Regardless of anyone’s particular belief system or prejudices.
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The Truth is the Truth Regardless of anyone’s particular belief system or prejudices.
Right is Right and Wrong is Wrong.
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You Either Stand with the Victim
or You Stand with the Criminal.
or You Stand with the Criminal.
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Victim Blaming
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