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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Amazing statistics

Redheaded blackbelt blogger, Kym has a great post - an interview with Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman, laying out the environmental damage caused by pot grows, diesel and oil contamination...

As I'm reading it, all I can think of is the disconnect between all the noise we hear from "Humboldt Watershed Council" and "Baykeeper" and Gallegos, all the writhing of hands over environmental damage caused by their favorite targets (the ones with money), and the absolutely deafening silence when it comes to this subject.

Nothing on Steve Schectman/Hedlund/Vilica LLC/Paradise Palms LLC's bulldozing plateaus, carving out roads - every time a big dope grow is revealed, not a peep. Not one.

Kym's talking about the enormous amounts of oil used by a 5000 marijuana plant underground facility that was powered by two 400 kw generators, and how that oil is disposed of, and what that means for the Eel River.

Where are those champions of the environment?

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Kym5/14/2008 10:21 PM
I think that the problem is that it is hard too pin down someone. Marijuana is illegal and the growers are not easy to define. The problem growers are a small minority. So who do the local environment activists go after. The targets are shadows.

But, we have to speak up. I grew up dumping used oil on the ground. Through other people speaking up, I began to listen and make changes. Hopefully, if we keep the dialog open, changes will start to happen.
I think the local environmentalist organizations will join in when there seems somewhere to go--something to do.

Right now, I'm pointing out the emperor hasn't any clothes. If enough people acknowledge the problem, Maybe we can come up with some solutions.
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Rose5/14/2008 11:01 PM
I thought you did a great job, Kym. Those statistics are hard to ignore.

I don't know if people will listen, Steve Lewis has been pointing out for YEARS that the amount of eco damage done by homesteaders and pot growers vastly exceeds that of a few Palco workers on the ground, but that point wasn't politically correct. He was focused more on the roads and the diesel - but grows of this size - it's hard to even imagine.

And some big growers ARE known - Schectman/Hedlund/Vilica etc is certainly an example of that... they even got caught, but do you think Gallegos will go after them? Do you think he should? We're talking about the shill candidate who COULD have replaced Gallegos in the Recall being an alleged MAJOR pot grower, if anyone ever pierces the LLC veils.

I just can't shake the disconnect. It's surreal.

Again, great post! I always enjoy your stuff. I look forward to the rest of the story.
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Anonymous5/15/2008 4:45 PM
Before the indoor grows with the diesel generators it was the outdoor grows with all the fertilizer and rat poison. God only knows how much of that was washed down into the Eel River in the late 70's, 80's, and early 90's ??? The roads they cut, the quadrunner trails and so on. It is the marijuana growers that have screwed up the Eel River, not to mention the entire county.
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Anonymous5/16/2008 12:01 AM
I wonder if the bust Allman was talking about was the Kite Finds the Feather bust? Kinda sounded similar.
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Rose5/16/2008 7:34 AM
Yeah - I gad a post up on that one m I'll put up a link.

Beowolf, you're following this - is there any truth to the talk that Hedlund's court date was postponed, and that kite missed his court date and ran?
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Anonymous5/16/2008 8:48 AM
Schectman certainly has been keeping a low profile lately.

Was Josh sentenced to any prison time, or did the $270,000 forfeiture buy him out of that?

What ever happened on Lonetree's arrest in Garberville? The one were he was drunk driving and spinning dounuts on some of the green's?

I do believe kite missed his court date and is in the wind.
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Anonymous5/16/2008 1:25 PM
Hedlund's court dates are posted on Judge LowelI Jensen's calendar on the web; his sentencing has been postponed multiple times. I don't know about Kite running. . . I can't find any court dates on the web for him though.
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Rose5/16/2008 2:09 PM
Calendar

10:00 AM (r)10:00AM CRIMINAL MATTER-VACATED-TO 6/20
CR06-00346 United States v Joshua Hedlund
[E-filing case]
SENTENCING-VACATED-TO 6/20

Perhaps Kite has a real name?
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The Humboldt County Grand Jury found that "Weak leadership and poor managerial practices" have undermined the office... Implicit in all evidence gathered by the Grand Jury - including interviews with the D.A. (Paul Gallegos) - is the unfortunate truth that the D.A. (Paul Gallegos) exhibits a limited understanding of how things are done in the department" Gallegos "lacks the global perspective needed to keep the department operating efficiently," and quotes an unnamed staff member as saying, "The D.A. (Paul Gallegos) does not fully understand the functionality of many of the things we do here" - Years later, in his own words: "I’m not an administrator, they didn’t elect me to be an administrator, they elected me to make sure this office runs..."

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CASE TOSSED The district attorney misrepresented the law and failed to provide evidence of former Eureka Police Chief David Douglas' and Lt. Tony Zanotti's innocence during a criminal grand jury inquiry into the 2006 shooting death of Cheri Lyn Moore, defense attorneys argued in court documents filed Thursday... ”Our judicial system stands as a real and necessary check on the grand jury indictment process,” one of the documents states. “This court has the authority and the means by which to halt this prosecution, which is justified neither by the undisputed facts, nor by the law.”

Gallegos has taken what was "arguably the state's best small DA's office, with a cutting edge CAST program that "trained the trainers"... into a bunch of time serving bureaucratic wannabee brown nosers, lightly sprinkled with a couple of earnest learners who are sure to split as soon as possible.

One weeps for Max Cardoza who won Angellel, and for Maggie Fleming who won so many impossible victories. Mired in Humboldt for personal reasons, they have to suffer the ignominy of working for Paul, with Yougo, yes, yougo who has freed more people as a prosecutor than he did as a defense attorney. As has Paul. Anonymous comment

Gallegos has answers for everything. I’ve never met anyone whose answers came so quickly, with such polish - except about his law school(s). He likely sounded the same way when promising to get prosecutors off their anachronistic “at will” status and onto civil service status. It never happened. Indeed, he told them, “Disloyalty will not be tolerated” – a real morale builder.

He sounds great. What progressive doesn’t want to believe in him? But it’s a myth. He’s an intellectual lightweight and self-aggrandizer who tries to please everybody with glib answers. Jim Fahey for The Arcata Eye

The Humboldt County DA's office is one of the most exciting prosecutorial
offices in California.

Its District Attorney, Paul Gallegos, is willing to charge anyone who commits
wrongdoing--no matter how wealthy, sacrosanct, or ruthless. He believes in total equality before the law. He also plans to be innovative in promoting programs of prevention and treatment. He wants to make it the best prosecutorial office of its size in the nation.... Gallegos' Help Wanted ad

Gallegos' OWN Quotes

★ ...District Attorney Paul Gallegos said he believes the statute of limitations clock, even on misdemeanors, doesn't start running until law enforcement knows or reasonably should have known of the offense. In this case, Gallegos said, that means the statute of limitations would not run out at least until Feb. 8, 2009, or one year after Gundersen's arrest and the discovery of the photographs in question...

★ "...some people actually molest out of different feelings, some times out of feelings of love....” DA Gallegos explaining why Child Abuse prosecutions were down

★ “I never said that the information was not available under the Freedom of Information Act. Quite the contrary, I informed you that our use of force policy is not a public record.” Paul Gallegos to the Times Standard 5/25/07

★ ...“One is that I do everything to make people happy which means I don’t stand for anything except for just something,” he said. “The other is I stand for something and I try to be a leader and take some people, a group of people, a community someplace and I say guess what folks, this is who I am. I stand for your beliefs. We share these beliefs or we don’t. You get the option to judge that. This is who I am and I am committed to leading us this place, wherever it is...." Eureka Reporter Gallegos defends record, looks ahead 7/3/2005

★ Note the difference between what he SAID, and what he DOES..."...So what are these issues? Top on Gallegos' list is the proliferation of "garbage cases," small-time crimes and overcharged cases that he said are clogging up the court system.

Garbage cases, said Gallegos, come in two forms: Cases that would lose if actually brought to trial and cases that are overcharged for the crimes committed. The idea behind filing both kinds of garbage, he said, is to get the defendant to plead guilty, netting a conviction without having to go into court.

Again, the IRONY is astounding! Look at what he SAYS, and then think about what he DOES! "Probably 95 percent of the cases that are filed plead guilty. In fact, there are a lot of cases that are filed on the assumption they will plead guilty, because of the time and expense involved in defending them. But these cases shouldn't even be filed in the first place, because if they were challenged, they would lose," Gallegos said. Better yet: If they weren't filed at all, it would save the county time and money...." North Coast Journal 2/21/02 Too bad he didn't take his own advice.

★ “Tim’s a stud,” he said. “He really is; anyone would be stoked to have him.” Gallegos on his second in command right hand man Assistant District Attorney Tim Stoen. (Former second in command right hand man to Jim Jones/People's Temple.)

NOTE:

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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Amazing statistics

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