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ASSUMPTIONS THAT GOVERN YOUR LIFE. deannahelena@earthlink.net

What does the Constitution mean to America?
   

  Our homes, businesses, and churches are not safe in the United States. All levels of Government find no shame of exploiting, plundering, and taking by force from hard-working citizens and offer their homes and family businesses to others in order to increase tax revenue. These behaviors are primitive, and blatantly expose greed are traits contrary to our Constitution, and social contract. The character of this Nation has fallen because Cities may seize your  property for private use and profit. As a  property owner you are disposable and insignificant. It does not matter how many years you have invested in the community because profit equals victory opposed to traits of virtue such as loyalty and dedication. These are the climate and moral fabric of the United States of America.

Now is the time to support officials who are mature and stand up to protect private property rights. Whoever fails to do so must not serve in public office because to condemn your home or business is to condemn you. Why support officials who have the disposition to condemn and exploit you? Take the deadly tool of Eminent Domain away and teach your City to conduct business properly.

Answer, in earnest, the following questions: Would you invest in a home or business in a City which abuses and disrespects their citizens? Do you know there is a way to revitalize without using condemnation as a tool? Do you know cities, which respect ownership and do not use condemnation as a tool for redevelopments is more resourceful? Do you know cities without a Redevelopment Agency earns more per-capita income opposed to cities with a Redevelopment Agency? Do you think Eminent Domain, Redevelopment, and Revitalization using condemnation as a tool should be used to resolve issues? Why do cities fail to discern the social issue  from Eminent Domain? Finally, do you believe in the, "the American Dream" and what does the Constitution mean to you?


Do you think you have security as a private property owner?

The government has the power to take your private property for others to profit. You only own your property until the government decides to take it. In short, we have lost our private property rights, because we lease our land until the government changes the land use and ownership. What is your opinion regarding this matter of leasing your land until your time is up to selling by force to the Government?

EMINENT  DOMAIN IS A NATIONAL PLAGUE.


In my opinion, private property rights are fundamental rights of every citizen, and I will continue to stand up and fight for this principle because I believe it is the right thing for all the citizens.
The American Dream is to own your own home and then pass the fruits of your life long hard work along to your children or loved ones. I just cannot sit back in good conscience and let the City of San Bernardino and the Municipal Valley Water District turn these hard-working citizens’ American Dreams into a nightmare.
The Hands Off a coalition reveals an unknown world using condemnation as a tool and Eminent Domain. This world is subtle, quiet, and to the private property owner. Because of the Supreme Court decision, every property owner must know Eminent Domain, Redevelopment, and Revitalization using condemnation as a tool.  No one is safe and your property is next for the taking.
Who Is The San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District?

The San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District is known as SBVMWD or MUNI and was formed in 1954. The purpose of the formation was to plan long range water supply for the San Bernardino Valley. As a wholesale distribution agency the task is to import water into its service area through - participation in the California State Water Project that manages groundwater storage within its boundaries.
SBVMWD covers about 325 square miles in Southwestern San Bernardino County, about 60 miles East of Los Angeles, and has a population of about 600,000. It spurs the Eastern two thirds of the San Bernardino Valley, the Crafton Hills, and a portion of the Yucaipa Valley, and includes the cities and communities of San Bernardino, Colton, Rialto, Bloomington, Highland, Grand Terrace, and Yucaipa.

The task of a water district is to improve water supply reliability, improve water quality, reduce the risk of liquefaction, maximize beneficial use of water, and ecosystem restoration. The district and other districts are engaging in an integrated regional groundwater management plan. City of Redlands Municipal Utilities Department, City of San Bernardino Municipal Valley Water Department, San Bernardino Valley Water Conservation District, West Valley Water District, Yucaipa Valley Water District, East Valley Water District, Water Resources Institute CSU of San Bernardino, City of Riverside Public Utilities Department, Western Municipal Water, and SAWPA. The purpose of the IRGWM plan is to prepare a long term management plan for surface and groundwater resources of the region. Studying the plan, the author found no evidence for a need to raze an entire neighborhood of 437 affordable housing, 47 businesses, and six churches to manage groundwater storage within its boundaries. To the contrary, the IRGWM is to protect the environment and implement a plan of integrity to protect and serve the environment. Reviewing the IRGWM the plan implemented a good water management system. The North Lake Reservoir project was excluded from the educational material presented to the agencies and the public. Why? The North Lake Reservoir Project according to SBMVWD is an absolute necessity to resolve high underground water, contamination, and liquefaction for San Bernardino and the region. Examining the IRGWM does the Bunker Hill rely on the North Lake Reservoir or is that a political tool to benefit the wholesale distribution to Orange County by the SBVMWD? Call the District and ask how much profit are they reaping from the sale of the water? How much property and or sales tax does the district pay on the land use? (441/2acres) Why did the District not disclose to the public of their plan to sell water to Orange County?

The argument: 

Does mainstream media communicate effectively the message that serves the agenda of the dominant elite?

The North Lake Project is a classic example of exploitation, which serves the ruling class. The belief of an environmental necessity for a reservoir and the tossing of law suits by Judge Wade supports favoritism. The  opinion  to raze an entire neighborhood does not support the claim of the respondents in the law suits.
The evidence supported by the respondents are blatant lies that a need for a reservoir is to clear high underground water and resolve the contamination issue. The truth is: The need for Muni to sell water, our natural heritage, to others and pave the  way for redevelopment at the expense and exploitation of the defenseless. So, to raze an entire neighborhood of two thousand people, forty seven-family businesses, and six churches are supported by  laws, which serve the agenda of the dominant elite and the political economy.The government and the media manipulate the opinions of the populous. The media serve as a system for communicating messages and symbols to the general populace. The function of the media on one hand is used to amuse, entertain and inform. However, on the other hand, it serves as a communication system of implementing values, beliefs, and codes of behavior, which will integrate the person into an institutional structure of the larger society. In a world of conflict and mixed class the media are influenced to serve the agenda of the dominant elite. To marginalize dissidents are essential to further their agenda, and the media's task is to manipulate the news "objectively,"  and  benefiting the intellect minority.

The View
 
The view of the North Lake is this website to inform effectively in reinforcing class consciousness that unifies the underclass (working class) because it fosters and alters the value system and framework established by the media who serve the agenda of the dominant elite. The potential power of the working people is encouraged by a view to affect social change and realize the value of their constitutional rights as a property owner. The effectiveness of change is the "Law" not a revolution of violence. A revolution of violence  is useless for the exploiter and the exploited. Real change is the "law", and  the law must not serve the agenda of the dominant elite but pursuit a just society where each member of society is recognized worthy. Revolution must be used to  re-think the letter of the Law to benefit a just society.  Protest is essential setting aside laws, which serve the agenda of the dominant elite. We are accomplished in science but our resistance to mature is evident by the status quo.
 

THE WATER MUST STAY IN SAN BERNARDINO.

The following  is facts written by Harold Willis, former water commissioner and this humble citizen  paid large sums  to have his letter published by the Sun. Why? His  passion  is to point out the facts and expose the occult or hidden matters not made public by Muni. Mr. Willis was the San Bernardino City Water Commissioner from 1964-1999.  To point out his credibility and his knowledge, Mr. Willis was installed as a water commissioner to resolve  problems encountered by  the water district on Thursday, April 30, 1964. Harold served as a board member for 29 years and President of the water board for six years and resigned after serving 35 years for the City.  
The Argument:  Are the respondents brief reply valid regarding the  Environmental Necessity? Is former SB water commissioner, Harold Willis, a knowledgeable witness pertaining to the high underground water and the bunker hill basin?
 In the respondents brief reply, the Issue and Mitigation were argued that the North Lake project was an Environmental Necessity. Furthermore, Milligan of  Muni argued that the project area has high underground water, and the North Lake can solve San Bernardino high underground water problem. The  Planning Commission, Common Council, and Mayor followed the course of  Milligan; but, who examined the reality  of high underground water?  The EIR  supports the argument of  the High Underground Water and Contamination in the project area. What I find most disturbing is the fact that five years ago  the District was aware of the  tree growth rings and the  pressure  zone of the Leroy Well was the lowest in history. So, how can the EIR be correct if the evidence is pointing to a Drought opposed to having a huge amount of extra water?  How can Muni receive money from the Feds if the facts of this project are reported to the EPA, who is the agency for NEPA? The project must be an Environmental Necessity opposed to an Environmental Injustice.
According to Mr. Willis, the public has been told that San Bernardino has this huge amount of extra water that we can sell to people downstream who need it. Mr.Willis was surprised to learn last March (05) at the Municipal Water District meeting that San Bernardino is plagued in the worst Mr. Willis learned this from the Muni District Publication, and at the meeting Muni talked about the tree growth rings, that these  five years are the  driest "ever". Further, Mark Bulot dutifully reports on the progress of the High Ground Water Mitigation every two weeks throughout the year. Mr.Willis cannot believe that San Bernardino is in the worst drought ever. The City of San Bernardino's Leroy Well is just outside the pressure zone at the 345 foot level, and this is the lowest in history. Mr. Willis concluded that San Bernardino is the only entity west of the Rockies, who is trying to get rid of water they don't really have.

A letter sent to the people in the project area:

January 17, 2006

Re: North Lake Project: Over two-thousand disadvantaged people displaced, four-hundred thirty seven-affordable housing units, forty-seven family businesses, and six churches of which one is Historical and California Registered.

Dear Friends:

        The individual person's property is his or her primary right. Neither the State nor anybody else has the right to take away that which is rightfully his or her. So when I, for example, work at producing a home and chapel, that home and chapel should belong to me, and I should get the benefits because I am the one that produced it. When the government takes through Eminent Domain what I have produced out of myself, they are engaging in a Theft, particularly if they then give my home and chapel to others in ways that I would not choose to. So, when they try to redistribute my home and chapel, we are, in fact, engaging in a Theft and is Theft the American Way?

The North Lake, a reservoir project, is nothing but theft, exploitation, and a project based on hope. The faculty of reason must not be based on hope or sensation, but on history and analysis of the Good for the entire City. The City's history of failed projects in the downtown area and the neglect of disadvantaged neighborhoods will cause the outcome of this project a setback of financial and painful consequences. The Municipal water district is the winner, and the City officials unintentionally are blind to the deep reality of "what is" that will affect a severe adverse impact on the progress of San Bernardino. The media add to this drama of sensational propaganda, a vision of "new life," which is an illusion and the history of the Central City project has proven this to be true. (06/27/1965) I think today especially, in the age of the sound byte, in the age were tremendously powerful forces and the media are trying to turn reasoning about public issues into mockery and into simple manipulation. The solution is not outward but inward in working with people in  disadvantaged neighborhoods. Last month I observed the entire City, and I noticed new buildings. I also observed a significantly decline in people's morale and a decay in other disadvantaged neighborhoods.  The mayor did well in erecting new buildings but what about a decline in morale and decay in other disadvantaged neighborhoods? The years of neglect reap the fruit of high crime, deterioration, and decline in morale that sixty five percent of the City has remained troubled. Further, the displacement of people in the area is an impact  on other disadvantaged neighborhoods, which would add to the stress of the City and increase crime.  My argument of a reservoir plunked in the middle of troubled crime ridden neighborhoods, history of failed projects, City's budget and the City's lack of capacity equals an unsound plan. The Municipal water district is the only winner, in this case, exploiting the poor, using our water( not knowing the destiny of our natural heritage and water resources), our land tax free, and earning huge profits from selling water to others not sharing the profits. One must  probe in depth the nature of this project, blight, crime, elected officials, and inquire the "what is". The outcome of that observation and inquiry, setting aside media and propaganda, you will find solutions to the problems that trouble this City. Thank you for your attention.

Deanna

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The Argument:
 How does the politician use cognitive psychology to frame ideas?  How is a language used to address the internal mental process? 

Language is used  to  propagate  ideas and using selective words are tools used by politicians to create a desired illusion. In cognitive psychology language has a profound effect on the  mind, and language is used to frame ideas and words, which have an impression from the senses such as:  re-vitalize, vibrant, beautify, economic boost, and destination. Those words are pleasing to the internal mental processing but far removed from reality. One must set aside all media, propaganda, and discern the reality of what is and what is not.

The Argument: Is participation a psychological tool to ease the condemnation threat?

The Walnut Project is a classic example of abusive powers by the Agency, Mayor, and Common Council. A letter was sent to a family who owns two homes and one vacant parcel. These homes are the family’s ticket to escape poverty because the investment has been potential to bear fruit in the future.  
To sell  properties by force to the developer will terminate any opportunities for the family's  financial freedom.  The family has lived in their home for thirty years, and the eldest member of the  family suffers anxiety, and the  fear from the unknown.
Why must  a senior citizen suffer this threat  of losing her family home by a developer who is anxious to profit off her land? The offer  of three-hundred and eighty nine  thousand dollars from the developer  for  two homes on large lots cannot purchase the family a replacement. How can this family participate and compete on social security, and a low income job earned by the old woman's daughter who is also a senior citizen?
A letter was sent to them, and the Agency asked to meet with the family to discuss the neighborhood improvement plans and possible opportunities available to participate in the revitalization effort of the neighborhood. How can that family who is struggling to be a participant and compete with a project that is knowingly unapproachable?  Because the project developer has been unable to reach an agreement with the owners, the developer asked for the City’s assistance in completing the purchase. Is this the  American Way?


The Argument: The rule of law must not benefit one group and discriminate against another group. Should a law be moral? Should a law be based on belief or reason?

"To see "what is" is to set aside our own beliefs and influences from propaganda and society and concentrate just on justice to a point that we might agree.

So, when African American Rosa Parks, for example, refused to give up her front seat to a white person on a bus. Why did the Law not protect her? The Law applied to one group of people but not to another group of people. The Law Ms. Parks violated was based on a Rule of Law which confirmed a belief that white people had the privilege to sit in front of the Bus. If Justice demand that all people should be treated equal why do so many people seldom think about the injustice of others, in this case Rosa Parks? It appears that everyone else was doing a mistake, and it's very easy to make a mistake when others do, and it even takes some courage to do the right thing when other people are doing the wrong thing. That's part of the explanation why people did not do anything to help the African Americans until Ms. Parks violated the law and point out the law was flawed.

Think on these things

A
mind that is like a white sheet of paper is a joy for the media and government to exploit.

What is ultimately more unjust for a society? To leave some people in poverty or to take property from others?

How can  many go about daily lives of comfort or even luxury, and think seldom about the suffering of others?

The ruling of the Judge is the genesis of slavery and corruption. Corruption begins in the lack of relationship and slavery to surrender our land to prosper from the Master. Unless one understands the corruption of this, it seems to me,  when we try to bring order in society, we are bound to create not only deep divisions between the slave and master, but also we will be unable to prevent corruption.

Society is not something separate from you and me. Society is the relationship that we establish or seek to establish between each other. So you and I are the problem, and not blight, because blight is the projection of us, and to understand blight we must understand ourselves. The blight is not separate from us because we are society, and our problems are society's problems. 

A society whose structure is based on mere Greed must breed conflict, confusion, and misery. Society is the projection of us in relationship with another, in which the need and use are predominant. When you use another for your need, in actuality, there is no relationship at all; you really have no contact with the other. How can you resolve deep social problems with the other when the other is used for profit and convenience? So, it is essential to understand the significance of relationship between the Government and citizen.

The social morality, as I observe, is totally immoral; maybe respectable, but what is respectable is generally disorderly. The crisis in our society is the disorder in consciousness in which you and I share equally. It is consciousness that is in disorder; there is no disorder anywhere else. The crisis is not seeking outward solutions but in understanding of "what is" that flower goodness and a transformation in society. 

The mind unadorned finds Truth in the Rule of Law by composing the parts that make up a whole. A just decision must equal the wholeness of the person interpreting  completeness and nakedness  to uncovering the false from the
truth.

So, fortunately or unfortunately for yourself, you have heard something that is true. If you merely hear it and are not actively disturbed so that your mind begins to free itself from all the things that are making it narrow and crooked, then the truth you have heard will become a poison. Surely, truth becomes a poison if it is heard and does act in the mind, like the festering of a wound.

The way we see the world is in many ways constructed by our own mind. Much of the content, however, is not from our own reason but dependency on authorities until we reached maturity realizing that we are our own highest authority.

Storytelling


  Suppose
all the people of our society could gather in one place. Suppose by some miracle no one knew whether they would be rich or poor, black or white, Mexican or Asian, male or female. And suppose they have to agree upon rules to govern their society. In this situation, wouldn't each person choose rules that would be just to everyone, and protect him or herself against the possibility of a terrible fate?
The core of ethics as I see it is doing the right thing. Are people going to be better off  under a given set of Eminent Domain practices? Doing the right thing means acting in such a way that you promote the interest of the people who are affected by your actions, where everyone's interest is given equal weight.



Think on these things

To me there is only direct perception - not only reasoning - not only calculation - not only analysis. You must have the capacity to analyze; you must have a good, sharp mind in order to reason; but a mind that is limited to reason and analysis is incapable of perceiving what is Truth. This immediate perception of what is false and what is true is the essential factor - not the intellect, with its reasoning based upon its cunning, its knowledge, its commitments. Surely, that is perception; seeing the truth of something immediately, without analysis, without reasoning without all the things that the intellect creates in order to postpone perception. It is entirely different from intuition, which is a word that we use with ease. So, if you commune with yourself, you will know why you have committed yourself to this project, and if you push further, you will see the slavery, the cutting down of freedom, the lack of human dignity which that commitment entail. When you perceive all this instantaneously, you are free; you don't have to make an effort to be free. That is why perception is essential.

What are you but the accumulation of the known, of all your troubles, your vanities, your ambitions, pains, fulfillment, and your frustrations? All that are the known, the known in Time and Space; and as long as the mind is functioning within the field of Time, of the known, it can never be the unknown, it can only go on experiencing that which it has known. To experience the unknown, the mind itself must be the unknown. Burdened with the known, the mind seeks to discover the unknown. Only when you have ceased your facade, your emptiness, and your psychological conditioned "state" that you may be "radically free"to experience Reality and Truth. Surely, "the religious mind" is whole, and has a quality of a deep abiding sense of compassion, intelligence, and order

MEMORANDUM

Date: January 07, 2006
From: Deanna Helena Adams, Ph.D.
To: Respectable taxpayers, citizens, home owners, business owners, and the six churches of the North and South Lake project.
Re: Hear the arguments to protect your rights at Superior Court, San Bernardino on 01/11/06 at 8:30. Judge Wade will hear the arguments at Superior Court, Arrowhead Ave in San Bernardino.
The ultimate violence is razing 437 affordable housing units for 72 upscale homes in order to pave the way for the affluent. The justification for this violence is "limited options" and the bogus Bunker Hill argument; however, alternatives for the reservoir and treatment of contaminated water in the Environmental Impact Report proved the arguments of the respondents flawed.

PROFIT VS. PEOPLE? WHAT ARE IMPORTANT PROFIT OR PEOPLE? COME and SEE.

Witness the Law in Action  protecting our rights as taxpayers, citizens, and human beings.
The outcome of the cases pertaining to the North Lake will be known on January 11, 2006. The outcome is a reflection of our moral fabric in our society. Will the Law reflect our consciousness in the realm of exploitation, plundering, and profit or will the Law reflect consciousness in the realm of True Knowledge which Goodness is the highest and most important of all Forms?
What is your relationship with the Government? Come and find out what your relationship is with the Government at all levels. Find out if the Government is interested in protecting your home, business, and church. Is it acceptable to take your property and sell by force in order to avoid Eminent Domain procedures? Is it acceptable to take your property and give your hard work to others for profit? How about the fruit of your labor passed to your children and grandchildren as a blessing when you depart?
How will your life be psychologically, physically, and financially after you are forced to commit an act against your will?
COME AND HEAR THE ARGUMENTS BETWEEN THE LAW FIRM OF LOUIS E. GOEBEL AND THE LAW FIRMS REPRESENTING THE MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICT, CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO, AND THE REGIONAL WATER RESOURCES WHO ARE THE RESPONDENTS.
Witness Justice in action and observe the system at work pertaining to the need of thousands, which will be impacted with this Environmental Injustice. JANUARY 11, 06 at Superior Court in San Bernardino. The cases will be heard by Judge Wade at 8:30 a.m. Room S-8.

01/11/2006
Judge Wade's decision.
                                                                                                             People Sold for Profit. 
 The case was predetermined and no consideration and compassion for thousands of people. The Judge read a brief response pointing out  the Environmental Impact Report is good enough for a start, and officials can address issues as they arise. The Environmental Impact Report must not be rationalized as "good enough" and address issues as they arise. The theory of "ripeness" is not acceptable to address a project of this magnitude and how can the whole be determined if the parts are not critically examined? What I find disturbing; there is no evidence of a social-economic benefit, and development. Ignoring the reality of "what is," a human condition minimized in order to reap a profit is the rule of law.  The Judge did not have the courage to stand alone and the nature of his ruling, in this case, are the forces that tie the Judge to the establishment. I am questioning his interpretation of the Constitution  and what does the Constitution mean to  him?
The "Project EIR" according to Judge Wade was free of abuse from the water district and the City of San Bernardino. The Judge  found no errors in the Law, and his own psychological conditioning advanced him to sign the judgment to evict two-thousand citizens who are now strangers and considered inferior.
 The  "Project of a Superior Anglo Race" was considered a righteous law  and Adolph Hitler found the project Good to exterminate folks he considered inferior, including those of Jewish Faith.  This infantile behavior stimulates  patterns of desire and justifies any action imposed on others as righteousness. 
 Both Laws  promoted the self interest of the dominant elite in order to pursue their agenda of the establishment and the nature of those laws are similar --  a depiction of a certain group of people unfit to society.
In the United States, there is a gap between the rich and poor. The poor are subject to the pressure of economic necessity, and they have to be preoccupied with their own self interest, will not share in a self-rule, and as a result virtue is corrupted. The rich are also preoccupied by luxury and virtue is corrupted because they are ill equipped to share in a deliberation about the common good. It is this grave gap between the rich and the poor that destroys the common life, destroys any possibility of sharing a sufficiently common life, so that we can deliberate as a political community about the common good. Unless this grave gap is significantly narrowed, it is this that will corrupt the virtue of the poor and the rich that protect themselves against the possibility of a terrible fate.

Argument:  Is Morality the Extension of the Social Instinct?

The
view that people in the state of nature are nasty is the veneer theory. The author found the veneer theory flawed since humans are social and morality is essential for survival. The author's research concluded that our ancestors possessed instincts of empathy and reciprocity, and those traits are an extension of the social instinct. Humans lie but our ancestors do not lie or pretend, and observing their nature the research found evidence that these instincts are wired in the human brain and are independent of traits passed by genes or learned from the environment. Further, these instincts are essential for survival and since empathy and reciprocity are considered moral instincts  human-beings are moral because of the extension of the social instinct.
Of course, biologically we have inherited behaviors to fend off those who aggress against us, but empathy and reciprocity are equal in significance because of their instincts to assure the survival. Now, what has this to do with  Eminent Domain? The law of an Eminent Domain is a bad law because the taking violates empathy and reciprocity. A law that violates empathy and reciprocity is a bad law because the law is contrary to the extension of the social instinct and an overall insult to the organism.

Letter to the Sun 01/18/2006 by Paul Christopher Adams

Violation of the Social Contract.
As I sit and reflect upon the trials and tribulations that have Lead us to seek the protection of the appellate courts. You see, I have been painted by The Sun as a person who wants to stand in the way of the future of San Bernardino, I have sought the privilege of serving my neighborhood on the city council, and I have stood with my friends and neighbors against the injustices.

But what are the injustices that we speak of? Well, I was born in the United States and as a citizen of the US, I entered into a contract with the government that would consent to be governed under the laws of the constitution and the bill of rights. In the constitution it says the government will have the right to take property "for public use" providing fair market value is paid. I do not disagree that the government has the right to take nor do I take exception to the just compensation. I do disagree with the Lake project when it comes to for public use for two reasons.

One, the idea that government should make the lightest footprint upon the people governed as possible argues greatly on the side of those of us that have sought a compromise of the smaller lake.
Two, the sad fact that the city is not getting any of the projected 120 million dollars a year that muni is going to make on the sale of water. As a proud citizen of San Bernardino I hate to see our resources being given away when we need all the help we can get. If asked to give up our property we would like to see our city get something out of it. So Mr. Milligan (president of muni) if you are so interested in the taking of our land give us something back. By pledging to the city a percentage of the profit to lower the price of water paid by the citizens of San Bernardino, and help make this project a success by providing funds for more police and emergency services. In short give to the public good or is all your wishes are to take. This is where the social contract has been violated by our government in this case. We get nothing except some magic beans that might grow into something some day, but we lose a precious commodity our land and citizens.

We need to remember that we are all a part of this city. We must stop the killings or nobody will ever want to come to our city let alone stay. We must have more after school activities. Our parks need to be a place where parents and kids feel safe to go.  Not a place for drug dealers and sexual deviants to lurk.

No wonder why it is so easy for muni to want to plunder our resources. We have lost our sense of hope. We see no future in our own people. We see the profit in displacing people. We want to give our land away because or politicians do not know what to do with it.

I hope that we can stop the violence. I hope that the new mayor is able to see that the citizens and our land as a resource to be used to improve our city not to be given away. I hope my neighborhood is here in the future. I hope our City can be more prosperous.


I hope.


Paul Christopher Adams

A warm note from Attorney Louis E. Goebel

A SHAMEFUL EXAMPLE OF ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE."This project is a shameful example of environmental injustice as its worst. The government agencies openly demonstrate their lack of respect for the honest hardworking people who have lived long and worked in this neighborhood. They have toiled long and hard to improve their community. Many of the family homes and small businesses in the area are well maintained and show pride of ownership. It is grossly unfair for the City to threaten to take these citizens' private property for their government cohort's great profit in SELLING WATER TO OUTSIDERS. Instead, the City should respect hard work, ethnic diversity, and entrepreneurial spirit of these citizens who are striving to make San Bernardino's a better place. The City ignores the fact that much of the "BLIGHT" it complains about is the result of the threat of Eminent Domain which has been hanging over these people's heads for many years. Contrary to state law and the City's own General Plan and related housing ordinance rule and guidelines, this City and their government cohort adopt an EIR (Environmental Impact Report) and blatantly expose governmental agencies’ SELF-CENTERED GREED and LACK OF COMPASSION for fewer fortunate citizens by performing like an ostrich, burying its head in the sand and ignoring 437 affordable homes, 47 businesses, and six churches with a mere 72 unaffordable homes possibly being offered later as so called replacements." Louis E. Goebel, Attorney.

(Affordable means a home the average San Bernardino citizens could afford and not limited to subsidized housing no federal, state, local government, or charity.)

Additional Comments by Louis E. Goebel The City openly states in the Final Environmental Impact Report that the proposed project is not consistent with the City’s General Plan. The 2000/2005 Consolidated Plan, required by State law)published its program priorities as follows:

High Priority one: Preserve and Rehabilitate Existing Single Family Dwellings.

High Priority two: Expand Home ownership Opportunities and Assist Home buyers with the Purchase of Affordable Housing.(Existing and New Construction)

High Priority three: Provide Rental Assistance and Preserve Existing Affordable Rental Housing.

If this is the case, what does the General Plan Amendment do but allow jeopardy, if not destruction, of not less than 437 affordable single family housing units, in direct derogation to the overriding priorities contained in the Housing Element of the General Plan and the Consolidated Plan, which are mandated by State Law?

The Respondents claim that the case is not ripe. With all due respect to the authority cited by Respondents as to ripeness, why go through the ritual of the "project EIR" if there is no project?

There is simply no mitigation proposed except the assertion that the normal relocation processes for condemnation will apply. This does not answer the ultimate question of the irretrievable loss of 437 units of existing affordable housing to the City of San Bernardino. The absence of a mitigation the General Plan Amendment should not have been approved and Mandate relief is available to reserve that approval.

The respondents obviously rely entirely on the relocation provisions of Government Code section 7260, with the idea that as to any individual resident or property owner, if and when the Respondents decide to do so, if affect, the parties can then negotiate. This is no way mitigates the overall impact on housing in the City of San Bernardino, but rather only partially mitigates the impact as to some of the residents of the 437 affordable housing units Respondents plan to destroy.


Susan Lien Longville


The author examined the Administrative Record of almost 10,014 pages and not some written memos from the Council except from Councilwoman Longville.

According of the Administrative Record, page 8527, the Mayor and Common Council of the City have independently reviewed, analyzed, and exercised judgement in making their respective determinations, in accordance with Public Resources Code Section 21082.1 (c)(3). If this is the case, the record must provide evidence of such effort. On the contrary, the only memo's in the record is from Longville. The Council members did not analyze and exercised judgment because from the evidence the members never participated in reviewing, analyzing, and exercising judgment in depth! A project of this magnitude surely requires intense examination and multiple memos’ because of the significant impact.

Certainly this is evident that the council members had this project voted as a "done deal."

The numerous memos from Susan Longville are evident that her passion was the "project". The author is questioning her drive, motive, and direction of her passion. Is it possible that her drive, motive, and direction of her passion point to the promotion of the project or to protect her constituents?

Longville was involved with the project for many years and is knowledgeable pertaining to the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act. Longville's knowledge pertaining to CEQA is her employment as an Interim Director at the Water Resource Institute. The Water Resource Institute at Cal.State University, San Bernardino offers Education in the Field of Water. According to the staff at the Water Resource Institute an interim director is knowledgeable pertaining to CEQA and specializes in the "field of water."

Councilwoman Longville point out in her numerous memos the needed requirements in order to pass CEQA.

In short, Longville's interest and attention point out requirements throughout the project in order to pass the California Environmental Quality Act. Longville was silent to her constituents in her ward until April 25, 2005, the evening of the vote, to certify the Draft Environmental Impact Report. Since Longville's expertise is in water why did she not inform us about EPA and status on the Newmark Operable Unit? Why did she not inform the public of the monitoring wells and the extraction wells that are located 11th st - East of the North 215? Since the test results are done by the City of San Bernardino why did she not monitor the test results of the contaminant TCE and PCE and report to the public about the latest results? The outcome of the Council's vote is a tragedy for two thousand one hundred and eighty-five people, four hundred and thirty seven-affordable housing units, forty-seven businesses, and six churches. The council woman is a specialist in the field of water, the California environmental quality act, and from the evidence she has access to information but withheld valuable information from the citizens in the project area and other professionals who could have helped in saving our village. The reader is to find out the reality of her drive, motive, and direction regarding her efforts promoting the project and  her contribution to the Environmental Injustice

Think on these things


Now unless the mind has freedom, it cannot find out what is true, and to have freedom is to be free from influence.


The whole structure of society is based on a process of recognition and respectability. An earnest man cannot seek the reformation of society, which is the improvement of himself. In reforming society, in identifying himself with something good, he may think he  is sacrificing himself, but it is still self improvement. Whereas, for the man who is seeking that which is "Truth" there is no becoming, there is no practice, no thought of "I will be." It is only such a mind that can find reality; and in seeking that which is "Truth," such a mind creates a new culture. That is what is necessary to bring about a totally different kind of culture, not to reform the present society. Surely, such a culture cannot arise unless the earnest man pursues completely, with total energy, with love, that which is real.


The nature of Justice

  
The nature of Justice is the contribution of each person serving his and her true nature in the environment.  The City continously point out that the project is for new people and business. Justice does not discriminate and isolate the poor from the rich. Justice is served because each citizen works in the environment serving his or her true nature; therefore, it is an Environmental  Injustice for  this project to go forward.To go forward with this project is to violate Justice for all.

Profile of Injustice

All alternatives for the Reservoir was denied except for the most severe environmental impact. The aim is to eliminate an entire neighborhood. The taking of properties from groups who are socially economically,  and politically disadvantaged are effortless.Those areas are great for exploitation and land grab. 
                                  

                                                              

There is no  justification or rationalization for  the North Lake project. The Municipal Valley Water District will use attractive brochures, propoganda, and the media to romance and seduce. People before profit is my urgency and plea for environmental justice.

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Suzette Kelo and Deanna Adams
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More about Ms. Kelo click www.eminentdomainabuse.com About the author click Purpose.

(Above Picture of Suzette Kelo and Deanna Adams)

Two women and the American Dream.

Connecticut to California. Coasts to Coast thousands of taxpayers are forced to sell their homes and family businesses. The American Dream is up for grabs and many people are sent further into poverty.

Suzette Kelo vs. City of New London, Connecticut (right)Supreme Court voted 5/4 on 6/23/05. Suzette as thousands of other victims are forced to surrender their American dream for others to profit.

Deanna Adams vs. City of San Bernardino, California and the Municipal Valley Water Company. (Left) Deanna is forced to sell her home, ministry, and church. Deanna is a victim of a triple abuse because she owns, resides, and her ministry is at Victory Chapel.  Picture  of Victory Chapel is shown below.

Homeowners vs. City of San Bernardino, California and the Municipal Valley Water District. The homeowners are victims of a forced sale known as Eminent Domain.

No one is safe because Eminent Domain abuse is on a rampage. Coast to coast the government are pirating our American dream.

Eminent Domain is now recognized as a National Plague.

Cases are reviewed by Hon. John P. Wade, Department 8, Superior Court of the State of California in and for the County of San Bernardino on January 11, 2006 at 8:30 a.m.

Cases heard and decision by Judge John Wade:  People  out and Profit  in. The  outcome of this case is the human condition at large. The  following are insights applied to the decision.

Chapel & Residence.
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Listed on the Ca. Register 08/05/05.

Mother Elizabeth and Daughter Deanna
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Paul and I had the privilege to care for Elizabeth during her golden years.

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