Jack,

Yes, you are right on; people are
waking up. Formerly mind-their-own-business citizens are becoming
radicalized by agencies that, to paraphrase an old quote, commit their idiotic
abuses faster than we can catalogue them.

A local government watchdog includes
in his posts this passage from the Open Public Meetings Act that
succinctly characterizes not just the need for transparency but the proper
relationship between citizen and government:

The people of
this state do not yield their sovereignty to the agencies that serve them. The
people, in delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right to
decide what is good for the people to know and what is not good for them to
know. The people insist on remaining informed so that they may maintain
control over the instruments that they have created.

For four years citizens have been
given a seat in the back of the room, waiting for their three minutes to speak,
while Ecology/DCD holds court. The flow of information is so tightly
controlled that they dilute our real questions in their own
hand, resulting in a FAQ format that is the informational equivalent of
Home Run Derby. Citizen advise and consent has only really only
really "counted" - as Michelle reminded Ken a few weeks ago - during
formal public comment period, which by my calculations has only amounted
to 8% of the time. Now we are at the most critical
juncture of new rules we will be living with 100%, 24/7 and we are again
outside the ropes.

A pro-Ecology, pro-fundamentalist
SMP supporter recently said "everyone in Washington is a shoreline
property owner." This is the attitude of local planning bureaucracies,
state agencies, and self-interested NGOs. Wrong. That is not what the
SMA says. Property owners are the ones with skin in the game, and our comments
need to count now  than ever. We are much more than
the 8% solution.

Jim

----- Original Message -----

From: John
(Jack) R. Venrick

To:

Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 1:15 PM

Subject: Re: State review continues

To: Scott and All Olympic Jefferson County Rural Property Owners:

I am posting all your comments
on this latest State and County predetermined agenda on my site after scrubbing
out your email.  If anyone has a problem with this, I will unlink it until
you wish otherwise.  My goal here is to show
real life examples of how the government Matrix works, so
people can better recognize it for what the hidden agenda is behind
the scenes.

About half way down on the page
under "2010 Postings".

·
http://www.freedomforallseasons.org/EmbattledPropertyOwnerStoriesNew.asp

Also please note the attached PDF
"How to Handle Predetermined Consensus Meetings" and "What is
the Hegelian Dialectic"?  These
are key tactics constantly being used by the all levels of our fascists
governments, i.e. city, county, state, fed, UN and up the ladder.  I could
a write book on government and nongovernment agendas.  I don't have to
tell you, this is being used big time by the State and its
little and big green counties and cities especially around Puget Sound and
anywhere there are universities and colleges and grant money from the
government flowing in.  Green activists are funded by our own property and
labor to bring us down to there feudal and
barbaric mind sets.

American Stewards..of
the range have perfected stopping the global controlled "government"
with a required coordination technique you can read about on their site https://americanstewards.us/index.php?option=com_flexicontent&view=items&cid=12&id=444&Itemid=31

All these tools plus the pro
property rights legal foundations such as Pacific Legal Foundation, Mountain
States Legal Foundation, Institute of Justice, Groen
Stephens, et al are the basic and few weapons of choice we have to fight back
with at this time.  But this will grow as people like you expose the green
agenda.

I witnessed Senator Roach at a local
Enumclaw meeting taking control of a predetermined agenda State DOT
meeting where they spent years setting up Roundabouts for the unsuspecting
around the state and at Enumclaw and most especially a major SR 169 intersection
a few minutes from me.  They went to Europe and got all the data and came
back, got the budget and started implementing these dam roundabouts all over
the state, some 100.  They held MOCK town hall meetings pretending to
coordinate with us, what a joke.  We got Senator Roach in, and she nailed em big time but had to go the governor to do it, if you can
believe it.  The State Matrix is so entangled,
Senator Roach had to go to the governor to command the DOT to back off.
Ultimately they transferred the $4.5 million budget to only modifying the
intersection by straightening and add turn lanes.  The DOT was also
jerked up for playing games with the accident states on the road.  One
very bright fellow in the local meeting caught on that.

I have seen this with the Rails to
Trails takings, the "uncritical Area Ordinances", concrete
roundabouts for fish at a million bucks a piece  and
charged to the local unsuspecting rural property owners, of course.  Ron Ewart flushed this out.  They do this any opportunity
they get.  Our government flourishes on lies because they well know the
truth would kill em.

I like to think, you all are
making history here.  I was raised in a government family and have family
and friends in government.  But I will spend the rest of my life exposing
this orchestrated fascism.  It is a deadly cancer growing rapidly around
the world.   They have a Hegelian Dialectic predetermined agenda that
works nearly every time and no one can see it and few understand it.

The government types have become
predatory.  My Father was a U.S Forest Ranger and servant to the Montana
ranchers, loggers and miners and well knew his place and respected them
greatly because both Dad and Mom were raised on homesteads in
Montana.  Now we have "government" types who have no connection
to the land and no credentials (planners) telling us what to do and the
few with credentials in the government are so brain washed by the state run
academia, they don't know where they live, i.e. in a fascist democracy or
a Constitutional Republic.

As soon as I receive permission to
post some additional material on events in Stevens County Washington, I will
send out.  You are going to be happy to see this and hopefully all of us
will have another potential super catapult to use.  Rural propery owners are starting to wake up to the tactics
being used on them.  Our bows and arrows are relatively minimal
against the state big budgets and political weapons used.  The tools
available to us are far and few in-between.  I think you will be impressed
by this new potential tool.  We are fighting for our lives with an enemy
that has been so thoroughly indoctrinated, they cannot conceive there is a
civil war brewing AND another American Revolution.  At this point in time,
it seems the only viable option and I do not say that lightly.  I have
people on my little country road that just do not get it.

We are more than justified and long over due to rise up and throw back this fascist
belief system which thinks it can steal our property, traditions and then have
the gull to put it up for debate so people outside our local areas can
vote on how they think we should manage our local private and public
property.  Of course it would never be a open
debate because the State and their county and city municipal corporations will hide
and distort the facts and the big picture.

Jack Venrick

www.freedomforallseasons.org

Enumclaw, Washington

----- Original Message -----

From: Scott S.
Shock

To: Jim Hagen
; ken shock ; E S

Cc: DENNIS
SCHULTZ ; NORM MCCLOUD
; [email-masked] ; [email-masked] ; [email-masked] ; JIM BOYER GOP ; DENNIS SCHULTZ ; [email-masked] ; Mike Belinski
; JIM FRITZ ; ASM
Inc ; Bud
Schindler ; [email-masked]
; CRAIG DURGAN ; [email-masked] ; [email-masked] ; SOKOL BOB ; SICKEL GEORGE ; RICHARD HILD ; [email-masked] ; [email-masked] ; [email-masked]

Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 11:20 AM

Subject: RE: State review continues

It is normal for an
oversight agency to prepare a “Responsiveness Summary”, wherein the
agency will review how well public comments have been addressed (i.e., by
Jefferson County’s response to comments).  Comments, responses, and
Ecology’s evaluation of whether the response is sufficient should all be
part of the “Responsiveness Summary”.  The public comments may
not be shared in raw form.  Instead, they will likely be compiled into a
tabular format of comments, responses, and Ecology’s interpretation of
response sufficiency.  Thus it is important to demand that the public
comments be posted and shared publicly in their raw form also.  That
way we can verify that all comment issues are in fact included and responded to
in the Responsiveness Summary, and ensure nothing has been dropped by the
wayside.

Scott

From: Jim Hagen [mailto:[email-masked]]

Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 8:12 AM

To: ken shock; E S

Cc: DENNIS SCHULTZ; NORM MCCLOUD; [email-masked];
[email-masked]; [email-masked];
Scott S. Shock; JIM BOYER GOP; DENNIS SCHULTZ; [email-masked]; Mike Belinski; JIM FRITZ; ASM Inc; Bud Schindler; [email-masked];
CRAIG DURGAN; [email-masked]; [email-masked]; SOKOL
BOB; SICKEL GEORGE; RICHARD HILD; [email-masked]; [email-masked];
[email-masked]

Subject: Re: State review continues

Ecology sent all the public comments
to Jefferson on May 28 for County "feedback." At that time
Ecology said they would create a summary of comments that would be posted on
their web-site for public viewing. (They have said posting individual comments
would "take up an inordinate amount of server space."). The Ecology
web-site has described this as a "Responsiveness Summary."
But it is over two months after the April 20 public hearing and still
there is nothing for the interested citizens of Jefferson to review. But the
County has them. Can't the citizens of Jefferson be extended the same courtesy
as the agencies that supposedly serve them? This is not exactly Responsive. The
citizens of Jefferson are once again on the outside looking in.

The sheer volume of comments and
subsequent delay in making them available to the public ought to be the
canary-in-the-coal-mine that the SMP process in Jefferson has failed to
represent and serve the people directly affected. It certainly couldn't
have been a surprise that there would have been this level of citizen comment.
Of the roughly 200 people who showed up at the public hearing at Ft. Worden,
nearly 90% expressed opposition to the proposed new shoreline rules. No
matter, to date citizen participation has continuously been marginalized
and even belittled by the County. With that kind of track record, people are
very curious to see how their "feedback" is being
translated by same County staff. Add to that Commissioner Austin's remark
that the 200 people at the hearing were the angry ones and didn't represent the
true sentiment of the County. This is the same John Austin who told a citizen
the 150 foot buffers were final before the Planning Commission had even
embarked on their review of the draft SMP. The philosopher William James called
this "contempt prior to investigation."

At this time it is more important
than ever that citizens be kept directly in the loop. Citizens deserve
immediate access to the same individual comments - not just a
summary - as are available to Ecology and the County.

Happy Summer,

Jim

----- Original Message -----

From: ken shock

To: E S

Cc: DENNIS
SCHULTZ ; NORM MCCLOUD
; [email-masked] ; [email-masked] ; [email-masked] ; [email-masked] ; JIM BOYER GOP ; Jim Hagen ; DENNIS SCHULTZ ; [email-masked] ; Mike Belinski
; JIM FRITZ ; ASM
Inc ; Bud
Schindler ; [email-masked]
; CRAIG DURGAN ; [email-masked] ; [email-masked] ; SOKOL BOB ; SICKEL GEORGE ; RICHARD HILD ; [email-masked] ; [email-masked] ; [email-masked]

Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 12:27 PM

Subject: Re: State review continues

This
should be done in the form of a legal demand letter from the attorneys of
either OSF, or CAPR - or both - and delivered to the each of the BOCC, personally  !

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 8:23 AM, E S
<[email-masked]>
wrote:

If
Michelle is making substantive comments as an employee facilitator of the
county/DOE then the  process is obviously flawed.
It also is blatantly obvious that Michelle's job is to skew the process into
whatever the county commissioners and DOE thinks it should be.

For a public employee this is highly unethical if not also illegal.

Since we still live in the USA and "We the People" takes precedent
and not -"we the bureaucrats" or "we the politicians" all  comments  must be made public ASAP!

RCW 90.58.090 among others that Jim
Hagen found obviously will have legal
ramification?

Edel

From:

Subject: Re: FW: State review
continues

Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 07:27:57 -0700

Ken,
you are right.  The
County must make Michelle's comments available and allow comment on them.
State agencies allow comments to be submitted, but do not make their replies
available until it is too late to respond back.  Kind of a parent-child
relationship, "I don't want to hear your excuses, we're doing it because
'I said so' "

----- Original Message -----

From:

Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 10:41 PM

Subject: Re: FW: State review continues

"1.       The
County is currently working to provide Ecology some feedback on the issues
raised by the 300+ comment letters received during the state-wide public
comment period. "

OK, why was the
comment period state wide ??? Oh, I know, everyone on
the planet has an interest in MY PROPERTY !

Why can our 'County'
(who else but - Michelle?) provide DOE with 'some feedback' after the comment
period ended
??

The County is US, WE
THE PEOPLE - not Michelle. We have spoken and she has no right to clarify or
'feedback' - ANYTHING.
(we should demand copies of everything she fed back)

This is especially
true because she is paid from a state DOE grant - a very incestuous situation !!   Why is a defacto
state employee representing the property owners of Jefferson County who pay the
property taxes and who are being hurt by this SMP ?? (essentially DOE
represents the county in DOE decision making)

As far as I am
concerned Michelle's actions reopen the comment process and roll back the
timeline, otherwise we are denied equal protection as guaranteed by the 14th
amendment! Our comments have not been protected from her SPIN
!

Ken

From: Michelle McConnell [mailto:[email-masked]]

Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 4:15 PM

To: Michelle McConnell

Subject: SMP: State review continues

Greetings & Happy Summer
Interested Parties!

STATE PROCESS

The State’s review of our Locally Approved SMP
(LA-SMP) continues with WA Department of
Ecology:

1.
The County is currently working to
provide Ecology some feedback on the issues raised by the 300+ comment letters
received during the state-wide public comment period.

2.
After our Response to Comments is
submitted to Ecology (within the next month or so), Ecology will prepare their
Findings and Conclusions along with their decision to A) approve; B) approve
with required changes; or C) deny the SMP.  If changes are required, some
dialogue may be required to find complete agreement between the State and the
County.

3.
After Ecology approval, the final
step is for the Board of County Commissioners to adopt the new SMP by ordinance
as new components of the Comprehensive Plan and Unified Development Code.

So while the process is
moving forward, we still have a few months to go before final adoption and the
new SMP takes effect.  Stay tuned… this email list will continue to
receive project updates.

NEWSPAPER CLARIFICATIONS

You may have seen the recent
articles in last week’s Leader newspaper – a few points of
clarification are needed:

·         Buffers & Setbacks – While
it may seem a finer point, there is a difference between the terms buffers and
setbacks as proposed by the LA-SMP.  The 150-foot distance proposed is a
standard shoreline buffer for stream/river and marine shorelines that
fall under SMP jurisdiction.  There are separate 5-foot side-yard and
10-foot building setbacks proposed as well.  Far from a
‘one-size-fits-all’ approach, the LA-SMP also proposes 6 options to
adjust the standard shoreline buffer when specific situations arise.

The current SMP has only requires
setbacks:  30 to 100-feet for residential and a minimum of 15-feet for
commercial and urban development.  The County’s Critical Areas
Ordinance has included a 150-foot buffer for fish & wildlife habitat
conservation areas since early-2008, and has successfully withstood legal
challenge.  The City of Port Townsend SMP requires buffers that range from
50 to 200-feet.  Other jurisdictions around Puget Sound also have 150-foot
buffers in place (e.g. Whatcom County).

·         SMP jurisdiction – Not all
shoreline areas in the county meet the statutory definition for
‘Shoreline of the State’.  The SMP will apply to all
shorelines that meet the criteria for SMP jurisdiction.  Lakes less than
20 acres in size, rivers/streams with less than 20 cubic feet per second mean
annual flow, and lands under federal or tribal ownership do not qualify.

Thanks for your continued interest,

Michelle

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Jefferson County
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