Community Voice

Granite Misstates Facts - August 2010

Richard Loomis' 7/23/10 letter to the Californian "Entitled To Opinions" overlooks and misstates facts:

1. Granite’s "environmental experts" Lilburn Corporation, of San Bernardino, were suddenly and unexpectedly brought in at the last minute by Granite. Why? "Go read" as Loomis would say: On Lilburn’s website at www.lilburncorp.com it shows background photos of huge ammonium nitrate blasting quarries, and lists dozens of satisfied mining companies as clients. Click on Lilburn’s Mission Statement: ... "getting to yes"... Lilburn knows how to ram quarries through bureaucracies for approval. That’s what they’re good at, and how they make the big bucks. Does it sound like they’re looking out for the 250,000 people of our still beautiful greater Temecula Valley? Do they know or care why over 100 Temecula doctors and over 400 Temecula businesses have signed petitions to stop the quarry? No. Lilburn works for the miners, not us.

2. Loomis hypes tours of quiet little sand pits such as Granite’s Indio sand quarry which isn’t analogous at all to the monster blasting quarry and smelly industrial asphalt and cement plant complex planned for Temecula. Even Granite doesn’t run those misleading "Come see for yourself" ads anymore. Loomis substitutes empty bombastic rhetoric such as "shame", "scream", "folks", "mockery", "scare", "spin", "speculate", "distorting" in place of actual, documented facts, which are readily available should he wish to learn the actual truth. The most relevant truth about him, which he actually discloses, is that he lives in faraway Hemet. He’s not one of us. Nick Biddle, Temecula

Undesirable Neighbors - February 2011

From 2006 to 2008 I lived across town from a gravel quarry in Moorpark. For those two years, I experienced ill health that I attribute directly to the quarry. Suddenly I was getting bronchitis three times a year, and each time it hit me so hard I had to stay in bed for a full month!

When we moved to Temecula in 2008, my health returned to normal and I was breathing easier every day. When I learned about the gravel quarry and then later discovered my health vastly improving minus a quarry in Temecula, I saw it’s not healthy to live near a quarry — not even on the opposite side of town.

We will be powerless to do anything after the fact if Granite Construction, Inc. is permitted by the county to open the quarry in our back yards. Every issue that has been argued—such as health and environmental effects, pollution, truck traffic, blasting, water use, home value depreciation — has a true and a false side. The quarry proponents have reasoned all of these issues in their favor and we citizens who oppose the quarry have argued the opposite.

The truth is, the facts are very easy to verify based on the real experience of other communities with quarries. Quarries make undesirable neighbors for many reasons. We want our peace, our quiet, our health and the health of our environment. We will only be able to keep the quarry from locating here if enough citizens who care stand up now to speak out.

Please visit www.libertyquarry.com and www.sos-hills.org

Inform yourself fully and then do what they ask — write to your Riverside Board of Supervisors now if you think those of us who live here, rather than the remote county government, should decide how we live! The final vote is coming soon. There are enough of us to save Temecula if we take action now. Jan Tucker, Temecula

Progressive Movement v. Marxism - July 2010

I’m a former Marxist revolutionary that was indoctrinated by extreme radicals in the late seventies in central California. For thirty years this has been my secret, but due to the nature of things in this Country today it cannot be hidden any longer. It is my adamant belief that there are hard core Progressives in our federal government that are systematically collapsing our economy with the intent of destroying Capitalism and life as we know it. This is not a conspiracy theory nor is it exaggerated in any way. I know this because I was trained in the same tactics and methodologies. Any Marxist trained “community organizer” can tell you the same thing, but not many of us will speak up. The term Marxist has been replaced with Progressive because true Marxists wanted a violent revolution to bring about abrupt change. Progressives require a long term strategy that will achieve the same ends with different means. To successfully redistribute wealth in our country and globally, the following strategies must be implemented.

Under the guise of “social justice” the government must create so many entitlements that they cannot possibly be financed. In the Progressive world this is commonly known as the “Cloward and Piven” method that was devised in the sixties at Columbia University. Once these entitlement programs are overloaded and collapse, they will blame it on greed and Capitalism. At this point the government will claim that they have the only solution and the private sector can no longer be allowed to engage in any type of free market system. They will pit the wealthy against the poor, the races against each other and States against States. As they claim to be champions of free speech and diversity, they will silence free speech opposition and use race as a wedge to keep people fighting amongst themselves. They are the definition of hypocrites. Just look at what happens when a conservative speaker tries to address the alumni at a liberal college.

“Ecological justice” is another scam for income redistribution. The whole carbon tax system is designed to collapse industrialized countries in order to benefit underdeveloped ones. The CCX, or Chicago Climate Exchange is financed in part by the Joyce Foundation that is in a sense a slush fund for leftist groups and people that desire to stay anonymous. The current president of our Country helped fund and create the CCX when he was on the board of the Joyce Foundation by routing 1.1 million dollars to it. Some of the principle shareholders are former Vice-President Al Gore and Goldman Sachs. Their own experts have openly admitted that it will do nothing for the environment but will make the right people extremely powerful and insanely wealthy. It is the mother of all deceptions.

There’s also the fact that everything controversial is being framed as a “civil rights” issue by Congress and the administration. In truth the issues of today have nothing to do with civil rights at all. Immigration is about the rule of law in our society and sovereignty. Health care, banking and housing are all issues being distorted into some kind of civil rights thing when they aren’t. It’s an emotional ploy to distract you from their true agenda, collapsing Capitalism and creating a global Socialist economy.

On the subject of church and State, the left proclaims to be the defenders of secularism. Recently, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi instructed churches to preach that immigration reform or amnesty is gospel. What?

Senator John Kerry is touting “faith based” support of his agenda. Why is it that they use religion to promote their Progressive agenda? Why isn’t the ACLU up in arms against this new found religion by the left? I can tell you why. It’s because it’s part of injecting emotional guilt trips onto the public for political gain. As a Marxist revolutionary, I personally infiltrated churches to promote “social justice” and other deceptive ideas in order to get “faith based support” for our agenda. It’s easy to corrupt people that are good at heart because they don’t understand the nature of deception and greed.

I’m not crazy, nor delusional. These things I know are true because I helped advance their agenda back in my brainwashed teens. I was an anti- government Anarchist hippie that jumped on the Communist bandwagon because it was cool at the time. It was something I’ve been ashamed of all my life and that’s why it was kept secret. Making things right is my life’s mission. As a Constitutional conservative and adamant Patriot, I have pledged to put all else on hold during these critical times. We must stand united to restore our Country to its founding principles and unveil the ugly truth about Progressives and their intent to circumvent the Constitution. Everything they have done must be reversed and it may take generations.

It’s time to get off the couch and get involved. There is no excuse for apathy or complacency. America is in dire distress and you must defend her in November and forever always. Thomas Cook, Former Murrieta resident

School Volunteers - June 2010

With all the coverage of the Gardner case one wonders why the press hasn’t figured out that the schools around here are deciding whether or not to run all volunteers who are alone with kids through the California Department of Education security process. Two board members favored having these safeguards in place to protect our children. Three did not. Seems to me that tracking volunteers who are alone with kids is important. It would send a message to pedofiles. We are watching the school board members to see who really cares about our children’s safety. Let’s see how the final vote goes. Sincerely, Robert Locke

Idiotic pro-quarry screed - May 2010

Don’t miss this classic “Friends of Liberty” pro Granite letter in the April 7 Californian, on pg. D3, authored by retired quarry truck driver Rick Kellogg, of Wildomar. He’s a constant pro Granite writer to the newspapers and politicians along with O.B. Johnson, builder-contractor, also a non-Temecula resident.

1. Kellogg, like a piece of granite, is not permeated by mere facts, such as that 110 Temecula doctors have publicly, on record, opposed and signed petitions to the Riverside Supervisors stating that the quarry and its daily ammonium nitrate blasting (for the next 75 years), diesels, asphalt toxic gases, and microscopic silica particles would be a catastrophe for the citizens of Temecula. Granite’s Karie Reuther mischaracterized all these doctors as “a silly chiropractor” who speaks at SOS meetings, along with “some professor” (Matt Rahn who runs SDSU’s world famous 4,500 acre Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve, adjoining the quarry site, since 1962.) Nor does he acknowledge that 475 local businesses are staunchly opposed to the quarry, and like the doctors, have duly recorded their opposition to the Riverside Supes.

2. Nothing against quarry truck drivers (I personally prefer Mexican gardeners if the truth be known--they don’t shatter windshields, have better manners, don’t stink up my air, and don’t crush cars with massive trucks), but we really aren’t trying to attract them here as our highest priority to continue Temecula’s astounding growth as one of California’s fastest growing high class successful towns. Abbott Labs, with its 2,500 highly paid professionals are what we want, or similar brainy companies. “We want to be silicon valley, not silica valley”.

3. The stupid truck driver sarcasm “whining”, “snow job”, “fabricated stories self-righteous saviors of mankind have inflicted on us”, et al, are fun though, aren’t they? Like lipstick on a pig maybe?

4. The most troubling fabrication of Kellogg’s letter is his allegation that quarry opponents engage in “senseless personal attacks” against Granite employees and supporters. Not true, but precisely what they do against Temecula citizens who oppose the obscene Granite invasion.

Nick Biddle, Temecula

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