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Jennifer's avatar

I'm floored! This article is like getting diagnosed with Stage 2 Cancer and it's spreading. This is NOT a Landback Strategy

it's CANCER IN CLALLAM COUNTY and our primary care providers are feeding it

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Jennifer's avatar

Read many articles this morning on LAND BACK. This was just one, but all were tilted in the same direction and making claims that are not true.

https://www.firstnations.org/stories/land-back-how-two-tribes-are-re-acquiring-and-leveraging-community-forests/

Land Back: How Two Tribes are Re-Acquiring and Leveraging Community Forests

……..“There is an ongoing movement to get land back into the hands of Native communities. This movement can not only right the historical injustices that led to their land dispossession in the first place, but also further acknowledge that TRIBES HAVE THE KNOWLEDGE AND VALUE SYSTEMS TO STEWARD THEIR LANDS EXCEPTIONALLY WELL”…….

WHAT ?????????? So Natives are born with instinctual knowledge to steward lands? And do it EXCEPTIONALLY well? This is insulting and the most stupid comment I’ve ever heard

It’s also being pushed that under Indian leadership, that they can be “stewards” of climate change. WHAT ??????? When did that happen? Are they trying to acquire the rights to the weather too?

…...“The USDA Forest Service’s Community Forest and Open Space Conservation Program, known as the Community Forest Program or CFP, is a competitive grant that provides financial resources to Tribal entities, local governments, and qualified conservation non-profits to re-acquire land.”…..

……..“There are reasons the program is important to Tribes. One, the CFP is among the many strategies that help support Tribal land re-acquisition efforts, WHICH ARE PROVING TO BE IMPERATIVE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE” ………..

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ANDREA L HANA's avatar

Yes! Because casinos are VERY important to the environment!

(Laced with sarcasm)

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Jennifer's avatar

Andrea, there is a lot of green in the casinos : )

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ANDREA L HANA's avatar

lol

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Erik Nelson's avatar

"every dollar is a dollar of revenge"

get what you pay for

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Geoff Fox's avatar

I'd suggest Stage 3 and steamrolling towards 4. Even Fort Sequim will be geographically enclosed. Don't disregard the 5th columnists.

Take a look at the MAP Jeff has today, and then look up those groups with vested interests in the Dungeness watershed. And erosion? all along the coast e.g Monterra and Voice of America. Water steward - far from a dead issue?

The steamroller doesn't sleep. Hey County residents, did you notice the move of county land to Fort Sequim in these last few weeks? (Flaura's Acres - how quickly that land and grant money ( to replace their failing septic system) switched from the county to city pocket! Everybody wins! Flaura's Acres will have a sewer line, water guarantees, the city annexes and increases its tax base, county cedes a liability. No difference either way to the Tribe? as this land is in back of the Shipley Center so no erosion into the straits and its not riverfront, a close by stream?

And let see the Congresswoman will be in Sequim for a closed door meeting later this month.

And let's see the School District has moved forward with the awarding of building contracts.

And a bit later in this thread a reference to today's PDN article. Steamrollers keep appearing on different scenes.

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Robert James's avatar

Yep!😱

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John Worthington's avatar

Sargent York picked the whole column off this time.

So we know what they have done to us and where they are doing it from. We also know who.

Jeff is exposing lies and winning the battle of words.

But, if you expose lies and win the battle of words you get killed from college rooftops. I joke about the Pelt stuff.. That's our country now. Where are you Neil Young, where are you Springsteen. Where are the poet Laureates to craft the clever theme to that one. Know I expect God or the magnificent being with an orb a hellfire cant shoot down...you better do something...Liars and losers winning..Doesn't sound right.

Keep going Jeff. Please keep going. If that's what happens to me on the hill that matters to me so be it.

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Robert James's avatar

Live a life that's worth the price! Never too late...until it's too late!😎

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Robert's avatar

Jeff writes, "In plain English: our county commissioner has declared that expanding a sovereign nation’s land base is part of his job." Are you kidding me? A County Commissioner's job should be the exact opposite, vigorously defending the county land/tax base against permanent loss. The tribal land grab reminds of the "reconquista" rhetoric I heard growing up in SoCal, where the (illegal, mostly) Mexican population prophesied taking back California by simply overwhelming it with sheer numbers. Here it's "reconquista" by heavily influencing elected decision makers.

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Jennifer's avatar

Robert, I remember being told " we will outbreed you" I said a better way would be to "out educate us"

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Kristin's avatar

Excellent comment Jennifer

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AFB's avatar

"We Shall Over-run" in place of "We Shall Overcome" was the chant back then. La Raza, Delores Huerta, and Cesar Chavez.

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Gayle's avatar

Ozias is the Tribal liaison as part of his role as commissioner. He takes that title way too seriously. Vote the bum out!

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John Bowen's avatar

Politics to the highest bidder .It's a very corrupt system state ,local politics has become .241 million in lobby ,donations a year where the politicians have become bought .They should have patches on their clothes like race car drivers have .Amazon,Microsoft ,Gates Foundation ,Tribes ,Canada Timber ,So how can We change things by being divided into 2 parties ,or independent where most voters don't even know who the person running for a office is and what's the point it's always the same nothing changes ? So voter apathy has crept in something like only 12 % vote .We if we want real change We have to start a new movement something all people can get behind that want change . Call it the no lobby money movement ,or No 1,% tax.something people can unite on instead of being divided on issues purposely created by the Elites to stay in control .Not a anger movement that feeds negative energy that riles people up

There is too much of that out there as we all saw with guy getting shot last night.? A movement where people are the middle way which is where most people are .with politics .With what works and what doesn't work .Having commissioners owned by lobby money doesn't work for " Everybody " only a select few .Promoting drug pacification because of the Elites lobby money destroys cities as Port Angeles has become Poor Angeles.Lets start a grass roots movement with Thoughtful People to bring change..Imagine if 50 people showed up to Commissioners meeting with T shirts on that said No New Taxes that might get their attention .

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Denise Lapio's avatar

We saw Charlie Kirk, 31 year old husband, father, and respected humanitarian assassinated. That is evil. The assassin is evil. Evil lives in different forms and can invade any segment of society. Last Friday, I saw 8647 on a sign placed on a corner of Sequim Square by the Indivisible group, who were protesting whatever. If these protesters are your family, friends, neighbors, fellow congregants, or coworkers - beware. Their intent is harm to anyone who disagrees with them. Today is 9/11, and we mourn the tragedies of evil acts done to our country all in the name of righteousness by a foreign country. Pray for our country and all those who have lost loved ones. We are a strong nation built with grit and determination. That is our foundation. NEVER let anyone take that away from you. GOD BLESS CHARLIE KIRK AND OUR BELOVED COUNTRY, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!.

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Eric Fehrmann's avatar

Keep spreading the news. Can you do Sinatra? CC Watchdog.

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MK's avatar

Emily Randall is very busy repaying her campaign constributors.

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1GjZEunNLW/

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Robert's avatar

Ms Randall is a committed leftist. The is should surprise no one.

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Jennifer's avatar

MK, very interesting. She’s asking for more money so a Tribe can move to higher ground(same old same old) It’s never enough. When the Tribes ask for more money it’s always because Natives get sicker, have less access, less education, less food, less housing, more disease, more poverty, more addictions than anyone else in the US. How does that work when no matter how much is thrown at that hungry beast it’s never satiated?

…..Tribal Environmental Resiliency Resources Act (TERRA Act)…. “Over the past decade, the Shoalwater Bay Tribe, a Pacific Coast Tribe on Willapa Bay in Northwest

Washington, has battled increased erosion, flooding, and sea level rise, as well as heightened tsunami risk. With a reservation barely 15 feet above sea level, the Tribe launched a community-driven relocation project to seek higher ground”…..

So, as I read it, we are to pay to move them to higher ground while nonnatives don’t have the same option, but are hurting worse.

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Susan C Bonallo's avatar

Well it didn’t take long to see that we, the average homeowner or recreational property owner in Clallam County are screwed! Somehow I don’t see this going away. I literally got sick when I saw our property on that map.

And the reclaiming of land has been hypnotizing everyone in the Tribe. How do you reclaim something that wasn’t yours? Let’s ask the 3 Stooges!

Wait, do they work for the tribe or the tax payers, I get it mixed up!

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Eve So's avatar

Same. :(

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Robert James's avatar

Not enough profit left out of $86,000,000 gross to pay for relocation after buying up all the property they have gotten ahold of...we definitely should keep subsidizing and granting them...after all they ARE the BEST Stewards, aren't they? 😱

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MK's avatar

The reality isn't important, saying the oath is because nonthinkers fall for it.

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Robert James's avatar

Stand up en masse and chant it! The gallery doesn't need to remain obedient and passive...stand up and BE SOMEBODY!😊

We don't have to 'behave' a certain way....'they' are completely ignoring 'the rules' of due public process...DISOBEY AND MAKE OURSELVES KNOWN!🥸

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Susan C Bonallo's avatar

I guess the tribes haven’t read Brian Atwater’s books and studies regarding tsunamis. They are going to need bigger canoes and much higher ground. But moving further inland is a nice try. Hope it’s not too close to rivers.

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Philip Bates's avatar

Wow, @Jeff Tozzer, Excellent work, again!

Like another reader commented - what do we do to stop the unethical, improper and inappropriate actions unfolding?

The 3 Kings of Clallam (Ozias, Johnson and French) are paying off the Tribe with freebies, land, and Social/Political backing.

The target outcome is unacceptable to the common Taxpayer, and is nothing short of Reparations!

I say - NO KINGS IN CLALLAM!

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4 reasonable development's avatar

We need to know what can be done? Can we the people form non profits to protect county property from continued foreign take over? Fighting the “wait and hope we get elected people who care about non-tribal land use” is like watching paint dry. The Charter Review Committee is not interested in the public’s concern to shackle County Commissioners conflict of interest issues, so what can be done that will begin to stop the bleeding of land grab? How do we fight fire with fire, cause right now all we’ve got is information with no teeth. Showing up to talk for 3 minutes every week and writing to CC is like pissing in a strong wind as my husband would say.

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Jennifer's avatar

4RD I actually feel the fight has matured and grown teeth. There is definitely a growl of discontent amongst the Watchdogs, but I hear it outside of this forum too. Teeth are being bared from people I never thought would even know what is going on.

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Geoff Fox's avatar

Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters? The Cavalry? the Buffalo Soldiers? Tozzer"s BullDozers?

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Jennifer's avatar

Geoff, whatever it takes! Can't go down without a fight : )

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Robert James's avatar

Tooth and claw!😊

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Eric Fehrmann's avatar

Wind direction is shifting. Legs are still getting wet, but...

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Geoff Fox's avatar

That Little Dutch boy sees a lot of holes in the dike. And the water just keeps flowing. Need those guys that cloned Dolly the sheep to come over here and clone Jeff!?.

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Eric Fehrmann's avatar

Would that be us?

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Geoff Fox's avatar

I remember Johnny Cash singing "How highs the water mama? It's ... feet high and risin."

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Robert James's avatar

Conservative non-profits have no voice in this government...nor do we...what is to be done?🫣

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Rita Lilita's avatar

It's the fault of apathetic, unengaged Clallam County voters, not the fault of the tribal leadership with a vision and plan. Our elected leaders are afflicted with white guilt and, lacking necessary leadership skills, find it easier to be influenced and led by a special interest group.

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Robert James's avatar

The tribe IS usurping our gov't...using useful idiots...their vision and plan isn't faulty...their modus operandi IS!🥸

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jim Nardo's avatar

This is and always has been a spiritual war; we have no idea for the most part what the future

holds but I know Who holds the future. John 10:10

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Kate's avatar

Amen, Jim.

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Robert James's avatar

🙏🏼🌎😎 War is hard to avoid as fallen ones!😵‍💫

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Don Beeman's avatar

Someone please call The

Whitehouse.

A portion of the Point No Point Treaty -

ARTICLE 7.

“The President may hereafter, when in his opinion the interests of the Territory shall require, and the welfare of said Indians be promoted, remove them from said reservation to such other suitable place or places within said Territory as he may deem fit, on remunerating them for their improvements and the expenses of their removal; or may consolidate them with other friendly tribes or bands. And . . . “

Article 9. Promise to be friendly to and pledge to commit no depredations on property of citizens of the Territory.

Using fear to acquire bluff and other properties at ‘fire sale’ rates is not exercising friendship. It’s depredation. The same applies to other actions involving dams, culverts, hatcheries, and the fish.

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Leo Leblanc's avatar

Not to sidetrack the conversation, but a little birdie told me there is going to be a mandatory employee meeting at OMC today concerning the university of Washington takeover. Just food for thought.

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Robert James's avatar

Sleeper cells everywhere!🤡

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ANDREA L HANA's avatar

Regarding: "2023 “Standing Out in the Field” ceremony, NOLT opened with a land acknowledgment emphasizing the harms of colonization."

There is a "colonization" going on now, by the Tribe. What is that casino resort? Is that "restoration"? The golf course; all of the homes that they have purchased and are renovating; the business properties that they have purchased. Are those part of the "restoration"?

This is a load of malarkey. I think that I might have to get out soon, before it's too late. It's past the point of no return, if the local government is allowing, facilitating, this land grab.

We're out of a hospital, we're being overtaxed, and they're trying to "steal" (or get really cheap) our land and homes.

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Robert James's avatar

$4.50 for gas today...highest ever!😱

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Steve O.'s avatar

I wonder if a large boycott would be effective. I will never visit either Stymies or the casino again.

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Robert James's avatar

Girlcotts are better! I have never spent a dime at Casino or golf-course...never will!😵‍💫

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Kristin's avatar

It truly amazes me that JT aka Ron Allen can not see that he is doing more harm than good for the tribe. May be making money for them but sure turning a lot of folks angry at them and maybe even some of his own since they get no say in what he does.

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Robert James's avatar

It just doesn't matter...power mongers are sociopathic whatever ethnicity or tribe...the power is the only thing that matters. The only thing they respect is power... they LOVE power struggles!😎

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Kristin's avatar

Okay will quit commenting then

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Diana Henderson's avatar

Monday, Sept 15th at 9am

Board of Clallam County Commissioners (BOCC) WORK Session

Public comments to Clerk of the Board loni.gores@clallamcountywa.gov

https://clallamcowa.portal.civicclerk.com/event/3295/files

Zoom Meeting ID: 836 9266 4344 passcode: 12345 https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83692664344

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Tuesday, Sept 16th at 10am

Board of Clallam County Commissioners (BOCC) REGULAR Meeting

Public comments to Clerk of the Board loni.gores@clallamcountywa.gov

https://clallamcowa.portal.civicclerk.com/event/3185/files

Zoom Meeting ID: 836 9266 4344 passcode: 12345 https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83692664344

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Robert James's avatar

🙏🏼🌎

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Randy Walterson's avatar

Don’t react ..Act .. not like them their magic is fading ! We must use our own magic of the Christ Consciousness ! demand it to be in their hearts ! Than they will have to deal with their own truths … like the rest of us .

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Robert James's avatar

Bring it!😇Christ is with us but we have to ask for the help and stand in the Truth!🙏🏼🌎

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John Bowen's avatar

Very true .

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Susie Blake's avatar

Think you might leave your home or the farm to your heir(s)? Read UNDRIP article 26 and pay attention to what is happening in BC and research the Landback movement in west coast states and Canada

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Jennifer's avatar

Susie, thank you

Article 26 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples UNDRIP

1. Indigenous peoples have the right to the lands, territories and resources which they have traditionally owned, occupied or otherwise used or acquired.

2. Indigenous peoples have the right to own, use, develop and control the lands, territories and resources that they possess by reason of traditional ownership or other traditional occupation or use, as well as those which they have otherwise acquired.

3. States shall give legal recognition and protection to these lands, territories and resources. Such recognition shall be conducted with due respect to the customs, traditions and land tenure systems of the indigenous peoples concerned.

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Robert James's avatar

Tribes as proxies for NWO takeover...VERY capitalistic...profit oriented...greedy and corrupt! Same old, same old! Oligarchs using deep-state tactics, U.N., W.H.O., etc., disguised as 'native land stewards'.😎

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