SoHum Code Enforcement issues come to supes

Representatives from the Redway-based Civil Liberties Monitoring Project are set to address the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors Tuesday regarding the rural county code, code enforcement policies and ...

[farrellbroughton]

A single sentence mentioning fridays town meeting? What is the times-standards deal here? No mention of the peoples outcry for justice? Three hours of heated discussion between the people,our head sheriff,the d.a. and the head of code enforcement and you down play all of this to mention than ONE person might have been a parolee. What is your agenda? Why have you not expounded on the biggest story in rural humboldt? And when you briefly do, you mention a parolee, which by making that connection, you disregard all the law abiding peoples views on this issue and make it appear as if we are in uproar due to one parolees experience with code enforcement. Not true. Your paper has lauded the polices actions for busting a few tweakers in eureka but doesn't mention a town meeting full of folks wanting protection against unconstitutional police action.Good job

[anonymous]

People in southern Humboldt don't think they need to follow the same rules as the rest of us. Your cries ring hollow. Your dope growers are cheating society and the county in anyway they can backed up by attoeneys that can't get a real job.

[Moel Bettason]

Anybody ever try to get a building contractor to take a job hours out of town and several miles down a dirt road that's full of moon craters and rivines? I bet none of you townies have with your easy way of living and cops to watch over you. Guess what, most contractors won't take those kind of jobs.

[ruralvision]

wow, how many different ways is the T-S going to get this wrong:

(1) printing rodini's false informaion in their article on thursday (in which he falsely claimed it was all about one incident, involving a parolee - false on both counts), and not checking with the host of the event, c.l.m.p. about the issues that would be addressed at the meeting.

(2) failing to cover the meetings at all (and apparently not bothering to even listen to it from the audio archive at kmud or the video clips on youtube).

(3) repeating rodoni's false characterization of the issue, even after it was completely de-bunked at the meeting (oh, yeah, the T-S couldn't be bothered to attend, listen to the audio or even call c.l.m.p. to ask what was actually revealed at the meeting.

(4) characterizing it as a "sohum" issue. is trinidad in sohum? again, if the T-S "reporter," mr. faulkner had bothered to do even the most cursory research for the story before writing it, he would have realized that the issues go well beyond sohum (and have nothing to do with anyone on parole, which was a complete fable).

even the eureka reporter covered the story with some accuracy.

mr. faulkner, you and your "editor" should be ashamed.

it was bad enough to skip the meeting and fail to cover it over the weekend. it's even worse to misinform the readers for several stories in a row, as you did here.

[ruralvision]

if mr. faulkner is willing to take an hour or so to learn about this issue, a good source would be these three blog posts, and the many detailed comments attached thereto:

http://humboldtherald.wordpress.com/2008/04/0...

http://humboldtherald.wordpress.com/2008/03/2...

http://humboldtherald.wordpress.com/2008/04/0...

[JackAss]

I own property in the city and i own property outside the city. so i have to deal with county and city inspections. I do the work my self and hire out, I have to do the work up to code and get it inspected so its safe and the tax man gets his upgrade.I am under the same rules as anybody else in the city/county. the way I see this problem is that the county has been lax in their code enforcement. the now have someone who not only knows his job he is actualy doing it. so you whine all you want and try to put your liberal spinn on it [it is what it is]time to toe the line and live by the same laws that we townies have had to. yall have had it too easy so hide your grows and shut the F*ck up!!!

[JPZ]

Wow, take a look at that jackass soiling himself with his own argument!

[JackAss]

JPZ wrote:

Wow, take a look at that jackass soiling himself with his own argument!

thats it? cmon!

[JPZ]

Mr. Jackass,

Your last lump of donkey poo (...shut the f*ck up!!!) suggested that perhaps you aren't grown-up enough for real dialogue, and aren't interested anyway. Thus I went with the quick one-liner to just let you know I don't agree.

If you change your mind about a real dialogue, go ahead and read all the comments on those three humbold herald blog entries posted above. This will take about one hour if you actually read all the information. You could also listen to the three-hour meeting about this last Friday, which is posted on the audio archives section of kmud.org . Or, sohumvid has video segments of the testimony up on youtube. Then come back once you have done your homework about what is actually going on in these code enforcement actions, and you will see how ironic the last sentence of your first post really is.

Until you take some time to look at the facts of these violent code enforcement raids / warrantless "open field" searches, including of properties miles from the target property, you just don't know what you are talking about.

So do a little reading and/or listening, then come back and tell me again why this is all o.k.

[JackAss]

Ive listened to the dialogue on the porch in Honeydew and ive listened to the the authorities side and i also know the the generaly lawless nature of so hum ruralness. so just because you have vast space on your side does not exempt you from the same laws that we townies have to. I dont need to read the sohum blog dribble to develop an oppinion on this topic. you can label it any way you want,they are violating the law and they are pissed that they have to own their problem

[JPZ]

Your unwillingness to look at the many facts presented on the links above, or the recording of the code enforcement forum in garberville last friday, and your reliance on the "dialogue on the honeydew porch" and your already-existing bias about sohum residents all have helped to clarify that you have already made up your mind and don't want to be pestered with the facts.

Well, intentionally remaining ignorant of what county code enforcement is REALLY doing out in the rural areas is certainly an option you have.

But in case you have any intellectual integrity at all, I'll leave you with one question to ponder: Do you think that it's okay for armed code enforcement officers and a posse of 14 sheriffs to take part in a violent, armed "code raid" in which they pointed a gun at a woman with her baby on her hip and her child at her side, just to get her to "hurry up" and get out of her house for the code enforcement unit?(Wouldn't you say that at this point that "the cure is worse than the disease?)

What, you say that sort of thing can't possibly be what's going on? Think again.

Go back and do your homework rather than relying on your honeydew porch strawmen and your sohum stereotyping.

Otherwise perhaps you should take your own advice from the last sentence of your first comment before you embarass yourself further.

[JackAss]

I am sure you were right there wittnising all these violent offenses that were taking place.you I am sure know the nature of the rural exposure and how unsafe one person serving a warrant could pottentialy be, ie you going to stockton to sell some weed to the homies.

[Thomas Paine Jr]

The problem IS the law.
The law is unjust.
What people do on their own property is their own affair.
What people choose to live in is their own affair.
The county and state need to stay out of it and off of peoples land.
This is clearly a violation of the 4th amendment.

Time to stand up.
maybe its even time to start the NEW AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
Give me Liberty, or give me Death

[JackAss]

death or taxs my friend choose one.the taxs that we pay are what help to support your existance.ie welfare/sdi etc.

[I hate bums]

The taxes we pay go to the greedy wall street @?!k ups. do u know u need a pirmit to paint your house now to many laws