Salem-News.com Articles written by Henry Clay Ruark

Whisnant Refuses To Recognize Damage to State from ALEC - Process Now Nationally Exposed

Every Legislator Informed In Detail at Session Just Ended BUT NO Action Underway to End Any Reliance On ALEC-Flawed "Models"

(SEASIDE, OR) - Oregon's first annual-session Legislature --"a short-termer with many promising results" as one departing legislative leader described it-- is now firmly inscribed in both history and consequences.

ALEC-Process Prime Tool for Assault as Corporate Dollars Drown Democracy

Sponsors, Supporters Playing Irrational Assassin-Role.

(SEASIDE, OR) - The major measure of ALEC-process damage to our democracy is its own success in isolating and assaulting the legislative role in every state.

This is achieved through the complex protocol for preparing and passing many proposals into new binding laws.

Founders Built Nation on Open, Honest Democratic Dialog, Debate, Vote-Decision

The American system, is in remarkably good stead now for 236 years since 1776 despite a changing world.

(SEASIDE, OR) - This is short list of leading reference books on early American history, from working references here numbering more than thirty currently.

These each make special point of the significance of honest, open dialog and debate defining the basic principles the Founders discovered in their unremitting search of every possible source available in their time.

ALEC-Process Thoroughly Exposed By State-Level Con-Game as `Models`

Legislators Must Accept Reality, Refuse Further ALEC- Reliance: Continued Usage By Some Members Is Implied Insult to all.

(SEASIDE, Ore.) - Britain's famed economist John Maynard Keynes once routed an opponent on the Parliament floor by stating:
"I change my mind when the facts change, sir. What do you do ?"

Keynes' own record of exemplary leadership linked tightly to his own well-stated principles was appreciated; but so also was his sensitive, sensible and solid willingness to learn and change "when the facts change".

Open, Honest, Democratic Dialog
Most Essential, Basic Tool For Effective Policy

Politically Driven GOPster/Bloody Perversions Derailing System

(SEASIDE, Ore.) - Despite their unavoidable competition, our Founders assured themselves of the essentials for any conscientious agreement on the complex issues of human relations and governing policies.

From Whence Cometh This Wisdom?

Greatest Function of Democratic Dialog Is Wisdom Shared - Founders Discovered Principles Which Make It So.

(SEASIDE, Ore.) - The brute fact is that much of the murderous muddle comes from lack of wisdom rather than the containing status of "a campaign year":

The demands of that strange time illuminating mostly the mildly-insane machinations within the remaining wreckage of a once-major group.

Corporate Gurus Shape, Distort ALEC `Models`
for CURRENT LEGISLATIVE POLICY Action

Lavish-Cost Memberships Conceal Corporate Dialog Control, Present Payoff by "Scholarships", Protect Results By Veto

(SEASIDE, Ore.) - Corporations exist solely to extract money from any source they can process, using whatever means they can manage, maneuver or manipulate.

The so-called "modern" corporation has yet to accept and build its chartered structure and operations on any purpose but that of "profit" --however obtained.

Op Ed: `Deja Vu` For YOU, Too?
Deep Array of Desperate Situations Reflects Non-Developments Too Familiar

What Makes You Think There Are Any Positive Change Coming?

(SEASIDE, Ore.) - Long ago I learned never to look back but simply to jam down foot and keep driving... Worked fine when I had first license, in Maine, in early 30s... and I must disclose since it soon became professional habit in all I've undertaken ever since.

Op Ed Special Note Re ALEC-Debacle

Here’s a working list recorded so far, with others to be added shortly.

(SEASIDE) - The ALEC debacle directly affecting formation of laws in every state since 1973 continues to draw heavy across-the-media attention and further investigative interest across the nation.

One must wonder where the major Oregon media have been on this one --and what will be the attention given to obvious problems when the legislators meet again.

`Deja Vu` All Over Again Reflects National Mood

Cycle Comes Full-Circle With “Negative Factors” - This Time Sure to Force Positive Changes.

(SEASIDE, Ore.) - Anyone well acquainted with our American history will see many and essential parallels in paramount parts of our whole “American Story” from the Continental Congress on through the Gilded Age and the Civil War --and with increasing rapidity-of-incident ever since.

We’ve had our run of everything from true revolution to paltry substitutes for the true gold of tested and proven patterns, protocol and programs --and we are still continuing to learn.