BULLETINS FROM ALOHA

These Men  --  Kill

Henry Kissinger said it.  “Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac”.  (As reported in The New York Times, 10/28/73)  As ugly as he was, inside and out; lord knows he needed lotsa power.  

Now, Gail Collins writes  of Herman Cain and his women in the December 8, 2011 NYT edition.  There Ms. Collins says, “....these things never end really well for women.” 

THE OREGON CONTRIBUTION

One can easily forget the tidal wave of carnage powerful men have left in their wake in between.  This misuse of male power kills.  I know for I have looked it in the eye.  I know because Neil Goldschmidt, I hardly knew ya, but I seen what you done.  To her.  You had sex with her when she was barely a teenager and killed her soon thereafter.  The dying didn’t happen until this year, but Neil actually killed her long ago.  And maybe he even had sex with her corpse, figuratively speaking.   

In case it escaped your attention, Neil was the Mayor of Portland long ago, a one-term Governor; when Portland’s newspaper began to figure it out, a powerful lobbyist and political maker on the make.  He ended as President Carter’s Cabinet member.  

All the while her life was in serial disarray and “...things never really ended well for her.”  

Senator Bob Packwood is every bit as homely as Kissinger.   And similarly on the make.  Once again, Oregon’s newspaper hid his misdeeds so he could be reelected in 1992.  Then he put down a three year smokescreen to hold office until 1995.  

This time, I literally looked one of his victims in the eye and she was kind enough (with her husband’s assent) to tell me a bit of her story.  Her words do not matter AS MUCH AS WHAT I SAW.  It is more about what I saw.  A severely wounded woman that history may forget, but I won’t. It is unclear what she would have become.  It is unclear what Neil’s victim would have become.  My sense is both had unlimited potential, truncated by these powerful men.  Both were ruined by selfish, uncaring egotistical monsters.  Monsters.  

The lame reporting by the Oregonian is inexcusable.  A fitting object for ‘Occupation’.  This newspaper does not deserve to be in business.  It is in business over at least two dead female bodies that I know of.  I know of them and some of what they went through Not because of anything the Oregonian did.  

Right now, the Oregon Supreme Court is wasting about $200 million of our taxpayer dollars.  Therese Bottomly, managing editor at the Oregonian, told me IN WRITING THAT she would have somebody get back to me after I gave her hard evidence of the fiasco two months ago.  She never did.  OCCUPY THE COURTS IS COMING UP JANUARY 20, 2011.  Let’s occupy the Oregonian and ALL the Oregon Courts.  

laurenjpaulson@gmail.com