Show Ml Our view Satur Mardr2 A4 The Herald Journal Punishment just for serious crime s community service and a theil counseling program He told Rappleye he was originally considering a prison sentence but backed down when the Cache County Attorney’s office did pot recommend prison time Often in Utah the environment doesn't get a fair shake Using resources is touted over preservation Willmore’s decision however shows that Utahns at least in these parts do not tolerate those who would profit from those resources at the expense of others and of the land Willmore was not quite right however when he told Rappleye he had stolen $400000 from every person in the state It’s hard to put a (nice on 200 acres of forest liie steepness of the land and loss of topsoil assure the scar will be there for decades to come not to mention the habitat loss for dozens of species Hopefully Rappleye will have time to reflect oh thM during his lS days ill jail ) omctimcs it seems as though crimes against the voiceless — ryoung children animals or in a recent Cache County case trees — go underpunished simply because the victims can't speak up for themselves So we were pleasantly surprised when 1st District Judge Thomas Will-mothrew the book at tree poacher Val Rappleye who illegally logged 8032 trees on state land in Blacksmith Fork Canyon between 1993 and 1999 For perspective that was more than 213 acres of state-owntimber or enough wood to build 199 standard American homes according ' to Blain Hamp of the Utah State Division of Forestry Fire and State Lands Willmore sentenced Rappleye to IS days in jail and $410000 in fines and restitution He will also complete three years of probation 200 hours of re ed Q Your view QQ WOLClS WCte By Ellen Goodman : To the editor: I am opposed to the Proposed RR Zone (Resort and Recreation Zone) This will allow a Recreation area such as Powder Mountain to expand ’ to the point of a small city including Sherry Lowery schcxil resorts hotels residential Avoq condo’s golf courses commercial zone etc The concerns I have with this type of development are trouble- some to me and many others who have studied this ordinance and the To the editor plans of the potential owner of Powder Mountain and other potential The more I read the new Smithfield resort developers in the mountains history book the more I appreciate surrounding Cache County We have Roberta Geary Only her committee talked to people who have come from and a few other residents know about areas where a resort of this magni- - ' her meticulous detail that went into tude was built and the impact it had this book For ten years Roberta gathon the communities in their vicinity' ered then verified a mountain of infor' First of all property values increased mation There are 437 pages and over for all the residents in the area to such 800 pictures Even when her husband an exorbitant amount that many of the Dee passed away and her vision failed makes her work more meaningful to property owners could not afford to all who know her The whole commu- -' pay the taxes or keep the land that had been in their families for years Many nity owes a debt of gratitude to Roberta and her committee The Historical people were forced to move or sell their property and much of that proper- - Committee should also receive com- ty was then developed quickly into low - mendation for their efforts ' Within a short time this leather quality cabins and resort type homes - bound book will be a collectors for quick pxale The Bear Lake hillitem side Sun alley Park City are just a Many residents are buying the book as few examples If this new ordinance : a gift to their children Other libraries in Cache Valley ought to order copies passes! the county will have provide for their reference shelves It is almost many services to the area such as mainteroad removal snow garbage impossible to find the history book nance emergency services water that was written in 1927 The new book can he purchased for $30 in the electricity schools law enforcement etc This will be expensive and we will city office Over 700 copies have share in these expenses already been sold in two weeks The taxes generated from the proper' Kenneth Webb ty taxes won't offset the cost of main- -' Smithfield this and the area resort new taining ordinance does not include any impact ' fees to the developers The school district will not get the annual 6 million Letters to the editor : dollars the developer claimed because and other per- when asked how he got that figure he : soral essays RTOdUCt admitted it was a figure he had just in the Her- pulled out of die top of his head Well aid joumai " with that kind of research we can only may express deduct dial he'will say anything to push opinions that do this project through There are people not align exactly in die county who support this project your own If you hoping to generate dollars for our coun-- 1 disagree please respond with a letter to the editor or contact editor Charles ty but I have to disagree with them McCollum about a possible guest combecause I really feel this is not progress Ext 3020 if it means destroying the bdauty of our mentary (Phone: 752-21mountains and our rural lifestyle cmccoilumOhjnewscom) See ’ information box at bottom of page for There is time to stop it but not more details let the Cache County much Please - s no surprise to find the Defense Department on the Defen-- siv&r It’s in the job description I just hate to see diem suffering from self-inflict- ed wounds Every time the Pentagon gets into the PR business die precision bombers become the gang that couldn’t shoot straight Tbey need a new slogan: Make War Not Propa- Smithfield book 'meticulous’ O - - - ganda This time the same types who named a missile the Peacekeeper — and who ' did that fool? — tried to coordinate ad information war under a newly constructed Office of Strategic Influence This group’s purpose was to disseminate information about America to counter and influence foreign opinion But dissemination was going to include disinformation Ah yes dezinformatsiya the deliberate distribution of false information in an and poli- attempt to cy” a gift to the international language from the Soviet Cold Warriors Apparently it’s not just die Cojd War rhetoric— axis of evil”-that’s back it’s the whole dictionary Now frankly if you are planning to disinform foreign countries if you’re thinking of providing fake news to foreign reporters it's not a great idea to have that plan fall into the hands of domestic reporters A covert operation shouldn’t be too well overt But maybe when you put an astro1 - VT this administration shares with its predecessors a suspicion of any media it can’t create and control So their first thought was advertising They hired Charlotte Beers the erstwhile ‘Queen of Madison Avenue” as undersecretary for something called public diplomacy” and assigned her id sell Brand America the way she sold Uncle Ben's Converted Rice and Head &Shoul-der- s Shampoo Then they dropped leaflets on Afghanistan featuring doctored photos of bin Laden suggesting he’d o In this phony ' gone Weston confetti he was beardless ‘and suited up like a Las Vegas lounge lizard e And then up with this idea of promoting our great American values and increasing out “strategic influence” overseas by approving some lies and mixidg some ‘dis” in the information I can hear an echo of Donald Rumsfeld who said in his own repentant way: The office is done It’s over What do you want blood?” Not exactly It’s bad enough when our own government forgets that the best antidote to propaganda isn’t more propaganda but an independent and trusted media It’s thoroughly disheartening when they mistrust the sales appeal of their policies As for selling the American story itself? At the risk of sounding more patriotic titan the Pentagon we’ve grrt pretty good material for a documentary hone an honest portrait of a diverse imperfect argumentative and democratic culture and people continually in process Want a sales pitch? This is a couns try that makes room fora rambiinc-tiouand free press that is ' congenitally and constitutionally out of control Out of government control Want some good news that isn’t propaganda? In this country disin- formation gets dissed CACHE COUNTY COUNCIL Darrel Lee Gibbons the north dstrict— 840 S 1600 West Lewiston 84320258-523- 8 southeast dstrict — 3475 S 250 West l: go-g- they-cam- - : : change-opinio- ‘ formerly worked at the die star wars missile of defense program The plan that included fooling die press was predictably uncovered by the press Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld predictably offered a Nixonian response The Pentagon does not lie” and predictably followed that by blaming the press for being off the mark” At that point the Office of Strate-gi- c Influence was shut down before it ever really opened because its credibility’' was damaged Its credibility that is to be incredible! All this ought to be nothing more than a tempest in a disinformation teapot the sort of tidbit to keep the conspiracy theorists on full alert shut down? Wanna bet?) But die problem is that there really is a role for putting out die American story The unpalatable thought left by this PR disaster is that die Pentagon doesn’t think the true story is good enough After Sept 11 Americans woke up to the fact our selfTmage as innocent victims wasn’t universaL It was a shock to discover that so many in the Muslim world regarded Osama bin Laden as a superhero or that they believed Israel was behind die attacks The question that rippled over the ‘ country in the first weds was Why do they hate us?” MaybA it was naive to take the animosity as a personal rather than a policy matter But ' Americans also began to realize that we’d let an awful lot of hostile propaganda and urn disinformation go unanswered n In fact the only American image with a wide international audience came from Holly- wood which thank you very much offered up a portrait of a violent and nation It was way beyond time to counter the propaganda But spin-contro- It Council know where y°u stand- - Do you livehere because it’s a great place to raise a family or for the cutthroat competition of commerce and convenience? 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