MEETING WAS ABOUT PROTECTING PEOPLE'S RIGHTS

To the Editor:

I just read the article in the March 30, 2010 edition of the Redwood
Record (sic) written by Mary Anderson titled "Preparing for End of
Marijuana Boom."

I didn't attend the meeting, nor was there anyone attending the
meeting representing the Civil Liberties Monitoring Project. Mary
Anderson was incorrect in describing Liz Davidson as representing or
speaking in behalf of CLMP. It is my understanding that Liz was
attending as a concerned community member.

Liz did participate as a representative appointed by CLMP for the
Humboldt County Code Enforcement Task Force, but that doesn't mean
every community project she is involved with is now related to CLMP.

Also at the end of the article Mary writes about another, "similar
meeting" she attended in the early 1980s that, "was called in
response to the onset of the Campaign Against Marijuana Planting
(CAMP). At that meeting the participants were looking for ways to
protect their crops from CAMPers."

Actually the 1983 meeting was called to find ways to protect people's
rights and safety, not their crops. The CAMP lawsuit was not about
protecting plants, it was about law enforcement violating people's
rights and endangering public safety.

I don't know why the reporter twisted this around or how she could
remember something I allegedly said 25 years ago, when she missed the
primary reason and focus of that community meeting.

Adding my name and a statement I didn't make to an article about a
meeting I did not attend, causes me to wonder what's going on? How
about sticking to reporting the facts?

Bonnie Blackberry

Garberville