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Dear Auburn Washington Mayor Lewis, City Council & Traffic "Engineering":


OPENING

Thank you for your quick response. I appreciate the opportunity to communicate with you and your staff. This is a rare opportunity.

The following information was dug up after near 4 years of growing research on American history mostly from many others
hard work uncovering why our freedoms have become so thoroughly eviscerated.
The truth is stranger than fiction and often quite unbelievable.

http://www.moillusions.com/2006/05/young-lady-or-old-hag.html

SHIFTING YOUR BELIEF SYSTEM TO BETTER SEE THE TRUTH

In order to understand what has happen to our freedoms, it is imperative to shift your perception at least for a short period of time
to see the other side of the picture of what you and many other cities are creating.

I was raised in a government family and was taught to love and respect my country and government. My Father was a U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Forest Ranger and very proud to serve his country in war and peace. All that respect is gone.

Your brief analysis of "safety & financial logic" is why we no longer have a Constitutional Republic, this is agenda stats. This may be a very honest attempt by you and your staff to try to make us safe; however, you are killing us making us "safe".
We used to call this "dry labbing" in engineering
Whereby one would select the data to fit the outcome one wanted
It could be real data or made up data but it was never the complete data
It was just a piece of the data to show what wanted to convey

The above optical illusion is about as close of an example I can find to convey a theme of taking you and your staff may have difficulty believing?
Can you see the two profiles of women, i.e., an old "hag" and a beautiful young women?

COUNTING THE WAYS CITIES ARE TAKING OUR BIRTHRIGHTS

Why is this relevant to your statistics you emailed me below whereby you try to convey your honest attempt to protect me and the "city"?

LET ME COUNT THE WAYS in random order.

Auburn city is a municipal corporation with authority ONLY over its own employees.
Natural born state Citizens are free & sovereign with a bundle of God given & Constitutional given unalienable rights, please see attached.
My rights include but are not limited too
the right to travel freely without restrictions, e.g.
no driver licenses can be legitimately placed upon state Citizens
driver "licenses" can only be constitutionally taxed upon corporate fiction business, i.e. commercial licenses
the same for licenses plates
These are all indirect tax that can only be charged upon commercial vehicles
no cameras, videos, speed traps, or any other obstruction to traveling is constitutional
this type of taking is orchestrated for money and power
by herding the free & sovereign people into fraudulent "adhesion contracts"
these tools of "safety" violate just about every right we have as you will read on
the right to not be trespassed upon
the right to privacy
the right to be secure in our private property including our vehicle
you have no legitimate authority to "prevent" me from have an accident
that is my responsibility and right to protect myself
you have no right to protect me or any other natural born free sovereign state Citizen
you have the right to protect your city employees but not by taking away my unalienable rights and
not as a pretense to encroach upon my private property, including my vehicles
Said another way, you are creating traps to encroach upon my free birthrights (entrapment)
the right to be free from invasion
the right to not be held in bondage
the right to decide the law, i.e. whether it is good or bad
the right to disobey any laws, acts, codes, ordinances, penalties, fines, fees, licenses, permits, ad nausea
WHEN they are repugnant to the U.S. Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Common law, Natural laws or God's law.
Government bodies, municipal corporations, government employees have no rights, only certain limited privileges,
most cities and counties and all states are corporations as well as D.C.
you cannot make free State Citizens "safe" from one another
i.e. even if you take away all their vehicles, guns, knives, property, clubs
we are born free
and by our freedom we defend ourselves and become safe
government protects our rights and our borders so we can protect ourselves
Government employees cannot legitimately convert these enumerated rights into privileges and then war upon us and our rights
Government employees and non government groups cannot create, invent, propagate, ad nausea
"laws, acts, codes, ordinances, penalties, fines, fees, licenses, permits, regulations" to cloak, shroud, transform or..
otherwise make subservient our God given birthrights.
Courts, councils, legislatures, executives cannot legitimately take or encroach upon our private property
including our vehicles by the spinning webs of traps for the excuse of our "safety".
This is all a form of taxation without representation going against the founding laws of the land
The American judicial system, CON..gress and the applicable executive offices are beyond corrupt, they are criminal.
It is because of the gerrymandering of CON..ress that our individual and state sovereignty have been destroyed
So called "speeding laws", "drunk driving laws", "unsafe driving laws", "licensing laws", ad nausea are..
all unconstitutional, unnatural, uncommon and absolutely unnecessary.
Regulation of our unalienable rights goes against all of the founding laws of the land and the laws of the laws
You cannot regulate my birthrights to make me "safe"
This is a classic oxymoron
All regulation is an indirect tax which is unconstitutional upon the sovereign, free State Citizens
You cannot legitimately preempt any of our bill of rights, natural rights or unalienable rights
Government has no jurisdiction or authority to make one person "safe" from a another person's use of their birthrights
This enabling act of government to make us "safe" only robs the free people from their rights to protect themselves and
determine where the real harm lies
With this sort of simplistic and totally naive "statistical & financial" agenda mind set of making me "safe"..
You have effectively and very successfully worked your way into my life,
my home, my land, my vehicles, my sovereignty and my freedom,
all clearly against the founding laws of this land and the laws behind those laws
King County and all of the green Puget Sound Counties are criminal in the abuse of these tactics
All of the kings courts and men cannot put our freedoms back on the wall again using this insanity
You have violated not only your oath of office but have become a public threat & criminal ..with all due respect
you have taken my rights away to defend myself when and where I so choose
ignorance of the law is no excuse, I am sure you have heard of that line before
this line is used often by law enforcement who have no clue of the founding laws of the land
there are no secrets about you and your agenda in Auburn
You and your council and all government employees responsibility is NOT TO MAKE ONE PERSON SAFE FROM ANOTHER
YOUR SWORN OATH IS TO PROTECT OUR CONSTITUTIONAL AS WELL AS OUR UNALIENABLE RIGHTS
YOU MUST UNDERSTAND YOU CANNOT KEEP ME "SAFE" OR "PROTECT" ME FROM MY RIGHTS
PLEASE SEE THE SHORT LIST OF 60 UNALIENABLE RIGHTS ABOVE
NO JURISDICTION NO AUTHORITY

You and your council have no business, no authority, no jurisdiction to encroach upon anyone state Citizen's birthrights
this trend of tyranny and perpetuation of "weapons of rights destruction" have been created out of legal fiction
you are creating a police state which wars upon our sacred unalienable rights to keep us "safe"
even if all the kings men and kings courts and kings CON.gressmen say verily you may take what you need to be "safe"
that goes against all our founding, common and natural law
No court, legislature, executive, special interest group, profiteering business has been given any authority..
let alone the right to play God with PRIVATE PROPERTY, e.g.
vehicles, land, home, privacy, animals, equipment, inventory of same on my property
You are creating the crime before it happens and have the nerve to call it public "safety"
MAD Mothers do this with all due respect for the suffering of their lost children
We have too many laws and regulations on the book already to enforce those who injure others
The next thing you will see is the counties telling us how to build our homes and manage our land to keep us safe....
little joke here that is not funny all so you see how socialism and communism creep into our life

When our certain bundle of unalienable rights become second place,
America quickly falls from grace into what we have become today, a police state.
There is never enough police to enforce tyranny taking
There is never enough "laws" when you arrogantly continue to use FORCE
IRONICALLY,
ALL THAT HAS BEEN GIVEN TO US WAS DERIVED FROM FREE CHOICE ...
HAS NOW BEEN SYSTEMACTICALLY REPLACED WITH A GOVERNMENT OF NO CHOICE & TYRANNY
The 9th & 10th Amendment in our Bill of Rights is another red flag against red lights.
In the 9th Amendment our Framers recognized other rights that precede the Constitution, rights inherent in Anglo American Common Law and in Natural Law.
In the 10th Amendment they emphasize only a few powers have been delegated to the union of the several states, all the rest are reserved for the sovereign states and sovereign state Citizens.

Cities, counties, state and federal enclaves have very effectively created a self imposed illusion
of entangled regulations to punish an act BEFORE it becomes a crime.
This is more red flags (red lights) that there are too many self serving over reaching CON..gressional takings of our basic rights
This maize of cancer like cells clearly goes against all the laws of the land and the laws that led to the making of these laws.
The Constitutional law, Common law, Natural law, God's law clearly cover all that we need.
To go beyond centuries and millenniums which created these basic principles is to consume the very rights these laws were made to protect.
We are destroying people birthrights to protect them, how insane is that!
The media, political parties, educational system, government, central bankers are totally criminal creating this illusion
The natural born, sovereign, free State Citizens have gone into deep hibernation for 232 years to numb itself
SO CALLED TRAFFIC "PROBLEMS"

Many of the root sources for your so called "traffic problems", like the image illusion above, have at least two views
It may offend you to tell you the hard truth, i.e. YOU and your council have created ALL these problems
The real problem is the agenda behind this rat packing of our once little towns,
as well as "parking" out our rural areas and shutting down growth
turning towns into high density "Stepford towns"
depriving people of their rights to protect themselves, e.g. Washington D.C.
This is a UN Agenda 21 so called
"Sustaining Development"
"Smart Growth"
"Growth Management Act"
"Critical Area Ordinances"
Wet Lands
ad nausea nonsense labeling and profiling, i.e. targeting
This labeling is a semantic swindle of our basic founding laws and birthrights.
In fact the nature of rat packing little towns into ant colonies drives up crime, exponentially
All of this social engineering comes from socialists in Europe and moves west
This is a green plague, highly contagious, spreading like wild fire across our once quiet little towns


Over 90%++ of the Oregon State Vehicle Drivers Have Had a "Ticket" in Their History of Driving
I learned this from a Software Engineer working for me who had worked for the Oregon DMV
This is because of the self fulfilling government created paradigm
whereby more legislation begets more regulations which begets more enforcement
which begets more tyranny which begets more takings and encroachment upon our
private property including our vehicles, homes, land, families
while transforming the natural born sovereign and free state Citizens into..
common criminals which begets more government and prisons and more illegitimate taxes
which begets a social disease whereby more government and non government ...
grow like cancer killing off the normal healthy once free and sovereign independent Citizens
thus the natural born sovereign and free State Citizens are converted into criminals
And the government employees are mistakenly deluded they are solving our crime problems
one third of our prisons are filled with illegals who should have been stopped at the borders by force
God knows how many other poor soles are incarcerated because of the corruption in our CON..gress & Courts
Do you know that 99% of these so call traffic tickets are not "legal" even within their own illegitimate & abusive framework
Any "good" member of the ABA Club can get you off for a few hundred dollars
Because, the police issuing the tickets are not performing the necessary due diligence to the letter of the law
they can only handle so many laws themselves before they too just become ineffective members of the borg
What you have here is a very dysfunctional & co-dependent city - legislature - court racketeering wheel of taking
Only the poor and ignorant who cannot afford to pay a member of the ABA Club will be fined and jailed
This same cycle of co-dependent self destruction prevails at almost every level and color of the "law" in America
Did you know that in approximately 3 blocks the average driver has "violated" some stupid traffic code
This the same picture with almost every taking of our property rights
Prior high court rulings, the founding laws and the laws of the laws have been swept under the carpet.
EROSION OF THE ORIGINAL LAWS OF THE LAND

The original laws of the land were given to chain down this type of thinking of social control over our individual rights.
After millenniums of trial and error evolution of law, civilizations developed the following...
natural rights
natural law
experimenting with new ideas that we are
born to become sovereign and free
born to be "God Like" and divine
born NOT TO BE SLAVES OR ENSLAVED OR BONDED
BORN NOT TO BE TAXED OR COERCED
BORN TO BE ABSOLUTELY FREE
PUBLIC POLICY has been MORPHED INTO CRIMES AGAINST THE FREE CITIZENS BY SPECIAL INTERESTS
Big cities and an alarming number of smaller rural towns are ..
perpetrating this deception for power & profit
under the guise of many hollow, near myth like "stats" & junk science labels
that "social ordering" is "beneficial"
while not telling you the WHOLE TRUTH
PUBLIC POLICIES CANNOT BE USED TO TAKE INDIVIDUAL OR STATE SOVEREIGNTY
THESE ARE GUIDES ONLY, SUGGESTIONS, FREE CHOICES

You and your council and uncountable city governments, county governments, state governments and federal governments are
upside down and backwards ..with all due respect
mutating & mutilating these precious God given birthrights into
a diabolical, tyrannical, delusional and paranoid Stepford Town of taking

Government has orchestrated an agenda of closet takings against the free and sovereign state Citizens.
The courts and the executive office in turn, circle their wagons to protect the cancer and allow it to grow
Instead of doing their Constitutional job, sworn by their oath, to eviscerate this evil, especially within public officials
The three branches, the states, cities, counties, federal and foreign government collude and are complicit in..
taking anything their greedy sticky little fingers can take FROM "A" AND GIVE IT TO "B"
THIS IS CALLED STEALING, I.E. THOU SHALT NOT STEAL
ONE OF THE MOST BASIC AND OLDEST LAWS IN CHRISTIAN SOCIETIES
WHY WE LOST OUR RIGHTS

We have lost our rights because we have lost our..
separation of powers of the three branches and
the SOVEREIGNTY OF THE STATES and
THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE NATURAL BORN FREE & SOVEREIN STATE CITIZENS
CON..gress, CO..URTS, EXECUT ...ives CULTURE & BREED & colluded "regulations" into cancer
that spread over the body of freedom
this dis...ease has mutated into an aggressive & deadly taking
ALL THE GREAT LAWS HAVE BEEN WRITTEN IN STONE & PARCHMENT HAVE BEEN USURPED
Only special interest groups like the American Bar Association can wrap us around their axle
with each turn of the wheel of tyranny
they do not have the eyes to see the growing mountain of "cause & effect" and ultimate karmic retribution
We have too many laws, too much regulation, too much corruption
We are all choking on this ball of hair shoved down our throats
100% of government employees and 95% of the people cannot see this other picture

AMERICA IS NO LONGER A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC

The original healthy body given to us when we were born in 1776 is atrophied into a "mobacracy".
The original young Constitutional Republic body HAD enormous strengths
These birthrights made us free which..
in turn manifested a Spirit of Freedom BEYOND COMPARE which in turn
quickly spread over America and the world
until special interest drove us into bankruptcy
THE USE OF FORCE & ILLUSION, I.E. SHORT TERM THINKING

When you take away or block someone else's free choice by force.....
You in turn are forced to add more force to your staff
This type of thinking and perception has systematically taken all of our private property & rights
More fear begets more regulations begets more force
How many of the following does it take to turn a town into a gulag?
red lights, cams, radar traps, police, tickets
nonsense green takings
unconstitutional so called "zoning" takings
unconstitutional property taxes stealing from A to give to B
illegitimate use of eminent domain to make your Stepford Town generate more revenue
corrupt courts & Con..gress turning the free & sovereign into common criminals
highway traffic inappropriately backing up and jamming up everyone in the cities
Your statistical and financial "logic " only reflects the illusion (Stepford Town) you want to see and have others see
You have managed to "successfully" take every God given right we have to keep us "safe" from ourselves.
Being "safe" is my responsibility NOT yours, not the government and not the MAD Mothers
Do not entangle me with your self serving agenda & pandering political paranoia
You have a very limited constitutional sand box to play in
Stay in your constitutional sand box and try to be nice to everyone

HOW TO DISTINGUISH GOVERNMENT employees FROM SOVEREIGN FREE STATE CITIZENS
DO NOT CONFUSE ME WITH ONE OF YOUR AUBURN CITY EMPLOYEES
I AM A NATURAL BORN STATE CITIZEN WHO IS SOVEREIGN AND FREE
I do not work for you or your city
I am retired and independent and sovereign and FREE
Your or your employees have no legitimate constitutional, common law or natural law jurisdiction over me
Try hard to be very kind to your employees and
Be obedient to your businesses community supporting your bad habits
Do not bully anyone like most other Mayors I know
Learn to have great respect for the natural born sovereign and free State Citizens
I know you want to pretend you are a corporate CEO AND a Mayor but you can't be both
You cannot turn sovereign & free State Citizens into employees..
no matter how many traps you & CON..gress & the courts devise
You cannot make an old "hag" into a beautiful young women or visa versa
You cannot play God or CEO over anyone except your own employees
even then you would be an ogre to do so

LEARNING HOW TO BE FREE AND ALLOW OTHERS TO BE FREE
To live free and to be free is to do the opposite of what you, your council and Association of Washington Cities are doing.
Mayors should be stewards of freedom nurturing free choice to grow NOT CONSTANTLY usurping it
with every chance the shameful courts, congress & colluding executive offices give you
Mayors should BREAK their old defensive paranoid delusional habits, e.g.
creating numbers telling you what yourself and others want they want to hear
obeying the AWC like puppy dogs
obeying the WEC
obeying the National Association of Cities
obeying the UN Agenda 21
Following like a dog where the Seattle Office of Sustaining Development tells you to go
Pandering to green extreme groups or bike extreme groups tells you what to do
Learn to live by your oath and the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence
Our once small friendly towns have become dysfunctional tyrannical fortresses..
vying to control the surrounding urban and rural land
The standard to be free is very simple -
FREE CHOICE FOR ALL
FREE CHOICE means no extortion of private property owners..
Including their homes, land, vehicles, wages, etc.
Freedom means not converting our birthrights of traveling into crooked cam & radar traps
all for more illegitimate government revenue under a semantic swindle called "SAFETY"
This charade of selective memory of the laws of our land cannot continue any longer
Eminent Domain was never intended to be used for commercial Monopoly game playing of people's life's and their property
Tyrannical decisions by the New London, Connecticut City Council and the U.S. Supreme Court decision is a travesty
This is another testimony of the vile nature of governments, small and big
The Founding Fathers never meant this power to be used this way
You and your Council and the criminal counties in Puget Sound cannot play "Russian Rolette or Monopoly"
with people's businesses and homes
to create your fantasy Stepford Town or county
even though the Legislature, Courts and Executive offices circle their wagons around you
This too is all unconstitutional, uncommon, unnatural and ungodly
FREEDOM ORIENTED SOLUTIONS FOR CITIES TO PONDER

Over some period of time freely agreed to by ALL in the city limits offer the following
Establish a theme for your city or multiple themes
Establish multiple concentric like areas fitting your present zoning and geographic boundaries
On the inner core area shut down traffic completely allowing only foot traffic
On the second "ring" directly outside of the core, allow foot and bike traffic only
On the third "ring" outside of the second "ring", allow foot and bike and horse traffic
On the forth "ring" outside of the third "ring", designated these areas you "Park & Ride" zones.
On the fifth "ring" encourage all the large box stores and groceries stores to gravitate.
Ring 5 will be direct drive to businesses
Provide free or low fee transit to all other "rings".
Take out all your red light and traffic monitoring spy cams
Disarm your police and take them out of their cruisers
Put them ALL on bikes with NO weapons
Edict all Auburn City employees park their cars at the Park & Ride lots and shuttle them back and forth with transit
Stop forcing "eminent domain" on business or private property owners
Stop all use of force and coercion on anyone
The City of Enumclaw and its Mayor should be the antithesis of what to do
King County and its Executive and council should be the antithesis of what to do
FORCE DOES NOT WORK, THE COURTS DO NOT WORK, CONGRESS DOES NOT WORK, Executives are very sick people
Establish no private property tax zones especially to retired and low income folks (first wave)
Gradually over time expand these no property tax zones throughout the city
Over time, transfer this "lost" unconstitutional revenue to other constitutional sources, e.g.
Educational taxes on businesses who may absorb and pass this cost on free market competition for consumer business
Encourage private schools into your area to compete with public schools
Offer special incentives to attract the private schools to come in
Encourage private foundations to set up small private school scholarships for low income and high achiever students
Over time reroute all highways out of the city limits
Spread yourself out, grow out not in and up and do this THROUGH VOLUNTARY ATTRITION OF PROPERTY
NEVER EVER USE EMIENT DOMAIN, IT IS A DIRTY BLOOD STAINED HIGHLY ABUSED "POWER" OF GOVERNMENT
I am sure you and your council and most of all the businesses in town
can think of a thousand better ways to remake yourself based on love and compassion
they all MUST BE in the spirit of FREE CHOICE COMPLIANCE
NO FORCE CAN BE USED
NO COURTS CAN BE USED
ALL CITY ATTORNEYS MUST BE FIRED OR RETIRED
NO CON..GRESSIONAL LEGISLATION MUST BE FOLLOWED
NO MORE PANDERING TO THE GREENS
NO STEALING FROM THE PROPERTY OWNERS OF ANY KIND
If any city in this state can accomplish even a fraction of these constitutional transformations...
they will shine like a star in the night
Businesses, retired people & freedom loving people all over America will flock into these free zones
The old barbaric government run cities will atrophy over time
We must divorce ourselves from this taking kind of mentality
We must oust the global agenda to rat pack and socialize a once free nation
This primitive & feudal over controlling, lording and hording of people has got to stop
We are not ants nor bees
You cannot colonize or tyrannize natural born sovereign & free state Citizens ANY LONGER
All legislation must be frozen & unwound back to the most basic constitutional laws.
We have created a monster of entangling, strangling, deadly green and red cancer that ..
has suffocated the breath out of our individual free spirit in America.
All because of political paranoia, pandering & hysteria.
TIP OF THE ICEBERG OF HISTORICAL CON..GRESSIONAL TAKINGS BACKGROUND FYI


Property taxes are unconstitutional and have been so ruled by at least 4 high courts
If property taxes are unconstitutional in one state, they are unconstitutional in all the other states
CON..gress must go back to basics and reestablish in stone ALL OUR LOST RIGHTS
Property taxes are direct taxes NOT apportioned by population, thereby unconstitutional
Our once proud teachers have collaborated in one of the most diabolical takings of private property in history
The NEA and its sister state groups are a disgrace to America


The 16th Amendment and so called "Income Taxes" are also unconstitutional
This has been so ruled be the high courts over and over in history
Income was meant to be on multi-fiction corporation profit and gain NOT on wages
Also the 16th Amendment never received the necessary 3/4 vote of the then 48 state

The current sales tax system in this state is unconstitutional
A sales tax is an excise tax and cannot be levied directly upon State Citizens
The tax must be absorbed by the multi fiction corporation and priced competitively into the product or service
Then the natural born sovereign & free state Citizen pays the tax freely IF
the product or service is priced competitively and..
if the sovereign & free Citizen freely chooses to buy the product or service

The so called "Federal Reserve" is not federal nor is there a reserve
It is unconstitutional also
The foreign and national banks have turn our treasures into debt long ago
Every war has ruined us
"The home of the brave and the land of the free" has been enslaved by global powers for profit
the world wars could not be fought without massive loans
the central bankers obliged and brokered both sides
Believe it not - the winner becomes the loser & the loser is more free
Can you see the illusion?

The ONLY constitutional viable long term peaceful sources of government revenue are
Uniform applied indirect taxes on legal fiction corporations
This includes customs, duties, imposts
The sale, lease, mining, logging of state public lands
Apportioned direct taxes were never meant to be used EXCEPT
In times of grave emergencies
at rates of 1/4 of 1%
by voluntary contribution
Most of the colonies hated this form of tax and did not want it
They made it very very hard to use
Why would they impose a tax on themselves which they were running from?
More on this later in another report
GENERAL WASHINGTON'S VISION

General Washington was bestowed with a vision of our future - please read attached above.
"Son of the Republic" is a profound & prophetic divine message worth pondering upon.
America is in the last stage of the vision.
CLOSING

Thank you for allowing me to share some 4 years of growing research in these areas. This is only the tip of the iceberg of the takings of our freedoms.
Each of you may also want to perform you own due diligence on these facts.

Farmers, ranchers, rural property owners, 2nd Amendment groups & tax freedom groups are joining up sharing this information.
The darkness of taking is very slowly lifting.
We wait for the dawn of a new free era when there will be no taking or tyranny tolerated in America.

If you would like more information let me know and I will send you and your staff selective supporting research on these key takings.

I hope you take this in the spirit of change to take the first step of walking in the light of true freedom to remake this once great nation back into its true and rightful place as the model free society General Washington's angel conveyed to him on one lonely cold suffering night at Valley Forge.

Let us work together to quickly return our country to the divine vision of freedom bestowed upon us 232 years ago.

God bless you all and God bless this great country of ours.



Very Sincerely,



John (Jack) R. Venrick
Enumclaw, Washington
Retired
The Boeing Company (30 Years)
Electrical Power Systems
Industrial Engineering Systems
The Study & Application of Statistics
Computing Resource Forecasting Systems
Facilities Management Systems
Engineering Standards Systems
Montana State University
B.S. Electrical Engineering
M.S. Applied Science
Industrial Engineering
Business Administration
www.freedomforallseasons.org (Work in Progress)

----- Original Message -----
From: Pete Lewis
To: Jack Venrick ; Bill Peloza ; Gene Cerino ; Lynn Norman ; Nancy Backus ; Roger Thordarson ; Rich Wagner ; Sue Singer
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 2:11 PM
Subject: RE: Eyman to red light camera cities: will you follow Wenatchee mayor's lead?

The city of Auburn along with Lakewood was the original supporters of this life saving measure. We went to the state legislature with a particular focus in mind. We wanted to stop deaths and serious injuries caused by people running red lights. In addition we were concerned with the increasing speeds seen around our schools and our children’s safety.

Part of the new state law required us to put up a sign at every intersection with the Photo-safe device. When the legislation passed the City of Auburn put up a sign at every signal controlled intersection in the City of Auburn proudly proclaiming this was a photo safe community.

City Council was adamant that this was for our safety and set the fines at the state minimum.

Since that date we have seen a forty percent reduction of accidents at photo-safe and school zone covered intersections.

Year to date 2008 there have been 7,062 citations issued. The system went live June 30,2006 and the total citations through the end of the year was 7,354. Citations for 2007 totaled 12,796.

Year to date 2008 receipts are $634,670 which includes $374,990 to the provider company for cost of continuing the service, $30,250 for costs of additional court staff, $23,896 for additional judge(s), $31,249 for additional legal department and $6639 for additional officer time, $58,378 for additional administrative work leaving a net to the citizens of Auburn of $109,268.

That would mean an expected 2008 funds after costs of service would be approximately $165,000 actually available for use.

Last year the Auburn City Council approved moving all net red light enforcement funds for local traffic calming improvements. Fund balance at that time had not been appropriated for any other use and stood at $480,379.

In 2007 City Council approved neighborhood traffic calming projects totaling $131,217. Year to date Council has approved and we have completed $106,130 in local traffic calming projects and have two more pedestrian light projects to install before the end of the year for an additional $100,000 bringing the 2008 total to $206,130.

The draft 2009-2010 budget shows about $200,000 a year per year in local traffic calming projects from Photo-Safe including remaining fund balance.

There are no other sources of funds for local traffic calming in our cities.

There are no county funds.

There are no state funds.

There are no federal funds.

There are no other sources for neighborhood traffic calming at this time except in emergencies.

Removal of these funds from the local community will have a direct and immediate effect upon our neighborhoods and our citizens awaiting traffic calming improvements in their neighborhoods.

From: Jack Venrick [mailto:jacksranch@skynetbb.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 9:30 PM
To: Bill Peloza; Gene Cerino; Lynn Norman; Pete Lewis; Nancy Backus; Roger Thordarson; Rich Wagner; Sue Singer
Subject: Fw: Eyman to red light camera cities: will you follow Wenatchee mayor's lead?

Listen up Auburn City Council, Washington. Thank you Dan for forwarding. Stay out of Auburn, Washington, they are using these cameras for profit.

bcc: property rights and freedom groups, King County, Washington State House and Senate, Association of Washington Cities, Washington State Supreme Court, Governor's Office, Media, Eyman & Compan

Jack Venrick
Enumclaw, Washington

Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 10:24 PM

Subject: Eyman to red light camera cities: will you follow Wenatchee mayor's lead?

Eyman to red light camera cities: will you follow Wenatchee mayor's lead?

Saturday's Wenatchee World reported on Mayor Dennis Johnson's reaction to I-985: "Johnson said the city's incentive to install cameras is gone if I-985 passes." The story also reported: "Johnson said Wenatchee's not about to put up the money and manpower to run the system if the state's going to get all the money." Wenatchee World, August 23, 2008,
http://wenatcheeworld.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080823/NEWS04/66384

The voters deserve to know which cities are doing red light cameras for profit, as Mayor Johnson reveals is the case in Wenatchee, and which cities are doing them for safety.

For a long time, many taxpayers have questioned the government's motivation for this very profitable program. With stories like these, it's not hard to understand why: "Spokane is about to join the growing number of U.S. cities enjoying cash windfalls from catching red-light runners with sophisticated intersection cameras." City will profit from plan to deploy intersection cameras, Spokesman Review, February 23, 2008.

Or this: "The cameras have turned out to be quite the money maker, allowing the city to collect more than a million dollars in fines in the first year from the cameras at four intersections. Mayor Greg Nickels says the program is about safety -- not making

money." KOMO 4 NEWS, Jan 4, 2008, Seattle adding more red-light cameras.

Or this: "Red light cameras are popping up everywhere, turning red to 'green.' Auburn brought in $160,000 in that system's first six months. Lynnwood took in $300,000 in the first three months." KING 5 News, Monday, November 5, 2007, Do red light cameras really make streets safer?

Or this from Aberdeen's Mayor Bill Simpson: "With the initiative looming, Simpson said there is 'no guarantee' right now that the city would receive the money generated from the red light cameras, so putting the decision on hold made sense." Daily World, Saturday, February 16, 2008.

A successful initiative in Cincinnati, Ohio recently qualified for the ballot and it asks voters to prohibit red light cameras.

We didn't feel banning red light cameras was politically educational enough. We asked ourselves: how can we show voters which cities are putting them up for profit and which for safety? Not by prohibiting them, but by removing the profit motive by dedicating red light camera profits to the "Reduce Traffic Congestion Account" which will fund I-985's common sense policies. By removing the government's profit motive, we knew we would learn which cities are doing them for safety and which for money.

Mayor Johnson has exposed Wenatchee's motivation as profit. It's only fair for voters to hear from the other cities with red light camera profit centers -- elected officials in those cities should answer the question: what is your city's plan should voters approve I-985?

Email me your responses by the end of the week.

Regards, Tim Eyman, ph: 425-493-9127, email: tim_eyman@comcast.net

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For some reason, I'm not very popular with politicians. :)