Letters to the Editor - September 1, 2010

Tarnished Tradition

This letter is a response to the viewpoint of Mr. Tyler, President of Pace Baseball Boosters on July 10, 2010.

Your great baseball tradition is tarnished. If the Superintendent of Schools, the school board, the principal, the coach and the parents of the students that caused the damage to Stonebrook Village had done what was right and had done the job they were suppose to do, the three players on the team should have been suspended.

They committed a felony over a thousand dollars in damage.

The players had signed documents stating they wouldn’t do anything to tarnish the reputation of the baseball team or school.

What the school should really do is give back the trophy that you won because you used players or had players on your team that should have been suspended.

All the people that I mentioned about knew they should have been suspended.

From the way this was handled in the first place, I know none of you will do anything about this because you all want to win at any cost. What you need to do is raise money to cover the damage the players caused at Stonebrook Village.

The entire school system let this situation skate by and I’m really disappointed the way this situation was handled.

Ronald Carhart

Milton, Fla.

Problem is Greed

This SB550 thing was deliberately created, i.e.: the “problem” was created by greed! The commissioners handed out, without any legal authority that can be found in the Official United States Records, permits to build houses where no sane man lived, and although the county owns no water rights, they, as I understand from my lawyers, they handed out, in direct violation of the Original Right of Property Retained by the Original Settler Families, Septic Tank Permits – Where any layman would know by the water marks on the trees, no septic tank could drain.

When the Kennedy boy came he spoke of Clean Water being a “constitutional right”; to the Original Settler Families it appears to be a trifle more, an “Original Right” that these boys appears to have been done, or so I’m told by the Federal Officials, State Clerks, etc., without legal authority!

I’m not too popular at the moment for bringing these matter to light, but after the Banking Collapse of 1874, the United States sold the territory comprising the western half of Santa Rosa County and the eastern half of Escambia (means swamp in Spanish) County, consisting of some one thousand square miles from the Alabama line to the Gulf of Mexico, to Emery Fish Skinner in 1875, along with full official legal recognition of “The Independent Nation of Santa Rosa!”

After the Banking Collapse of 1896, I believe, the settler families, majority rather, decided to leave the USA and move here. They made rules in our Constitution, such as every settler had to purchase at least forty acres of land, that all matters would be decided by the members of the community, those rules became, as I’ve been informed by some rather expensive lawyers, Rights of Property. It appears there was a substantial lack of due process as well.

Skinner sold, according to Mr. Weekes our deceased historian, the territory after the 1906 hurricane, to the Escambia Land and Improvement Company, and although there was no referendum, call the Supervisor of Elections, held, Santa Rosa County “decided” they had authority to govern us! This is not supported by State Records, which show the following faults with their usurpation.

One: we never petitioned the State for annexation, or the County!

Two: I believe Mr. Beck would question their legal authority and/or Jurisdiction over us. If they had some they wouldn’t be made with me.

I can’t speak for the settlers, but if folks choose to live in areas with little, or no, drainage, or wasted their money on deeds to less than forty acres, it isn’t my job to build them a multi million-dollar countywide sewage system, which is why they created the problem – lots of money in sewage, and the SB550? It paves the way.

I don’t know how the other settler family members feel, but think they need to establish territorial jurdisction over us before they kill us all. I can remember when we watched the Escambia River die, now the Gulf’s dead, so is a lot of lakes.

In Escambia Bay, we used to pick up oysters, with our bare feet. I can’t see the settlers voting to permit these folks to “help us” some more, and I’m tired of subsidizing their grand schemes. Trot out your deed to water rights, I have one.  The only one of record.

Travis Bynum

Jay, Fla.