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Plea Bargain for Hurwitz-Maxxam?
"Rocked me to sleep like a baby," Trust said of one downpour. "When you see people's lives in danger needlessly, when you see trees fall that have been around 1,500 years, it's pretty easy to become dedicated to the cause of Stop Maxxam."
A Plea Bargain for Hurwitz - Or Hard Times For the Redwood Defenders
Maximizing Social Equity: Jailing Corporado Charlie Hurwitz
Or Will Greedy Hurwitz Cut a Deal Once Again???
Dear Folks in the Trees, the streets and lurking in Charlie Hurwitz’s shadows:
My name today is Anger.
I want you to be angry with corporate thieves, angry enough to risk some time, money or freedom to make their lives miserable. Motivation can come from many places: love of the forest, revenge for your friends death, injury or ruined lives; or from hate. Often you hate something because it threatens something you love – Love and hate.
The Year of the Corporate Criminal, 2002, could turn into a decade of investigations and convictions. For the first time in memory a tiny percent of the corporate thieves were busted. Of course not only businessmen and women felt the arm of the law, thousands of poor people went to prison and joined the more than one million felons who were already there. Young men and women who did no more than posses a single marijuana joint or happened to live at the same house as some small time drug dealer received long prison terms. A man in Oklahoma got life in prison for spitting on a police officer and Kenneth Payne got 16 years for shoplifting a Snickers candy bar in Texas.
Green economist and businessman, Paul Hawken envisions corporations being convicted of crimes against humanity. Well, I believe there is one Texan who we could find room for in the overcrowded Texas correctional facilities and maybe room for a few of his fat-cat friends. The felon-to-be in question is the elusive wheeler-dealer Charles Hurwitz. He makes corporate criminal Martha Stewart look like Little Red Ridding Hood. Hurwitz is the big bad wolf only he’s a government certified crime boss – a money predator and a money peddler.
Hurwitz reminds me of a sexual offender and we should carefully implant a GPS up his rear so we know what he is up to and what he is thinking.
We need to get angry enough to kick all corporations out of our food, our media, our forests, entertainment and schools. Let’s clean up Houston and its environment and start with Charles Hurwitz.
Maxxam is particularly vulnerable to public pressure, boycotts and secondary protest targeting – what I call going after the financiers and backers of accompany, like Shac has done with HLC. Maxxam’s Pacific Lumber Co. is vulnerable because they cut ancient redwoods, abuse and kill forest activists and because of Julia Butterfly Hill. They are also vulnerable because of their repeated law breaking, fraud and violations of forest practices rules. The immense debts held by Pacific Lumber also make it and all of Maxxam vulnerable to cash flow problems and credit reporting agencies and raters. Maxxam’s Sam Hughes Race track is vulnerable because it is so public, Hurwitz only owns 35 percent of the operations and it is regulated by the State of Texas. His Fountains Hills Arizona properties as well as those in California and Puerto Rico operate on small margins and any bad PR could hurt these operations. Maxxam is also vulnerable because Hurwritz is such a Howard Hughes-like recluse who hates to give interviews or to be mentioned in the press in any way. I
f we pressure and embarrass Hurwitz by visiting his condominium, country club, favorite restaurant, his wife’s beauty salon or the offices of their partners and financiers, then we could easily rattle his nerve and make him consider withdrawing from destructive corporations and practices.
Hurwitz has such a questionable history of money handling that it seems absurd to imagine he runs a giant horse racing facility where Maxxam handles nearly 600 million dollars in cash. More outrageous is his expectation that he will be able to get the Texas Constituion changed so that he can have a casino at the race track site.
He likes gambling - including risking imprisonment for Savings and Loans fraud - and he has a casino in Puerto Rico where he sneaks of to and skims a bit of pocket change here and there. But a casino in Texas Charlie, come on - not with Earth First! and Humboldt County chasing you around the rest of your life.
THE PLEA BAR$GAIN
I like the demands of the tree sitters in Houston's Memorial Park:
1) Stop cutting old-growth Redwood trees.
2)Stop clear-cutting practices.
3)Stop logging on steep and unstable slopes.
4) Stop using herbicides.
5)Slow the rate of harvest to accommodate adequate re-growth.
6)Stop the violence induced on peaceful protestors.
But I think maybe since we are in Houston, the fourth largest city in the US and home to a dozen of the dirtiest coporate criminals in the world, well maybe we should think bigger yet. Maybe we shoul;d seize the day, the stage and the high ground and stick around Houston for a year or two and have some fun and shake up these old boys with some eye-opening demands; starting with Hurwitz-Maxxam-Pacific Lumber.
To Deal or Not to Deal
There might be a way out for Charlie: If he confesses his guilt and cops to the fraud and wronging doing that his company Pacific Lumber has been charged with by Humboldt County. He could fess up these token crimes and turn the company and all of its lands over to the county as an out-of-court settlement. Then we could negotiate the rest of his punishment and maybe even rehabilitate this sad man. Its up to you Charlie" give the forest back to the people of California and the Kaiser Aluminum company to the workers and just retire to your race track and watch the horses run by. Otherwise we will hound you out of this state and take back your ill-gotten wealth. Don’t you want to set a good example for your two sons and leave a legacy that rises beyond the blood and tears you have leveraged so terribly?
We are sure that your friends Ivan Boesky, Michael Milken, ex-Houston Basketball Mayor Bob Lanier, Mr. Richard C. Blum (Chairman), Blum Capital Partners – and husband to rightwing-democratic Senator Barbara Feinstein (cross between a fiend and Frankenstein?), and your wife would be most proud of this new Hurwitz.
He who has the gold rules, but he who does good works is honored wide and far.
What do you say up there in the trees at Memorial Park, What do you say David Chain, What do you say Luna tree and Julia? Shall we give Hurwitz one last chance? He doesn’t deserve it, but hey we’re basically really kind folks. I say anyone can change – and sometimes for the better. Amen
PS Houston is weird! "Arms buyers duck tough export rules. Front companies help funnel weapons to the black market "
By HARVEY RICE, Houston Chronicle
The front company used to funnel military parts to Iran from U.S. companies, including two in the Houston area, is a typical method used to evade arms control laws in a lucrative and widespread business, experts said Friday.
Maximizing Social Equity: Jailing Corporado Charlie Hurwitz
Or Will Greedy Hurwitz Cut a Deal Once Again???
Dear Folks in the Trees, the streets and lurking in Charlie Hurwitz’s shadows:
My name today is Anger.
I want you to be angry with corporate thieves, angry enough to risk some time, money or freedom to make their lives miserable. Motivation can come from many places: love of the forest, revenge for your friends death, injury or ruined lives; or from hate. Often you hate something because it threatens something you love – Love and hate.
The Year of the Corporate Criminal, 2002, could turn into a decade of investigations and convictions. For the first time in memory a tiny percent of the corporate thieves were busted. Of course not only businessmen and women felt the arm of the law, thousands of poor people went to prison and joined the more than one million felons who were already there. Young men and women who did no more than posses a single marijuana joint or happened to live at the same house as some small time drug dealer received long prison terms. A man in Oklahoma got life in prison for spitting on a police officer and Kenneth Payne got 16 years for shoplifting a Snickers candy bar in Texas.
Green economist and businessman, Paul Hawken envisions corporations being convicted of crimes against humanity. Well, I believe there is one Texan who we could find room for in the overcrowded Texas correctional facilities and maybe room for a few of his fat-cat friends. The felon-to-be in question is the elusive wheeler-dealer Charles Hurwitz. He makes corporate criminal Martha Stewart look like Little Red Ridding Hood. Hurwitz is the big bad wolf only he’s a government certified crime boss – a money predator and a money peddler.
Hurwitz reminds me of a sexual offender and we should carefully implant a GPS up his rear so we know what he is up to and what he is thinking.
We need to get angry enough to kick all corporations out of our food, our media, our forests, entertainment and schools. Let’s clean up Houston and its environment and start with Charles Hurwitz.
Maxxam is particularly vulnerable to public pressure, boycotts and secondary protest targeting – what I call going after the financiers and backers of accompany, like Shac has done with HLC. Maxxam’s Pacific Lumber Co. is vulnerable because they cut ancient redwoods, abuse and kill forest activists and because of Julia Butterfly Hill. They are also vulnerable because of their repeated law breaking, fraud and violations of forest practices rules. The immense debts held by Pacific Lumber also make it and all of Maxxam vulnerable to cash flow problems and credit reporting agencies and raters. Maxxam’s Sam Hughes Race track is vulnerable because it is so public, Hurwitz only owns 35 percent of the operations and it is regulated by the State of Texas. His Fountains Hills Arizona properties as well as those in California and Puerto Rico operate on small margins and any bad PR could hurt these operations. Maxxam is also vulnerable because Hurwritz is such a Howard Hughes-like recluse who hates to give interviews or to be mentioned in the press in any way. I
f we pressure and embarrass Hurwitz by visiting his condominium, country club, favorite restaurant, his wife’s beauty salon or the offices of their partners and financiers, then we could easily rattle his nerve and make him consider withdrawing from destructive corporations and practices.
Hurwitz has such a questionable history of money handling that it seems absurd to imagine he runs a giant horse racing facility where Maxxam handles nearly 600 million dollars in cash. More outrageous is his expectation that he will be able to get the Texas Constituion changed so that he can have a casino at the race track site.
He likes gambling - including risking imprisonment for Savings and Loans fraud - and he has a casino in Puerto Rico where he sneaks of to and skims a bit of pocket change here and there. But a casino in Texas Charlie, come on - not with Earth First! and Humboldt County chasing you around the rest of your life.
THE PLEA BAR$GAIN
I like the demands of the tree sitters in Houston's Memorial Park:
1) Stop cutting old-growth Redwood trees.
2)Stop clear-cutting practices.
3)Stop logging on steep and unstable slopes.
4) Stop using herbicides.
5)Slow the rate of harvest to accommodate adequate re-growth.
6)Stop the violence induced on peaceful protestors.
But I think maybe since we are in Houston, the fourth largest city in the US and home to a dozen of the dirtiest coporate criminals in the world, well maybe we should think bigger yet. Maybe we shoul;d seize the day, the stage and the high ground and stick around Houston for a year or two and have some fun and shake up these old boys with some eye-opening demands; starting with Hurwitz-Maxxam-Pacific Lumber.
To Deal or Not to Deal
There might be a way out for Charlie: If he confesses his guilt and cops to the fraud and wronging doing that his company Pacific Lumber has been charged with by Humboldt County. He could fess up these token crimes and turn the company and all of its lands over to the county as an out-of-court settlement. Then we could negotiate the rest of his punishment and maybe even rehabilitate this sad man. Its up to you Charlie" give the forest back to the people of California and the Kaiser Aluminum company to the workers and just retire to your race track and watch the horses run by. Otherwise we will hound you out of this state and take back your ill-gotten wealth. Don’t you want to set a good example for your two sons and leave a legacy that rises beyond the blood and tears you have leveraged so terribly?
We are sure that your friends Ivan Boesky, Michael Milken, ex-Houston Basketball Mayor Bob Lanier, Mr. Richard C. Blum (Chairman), Blum Capital Partners – and husband to rightwing-democratic Senator Barbara Feinstein (cross between a fiend and Frankenstein?), and your wife would be most proud of this new Hurwitz.
He who has the gold rules, but he who does good works is honored wide and far.
What do you say up there in the trees at Memorial Park, What do you say David Chain, What do you say Luna tree and Julia? Shall we give Hurwitz one last chance? He doesn’t deserve it, but hey we’re basically really kind folks. I say anyone can change – and sometimes for the better. Amen
PS Houston is weird! "Arms buyers duck tough export rules. Front companies help funnel weapons to the black market "
By HARVEY RICE, Houston Chronicle
The front company used to funnel military parts to Iran from U.S. companies, including two in the Houston area, is a typical method used to evade arms control laws in a lucrative and widespread business, experts said Friday.
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She goes to Ecuador and earth Day and around the world - We - as in we the forest - need her locked down, fighting and loving along with us here - and THERE - so somebody wake up that fly in the cocoon - and shanghai her on down to ole Tejas - a few tequilas and a straw hat and she would look great up in a park tree - why not ask anyway,.:;'/?