I remember back in 2000 when the DNR started cracking down on liveaboards across Puget Sound. Apparently they got together and started fighting back. They have an association:

Dating back almost 100 years, liveaboard boaters have been a part of the color and richness of Puget Sound. The liveaboard lifestyle is an age-old pursuit, it is a choice to passionately pursue a love of water, adventure, and freedom. The liveaboard community of Puget Sound, together with concerned citizens across the state, have formed this assocation to protect a NW heritage, and a cherished way of life.

Longtime community activist and EGYHOP founder Long Hair David has finally secured a private attorney in his two-year ordeal with felony assault charges. The charges stem from an incident which happened Feb 16, 2004 as David was in Sylvester Park downtown in Olympia. Three WSP Officers approached David, accused him of dropping a cigarette on the ground, and the misunderstanding which resulted ended in David's arrest for felony assault of an officer. The bench trial, which had been scheduled for today (Feb 13, 2006) has been moved to April 10th. EGYHOP is the Emma Goldman Youth and Homeless Outreach Project - a direct services organization for the street populations of Olympia. David is one of my heroes; it has broken my heart to see him reduced in spirit and body as the stress of worrying about this case has worn him down. The men who attacked him that day have never taken responsibility for their misunderstanding or contributory negligence in the case, and likely never will, even when David is aquitted. The case number is 04-1-00343-5 and you can track the docket for it here and paste the case number in the box, and choose Thurston County.

I am concerned about the local reaction to the Nazi presence.

I have two separate visions in my imagination: 1) 8 or 9 nazi's standing in solitude, isolated on a hill top, blathering obscenities and slogans like "white-power," while one of their number ridiculously holds a shield
-OR-
2) 8 or 9 nazi's defending themselves against a group of 150 counter protestors, arguably being threatened - even to the point of necessitating police escort.

Now I ask, which image would most likely tend promote recruitment more?

I'll add that my opinion is rather fixed. I see this group as having an intention to disrupt. These individuals strike me as little more than trolls, who thrive on adversity and the reactionary response that they get from communities they set upon to antagonize.

How to handle a troll?

Don't.

Simply ignore them.

Two were running under the Republican banner and the third was running as a Democrat. Only caught the tail-end so I don't know what was said, just thought it was interesting.

Matthew Ernest Ramsey is his name, he goes by "Jim Ramm" for all his white supremacist doings. Since he is leading this Neo-Nazi crew that plans to protest the marble steps of our state capitol dome this summer, I thought it would be neighborly to find out just who he is.

The Spokesman Review  gives us a good start on our journey. Next we turn to an article on the National Socialist Movement. If you then choose to google on your own, do so only with caution, Jimbo's actual hate site is beyond horrendous.

From Ascribe:

OLYMPIA, Wash., Feb. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Evergreen State College and the hard work of students have been recognized with two distinct honors in the past week for the college's commitment to renewable energy.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released the list of the nation's top-ten college and university green power purchasers today - and The Evergreen State College is eighth in the nation with the amount of green power purchased. All of the electricity used at the main campus in Olympia, as well as the Tacoma campus, is green, translating to enough energy for more than 1,500 homes per year, according to the EPA.

There's more...

Join us February 21, 2006 to hear Dr. Jeffery Albert discuss the role of environmental issues in the peace process in the Middle East at 7:00 P.M. at Temple Beth Hatfiloh, 8th & Washington, Downtown Olympia.

Jeff Albert PhD is co-founder and CEO of the Aquaya Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to research, testing, and promotion of water resource innovations in the developing world. Since 1997, he has been involved in a variety of Israeli-Palestinian water and environmental projects

Dr. Albert is an expert on water allocation. His Ph.D. dissertation work at Yale University focused on the Science and Politics of Wastewater Reclamation in Israel. Between 1998 and 2001, Jeffery was on the staff of the Water Commission, the Israeli government agency with prime responsibility for water allocation decision making. Since 1997, he has been involved in a variety of Israeli-Palestinian water and environmental projects, and he makes regular trips to the region.

This event is sponsored by the Olympia Chapter of Brit Tzedek v’Shalom (Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace). For more information, contact Juliet VanEenwyk, 360-493-1592.