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Deborah Russell - Editor/Publisher
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Wednesday June 30, 2010
Tom Russell - Consulting Editor
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Sally Price - Correspondent
Permit No. 14
Have A Safe & Happy Independence Day!
Mike Moore - Photojournalist
Squawk Box
Independence Day - Are you
celebrating or despairing? What
is your vision for the future?
With Debbie Russell
The Declaration of Indepen-
dence states, “...that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable rights,
that among these are life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness. That to secure these
rights, governments are instituted among
men, deriving their just powers from the
consent of the governed. That whenever
any form of government becomes de-
structive to these ends, it is the right of
the people to alter or to abolish it, and to
institute new government, laying its foun-
dation on such principles and organizing
its powers in such form, as to them shall
seem most likely to effect their safety and
happiness...” Are most Americans safe and
happy? Is our government “destructive to
these ends?” Do the “just powers” actually
institute policy that is based on the “con-
sent of the governed?”
In 1774, the 13 British colo-
nies in North America protested against
England’s tyranny. However, it took the
Emancipation Proclamation, signed by
Three Men Walk away from Crash-The Levy County Sheriff's Office received a 9-1-1 call at 3:09 PM in reference to a plane crash east of Inglis
President Abraham Lincoln on Jan. 1,
on Hwy 40 near peaceful acres.. The pilot John Kuniyoshi, 36 from Lake Worth said during the flight from Cedar Key to Sanford the plane
1863, to stop slavery in this county, yet
developed engine trouble. Newscaster Photo/Sally Price.
186 years later, we still see signs that
Pilot, Two
Man charged with robbing pharmacy
not all people are equal in the eyes of all
Americans. It took the 19th Amendment
to the Unites States Constitution in 1920
& trafficking in oxycontin
Passengers
to give American women the right to vote;
yet today, women in politics are frequently
Edward James Vasquez, 28, 2741
Around 6:35 p.m., Vasquez was
subjected to scorn and ridicule.
Walk Away
N. Laureen St., Lecanto, was arrested by the
transported to the CVS pharmacy that had
One form of tryanny I see is what
Citrus County Sheriff’s Office, June 27, at
been robbed of the oxycontin, and the phar-
I call “rampant capitalism to the extreme.”
827 S. Suncoast Blvd. in Homosassa.
macist identified Vasquez
Note that I did not say ‘capitalism,’ which
From So. Levy
According to his arrest reports, em-
as the person who had
in moderation or balance is a wonderful
ployees at the Homosassa CVS Pharmacy
robbed her. She said that
concept. You could say, that in America,
located at 327 S. Suncoast Blvd. had been
Vasquez had not displayed
corporations are treated as though they
Plane Crash
robbed by a hispanic male who had come
a weapon, but had acted
were people.
into the pharmacy, shortly before 4:30 p.m.,
as though he had one and
The United States is part of a
demanding oxycontin, a narcotic, pain pre-
demanded the oxycontin,
global economy and is quickly evolving
by Newscaster Correspondent Sally Price
Pilot John Kuniyoshi, 53 of Lake
scription medication. The pharmacist told
according to the report.
into a Third World country, with charac-
Worth and two passengers walked away
the investigator that she’d given Vasquez (as
The report also
teristics that are common to such poor
from a small single engine, (2008 Lus-
he was later identified) 3 bottles of oxycon-
stated that Vasquez told
countries, a high level of debt, an income
Vasquez
combe) four seater plane crash on Hwy 40
tin, each containing 100 tablets.
the detective that he was
distribution concentrated in the top 1 to 2
in South Levy just east of Peaceful Acres.
The detective was given a descrip-
taken to the CVS pharmacy and had de-
Continued on page 4 - Squawk Box
The crash was reported to the Levy County
tion of Vasquez, who was arrested around
manded the pain medication from the phar-
sheriff Dept. Friday afternoon about 3 p.m.
6:18 p.m. at 6235 W. Grant St. in Homosas-
macist. According to the report, Vasquez
Area Independence
The pilot and two passengers, Malcolm
sa, on an unrelated arrest warrant for failure
said that he has a problem with pain medica-
Ford, 53 of Sanford and Jordan Astrin, 25
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to appear on an original charge of posses-
tion, and that after he took the medication
from OIviedo had left Sanford in the plane
sion of a controlled substance without a pre-
from the pharmacy, he’d given it to an un-
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for a Cedar Key lunch. According to fire per-
scription and possession of paraphernalia.
disclosed person for payment.
His bond was set at none on the charge.
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Continued on page 10 - Plane Crash