Telluride, Colorado Update: Perpetual Debate for Perpetual War In To-Hell-U-Ride?

Word on the street is that despite its own best intelligence, the San Miguel County Commissioners are leading us all into another confrontation with the rest of the nation by opening up another debate about, of all things, a possible resolution regarding the impeachment of President George W. Bush.

The commissioners, led by its chairman, Commissioner Art Goodtimes, seem to be in support, of all things, stopping a looming war with Iran. He seems to think somebody around here should become more aware around here and discuss this. Clearly, he’s flip-flopping again. He wrote a book called, As if the World Really Mattered (ck). Now I’m starting to think he actually believes the world really does matter. Despite these conceits, plans are underway for meetings to discuss whether it should be discussed first, before we enter another damaging foray that could destroy the local economy (or boost it, not sure).

The first thing to consider is territorial rights. This was a Telluride issue, whether or not to debate it. The town council, apparently to silence this clearly silly debate by keeping the issue out of the November election, which would have cost this town all kinds of taxpayer dollars (well, very little, if any) possible embarrassment about, of all things, despite its anti-war heritage during the late 1960s and 1970s, speaking out against another war (this one far worse, or better, depending on your point of view).

So it passed the resolution supporting the impeachment of Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. See the logic here?

And it worked. Nobody got to say very much about it around here anymore. Nobody got to vote on the resolution in November. The impeachment issue was taken off the table by the Democratic “leadership” last fall. The impeachment thing died. And nobody around here has said anything, in appreciation, about how all of these people are failing to show up because we had so much courage to try to stop Bush, the duly appointed national executioner, from threatening to incinerate half the planet.

So that people will still ski here.

Until now, with these shenanigans going on in the county commissioner chambers.

So what I’m proposing is an emergency session of a rarely, rarely used provision in the town’s charter, calling a Town Meeting, to be moderated by citizen Jerry Greene, the town’s recently elected town moderator (opposed by nobody).

This issue, of whether or not to oppose the war in order to maintain an orderly flow of the tourism dollar, needs to be discussed. In detail. More than once, most likely. A series of meetings, then. Who really knows if, with all of the new billionaires – who replaced the millionaires – around, if there’s still a majority around here who might oppose the war?

Perhaps it could be, if discussing the need to remove a national executioner were indeed so damaging to town receipts, a suitable replacement activity for skiing. People can come here and just discuss a surely more ample commodity, that is, the invisible/visible foe, terrorism and a war to suppress/ignite it, for the rest of the century.

With that still going on then, a running debate still running (Heh! Does everybody get the play on words regarding ski “runs”? Sure hope so. Wouldn’t want this satire to fail), then the commissioners could, despite their own best intelligence, open another front in the form of still more debates.

People could come here, if and when there’s no snow, to debate. Because screaming from the mountaintops is a well-know tradition in some quarters, right?

They then should keep the debates running, the discussions going, until the war against terrorism ends, or the terrorism to end terrorism ends, or something like that … so that a community made by ski people, filled with ski people, shall not perish from the earth.