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Tulelake, CA— Article

I love to write, as much as there are some people who enjoy reading, what I write. Yes, there are times I touch a nerve or two, by what I write or what I say. As an honest minded person that is part of my make up. There are two things in my life I detest the most.

1. Is a lair?

2. Is a thief?

Nine times out of ten if a person is a lair, they are also a thief, as that combination runs together, as much as a pack of wolves.

I was on face book the other day when someone chatted with me who is 93 years old. I am more than honored that someone with so much wisdom on this earth compared to me. Would take the time to let me know that they miss my articles from before. I have been known to write long articles on many different things going on in my life and not just the city of Tulelake Council Meetings.

Of all the things I do as a performing creative artist, the love for writing is number one on the list. I love to write. I love the fact that what I write, that others enjoy reading, what I write, as much as I enjoy, writing it, not just for them, but for me, as well.

I feel I have been given many gifts from God and one of the greatest gifts he could have given me is the gift of writing. However, I do hear that I am wordy when I write. I cannot always see that but I guess you could say I use a lot of words to express something by drawing a picture in the readers mind as to what I am writing about so they can begin to feel what it is that I feel deep inside as if I was sitting next to them. I was always taught that in order to be a good writer you have to learn how to write as if you are speaking the words or having a conversation to the person next to you.

The only thing I can figure from all of this is that I must speak the same way I write and maybe I can agree with that notion or concept because I do lots of time speak the same way I write or vise versa. For me they are both very similar as when I am writing I write as if I am in fact having a conversation with someone, you, you the reader. The same way I would be if I were sitting next to or across from you and we were having a conversation. The only difference you could say if when I write I don’t get to hear your part of the conversation. I guess then you could say I am hogging the floor and not letting you have a word to say because I have not stopped long enough for you to get a word in or interrupt me in the conversation.

It is my only way to get out what is on my mind without being interrupted or losing my chain of thought in that conversation that happens more and more as we get older. I am so honored that a person 30 years my senior would give me such a complement, which tells me I must be doing something right and I need to spend more time on it again than I have been able to lately.

Now however I have been unable to for legal reasons, legal reasons through the selfishness of others who want to stop or delay what I do at any cost and they did for about two months when it first happened but I feel I am doing the best I can under the circumstances to write, update the web site and make the changes I need to get done on it, and get things done as I work towards my real goal and that is having a Film, TV, Radio, Theatre, News, Media Production company. That is a lot for one person to try and accomplish then you add obstacles that rear their head up such as legal situations in the courts that soon hopefully will be resolved by all the parties involved to where they can go on with their lives and I can go on with mine. In the since like a divorce where each side lets things go and let each person move on with their lives, instead of being so oppressed with the person, they loath so much, meaning me.

Hopefully, they will begin to realize with mental help, just how much they have to let go of the words I speak and not to take what I say so literally and personal and if I do say something personal about them for them to realize what I write is the truth because is the reputation I have and have been known to have from the very beginning as I say it like it is as I see things like Roseanne Barr said to me once from her sight Roseanne World back in 2007. When I asked her that question "If Jesus thought I could be a good writer without all the pain and suffering that comes with writing things from my point of view and how I see the world." Not everyone agrees with how I see things, and that is fine, as they have the right to their point of view too. But to make up lies to try and cover up the truth about them is what is wrong with this entire picture that I have spent many months on defending myself from it all or against it all.

For me they have done me a big favor as I would not be as known by so many people as I am now without them. I have met so many wonderful people from spending time as a homeless person playing the role of a homeless person, but in reality I had to live as a homeless person for two and half weeks in the freezing cold in Yreka, CA. Knowing all the while I had a home in Tulelake, CA. I just could not go there as I needed to be in Yreka, CA standing up for my rights and against the lies that have been presented to the court by a group of people that are so obsessed with me by what I write and say, they had to go to the point of lying about it to get back at me for what they know is the truth about them, not me in reality.

I could not afford a motel room so I ended up pushing a shopping cart with all of my legal stuff and other necessities that I needed a small shopping cart to push around rather than carry everything I needed. Not knowing where I was going to sleep each night. From sleeping in the County Jail Lobby, to the men’s restroom at the park, to sleeping out in the woods not knowing exactly where I would end up at the end of each day during that time.

Where not only am I dealing with the obsession by these people, I am dealing with the fact they cannot handle they have no control over me and that is what they want or wanted all along. To try and get me to go away and to never be seen or hear from me again, figuring they could use a past incident against me. The only problem that incident and this one do not have anything in common even though they have tried to paint that picture. I admitted to those things to the court because what these people are unaware of is that my mother passed away and I was dealing with her passing trying to deal with brothers and a sister as to her final resting place and how to get her there plus I was sick, I had strip throat and had got deathly sick myself from all the driving I was doing from Alturas to Redding, Redding to Klamath Falls and Klamath Falls to Alturas making the final arrangements.

I was given codeine, which can make you hallucinate and lose all perspective on reality and in fact that time was so painful for me it has taken me years to even begin to think about that time, less well even write about it. As it was a very painful time in my life in many ways that I am not going to go into all those details at this time. But for a group of people to try and use that against me, is not only wrong, but also was and has been uncalled for from the very beginning. How dare they claim I am unstable, they have no idea what unstable is, maybe they should look in the mirror and maybe they will begin to see themselves for who they really are being, the unstable ones, who are obsessed with someone for telling the truth, no one has guts to tell them about themselves, but me.

Where they have been and referring to me by calling me a criminal, along with other derogatory things or referring to me as being one or the other in my past dealings in Alturas, CA. Which is the farthest thing from the truth that one can get. I have no such record as being a criminal and that is grounds for a civil suit, not only slander; but for libel as well. Don’t believe me, look it up for your self, there is no such record of any kind as they have claimed against me in a court of law. You will find nothing, as they have claimed in a court of law against me. Which now makes it perjury and conspiracy.

Time will tell how this story ends when the truth comes out and now would be a good time to come clean and admit it, before it is too late in a courtroom at the end of this month.

So yes I have had my hands full along the way but the greatest thing of all of this turmoil from these people who have stolen my time, is all the great people I have met while hitch hiking from Yreka, CA to Tulelake CA and from Tulelake, CA to Yreka, CA when I did not have a ride there and back. Then there are all the great wonderful people who have read my articles that I have never met in real life and I am honored and humbled for them as well, too.

“Thank you!”

To all of the people who have read what I write, to those of you who know me in real life and those of you, who do not.

God bless all of you,

James C. Garland

IE: Now back to work.

Written by James Garland of Tulelake News
PO Box 772
Tulelake, CA 96134-0772

Home Phone (530) 667-4744
Cell # (530) 708-7852

Email: tulelakenews@yahoo.com Tulelake News

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