Maybe the City Attorney should not be running the City and speaking on behalf of the City of Eureka and it's citizens

I posted the first draft of the letter. I did not post the second draft.

Mayor Jager should not apologize for releasing the first draft. The City Attorney is hired to protect the interests of the City and should advise on legal consequences but in this case, this liability argument went overboard.

The first letter was written by Frank, someone I know well. To put him in the position of defending an action which he did not vote on alone is wrong. To put him in the position when he showed leadership and actually made a decision that would make even his detractors commend him is wrong.

Are we going to allow liability or potential liability to be the topic on every action now before the city Council? Any one can find any reason to sue, whether there is a basis or not.

The first letter with the apology was a significant first step in healing years of atrocities. It does not mean the present people of Eureka are the same as those ignorant fools who participated in the Wiyot massacre in 1860. What it does, is acknowledge an inhumane evil act perpetrated by powerless people who deemed themselves superior culturally.

The roots of such superiority and racism still exist in Humboldt County. This is not about money or property, it is not about whether you or I individually have the same attitudes or actions as those in the 1960s, it is about a city that has hopefully evolved and realizes why today taking responsibility for the sins of the past may promote healing in the present.

It is something that the other cities should also consider, however the Wiyot massacre occurred in Eureka.

Is the City Attorney now running the City of Eureka and speaking for the City of Eureka? We elected a Mayor and City Councilmembers. The City Attorney is hired by the City with her salary paid for with money from taxpayers.

Maybe instead of City Council members, we the citizens,  should have sent the letter to the Wiyot Tribe. Anyone who did not want to sign it, could sit out. Just as those who sat and did nothing when the cowards carried out the brutal killings 153 years ago.

Words ring hollow, actions speak louder.

In world history, moments of silence have resulted in horrors and cultural and spiritual genocide.  The Eureka City Council needs to rethink this action.