Originally Witten July 15th, 2021
In protest from the officer involved shooting and death of Soobleej Kaub Hawj of Kansas City, Kansas, during the evacuation of the Mount Shasta Vista Subdivision from the Lava Fire on June 29th, Zurg Xiong, a resident of the same subdivision in the Hmong and Asian community, has been on a hunger strike at the entrance of the new Siskiyou County Courthouse building in Yreka since last Sunday.
Many other Asians that live and cultivate cannabis in Shasta Vista stood around Xiong holding signs in support and demanding for changes in the water ordinances and transparency of the shooting investigation in which they believe they are not getting.
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They have a porta potty guy doing his job in the vistas. And those who don’t have a porta potty have a septic system of sorts. Not one that cost $1000s but one that functions basically the same. Animals have been defecating straight on the ground for millions of years ranches have cows that piss and defecated on the ground by the thousands I’m not sure what the problem is here. So with that argument about not having septic systems it sounds like a BS argument. They may use fertilizers of sorts to grow their cannabis which is usually in pots they’re not dumped directly into the ground but it’s no worse than what the sheriff’s department did a few years ago when they mowed down but we know is Chinatown dumping large volumes of chemicals and nutrients are fertilizers if you will straight on to the ground bulldozing greenhouses and dwellings into mass piles on a 600 plus acre plot next to the vistas and where it still remains a dumping ground if that is not an environmental disaster that the county is directly responsable for then I don’t know what is. Meanwhile hundreds if not thousands of misinformed Chinese lost everything life savings gone. If siskiyou county didn’t want this, the large amount of illegal cannabis grows to happen it should have been nipped in the bud, no pun intended, when it could have been stopped years ago. But hey why would they want to stop this cash crop for the county. They could pretend like it’s a problem that they can’t control and say that it’s just too many grows all they want but they are making money in a isn’t that what everything’s about, money. I live in the vistas I’m not a big grower. I know many of these Asians I get along with them just fine. I’m a caucasian and I see how they are treated. They spend more money in this county then I do. Someone needs to make all this right iknow there is a way so we can all live and grow together and still make money for county.