Who is Trust Islanders! ?
Friends have asked, “who is Trust Islanders!” A more relevant question is “Why Trust Islanders!” as the answer is more revealing.
Trust Islanders! believes that:
- Trust creates a much more interesting and expansive place to live than the one created by Fear. Trust allows the human spirit to unfold in playful and creative ways, while Fear smothers the creative spark and leads the individual (and community) into a very small box in which to reside.
- Fear never runs out of preventative solutions as it always sees the next crisis just around the corner.
- Fear always looks outside(off island) for guidance, while Trust looks within for solutions.
- Fear always sees a problem before one exists, whereas Trust creates an opening for creativity that is ready if a problem appears.
- Fear seeks controls, whereas Trust allows for personal liberties.
- Fear leads a community into darkness and depression, while Trust creates an opening for light to enter.
- Fear causes people to gather into mental herds, whereas Trust values the individual qualities of each human being and encourages their thoughts to expand freely.
- Fear sees lack, while Trust creates bounty.
Throughout history, many societies have allowed themselves to be controlled by Fear. If we allow Fear to prevail, we put at risk the spirit which creates the “charm” within our island community.
The County Council election on April 23 is very important. Whatʼs at stake is no less than a classic battle between Trust and Fear. Trust Islanders! envisions a community supported by Trust.
What will you support with your vote? Trust or Fear?
We’re Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, Independents plus none of the above. Above all, we are islanders.
Trust Islanders! envisions a San Juan County Council that is non-partisan and will represent the interests of Islanders before all other interests. We are organized to advocate for a County Council that:
- Trusts its fellow Islanders
- Listens to the local constituency
- Treats Islanders as people
- Respects individual privacy
- Is transparent to its citizens
- Supports local business
- Supports the Islands before all other interests
- Is fiscally responsible
- Uses peer reviewed science to craft good environmental law
- Is non-partisan
- Believes Islanders can and do protect the environment
- Considers Islanders to be part of a balanced ecosystem
- Encourages Islanders to trust and support each other
Royce Meyerott /San Juan Island
Sounds good…I’m a big fan of “trust” and feel I have a sense of what’s possible when it becomes established within a group or community…we often speak of “building trust” or “earning trust”…so I’m wondering what processes this organization envisions utilizing in order to raise the levels of trust within SJC…?…
An interesting endeavor. We are in the midst of an election that “Who do you trust” is the first question we have to answer. None of the candidates have a long history of non-partisan governance and yet, that is exactly what we are asking them to be, if elected. It is very easy to put all aspirants to govern and already office holders in the same basket these days. But, are all campaign promises just a lot of hot air? Can those elected shed their bias and govern on a non-partisan and “best for all” basis? I believe people who live on an island are different. I am convinced that the great majority of permanent residents of these, and all, islands believe that and practice that everyday. A government without bias and not special interest motivated. Too hard basket? I don’t think so.
I like the idea of a political action group based on non-partisanship and trust. And transparency, according to their statements. So, who set this up, and who paid for the ads in the print media? How can islanders participate in setting policy and making candidate endorsements?
We can all agree that we need to get past the current partisan logjam our country is in. But so far it looks like you are appealing to “Republican types” I wonder how you plan to appeal to “Democratic types”?
I just had a look at the Trust Islanders! website and see that they are using a photo of the San Juan Island Farmers Market. Does that mean that the Trust Islanders! policy is to support our Farmers Market? Do you support local food, and the protections we’ve put in place to safeguard our seeds?
At first this “sounded” good – but then I went to the web site and visited the Reading Room page.I found the one and only publication there thus far to be simply another smear of The Friends of the Ssn Juans and other supposedly “off island” environental groups. I found this non-factual commentary – including the comments about the very important issue of blocking coal exports through the Salish Sea to be mis-represented. This type of disguised untruths are actually Fear based themselves. It certainly raised my Mis-trust of this newest site. Seems to be just another attempt to put out lots of non-facts, similar to the Heron-something blog coming out of Lopez. Just as “Citizens United” was the name of the organization that got through the controversial (ridiculous) legislation that made corporations equal to individual citizens in rights – I urge islanders to TRUST their own research into this group that also has a mis-leading name.