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• <br />Mr. Sorenson, there is one more issue I would like to address. Our request for an <br />extension to Technical Revision - TR-06 was denied because I had not signed the written <br />request. At our mutual convenience and a meshing timetable, we would appreciate <br />reviewing this decision and the outstanding issues that would prevent an approval of the <br />revision requested. <br />To lighten this discourse somewhat I am including a direct quote, in context, from Plato's <br />Republic. Written in 350 BC, it was translated by Paul Shorey (1930) Harvard University <br />Press: <br />"Will you be able to find a surer proof of an evil and shameful state of education <br />in a city than the necessity of first-rate physicians and judges, not only for the base and <br />mechanical, butfor those who claim to have been bred in the fashion offree men? Do <br />you not think it disgraceful and a notable mark of bad breeding to have to make use of a <br />justice imported from others, who thus become your masters and judges, from lack of <br />such qualities in yourself? " <br />"The most shameful thing in the world. " <br />"Is It? " said I, " or is this still more shameful - when a man only wears out the <br />better part of his days in the courts of law as defendant or accuser, but from the lack of <br />all true sense of values is led to plume himself on this very thing, as being a smart fellow <br />• to put over' an unjust act and cunningly to try every dodge and practice, every evasion, <br />and wriggle out of every hold in defeating justice, and that too for trifles and worthless <br />things, because he does not know how much nobler and better it is to arrange his life so <br />as to have no need of a nodding juryman? " <br />"That is, " said he, "still more shameful than the other. " <br />For hundreds of years now people like Mark Steen have been litigating away their lives. <br />Please have mercy on them. <br />Very truly yours, <br />7?* <br />R. T. Heard <br />Postscript: On Wednesday, two (2) weeks ago, some anonymous person cut the two (2) <br />inch water line just below monitoring well #3, in front of the old Volkswagen. This is <br />only the second vandalism event in four years. I did not report this to the Sheriffs <br />Department as yet. <br />0