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The First Amendment is alive and well in Yuba County.

Well, maybe we should narrow that down.

The First Amendment is alive and well on a small portion of North Beale Road.

Yes, on Friday the First Amendment got quite a workout, thanks to the friendly folks from Westboro Baptist Church, who must have been quite surprised when some other folks showed up to counter their peculiar world view.

Obviously, this is what the Founding Fathers (who are quite in vogue these days) had in mind.

Actually, the First Amendment had been getting quite a workout on North Beale Road in recent months.

The forces from Code Pink were out there a few times, ready to storm the gates of Beale Air Force Base. Apparently nobody from Yuba County was among Code Pink’s small ranks. They brought in the shock troops from the Bay Area.

Earlier last week, when the military said farewell to “don’t ask, don’t tell,” Yuba-Sutter’s gay community celebrated at the gate’s of Beale.

The gay community turned out to be one guy, but the First Amendment gave him that right to celebrate.

And then the First Amendment worked again Friday, when the Westboro Baptist folks and some real Americans tried to out-protest each other on North Beale Road.

Beale AFB survived unscathed, primarily because the protest was 21⁄2 miles away.

So that First Amendment works. It gives you the right to speak. It gives you the right not to speak. It also gives you the right not to listen to people who speak gibberish. You can ignore them, something most Yuba County residents managed to do on Friday.

First Amendment. What a concept.

Tough market

Congratulations to Yuba City’s Avtar Dhillon, who just bought controlling interest in Legend Mining Inc., which had been headquartered in Yuesiu district, Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China.

Dhillon, former president and CEO of Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc. in Pennsylvania, spent $67,500 for 4.5 million shares of Legend, according to recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and now has about 61 percent of the company’s outstanding stock.

There’s apparently a lot of room for growth. An SEC filing noted that Legend, described as “an exploration stage company,” had “no operating revenues” since it opened in July 2007 through March 31 of this year. Expenses amounted to about $110,000.

“Our activities have been financed from the proceeds of share subscriptions and loans from a nonrelated party,” the company said in a filing.