11-09-2013: Thanks to Linda L. R. Roberts & Kathy McConaghie for this post. My remark: It wont be long before this is where Im going to be. Their information follows: A forward: Brian Connolly International Citizens Tribunal On the streets between Venice and Santa Monica the LAPD handed out twenty $160 tickets to homeless individuals the other night. Their crime? Being where they’re going to sleep that night. Its against the law to place a sleeping bag, etc., down on a Los Angeles sidewalk before 9:00 PM. No camping. A few nights before, just down the block, a police car rode up on me as I lay on the sidewalk. A cop yelled at me to “Pick my shit up!” it was 7:45ish PM. Disappear, Nowhere Man. Even just propping up all that you have left and standing up wasnt enough to stop the citations. The cops were sending a message. Society doesnt want to see you. WE dont want to see you. The tickets were issued just minutes before 9 PM. And if you cant pay? For example--you dont have a job--the ticket may double, community service may be required, a warrant might follow... And well be waiting at 6 AM to make sure youre out-of-sight for the rest of the day. Horns, sirens, beeps...beams of white light sweeping across bodies and cardboard on the sidewalk. You recognize the thuggish nature of it all when you see it with your own eyes. Welcome to the 1%s police state. Center stage: The police. In the wake of the crimes of the banks, it’s impossible to ignore the reality of the cops being used as tools to suppress the truth. Not one banker of import went to jail, but the homeless are scapegoated--almost every other person in America marginalized in some way. And now the 1%-controlled media are saying that bankers did go to jail as if it’s 1984. The past has been rectified. All is well. Nothing to see here. Move along. And if you don’t move along. The police will be there. Occupy!
Posted on: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 19:54:54 +0000
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