Intelligence

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Imagine you are the last person left on Earth. Would you still believe those lies that you know deep down aren’t true? Seeing how one can only temporarily maintain a lie to one’s self, my bet is you’ll try to deconstruct those lies. Truth either is or it isn’t. There are only the wide, treacherous, crooked road of deception, and the narrow, straight road of Truth. One is a labyrinth to the pits of darkness, and the other is a ladder to understanding.

False analogies, and premises, red herrings, ad hominem, appeals to pity, ignorance, and wrong authorities, either/or fallacies, post hoc, concurrence fallacies, personified abstractions, ill-founded generalizations, non sequitur, circular reasoning, begging the question, equivocation, and slippery slopes are the many ways your logic can be tricked into believing a false truth. It is your brain, your logic, your intelligence, that can justify anything. Our intelligence causes more problems then it solves. Nuclear bombs are the result of massive intelligence, but I really wish I didn’t have to spend my life living in its shadow.

Your not the last person on Earth, so welcome home. You already know the truth. Right now as you are reading this everything you need to know in order to see through the bullshit is already inside you. What we call the spirit, the soul, or the heart knows. You feel wisdom more in your stomach than you think it in your brain. You know when you are in love, and that truth resides in your intuition.

Science sees god as an obstacle in the path of truth, but really it is the convolution of the god concept that is a stumbling block to both scientific and god truths. The god truths are the same, and greater than the science truths. Laws of physics not yet discovered by scientists are already in play. The god concept is the laws of nature. It is also the laws of love, and the two are intrinsically linked.

Sin is an uniquely human characteristic. The rest of the species unanimously agree sin does not exist. Sin should be defined as preforming an act that your heart tells you is not the right thing to do. With that definition it would make the hardening of your heart the worst of sins. When people let their brains so override their hearts that they can’t hear their hearts talking to them anymore, they do way more damage to themselves and society then people who follow their hearts. A hardened heart is truly the commonality between the ax murder, the bigot, the war mongered, and scam artist.

As you deconstruct the lies you’ve been programed to believe then you naturally fill the void with truth. As you recognize more and more truth it becomes easier and easier to see with eyes that perceive, and hear with ears that understand. Let those with eyes that see, and ears that hear, understand the truth will set you free.

love eternal
tad

Portland Sitting/lying on the Sidewalk Law gets Removed from my Shitlist.

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Yesterday, Portland houseless won a court victory which defeats Portland’s anti-houseless sit/lie sidewalk-obstruction ordinance due to constitutional concerns. Transient has just brought this to my attention, so I don’t know anymore than what is in the news release at this point. When I find out more I’ll let you know.

To all you in Portland: Take a long deserved rest on the sidewalk brothers and sisters. Hopefully we can recreate it here in California and bring our cities more in line with the Constitution too. Keep up the good works.

love eternal
tad

court post

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I have so many things to write about, but am busy defending myself from an accusation I violated some uncodified, vague, selectively enforced, rule, by a whopping 21 seconds. I’ve been in court Wednesday and Thursday (June 17 and 18). All of you familiar with the court system probably think I am in the middle of a long hearing, but your wrong. I am just trying to get another continuance.

I went to have my suppression motion heard Wednesday morning. It was scheduled for courtroom two, was docketed in courtroom three, and called in courtroom seven. After assuring Judge Cissna that I was ready to proceed with the hearing, Blair Angus, a county council (not the lawyers prosecuting me), caught me in the hall and told me that two of my subpoenaed witnesses were out of town and wouldn’t appear. I didn’t know Blair was county council, and somehow assumed she was with the District Attorney. She came to work out a deal with me on the five county employees I subpoenaed, but I didn’t realize she wasn’t a prosecuting attorney so she ended up sitting around the courtroom half a day.

When I first heard that Phillip Crandall was one of the two violating the subpoenas all’s I could think was, body attachment. A “body attachment” is basically an arrest warrant you get a judge to sign for someone violating a subpoena. I realize that unlike you and me to Crandall a body attachment is nothing more than a phone call telling him when to show up. I decided the best course of action was to move the court for a continuance. Blair promised to bring me a list of dates when all the county employees will be available.

Anyone who has been through any court system in this country realizes that plea bargining is what passes for justice in this nation of profiteering off crime. The judges encourage plea bargaining, asking again and again if the lawyers have reached an agreement. The shitty thing about plea bargaining is that innocent people get harsh punishment, while those who really hurt people get reduced deals. With over worked and under paid public defenders, with elderly and mostly conservative juries, with people’s natural tendency to want the least in punishments, with the cops, the DA, and judges all wanting drug war convictions instead of justice, with the piling on of charges, and with the possible loss of job/housing the plea bargain model of pseudo-justice has slowly replaced our truth based peer system. Because the odds are that stacked against you, especially when you’re innocent, plea bargaining is really coercion. The judges are require to ask if you “have been coerced into accepting this plead bargain,” yet nobody ever says yes.

The “bargain” the DA is currently offering in my case is, plead guilty of count one and they’ll drop count two. My counter is drop all charges, and I won’t ask Jimmy Smith to publish an apology in the papers. I’m not sure that is really a wise move on my behalf though. It seems that the purpose of “bargaining” is to get a bargain. The DA’s goal is to get a conviction, and my goal after all is to force Jimmy Smith, or any other boring supe chairman, to allow me my constitutional/legislated uninterrupted time of their attention. How exactly I get my legal, constitutional, civil right to redress my grievances matters not to me as long as it is obtained non-violently.

When we finally got called in front of Judge Cissna again he had to recuse himself because he is friends with one of my witnesses. This meant we had to wait around for another judge to open up. After about an hour the head court clerk Linda Carter, got us to agree to 8:30 the next morning in front of judge Reinholtsen.

When lawyers wait around the hall waiting to have their cases called it’s pay for by tax dollars. Lawyers bill their hours to each case. Normally it is one DA, but in this case it is a DA and a County council. I have so far invested $3 for bus tickets for every day I appeared in court (though a few have been on days I would have been in Eureka anyway). It appears to me that because the county is facing a law suit they believe the have to keep throwing good money after bad.

Thursday morning’s wait fest didn’t last long – 30 to 45 minutes. This continuance was important at this point, none of the witnesses were told to return. I didn’t even bring a note taker (someone to take notes during the hearing). Judge Reinholtsen granted the continuance, vacated the trial date which was mistakenly set for June 29th instead of July 29, and acknowledged that I received discovery on even more witness from the DA.

When I arrived Wednesday Jeremiah Ross, the DA prosecuting my case, told me we had trial on June 29th. I didn’t have a clue what he was talking about. I checked my notes from when we set the trial date and saw I had written “7/29.” Because my charges are misdemeanor missing a trial date would mean a warrant for my arrest. Though I am sure the warrant would leave a “cite and release” clause one must remember I’m tad and the cops arrest me without reason, let alone a paper saying they can. The clerk wrote the wrong date and I was at risk. Luckily it was fairly easy to catch seeing how it was scheduled the day before the “pretrial conference.”

The DA keeps giving me more and more “discovery.” Some of it makes no sense at all. Like police reports from civil disobedience I was accused of in the past. Understand this “discovery” is not the court records which actually shows I was never found guilty of those charges. If the fact that cops seem to hate me for standing up for my rights is evidence against me then I’d be glad to retry all those case now too. The only one of those old cases I was convicted of anything was once I bargained away 4 or 5 misdemeanor protest related charges for an infraction disturbing the peace plea, with no fine and I plead Nolo contendere to. A Nolo contendere, or no contest, plea means I never admitted guilt. And that means if the DA wants to introduce any bygone shit into this case I get to retry all those old cases I’ve always regretted not getting the justice I deserved on.

It would be interesting if the County decided to spend as much prosecuting someone who dissented against its policies as they would prosecuting a capital criminal. Oh well I can’t concern myself with too much right now past the suppression hearing I’m trying to have heard, and that has been rescheduled to July 16th, at 8:30 am. This time it seems a go. Blair promised me that all the witnesses will show up, I will also re-subpoena them and arrive in court with body attachments ready for the judges signature.

love eternal
tad

Radio Show Rescheduled

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Tracy Herrin will be on Robert Norse’s radio show Sunday at 11:00 am. Tune in here for the live feed.

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tad

The Radio show is Postponed.

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Sorry about the last post. It was supposed to happen tonight, but Robert over booked. I think his show tonight is about forced electro-shock. Maybe Eureka’s camping ban will be this coming Sunday. I’ll let you know.

love eternal
tad

Eureka will be on Santa Cruz Freak Radio

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Thursday evening Tracy Herrin will be on Free Radio Santa Cruz discussing the right of houseless people to sleep in Humboldt County. She will be on Robert Norse’s “Bathrobes Pierri’s Broadsides,” at about 7:00 pm, talking about her attempts to apply the Constitution to right to sleep here in Humboldt County.

I’ve been following the case of Aaron Peoples, or as I like to call it “People v. Peoples.” Tracy filed a motion to dismiss Peoples’ charges and to have the Eureka Camping ban declared unconstitutional. Since then Eureka City Attorney, Sheryl Schaffner, has filed a reply and Tracy has filed a response to Sheryl’s reply. Unfortunately I only have a PDF of Sheryl’s reply, and to post Tracy’s response would not make any sense. If any one knows how to post a PDF, on line, for free, let me know.

To listen to the show go to the link above and the rest is self-explanatory. Robert Norse does a lot of good work around houseless issues in Santa Cruz. Robert’s show also airs Sunday’s about 9:30 am, and there all archived. Check it out.

love eternal
tad

Legalize Pot

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This weekend the LA Times printed an op-ed by Kevin Sabet titled, “The price of legalizing pot is too high.”

I don’t know who this Sabet dude is, but at the end of the article it states, “Kevin A. Sabet worked at the Office of National Drug Control Policy in the Clinton and Bush administrations. He is currently a consultant in private practice.” What does this disclaimer, added to highlight Mr. Sabet’s expert qualifications, really tell us? We know he worked in the office that created, and maintained these failed drug policies. We don’t know what kind of “consultant” he is, but should assume he advocates for policies he was responsible for creating and maintaining. He must be viewed as still part of the institution that perpetuates lies and disinformation about drug use.

The idiotorial is full of very questionable facts. Once we know a liar can we believe that their conclusions won’t be faulty? Sabet’s theory is if Matijuana is legalized then “the likely increase in marijuana prevalence resulting from legalization would probably increase the already high costs of marijuana use in society.” He claims, “[a]ccidents would increase, healthcare costs would rise and productivity would suffer.”

Of course Sabet immediately compares Herb use with alcohol use. He points out that the cost of swillers in today’s society is about 200 billion dollars, while the tax revenue from booze is only about 8 billion dollars. He feebly tries to make the case that puffers would likewise create a large cost to benefit ratio like booze’s 25 to 1. He seems to have forgotten the facts about pot and alcohol. Lets see, alcohol kills about a 100,000 people per year, and pot exactly 0. 5% of all deaths from circulatory system diseases are caused by alcohol while pot is medically used for those diseases. There is absolutely no proof that pot smoking increases lung cancer and/or respiratory diseases, yet 15% of all deaths from those diseases are attributed to alcohol. Alcohol causes people to erode motor skills, reaction time, thinking abilities and even black out. Pot doesn’t do that to people. As a result way fewer accidents are caused by pot smoking. Lastly 60% of all homicides are attributed to alcohol! Ask any cop if he would rather stumble upon 10 young males in a dark alley smoking pot or drinking whiskey. Booze is notorious for bringing out the violence in certain people. Pot prohibition was justified because of the tendency to turn its users into pacifists. So much for Mr. Sabet’s claims of social harm.

Sabet claims 65% of our country drinks alcohol. 29% of our country are under the age of 19. This either means that only 7% of our population that are adults don’t drink, or we have a shit load of drunk children, or its all bullshit propaganda. But he goes on to claim that only 6% of us use all illegal drugs combined. That’s like 18 million people for all drugs, but the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the very office this spin doctor use to work for, claims 25 million people smoked pot last year.

After assaulting us with his gross exaggerations Sabet then expects us to believe his assumptions about the reallity of the pot and the criminal justice system. He claims this ex-Rand thinktanker, Jonathan Caulkins, from Carnegie Mellon, found that “more than 85% of people in prison for all drug-law violations were clearly involved in drug distribution” Sabet says this is in line with “other mainstream estimates” without stating what those mainstreams are and where the got their estimates from. He does mention that these estimates are out of line with Marijuana Policy Project’s though.

Sabet conjectures that legalizing wouldn’t end violence, economic-related crime, and street gang activity, because they are due to the cocaine, heroin, and meth trade. But wouldn’t freeing the weed also free up a whole shit load of resources to focus on those other drugs? What about all the pot smokers who will no longer be exposed to the black markets that deal in the less organic drugs? Sabet’s propaganda has no basis in reality. Reefer madness plays well into the hands of prison contractors and cop unions, but it has been a very costly policy to the rest of society.

The truth is that legalizing marijuana will be beneficial to humanity – medicine for society. Once it is grown everywhere, and it is again used to make all manner of goods, and it again becomes our food, its leaves (actually flowers) will be used for the healing of the nations. “And there shall be no more curse.”

love eternal
tad

DA plans to amend tad’s disruptor charges

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I filed a motion requesting a suppression hearing today, May 27, concerning my alleged “peace disruption.” I didn’t post anything, because seeing how no one showed up at any of the previous hearings I figured you would rather read about it ex post facto.

A suppression hearing, officially known as a “Motion to Suppress Pursuant to Penal Code §1538.5,” is a motion questioning the search and seizure of an arrest. Due to the fact I only receive mail in Eureka, not live there, I found out the DA filed three filings on the 21st, and that a court date had been set for yesterday.

The first DA filing was a Motion to Continue. That was the reason for the surprise court date. The DA requested the continuance because the cop who wrote the report was allegedly on vacation. The ironic thing was that last week I received my motion back from the court clerk saying that my motion was voided and the 27th date was vacated. When it got vacated I was motivated to refile it and had already rescheduled it for June 17th at 8:30am, and had already done so by the time I checked my mail yesterday. Plus I was able to vacate that pesky, and mostly useless pretrial hearing scheduled for the 8th.

June 8th is the date scheduled on the second DA motion. This is a Motion to File Amended Complaint. It seems now I am know longer an accused disturber of the peace, but am accused of being a “disturber of the meeting.” California Penal Code (CPC) § 403 is the new charge they will change disturbing the peace to on July 1.

The third motion was an “Opposition” to my motion to suppress. It claims that I didn’t give proper notice for a court date. The law says 10 “court” days, and I didn’t count Monday holidays. Sorry?!. With all the shit one has to learn in order to defend themselves its not surprising to over look some little shit once in a while. Luckily I was able to find a printer and deliver a letter telling all the witness which I felt compelled to subpoena, “never mind.” Yes, that’s right the cat’s out of the bag. Everyone that got subpoenaed for tomorrows date will once again be subpoenaed for the 17th.

Who was on the subpoena list? Jimmy Smith, Kathy Hayes, and Vanessa Erickson all came forward as police witnesses against me, and so I assumed that they are also called by the prosecution, but you can never be too careful when playing with slimy creatures who can bite you, so I subpoenaed them too.

I also subpoenaed Mark Lovelace, because I believe he was the most creditable person in the room at the time. I was grateful for his coverage of Maxxam’s bankruptcy, and believe he has good standing as an observer. Plus despite his new politician status, I believe he is still fairly honest. We’ll find out on the 17th.

Lastly I subpoenaed Phil Crandall, who happened to be the last person, in the little foyer leading into the supes chambers, before six, nail eating, steroidal, cops came charging in the room.

I think I have a good case in the suppression hearing, but I’ve lost hearings before. I really believe I’ve lost any element of surprise now that they have an extra month to “prepare their witnesses.” I still believe my other witnesses and their evidence will make my case.

Sorry I can’t be more specific about what I am trying to do with my suppression motion, because suppression motions are up to the DA to prove his case. And I don’t think he can. I know I promise to write about shit I haven’t yet wrote about, but I will try to explain everything I learned about suppression hearings in a later post.

love eternal
tad

Penal Code §1126

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California Penal Code §1126 says, “In a trial for any offense, questions of law are to be decided by the court, and questions of fact by the jury. Although the jury has the power to find a general verdict, which includes questions of law as well as of fact, they are bound, nevertheless, to receive as law what is laid down as such by the court.”

What this says is the Jury in a trial of a misdemeanor or felony must decide if something is a fact, and the judge gets to decide if the law is fair or applied in the interest of justice. But, it specifically says, “the jury has the power to find a general verdict.” Meaning the jury can decide someone is NOT GUILTY!, even if the facts prove otherwise. We see this in marijuana cases where community’s refuse to convect their neighbors.

The right to “find a general verdict” of not guilty is sometimes called “jury nullification.” As far as I know the term was coined in 1979 by the chair of the Montana Libertarian Party, Larry Dodge. A footnote to §1126, which I just read for the first time yesterday, thanks Dick, reads:

“The Legislature finds and declares that every person has a right to speak out, to poke fun, to stir up controversy without fear of criminal prosecution. The Legislature finds and declares that the continued existence of vague laws on the books is an invitation to their unconstitutional use,at the peril of civil liberties.”

This is clear proof that when the California Legislature wrote §1126 they intended juries to use their right to jury nullification. Though the courts, the DAs and the Attorney General all believe that juries can’t use “jury nullification,” that they don’t “have the right to refuse to apply the law,” the law clearly explaines, “a general law verdict, . . . includes questions of the law as well as of fact.”

When I speak of “modern policing” I mean the preemptive sort of “law enforcement” we have today. Like drunk in public. Nothing is socially harmful about being drunk, stoned, high or any of those other “crimes” designed to prevent other crimes. That’s the whole purpose of those laws. If you get high you might steal in order to keep getting high, or go on a violent rampage because your drunk, etc. etc.

The courts, jails, and cops shops are going broke, and bleeding us of more and more money evey year. The reason why is the laws. If our other three branches of government can’t do their jobs worth a pound of dog shit then maybe we need to legislate from the jury box.

love eternal
tad

Just ’cause it smells like a skunk’s ass . . .

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Yesterday John Stewart was making fun of the newspeak fox news term “homegrown terrorists.” he replied to a string of talking heads using the term, “Homegrown?, you make a terror plot sound like shitty weed. It’s homegrown, isn’t that like that good Humboldt County terrorist plot?” I almost choked on my chronic. Did John Stewart just call Humboldt Homegrown “shitty weed?”

This story really has nothing to do with anything. Its just that Humboldt organic outdoor is so not shitty that I wonder why John would infer that. John knows about Humboldt weed, maybe through experience or maybe just from its well traveled reputation. Maybe John threw that out there hoping one or more of the millions of people who prefer Humboldt to any other weed might just try to prove him wrong.

We don’t only have some of the best herb in the world, but Humboldt is one of the top three places that “experts” will be recruited from once the weed is free. The other two are of course Amsterdam and Vancouver. Humboldt county is where homegrown started. There’s plenty of convincing evidence that Mendo was actually first, but Humboldt was definitely the most notorious. Everywhere I’ve ever been there have been those who when told the word “Humboldt” pavlovianly replied, “skunk weed,” and sometimes in comically broken english.

Like Popeye said: “I yam what I yam, and that’s what I yam.”

love eternal
tad