Humboldt Supes Vote for Stricter Probation

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The Humboldt County’s board of supes gave the Probation Department official blessings to start an “Evidence-Based Probation Supervision Program,” and hire and train one additional probation cop.  This Evidence Based Program (EBP) is the merger of mental health and adult probation. The reason I specified adult is because they already pulled this shit on our kids.

Before I discuss this unanimous vote to hire another probation cop, I need to write a little about newspeak. One of the ways they use newspeak is to combine two words to make a mental picture of a third thing. You’ve heard me bitch about the “chronic homeless” label before. Homelessness is not an incurable medical condition. Neither is something labeled with the term “best practices” the best practices. In fact we see in many cases it is not even the second or third best practice. Likewise “evidence based” is not based on evidence, but Twainian statistics.

When the Mental Health Department first talked about “evidence-based” mental health services, it turned out they were talking about Atypical anti-psychotics. In California (and several other states) everyone who is receiving “mental health services” through the government gets treatment according to a “medication algorithm,” called “CalMAP.” The “medication algorithms” require the mental health service providers to use Atypical anti-psychotics first before any other help is tried.

Evidence shows that these Atypical anti-psychotics are very dangerous, and lead to several life threatening illnesses, while herbs, counseling and improved diet and exercise have been shown to get better results, with considerably less side effects. I’ve already shown how our mental health policies are made, advertised. and lobbied for by giant pharmaceutical corporations. “Evidenced-based mental health services” are really profit-based corporate scams, and way to many people are forced, maimed and killed over those profits.

The next place I saw the use of this newspeak phrase was among “homeless service providers.” The so-called “homeless experts” started talking about “evidence-based” homeless solutions. Again those solutions came to fruition as Atypical anti-psychotics through the County’s “mental health plan,” and its “homeless services plan.” Again the evidence didn’t support the evidence the “evidence-based” theory was based on. Also the “homeless service plan” originally was supposed to be a “chronic homeless plan to end chronic homelessness in ten years,” but through that newspeak magic it was turned into a “plan to end homelessness in ten years.” This is reflected in the “mental health services plan” with Crandall reporting that ninety percent of ALL houseless people are substance abusers, and eighty percent are “mentally ill.” I’ve explained how this both defies logic and classifies homelessness as a medical condition.

I know I have said a little more than a few words about this, but I believe we need to start recognizing the mad dogs before they bite us. Anytime you hear the word “tool” ask, “are they talking about cop stuff?” Every time you hear “evidence based” ask, “are they talking about mental health?” This item uses both of those newspeacks phrases a lot. The head cop in the probation department, Doug Rasines, also calls his “new tool” an “instrument.” It’s a fucking questionnaire with a computer program. And he never calls the people on probation, “people.”

Rasines, states in the supe’s packet that “[t]he primary objective of the ARRA funding is to create or restore jobs.” Currently he has 15 probation officers. Each of these probation cops are currently supervising 52 “high risk felony” people on probation, and 31 lesser risk people. The board packet indicates he has 1275 people to supervise. The National Institute of Corrections, undoubtedly a cop think tank, “indicates” that POs should have less than 50 “high risk felony” cases. He also states in the packet that he has positions allocated, but de-funded, for 12 more POs. If he was fully funded he would have 27 POs. A little math tells us that if he had all the POs he wants then each PO would have a total of 47 cases. Since 47 mixed risk people is below the 50 “high risk” people he claims one PO can supervise, what is to prevent his POs from making every case into a “high risk” case?

Further along in the packet we learn that he is also changing the “assessment tool” from one he calls “a modified Wisconsin model” to one called “STRONG.” He claims that he is switching to this tool because it has “a stronger scientific base.” Again I will point out that all the pseudo sciences, especially one that is designed to see the future, has absolutely NO scientific base! Though the percentages of people who are violated are extremely low, just 6.8%, or 87 out of 1275, the fact he has 570 on “high risk” status is enough to tell me his science is full of shit, and as such no science at all. Imagine if gravity had an error rate.

Not only is the STRONG assessment “more scientific,” but Rasines assures us, well really the supe’s, that changing the “instrument” to STRONG will result in more people being labeled “high risk.” Being “high risk” means more hoops to jump through, along with “services.” These services are assigned by “identifying the particular programming to address an identified criminogenic need.” There are really only two profitable “services” available. One is drug treatment, and Rasines claims they are staffed by workers “typically of limited educational background.” Isn’t it ironic that you only need a high school diploma to be a PO? Rasines makes it clear they are insufficient, so that only really leaves the other service. Yep “mental health services.”

The POs with this “tool” will get the additional duties of “facilitating cognitive behavioral programming.” What did Orwell call it? Rasines further writes, “Development of EBP-cognitive behavioral programming in our community is proposed to be effected by the training of the Probation Department in facilitation of a particular program curriculum.” Not only is he running loose and wild with that “community” reference, but he literally said “programming.”

The EBP, or evidence based program, Rasines is referring to is from the National Institute of Corrections just like the study that convinced him he needed another PO. It’s called “thinking for a change” (t4c). I wish I knew more about the specifics of t4c, but that’s not the kind of information department heads allow “our community” to know. It does say under objective 3, “Probation officers with active supervision caseloads to assess probationers coming on to probation using STRONG tool to determine criminogenic need and appropriate outpatient treatment referrals to meet those needs.”

I wish we had the data they already keep. I know it will show an increase in forced druggings in every population group where “evidence based practices” are implemented.

One other thing I should mention is, this $231,055 grant wasted on more police for the police state is administrated by the California Emergency Management Agency. I don’t understand what CalFEMA is doing administrating probation grants. Maybe before the FEMA camps are filled they want to dope all the ex-criminals. I don’t know. but this is scary shit, and it passed with very little objection.

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Why boycott KHUM?

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I hear from a few people who express concern I am jepordizing Michael Moore’s job. Moore has a nine to fiver. I haven’t publicly called for you to boycott that corporation, though personally it has become a decision in my choice patterns.

Moore is a weekend DJ on public airwaves. He uses, intended or not, his celebritiness to promote his blog.

I DO NOT want people to visit his blog, and promote its ratings. Nor do I want people contacting his home.

But I do want that blog taken down!!!

He is a public celebrity who has a blog denigrating one, and only one, class of people. KHUM is a public radio station who employees Moore, and by default creates the celebritism. They have people paid to answer those phones, and will be appreciative of your calls. After all KHUM wants to be a good neighbor, even if Moore doesn’t.

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Reefer Madness and Humboldt Liberals

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It really seems that a new reefer madness has struck the liberals of Humboldt county. From the Times Slander putting a pot leaf on any paper that mentions the word marijuana, to the Arcata Leye making a big enough stink that the federal government raids our fellow Humboldtians, the county has begun to develop an unhealthy fixation on pot use.

The most recent issue of the southern Humboldt paper, The Independent, ran a article titled “Supe Cites ‘Magnitude of Complaints’ about Grow Houses.” The article is a push by Humboldt supe Duffy to outlaw pot growing through zoning codes. Duffy claims she gets two or three call a day complaining about people growing pot in their homes. She claims, “people are really struggling with neighbors who have indoor grows that are having huge impacts on their neighborhoods” (emphasis mine). What are and how huge are these impacts?

If you bother to read the whole thing, you will see at the very end are the “impacts.” Duffy claims that the huge impacts are “odor and safety concerns.” First as to the odor, it is harmless, and causes no adverse problems. We live by the coast for crying out loud. We have low tides much more offensive in odor than the smell of crops growing. Odor is only a problem to those who want to get others in trouble with the law.

The second “huge impact” is that some people think that “home invasion incidents” will be mistakenly perpetrated against the wrong house. Duffy said, and I shit you not, “There has been an uptick of home-invasion incidents and the concern is that if someone’s growing in your neighborhood, it’s just a matter of time before somebody gets an address wrong and shows up at your doorstep.” Talk about fear mongering! This is perhaps the most illogical argument I’ve ever heard about pot. The “matter of time” bullshit is a propagandist’s way of saying that though the odds are astronomically small, you should still fear it. First there are the odds that someone is feloniously trying to strong arm someone for their pot. Then there’s the odds they get the wrong house, and then there’s the odds that your house is that wrong house. Add to that the fucking odor at the right house. The odds that the cops get the wrong house in a pot bust and shoot your family dead is much greater, and will be even greater than that with more anti-pot policies.

There is no serious impact except that made by the anti-marijuana liberals. I agree that there are many things that would be beneficial to teach the more “easy money” of the pot growers, but driving them further underground will not accomplish that end. On top of that legal grows will have less odor reducing equipment, and so will smell much skunkier.

I also realize that marijuana money is really all that is keeping our local economy going. Would any of Humboldt’s businesses be comfortable refusing to accept marijuana money? Of course not. It may be cool if your business caters to the University or the Government, but still a lot of the restaurants, markets, and shops you visit would probably shut down.

There is nothing dangerous about cannabis. There are plenty of dangerous things about the black market underground you have resigned marijuana to. Among the most dangerous are those who have taken up arms to either defend it or eradicate it. What is the evidence of this “uptick” Duffy speaks of? I do see an uptick in body armored cops with assault rifles kicking in doors and putting their barrels to peoples heads. It seems it is the job of the police and the supes to protect us from those wishing to steal our stuff, not to take away our stuff. Think how much easier it would be to stop bank robbers if money was outlawed.

I believe we should put no limits on marijuana growing. We should have so much that we can’t give it away. Nobody’s gonna bust in your door to rob you of something that grows everywhere. That’s another thing it grows, and that means it was meant to be outdoors. Growing stuff under lights is both unsustainable, and unnatural. Especially somewhere like here, where it grows soooo nicely outside.

Its a money game for the supes though. The more they can put in their rules, the more they can collect from those who break them. While the criminals continue risking themselves for the insane profits, the legal patient will find they can not maintain enough medicine for their needs. It’s just a plant, the sooner we realize that, the sooner it’s leaves can be use for the healing of nations. If you haven’t watched the video “The Union” perhaps you should.

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ACLU picks Dr. Death “Civil Liberties Patriot of 2009″

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There’s an idiom which says, “fools rush in where angles fear to tread.” I’m pretty sure I a rushing in right now, but I can’t resist. Congratula-motherfucking-ation Phillip Crandall for being the ACLU’s civil liberty patriot of 2009. I don’t really think it elevates him as much as it deelevates the ACLU.

This is slightly embarrassing, because the ACLU also nominated me for that award. I haven’t written about it because I was ashamed to be associated with any of the other nominees. If I had been nominated with someone like Verbana, who was arrested defending civil liberties twice last year, along with training hundreds of community members on their civil liberties, I would feel ok about it. Hell, even Geronimo, who held the vigil while I was in jail has done more in the last year to promote civil liberties than I have.

Whether it is John Shelter, who goes out under the guise of his “new programs” and steals houseless people’s possessions, or Bonny Neely who voted to spend $70,000 of “homeless funds” for a Rob Amerman study that concluded we need to collect more data, and $85,000 for a homeless information collecting computer program, these are not people associated with civil liberties.

I’ve already expressed how I feel there are many others in our community still fighting as patriots of civil liberties, but definitely not Phillip Crandall. Crandall is not known for his civil liberties either in house or out. He’s a prescription pad in employment of the pharmaceutical corporations, with the tax payer as the insurance company. He continually boasts that an unrealistically large number of our community members need his CalMAP services (pharmaceuticals). He constantly brings mandatory mental health policies before the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors.

By nominating me, and rewarding Crandall, one might think, I might refrain from exposing the fact that this is the ACLU justifying the actions of Phillip Crandall. Call me a sore fucking loser if you want, but fuck that shit, lives are at stake. There is no justification for what Crandall does or plans on doing to this county.

Bad decision ACLU. Its one thing to defend the rights of nazis free speech rights, it is something else entirely to praise Eichmann. Please don’t ever nominate me for anything again.

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The bigot Moore

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“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism – ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any controlling private power.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

Benito Mussolini said, “fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.” With the recent supreme court decision on corporate campaign financing we see a better view of the merger of corporate and state power. What is a little less clear is the increase in eugenic rhetoric spoken by the pundits of fascism.

Today the AP ran a story about Andre Bauer, South Carolina’s lieutenant governor, and candidate for governor. He reportedly told a crowd at a town hall, “My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed! You’re facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don’t think too much further than that.”

Obviously this Malthusian statement is equal to the Nazis “useless feeder” theory. It shouldn’t surprise us to find some cousin kissing hillbilly from South Carolina still embraces the rhetoric of the KKK, but what is the real face of the neo-nazis?

Locally we have Michael Moore, a weekend DJ on KHUM, who runs a pro eugenics blog called “Arcata can be better,” If you go to his blog you will find a bunch of pictures of vehicles which he claims are “transients.” He was so enamored by a letter on Tom Seborn’s blog that he reproduced the letter in his “Arcata can be better” bigots blog, with the title, “I don’t know who “A” is, but damn if he didn’t nail it on the head!”

What A said among other things is, “I am one of the people who believes “that if we don’t feed them and allow them to sleep that the problem will just go away”, and good riddance.” Though Moore’s, a man of color no less, entire hate blog reeks of nazi rhetoric, the above quote, which Moore agrees with whole heartily. is right out of Mein Kampf.

How can anyone claim that Arcata is progressive? Everyone needs to get hold of KHUM’s management and tell them that either Moore’s bigoted blog goes, or Moore goes. Below is a list of contacts for KHUM. Contact the radio station and complain about there classist DJ. Arcata can be better, but first we need to stop the neo-eugenicists.

KHUM – Business Office:
P.O. Box 25
Ferndale, CA 95536
707-786-5104
707-786-5100 (fax)
info@khum.com

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New Stupidity Tax in Arcata

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With so many taxes already bleeding you dry, along with the terrible waste of those taxes by the government which collects it, why would someone volunteer to pay an unmandated tax? A volunteer tax is the actual results of Arcata’s new “give us your CRV for free” elimination of a CRV redemption center. When you buy a beverage in California you pay a deposit on the container. If you don’t redeem the container and get your deposit back, your paying a voluntary tax. That is exactly what the city of Arcata is trying to pull over your eyes.

At first they were going to charge everyone for the right to thieve CRV deposits, but in order to hook you they only charged you for there new money making bins. This new curb side pickup, and resulting shutting down of the buy back center (Arcata Community Recycling Center), will rip off millions of dollars from the people of Arcata.

Though the city’s richest business lady’s dictatorship hasn’t openly stated that part of her objective is to starve the unhoused in our community, the results definitely point to that objective. Hopefully the people of Arcata will remember how Alex Stillman treats the poor next election. You may not be able to stop the corporations from making all our national policies, but you sure as hell can stop the wealthiest Arcatan from ruining Arcata.

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Pissed off fruit flies

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Yesterday the NY Times ran an article titled “Angry Flies May Help Explain Human Aggression.” The article said, “biologist David Anderson set out to learn whether flies, like bees, can get angry – part of a broader effort to study how animal behavior relates to genetics.” The theory that drugs are an effective way to control human behavior is founded upon research with the “flys” in the above mentioned anger study. The Drosophila, or the Fruit Fly, is the fly referred to above, and the favorite of human control experimenters.

The article points out that most of the fruit fly’s genes are also in the human, “including neurons that produce brain chemicals associated with several psychiatric disorders.” This theory started when Seymour Benzer realized that he could change the behavior of fruit flys by adding different toxins. He started “behavioral genetics,” which led to today’s pharmaceutical based mental health services. Rollin Richmond, the president of HSU, is a geneticist who experimented with fruit flies. He also did some experimentation with mice and cocaine, clearly implying a “behavioral genetics” slant to his studies.

Behavioral genetics rhetoric has all the same traits of nazi eugenics rhetoric. The rhetoric goes that if a parent has a “bad” gene then the child will have that bad gene. Likewise sisters and brothers can share the same bad gene.

One of the most disturbing theoretical gene is what I call the criminal gene. It is the belief of many in the behavior and social science ranks that, if uncle Joe was a criminal, then his sister, say your mom, is also a carrier of the criminal gene. That means you, all your siblings, children, etc. have the criminal gene. If some day they decided to eleminate all criminals by eliminating everyone with a bad “criminal gene,” then your fucked. Right now they only have funds, and permission from the State, to examine siblings and parents of those declared to have a bad “mentally ill” gene. They currently blame plenty of crime on “mental illness” however.

The scary thing about this article is the introduction of some supposed angry gene. They have already begun to claim that genes are responsible for mental illness, alcoholism, obesity, other human frailties. The way the experiment goes is you fuck with the fruit fly until it decides to take a different than normal route. In this case they baited the fruit flies with food and then blew them away when they tried to eat. Guess what?, the fruit flies got fucking pissed. Then the frankin-doctor messes with the fruit flies genes until he gets a fruit fliy willing to passively starve to death.

We saw this type of “research” with anti-psychotics. “The brain must have a chemical imbalance because when we fuck with the brain chemicals we get a behavioral modification.” One only believes this illogical crap, because of the pharmaceutical financed, Universities, studies, trials, FDA approval, Pharma field reps educating psychiatrists, ghost written professional articles, and the biggest lobbying group lobbying our governing bodies to adopt these theories as policies. The frankin-doctor in question, Anderson, “believe[s] that the findings ultimately may be relevant to the relationship between the neurotransmitter dopamine and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.”

I’m pretty sure the “angry gene” is suppose to there. It is probably already happening that people are being drug in front of some judge getting sentenced a shortened life on drugs for being angry. We have a right, nay a duty, to be pissed. We should be pissed that they are pushing doping millions of the US’s poorest peoples. Especially when, their projected cut off point is 50% on the financial scale.

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How many cops are Nazis?

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We all know that the Bush family has direct ties to the 1930’s Nazis. We’ve read Naomi Wolf’s book, “End of America.” We’ve watched the new video from Big Noise Films, “White Power U.S.A.” Now check out the Nazi cops in Portland Oregon.

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Politicians are Crazy

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Is it insane to continue to do the same thing while expecting different results? Are people who constantly lie sane? Is it sane for someone to twist every event, good or bad, to themselves and their achievements? Surely those who promote, legislate, or endorse violence should be considered insane. What about those who do all the above insanities with such regularity that society not only accepts their insanity, but actually denotes it as part of their nature. Of course I am talking about politicians here.

Politicians are the most dysfunctional group in our society. They are narcissistic, delusional, pathological liars and psychopaths. They tell you that all that is good is because of them, and all that is bad is the results of not listening to them (even if they caused the original badness). They believe and give lip service to some of the stupidest concepts ever concocted. When has a politician kept his campaign promises? It should be easy to understand that those who promote war, violence, and oppression for the sake of profits are not only crazy, but dangerously so. People who pass laws to prevent a child from obtaining food, or that tears families apart, or puts Mom, Dad, or junior in jail for hurting no one are fucking psychopaths.

These politicians believe that half of all USians are crazy and need to be on a publicly paid for nut pills. A simple look around and one can see that’s bullshit, but the delusional politicians can say it with all the convection of their heart. Do they believe that because we only see that one or two percent of our communities are dysfunctionally crazy, that we believe other communities are 99% crazy? They don’t believe it anymore than the Nazis believed that executing homeless was doing them a favor.

It doesn’t matter if it is a politician like Barack Obama, or local politicians like Mark Lovelace, or Shane Brinton, they are all dangerous wingnuts. If politicians could solve anything they would of solved at least one thing by now. All they do is make things worse. They spend their time trying to find more and more ways to punish you. More fees, permits, and fines are their modus operandi.

What does it say about us when we chose the most dysfunctional members of our society to “lead” us? One could easily acquit those who don’t vote of this insanity, but still they allowed it to happen. Claiming that you thought this one would be different is no excuse either. How many times can you say that? They are all supposed to be different, but they NEVER EVER are! We need to think real hard about a society that every four years picks the craziest mother fucker we can find to make our decisions for us.

I realize many of these politicians are intelligent and cunning, but very often that is true with psychopaths. People who would hit you, or in the case of politicians, jail, beat, or torture you, because you disagree with their views is deranged. To think that because the politicians don’t actually get their hands dirty in the enforcement of their orders they are somehow less culpable, is perverted logic. If the statement, “I was just following orders” is not a sufficient excuse than, “I was just giving the orders” isn’t either.

I can handle the brother or sister babbling to themselves, and leaving me alone. What I can seem to avoid is the politician babbling to those insane people who believe them, and not leaving my community alone. When you realize you have left your family in the hands of an unstable person you immediately pay more attention to that person, and their actions. Like wise when your community, and its future, are in the hands of psychopathic, narcissistic, delusional liars then communal oversight is desperately needed. It is one thing to have crazies “leading” us, but it is something else all together when we believe their insanity. Take the power back!

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Homelessness is an economic problem!

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“Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those that trespass against us
Although them again we will never, never, never trust.“

We have 15 million “officially unemployed,” there was a net gain in jobs in the last decade of less than zero, there are 6 million people whose only income is food stamps, and no one knows how many millions of others living on nothing at all. Every year 1.9 million more people join the labor market (just graduated, second family income, etc.) than retire from it. This means that everyone of those 19 million people during the aughts displace someone already working. We saw record profits, bailouts, and executive bonuses all through the last decade. 7.2 million jobs were lost in US since 2007, 4 million was cut from welfare in California, and Arcata wants to outlaw begging.

We mostly accept this bullshit system, because we believe if we play subservient to the elite we might fly under the radar. Unfortunately most people will discover the error in their logic as the radar gets lower and lower. Think how fast “property owners” became non-property owners when the “bubble” burst. We incarcerate more people per capita than any other nation. Statistically speaking your odds of being “in the radar” are greater here than anywhere else on Earth.

We believe we are a nation of laws, but really we are a nation of privilege. Laws are “tools in the toolbox” to keep the poor from bothering the rich. The few who own most everything, whether it be Chase Manhattan or Major Alex Stillman in Arcata, make the laws. Everyone else is subject to them.

No one is more bothersome to the rich than the poorest of the poor – those without shelter. It is fairly obvious that if 6 million people live only on food stamps they have no rent money. The US government claims only 671,888 people were houseless on one night in January 2008. The National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, estimate there are between 2.3 and 3.5 million houseless people nationally. The problem is that, just like the unemployment numbers, the “homeless counts” are worthless statistics designed to spin a better than reality measure of the politician’s performance. The truth is that by playing down the extent of homelessness it is easier to convince a gullible public that the houseless are just a bunch of lazy drunks.

The laws don’t outlaw homelessness, but every jurisdiction in US has a law outlawing sleep. The law says that you can’t perform “sleeping activities” unless you own property, or have permission from someone who does. We’re not talking about property like cars, or tents, or sleeping bags, we’re talking about the Earth. If you don’t own a part of the Earth you must have permission to sleep anywhere on it. It is relatively easy to get permission when you have rent money (and make at least three months rent each month, pay a bunch of deposits (usually forfeited to the land “lords” anyway), and be in good standing with credit companies, and rental management companies, and etc., etc). If you don’t have rent money (like 6 million people living on nothing but food stamps) – then you’re fucked. Last time I was sentenced in court I told the judge I couldn’t take his probation, because among other things I broke the law every night when I slept.

Though these laws against life sustaining activities are implemented at a local level, the obvious similarities from jurisdiction to jurisdiction implies rather strongly that these laws are universal in both there scope, and design. In other words it is a national policy to deny houseless people sleep when ever possible.

New anti-eating laws, rules, and policies have equally creeped into the rich’s anti-houseless toolbox. Arcata’s anti-begging law proposal is just one example of how the rich locals create hardship upon the poorest, while driving the houseless into the arms of federally supported poverty pimps profiting off their poverty pimping head counts. These local self-congratulatoring grant whores get federal funding to, and I quote “End Homelessness in ten years.” They’ve been given this money for ten years now. Obviously the problems are worse, and the poor are even more desperate. Is it really our dream to only allow the displaced to eat FEMA food, if they agree to take anti-psychotics.

Land is what is needed. Shovels and seeds wouldn’t hurt either. The time must come when we admit the dysfunctionality of our “government,” and do things ourselves. We’ve proven in the past we could do it, and we can prove that once again. We can demand that our government allow soup kitchens to be soup kitchens once again. Food, and opportunities to obtain food, must be free from interference. When I look upon those who society has cast aside, and unfairly blamed I think, “there, but by the grace of God, go I.” It is said, “we will always have the poor among us,” so isn’t it time we accept them among us, and realize that each of us, at certain times, if the truth had been known, could of been on the path to homelessness?

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