I think transient was talking to you on his last comment. I echo how have you been? Its exciting to hear from you. We miss you.

love eternal
tad

One-pointed back toward Humboldt, even if it takes another decade… nowhere on this beautiful planet I’d rather be!

Lots of love, my friend!

At 46:48 Smith is telling Crandall to go get the cops. The reason I told him to “pay attention” was so when I watched this later I would know when Crandall was sent. The po-lice report says my disturbance of the peace was talking for over three minutes, yet Crandall went to summon the cops at 1 minute and 14 seconds in to my talking. There is definitely a conspiracy to deny civil rights that went on between Crandall and Smith.

Further if you pay attention to what I say you will realize that I was done speaking on subject within 3 minutes, but spoke over complaining about my treatment.

Yes it is fairly obvious that Smith reacted due to my “public criticism of the policies, procedures, programs, or services of the agency, or of the acts or omissions of the legislative body.” I have never seen anyone enforce the Brown act, and I don’t believe that it is anything but rhetoric.

There is also the question of whether speaking too long at a public meeting is in fact an arrestable offense. Can any cop arrest any person for breaking a “rule” under the guise of “disturbing the peace?” Especially in such a selective manner. Doesn’t that give the right to enforce “rules” a way to circumvent the legally required public hearing on new laws? How long before children get thrown in jail for chewing gum in class?

I don’t think this is going to go anywhere, because it will just politically hurt Smith’s image every time I go to court and write about it. Everybody is watching this case. My detractors are hoping I lose, and my supporters are hoping I cost the county a small fortune. It goes back to the lesson Jesus taught us – “it doesn’t matter if they love you or hate you as long as they’re paying attention to you.”

As far as the law suit goes I can’t file that until I finish my criminal case. It doesn’t matter if I win or lose either. But because Smith is not the first supe chair person to try interrupting my constitutional free speech, I am really afraid I will have to get a judgment against Humboldt County. I will not be using more than a public dumptruck in the criminal case, but will try to recruit the best and most expensive law firm if I decide on a civil suit (a second small fortune).

Gotta go walk Griz now.

love eternal
tad

so this is what i noticed:

you start speaking at right about 45:45

at 46:58 you are interrupted by whatshisface saying that he “will pay attention.”

at 43:37 you are again interrupted to be told that you have one minute, which is not true. At that point you have a minute and at least 8 seconds left. While it might seem trifling to quibble over 8 seconds, the board was willing to have you arrested or at least intimidated out of fear that you might talk for a couple of seconds too long. The point is that 8 seconds is important, and the board tried to swindle you out of your legally guaranteed time to participate in the facade of democracy.

at 48:27 you are yet again interrupted and told to “wrap it up,” even though you had almost a third of a minute left.

I didn’t notice that any of the other speakers were interrupted as much as three times before finishing their comments, even those that talked the full 3 minutes or exceeded the limit.

In fact, I think that the speaker directly after you talked for about 5 minutes without interruption….I would like to double check to make sure that i got that right because the obvious conclusion would be that the board specifically were censoring you because of your criticism of the use of child slave-labor, but the video won’t work on the computer i’m on now (I watched the video earlier on a different computer but didn’t have time to comment)…

You left the podium at right about 49:23, less than one minute past the allotted three minutes, and were thus deemed a threat in need of violent subdueing and whatever else happened to you.

I don’t think that any of the other people who exceeded their time limits were arrested or threatened with violence.

Did you watch Daniel’s comment? Blesses to him for being a true ally.

It seems like an obvious violation of the principles of the Brown Act which you quoted in the post “The Freedom of Speech in Humboldt County story,” but then again, that is nothing new.

Hopefully the bullying tactics on the part of the po’lice shitstem will bring attention to the “Bar-O-Hell” or whatever its called program….

That is all for now. Wouldn’t it be wonderful though if you could sue the bastards for damages, including having them pay for your having to employ a lawyer to defend yourself in court from the natural outcome of the situation that they instigated in willful disobedience of the law (the Brown Act)?

love

Try (http://216.102.9.16/archive/2009/20090127_001.asf) around 45 minutes into it. If that doesn’t work try going here: (http://co.humboldt.ca.us/board/agenda/questys/) and clicking on “2009-01-27 – File: 001.”

love eternal
tad