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AdamsBlock.com shut down by anti-snitch citizens

by Oscar Romero
Adam Jackson is a naive kid who just got a big education from the city of San Francisco with this website, adamsblock.com
Adam Jackson is a 22-year-old from suburban Florida who moved to San Francisco's Tenderloin district and decided that, because of the noise of the city (something every suburban kid reacts to), he would set up a webcam and chat from his apartment at http://www.adamsblock.com/ ... with some help from the local corporate media, his ad-ridden site got some attention. Mr Jackson fancies himself a "social media expert" even though his resume lacks any substantial social networking/media experience (he brags about 50k visitors a day).

Mr Jackson was proud that people from all over the world called 911 on the degenerates they saw on the webcams. He started making plans for a network of snitchcams. The chatroom made fun of the homeless people. They ridiculed people with mental problems. They laughed at people who can't afford the exorbitant rents in this city. Hilarious fratboy garbage.

His website reeked of naivete -- for instance, his FAQ claims there is a "crack bush" on his cam where the "crackheads" stash their drugs. How that even begins to make sense is one thing but it reveals what Mr Jackson thinks of the people on the street: they are all a bunch of crackheads and if he can help snitch on them and throw them in jail, he'll be a real hero!

Once Mr Jackson's website starting getting attention, the back-patting started to end and Mr Jackson got to see the side of San Francisco that values privacy, devalues snitches and have a distinctly different view of the war on drugs. Apparently, he had a long back-and-forth discussion in e-mail with an internet user, "12oz Prophet," part of an internet forum which had been discussing Mr Jackson's snitchcam.

Users of the forum appeared on the cam with a banner directing people to the forum where they could read alternative views on the snitchcam -- views which weren't to be found in the corporate media (go figure).

In San Francisco, many average citizens understand that the War on Drugs is a sham designed to terrorize Latin American leftists and increase the profit margins of the military-industrial complex. While Nancy Reagan was appearing on Diff'rent Strokes for a "very special episode," her husband was helping introduce crack to the United States to fund illegal death squad operations in Central America, which included the rape & murder of 3 nuns and the public assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero.

When San Jose Mercury News journalist Gary Webb helped expose the specifics of how the US Government contributed to the creation of the crack epidemic, he was ruthlessly harassed until one day he "committed suicide," which his family claims was actually a homicide. To this day, the US leads the world in incarcerations because of drug laws, creating modern-day slave labor camps. Most people living in the San Francisco Bay Area are aware of these facts which are carefully hidden from coverage in the corporate media. In fact, the central player in all that, Oliver North, is now a media celebrity in his own right.

Does Adam Jackson know who Gary Webb or Freeway Ricky Ross or Orlando Bosch or Luis Posada Carriles or Mike Ruppert or Al Giordano or the Somoza Family or Bill Stewart or Enrique Bermudez or Oscar Romero or any of these people are? I doubt it. Mr Jackson doesn't know or care -- he just wants hits to his website and he wants to use the victims of a horrific social epidemic to do it. And, as far as his own participation, he'll play the role of a rat.

But apparently, the horrors of the Drug War are nothing compared to a few threatening e-mails that Mr Jackson got. Apparently, it's enough to make him skip town.

Well, I won't shed any tears for Mr Jackson. I don't want to live in a society of snitches. I don't want to live in a society where I'm constantly being watched and monitored and reported on by my neighbors. I don't want snitchcams. I'm glad it's gone.

The open-air heroin and pill market exists literally on the same block as the Tenderloin police station. Why is that, Adam? It's a complicated issue that you don't understand but reacted to in an extremely simple manner.

Adam has a lot of growing up to do. And, San Francisco has helped him do it.
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