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DESCRIPTION:FACILITATING STAFF FOR THIS INSTITUTIONAL HATE-CRIME GROUP\nSusan O'Hara is 
 the city's staff person (your tax payer dollars at work) who--along with 
 Scott Collins--has been feeding and tending the Task Farce beast.\n\nIt may 
 seem unfair to blame these bureaucrats who are facilitating this official 
 cover for reactionary demonization of the homeless ("it's just my job; my 
 family has to eat: etc.) \n\nStill Susan and Scott Collins--not to mention 
 the ever-amiable Fred Keeley--are the workhorses that keep this foul flock 
 fed and watered (again on your taxpayer dime). as they excrete the 
 foundation for a new level of costly, cruel, cowardly, and pointless 
 attacks on the poor and the addicted.\n\nThe graphic representation at 
 https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2013/10/23/10-23_poster.pdf still aptly 
 conveys the underlying spirit of the TF.  \n\nSEASIDE COMPANY SOFTSOAPER 
 SOFTENS THE STENCH\nIt's being smoothly soft-pedaled by Seaside Company 
 Snake Oil salesman Kris Reyes   He is the Director of General Services and 
 External Relations at the Santa Cruz Seaside Company.  His softer packaging 
 seems to have upset some of the more Tea Party-ish members last 
 week.\n\nEpitomized by Renee Golder, they'd like to see more explicit and 
 outspoken medieval Drug War measures (such as a straight-forward ban on all 
 needle exchange in the County).  \n\nIn order to maintain credibility with 
 those a tad nervous about jumping on the reactionary steam roller, Reyes 
 would prefer to submerge us slowly in the water, so it can be quietly 
 heated to a boil later.  Let's not appear "extreme".\n\nBut the entire 
 group is clear on supporting a retreat back into the worst Drug War 
 paranoia of the last century by agreeing on the objective of banning needle 
 exchange in Santa Cruz city, for instance.\n\nCRAVEN COUNCIL HAS DUMPED 
 BEST PRACTICES\nThis was already done by City Council when it shut down the 
 only site in the City at Barson St. last January behind closed doors with 
 no public discussion, expert input, or public vote.\n\nThe sound of former 
 liberals scuttling for cover as misinformed and fearful bigots shook their 
 cans of improperly discarded needles at city council and Bryant-Coonerty 
 opportunist politicians licking their ambitious chops was deafening and 
 infuriating.\n\nThe flier I distributed there last week at 
 https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2013/10/23/10-23_flier.pdf  still sums up 
 the origins, impulse, goals, & toxic consequences of this surrender to 
 homeless-aphobia hysteria.\n\nMEETING TODAY \nThe repulsive juggernaut 
 lurches on today--again without audience input--at the cop shop, though the 
 public is welcome to go and watch this well-mannered train wreck.\n\nIssues 
 of real crime and real rehabilitation are not the focus of this group.  But 
 as with Sheriff Wowak and his successful propaganda to spend $25 million to 
 upgrade and expand the local jail, the TF camouflages its real passion and 
 prejudice with reassuring noises about youth truancy and 
 drug-treatment.\n\nTheir real interest is creating a hostile climate for 
 homeless people and the counter culture, designating them as a "public 
 safety" threat.  \n\nFOLLOW THE FOLLY\nAgenda and staff report (and 
 subsequent audio) are at 
 http://www.cityofsantacruz.com/index.aspx?page=1924 .\n\nIt's a bit hard to 
 follow recent audio since they are completing a line by line finalizing of 
 their report.  \n\nStill, it beats relying on the complaint and 
 complaissant Shanna (Banana-Brain) McCord who continues her career as SCPD 
 swill-spreader.\nSee 
 http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/santacruz/ci_24375964/santa-cruz-task-force-focuses-youth-program-treatment 
 .\n\nReal public safety, of course means addressing real problems instead 
 of scapegoating street performers, homeless residents, and hippie 
 travelers.  But it makes a convenient diversion from confronting those with 
 real wealth and power whose insatiable hunger gobbles up homes, jobs, and 
 lives.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/10/30/18745646.php
SUMMARY:Public Hysteria Task Farce Slimes On...
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Police Department's Community Room at Laurel and Center Streets
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/10/30/18745646.php
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