SPEAKOUT ON POLICE REPRESSION IN OAKLAND

The Oakland police and the car seizure program have my full support. As an Oakland resident, I can tell you that it is a 100% fact that this program HAS helped to rid our neighborhoods of drug dealers and buyers. With fewer dealers and buyers, I have seen much less violence and crime in my neighborhood. We no longer have to constantly worry about some junkie stealing our stuff or burglarizing our houses just to get another fix.

If your car has been seized, you will get no sympathy from me. Quit coming to our neighborhoods to buy/sell drugs.

Great! So you have actually admitted that drug dealers & buyers are problems (or at least they create problems wherever they go). This is a big step for nessie!! I believe the expected response would have been something to the effect of:

1) Prohibition of drugs is the problem.

or

2) The problem is capitalism & money.

Glad to see you are finally putting some small amount of blame on these degenerates. These people should have to take responsibility for their actions.

Sorry that you feel these problems are being pushed from Oakland into your neighborhood. Here is an idea!! Try to support the police in your community. With cooperation and a good relationship between a community and its police, there is no way criminals (problems) can survive.

It's amazing. Even in the San Francisco Bay Area few people seem to know or care much about the police corruption case of five Oakland cops known as the "Riders." Like their more well-known counterparts in L.A.'s Ramparts precinct, the Riders allegedly beat, kidnapped and framed innocent people with a particularly sadistic aplomb. But the pending case against the crew is limited to just a handful of incidents, based on the testimony of a rookie cop who spent little more than a week with the dirty cops. As the San Francisco Bay Guardian's A.C. Thompson writes, the prosecuting District Attorney is trying to contain the case, refusing to look into the very likely possibility that these men didn't just become criminals for one week.

http://www.guerrillanews.com/human_rights/doc118.html

This Right Wing cocksucker named Dave is all happy the Oakland Pigs are back to their ususal brutalizing and terrorizing ways.

No amount of policing or "quality of life" bullshit is gonna protect your little Whitebread way of life, Dave.

That's something you better understood and get in your little extra chromosome brain

You can spew all you pro-Cop propaganda you want on some Freeper website, but the truth on the street will be a different reality.

How to stop the drug war:
1) Quit throwing a generation of youth into prison
2) Quit treating addicts like illegals
3) Go after the source, not in pursuit of an endless game of cat and mouse with street-level dealers. The source? The corrupt Colombian president who the US just got elected and pushes money and weapons onto. Terrorists like Ollie North who ran drugs into Arkansas. The Coast Guard. The DEA. The CIA. White-collar criminals who make billions off of the "drug war."

Oh yeah. Those criminals control the DEA.

Long term incarceration is the solution.

Cars and Perps...

Life without Parole or death in the EC is the only sentence that gets their attention. Let's wind it up to the Max.

nessie obviously i think ending prohibition will be a good first step. but that wont happen with the current geopolitical setup. drugs are the black market that makes capitalism possible. it gives them the liquid cash needed to grease the wheels. forget ending prohibition. let's end capitalism. and one way to point that out is to show that ramparts cops up to the DEA up to oliver north up to ronald fucking reagan are the drug pushers, drug arrangers and drug dealers. it is when people forget that ugly little fact that all kinds of atrocities are justified.

No, indeed, prohibition is the problem. I never see people killing one another over coffee, booze and cigarette "turf." Now, all of these things are unhealthy and can and do negatively effect users and their friends and family, but at least nobodie's out "slangin" Camels on the corner and making life lame for residents.

There was another point about criminals being "sick." You may want to watch out and make sure you do not pathologize something that many would argue is a quite rational response to objective societal conditions. If you are broke, undereducated and lack resources and skills, that does not necessarily mean you will become a drug dealer or necessarily engage in any illegal behavior whatsoever. It is often the most "enterprising" who take the big risk of selling drugs and tackling the shitload of logistical issues that come with drug sales. I don't want to sound naive, but it seems to me that these "businesspeople," whatever they lack in manners or morals, are certainly skilled and arguiably employable. "Sick"--like with AIDS or schizophrenia--is not a word I would use.

I do not think, however, that people should sell drugs in a manner that negatively impacts places where people live. I think the police have a responsibilityto create an environment free of that bullshit. Call me crazy.

Why use the word "cocksucker" as a negative. I and many men and women love sucking cock. Using sexual terms as pejoratives only strengthens the right-wingers you and i are against.