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Top SFPD Brass Indicted
The San Francisco Police Department was rocked today with the news that Chief Earl Sanders, Assistant Chief Alex Fagan Sr. and other top commanders have been indicted on conspiracy to obstruct justice in connection with the probe into an off-duty brawl involving three rank-and-file cops.
Now that we can all get busted for conspiracy to have fun in the streets, serves the SFPD brass right...
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Long overdue are the indictments of the command staff including the police chief of the San Francisco Police Department. District Attorney Terence Hallinan should not stop there. He should indict the biggest criminal in San Francisco, the illegal "mayor" Willie Brown, who is guilty of murder and election fraud, for starters. He sits in office with 40% of the vote plus election fraud and now has only 20% support.
Willie Brown, as a proud leader of the election fraud team in the 49er Stadium Swindle Election of June 3, 1997, in which we voted 70% against that stinking Swindle, and Willie Brown's thugs changed the vote to 50.2% "yes," is guilty of not only promoting the election fraud, but also of the murder of Dolores Evans and 5 children, in their Housing Authority home in Bayview-Huners Point in a mysterious fire on the night of December 13, 1997, 10 days after the election fraud lawsuit was filed to overturn the illegal results of that election, just as Dolores Evans was about to testify as to the election fraud she witnessed as a pollworker in that infamous election. The fire inspector told the Examiner that they could have escaped but someone stopped them. The dedication in the election fraud website is to Dolores Evans and the 5 children, murdered by Willie Brown. See: http://www.brasscheck.com/stadium
Other proud members of that election fraud team, which has been committing election fraud in every election since 1995, include the San Francisco Police Department, Cecil Williams and his Glide Church, former supervisor Amos Brown, Nation of Islam, TURF, Walden House, A Phillip Randolph Institute, the Democratic Central Committee, the Republican Central Committee and the Chamber of Commerce. They all either committed the election fraud, made sure the election fraud team could do its work, or ordered that the election fraud be committed. Thus, they are all guilty of the murder of Dolores Evans and 5 children, 1 of whom was Evans' child and the others were her grandchildren, ages a few months old to 8 years old.
We await the indictment of the fascist, murderous, anti-labor election frauding thug Willie Brown.
Never forgive, never forget!
Willie Brown, as a proud leader of the election fraud team in the 49er Stadium Swindle Election of June 3, 1997, in which we voted 70% against that stinking Swindle, and Willie Brown's thugs changed the vote to 50.2% "yes," is guilty of not only promoting the election fraud, but also of the murder of Dolores Evans and 5 children, in their Housing Authority home in Bayview-Huners Point in a mysterious fire on the night of December 13, 1997, 10 days after the election fraud lawsuit was filed to overturn the illegal results of that election, just as Dolores Evans was about to testify as to the election fraud she witnessed as a pollworker in that infamous election. The fire inspector told the Examiner that they could have escaped but someone stopped them. The dedication in the election fraud website is to Dolores Evans and the 5 children, murdered by Willie Brown. See: http://www.brasscheck.com/stadium
Other proud members of that election fraud team, which has been committing election fraud in every election since 1995, include the San Francisco Police Department, Cecil Williams and his Glide Church, former supervisor Amos Brown, Nation of Islam, TURF, Walden House, A Phillip Randolph Institute, the Democratic Central Committee, the Republican Central Committee and the Chamber of Commerce. They all either committed the election fraud, made sure the election fraud team could do its work, or ordered that the election fraud be committed. Thus, they are all guilty of the murder of Dolores Evans and 5 children, 1 of whom was Evans' child and the others were her grandchildren, ages a few months old to 8 years old.
We await the indictment of the fascist, murderous, anti-labor election frauding thug Willie Brown.
Never forgive, never forget!
For more information:
http://www.brasscheck.com/stadium
I love to see that Racist citizens of San FrancisKKKo, rise up to see a black man in a position of power fall. This is obviously just a hight profile lynching. Open your eyes. This city loves to talk about equality but we all know of the intense racism boils just underneath the surface. If the black major and the black police chief don't do the bidding of the San Francisco elite we know what happens. Same old story (1966 Mississippi = 2003 San Francisco)
The predominately African-American Bay Area Police Watch applauds the indictments. See:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/a/2003/02/28/willie.DTL
Playing the identity card does not work. The police are the armed thugs of the capitalist class whose primary purpose is to terrorize the workingclass so as to maximize the profits of the capitalist class, the primary goal of that class and this society.
The San Francisco Police are guilty of many crimes including but not limited to:
(1) Being proud members of Willie Brown's election fraud team, both acting at the behest of the Chamber of Commerce. Keep in mind that the police chief is hired by and can be fired at any time by the mayor, which Willie Brown illegally is.
(2) Conducting phony drug raids in housing projects, which included tying up 6-year-old children in plastic handcuffs. This occurred early in Willie Brown's first term.
(3) Terrorizing, beating up and arresting black high school students at Thurgood Marshall High School in October 2002.
(4) Engaging in horrific and of course illegal police brutality with the use of horses, chokeholds, arm-twistings and baton beatings of political demonstrators. It is never appropriate to have horses on city streets where they make a mess and are easily frightened by city traffic and it is certainly not legal to have horses attack people. If the police insist onf having horses, they should only be used for patrolling Golden Gate Park where cars cannot go. Their manure would actually do some good there.
(5) Sexually molesting teenage girls on Martin Luther King weekend, January 2002, in Bayview Hunters Point.
(6) The many police murders of innocent people, often with pepper spray, as well as gunshots.
(7) Wasting and stealing our tax dollars. Under Willie Brown, the police force increased from 1800 to 2200, and of course, our streets are no safer. To balance the budget, the police budget should be cut to as little as the law requires, for that is where the waste and fat certainly is. Most of the police department could and should be eliminated. That money is better spent on health care, housing, public transit and all other social services needed by the workingclass. Paying for our needs will go a long way toward reducing street crime.
As Bay Area Police Watch said on KPFA, 94.1 FM, on the 6 p.m. news on 2/28/03, the police claim to be blue when in uniform but when indicted, the black ones are suddenly "black victims of racism."
The workingclass of San Francisco cheers all of the indictments of all of the police and demand that they resign from the San Francisco Police Department IMMEDIATELY. They do not belong on our payroll. We need that money for worthwhile city services. And further, we demand the SFPD be cut down at least to 1800 cops, preferably to much less, with the less, the better.
The bold move of DA Terence Hallinan would make his father, the late Vince Hallinan, an outstanding attorney, and his mother, the late Vivian Hallinan, an outstanding progressive activitist, very proud, for it is just the kind of bold move Vince would take. Kayo, press those charges. The workingclass stands with you!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/a/2003/02/28/willie.DTL
Playing the identity card does not work. The police are the armed thugs of the capitalist class whose primary purpose is to terrorize the workingclass so as to maximize the profits of the capitalist class, the primary goal of that class and this society.
The San Francisco Police are guilty of many crimes including but not limited to:
(1) Being proud members of Willie Brown's election fraud team, both acting at the behest of the Chamber of Commerce. Keep in mind that the police chief is hired by and can be fired at any time by the mayor, which Willie Brown illegally is.
(2) Conducting phony drug raids in housing projects, which included tying up 6-year-old children in plastic handcuffs. This occurred early in Willie Brown's first term.
(3) Terrorizing, beating up and arresting black high school students at Thurgood Marshall High School in October 2002.
(4) Engaging in horrific and of course illegal police brutality with the use of horses, chokeholds, arm-twistings and baton beatings of political demonstrators. It is never appropriate to have horses on city streets where they make a mess and are easily frightened by city traffic and it is certainly not legal to have horses attack people. If the police insist onf having horses, they should only be used for patrolling Golden Gate Park where cars cannot go. Their manure would actually do some good there.
(5) Sexually molesting teenage girls on Martin Luther King weekend, January 2002, in Bayview Hunters Point.
(6) The many police murders of innocent people, often with pepper spray, as well as gunshots.
(7) Wasting and stealing our tax dollars. Under Willie Brown, the police force increased from 1800 to 2200, and of course, our streets are no safer. To balance the budget, the police budget should be cut to as little as the law requires, for that is where the waste and fat certainly is. Most of the police department could and should be eliminated. That money is better spent on health care, housing, public transit and all other social services needed by the workingclass. Paying for our needs will go a long way toward reducing street crime.
As Bay Area Police Watch said on KPFA, 94.1 FM, on the 6 p.m. news on 2/28/03, the police claim to be blue when in uniform but when indicted, the black ones are suddenly "black victims of racism."
The workingclass of San Francisco cheers all of the indictments of all of the police and demand that they resign from the San Francisco Police Department IMMEDIATELY. They do not belong on our payroll. We need that money for worthwhile city services. And further, we demand the SFPD be cut down at least to 1800 cops, preferably to much less, with the less, the better.
The bold move of DA Terence Hallinan would make his father, the late Vince Hallinan, an outstanding attorney, and his mother, the late Vivian Hallinan, an outstanding progressive activitist, very proud, for it is just the kind of bold move Vince would take. Kayo, press those charges. The workingclass stands with you!
For more information:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...
An excellent review here. Reminds me of stuff I'd forgotten since I've moved out of the city.
I remember when the Chron actually had the nerve to write the truth about some of Brown's stuff, like when a study found that he was the legislator in CA who was getting the most money from the tobacco industry, he cut the funding for the study. Wouldn't want *that* data being shared with the public. But then I guess the Chron turned around and endorsed him, didn't they.
It was amazing today to read the sfbg and read the descriptions from Iraq, and to realize how much we aren't seeing or hearing about that's going on there. Our news media is a partner to the incredible corruption and destruction that our unelected leaders force on us.
I remember when the Chron actually had the nerve to write the truth about some of Brown's stuff, like when a study found that he was the legislator in CA who was getting the most money from the tobacco industry, he cut the funding for the study. Wouldn't want *that* data being shared with the public. But then I guess the Chron turned around and endorsed him, didn't they.
It was amazing today to read the sfbg and read the descriptions from Iraq, and to realize how much we aren't seeing or hearing about that's going on there. Our news media is a partner to the incredible corruption and destruction that our unelected leaders force on us.
I was reading about the Chron's take on the scandal and noticed that M&R throw in a label on Daly - 'lefty' - while leaving Newsom alone. I wrote them and told them to get a grip and stop labeling people. There happen to be a lot of us 'lefties' in the city and we like Daly. M&R seem to have not noticed the election results.
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DECK THE HALLS: Reporters were all over City Hall on Friday looking for quotes -- but they got some oddly mixed results from members of the usually talkative Board of Supervisors.
A staffer to mayoral candidate Supervisor Gavin Newsom was busy fending off calls to his unavailable boss (including one reporter threatening to file a Freedom of Information Act request to get his schedule).
Instead, the staffer handed out a carefully worded, two-paragraph statement from Newsom supporting the mayor's call for the state attorney general to conduct an internal investigation.
Down the hall, lefty Supervisor Chris Daly held court in his office and handed out a 3-year-old civil grand jury report calling for a merger of the sheriff's and police departments. He also vowed to introduce a City Charter reform measure Tuesday that would do just that.
"State law requires that you have a sheriff -- but not a police department, " Daly said.
The timing is certainly interesting.
"Well," said Daly, "we were looking for a good time -- as we often are around here."
Chronicle columnists Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross appear Sundays, Mondays and Wednesdays. They can also be heard on KGO Radio on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Phil Matier can be seen regularly on KRON-TV. Got a tip? Call them at (415) 777-8815 or drop them an e-mail at matierandross [at] sfchronicle.com.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/03/01/MN67000.DTL
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DECK THE HALLS: Reporters were all over City Hall on Friday looking for quotes -- but they got some oddly mixed results from members of the usually talkative Board of Supervisors.
A staffer to mayoral candidate Supervisor Gavin Newsom was busy fending off calls to his unavailable boss (including one reporter threatening to file a Freedom of Information Act request to get his schedule).
Instead, the staffer handed out a carefully worded, two-paragraph statement from Newsom supporting the mayor's call for the state attorney general to conduct an internal investigation.
Down the hall, lefty Supervisor Chris Daly held court in his office and handed out a 3-year-old civil grand jury report calling for a merger of the sheriff's and police departments. He also vowed to introduce a City Charter reform measure Tuesday that would do just that.
"State law requires that you have a sheriff -- but not a police department, " Daly said.
The timing is certainly interesting.
"Well," said Daly, "we were looking for a good time -- as we often are around here."
Chronicle columnists Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross appear Sundays, Mondays and Wednesdays. They can also be heard on KGO Radio on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Phil Matier can be seen regularly on KRON-TV. Got a tip? Call them at (415) 777-8815 or drop them an e-mail at matierandross [at] sfchronicle.com.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/03/01/MN67000.DTL
The best part of the Matier & Ross column was Willie Brown's foul-mouthed admission of guilt with the statement, repeated at the top of the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle, 3/1/03:
"I'm the commander-in-chief of tihs goddam place, and there is no way the command staff of the police department is going to step down."
NOTICE TO ALL POLITICIANS: The police department belongs to the taxpayers of San Francisco who pay for its existence, not to any politician.
As to Willie Brown's claim that he is "commander-in-chief," only the police chief is appointed by the mayor. The rest of the police department is Civil Service, with advancement based on placement on a civil sevice exam. Civil Service came into existence precisely to put an end to manipulation of any department of government by any politician.
However, by making this foul-mouthed, erroneous statement, Willie Brown has admitted guilt to complicity in the illegal actions of the police department command staff and thus, the chant is:
INDICT WILLIE BROWN; THE PIGS ARE NOT ENOUGH!
The story on the phony drug raid cited above is in the November 18, 1998 San Francisco Bay Guardian, entitled "War on crime--The SFPD used SWAT-style equipment to raid a Western Addition housing project. Does military gear encourage military policing? "
By Christian Parenti
at:
http://www.sfbg.com/News/33/07/Features/cops.html
This story is also in Christian Parenti's book, Lockdown America (1999/2000, Verso Press), pp. 126-127.
Keep in mind, Police Chief Fred Lau was appointed by Willie Brown and resigned in 2002 under a cloud of corruption.
Pertinent paragraphs from the Bay Guardian article:
"JUST BEFORE DAWN on Oct. 30, 90 law-enforcement officers wearing black masks and fatigues and armed with assault rifles stormed the Martin Luther King Jr./Marcus Garvey Cooperative in the Western Addition. They used special "shock-lock" shotgun rounds to blow apartment doors off their hinges and cleared people out of rooms by throwing "flash-bang grenades," which produce nonlethal explosions that terrify and disorient people."
"At a Nov. 4 police commission meeting, a train of furious and sobbing residents from the raided housing complex -- all of them African American -- described how officers slapped them, stepped on their necks, and put guns to their heads while other officers ransacked their homes. Weeping and terrified children, some as young as six, were handcuffed and separated from their parents. Some urinated in their pajamas. (Police chief Fred Lau told the San Francisco Chronicle that officers wanted to keep the kids from "running around.") "
"Residents of the complex say the raid was a violation of their civil rights. Scores of people with no charges against them and no criminal records were put in disposable plastic "flex-cuffs." Civil servants and grandmothers were held at gunpoint. One woman was hospitalized after a fit of seizures; other people were so distraught they couldn't return to work for days. "
"And a pit bull named Bosco -- which many residents described as well liked and friendly -- was shot inside an apartment, dragged bleeding outside, and shot again. Deputy chief Richard Holder told police commissioners that, according to police intelligence gathered during "covert operations," the dog was "known for its jumping ability and was shot in mid-air.'"
"The squad that raided the housing complex included agents from the San Francisco Police Department's tactical squad and narcotics division, the District Attorney's office, the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Agency, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. According to SFPD narcotics lieutenant Kitt Crenshaw, who initiated and planned the operation, the action was designed to "to put fear in the hearts" of a gang called the Knock Out Posse. "The raid went off, more or less, without a hitch," Crenshaw said. "I feel bad for the innocent women and children that were there, but in a way they do bear some responsibility for harboring drug dealers.' "
"Agents made 11 arrests and netted a pound of what Crenshaw described as "high-grade" marijuana, almost four ounces of crack cocaine, seven pistols, and $4,000 cash. Residents say that money was not drug lucre, that it had been collected to help pay for the funeral of Germain Brown, a recently deceased friend. Thanks to state and federal asset forfeiture laws, the SFPD may get to keep and spend 80 percent of the seized money. "
"I'm the commander-in-chief of tihs goddam place, and there is no way the command staff of the police department is going to step down."
NOTICE TO ALL POLITICIANS: The police department belongs to the taxpayers of San Francisco who pay for its existence, not to any politician.
As to Willie Brown's claim that he is "commander-in-chief," only the police chief is appointed by the mayor. The rest of the police department is Civil Service, with advancement based on placement on a civil sevice exam. Civil Service came into existence precisely to put an end to manipulation of any department of government by any politician.
However, by making this foul-mouthed, erroneous statement, Willie Brown has admitted guilt to complicity in the illegal actions of the police department command staff and thus, the chant is:
INDICT WILLIE BROWN; THE PIGS ARE NOT ENOUGH!
The story on the phony drug raid cited above is in the November 18, 1998 San Francisco Bay Guardian, entitled "War on crime--The SFPD used SWAT-style equipment to raid a Western Addition housing project. Does military gear encourage military policing? "
By Christian Parenti
at:
http://www.sfbg.com/News/33/07/Features/cops.html
This story is also in Christian Parenti's book, Lockdown America (1999/2000, Verso Press), pp. 126-127.
Keep in mind, Police Chief Fred Lau was appointed by Willie Brown and resigned in 2002 under a cloud of corruption.
Pertinent paragraphs from the Bay Guardian article:
"JUST BEFORE DAWN on Oct. 30, 90 law-enforcement officers wearing black masks and fatigues and armed with assault rifles stormed the Martin Luther King Jr./Marcus Garvey Cooperative in the Western Addition. They used special "shock-lock" shotgun rounds to blow apartment doors off their hinges and cleared people out of rooms by throwing "flash-bang grenades," which produce nonlethal explosions that terrify and disorient people."
"At a Nov. 4 police commission meeting, a train of furious and sobbing residents from the raided housing complex -- all of them African American -- described how officers slapped them, stepped on their necks, and put guns to their heads while other officers ransacked their homes. Weeping and terrified children, some as young as six, were handcuffed and separated from their parents. Some urinated in their pajamas. (Police chief Fred Lau told the San Francisco Chronicle that officers wanted to keep the kids from "running around.") "
"Residents of the complex say the raid was a violation of their civil rights. Scores of people with no charges against them and no criminal records were put in disposable plastic "flex-cuffs." Civil servants and grandmothers were held at gunpoint. One woman was hospitalized after a fit of seizures; other people were so distraught they couldn't return to work for days. "
"And a pit bull named Bosco -- which many residents described as well liked and friendly -- was shot inside an apartment, dragged bleeding outside, and shot again. Deputy chief Richard Holder told police commissioners that, according to police intelligence gathered during "covert operations," the dog was "known for its jumping ability and was shot in mid-air.'"
"The squad that raided the housing complex included agents from the San Francisco Police Department's tactical squad and narcotics division, the District Attorney's office, the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Agency, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. According to SFPD narcotics lieutenant Kitt Crenshaw, who initiated and planned the operation, the action was designed to "to put fear in the hearts" of a gang called the Knock Out Posse. "The raid went off, more or less, without a hitch," Crenshaw said. "I feel bad for the innocent women and children that were there, but in a way they do bear some responsibility for harboring drug dealers.' "
"Agents made 11 arrests and netted a pound of what Crenshaw described as "high-grade" marijuana, almost four ounces of crack cocaine, seven pistols, and $4,000 cash. Residents say that money was not drug lucre, that it had been collected to help pay for the funeral of Germain Brown, a recently deceased friend. Thanks to state and federal asset forfeiture laws, the SFPD may get to keep and spend 80 percent of the seized money. "
For more information:
http://www.sfbg.com/News/33/07/Features/co...
This is coming at a crucial time. War is about to begin, the SFPD has been revealed once again to be crooks, and people are planning to shut the city down in the event of war. Use this to your advantage! The cops are foul and everybody knows it. If you shut the city down, go after them. Indict Willie Brown and his goons with a popular uprising and administer swift justice.
That is such a disingenious argument!Three rogue white boy cops got Riderish on a couple of dudes,trying to jack them for their steak fajitas and a couple of house Negroes and their white compatriots made moves to cover up that blatant act of police abuse.
Give me a break.I used to admire Willie Brown,in fact I was there at SF State when his SFPD Tac Sqaud busted his ass in Decemmber 1968 for supporting the insurgent BSU strike against racism.But now he's just another oreo playing the white man's corrupt political game.Being Black does not give you immunity from being called on your bullshit.
Give me a break.I used to admire Willie Brown,in fact I was there at SF State when his SFPD Tac Sqaud busted his ass in Decemmber 1968 for supporting the insurgent BSU strike against racism.But now he's just another oreo playing the white man's corrupt political game.Being Black does not give you immunity from being called on your bullshit.
Surely you're not suggesting that we set up a guillotine in Civic Center Plaza, are you?
For more information:
http://www.metaphor.dk/guillotine/
Guillotines wouldn't be as cost-effective as, say, firearms, but they'd be more creative and festive I suppose.
If people want to be creative and festive, perhaps they will resurrect the old Revolutionary War custom of tarring and feathering the agents of the state, riding them out of town on a rail, pouring boiling tea down their throats and then lynching them.
send 'em out on their arses-- good riddance
Willie Brown: "I dont know anything about it!" "they didnt do it"
Listening to the strain in Willie voice, he is indeed very scared to the core. His appointee has messed up and the corruption is leading all the way to the Mayor, who invented the very idea of "favortism" and "inequality".
Listening to the strain in Willie voice, he is indeed very scared to the core. His appointee has messed up and the corruption is leading all the way to the Mayor, who invented the very idea of "favortism" and "inequality".
Why is Hallinan being attacked by:
-Willie Brown
-SFPD
-SFPOA (Aryan Police Officer's Association)
-Bill Fazio (will make $100,000 in fees as a defense lawyer for a cop)
It's the jurors who chose to give the 10 indictments. Hallinan had nothing to do with it, he was powerless.
If the top brass has nothing to hide, why are they fighting it so hard?
Hmmmmmmmmm...........
GLASNOST NOW!
-Willie Brown
-SFPD
-SFPOA (Aryan Police Officer's Association)
-Bill Fazio (will make $100,000 in fees as a defense lawyer for a cop)
It's the jurors who chose to give the 10 indictments. Hallinan had nothing to do with it, he was powerless.
If the top brass has nothing to hide, why are they fighting it so hard?
Hmmmmmmmmm...........
GLASNOST NOW!
note how willie calls it 'this goddamned place' -- i guess he's talking about san francisco, the city this piece of shit is supposed to be mayor of.
what kind of mayor calls his own city 'this goddamned place'???
i guess the same kind that calls all of its inhabitants 'snakes.' -- remember that one?
can you picture any mayor of any major city calling his own city THIS GODDAMNED PLACE??????
it's a fucking outrage.
what kind of mayor calls his own city 'this goddamned place'???
i guess the same kind that calls all of its inhabitants 'snakes.' -- remember that one?
can you picture any mayor of any major city calling his own city THIS GODDAMNED PLACE??????
it's a fucking outrage.
Looks like Willie's luck has run out. A string of losses"
1. His goddaughter Kimiko Burton failed to wing Public Defender
2. Failed to get onto the CALPERS board of directors
3. His appointee Chief Sanders is caught in a huge possible corruption case...
Willie's career as kingpin of Tammany Hall is over.
1. His goddaughter Kimiko Burton failed to wing Public Defender
2. Failed to get onto the CALPERS board of directors
3. His appointee Chief Sanders is caught in a huge possible corruption case...
Willie's career as kingpin of Tammany Hall is over.
I want to say...actually, I want to yell CONGRATULATIONS to the San Francisco Grand Jury who indicted those pigs!
When you think about the risks of standing up to the police in what is rapidly becoming a police state...the courage of those Grand Jurors should be inspire ALL of us.
Now, are there 12 more courageous San Franciscans...who will vote to CONVICT those bastards?
Damn, I hope so.
redstar2000
When you think about the risks of standing up to the police in what is rapidly becoming a police state...the courage of those Grand Jurors should be inspire ALL of us.
Now, are there 12 more courageous San Franciscans...who will vote to CONVICT those bastards?
Damn, I hope so.
redstar2000
yes, I liked that "commander in chief" comment. Willie's got delusions of grandeur. What is he going to do, impose martial law?
Of course, this is just what I'd expect from a mayor who describes his constituents as "mistresses who need servicing", who says he helps the poor by "staying out of their way at K-mart" and who has suggested that those San Franciscans who can't live upto the standards of his economic cleansing simply leave town. Even the city's largest black-owned newspaper didn't support this bastard.
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In the 1992 elections, tobacco interests gave $741,450 in campaign contributions to
California legislators, including $221,000 to assembly speaker Willie Brown. This is
$6,179 per legislator. The same year, the legislature passed a tobacco industry
sponsored "smoker's rights" bill which would make smoking a civil right, but it was
vetoed by Governor Pete Wilson.
American Journal of Public Health, September 1993
tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour saut
2.2 million California nonsmokers were exposed to tobacco smoke at indoor
worksites in 1990.
JAMA, August 12, 1992, p. 749
tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour saut
The June 1992 Supreme Court ruling that smokers have a right to sue tobacco
companies does not apply in the state of California. The "Willie Brown Civil Liability
Reform Act" of 1987 in California prohibits people from suing the manufacturers of
"inherently unsafe" products such as cigarettes, and a state Court of Appeal in 1989
ruled that the law provides nearly complete immunity for manufacturers of tobacco.
San Francisco Chronicle, June 24, 1992
tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour saut
California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown (a nonsmoker) received $410,517 in
campaign contributions from tobacco companies from 1980 until 1993, with $221,367
in the 1991-92 election cycle alone. This made him the largest single legislative
recipient of tobacco industry contributions in the United States.
American Journal of Public Health, September 1993
tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour saut
Willie Brown's campaign contributions, gifts and legal fees from tobacco interests now
total $750,000.
San Francisco Examiner, September 17, 1995, p. B1
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Brown himself, in his resplendent fedoras, $3,000 suits, and $500 Italian shoes, seems like a throwback to the past, a figure more like former Detroit mayor Coleman Young than like Rudy Giuliani.
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In the 1992 elections, tobacco interests gave $741,450 in campaign contributions to
California legislators, including $221,000 to assembly speaker Willie Brown. This is
$6,179 per legislator. The same year, the legislature passed a tobacco industry
sponsored "smoker's rights" bill which would make smoking a civil right, but it was
vetoed by Governor Pete Wilson.
American Journal of Public Health, September 1993
tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour saut
2.2 million California nonsmokers were exposed to tobacco smoke at indoor
worksites in 1990.
JAMA, August 12, 1992, p. 749
tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour saut
The June 1992 Supreme Court ruling that smokers have a right to sue tobacco
companies does not apply in the state of California. The "Willie Brown Civil Liability
Reform Act" of 1987 in California prohibits people from suing the manufacturers of
"inherently unsafe" products such as cigarettes, and a state Court of Appeal in 1989
ruled that the law provides nearly complete immunity for manufacturers of tobacco.
San Francisco Chronicle, June 24, 1992
tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour saut
California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown (a nonsmoker) received $410,517 in
campaign contributions from tobacco companies from 1980 until 1993, with $221,367
in the 1991-92 election cycle alone. This made him the largest single legislative
recipient of tobacco industry contributions in the United States.
American Journal of Public Health, September 1993
tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour saut
Willie Brown's campaign contributions, gifts and legal fees from tobacco interests now
total $750,000.
San Francisco Examiner, September 17, 1995, p. B1
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Brown himself, in his resplendent fedoras, $3,000 suits, and $500 Italian shoes, seems like a throwback to the past, a figure more like former Detroit mayor Coleman Young than like Rudy Giuliani.
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