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FIGHT JERRY BROWN'S 10PM CURFEW FOR PAROLEES AND PROBATIONERS!
FIGHT JERRY BROWN'S 10PM CURFEW FOR PAROLEES AND PROBATIONERS! A press Release fron Critical Resitance and All of Us is here announcing a dmeonstration for Wed. Jan. 26 9:30pm at Jeryr Brown's New house, (the Old Sears Building) 27th & Telegraph, Oakland, This piece also includes several mainstream press articles on the subject.
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Please forward to all your lists!
FIGHT JERRY BROWN'S 10PM CURFEW FOR PAROLEES AND PROBATIONERS!
Join Critical Resistance and All of Us or None as we cite Jerry Brown for
harassing and scapegoating the people of Oakland.
PLEASE JOIN US TO FIGHT BACK:
THIS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26
9:30 P.M.
JERRY BROWN'S HOUSE (OLD SEAR'S BUILDING)
27TH AND TELEGRAPH, OAKLAND (NEAR 19TH STREET BART)
Want to help make POSTERS? Join us at 7:00PM at the Critical Resistance office - 1904 FRANKLIN STREET (AT 19TH), ROOM 504.
Jerry Brown continues to scapegoat parolees and probationers for causing all of Oakland's problems as he plans a run for Attorney General. His newest campaign scheme is to impose a curfew on probationers and parolees -- arresting them if they leave their house after 10pm.
After serving time in torturous conditions, former prisoners are faced
with prejudice and discrimination that make their re-entry into society
difficult and, in some cases, impossible. Prison sentences never end as long as the discrimination against former prisoners -- like establishing a 10pm curfew -- continues.
We need to join together to fight for real safety in Oakland. Scapegoating
and persecuting people on probation and parole will NOT make Oakland safe. Real safety will only come when we spend our money and time on supporting and creating opportunities for all people, not on harassing them.
FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO RSVP, CALL CRITICAL RESISTANCE AT 510-444-0484
or
email croakland [at] criticalresistance.org.
Or call All of Us or None: 415-255-7036, x337.
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-
Sitara Nieves, Organizer
Critical Resistance
1904 Franklin Street, Suite 504
Oakland, CA 94612
Phone: 510-444-0484
Fax:510-444-2177
http://www.criticalresistance.org
***EMERGENCY ACTION!*******EMERGENCY ACTION!*******EMERGENCY
ACTION!*******EMERGENCY ACTION!****
NEWS STORIES ABOUT THE CURFEW
______________________________
Posted on Mon, Jan. 10, 2005
Adult curfew is probation's latest tactic
By Guy Ashley
OAKLAND - Curfew, the after-sundown restriction that smacks of a
crackdown on rebellious youths' Saturday-night antics, has a more
hardened group feeling the heat: adults who have past run-ins with the
law.
In a program that may be unprecedented in California, prosecutors acting
at the urging of Oakland police are demanding 10 p.m.-to-6 a.m. curfews
as a common probation condition for those pleading guilty to felonies in
Alameda County Superior Court.
Judges have imposed dozens of curfew orders since the demands began
reaching their courts three months ago as part of plea deal negotiated
between defense attorneys and prosecutors.
Curfews have displeased defense lawyers, who say it is the latest defeat
for defendants who in recent years have faced harsher sentencing laws,
longer probation terms and stay-away orders that have become everyday
courtroom occurrences.
Defense lawyers say their hands may be tied because the curfews have
shrewdly been offered to their clients as part of a
rock-and-a-hard-place proposition: If you would rather not stay home at
night, jail is always an option.
"It's a cowardly and scary new world," Oakland defense attorney Paul
Wolf said Friday, moments after a client was sentenced to five years'
probation in a weapons case, a term accompanied by a curfew. "But in a
more narrow context, I must admit I feel some sense of relief that my
client is not going to jail."
To hear Mayor Jerry Brown talk about it, curfews hold the promise of
stifling nighttime adult activities with established links to violent
crime -- and could be the missing piece of the puzzle in Oakland's
effort to control its notorious homicide problem.
"You have to go where the problem is," Brown said in 2003, when he first
broached the curfew idea with county law enforcement brass. "Since more than 50 percent of the murder victims in this city are either on
probation or parole, it makes sense to try to rein in the activities of
these people in some meaningful way."
Efforts to reach Brown this week were unsuccessful. The mayor is cited
by police as the driving force behind curfews, part of an array of
criminal-justice reforms Brown has touted as he positions himself for a
run for state attorney general next year.
Though a fairly common condition of state-mandated parole, the use of
curfews in locally imposed probation appears to be a ground-breaking
concept. "We've seen curfews for teenagers, but we don't know of any
other cities where this practice is in place for adults," said Megan
Taylor, spokeswoman for the League of California Cities.
"I've never seen it," said Albert Manaster, a deputy public defender in
Los Angeles County who recently completed a book for defense attorneys
specializing in probation.
Alameda County District Attorney Tom Orloff said he believes curfews are appropriate for certain convicted felons, as long as there is a clear
link between their offenses and the types of night-driven activities
that seem time and again to erupt in violence.
"We won't be prosecuting a person for petty theft at high noon and
placing them under a curfew," he said.
Penalties for violating curfew are fairly fluid, though prosecutors say
first-time violators will likely get up to 30 days in county jail.
No such violations have yet been recorded, said Ann Diem, a senior
prosecutor in Orloff's office.
While curfews so far have been confined to Oakland cases, Orloff said he
expects probationers in other county areas soon will be asked to accept
the home-at-night conditions, when warranted.
With some 20,000 people on felony probation in Alameda County, it is not
too far-fetched to say there may be thousands of people eventually
living under the stay-at-home orders if the curfew strategy proves sound.
Precise numbers of curfew orders imposed so far were not available --
either from Orloff's staff, the county public defender's office or the
courts themselves.
"Since we're dealing with a large number of these types of crimes, I
would expect that there already is a significant number of people living
under a curfew," said Sandra Quist, a deputy district attorney who files
felony cases at the downtown Oakland courthouse.
It is possible the numbers could grow dramatically in coming months,
Quist said, because prosecutors likely will begin seeking curfews for
misdemeanor probation cases -- the number of which dwarf those involving felonies.
The curfew demands arrived in local courts on Oct. 4, after more than a
year of Oakland efforts to target the parole population with expanded
law enforcement tools including curfews and mandatory meetings with
community-based service providers.
Curfews are the latest phase in a violence-reduction strategy police
have been pushing in the last 15 months. An array of crime-fighting
approaches targeting troubled pockets of town, the new strategy grew
from studies showing disproportionate numbers of homicides occur at
night and involve people on probation or parole -- as victims,
perpetrators or both.
"The idea is that if you can keep these people off the street, or
otherwise disrupt the street-level drug dealing and other activities
that always seem to come up, you can have a real impact on violent
crime," said police Lt. Pete Sarna, a key player in developing the
strategy.
Last week, police cited the $1 million annual strategy -- which includes
increased use of undercover operations targeting drug peddlers, and a
program in which minor parole and probation violators are locked up for
up to a week and provided substance-abuse treatment -- as a reason for
Oakland's 23 percent drop in its 2004 homicide rate..
Sarna said he knew curfews would be controversial. But he says the
numbers don't lie, and believes few critics -- even defense attorneys --
can challenge the need for new approaches to crime-fighting.
His point drew a surprising level of support from Tony Bergquist, 38,
who was sentenced in a weapons case Friday and learned he would have to stay home every night for the next five years.
For years, Bergquist lived in one of West Oakland's toughest
neighborhoods, an experience he says showed him "there's a real need to
do something about the drug dealers and the violent people who are out
there."
"I used to see these people every night in front of my house," he said.
Nevertheless, Bergquist said he was "feeling a lot of anxiety" about
living under curfew. "No late-night dinners with my girlfriend for the
next five years?" he asked, though he did not seem to direct the
question to anyone in particular.
Wolf, who represented Bergquist in court before Judge Thomas Reardon,
said the case also raised troubling questions about the link between
crime and curfew that Orloff says is necessary.
Bergquist, he notes, was arrested in his West Oakland home in July by
police chasing another suspect into his yard, and then happened to
notice a marijuana plant growing inside his home.
Police searched the house and found 31 plants, two rifles, two handguns
and four boxes of ammunition stored in lock-boxes. Because he had a
felony conviction on his record, for a 1989 kidnapping, he was
prosecuted for being an ex-felon in possession of firearms, a felony.
No charges were brought for the plants prompting the search, because he
produced a city-sanctioned card showing he has a medical necessity to
grow and use it.
"If these curfews are designed to curtail the activities of people who
are known to frequent Oakland's drug hot-spots, then why do you require
it of somebody who was arrested inside his home just because he had the bad luck to get mixed up in somebody else's business?" Wolf asked.
Oakland Officials Hope Curfew Will Reduce Crime
Jan. 17 (AP) - Police in Oakland are hoping a curfew imposed on people
on probation will help cut down on crime in the city.
As a condition of release from jail, probationers in Oakland are now
required to stay in their homes between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.
seven days a week. The only exceptions are for work and emergencies.
Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown says 80 percent of homicides in the city
involve felons who are on probation and parole, and 70 percent of
homicides occur at night.
The curfew has been in place since last fall, but officials say it could
be six months to a year before they see results from the program.
KTVU.Com
Oakland Officials Use Curfew To Stem Crime
POSTED: 3:05 pm PST January 17, 2005
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Authorities in Oakland hope a curfew imposed on
people on probation will help cut down on crime.
As a condition of release from jail, probationers in Oakland are now
required to stay in their homes between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.
seven days a week. The only exceptions are for work and emergencies.
Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown said the plan has been in the works for two
years and getting it implemented, at just the county level, was "like
climbing Mount Everest."
Brown said 80 percent of homicides in the city involve felons who are on
probation and parole, and 70 percent of homicides occur at night.
"People believe there is a right to travel on probation and parole,"
Brown said. "I believe their right to roam the streets of Oakland can be
limited. I think it's very (beneficial) for these probationers and
parolees to spend time in their homes."
Oakland civil rights attorney John Burris said he was "a little
disappointed" when he first heard about the curfew.
It creates another layer of law enforcement on youth and more hostility
towards police, he said.
Copyright 2005 by KTVU.com. The Associated Press contributed to this
report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published,
broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Rose Braz, Director
Critical Resistance
1904 Franklin St.,Ste. 504
Oakland, CA 94612
510.444.0484
fax 510.444.2177
email: rose [at] criticalresistance.org
_________________________________________________________________
*************************
MEMBERSHIP IS POWER
Become a dues-paying member of Critical Resistance! Every donation -
big and small - is vital to sustaining CR's fight to end the prison
industrial complex. Go to
http://www.criticalresistance.org/index.php?name=Support-CR, or mail
checks
to Critical Resistance, 1904 Franklin Street, Suite 504, Oakland, CA
94612.
Thank you for your contributions to this struggle.
Please forward to all your lists!
FIGHT JERRY BROWN'S 10PM CURFEW FOR PAROLEES AND PROBATIONERS!
Join Critical Resistance and All of Us or None as we cite Jerry Brown for
harassing and scapegoating the people of Oakland.
PLEASE JOIN US TO FIGHT BACK:
THIS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26
9:30 P.M.
JERRY BROWN'S HOUSE (OLD SEAR'S BUILDING)
27TH AND TELEGRAPH, OAKLAND (NEAR 19TH STREET BART)
Want to help make POSTERS? Join us at 7:00PM at the Critical Resistance office - 1904 FRANKLIN STREET (AT 19TH), ROOM 504.
Jerry Brown continues to scapegoat parolees and probationers for causing all of Oakland's problems as he plans a run for Attorney General. His newest campaign scheme is to impose a curfew on probationers and parolees -- arresting them if they leave their house after 10pm.
After serving time in torturous conditions, former prisoners are faced
with prejudice and discrimination that make their re-entry into society
difficult and, in some cases, impossible. Prison sentences never end as long as the discrimination against former prisoners -- like establishing a 10pm curfew -- continues.
We need to join together to fight for real safety in Oakland. Scapegoating
and persecuting people on probation and parole will NOT make Oakland safe. Real safety will only come when we spend our money and time on supporting and creating opportunities for all people, not on harassing them.
FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO RSVP, CALL CRITICAL RESISTANCE AT 510-444-0484
or
email croakland [at] criticalresistance.org.
Or call All of Us or None: 415-255-7036, x337.
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-
Sitara Nieves, Organizer
Critical Resistance
1904 Franklin Street, Suite 504
Oakland, CA 94612
Phone: 510-444-0484
Fax:510-444-2177
http://www.criticalresistance.org
***EMERGENCY ACTION!*******EMERGENCY ACTION!*******EMERGENCY
ACTION!*******EMERGENCY ACTION!****
NEWS STORIES ABOUT THE CURFEW
______________________________
Posted on Mon, Jan. 10, 2005
Adult curfew is probation's latest tactic
By Guy Ashley
OAKLAND - Curfew, the after-sundown restriction that smacks of a
crackdown on rebellious youths' Saturday-night antics, has a more
hardened group feeling the heat: adults who have past run-ins with the
law.
In a program that may be unprecedented in California, prosecutors acting
at the urging of Oakland police are demanding 10 p.m.-to-6 a.m. curfews
as a common probation condition for those pleading guilty to felonies in
Alameda County Superior Court.
Judges have imposed dozens of curfew orders since the demands began
reaching their courts three months ago as part of plea deal negotiated
between defense attorneys and prosecutors.
Curfews have displeased defense lawyers, who say it is the latest defeat
for defendants who in recent years have faced harsher sentencing laws,
longer probation terms and stay-away orders that have become everyday
courtroom occurrences.
Defense lawyers say their hands may be tied because the curfews have
shrewdly been offered to their clients as part of a
rock-and-a-hard-place proposition: If you would rather not stay home at
night, jail is always an option.
"It's a cowardly and scary new world," Oakland defense attorney Paul
Wolf said Friday, moments after a client was sentenced to five years'
probation in a weapons case, a term accompanied by a curfew. "But in a
more narrow context, I must admit I feel some sense of relief that my
client is not going to jail."
To hear Mayor Jerry Brown talk about it, curfews hold the promise of
stifling nighttime adult activities with established links to violent
crime -- and could be the missing piece of the puzzle in Oakland's
effort to control its notorious homicide problem.
"You have to go where the problem is," Brown said in 2003, when he first
broached the curfew idea with county law enforcement brass. "Since more than 50 percent of the murder victims in this city are either on
probation or parole, it makes sense to try to rein in the activities of
these people in some meaningful way."
Efforts to reach Brown this week were unsuccessful. The mayor is cited
by police as the driving force behind curfews, part of an array of
criminal-justice reforms Brown has touted as he positions himself for a
run for state attorney general next year.
Though a fairly common condition of state-mandated parole, the use of
curfews in locally imposed probation appears to be a ground-breaking
concept. "We've seen curfews for teenagers, but we don't know of any
other cities where this practice is in place for adults," said Megan
Taylor, spokeswoman for the League of California Cities.
"I've never seen it," said Albert Manaster, a deputy public defender in
Los Angeles County who recently completed a book for defense attorneys
specializing in probation.
Alameda County District Attorney Tom Orloff said he believes curfews are appropriate for certain convicted felons, as long as there is a clear
link between their offenses and the types of night-driven activities
that seem time and again to erupt in violence.
"We won't be prosecuting a person for petty theft at high noon and
placing them under a curfew," he said.
Penalties for violating curfew are fairly fluid, though prosecutors say
first-time violators will likely get up to 30 days in county jail.
No such violations have yet been recorded, said Ann Diem, a senior
prosecutor in Orloff's office.
While curfews so far have been confined to Oakland cases, Orloff said he
expects probationers in other county areas soon will be asked to accept
the home-at-night conditions, when warranted.
With some 20,000 people on felony probation in Alameda County, it is not
too far-fetched to say there may be thousands of people eventually
living under the stay-at-home orders if the curfew strategy proves sound.
Precise numbers of curfew orders imposed so far were not available --
either from Orloff's staff, the county public defender's office or the
courts themselves.
"Since we're dealing with a large number of these types of crimes, I
would expect that there already is a significant number of people living
under a curfew," said Sandra Quist, a deputy district attorney who files
felony cases at the downtown Oakland courthouse.
It is possible the numbers could grow dramatically in coming months,
Quist said, because prosecutors likely will begin seeking curfews for
misdemeanor probation cases -- the number of which dwarf those involving felonies.
The curfew demands arrived in local courts on Oct. 4, after more than a
year of Oakland efforts to target the parole population with expanded
law enforcement tools including curfews and mandatory meetings with
community-based service providers.
Curfews are the latest phase in a violence-reduction strategy police
have been pushing in the last 15 months. An array of crime-fighting
approaches targeting troubled pockets of town, the new strategy grew
from studies showing disproportionate numbers of homicides occur at
night and involve people on probation or parole -- as victims,
perpetrators or both.
"The idea is that if you can keep these people off the street, or
otherwise disrupt the street-level drug dealing and other activities
that always seem to come up, you can have a real impact on violent
crime," said police Lt. Pete Sarna, a key player in developing the
strategy.
Last week, police cited the $1 million annual strategy -- which includes
increased use of undercover operations targeting drug peddlers, and a
program in which minor parole and probation violators are locked up for
up to a week and provided substance-abuse treatment -- as a reason for
Oakland's 23 percent drop in its 2004 homicide rate..
Sarna said he knew curfews would be controversial. But he says the
numbers don't lie, and believes few critics -- even defense attorneys --
can challenge the need for new approaches to crime-fighting.
His point drew a surprising level of support from Tony Bergquist, 38,
who was sentenced in a weapons case Friday and learned he would have to stay home every night for the next five years.
For years, Bergquist lived in one of West Oakland's toughest
neighborhoods, an experience he says showed him "there's a real need to
do something about the drug dealers and the violent people who are out
there."
"I used to see these people every night in front of my house," he said.
Nevertheless, Bergquist said he was "feeling a lot of anxiety" about
living under curfew. "No late-night dinners with my girlfriend for the
next five years?" he asked, though he did not seem to direct the
question to anyone in particular.
Wolf, who represented Bergquist in court before Judge Thomas Reardon,
said the case also raised troubling questions about the link between
crime and curfew that Orloff says is necessary.
Bergquist, he notes, was arrested in his West Oakland home in July by
police chasing another suspect into his yard, and then happened to
notice a marijuana plant growing inside his home.
Police searched the house and found 31 plants, two rifles, two handguns
and four boxes of ammunition stored in lock-boxes. Because he had a
felony conviction on his record, for a 1989 kidnapping, he was
prosecuted for being an ex-felon in possession of firearms, a felony.
No charges were brought for the plants prompting the search, because he
produced a city-sanctioned card showing he has a medical necessity to
grow and use it.
"If these curfews are designed to curtail the activities of people who
are known to frequent Oakland's drug hot-spots, then why do you require
it of somebody who was arrested inside his home just because he had the bad luck to get mixed up in somebody else's business?" Wolf asked.
Oakland Officials Hope Curfew Will Reduce Crime
Jan. 17 (AP) - Police in Oakland are hoping a curfew imposed on people
on probation will help cut down on crime in the city.
As a condition of release from jail, probationers in Oakland are now
required to stay in their homes between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.
seven days a week. The only exceptions are for work and emergencies.
Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown says 80 percent of homicides in the city
involve felons who are on probation and parole, and 70 percent of
homicides occur at night.
The curfew has been in place since last fall, but officials say it could
be six months to a year before they see results from the program.
KTVU.Com
Oakland Officials Use Curfew To Stem Crime
POSTED: 3:05 pm PST January 17, 2005
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Authorities in Oakland hope a curfew imposed on
people on probation will help cut down on crime.
As a condition of release from jail, probationers in Oakland are now
required to stay in their homes between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.
seven days a week. The only exceptions are for work and emergencies.
Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown said the plan has been in the works for two
years and getting it implemented, at just the county level, was "like
climbing Mount Everest."
Brown said 80 percent of homicides in the city involve felons who are on
probation and parole, and 70 percent of homicides occur at night.
"People believe there is a right to travel on probation and parole,"
Brown said. "I believe their right to roam the streets of Oakland can be
limited. I think it's very (beneficial) for these probationers and
parolees to spend time in their homes."
Oakland civil rights attorney John Burris said he was "a little
disappointed" when he first heard about the curfew.
It creates another layer of law enforcement on youth and more hostility
towards police, he said.
Copyright 2005 by KTVU.com. The Associated Press contributed to this
report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published,
broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Rose Braz, Director
Critical Resistance
1904 Franklin St.,Ste. 504
Oakland, CA 94612
510.444.0484
fax 510.444.2177
email: rose [at] criticalresistance.org
_________________________________________________________________
*************************
MEMBERSHIP IS POWER
Become a dues-paying member of Critical Resistance! Every donation -
big and small - is vital to sustaining CR's fight to end the prison
industrial complex. Go to
http://www.criticalresistance.org/index.php?name=Support-CR, or mail
checks
to Critical Resistance, 1904 Franklin Street, Suite 504, Oakland, CA
94612.
Thank you for your contributions to this struggle.
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Don't become a criminal and you won't have to worry about it. If you must be a criminal, and this really bothers you, stay in prison or jail. Nobody is forcing you to take parole or probation. Be a man about it and say "No thanks, I would like to finish my term in prison" (happens all the time).
this would be well applied to every one under 21 as well.
A GREAT IDEA !
go......Jerry!
A GREAT IDEA !
go......Jerry!
It's sad that Indy and Critical Resistance have to use dis-information to promote their cause. In this case they are portraying the curfew as a "blanket" curfew appllied to all probationers and parolees, when in fact its only applied to probationers who accept the curfew as a condition of their probation in lieu of going to prison. Additionally, it is only offered as a condition of probation in cases where the person has committed a violent felony or was selling narcotics.
It is part of the City's comprehensive violence reduction plan and not a knee-jerk reaction to crime. Although probationers and parolees account for less than 2% of Oakland's population, they account for an extremely high number of the City's murder victims and suspects.
So Indy Media and Critical Resistance, how about putting out all the facts... oh yeah I forgot, you have no desire to objectively portray the truth.....a reliable source of news you are not.
It is part of the City's comprehensive violence reduction plan and not a knee-jerk reaction to crime. Although probationers and parolees account for less than 2% of Oakland's population, they account for an extremely high number of the City's murder victims and suspects.
So Indy Media and Critical Resistance, how about putting out all the facts... oh yeah I forgot, you have no desire to objectively portray the truth.....a reliable source of news you are not.
Right, probation and curfew or prison, parole and curfew. In any event Chris, the indymedia feature on the curfew does not actually make mention of a "blanket" curfew.. (a google search suggests that this word is only used on the site to refer to curfews in Palestine and Iraq)..
Jerry Brown is doing everything possible to stop the killings here in Oakland. God Bless YOU Jerry Brown!
This policy has everything to do with Jerry's run for Attorney General and nothing to do with Public safety.
I would suggest a few good places to start:
1) Decent wage Jobs for inner city youth, adults and ex-cons. Or maybe America capitalism can't deliver?
2) End the war on drugs and move towards harm reduction.
Poverty, lack of decent jobs and drugs are at the center of the crime problem in Oakland. I live in the Oakland flatlands-- I see the problem everyday.
I would suggest a few good places to start:
1) Decent wage Jobs for inner city youth, adults and ex-cons. Or maybe America capitalism can't deliver?
2) End the war on drugs and move towards harm reduction.
Poverty, lack of decent jobs and drugs are at the center of the crime problem in Oakland. I live in the Oakland flatlands-- I see the problem everyday.
GOD BLESS JERRY BROWN
WE NEED CARE NOT CASH IN OAKLAND
WE NEED CARE NOT CASH IN OAKLAND
but it does sound like a good idea that is well worth a try.
let's see if it works.
and on the other topic care not cash for Oakland also has some promis. if you can get the beurocratic non-profits to quit dipping into the till on homeless services it would go a long way to solving the problem.
let's see if it works.
and on the other topic care not cash for Oakland also has some promis. if you can get the beurocratic non-profits to quit dipping into the till on homeless services it would go a long way to solving the problem.
Jerry is trying to make Oakland a safe place to live. and so far he is making progress, slow and steady. he will be remembered as a great mayor
Brown is another power hungry Californian ready to hang a man if it takes him a rung higher up the ladder. I wish he did not have my last name.
Support all who oppose the prison state in America and the world. That $Brown$ would not pen up his own family.
Of course he is no worse than the fascist pig regime in Mobile Alabama who close their doors to American citizens and extort their money.
Support all who oppose our enemies in this wretched dieing naiton. They sell us their dope, hard and soft, they teach us to use their dope, hard and soft. They teach us how to be whores for a dollar, by example.
Support the rising Army against the fascist terrorist regime in America that spills blood around the world and builds a Hell in America.
That Brown can eat this Brown's feces.
Free Video of Abuses and music and hash brownies cookie video with political commentary from ex federal bank examiner.
I would rather have eternal death than to be subjugated to the path set for us by our conquering enemies in power in the USA.
Never Again Serve The Regime. Forced Experiments and Extortion and Subjugation and Oppression is their forte.
Mobile Audit Club, let us back away from their table in the end, and sit in the circle of eternal light, divine consciousness, as they are like Gorilla-wolves hunting in a pack.
Support all who oppose the prison state in America and the world. That $Brown$ would not pen up his own family.
Of course he is no worse than the fascist pig regime in Mobile Alabama who close their doors to American citizens and extort their money.
Support all who oppose our enemies in this wretched dieing naiton. They sell us their dope, hard and soft, they teach us to use their dope, hard and soft. They teach us how to be whores for a dollar, by example.
Support the rising Army against the fascist terrorist regime in America that spills blood around the world and builds a Hell in America.
That Brown can eat this Brown's feces.
Free Video of Abuses and music and hash brownies cookie video with political commentary from ex federal bank examiner.
I would rather have eternal death than to be subjugated to the path set for us by our conquering enemies in power in the USA.
Never Again Serve The Regime. Forced Experiments and Extortion and Subjugation and Oppression is their forte.
Mobile Audit Club, let us back away from their table in the end, and sit in the circle of eternal light, divine consciousness, as they are like Gorilla-wolves hunting in a pack.
For more information:
http://www.angelfire.com/zine2/democracyor...
The shift from Jerry Brown being the advocate of "We the People" to the corporate establishment is now complete.
Any man who changes his ideology like one would a suit of clothes is a man of absolutely no integrity and is not to be trusted.
Any man who changes his ideology like one would a suit of clothes is a man of absolutely no integrity and is not to be trusted.
The person who wrote "Just don't become a criminal" has forgotten, or is unaware of how easy it is to "violate" already stringent probation and parole restrictions. The citizens of California voted a mandate with Prop 36. We're tired of incarcerating people for chicken #^!# violations. Our overburdened court and penal system is what needs reforming. It's bad enough the legislature was duped into lowering a felony vandalism act from $4000.00 down to just $400. It's bad enough that same court and penal system plays "Let's make a deal" with people's lives by offering them early release if they simply give up their 4th ammendment right, but now Oakland wants to take away more civil rights from the downtrodden? I will work for whoever runs against any facsist attorney general. How would you like to have your car, your house, your wallet, or your clothes searched anytime the police felt like it day or night, without a warrant? It's called a "4th waiver" and they offer it as a bribe to not overcrowd the system. The Patriot Act mentality of local law enforcment is turning us evermore into a Police State. Take away the consentual crimes of drugs and prostitution in this country and Peace Officers would be layed off for nothing to do. "Real men" fight for those who have no voice. I challenge the author of the last response to take this like a man. Stand against the ridiculous political enslavement of the 80% of our nation's inmates incarcerated simply for drug related offenses. Sneaking through bizarre and uncivil laws says alot about our society. Mostly, that we have become merciless, heartless bureaucrats. We've made everyone a cop or a snitch. A lot of us grew up getting smacked in the back of the head by a neighbor when we were found vandalizing or trying street drugs; then we were sent home for another round of discipline from our own family. Now, we want to start a criminal record, put a kid into a system that gives him a lifetime 14% chance of ever getting out, and an 86% (CA state average recidivism rate) chance of staying in the jail. Finally, it used to be the job of probation and parole officers to be a mediator between the courts and the jails, coming along side troubled youth. Sadly, they want to be cops too. The head of California Parole board displayed their new attitude with a sign that used to be above his desk: "Tail em, surveille em, nail em, and jail em!"
I guess the days of "second chances" from authority figures went away back when two older americans (One former, and one current president) smoked pot. Someone smacked them in the head. No arrests or curfews, no one set impossible probation or parole restriction hoops before them to jump through. Sounds like Jerry Brown will run on the old Reagan "tough on crime" era. But smart politicians would take care to note, those days are gone. We passed Prop 36, three Strikes is soon to fall, and the Terminator didn't take a penny from the Corrections Unions.
I guess the days of "second chances" from authority figures went away back when two older americans (One former, and one current president) smoked pot. Someone smacked them in the head. No arrests or curfews, no one set impossible probation or parole restriction hoops before them to jump through. Sounds like Jerry Brown will run on the old Reagan "tough on crime" era. But smart politicians would take care to note, those days are gone. We passed Prop 36, three Strikes is soon to fall, and the Terminator didn't take a penny from the Corrections Unions.
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