Medical Marijuana Update & My thoughts About The Pathological Bias Against It, In Law and Journalism
October 19, 2009
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& My Thoughts About The Pathological Bias Against It, In Law and Journalism
By Danielle Smith
October 19, 2009
We shall see. That was the promise made previously last year, but I saw story after story, of California pot dispensaries and patients, that were being raided and arrested on the premise that they were fronts for illegal sales of marijuana–well duh! They are tightening the borders of America so tight that we smokers can only get “home grown in the USA”!
It is potent, and sticky with plant resins and THC, which is in itself, a health issue in that, much less is needed to be smoked, for relief. That is the truth which every experienced user will attest to. That, however is not what is being told to the public, it is rather told over and again, the misstatement of fact that having 20-30 times more THC, it’s far more dangerous–fear, fear, fear!
And not surprisingly, there is mounting pressure and temptation to grow it for profit, because “its the economy, stupid!” and there is a huge market of determined Americans too fed up with the “war against intelligent drug use”, and the locking up of more, and more citizens in prisons for this unique plant, which is always referred to as a “substance”, an “illegal substance”
As if we are not literally swimming in a creation soup of substances upon this earth! Didn’t mankind catalog the fauna and flora, and all the elements of earth, long ago? Have we simply handed over to the nation of nanny states, our entire English language to pervert and con-volute into meaningless slogans by lawyers, politicians, police, and reporters? I do believe we have!
WTF! Call it what it is, not what you have wanted the American people to swallow all the years past, which was not based on medical science, but “pathology politics”–its called Psy-ops, or psycho-political, propaganda!
Example: “all illegal drug use is abuse”
That is the core brainwashing slogan which has been used ad nausea in a looped, repeating lie. We are being programed for the criminalization of all natural human attributes, which our government’s presidents and drug czars, and their Fed overlords long ago, conspired to do.
It was to flood this nation with all kinds of drugs (other countries did this to us also, as chemical warfare) by using the CIA, first to profit and fund the Iran-Contra War, then in order to declare a future war of tyranny and imprisonment, against “the weaker elements of society” who would naturally, and stubbornly, use these drugs in deference to the laws against them.
People, wake up! Listen to what these drug war-mongering bastards are going to continue to say, using fear, and your child’s endangerment, to influence you to conform–they want to continue to put you, and your children into prisons for using, growing, or selling marijuana, rather than losing their jobs, and their authority to rule by ever stricter laws, as a giant PAC (political action committee) against the wishes of the American people, state by state! That is the the other side of the pathological bias which is not being debated, as a matter of policy.
Listen to what the screaming, anti-big-government, blowhards who are today steadfastly denying the uninsured health patients of America, will tell you about the harmful effects of medial marijuana; but also, keep in mind their drug-pushing, pharma, and some of their listed, dangerous side effects, and watch everyone rush to a natural, green plant first, when given a choice! To us it is common sense, to them it is a behavior trap used to identify, and incarcerate.
Those who still continue to cry, and complain about all the crime marijuana is supposedly solely responsible for, constitute a perfect, text-book example of group-forgetfulness, group-ignorance, group-hypocrisy, and group-bias, towards the past history of the prohibition against alcohol during the 1930-40′s, and the organized crime it spawned, everywhere. Let them cry and complain, alone! Aren’t they just as much to blame, if not more so?
Feds Issue New Medical Marijuana Policy:
www.newsday.com/long-island/feds-issue-new-medical-marijuana-policy-1.1533177
What is and What Is Not Pathological In Criminal Law:
www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-9923371_ITM
The Bias Shackling Psychology:
www.bullies2buddies.com/The-Bias-Shackling-Psychology
Justice Department Issues New Medical Marijuana Policy
www.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/us/20cannabis.html
Times Topics: Marijuana and Medical Marijuana
topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/m/marijuana/index.html
LA Still a Total Weed Spot:
gawker.com/5385223/la-still-total-weed-spot-no-thanks-to-lame+o-district-attorney
Americas Lone State Licensed Weed Dealer Completely Sketchy:
gawker.com/5378858/americas-lone-state+licensed-weed-dealer-completely-sketchy
Associated Press LA’s Top Prosecutor Vows To Target Pot Shops:
www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gD-D_Ac1QVI6pUuyz5rX_HpghtEQD9BE9F2G0
Judge Rules L.A. Ban on New Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Is Invalid:
www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-pot-moratorium20-2009oct20,0,2288177.story
Eugene Oregon Formally Recognizes Legal Medical Marijuana With Proclaimation:
www.salem-news.com/articles/april282009/eugene_proc_4-28-09.php
Oregon ACLU Stands Up For Medical Marijuana Patients:
www.medicalmarijuanadoctors.org/aclu-oregon-medical-marijuana-law-would-discriminate-against-patients
The Hell We Don’t Torture–We Damn Well Do Torture!
October 19, 2009
News Flash!
Tracktown, USA becomes Torturetown, USA!
THE HELL WE DON’T TORTURE–
WE DAMN WELL DO TORTURE!
By Danielle Smith
October 18, 2009
We will, we will–tase you!
First of all, I would like to shock you awake from a few of your illusions, if that were possible. There are good laws, and there are bad laws; just like there are good cops and bad cops, good lawyers and bad lawyers, good politicians and bad politicians, etc.
Another illusion I wish to destroy, so that it not bind you to eternal ignorance, is that we damn well do torture! We worship the torturer like a God, and the right to torture–sacred.
We love torture–torturing others, that is–we approve of it with our indolence, our silence, and our passivity. Hollywood glorifies and glamorizes it in its movies, and with TV shows, like the show “24″ in particular. We support it, we vote for it, and we demand it, from the highest levels of our military, and federal agencies, to the very local level, every time we arm more police officers with tasers–aka, conductive energy weapons!
Admittedly, we have some of the most ungodly technological weapons, and instruments of destruction, military and civilian, individual, and totalitarian, mass population control, ever devised by man to do it with, not to mention the A-bomb, which could set us back to the stone age (where we might be better off anyway).
Look for more and more of these hideous misuses of technology to be used against the populace, as unrest grows over the failure of the economy, and wars again, soon.
Another illusion I wish to explode in a shower of sparks over your heads is that, it will never happen to you. It may, or it may not; do not count on your needs, status, or your reason for resisting, or protesting, or simply being an innocent passer-by. These justifications will not save you from the cattle prodding, tear gassing cowards, behind full combat uniform in your streets. You have no idea yet what is to come, citizens of Eugene, nor where it shall come from.
Oops! Sorry, we didn’t mean to shoot you–we meant to tase you!
Admittedly, there are a few lucky people here in Eugene who are alive today because our police now use tasers; and there are other people who would be alive today, had the police had the option of tasing them, instead of shooting them dead.
But what really pissed me off is when I heard that no officers are required in training themselves to be tased for the purpose of knowing what it feels like. That is so cowardly, and these guys are to be given free choice in their use of tasers against the rest of us? No, we don’t torture!
Although I personally have never witnessed someone getting tased, I have seen two incidents here in the park I live in, where police have had their tasers drawn, aimed, and ready to trigger at someone, before they even came out of their doors; and in both cases there were other circumstances that probably justified using caution, but not with guns or tasers already drawn, and ready to fire.
Eugene Weekly ‘Slant’
www.eugeneweekly.com/2009/10/29/news.html
Tasered Student Seeks Legal Aid:
www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/cityregion/21948298-41/story.csp
There is a very high profile case of alleged taser abuse by police against a local protester in Eugene presently, as it was described in this article:
Tasered Activist’s Trial Gets Underway:
special.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/cityregion/11853026-41/story.csp
Grandmother Tasered At Traffic Stop
:www.myfoxaustin.com/dpp/news/local/052909_Grandmother_Tasered_at_Traffic_Stop
Electric Current Needed to Kill A Human
hypertextbook.com/facts/2000/JackHsu.shtml
Why Does Electrical Current Passing Through The Human Body Hurt?
www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php
What does A Taser Do to The Body?
www.ehow.com/how-does_5405416_taser-do-body.html
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Print This Article: Something About Tasers
www.streetdirectory.com/travel_guide/print_article.php
Stun Guns and Tasers Explained:
www.supremedefense.com/stun-guns-and-tasers-explained.html
Basic Electric Principles:
www.taser.com/research/Science/Pages/BasicElectricPrinciples.aspx
Video, Wired.com:
www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/07/video-i-was-a-taser-guinea-pig/
Why Tasers Don’t Work;
www.officer.com/web/online/Technology/Why-TASERs-Dont-Work/20$38245
How Tasers Work
www.spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/gadgets/how-a-taser-works/2
Texas Officer Not Disciplined in Fatal Use of Taser:
www.officer.com/web/online/Top-News-Stories/Texas-Officer-Not-Disciplined-in-Fatal-Use-of-Taser/1$48917
Free Taser Stun Gun Schematics:
stungunreviews.tripod.com/stun-gun-schematics.html
How to Turn Disposable Camera Into Taser:
www.ehow.com/how_4760905_do-turn-disposable-camera-taser.html
Taser Lawsuits:
www.google.com/search
Eugene Police Have Fired Tasers 49 times Since Jan 2008:
www.kval.com/news/local/69246677.html
Eugene Told To Release Reports in Taser Case:
hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/OR_POLICE_RECORDS_RELEASED_OROL-
Officer Identified In Taser Case:www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/cityregion/22226919-41/story.csp
Chief Officially Absolves Officers For Tasing Protester:
blogs.eugeneweekly.com/node/1282
Justice Deferred Is Justice Denied Paul Prensky
www.eugeneweekly.com/2009/03/05/views1.html
Introducing Taser Proof Gear
www.wired.com/dangerroom/2007/11/introducing-tas/
Policeman Who Used Taser To Subdue 10 Year Old Girl Suspended
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6607761/Policeman-who-used-Taser-gun-to-subdue-10-year-old-girl-suspended.html
More from Tasertown, USA as developments in taser conditioning of the nervous, stampeding public, become available.
By Danielle Smith * *****August 10- 2009
Homeless Campers ‘Choice of Evils’ Still Threatens City’s Authority With Daily “Misconduct”: Unauthorized Basic Human Activity–
S-U-R-V-I-V-A-L! A random examination of “illegal camping” posts using daily police reports from the Register Guard of Eugene, City Hall records; and my comments about the perfunctory housing assistance hand-out scam!
Illegal Camping #1 [(curbside)my note]
on Monday, Aug. 10, 2009 @ 9:29 a.m. PDT
Incident description: Illegal Camping
Disposition: CAMP
Location: W 1ST AVE & S BERTELSEN RD, EUGENE
Event number: LEP090810066316
ID: 66316
Priority: 7
Comment:
DISPOSITION:CAMP
IV1/SEDAN.BLU IV2/WAGON.RED IV3/JEEP.BLK 3 OCCUPANTS HAVE BEEN CA
MPING FOR A WEEK.
When You Are Homeless, It’s Priority One!
What is a priority 7 Call? “Calls relayed to Public Works.”
Well, it does not seem like I can claim the homeless are a very high enforcement priority, yet it sure seems like the EPD is very efficient as to answering its complaint calls, and service patrols–and they are. Either way–priority or efficiency; the homeless trying to survive in Eugene, are always open season for violation hunters, both public and private.
Persons questioned by police as to how long they have been there should never admit they are camping, and always insist they “just got there”, unless they found them there previously! Of course if you’re like me, you’d want to say, I’m homeless–ya, so what? Alas, those were the old days.
Or if they feel as uncomfortable about giving false information to the officer (with all their visible camping gear as evidence) as I would, it is best to simply “take the 5th” amendment, so as not to incriminate themselves.
Never admit guilt in these cases of illegal camping, or that you are homeless. Best to play dumb and say nothing–which is very difficult, and takes more discipline.
Give them as little information as possible–remember that the preponderance the city may/will use to make their accusation of a violation against homeless campers, needs very little evidence–it’s borderline hearsay–and I must add–heresy!
Just smile and shrug your shoulders until they leave. Also, be absolutely sure to ask for each of the officers business card, the housing assistance hand-out, and citation if received. Don’t lose them! Consider contacting the local ACLU, and requesting legal assistance and request a court trial to prove innosence.
Be nice, don’t be the first homeless person in Eugene to get tazered!
Homeless Man Tasered, Catches Fire!
www.myfoxeugene.com/dpp/news/dpgo_Homeless_Man_Tasered_Catches_Fire_fc_20090820_3067349
Next, in a city report linked to below, Homeless & Camping it says,
Homeless & Camping: Report to City Council November 2001
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PUBLIC NOTICE OF ILLEGAL CAMPING
Date:_________ Time_______
This notice is to inform you that it is illegal to camp in City parks and open space, according to Eugene City Park Rules 1.003, 1.010(a), which makes it illegal to be ina park between 11:00PM and 6:00AM or to erect any structure, including, but not limited to tents, tarps, or canopies, without written permission of the City. It is also a violation of City Park Rules to leave trash or litter in a park, except in recepticles designated for that purpose, or to damage park fixtures or plant materials [1.070(1)-(4)].
Violations of these or other Park Rules is punishable by a fine not to exceed $500 or confinement in jail not to exceed 30 days, or both such fine and imprisonment. (Subsection 2.19990(2), Eugene Code, 1971.)
If you need assistance finding shelter or a place where camping is permitted, please contact:
St. Vincent dePaul’s First Place center at 342-7728
White Bird Homeless Case Management at 342-8255
If you fail to remove your campsite limmediately, you are likely to be faced with a citation and your camping equipment and other items in the vicinity will be considered abandoned and disposed of.
(First Responder Notice to Illegal Camper) 2-9-2001
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www.eugene-or.gov/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_2_173619_0_0_18/CampingReport2001.pdf
http://www.eugene-or.gov/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_2_310486_0_0_18/Police Call Priority Definitions.pdf
Heresy definition:
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heresy
Next day:
Illegal Camping #1 (curbside)
On Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2009 @ 6:11 p.m. PDT
Incident description: Illegal Camping
Disposition: CAMP
Location: CHARNELTON ST & W 15TH AVE, EUGENE
Event number: LEP090811066708
ID: 66708
Priority: 8
Comment:
E SIDE OF ST BTWN 14-15 IV/H31775 TAN WINNEBAGO W/ 2 BIKES IN B
Illegal Camping #2 (curbside)
on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2009 @ 4:28 p.m. PDT
Incident description: Illegal Camping
Disposition: CAMP
Location: 458 W 12TH AVE, EUGENE
Event number: LEP090811066675
ID: 66675
Priority: 0
Comment:
DISPOSITION:CAMP
LV/888DZY,OR,CHEVY SW,WHI HAS BEEN REPORTED PREVIOUSLY
Illegal Camping #3 (curbside)
on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2009 @ 12:54 p.m. PDT
Incident description: Illegal Camping
Disposition: CAMP
Location: LAWRENCE ST & W 3RD AVE, EUGENE
Event number: LEP090811066614
ID: 66614
Priority: 0
Comment:
DISPOSITION:CAMP
LOC/WEST SIDE OF LAWRENCE BETWEEN 3RD & 4TH AT LEAST ONE SUBJ CAMPING
IN VEH/YJF599,OR,GRN DODGE RAM CAMPING FOR 2-3 WEEKS, VEH HAD BEEN ON
Illegal Camping #1
On Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009 @ 8:08 a.m. PDT
Incident description: Illegal Camping
Disposition: CAMP
Location: MONROE ST & W 4TH ALY, EUGENE
Event number: LEP090812066826
ID: 66826
Priority: 0
Comment:
DISPOSITION:CAMP
IV/UNKPLAT.CAMPER.VAN.WHI W/ONG STRIPE AT LOC FOR AT LEAST 3 DAYS, 2
SUBJS INSIDE
Illegal Camping #1
On Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009 @ 9:41 a.m. PDT
Incident description: Illegal Camping
Disposition: CAMP
Location: MONROE ST & W 4TH AVE, EUGENE
Event number: LEP090813067210
ID: 67210
Priority: 0
Comment:
DISPOSITION:CAMP
LOC/ ON MONROE JUST N OF 4TH PARKED FOR APRX 4 DAYS, SUBJS LIVING INSI
DE, HAVE SET UP LAWN FURNITURE/BIKES OUTSIDE OF VEHS SET UP ON SIDEWA
LK , IV/ UNK PLATE, DESC AS JAMBOREE, MOTORHOME,WHI W/ONG STRIPE, #2/ UN
K PL, CAMPER VAN, TAN W/BRO STRIPE
Illegal Camping #2
On Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009 @ 8:52 a.m. PDT
Incident description: Illegal Camping
Disposition: CAMP
Location: W 4TH AVE & MONROE ST, EUGENE
Event number: LEP090813067199
ID: 67199
Priority: 0
Comment:
DISPOSITION:CAMP
LV/H958715,OR,JAMBOREE MH,WHI W/ONG STRIPE…..LV2/4C2266E,AK,MH BGE W/ON
G STRIPE…LV3/056EBY,OR,UHAUL TYPE VAN,WHI….LV/’S HAVE BEEN AT LOC FOR
SEVERAL WEEKS, LAWN CHAIRS SET UP.
Illegal Camping
On Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009 @ 12:32 a.m. PDT
Incident description: Illegal Camping
Disposition: CAMP
Location: 900 LEWIS AVE, EUGENE
Event number: LEP090813067145
ID: 67145
Priority: 0
Comment:
DISPOSITION:CAMP
LOC/900 BLK LEWIS….LV/DJB7524,NY,DODGE RAM VAN BRO/CPR STRIPED.
Illegal Camping #1
On Friday, Aug. 14, 2009 @ 9:55 a.m. PDT
Incident description: Illegal Camping
Disposition: CAMP
Location: W 12TH AVE & MADISON ST, EUGENE
Event number: LEP090814067539
ID: 67539
Priority: 0
Illegal Camping #1
On Saturday, Aug. 15, 2009 @ 1:37 p.m. PDT
Incident description: Illegal Camping
Disposition: CAMP
Location: 1761 CHARNELTON ST, EUGENE
Event number: LEP090815067909
ID: 67909
Priority: 0
Comment:
DISPOSITION:CAMP
LOC/ACROSS ST FROM ADDR IV/539AFN.OK.FORD.PU.W/CAMPER IV/IV/HAS
BEEN PARKED AT LOC FOR SEVERAL DAYS BELIEVES PEOPLE ARE LIVING INSI
Related article: By Danielle, written about May 18, 1997
While Eugene’s illegal camping violations against me are so far, failing in District Court in my favor–four have already been dismissed including one double jeopardy decision, thanks to my pro-bono attorney for catching that one–but now, the city is attempting to misuse another ordinance ( parking control) against me, illegal storage on the street.
Nice try, guys but you looked realy stupid trying to tag my motor-home bus as an abandoned vehicle, when I am living in it, and doing it at 12:00PM noon, while I was inside eating lunch, you were chalking my tires!
I have been parked at 4th & Madison (the same exact area as illegal campers listed above in this report are being visited upon) for 26 days–I told you, I’m not easily moved–but at this time, I know, when it’s time to move, it’s time to move!
As a reasonable person, viewing the universal illegality of homeless camping options, I decided that it was obviously the city government gatekeepers’ intent to completely seal out of the community, all of our homeless citizens.
By refusing to provide any possible legal shelter or camping alternative location for them, in order for them to comply with the law, it therefore, really did not matter where or when one might choose to park (camp), it’s all the same penalty; therefore I parked where ever I felt I needed to be (for my safety, privacy, and convenience), not for anyone else’s!
The message I seem to be getting, perhaps is that after being clobbered for camping, being told I can’t camp; now they’re saying to me that it’s okay to camp, but you just have to keep moving every so often.
Under normal circumstances, this order to move would not even involve me, as I would have been out of here long ago were it not for my bus being dead-in-the-water. The engine will require being rebuilt or replaced (which I did replace by my self–while parked on Maple St. & Roosevelt Blvd), also totally illegal to do, according to city code–but that was not my problem, either. It had to be done.
On day 28 at this location (Madison) 5-18-97, Public Safety Officer’s Julie Boyd and Officer Clayton stopped by to see if they could be of some assistance. I would have preferred to return to the Eugene Folk Festival, that evening, but these two officers offered to help find a tow truck for me, as I told them that I really did wish to move, and that I had a place to park it off the street.
I explained to them “our” dilemma that “we” faced in solving this problem: that, if I was unable to hire Ray’s Towing, the City would be forced to hire them, thereby compounding “our” losses and expense, and depriving me of my “home”, and belongings, etc., plus surely having my attorney involved in further litigation with the City over such matters.
Officers Clayton and Boyd understood the situation, and that I informed them of my recent acquittals for illegal camping charges.
Thanks to these two EPD officers, who made a few phone calls, and had me hooked up with C.J’s Towing for what I could afford. They asked how much I had, It was $40.00 cash, and I got moved to my next unknown adventure, for I was having my bus towed onto some one’s private property with no permission–totally trespassing–those officers had no idea where I was going!. But I managed to get away with being at that spot for 3 days, before scambling around in a nearby supermarket parking lot, having to look for any one with a strong pick-up truck, willing to tow me to the next place for gas money.
Tomatoes Do Grow Better Upside Down!
October 16, 2009
TOMATOES DO GROW BETTER UPSIDE DOWN!
By Danielle Smith
October 15, 2009
Taken in early September 2009
This summer I decided to experiment for the first time with upside down tomatoes like seen advertised on TV using instead, a 5 gallon bucket for greater plant growth.
It really works! The young tomato’s leaves will automatically begin curling upwards once the bucket is turned right side up and hung by handle.
A small plastic collar is fitted around the base of the plant to keep dirt from falling out of the hole, while leaving excess water drain.
I may have gotten too late of a start on my garden, because we had an abrupt cold, rainy ending to this Oregon’s summer. It is not over yet however, tomatoes are still ripening. Yum!
Ripening tomatoes, taken today
October 16, 2009 by Danielle Smith
Ripening tomatoes, taken today
Homeless Man Set On Fire, In Downtown Eugene!
October 11, 2009
Homeless Man Set On Fire, In Downtown Eugene!
A Self Discussion, by Danielle Smith
October 05, 2009
This horrible, random incident has taken the town’s mayor, Mayor Kitty Piercy and the Chief Pete Kerns, of the Eugene Police Department by surprise, and into another round of re-evaluation of current enforcement, and hopefully successful investigation, to find the perpetrator who allegedly, set a homeless and capture of the person on fire, in the down town area.
The question as to how to make downtown safer, because it is clearly not, has become the number one priority again, as now another act of terrorism becomes breaking news.
I think I may use that term here, correctly, terrorism; there is that ugly word again, as if we have not already heard enough from the “war on terrorism”, and have begun to grow weary of it. Its about our mental confidence, about feeling safe after witnessing others being hurt or killed–or not. Ask the homeless downtown if they would consider such crimes against them, as instilling “terror” in their minds.
The city’s recent, “exclusion ordinance” was a reaction of frustration to several downtown crimes; except setting homeless people on fire was not one of the offenses included link:
www.eugene-or.gov/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_2_16526_0_0_18/20196.pdf
The new exclusion law is no better than the sweeping loitering laws of Portland; a more focused approach to first time offenders, who may be just innocently minding their own business, or guilty of something–its where illegal searches happen.
The ordinance is sure to remain, as all ordinances do; if not soon modified, amended, and beefed-up, territorially or punitive, as a zero-tolerance solution to continue enforcing safety, in an accelerating world of instant image and random acts of chaos.
But will it make a difference–will it catch those who harbor multi-hateful, violent emotions, which cannot be seen until they are impulsed to act out upon the innocent? I don’t think so.
Excluding a first-time, repeat homeless camper, caught sleeping, eating, or peeing; or banishing the indiscretions of a non-violent fool, for his foolishness, was not the reason for the new law. Lets keep that in perspective.
It was a loud, public outcry; a mandate in favor of exclusion of the worst offenders; it was example, after example of public testimony about blatant, rude, drunken, menacing, harassing, racist, disrespectful, and violent behavior.
It was for those who clearly were uncivil, or posing a threat of harm or theft. When I saw it, I did not support it at the time, most everyone else believes it has become necessary–but unfortunately, these types are not limited to downtown.
Where will the good people, the gentle people, the unassuming, trusting people, the innocent man or woman walking on those streets, turn to, but each other for safety and a sense of familiar faces?
I am opposed to all sweeping vagrancy or loitering laws, however well intended or well meaning, that serve to discourage gatherings of any size, friendliness, or back round; and it encourages isolation of the individual from society; therefore increasing the “fear of the unknown transient”. What’s wrong with knowing your homeless?
This makes everyone seen downtown, a suspect of all kinds of trivial, non-violent, crap; in a nightly culture war, of wasted enforcement manpower, when we are probably only looking for a loner type person who apparently committed this crime.
The homeless citizens here 99.9% of whom want very much to obey the laws, (and have a job, and pay their own way), yet cannot, who would be just as willing, and as good of witnesses for the police in an emergency as anyone else.
There is a high number of public drunkenness incidents throughout the city, the police report. Sadly, social drinkers over time, often become chronic alcoholics from the experience of homelessness; many have given up, and given in to alcoholism, which is not only a disease, but also the presence of multiple, disembodied, alcohol spirits, occupying a drunkard, like a parasite and attempting to feed their own addiction, with every sip of fermented brew, he or she takes.
So, this one person frustrates and outnumbers even the most well trained police force; and a deeply concerned, and a visibly angry Mayor, who wastes no time, and takes very seriously her all-embracing, everybody-in community , leadership, and reasserts for the entire community, that this behavior will not continue, and that the City will not stop until he is caught. Amen to that.
This is the SOB that rightfully should be excluded from downtown, and from all of Lane County, for life! But instead, he remains at large, nobody knows yet, who he is, maybe he is with no group, who never heard him threaten to harm a homeless man, who would turn him in, in a N.Y. minute.
There needs to be more people down there on the streets not fewer! How often I have watched as some dead end street or road was being used as a dump; or a place where stolen vehicles are taken and stripped, then burned or the like; and of course, never enough police or sheriffs–never could be. Not supposed to be.
There could be–but will not be–a small, tight, three family, group of homeless campers, given permission, sanitation, “vetted” by St. Vincent dePaul, or Whitebird, whose duty it could have been to call in (on a donated cell phone) anything suspicious, or for personal, or medical emergencies, in certain places to do just like any other community volunteer. However, there is too much opposition the expansion of the program to include those of the very type the people already cannot stand downtown.
When a small group of friends band together to watch each others backs and belongings, there is a bond of trust and honesty that ought to be seen as an obvious help to the greater community, as “neighborhood watch” of the streets of downtown, instead of simply being declared a public safety hazard or nuisance.
Unfortunately, at Broadway and High St. is not a suitable camping area–it is a business district. There was no one else around at 3:00 AM in the morning for witnessing the crime allegedly committed against Mr. James Lemmon, the homeless man who is now in a hospital, recovering from his coat being set on fire from behind.
There cannot be total surveillance except by building the hideous, near total Orwellian, “big brother” atmosphere of the United Kingdom, with thousands of video cameras covering nearly every square foot of London, total visual monitoring and identification of every individual in public.
I wrote an extensive piece on video surveillance in an earlier post, and it was posted on KMTR TV, I wrote a lengthy comment covering the dangerous bicycling conditions in Eugene, and use of cameras to catch hit-and-run crimes.
See: Previous post _________
We are beginning to really know, under no uncertain terms, that no one is safe down there at 3:00 AM, or 5:00 PM, and therefore, at any other time; as the recent assaults and murder of another homeless man shows.
Eugene’s reputation as a safe, friendly, progressive community has again, suffered a setback with another crime in string of violence outplaying itself over past weeks and months, in fact years.
I do not write this piece as, an “I told you so” statement, it is a fact. It is not just a local problem, street violence is a national disgrace, and an economic phenomena, that people refuse to see the symbolism behind–which is simply–social breakdown. Warning! Danger!
Anyone who must be in downtown or anywhere in Eugene at odd or even hours, should be either in the friendly crowd of Saturday, or Farmers Market, or be incognito, with full lights at night, on a very fast bicycle, zooming by everyone.
This crime, further proves there is an attitude of hatred and violence out there, that has infected these kinds of street-roaming monsters even more beyond my own comprehension to warn city officials about!
Here is another point I would mention. Here is guy who’s whole left side was burned, and his left arm was in a cast, said to be almost totally burned of skin; he himself, might probably would never so much as hurt a flea, becomes the next victim.
Mr. Lemmon is homeless, and he is also black. Was he at any greater risk of either racism, or class-ism–how could the attacker see from behind his skin color or know for certain this guy was homeless?
Could not this have happened to anyone? Until the criminal is caught and decides to tell why he did it, we may never know.
Was it just the angry, deranged mind of some young punk who thought he saw a non-human target to rage against–with a vial of gasoline, and a bic lighter, ready to torch the guy?
When we consider how this fire most likely needed an accelerant, that is considered a premeditated act?
In most all of my missives to to the public and government officials, I am speaking in advocacy for the homeless in general, and for future (perhaps your children) in jeopardy of homelessness, in particular.
I talk about a negative attitude towards the homeless which is way more subtle, almost unseen or unheard, it is so carefully framed, or it has become so politically or openly correct, but it is not the truth, and it offends the homeless, it defames them.
It is a systemic problem of governments evading responsibility for protecting a minority, and misapplied civil law, and the unequal economic, and legal representative factors, which are never in favor of the poor, but always in a light, most favorable to the corporate, and the elite of Eugene, who champion more acceptable examples of success, and role models, often seem the most willing to rob them even more–to the point of having nothing!
The anti-homeless attacks I strongly oppose are those where the city neglects to provide enough legal places; then harasses, and then encourages public or private land owners to maliciously tow the vehicles of homeless campers and all of their belongings, leaving them helpless to help them selves.
That is one kind of insidious hateful, attack upon the homeless community over the years, that is much “approved of”, but only deserving of someone like the A-hole who set this guy on fire.
I would also have my readers know, that I also suffered a violent attack several years ago (about 1995-6) while living homeless in my bus, on a dead-end street of West Eugene, at the end of 4th and Wallace St. late one night, by a drunk, who stuck the barrel of a .22 rifle in the back of my neck, which I grabbed and shoved away.
I tried to run, but could not; he repeatedly punched me in the face and pulled huge clumps of my hair out trying to drag me from my home, while I had my left arm locked through the steering wheel and I was trying to block my face; I was left with a broken nose, both eyes blackened, and an extremely bruised, and swollen face, and still, in the so-called, low income-friendly community, few even knew how I was assaulted and left to the streets to suffer and cry, like a worthless piece of roadkill.
I was forced to have to drive my own motor home, half blind, in a state of bloody shock, to a nearby friend’s apartment, 3 miles away, at four corners, to call the police, and be taken to the emergency room at Sacred Heart Hospital.
So, I know all too well about the dangers of city life here. If it isn’t by street thugs, it’s getting run over by vehicles, while riding your bike. Eugene personally, or impersonally, is a dangerous place to live.
This past incident, was a sadistic act of hate against me, which I bore alone; but then, for calling together other homeless to teach the advantage of safety in numbers, parking in groups, we all were dispersed, like hated Gypsies.
Our Mayor said it best–this latest was a sadistic attack–and I would add, there is a very sick, anti-social individual out there still, and this really is a threat to all citizens, homeless or not, and I fear, will be more difficult to catch!
www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/cityregion/21159578-41/story.csp
updates
www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/updates/21185380-55/story.csp
Homeless Man Recovering From Burn Attack
www.kval.com/news/local/63770537.html
Random Weekly Illegal Police Report from Register Guard
October 11, 2009
Random weekly illegal camping police report from Register Guard News:
special.registerguard.com/police/eugene/2009/sep/23/Illegal%20Camping/
A Tribute to Dr. Jack Kevorkian
October 11, 2009
By Danielle Smith
September
Doctor Jack Kevorkian is now a free man after serving prison time for assisting in the suicide of terminally ill patients, that earned him the nick name “doctor death”.
It was with pity, rather than scorn, that I remembered him ever since I first saw his painting “war” in local newspaper, for I recognized instantly it was a masterpiece of art!
Jack Kevorkian to Show Paintings At Watertown Museum:
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Sunny Job Outlook for Anal Renttive Control Freaks!
October 11, 2009
aRefuse to suffer anal attentive control freaks, and neuter your ego authorities before its too late!
Let them have those prying-eye, kick-down-the-door, jobs!
Just keep them away from me–I prefer to do my own soul searching, thank you very much!!
A Pinched Nerve Exclusive Report, By Danielle Smith
Everyone is anal retentave to some extent, I admit my own relationship with that; but it’s when the two–anal and control–get together, you have those out in the world, ready to go to work (and get paid) to control, conquer, and put a stop to the mostly, private activities of
others.
Weekly Employment Forecast for September-October, 2009
Unfortunately, for those of us who hate to be tested, controlled, searched, or identified, future job prospects for young, anal retentive control freaks will continue to offer the most high paying positions for those ready and willing to conform eagerly to fascism, produce bodily fluids on demand, sell out or imprison fellow American citizens for a paycheck, and be ready and willing to defend the homeland, from dangerous, home-grown terrorists, like:
ordinary Americans aggressively smoking, or growing pot; or the poor and homeless, who are panhandling; then there’s the busy man or woman on the street, who has become frustrated with them all–sick and tired of being asked to spread a little capitalism among the poor–they can not–but as an anal controler, you can give (or take) from your community! Because the trickle down economic plumbing system does not work–AT ALL–except where all fun is prohibited by law!
If you have nothing to hide, and you are a well trained, self-starter, try employment as an experienced Nanny!
They will be hired by the thousands to program, promote, and broadcast state propaganda, assist and /or replace parents in raising of their children, in politically and corporate proper behavior, of course!
Earn a good living while monitoring all the rest of us with a paternal, big brother, strick father, all-knowing, iron fist–
just in case we threaten to become too exuberant and willful in our rightful, exercise of constitutional, human rights, such as:
looking strange, appearing suspicious–even if we’re not, acting strange–that’s vague; or having something to hide on their person–or not, with the intent to secretly smuggle illegal(?) contraband, in order to self medicate, or to assist, or supply to others while avoiding the nanny’s watchful eye.
Now hiring in your area! Yes, we may want you! Its time to put a copy of your ego on a resume in every employer’s circular file, you’re unemployed, you’ve got the time!
There will also be a high demand for self-motivated, shameless, role models–willing to compromise anything and everything–including their own children in the field of sports, military or civilian, population psy ops or “psychological operations”! If you excel in disinformation technology, this could be dream job you’ve been waiting for!
Top headhunters are searching for those who possess skills in “sending the right messages” as willing pawns for the ongoing corporate takeover and buyout of our government–Congress and Senate, taking our precious, constitutional republic–that we no longer have the will to protect and defend with the blood of our military–because we’re already too mired in a horrific war that we were lied into; and still support–as long someone else’s children are dying in Iraq and Afghanistan, for nothing–why not you? Volunteer at your own risk!
You’ll be earning plenty of overtime and hazardous duty pay for a very, long-term uniform position and many exhausting, mentally challenging, tours of duty, in one of the hot deserts in the word; fighting an enemy no other invading country’s armies have ever won.
You will have tons of interesting war stories to tell you children, if you survive, and can have children! Yep, we was fightin’ over there so we didn’t have to fight them here, under your bed, son! Daddy, Do you think they will ever find Osama BinLaden?
Put your “people skills” to work doing lucrative, satisfying work in the field of:
Doublespeak communications, Webster to Orwellian translators, Animal Farm laborer, Internet sex policing, total mind-controler, sub-liminal advertising, and TV shows, brainwashed for family entertainment;
And for you hard core, gung-ho control freaks–perhaps a rewarding job in the FCC’s strict, zero-tolerance, War on Fleeting Explatitives, enforcement team–is just the free ride to beauruacratic job security and retirement you have been looking for. Entry Level! If you have never used, or uttered the “F” word, you can begin work immediately!
Until next time, good luck job seekers!
Just keep them away from me–I prefer to do my own soul searching, thank you very much!!
others.
DON’T RADIATE ME EITHER, BRO!
October 11, 2009
Don’t Radiate Me Either, Bro!
By Danielle Smith
September 21, 2009
