okay lets get a few things straight

cause evidently last time I just assumed everyone knew what was up and I got all these angry comments about spoiled rich kids and communism...

so first of all my name is andreas nicholas get to know this face I'm not afraid and yes I know who runs the world and that I should be.

I'm not from orange county and I'm not rich, though I don't know why it would matter if I was. the constitution should be just as solid for the rich as it is for the poor, and the government really shouldn't favour either. in fact thats not even the cities job...

However I am a santa cruz local born and raised, I go to cabrillo and I don't support fascism, especially socialism fascism. I'd rather have freedom than be traded rent reductions and some bastard form of copyrighten healthcare by this tyrranical regime as a last feeble attempt to stay in control of our resources and tax money for their absurd and selfish empirialism. Giving this regime more power over us right now even if you think your new president will be different just reminds me of germany in the 20s, where there was this new young socialist vegetarian painter who seemed promising...

I work minimum wage jobs and I VJ at shows which is really a lot of fun but dance parties are like hookers short and straight to the point...

So I got tired of doing shows for other people, I just wanted to be able to do the same thing for free like a jam band. About a year ago I lucked out and was practically given an old intel data projector, and all in all it was the lightbulb I had to pay for.

So I've gone around doing shows for pay as well as for free, and I've been everywhere I can man, projecting all along the west coast, and in oregon and washington. -and I've never had a problem.

but whenever I get back to santa cruz, something crazy always happens, something unreasonably elitist and fascist and I have a hard time just letting it continue.

to those who who are worried about the problems homeless cause and want to make the city take care of you, rememeber who this city is and has been run by, and not just coonerty jr. or the poor officers who have to enforce their codes.

these police keep fully automatic carbine gas powered assault rifles in their cars at all time, I don't think thats just for homeless... they are forced to break laws every day, I can't imagine all of them are evil, but many if not most have to know what they are doing is illegal, unconstitutional or at least wrong, but if they were to refuse orders they would be replaced almost immediatly with someone likely far more sinister. these are the real systems of checks and balance.

also know this, as someone who lived in santa cruz my whole life and know many street kids who've come and go, the police agenda in this town is not to stop the crime but to know everything. They know where the needles are and they keep a camera going on it, they know who needs the junk. Once, several years ago I brought food to the needle exchange, when I left the police followed me in a car quietly for nearly and hour, never contacting me, but it's all on tape.

In fact they have to make sure there is enough narcotics in the town to go around to make sure the junkies don't get crazy. this isn't unusual, -police have been doing this in towns for over a century, it just hard to get it into the heads of the yuppies who think the police are trying to protect them and their children... I repeat, they are not. they are only trying to keep you satisfied, comfortable enough to tolarate the unlawful terrorism

for those who don't recal, please remember that santa cruz is the first place in america, probably the world to be arrest someone for feeding the hungry. an elderly woman in 1989.

Santa Cruz has upheld a ban since the seventies, which has been selectively enforced over the years, but never removed from the record. -their reasoning? the homeless can sleep during the day and ought to stay on their toes at night...

Lets not forget the sidewalk sitting ban Santa Cruz used to harrass people on public property. and over 10 years ago when conflicts with protesters led to police miscarring a pregnant woman's baby with a billyclub. and thats surely not the most of it...

mayor coonerty, that is to say coonerty jr. the second coonerty mayor, first being his father neil, both wealthy local businessmen, have always been proponants of ellitism to please the yuppies. So I wasn't suprised when I found that this new mayor had installed a new city council gag rule which prohibits conversing on topics without permission, and permission requires not mentioning "the breath of the argument." which effectively ends democratic discussion and open forum, -and is obviously unconsitutitional and an extreme and direct violation of the brown act.

the amount of ordinances piling up are designed to intimidate, and overwealm so that nothing can be done about them, and removing only one at a time would seem fruitless. almost always minorities, homeless and street kids are picked, they are then told to leave town, despite having an infraction which requires a court appearance, meaning if they ever return theres a warrant for their arrest.

the police effectively banish people from our town and have done so for quite some time..

I understand if you don't like certain types of people, if you are discriminatory against minorities or those from lesser economic backgrounds, its arcaic but understandable. the fact of the matter is these laws stand against you too, not just those you dislike.

and such direct violatons of the constution are not affordable losses to our freedom in the name of terrorism or anything else. we must stand for our rights or else let them be claimed by the government for us.

It is a scary time in history right now when democracy niether suits the people nor the government...

the government demands a dictatorship, a land without sufferage in exchange for comforts we really don't need and actually enslave us.

the people want handouts and selective enforcement of terrorism against their neighbor and are willing to trade civil rights for the good and progress of society....

only all this is wrong, terribly wrong and if we don't stop it now there is no stopping it, where would you stand and assemble when there is no public property?

and what if they pick you up and take you in for questioning

do you know how hard it is to plead the fifth ammendment while being drowned and experiencing electroshock treatment...

and as I sit here, and people shake their head, saying that will never happen to me, it nearly brings tears to my eyes to see us head straight for it.

So please stand up for your rights. and do not fear them, understand that there power is based on your submittance and their lies.

if you are sitting on the sidewalk, or are in a parking lot for 20 minutes, if a police officer questions you and you refuse to answer on the grounds that the crime you are being questioned over is unconstitutional and you claim your first ammendment rights what can he do?

he can ask for your name and you can plead the 5th ammendment

if he demands to see your id and you do not show it he migh right a ticket

if you do not sign it and demand to see a magistrate, what can he do?

he may bring you in overnight until a judge deemes that he has violated your right to habeus corpus

but most people are scared and lazy, and take what looks like the easy way out by submitting as opposed to actually dealing with the situation.