From: Linda Jolley <lindajolley9_at_(domain_name_was_removed)>
Date: Wed Jul 16 2008 - 15:07:32 PDT

Watch:  incendiary radio talk is coming tomorrow (Thurs.) eve -- see below
 

I apologize, my dear friends, for being slow in letting you know the outcome of my fightback after a Redwood City cop gave me a $200 citation for taking a 20-minute nap in my landscape truck.  I won on appeal.   And here is my grateful thanks to all of you who helped.   It cost me about $1000 worth of my time to give these predators a little kick in the groin.   But I spent that time.   Because Galbraith's "Predator State," if unchecked, will devour us all. 
 (The link on Predator State:  )

http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2006/05/predator_state.html
 
 A new report came to me last week that a couple of people were harassed by cops for putting down a blanket and taking a nap in a Redwood City park -- in the daytime!  
 

Why these senseless attacks on harmless little naps?  The plot sickens when we remember that the City of Santa Cruz has made it a crime to carry a blanket during night hours.   What's happening?  
 

Throughout the USA  local governments fear it may damage them if their constituents become aware of the terrible poverty and homelessness that exist within their communities.   The solution?   Hide it, or drive it out.   Beat the crap out of it.   Keep things looking really nice for the benefit of wealthy constituents.   You will realize how deadly is this War on Poverty when you see that we have . . .
 
                        Slavery in Redwood City
 

I have seen the slave quarters at the restored Thomas Jefferson plantation.   Those slaves had beds, cooking facilities, a place to wash up, etc.    Today's slaves in Redwood City don't even go home to a hot meal.   After a day of grueling manual labor they go "home" to maybe a sandwich and a cold can of food, eaten fearfully in secret at a place in the bushes where, hopefully, they will not be noticed during the night.  There may not even be a mattress to sleep on.   Some slaves disguise themselves as a pile of trash or cardboard in order to hide themselves during the night.
 

Hide from whom?   Hide from our government  -  the Predator.   The slaves are folks who average maybe $30 per day because they can't get work every day.   They turn out every morning at outfits like Labor Ready and hope for the best.  They try desperately hard.   If cops discover their home in the bushes it means the hardship of moving  -- again.  Because they are more than slaves.   THEY ARE CRIMINALS.
 

Criminals, yes.   Because the City of Redwood City, like most others, has decreed that no one may live anywhere except in "residential"  housing.   All the places where poor folks used to live -- shacks, dilapidated rentals, vehicles, camps, garages . . . . those are all forbidden places now.   Government has intimidated its subjects to the point where a homeowner who wants to help someone can no longer do it . . . can no longer offer a homeless person a place in the yard or garage.   The punishment from government is too great.  
 

Occasionally one of our local slaves attempts to buy his freedom.  After an incredible struggle he is able to buy a vehicle.   Now he's in high cotton.  He can heat a can of food on his engine block.  He's got protection from bugs, thugs, cold . . . But he does NOT have protection from the Predator.   If the escaped slave is caught in the act of sleeping in a vehicle he can be sent back to the plantation to be whipped.  In other words, he can be fined so heavily that he will lose the vehicle and be back where he started.  
 

How can this happen?   There were supposed to be homeless shelters, senior housing, subsidized housing, a minimum wage pegged to cost-of-living . . . . It's almost all gone, folks.   The shelters and subsidized housing have been full and overflowing for a long time.   The whole deal is full of smokescreen.    And so is the County's "Hope" project.   It won't solve the problem.   Government is too dam stoooopid to solve the problem and is trying to hide poverty with police attacks and propaganda.   There is no "shortage of affordable housing," as the bureaucrats describe it.   Our forefathers created their own housing in no time at all.   The true nature of the problem is that government has raised the bar so high that poor folks cannot meet it today.   Either you pay for nice housing  --- or, you are a criminal. 
 
    Lay 'em down and give 'em an enema
 

Government does not respond to rays of light from citizens.   Another activist and myself proposed a campground for vehicles and tents.   About 12 other cities have them, and the reports are good.    There is empty land.   What possible harm can it do to allow desperate people to exist on it long enough to eat, sleep, look for work?  The proposal fell on deaf ears at Council in Redwood City.   This Council is obsessed with "beautification."   It needs an enema.  Council members did not even know their shelters were full until I told them so.
 

The enema will take place after the recession brings disaster upon us all.   Those who can barely afford food, gas, and housing right now will find themselves stripped of all they had.  Destitute, they will become helpless game for Redwood City's aggressive cops.  There are always a few who will snarl like trapped animals, under attack, when the system beats them up.   These guys turn to crime.   Can you blame them?   Crime and poverty go hand-in-hand.   Government made them criminals; they continue in crime.   As the middle class sees increasing crime maybe they will administer an enema at City Hall.   Maybe not.   Crime creates jobs for government.  
 

What can you do?  If you can do any one of these it will help:
 

****** This Thursday night at 6:30 p.m. tune your radio to 101.1 FM ("FreakRadio").  I will be talking with Robert Norse, a leading activist and known trouble-maker in Santa Cruz.  Norse is suing that city and fighting for civil rights for poor folks. 
****** Forward this email to everyone who has a heart.
****** In Redwood City, make it a point to vote every member of City Council out of office.  They have heard the case over and over.   Lay them down and flush it down.
******  Read, think, and try to SEE the true nature of this nationwide epidemic of heartlessness.  Seek the Invisible Kingdom that Jesus talked about.   It becomes more visible thru attempted kindness toward suffering people.
******Look for needy people in the area of Redwood City.    Refer them to me for information.   My information service needs help, such as updating and co-founders.  Eventually it will reach all the homeless and most of the wealthy.  
******Watch the Predator.  It sucked trillions out of our economy, fed war contractors, and made us poor in order to kill thousands.   Now they want to spray us with chemicals to kill a non-existant caterpillar.   Follow the money.  Notice that you cannot even buy a gas can that does not leak, because the Predator is everywhere. 

[6]  Be careful about how you give donations.   In my book, the ACLU and the Peninsula Community Foundation are about equally useless.   But St. Anthony's dining hall in R.C. is doing terrific work.  
 

Thanks again, and more later!
Linda Jolley
P.O. Box 2417
Menlo Park, CA 94026
cell:  650-630-3021
Lindajolley9@yahoo.com Received on Wed Jul 16 15:07:38 2008