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SCPD celebrates their big arrest in keeping downtown safe!
Ever vigilant to harassing activists who challenge the Santa Cruz's city's laws criminalizing homelessness and controlling free speech, SCPD directs their precious resources to being able to harass artists.
http://santacruzpolice.blogspot.com/2015/08/vandalism-arrest.html?spref=fb
SCPD might have a pretty new face as their official spokesperson instead of Steve Clark, but it's the same oppression and same message nevertheless. Today, SCPD celebrates their big arrest in nabbing the alleged "blue square painters."
Yes, in a town that is increasingly paralyzed by gang violence as well as bicycle thefts left and right, the boys and girls in blue are not only spending their precious time harassing downtown artists standing in the wrong squares they've been relegated to by Santa Cruz City Council, but now SCPD seems strangely focused on the appearance of new blue squares that have appeared in the last few days. Seems like SCPD didn't want to investigate the alleged disappearance of some of the original blue squares which have mysteriously disappeared after the City's Artist in Blue Cage ordinance was passed.
Felony vandalism seems to be the catch-all charge that SCPD uses against anyone who they politically oppose. If readers recall, SCPD and the SC DA leveled this charge against a select few bank occupiers who they effectively tried to oppress and silence under the threat of prosecution and jail simply for being in a building that hundreds of other occupiers were in as well.
Notice that the announcement in the SCPD blogspot is intended to throw red meat to Steve Clark's unofficial community cheerleaders, commonly known as TBSC. You can be assured that the TBSC admins and board members will be doing their best to turn TBSC members into a frothing mob of online near vigilantes who can then be politicized and then easily organized when TBSC and Steve Clark wants their slate of political candidates to win in a local election. Remember that TBSC loves Steve Clark and Steve Clark seems to love TBSC. They seemed to work hand and hand when Steve Clark in an official police capacity called a press conference branding SC City Council candidate Leonie Sherman an anarchist--TBSC members were not-so-surprisingly quick to jump on the allegation, mimicking Steve Clark's "facts" and claims in what one could easily imagine was a pre-organized coordinated fashion.
Is this SCPD blogspot post yet another attempt at trying to interject themselves into the political realm of local politics? Are they trying smear local efforts of some citizens who are exercising their conscience to challenge what might very well be UnConstitutional laws passed by Santa Cruz City Council in regards to their criminalization of the poor and homeless?
What will happen next in the supposedly liberal town of Santa Cruz? Who knows. But stay tuned for SCPD's latest antics of trying to silence and crush local activists they disagree with-all the while when real crime is running rampant!
** countdown for TBSC trolls to show up....10 9 8 7....
SCPD might have a pretty new face as their official spokesperson instead of Steve Clark, but it's the same oppression and same message nevertheless. Today, SCPD celebrates their big arrest in nabbing the alleged "blue square painters."
Yes, in a town that is increasingly paralyzed by gang violence as well as bicycle thefts left and right, the boys and girls in blue are not only spending their precious time harassing downtown artists standing in the wrong squares they've been relegated to by Santa Cruz City Council, but now SCPD seems strangely focused on the appearance of new blue squares that have appeared in the last few days. Seems like SCPD didn't want to investigate the alleged disappearance of some of the original blue squares which have mysteriously disappeared after the City's Artist in Blue Cage ordinance was passed.
Felony vandalism seems to be the catch-all charge that SCPD uses against anyone who they politically oppose. If readers recall, SCPD and the SC DA leveled this charge against a select few bank occupiers who they effectively tried to oppress and silence under the threat of prosecution and jail simply for being in a building that hundreds of other occupiers were in as well.
Notice that the announcement in the SCPD blogspot is intended to throw red meat to Steve Clark's unofficial community cheerleaders, commonly known as TBSC. You can be assured that the TBSC admins and board members will be doing their best to turn TBSC members into a frothing mob of online near vigilantes who can then be politicized and then easily organized when TBSC and Steve Clark wants their slate of political candidates to win in a local election. Remember that TBSC loves Steve Clark and Steve Clark seems to love TBSC. They seemed to work hand and hand when Steve Clark in an official police capacity called a press conference branding SC City Council candidate Leonie Sherman an anarchist--TBSC members were not-so-surprisingly quick to jump on the allegation, mimicking Steve Clark's "facts" and claims in what one could easily imagine was a pre-organized coordinated fashion.
Is this SCPD blogspot post yet another attempt at trying to interject themselves into the political realm of local politics? Are they trying smear local efforts of some citizens who are exercising their conscience to challenge what might very well be UnConstitutional laws passed by Santa Cruz City Council in regards to their criminalization of the poor and homeless?
What will happen next in the supposedly liberal town of Santa Cruz? Who knows. But stay tuned for SCPD's latest antics of trying to silence and crush local activists they disagree with-all the while when real crime is running rampant!
** countdown for TBSC trolls to show up....10 9 8 7....
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Take Back Santa Cruz mouthpiece Samantha Olden lives in Aptos and she is from New York, what on Earth is she talking about here???
Also to read this makes me want even more to know the details of the audit on Samantha Olden, who is a realtor, and like fellow transplant, TBSC founder Dexter Cube, she has responsibilities that govern other people's hard earned money locally. Both of them have had to face little accountability here in Santa Cruz.
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/06/02/18649646.php
Also to read this makes me want even more to know the details of the audit on Samantha Olden, who is a realtor, and like fellow transplant, TBSC founder Dexter Cube, she has responsibilities that govern other people's hard earned money locally. Both of them have had to face little accountability here in Santa Cruz.
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/06/02/18649646.php
I shudder to think how TBSC members would have reacted to MLK and acts of civil disobedience in the 60's.
this seems about right for how they'd react:
this seems about right for how they'd react:
Actually, the UCSC police dispatcher probably thinks "Chrissy Brown" is a nutjob, and it just illustrates these folks delusional thinking. Delusional people can be VERY dangerous to the societies they exist in.
Ps. LocalWiki has an excellent writeup on TBSC. There's a writeup on the inbred Comstock Family Mafia there.
. "Questions about who really runs TBSC and how open access is to it. TBSC was founded and is run by a small group of relatives. Analicia Cube is married to Dexter and she is the main spokesperson for the group. Analicia's sister is Heather Babcock, Heather's husband is Ian Babcock. Analicia's cousin is Craig Comstock whose wife is Pamela Comstock who as a result of helping start TBSC is now a member of the Santa Cruz City Council. There are no meetings per se for the group, group action is coordinated through both a mailing list and the private/closed FaceBook group. Overall policy and admin of the group seems to be set by the group founders. Though anyone can suggest an idea for the group, the founders and admins have final say about what flies or not, this is a top down organization, their decision is the final one and discussion is often missing.
Ps. LocalWiki has an excellent writeup on TBSC. There's a writeup on the inbred Comstock Family Mafia there.
. "Questions about who really runs TBSC and how open access is to it. TBSC was founded and is run by a small group of relatives. Analicia Cube is married to Dexter and she is the main spokesperson for the group. Analicia's sister is Heather Babcock, Heather's husband is Ian Babcock. Analicia's cousin is Craig Comstock whose wife is Pamela Comstock who as a result of helping start TBSC is now a member of the Santa Cruz City Council. There are no meetings per se for the group, group action is coordinated through both a mailing list and the private/closed FaceBook group. Overall policy and admin of the group seems to be set by the group founders. Though anyone can suggest an idea for the group, the founders and admins have final say about what flies or not, this is a top down organization, their decision is the final one and discussion is often missing.
For more information:
https://localwiki.org/santacruz/Take_Back_...
Some civic minded individuals learned that places for Free Speech are quietly disappearing in downtown Santa Cruz and took it upon themselves to add some more on their own. Police are calling this civic act "Felony Vandalism" and have charged Abbi Samuels and and Kieth McHenry of Food Not Bombs.
What is next? Are they going to make Kieth and Abbi pay to remove the Free Speech Zones???
Adding Free Speech Zones is NOT a CRIME. It's a political statement.
Take Back Santa Cruz (TBSC) leader Samantha Olden talking about a small minority throwing temper tantrums when they don’t get their way is a very apt description of TBSC.
I reported Take Back Santa Cruz (TBSC) as a fraudulent charity in June 2013 to the California Attorney General's (CA AG) office because they had not filed as a non-profit although they were taking donations misrepresenting themselves as a valid charity. They still haven't filed IRS 990 forms — required for nonprofits — with the CA AG.
Often hate groups will wash their money through a non-profit like some foreign terrorist groups do.
Often hate groups will wash their money through a non-profit like some foreign terrorist groups do.
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