Crimes That Pay

Oakland is in melt-down mode.  The police department now claims that it won’t respond to any of these crimes:

• burglary
• theft
• auto accidents
• embezzlement
• grand theft
• grand theft:dog
• identity theft
• false information to peace officer
• required to register as sex or arson offender
• dump waste or offensive matter
• discard appliance with lock
• loud music
• possess forged notes
• pass fictitious check
• obtain money by false voucher
• fraudulent use of access cards
• stolen license plate
• embezzlement by an employee (over $ 400)
• extortion
• attempted extortion
• false personification of other
• injure telephone/ power line
• interfere with power line
• unauthorized cable tv connection
• vandalism
• administer/expose poison to another’s

And that’s just a partial list, there are supposedly 44 total crimes that will simply be ignored.

Unable to meet it’s budgetary demands, 80 officers are being laid off.

Interesting that they can be so “specific” on what they will and will not respond to.  Using the published list, it appears if these crimes are not revenue generating sources for the city — then they get ignored.

Notice the ticket writing “crimes” didn’t make the list.  Or the high profile crimes like robbery, rape, murder.

This is what incremental collapse looks like.

Happening right now in city near you (probably the one you are living in).  Every city in the country is in trouble, even this tiny town I live in can’t afford to pay it’s bills.  North Dakota is the only State the has shown a budget surplus as I recall.

In other cities, budget cuts have forced the cities to abandon square miles of the city limits, cut city services, eliminate child care, and a whole range of welfare programs, institute health care cuts, eliminate mental health care and freeze state pay, and even lower the pay of state workers to minimum wage.

IOU’s by the State to employees, vendors and contractors, service suppliers and tax-refund recipients have long been an emergency “staple”, a band-aid on a growing problem.

So what does the federal government do?  Why, tax the citizens even harder!  You should read this article very carefully, twice.  It’s going to destroy millions of small businesses and vendors alike.  These morons truly believe that they have a right to your labor.  The goal is always the same with these people.

You should, if you have read this entry and the links, realize that the government (State and Federal) is only interested in holding you, the poor peon citizen, a perpetual hostage.  Pay up, or else.  Crime will increase if you don’t.  We won’t respond to your needs — but you will respond to ours (keep us fat-assed bureaucrats in office).

I have nothing but contempt for these useless slugs.  It’s always business-as-usual with these idiots, they’re so damned dense that they can’t think outside of this narrow box they built.  Instead of creating local jobs and a localized economy (essential for a return to sustainable living and common sense in the midst of economic collapse and resource collapse), they insist on business as usual for as long as possible.

Instead of eliminating themselves as being unnecessary and unneeded, or trimming the incredible layers of fat from their pork programs (especially endless war), and dismantling the onerous burden of legislation thrown onto the backs of every citizen of this country, every layer of government throughout this entire country seeks to continually justify themselves over the people.

I have never accepted the notion that most government is even needed (or desirable).  A LOT of what government does the people can do better (or simply do without).  Most “programs” are designed to further enslave you, deeper and deeper, increasing your total dependency and therefore, dependence upon the State (and the corporations that are served).

They call this “freedom” by some bizarre definition.  I call it slavery.

There are real crimes being practiced here and the guilty are not who you may have thought.