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Cops Busted for Conspiracy to Steal Cars from Poor Hispanics
By: AGelbert Date: March 1, 2014, 4:58 pm
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California town shaken as police officers arrested
The misgivings had been building for some time. Investigators
heard people — many unable to speak English — complain that
police were taking their cars and money, and there was nothing
they could do about it.
"I'm not at all surprised by the arrests, I'm just surprised
there weren't more charges," restaurateur Vivian Villa said
Wednesday in Spanish while sizzling a pan of beef in preparation
for the lunch rush. "Now maybe some of them are going to feel
what we feel when they target us."
Later in the day, Villa held a meeting in her little restaurant
where about a dozen community members spoke out against police
abuse and corruption.
Latinos account for nearly 90 percent of the community of 13,000
people tucked among fields of tomatoes, strawberries and lettuce
along the Salinas River, 150 miles southeast of San Francisco.
Farm mechanics Francisco Mendez and Alfonso Perez, stopping at a
taco stand before heading into work, both described being
stopped frequently by police for having tinted windows or broken
tail lights.
"It seems like they just want a reason to pull you over," Mendez
said.
Tuesday's arrests, which also included a former police chief,
came after a six-month probe of the police department launched
in September when a visiting investigator — there to check out a
homicide — heard from numerous sources that the community didn't
trust its police department.
By this week, authorities said they had enough evidence to
arrest a total of six people linked to the department for a
variety of crimes ranging from bribery to making criminal
threats. They were all quickly released on bail.
"Ordinary citizens, again and again, told us they didn't trust
the police," said acting chief assistant Monterey County
District Attorney Terry Spitz. "There are more investigations
underway."
Tow shop owner Brian Miller, his brother acting police chief
Bruce Miller and Sgt. Bobby Carillo were scheduled to be
arraigned Monday on bribery charges after authorities said
vehicles impounded from Hispanic immigrants were funneled to the
tow yard then sold or given away.
Prosecutors said an undetermined number of vehicles were sold or
given away for free when the owners couldn't pay fees to reclaim
them. Two people at Miller's Towing in King City refused
comment.
Former Chief Dominic David Baldiviez and Mario Alonso Mottu Sr.
were set to be arraigned March 6 for embezzlement of a
city-owned Crown Victoria. Officer Jaime Andrade, accused of
possession of an assault weapon and illegal storage of a
firearm, and officer Mark Allen Baker, accused of making
criminal threats, are also slated for a March 6 arraignment.
Bruce Miller said the charges were baseless, and his family had
received death threats since prosecutors disclosed details of
the case. Messages for Baldiviez and Brian Miller were not
immediately returned. A man who answered the phone at a listing
for Baker hung up when asked about the case.
Andrade said he had not obtained an attorney. He said hopefully,
the truth would come out soon and "things will be cleared up."
City Manager Michael Powers said all but Mottu had been placed
on paid leave during the investigation prior to their arrests,
and that he hopes to announce a new, interim police chief on
Thursday.
Fixing King City's sense of well-being is a bigger challenge.
"Obviously no one should be targeted because of race, but recent
immigrants are at something of a disadvantage," Powers said.
"They already fear the police. It makes them easy prey."
Powers said a community meeting would be held in two weeks to
try to resolve concerns of angry citizens and those worried
about the depleted police force, where 10 of the 17 sworn
positions were held by Latinos.
State Sen. Bill Monning, whose district includes King City, said
he was "incensed and outraged," and thanked the FBI and local
authorities for their ongoing pressure.
"While I hope this is an isolated incident, I fear it is not,"
he said. "There continues to be situations throughout the state
where the immigrant workforce is subjugated to tyranny of those
abusing their authority."
County Supervisor Simon Salinas said it's going to take
community oriented policing to get the town to trust authorities
again.
"It's certainly going to be a black eye for King City," Salinas
said.
Complaints of misconduct have been raised during the past few
years in this historic, agricultural city where John Steinbeck's
father settled in 1890s and met his wife. With wide streets,
historic buildings and old oaks, parts of the city haven't
changed much since Steinbeck wrote of King City in parts of Mice
and Men and To a God Unknown.
But some said they are now afraid in the city.
"I'm not sure who is taking care of the town," said San Lorenzo
Liquors store owner Myukng Hong who reopened Wednesday after
closing early the night before after learning of the arrests.
At Leyva's Tow Yard, which police often bypassed with impounded
cars, George Oliveros said many people in the community were
aware of the investigation for months.
"In King City, a lot of people really try to stay away from the
police," he said. "Cops aren't really helping the people, they
focus on helping themselves."
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How Conservation Efforts are Gamed bv the Rich to Fool Everyone
Else.
By: AGelbert Date: March 2, 2014, 4:09 pm
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/>I disagree with the premise of the article on how to generate
funds to improve our infrastructure in order to make us a
sustainable society. [/center]
agelbert
I think the solution is to eliminate the gas tax altogether and
slap a 0.1% transaction tax on all Wall Street stock sales.
Billions would be generated continuously, gaming the stocks with
thousands of computer generated buys and sells would stop and,
without the price manipulation, assets would be priced in a
realistic manner. THEN we could get serious about overhauling
ALL of our infrastructure.
We need fossil fuels or the taxes they generate like a hole in
the head.
Don't Believe the Dirty Lie
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SticksInMyCraw > agelbert
The financial transactions tax is such a sensible idea, I don't
know why it doesn't get any traction here in the United States.
Didn't the UK just adopt a stock-transactions tax?
In any case, I know it is attracting serious attention
throughout Europe. A modest transactions tax would have minimal
impact on regular folks like you and me and our 401k's. But --
as you point out -- it would slow down and/or shift some tax
burden onto the computerized high frequency stock trading that
adds absolutely no value to the U.S. economy.
agelbert > SticksInMyCraw
Our Senators, Congressmen, the White House AND the Supreme Court
get hard of hearing when someone mentions taxing Wall Street. Of
course we know who they work for (It is definitely NOT
we-the-people).
Even my Senators and my Rep in Vermont (who favored this tax
about 5 years ago) have gone silent on it.
On the plus side, more people are talking about it and a tax
Wall Street party actually exists now and made the ballot (but
lost the election) in New York recently.
It's the only logical solution to our fiscal problems. But the
1% get the heeby jeebies just thinking about it!
Thanks for talking it up; the more people know about this
no-brainer, the better chance we have of making our government
enact it.
SticksInMyCraw > agelbert
Here you have it: The European Parliament approved such a tax
last summer:
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agelbert > SticksInMyCraw
The Europeans have more sense than we do.
dreamweaverdory
Taxes should be based on use, why the per gallon tax is workable
the more you use the road the more you pay, and if you want to
save taxes you pay, get a fuel efficient car you pay less and
pollute less. In a small town, unless you live in a food desert,
you will drive less to find a supermarket than in most cities,
and you should have a farmers market near by ,so why would you
drive to the city for anything but the night life.If you live
farther than that out in the country you are probably raising at
least some of your own food. Also , yes purple people should pay
less in taxes and blue people should pay more.
agelbert > dreamweaverdory
Taxes based on use is regressive taxation and fosters inequality
and strife. Taxes should be progressive and based on net worth
and income from all sources (including capital gains).
The present structure polarizes the population. That is wrong.
We want a tax structure that benefits the country as a whole,
not just the richest.
dreamweaverdory > agelbert
if we all paid one tax, not a bunch of different ones, i would
agree with you. The idea that if you tax the user for polluting
resources by the amount they use will help control use and maybe
help undo/clean up said pollution. The poor are not the ones
gobbling up resources, but they should be responsible for what
they use.
agelbert > dreamweaverdory
"The poor are not the ones gobbling up resources, but they
should be responsible for what they use."
Well, that is exactly my point. The poor are, not only
responsible for what they use but are being forced to shoulder
the cost and responsibility of what they don't use (i.e. the top
20% piggies!).
And you want to level the piggy playing field by pounding on the
victims of massive pollution and resource explotation first?
That is, not just illogical (because it doesn't address the
heart of the problem), it's immoral, vindictive, buck passing
and irrational too.
I don't mean to sound so harsh but you really need to understand
how this works in human power structures. Watch this, somewhat
slow at first (jump ahead to the 28 minute mark to) where the
Survival International Director explains where our so-called
"Conservation of Nature" concept came from. No, it has nothing
to do with conserving the biosphere and everything to do with
throwing natives off their land (first, the poor come later) and
then using said lands for resource explotation while setting
aside a small portion as "nature preserves" that the resource
raping goons use as pristine "natural" areas they can hunt wild
animals in to their corrupt hearts' content.
These very same bastards will turn around and defend
conservation efforts and wail and moan about how the people of
the world are despoiling nature and more areas need to be
"conserved" (for the rich to hunt and play in, of course).
It's a long and sordid story. Can you handle it? We liberals
have been manipulated big time by the rich for their benefit and
the detriment of the rest of humanity.
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Date: Friday, February 28
Time: 5pm Pacific Standard Time (1am GMT on Saturday, March 1)
Survival Director Stephen Corry is giving a hard-hitting talk on
the impact of conservation on tribes worldwide at the University
of Oregon's Public Interest Environmental Law Conference.
Explaining the role of ‘conservation’ in the ongoing
destruction of tribal peoples, he will explore how conservation
theories grew with ‘scientific’ racism, which underpinned
colonial genocides and the Holocaust.
He will demonstrate that contemporary claims that tribal and
indigenous peoples are ‘like our ancestors’, and ‘more violent’
than us, are no less spurious, and that they too damage the
people they purport to describe.
[quote][font=times new roman]'First we were dispossessed in the
name of kings and emperors,
later in the name of state development,
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
By: AGelbert Date: April 28, 2014, 3:15 pm
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[center]So where is the outrage against affirmative action for
white people? ??? >:([/center]
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Affirmative Action continues to be under attack, and the Supreme
Court's Schuette decision was no surprise. But if it is a moral
and perhaps legal outrage for colleges and universities to give
admissions preference to specific demographic groups, why aren't
the ostensibly principled warriors against Affirmative Action
also fighting against legacy admissions? (Agelbert NOTE: Whitey
Bigot REACTION --->
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Paul Waldman
explains:
[quote]Meanwhile, the preferences whites enjoy remain firmly in
place. There have yet to be any successful laws or ballot
initiatives to ban “legacy admissions,” in which applicants who
had a relative who attended the university are given special
preference. No one can come up with rational grounds for
retaining this affirmative action for wealthy white people, yet
universities all across the country do. And there are other only
slightly less blatant forms of favoritism; for instance, the
reliance on standardized test scores provides a boost for
wealthy students, most of them white, whose parents can afford
expensive test prep courses and tutoring. Again, no serious
person contends that SATs or ACTs are a pure measure of “merit,”
yet they continue to play a huge role in college
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Legacy admissions are blatantly racist, because at many American
colleges and universities, minority admissions were prohibited
or restricted until at least the latter half of the 20th
century. Generations of white families established legacies at
those colleges and universities, while minority families
couldn't. The continued favoritism granted those often growing
legacy families necessarily perpetuates the legacy of racism
from the era of explicit minority exclusion. But about this form
of affirmative action, those white supposed champions of equal
opportunity are curiously silent. Perhaps they're not really
concerned with fairness, perhaps they're really most concerned
with protecting their historical privileges. Perhaps they fear
that if admissions standards were truly fair and unbiased, they
wouldn't be able to compete.
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
By: AGelbert Date: May 5, 2014, 11:44 pm
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
By: Surly1 Date: May 13, 2014, 4:27 am
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Pitch-perfect, AG.
Conservatives went running from Cliven Bundy like he had rabies,
didn't they?
As Charlie Pierce often says, "It's not about race, because in
America, NOTHING is ever about race." :o
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
By: AGelbert Date: May 13, 2014, 8:51 pm
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Surly said,
[quote]Conservatives went running from Cliven Bundy like he had
rabies, didn't they?
As Charlie Pierce often says, "It's not about race, because in
America, NOTHING is ever about race." :o[/quote]
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
By: AGelbert Date: May 27, 2014, 2:10 pm
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Before repairing the climate, we’ll have to repair the impacts
of racism
By Brentin Mock
Protesters rallied in December to oppose the construction of a
garbage incinerator in one of the most polluted parts of
Baltimore. :P >:(
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ 18-page cover story for The Atlantic making a
case for reparations for African Americans is a must-read, even
if you’re not into all that hopey, changey racial justice stuff.
Even if you believe that the only thing we need to repair right
now are the practices that are leading to surplus greenhouse gas
emissions and resultant climate change, you need to read it — in
fact, you are the ideal audience for it. Coates makes the case
that after two-and-a-half centuries of slavery, and another
century-plus of Jim Crow, segregation, and racial terror,
African Americans deserve redress. Financial redress? Yes.
To celebrate freedom and democracy while forgetting America’s
origins in a slavery economy is patriotism à la carte.
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Perhaps
no statistic better illustrates the enduring legacy of our
country’s shameful history of treating black people as
sub-citizens, sub-Americans, and sub-humans than the wealth gap.
Reparations would seek to close this chasm. But as surely as the
creation of the wealth gap required the cooperation of every
aspect of the society, bridging it will require the same.
If you wonder why more black people aren’t so quick to fight
against the Keystone XL pipeline, it’s because we’re too busy
fighting the school-to-prison pipeline — or in places like
California, the pollution-to-school-to-prison pipeline. Not to
mention all of the other racial ills making our lives hectic,
before we can even think about something like climate. As
Anthony Giancatarino of the Center for Social Inclusion recently
wrote, “to truly address climate change, we need to understand
how our past and current policies have reinforced climate change
and inequity and the implications for our work.”
Bold and italics are mine, to show this is not an either-or nor
zero-sum equation. And it’s gonna take more than some green jobs
programs to insert equity in the equation. For years, Rep. John
Conyers of Michigan has been trying to pass House Resolution 40
to get Congress to just study the reparations issue so we can
have a greater understanding of how U.S. policies have
reinforced inequities. Writes Coates:
Perhaps after a serious discussion and debate—the kind that HR
40 proposes—we may find that the country can never fully repay
African Americans. But we stand to discover much about ourselves
in such a discussion—and that is perhaps what scares us. The
idea of reparations is frightening not simply because we might
lack the ability to pay. The idea of reparations threatens
something much deeper—America’s heritage, history, and standing
in the world.
I’d submit that what scares us in the reparations conversation
is similar to what most scares us in the climate change
conversation: Taking either subject seriously would mean
considerable discomfort in our lives and radical changes in our
behavior. I would also submit that what has led us to these
points — alarming levels of inequality along with alarming
levels of greenhouse gas emissions — are also virtually the same
in nature: The urge to criminally devalue both people and nature
in the quest to live as comfortably as possible.
To get to the bottom of these things, we’re going to have to pay
for the women and men and land and air that have been devalued
for far too long. There is no way around it.
Allow me to highlight a few passages from Coates’ article to
illustrate what I mean:
1. “In 2001, the Associated Press published a three-part
investigation into the theft of black-owned land stretching back
to the antebellum period. The series documented some 406 victims
and 24,000 acres of land valued at tens of millions of dollars.
The land was taken through means ranging from legal chicanery to
terrorism. ‘Some of the land taken from black families has
become a country club in Virginia,’ the AP reported, as well as
‘oil fields in Mississippi’ and ‘a baseball spring training
facility in Florida.’” >:(
Here is the AP article Coates is referencing. The oil fields are
a reference to Jasper County, Miss., where according to AP’s
investigation, the Ku Klux Klan drove black farmers off of the
land they owned in the 1930s and burned the courthouses where
the land records were stored. The lumber and paper company
Masonite later came in and claimed ownership of some 9,851 acres
in that same area, even though at least 204 of those acres
belong to black farmers, according to the land records that
survived the fires. Since claiming that land, Masonite “has
since yielded millions of dollars in natural gas, timber, and
oil, according to state records.”
Not only that, Masonite’s deforestation for paper and wood
products made its Mississippi operations the lumber commerce
center of the nation, if not the world. It also helped Masonite
destroy basically all of the healthy forests in Mississippi.
Pretty much everyone in America — and our parents and
grandparents — have bought or used Masonite paper products
produced on land that was stolen from African Americans.
Talk about ‘there will be blood’: “ At least 850,000 barrels of
oil have been pumped from this property, according to state
records,” reported AP. But last year, a pipeline leak led to
over 100 gallons of crude oil spilled into the county’s wetlands
costing some $5 million to clean up. The black landowners driven
out of Jasper by the Klan, I’m sure, reaped none of Masonite’s
profits. Meanwhile, the African Americans who live in the area
now will likely have to pay for the oil cleanup through their
tax dollars.
2. “Scholars have long discussed methods by which America might
make reparations to those on whose labor and exclusion the
country was built. … Perhaps no number can fully capture the
multi-century plunder of black people in America. Perhaps the
number is so large that it can’t be imagined, let alone
calculated and dispensed. But I believe that wrestling publicly
with these questions matters as much as—if not more than—the
specific answers that might be produced. An America that asks
what it owes its most vulnerable citizens is improved and
humane.”
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Right, and let’s not forget that America knows how to do these
formulas. We’ve not only done them for Japanese Americans and
for Native Americans, but we’ve also done them for plants and
animals. Case in point: The Natural Resource Damage Assessment,
which is a process where, after a disaster like an oil spill,
scientists study all of the non-human victims affected — trees,
wetlands, waters, fish, fauna, coral reefs, beach sands — to
place a financial value on each thing, the costs of the damage,
and how much it would cost to restore them whole. It happened
after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, and there is one happening
right now for the BP Oil Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. When
the total is tallied, a bill is given to the company that
created the disaster and it is expected to pay up.
America has not developed a similar process for African
Americans. This means right now a patch of wetlands is more
entitled to reparations than a black human being is.
3. “The past two decades have witnessed a rollback of the
progressive legislation of the 1960s.”
This can’t be emphasized enough. Whatever gains this country
made to begin approximate compensation and reconciliation for
past wrongs against African Americans, began getting dialed back
almost immediately after they were passed. The Civil Rights Act?
I just wrote about this in my last post. It used to be that
African Americans could file lawsuits against companies under
Title VI of that Act if it was found that companies were dumping
waste and pollution on their neighborhoods discriminately. But
that private right to sue was curtailed in 2001 and now people
of color must rely on the EPA to make such findings :( >:(—
their record for which has been wanting. Financial redress for
toxic exposures is even less unlikely under current terms.
Combine that with the gutting of the Voting Rights Act last
year, the recent depleting of affirmative action policies, a
near-knifing of fair housing protections, and energy apartheid
in the former slave-holding states, and any argument that
America is already paying its dues goes out the window.
Again, to reconcile all of this, it’s gonna require some
discomfort. If that’s not something we can live with, then I
don’t expect people will change much to deal with climate change
adequately, either.
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Brentin Mock is a Washington, D.C.-based journalist who writes
regularly for Grist about environmental justice issues and the
connections between environmental policy, race, and politics.
Follow him on Twitter at @brentinmock.
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Breaking news: Brazilian Indian leader assaulted ten days before
World Cup
By: AGelbert Date: June 4, 2014, 6:11 pm
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[move][font=courier]Breaking news: Brazilian Indian leader
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Valmir Guarani was kidnapped, tied to a tree in a forest,
blindfolded, and tortured.
© Sarah Shenker/Survival
A young Brazilian Indian leader was assaulted on Monday by four
armed men, despite being under the care of a government
protection program since he witnessed the murder of his
father-in-law.
Valmir Guarani Kaiowá, of the Guarani tribe, was kidnapped, tied
to a tree in a forest, blindfolded, and tortured. He managed to
escape and said, ‘They tied me up and told me that I was going
to die and that no one would ever find me. They put a bitter
liquid in my mouth and told me to swallow it. Then, they fired
several shots by my ears and I couldn’t hear any more… >:( then
they left in their car.’ Valmir’s late father-in-law, Nísio
Gomes, was killed by masked gunmen in 2011, having led his
community back to part of their ancestral land which had been
stolen from the Indians and occupied by a cattle ranch.
In 2012, 18 men were arrested in connection with the murder,
including the owner of a ‘private militia’ security firm which
has since been closed down. Some of the men are believed to have
been released.
Valmir is a key witness, and continues to push for the murder
investigation to be completed and for the land to be returned to
his tribe.
He told a Survival researcher last year, ‘Nísio told me to be
strong and fight for our land. All we need is for it to be
protected for us.’
In the run up to the FIFA World Cup, Survival is highlighting
‘The dark side of Brazil’. :( Click here to find out more about
the situation of Brazilian Indians and the government’s attacks
on their rights to their land.
Read this online:
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