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RIVERSIDE YOUTH: "RACE RIOTS", DISTRICT COVER UP, CRIMIANLIZATION OF YOUTH OF CO

by phfk Saturday, Mar. 05, 2005 at 6:03 PM
forcedconformity@hotmail.com

In RIVERSIDE: school district is covering up, telling lies to parents; their response to increase alleged racial tension is to SUPRESS ANY DISCUSSION ABOUT RACE ISSUES, and INCREASE POLICE, GANG UNITS, AND GANG PROFILING ON CAMPUS AND OF STUDENTS.

RIVERSIDE YOUTH: &qu...
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In RIVERSIDE: school district is covering up, telling lies to parents; their response to increase alleged racial tension is to SUPRESS ANY DISCUSSION ABOUT RACE ISSUES, and INCREASE POLICE, GANG UNITS, AND GANG PROFILING ON CAMPUS AND OF STUDENTS.

*sources who cannot be revealed from the district have stated that there were firearms involved, and they are intentionally withholding this information from parents and students.
*district to implement surveillance cameras on campus (see article below) on the districts’ 2 largely student of color campuses (Norte Vista & La Sierra High School)
*District cancels cultural events in response to the violence and refuse to allow any forum for students to actually discuss their response to the severe police lockdown on their campus and repeated violence on their campus and on their streets

PRESS ENTERPRISE ARTICLE (1 of 2)
Fight leads to lockdown
RIVERSIDE: Two students are arrested and four others suspended after a brawl at La Sierra High.
12:15 AM PST on Saturday, February 19, 2005
By JOHN WELSH / The Press-Enterprise
RIVERSIDE - A small fight caused a lockdown and early dismissal at La Sierra High School in Riverside on Friday afternoon.
Riverside police officers arrested two students and interviewed at least two others who might have been involved, said La Sierra High Principal Don Austin. Four students were suspended, he said.
Administrators and school officials were extra cautious this week in the aftermath of a Valentine's night brawl at a nearby amusement park.

David Bauman / The Press-Enterprise
Riverside police officers keep an eye on La Sierra High School students Friday after a fight on campus. At least 12 Riverside police cars had lined one entrance to the school.



Additional school resource officers patrolled the 2,900-student campus, but Austin said he did not believe the two incidents were related.
Dozens of parents contacted by their children by cell phones waited nervously outside the locked gates about 1 p.m. Students who ate lunch off campus were not allowed to return to class.
At least 12 Riverside police cruisers lined one entrance to the school, and some officers walked a quad area wearing helmets with protective covers.
"The precautionary measures we took were appropriate," Austin said later by telephone. "Several students said 'Thank you' for making this a safe place."
Still, some parents shared frustrations directed at how a handful of students seem to spoil a school day for the many others.
"They're getting a charge out of this," said Julie Statham, 41, of Home Gardens, standing outside a front entrance off La Sierra Avenue. Her daughter and son attend the school.
"It's a big laugh for them. They're probably saying, 'Look at what we did. There's a helicopter up there and 50 cop cars.' These kids are not worried. They're getting a good rise over this."
An early dismissal followed the lockdown. Several students said the incident involved only a small group.
"It's serious but it's stupid," said sophomore Yan Strelchik, 16. "When they do this at school they put people in danger."
Reach John Welsh at (951) 368-9474 or jwelsh@pe.com

PRESS ENTERPRISE ARTICLE [2]
District eyes security cameras for schools
ALVORD UNIFIED: Officials hope to have surveillance to monitor activity on its campuses by this fall.
12:14 AM PST on Saturday, February 19, 2005
By LINDA LOU / The Press-Enterprise
RIVERSIDE - Security cameras may appear at La Sierra and Norte Vista high schools this fall to monitor and capture incidents on and around campuses.
Alvord Unified School District board members this week gave district officials their support to create a plan detailing estimated costs, and possible locations to install cameras and recording devices in the schools.
The plan would be voted on in April, said assistant superintendent Wendel Tucker.
The cameras would be used to monitor such areas as parking lots for surveillance purposes, said board member Greg Kraft. Kraft proposed the cameras to deal with thefts, graffiti and to record any incidents happening around the schools' borders.
"We don't want it to be a spy camera on our employees," Kraft said. "We want to protect students, staff and the surrounding community."
The board said they supported the idea of installing cameras, with priority going to the high schools. Other schools also may get security cameras according to need or in phases in the future.
Howard Monise, whose son attends La Sierra High, said cameras would be useful in identifying suspects who paint graffiti or are involved in violence on campus.
"Cameras don't lie," he said.
But Synovia Harris, a La Sierra student, said she would not want to see cameras on her campus.
"It would create a feeling that there's something wrong," said Synovia, 16. "We don't need cameras."
Riverside Unified School District is working on a proposal to put in 15 security cameras at Martin Luther King High School, possibly in the summer, said Dianne Pavia, the district's spokeswoman. The school would be a test site, she said.
The district has portable surveillance cameras to use for specific needs, Pavia said.
Reach Linda Lou at (951) 893-2109 or llou@pe.com

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by Phil Osborn Monday, Mar. 07, 2005 at 4:28 PM
philosborn2001@yahoo.com 714-979-9314 Santa Ana, CA

Together with a group of a dozen or so fellow anarchists, they and I started the first Montessori School in Columbia, South Carolina, in 1972, the "College of Early Learning." The fact that we were a private school became quickly secondary to the fact that we were anarchists, and, worse, atheists, and, perhaps even worse, open to all races. In fact, we had the children of both of the top black politicians in our school - Tom Broadwater and I.S. Levy Johnson.

Thus, we came under all kinds of attack from the state authorities, having to secretly move our school's physical location several times, just ahead of the Sheriff, having leases and escrow illegally cancelled out from under us, etc.

Finally, John Foard, the County Solicitor, and the most powerful politician in the state, made his move, accusing the school president of abusing his teenage son and sending 21 heavilly armed SWAT officers with drawn guns into the school on a fishing expedition, while the kids - 2-7 years old - were in attendance.

A couple years later and all charges had been dropped and John Foard is political history. Rarely has a supremely popular politician been thoroughly trounced - by a liberal in the heart of the Bible Belt (just to mix metaphors - I AM an anarchist, after all).

How did this happen, and how does it potentially apply to a high-school in Riverside?

It was the parents who defeated Foard. Even though we are talking about a total of maybe 30 families at the time, THEY were NOT happy about having their todlers facing drawn guns at school. And because our school was Montessori, and the first Montessori school in Columbia, we had attracted a select group, ranging from college professors and high-ranking military from Fort Jackson to the two major politicians mentioned above to one welfare mother who somehow was able to pay our tuition - which was higher than that of the local University. (Montessori equipment is NOT cheap.)

These were not the kind of people to sit down and shut up in the face of oppression. They organized their own independent campaign to defeat John Foard, and they did it.

John Foard is LONG gone. The College of Early Learning is still in business.

The key here is to forget the official channels and ORGANIZE! This means the students must organize. AND, it means the parents have to do their own organizing.

A second key is in how disputes are dealt with at the school. The Irish were only finally able to kick the Brits out when they formed their own independent court system and began trying cases, ignoring the British courts, of course. The public schools are dictatorships. The cure is democracy - or better, anarchy, but let's start with small goals, ok? To undermine the school dictatorship the students need to organize their own "government" and, especially, to create their own courts.

That's one innovation, BTW, that we added to Montessori. Under the standard Montessori system, the director is the classroom dictator, as in most schools. Disputes are resolved by punishment - under other names such as time-outs. This is not justice, but simply authority, however well meaning and gentle in practice.

We wanted the kids to understand what justice was all about, which was totally missing from the Montessori Environment for Discovery, and so we introduced the idea of the students arbitrating their own disputes. We created a school money system - based on the cookie standard - with which we paid the kids in school scrip to do various school jobs. Then, when Sally broke Jill's doll, if they couldn't come to an agreement, they could hire another kid to act as judge or arbitrator and rule on the case and the compensation due to Jill.

This is how the common law works. You dont need a state to legitimatize a court. If people agree to abide by it and it is transparent and based strictly on equity - instead of punishment or punitive damages aimed at coercing behavior or enforcing some group's social standards, then you can quickly defuse a lot of problems that otherwise fester and multiply and turn into endless vendettas and create race-based alliances and gangs and that whole stupid mess.

If people have a dispute, they go to the court and pay a small fee to have the judge(s) or juror(s) decide. If they think the judge is biased, they choose a different one. If they can't agree on a judge, each party chooses a judge and the judges choose a third, if necessary, between them, in case of a tie vote.

All the fees are based on costs and a reasonable compensation for judges or jurors. The awards are strictly limited to actual damages. NO punitive awards or punishments. Everything is transparent, unless all the parties choose to make it private.

The court gets its authority from several sources:

1> Social sanction against people who refuse to abide by a decision. Everyone knows that that person cannot be trusted.

2> "Out-lawry," which is when the court declares that because you have flouted its authority after agreeing to abide by it, you no longer have any standing, until you rectify matters. Thus, the court no longer protects you or will take your case. Anyone is free to rip you off or whatever without worrying about being hauled into that court to compensate you.

3> Bonds. Someone who has been declared an outlaw may be asked to post a bond with the court before being granted standing again. The bond is forfeit against future rulings, but has to be returned when the person chooses to withdraw from the system altogether.

Why would people sign up for such a thing? As in, as opposed to getting shot? Or beat up by the cops? Or suspended or expelled for being in the wrong place or simply for trying to maintain one's rights in a violent environment?

It's possible, perhaps likely, that the gangs will have to come on board on this. This is not about enforcing "The LAW." It's not about busting dealers or users. It's about resolving legitimate disputes.

There are social roles that people may get into and use in this new context, such as judges or arbitrators, jurors, or professional witnesses. If some bully is shaking down some little kid, then there's an opportunity for the local professional witness to come forward, likely with his or her cell-cam and offer to testify in court if the little kid chooses to go that route. It doesn't matter what the ethnicities of the participants are.

What matters in a common law court are the actual damages, period. So, if someone tries to make it as a local bully, he will likely find his activities posted all over the net, and, assuming he has signed up with the court, paying out bunches of little damages to his victims. Or, alternatively, if he is not a court member, and has refused to come before it and been declared an outlaw, finding that his life becomes rather hellish, as nobody feels any necessary compunction to respect his property rights to his car, bike, books, etc.

Even with all the financial resources and associated political clout that the most powerful union in California - the prison guards union - can bring to bear, and all the prisons, courts, incredibly overpaid venal judges, etc., the "justice" system in the state is broken. We know that.

So, how is a high-school administration expected to do better - with their relatively miniscule resources?

The problem is that the model is wrong. We don't change people by punishing them. We just make them wary - and angry. And so the problem grows, generation by generation.

The solution is not top down. That has failed. The solution is ground up, when people know that the courts belong to them, and can be trusted. And that they are not a political football, enforcing laws made by one group to attack another, legally.

Where there is not justice, there cannot be peace.

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Fascist Amerika!!

by John Tuesday, Mar. 15, 2005 at 10:15 PM




Peace Groups Continue
To Miss The Real Issue
Day Of Demonstrations Guaranteed To
Accomplish Absolutely Nothing
By John Kaminski
skylax@comcast.net
3-14-5


"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." - Albert Einstein


I received an e-mail notice the other day informing me of a worldwide day of protests March 19 to focus public attention on America's neverending massacre of innocent Iraqi civilians and the continuing lies that attempt to justify this needless and shameful carnage.

The e-mail focused on the agenda of the local social event in Sarasota, Florida, and listed speakers, sponsors, activities, locations, and times. Conspicuously absent from this list were reasons.

Nevertheless, I replied to the notice by inquiring if organizers had been adequately briefed on the latest revelations about 9/11, and if they hadn't, I offered to happily volunteer my services. After all, it doesn't take a genius to realize that if 9/11 hadn't happened, the bogus Iraq invasion wouldn't have happened.

And therefore understanding what really happened on 9/11 would significantly improve anyone's perception of the colossal crimes the United States is committing in Iraq (and in a list of beleaguered countries that is now practically endless) - after all, the USA is now waging war on the entire world, and our so-called leaders are not ashamed to admit it.

But I never received a response to my inquiry, because these peace demonstration organizers completely avoid talking about 9/11. They have accepted the government's fantasy explanation about Arab hijackers and the need to conquer Muslim countries, and yet they still insist they are against the Iraq war.

I regard this as a profound psychotic break in the American consciousness. You can't accept the first and advocate the second and still be regarded as either sane or honest.

So in order to properly understand what you are protesting, you must understand why it happened in the first place. But all these trendy yuppies who sport peace buttons only on socially acceptable occasions are in reality confessing their stupidity for all to see if they demonstrate against the Iraq war but don't want to hear anything about 9/11.

How does it come to be that people will admit the government lied about Iraq and Afghanistan, but not admit it lied about 9/11?

And that is exactly the situation with this group called International Answer (and even more perfectly pathological with the pathetic Democratic Party organization named moveon.org).

These groups, which have millions of members, are deliberately designed to be appear to be progressive and peace-loving, but really they are cleverly constructed take the well-meaning concerns of average people and divert them into activities that are guaranteed to fail (because ultimately, the people who create these groups are actually working for the people who are committing the crimes they are protesting).

These are the same cynical clowns who got so many honest people worked up about the integrity of John Kerry, or the calm decisiveness of Howard Dean, and used up a zillion hours of brainpower only to take the fall last November and avoid contemplating the obviously tragic fact that with a little chutzpah that they could have overturned the election based on the crimes that were committed in Ohio and Florida. Only Kerry and Dean convinced them not to even try, further demonstrating why neither should ever have been supported in the first place.

Not that overturning the election would have mattered, because there is only one political party of any consequence in this country - the party of the banks.

You may have attended one of these peace demonstrations in the past. They are moving experiences. Ineffectual, but moving.

There is no doubting the sincerity or ardor of virtually all the participants. As motivated people, they have my admiration. They rail against the evil powers that be in all manner of creative ways, and when the day is done, they all (or, at least those who have not been pepper sprayed by the local Gestapo and thrown in jail) go home happy, delighted that they have expressed their freedom of speech and schmoozed with thousands of like-minded consciences.

Trouble is, as the unprecedented (in size) peace demos immediately prior to Bush's illegal invasion of Iraq so clearly proved, they accomplish exactly nothing.

The powers that be and their pimped media complely ignore them.

The true purpose of a peace demonstration is not to have a good time and go home happy. It is to kindle each other's anger and go home as pissed as possible, ready to follow through with every fiber of your being until the objective of your protest is achieved.

It is safe to say that, since Vietnam, the objective of no major protest in America has ever been achieved, especially since Bush the Dumber took office (and I do mean took).

The disintegration of America's Constitutional protections, the computerized pollution of America's electoral process, the poisoning by food and drug manufacturers of people all over the world, and the neverending robbery of the American people by repeatedly criminal Congressional fiat are just a few of the focuses that would provide more relevant protests.

Those made ill by deliberately poisoned vaccines or depleted uranium ammunition would be two other good reasons.

But seriously, maybe you'd rather wait until one of your relatives - perhaps a son or daughter - succumbs to one of these sadistic scams before you decide to get upset about them.

The real focus of all our protests, all our outrage at every public official we can lay our hands on, should be the greatest crime in American history, which has changed the way our country does business, which has changed, perhaps irrevocably, who we are as a people.

Americans are now known around the world as the torturers, as the sexual perverts who go out of their way to profane the sacredness of life by raping Muslim children and sexually traumatizing Muslim adults. Who are these troops we say we support as they mow down innocent families in Fallujah while they listen to heavy metal music and take drugs to dull their senses? Who are these alien neighbors of ours who refuse to hear this statement, and say "Support Our Troops!" as they close their eyes and drive off to Wal-mart to save a few pennies and destroy their own way of life.

Gee, I wonder in which chapter of Leviticus or Deuteronomy we learned to do that?

Americans are the people who plan on starving the rest the world with this Monsanto seed conspiracy, in which subsistence farmers on every continent will be deprived of their traditional method of survival because the seeds they are now forced to use (in order for their corrupt government functionaries to receive their proper bribes from soulless multinational corporations) cannot reproduce themselves. When their governments are plundered by their own feckless facsimiles of Bush or Clinton, these people will die of starvation. But you won't hear their moans in Wal-mart, at least not for a little while.

Gee, I wonder which smug rabbinical commentary told us it was OK to ignore the death rattles of dying Gentiles?

Americans are the people who didn't protest when their government refused to investigate what happened on 9/11, despite the 3,000 of their countrymen who were crushed in the rubble of deliberately demolished skyscrapers.

Americans accepted the media-spun story that Arabs run by a madman in Afghanistan did it. These fantasy bad guys got the U.S. air defenses to stand down, they got on airplanes without any identification or any record of them getting on, they performed aerobatic maneuvers that could not have been performed by Top Guns, and they defied the laws of physics by knocking down buildings that could not have fallen in ten seconds without the help of considerable explosives. We know that from the building that fell the same way that was not hit by an airliner.

Gee, if we don't care about our own fellow citizens being suddenly buried in concrete by the pervs in Washington, why should we care about dark-skinned Arabs being turned into puddles of blood thousands of miles away?

Americans accepted the lies their leaders told them, first about 9/11, then about Afghanistan, then about Iraq. Most Americans to this day still don't know that the wars of Afghanistan and Iraq were planned before 9/11.

Most Americans don't know that the PNAC report, which yearned for "a new Pearl Harbor" to turn American citizens into enraged warmongers, was written by a high American official who was also an Israeli intelligence agent, Dov Zakheim.

Most Americans don't know that their new head of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, is an Israeli intelligence agent.

Most Americans don't know that their new intelligence czar, John Negroponte - he of the Nicaraguan and Salvadoran death squad fiascos - is also Jewish.

Most Americans don't know that all the TV networks are owned by Zionist Jews. Most Americans don't realize that all the major newspapers, like The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, are owned by Zionist Jews.

Do you understand that Iraq was no threat to the United States? Do you understand that Iraq was a threat to Israel? Do you understand that American children are killing innocent people and being killed themselves to protect Israel, not the United States?

Or are you one of those lily-livered Yankee dogs so terrified of losing your income or some friends who don't really care about you anyway that you feel compelled to say, "People aren't ready to hear this yet. You have to bring them on slowly to tell them about the problem with Israel."

We're looking at the end of civilization because of the silence of honest Americans over the most important issues of our day, and you're telling me that I have to wait til people get used to the idea we are being totally polluted by the demonic influence of Zionist warmongers, who take their authority from a holy book that says it's OK to kill non-Jews with no penalty because they're animals?

Take a wild guess as to what I have to say to cowards like that - which are the majority of the American people.

The real issue to protest March 19 is not the Iraq war, colossal crime though it is.

The real issue to protest is that George W. Bush and John Kerry are accomplices in the same series of crimes. The real issue is to realize that our country has been sold out from under us, and that Israel, thanks to the neocons, now owns us.

Have you observed how the Palestinians live? Scrambling in their rubble, constantly avoiding bombs and excuses to murder them on a whim. This is the future of America run by the Zionist monsters who control the White House, and most other aspects of your life, as well.

The real issue to protest is that the entire U.S. Congress is guilty of treason for destroying the Bill of Rights to our own Constitution by participating in this charade that there is some terror threat that justifies these police state measures.

The real issue to protest is that al-Qaeda was created by the CIA and the Mossad in a proxy war in Afghanistan and then later at a CIA training camp in the Philippines, and that 9/11 was planned, executed, and then covered up by levels of American society that are actually more powerful than the president, who is only a bobble-head doll fed lies, stimulants and quite possibly little boys (or at least big boys) as a reward for his mindless obedience to his masters with the big money.

But even more than that, the real issue to protest, in the silence of your own ravaged heart, is your own silent complicity in the savage system that kills innocent people every day so that rich Zionist Jew manipulators and their conscienceless Zionist Christian dupes can steal money from YOU.

Just to be clear, these people are Americans, British, and Israelis, and they have no real consciences, which makes them dangerous sociopaths - which is why we have a sociopathic culture that feels no guilt when we kill innocent people overseas. It is no coincidence that this attitude perfectly reflects what is written in the Talmud and the Old Testament. Now that would really be something to protest about.

A peace protest without a serious component investigating the lies about 9/11 and the predatory dominance of Israeli influence on a severely crippled America is like a body without a brain, which I suspect is what many of those protesters on March 19 will be like.

And as the world continues to burn, they'll go home happy that they did something for freedom, when in the reality of this new and ugly police-state world, they will have done nothing of consequence, because they still fail to realize what really happened on 9/11, or who is really controlling them.

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John Kaminski's Internet essays can be seen on hundreds of websites around the world. They have been collected into two anthologies, the latest of which is titled "The Perfect Enemy," about how the Zionist-controlled U.S. government created the terrorist group knowns as al-Qaeda. His booklet "The Day America Died: Why You Shouldn't Believe the Officlal Story of What Happened on September 11, 2001" was written especially for those who cling to the government's false explanation of the events of that tragic day. For more information go to http://www.johnkaminski.com/



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You people

by hold onto your tin foil Wednesday, Mar. 23, 2005 at 7:50 AM

You people are soooooooooo fuckin' gone. Mentally, gone.
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