MELBOURNE RESTAURANT RACISM ROW

COUPLE REFUSED SERVICE ON THE BASIS OF SKIN COLOUR BY  IL POM ITALIAN RESTAURANT IN FEDERATION SQUARE

IL POM REFUSES TO DENY THAT IT ENGAGED IN RACIST PRACTICES AND THAT IT IS ALSO A RACIST RESTAURANT.

IL POM REFUSES TO DENY THAT IT IS ACTIVELY CENSORING POSTS ON ITS FACEBOOK PAGE.

RACISM has reared its ugly head again in the very heart of Melbourne last weekend @ Federation Square.

Facebook activist group There's Nothing I Would Rather Be Than to Be an Aborigine posted the following on June 28.

"So I just wanted to share with you a form of discrimination I faced last night. My partner and I went out to an Italian restaurant last night and took a seat. While reading the menu a white man who was a waiter approached us and said 'sorry we can't serve you can you please leave the restaurant, if you like I can direct you to another restaurant in this area'. We were both looked at each other in shock and asked 'why exactly can't you serve us?'.. He then replied by saying 'please, I don't want to cause a scene in front of customers, can you please just get up and leave'. So we got up and proceeded to leave. It was such a degrading moment!! It's 2014 and we are still discriminated for being black and are being told to leave restaurants in a land that belongs to aboriginals. Absolutely shocking!!"

Despite being provided with an opportunity to set the record straight, Il Pom has failed to even deny any wrong doing so for all we know, the waiter was articulating a racist company policy as part oh his list of company duties.

SOCIAL MEDIA NOT HAPPY

Public reaction has been swift & vocal with almost 250 people commenting on the original post.

Face book user Heather Cross said : "That's completely illegal... Not too mention morally wrong and totally reprehensible."

Many users called for legal action, whilst the prevailing view seems to be one of "Name and shame".

James McEwen tapped into the larger, geopolitical picture, when he typed, "Its never going to change most racist country on earth everyone treats aboriginals like shit people living with there heads to far up there arse if they think this shit doesnt happen if u would of made a scene he would of rang the police & guess who they would believe not the aboriginals thats for sure makes me fucking sick" (sic)

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REPORT: CALIFORNIA ILLEGALY STERELIZED DOZENS OF FEMALE INMATES

Lauren Galik |Jun. 20, 2014

Last year, the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) accused California of sterilizing over 140 female inmates between 2006 and 2010 without required state approvals.

One doctor, James Heinrich, was responsible for the two-thirds of the tubal ligation referrals during that period from the biggest offender, Valley State prison.

Asked by CIR about his startling record, Heinrich justified the money spent sterilizing inmates by claiming it was minimal "compared to what you save in welfare paying for these unwanted children—as they procreated more." He has since been barred from future prison work.

Following the publication of the 2013 CIR article, California lawmakers called for a formal investigation.

Yesterday, the California State Auditor published a report that confirms over a quarter of the 144 sterilizations performed on female prisoners between 2005 and 2011 were done without obtaining proper consent. The report only details female inmates who underwent the sterilization procedure of tubal ligation, commonly known as having one's "tubes tied."

In California, a tubal ligation may only be performed on an inmate after her doctor declares it to be medically necessary and the service is approved by two committees: one in the prison and the other at the California Receiver's Office headquarters.

However, according to the auditor's report, both committees approved only one of the 144 procedures performed.

In fact, the Receiver's Office wasn't even aware that inmates were being sterilized until January 2010, when a legal advocacy group called Justice Now began alleging that medically unnecessary sterilization procedures had been performed. 

Some additional findings of the California State Auditor's report include:

• Prison medical staff failed to document what was discussed with the inmates about the procedure in all 144 cases.
• Inmates' physicians did not sign the required consent form in 27 cases. A physician's signature is especially important in that it certifies that the patient appears mentally competent and understands the lasting effects of sterilization.
• The sterilization procedure was performed before the required waiting period had elapsed in 18 cases. State law mandates a 30-day waiting period between when an inmate consents to the procedure and when the sterilization actually takes place so women don't feel rushed or pressured.
• In six cases, there were violations related to both the consent form and waiting period.

These illegal sterilizations, and potential motivations of doctors who encouraged the women to consent to them, echo California's ugly history of sterilization abuse. In 1909, the state passed a eugenics law that allowed state officials to sterilize those considered "feeble-minded," prisoners exhibiting sexual or moral "perversions," and anyone with three or more criminal convictions. 

California's eugenics program was apparently so "successful" that in the 1930s, members of the German Nazi party asked California eugenicists for advice on how to run their own program.

Between 1909 and 1964, California forcibly sterilized roughly 20,000 people. In 2003, then–Gov. Davis issued a formal apology to victims of the grisly practice, which has been officially banned since 1979.

California legislators are currently considering legislation that would disallow all inmate sterilizations for purposes other than life-threatening emergencies and to cure physical illness. Last month, the state senate approved the measure. It is currently before the state assembly.

Lauren Galik is a policy analyst at the Reason Foundation, where she focuses on criminal justice issues. She is the lead author of the Reason Foundation study "Smart on Sentencing, Smart on Crime: Reforming Louisiana’s Determinate Sentencing Laws."

http://reason.com/blog/2014/06/20/report-california-illegally-sterilized-d 

 

FRASER SAYS GET US FORCES OUT OF NORTHERN AUSTRALIA AND CLOSE PINE GAP

28 April 2014

Former prime minister Malcolm Fraser has made a radical call for Australia to break its alliance with the United States and…

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Former prime minister Malcolm Fraser does not see China as a source of future danger unless it is provoked unreasonably. AAP/Mal Fairclough

Former prime minister Malcolm Fraser has made a radical call for Australia to break its alliance with the United States and become a “strategically independent” country.

In his new book Dangerous Allies, released today, Fraser warns that the ANZUS treaty – as now interpreted - might be the biggest threat to Australia’s security, rather than its major protector.
Strategic independence would mean ending the US presence in northern Australia, part of the American “pivot” to the Asia-Pacific region, and closing the Pine Gap facility, which he says nowadays could be used almost in real time to target weapons systems.

Such a stance would necessitate Australia spending much more on defence but it would not be caught up in any future conflict between the US and China. “If a war between China and the United States were to occur with a continuation of current policies, it would be very hard, if not impossible, for Australia not to be involved.”
Fraser was a strong advocate of the alliance when he was prime minister between 1975 and 1983, but argues that the end of the Cold War has transformed the international situation and also that American values have changed with the growth of its view of “American exceptionalism”.
Fraser’s bottom line is that if conflicts break out Australia should be in a situation where it has a totally open choice about whether it goes to war.
He believes the alliance took Australia into costly wars, including Vietnam (when the US did not share some vital information with Australia), and especially Iraq, where the result “is, and was always going to be, disastrous”.

He rejects the option that Australia should simply tell the US it would no longer automatically follow it into future conflicts because “we are too closely ‘intertwined with US strategies and plans. Australian facilities are too heavily involved”.
Fraser admits the US would take “the strongest possible exception” to moves such as closing Pine Gap within five years.

“Every pressure would be exercised on an Australian government so that the United States would maintain strategic control. We would need to resist such pressures and make it clear that, in our view, the risks of a strategic alliance with the United States, of being forced into a war that was not in our interest, were so great that we had to cut the ties.”

Writing a forward to the book former Labor foreign minister Gareth Evans says some of Fraser’s judgements, such as that Australia should have been a much more independent and less subservient alliance partner in recent years, were unarguable.

“Others – in particular, his conclusion that we should now go it completely alone – are much more problematic.”

Fraser traces Australia’s stance of “strategic dependence” from the country’s earliest days – first, dependence on Great Britain, and then on the US, of which it is now “strategic captive”.

“I discount direct threats to Australia as a result of strategic independence,” he writes. “It is strategic dependence that provides the greatest problem to our future in the region.

“Indeed, the current interpretation of ANZUS by Australian leaders is paradoxical – it might be the biggest threat to our own security despite it being presented as the guarantor of our security.”

Fraser does not see China as a source of future danger unless it is provoked unreasonably. “Such provocation could come from the United States, from Japan or, much less likely, from a flare-up in the South China Sea. It would be a major advantage not to be tied to the United States in such circumstances,” he writes.

“An independent Australia could act much more effectively in concert with other Western Pacific countries, on the one hand to avoid flashpoints and points of danger, and on the other to promote initiatives that would do much to maintain continuing peace throughout the region.

“Yet, as part of the American network, we would not be able to take such action. We would merely be regarded as a surrogate voice of America and therefore wield no true influence.”

He says that a strategically independent Australia would still share a great deal with the US. 

“Strategic independence does not mean ending our relationship with America and cutting out ties. It does mean having a different relationship, a more equal one in which we can feel free to say no or offer a differing opinion.”

http://theconversation.com/fraser-says-get-us-forces-out-of-northern-australia-and-close-pine-gap-25980 

PRESSURE MOUNTS ON AG TO RESIGN

June 14, 2014

Kim Stephens Journalist

Queensland Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie. Photo: Michelle Smith

Queensland’s allegedly leak-prone Attorney General is threatening the independence of the state’s judiciary, an influential Australian body for barristers said on Saturday, amid mounting calls for Jarrod Bleijie to resign.

Australian Bar Association president Mark Livesey QC joined a rapidly growing chorus of legal fraternity discord in Mr Bleijie, questioning the Attorney General’s suitability for the job following allegations he has repeatedly leaked details of confidential conversations to media outlets.
Mr Bleijie declined to comment on the leak allegations or rising resignation pressure on Saturday.

Tim Carmody, newly-named chief justice. Photo: Daniel Hurst

In a stinging attack, Mr Livesey said the process that led to the appointment of Tim Carmody as the state’s Chief Justice had lost him the support of the vast majority of the legal fraternity.

“The present position is untenable”, Mr Livesey said.

“The Attorney General of Queensland must consider whether the breakdown in trust can be repaired – if confidentiality in the judicial appointment process cannot be assured he must reconsider whether he can continue in his position.”

Mr Livesey’s comments came soon after the resignation of Queensland Bar Association president Ian Davis QC, who said he believed a conversation he had with Mr Bleijie on June 3 involving a discussion of Judge Carmody’s potential appointment had been leaked.

Mr Livesey supported Mr Davis’ move.

“On Friday, Davis QC explained his belief that what he had said in confidence to the Attorney General and a member of his staff had been passed on inaccurately and that the Bar’s right to issue practising certificates was threatened,” he said.

“It is regrettable that Davis QC felt it necessary to resign.

“His frustration about the process and the threat made to the Bar is understandable. His principled stance is supported by barristers across Australia."

Mr Davis also received  the support of the Queensland Law Society on Friday.

President Ian Brown also expressed concern about Mr Bleijie allegedly leaking information.

“We are deeply concerned by the matters raised by Mr Davis QC in the notice announcing his resignation to members of the Bar Association of Queensland, particularly relating to confidentiality,” he said.

“What is of the utmost importance is the preservation of the integrity of the judiciary and our system of justice.”

Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk accused the Attonrey General of leaking confidential correspondence she had sent him addressing suitable candidates for the Chief Justice Role in May.

In addition to the conversation with Mr Davis, Mr Bleijie is also alleged to have leaked details of a confidential conversation with Justice Margaret McMurdo.

“I think Queenslanders should be very concerned because no-one in this state can have a conversation with the Attorney General, a private conversation they believe is being kept confidential, because he will leak it,” she said.

“This government is more interested in leaking than listening.”

Ms Palaszczuk said the drastic resignation protest action taken by Mr Davis, a highly respected member of the Queensland Bar Association, reflected, “a fundamental breach of confidentiality”.

In a statement, the Attorney-General’s office denied leaking Ms Palaszczuk’s letter to the media.

“While nothing came from the Attorney-General or his office, Annastacia Palaszczuk breached confidentiality when she publicly disclosed her recommendations for Chief Justice during a press conference on May 7, 2014,” the statement read.

Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/pressure-mounts-on-ag-to-resign-20140614-zs85h.html#ixzz35IkCA2Kv

MAINSTREAM MEDIA MANIPULATION

June 19, 2014 by Global Freedom Movement

Yesterday, Channel Ten News aired a report entitled ‘Off The Rails’. It is described on the website as “Exclusive vision of a passenger racially harassing ticket inspectors on Melbourne’s public transport system.”

It uses portions of a video shot and uploaded to YouTube by Jason Macca, a gentleman who is well aware of his rights as a human being.

View the edited Channel Ten News Report here:

The video begins, “Sadly there’s been another racial confrontation on Melbourne’s public transport system”, yet as you can see, the video shows absolutely NO evidence of racial abuse, nor harassment. It is all simply edited to portray the gentleman in a particular, unfavourable light, (whilst at the same time promoting the fact that if you’re a good citizen, you should pay to use public transport.)

Jason Macca is a sovereign being, who was travelling on Victoria’s public transport service. Like everyone on this planet, Jason has the right to travel freely on the King’s highways and byways, therefore, when asked for his ticket by the transit officers, he refused to answer (be contracted) by the ‘Transit Police’. Jason Macca’s refusal to answer the officers’ questions antagonises them, and results in the transit officers placing him under arrest. (Jason was released without arrest when arriving at the destination, because he’d done nothing wrong.)

This footage was highly manipulated by the media channels who turned this into a “racist” attack. You can clearly see in this video that the issue is not the transit officers’ race, but their attempt to gain jurisdiction over him.

Now take a look at the entire, raw footage shot by Jason, and you’ll see how it has been manipulated.

Jason Macca’s Full interview Footage:

Also available for view is the behind the scenes footage (shot by Jason Macca) of the entire interview with the reporter from Channel Ten. Watch all three videos and you’ll get a great sense of the way the mainstream media manipulation is insidiously part of EVERY television report you watch.

Behind The Scenes Footage of Channel Ten with Jason Macca:

More Mainstream Media Manipulation…

This is not an isolated case. Mainstream media manipulation is widespread. The media is censored in so many ways. Advertisers and corporations have mass control over what you do and don’t see. They also have the authority to pull programs from circulation if they do not fulfil their criteria, promote a viewpoint, or reveal a truth they feel to be inappropriate. Take for example, the ABC’s ban of a 2-part program recently aired on Catalyst. They have removed the videos from their website because “they breached its impartiality standards.” They also removed them from YouTube. “Part 1 caused so much controversy when it was aired that Australia’s top medicine safety expert, Emily Banks, urged the ABC not to air the follow-up, because it might encourage people to go off their anti-cholesterol statin drugs. 

And the list goes on, and on and on.
For now, we’ll leave you to see the videos above, and research the mainstream media manipulation yourself. We can’t recommend highly enough that you use independent media as your source of truthful, uncensored information.
The Global Freedom Movement team xx

http://globalfreedommovement.org/mainstream-media-manipulation/

THE MEDIA’S COMPLICITY IN CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY

By Kevin Galalae. 

 
For over 65 years, the media has remained silent with respect to the eugenic and genocidal methods of population control employed by governments throughout the world under the auspices and impetus of the United Nations and its agencies.
Every now and then, as rarely as a celestial event,ethical individuals have broken rank with the conspiracy of silence only to find their careers come to a sudden end and no one to hearor publishtheir stories.
John Swinton, former Chief of Staff for the New York Times, took his colleagues by surprise in 1953 when he made the following statement at the New York Press Club:
“There is no such thing, at this date of the world’s history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar weekly salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities, and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.”
The media prostitutes have only gotten kinkier since 1953 and today’s practitioners not only lack even a modicum of honesty but are complicit in crimes against humanity that are without precedent in their magnitude and indecency.  If it were not for the alternative media that has proliferated in the past ten years thanks to the World Wide Web, we would to this day live in a state of complete ignorance and deception.
Common citizens have had to wrestle the truth from the blood-drenched hands of journalists and editors, whose sole concern is to propagate half-truths fed to them wholesale through the narrow pipelines of state or corporate-controlled news agencies that are interested only in manufacturing consent so as to maintain the illusion of democracy and freedom.
The insidious level of complicity between the media and the political and corporate elites has been carefully guarded.  David Rockefeller, speaking at the June 1991 Bilderberger meeting in Baden, Germany, expressed his gratitude:
“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years.
It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.”
What exactly have they been hiding, the innocent readers will ask?  What is exactly is hiding behind taboo words like the New World Order, world government, the banking elite?  What exactly is being discussed in such complete secrecy at Davos, G8, or Security Council meetings?  Why are governments that purport to be free, democratic and transparent classify millions of documents while purporting to be public servants acting in the people’s interest?  Behind secrecy hides illegality; that much we can guess.  But what illegality?We all know that economic and political power has been consolidated at the global level and supranational level, but very few know why and those who do know rather than guess are part of the establishment and are keeping quiet.
Well, I am not part of the establishment but have been able to uncover the truth about the world denied us for so long.  The truth is that since the end of World War II peace and stability have been maintained by controlling population growth to avoid a third world war that in the nuclear age would be our last.
To control population growth governments have had to interfere with our reproductive systems and have done so by turning the basic elements of life, water and food, into weapons of mass sterility, which is why one out of five women in the West remain childless compared to one out of thirty in India.  I describe the methods they have been using for nearly seven decades, and the new methods they have added to their arsenal, in my first book on the subject, “Chemical and Biological Depopulation”.
This intrusion into our lives and destruction of our health has required governments to bypass the democratic processes, as no citizen would accept being chronically poisoned or vote for politicians advocating legislating family size.  It has also required that they subvert the rule of law, as no national or international court could possibly defend the poisoning of humanity.  The moral complexity and ambiguity of the Global Depopulation Policy does now allow facile judgments for the simple reason that the geopolitical necessity of maintaining peace and stability in a world with finite resources and an exploding population has left our leaders with the unpalatable dilemma of having to choose the lesser evil for the greater good.  Had they done nothing and left it in the hands of God, the world would have long burned to ashes.
In my recently published book, “Killing Us Softly: Causes and Consequences of the Global Depopulation Policy”, I not only expose for the first time in history the existence of a global depopulation effort and describe its progression; I also assess the damage done by the policy as well as outline its achievements.
I take the liberty of quoting my book:
“THE COST IN HUMAN LIFE”
Let us briefly review the cost in human life paid and yet to be paid by the people of this planet as a result of the way in which our leadership, both national and international, have pressed on.
-          nearly 2 billion births covertly prevented by chemical, surgical and bacteriological means
-          more than 500 million births overtly prevented by legislation and abortion
-          more than 300 million genetic lines permanently and irrevocably shut out of procreation
-          Japan’s, Europe’s, Russia’s, North America’s, Australia’s and New Zealand’s IQ reduced by 15 to 25 points
-          10% of the populations exposed to covert chemical sterilization methods has been rendered sexually confused
-          10% of all children born in countries subjected to covert chemical sterilization have been condemned to developmental disorders
-          1 out of 5 Western women rendered infertile or childless by a combination of chemical and psychosocial methods of population control; compared to one out of 20 in China and 1 out of 30 in India
-          100% of the populations subjected to chemical fertility control have damaged endocrine systems resulting in chronic illness in at least 25% of these affected populations
-          all males subjected to chemical fertility control methods have compromised, substandard sperm
-          more than 500 million people have met with premature deaths due to artificially high levels of morbidity and mortality achieved through chemical, biological and bacteriological methods of population control
WHAT HAS BEEN AVERTED
It would be intellectually dishonest of me to pretend that the measures taken by the Global Depopulation Policy have not saved the world from a far worse outcome than what has been sacrificed.
-          civilization would have long collapsed had the population been allowed to grow at natural rates and an additional 2 billion people would have been born into the world between 1950 and today
-          widespread famine would have destabilized Africa, South America and Asia by the 1980s causing universal misery and suffering of an order of magnitude never experienced in history
-          a Western world with a population twice as large as today would have conquered and taken by force the resources of Africa and South America to ensure its own survival and standard of living
-          the environmental degradation we face today would have been twice as bad and none of the protected tracts of land that have been set aside over the past 50 years could have been saved from desperate exploitation
-          there would have been no peace and prosperity and large areas of the world would have been annihilated by nuclear war
As difficult as it is to admit it, we owe the depopulation lobby our civilization’s survival and our very lives, sickened though they are. More than this, we owe them a world order where consensus not force rules (most times) and where the more humane tools of monetary coercion have replaced the brutal means of military conquest. We owe them peace and prosperity. We also owe them our innocence, for they have allowed us to keep our hands free of blood and our consciences unburdened by guilt.”
What I have not discussed in my book is what will happen if we do not succeed in forcing our governments and the international community to abandon covert chemical and biological poisoning for overt legislation as the means by which to halt and reduce the global population to a sustainable level.
THE TRAGEDY TO COME
The following projections and estimates are for the next one hundred years.
-          two out of four women worldwide will be infertile by 2050 and three out of four by 2100
-          two billion genetic lines will be terminated by 2050 and four billion by 2100
-          the IQ will be lowered worldwide from an average of circa 90 today to an average of 70 by 2050 and 50 by 2100 and mental retardation will be the norm rather than the exception
-          half the population will be sexually confused
-          half the world’s children will suffer from developmental disorders by 2050
-          nine out ten people worldwide will have severely damaged endocrine systems resulting in chronic illness in at least three quarters of the population
-          life expectancy will sink from an average of 70 years today to 60 years by 2050 and 50 years by 2100.
-          nine out of ten males worldwide will have useless sperm
Perhaps the most frightening aspect of this scenario is that hardly anyone alive a century from now will have the intellectual capacity necessary to grasp the immediate reality let alone the historical damage done by the Global Depopulation Policy.
What has taken Nature and God eons of evolution to perfect, man will have destroyed in just two centuries.  There is no name yet in the criminal code of any nation to describe the affront to God and Nature caused by the devolution of man by man that the global depopulation policy engenders.
If we want to survive as a species and as a civilization we must all awaken to the bitter truth and confront it without fear or hesitation.  The time to change course is now, or we shall be forever lost.
Those in the mainstream media who maintain the code of silence for self-serving reasons are sacrificing the wellbeing of their children and their children’s children for their own.  May God forgive them for their sins because their sons and daughters will not!

Kevin Galalae

After growing up in Romania, Kevin Galalae left as a teenager, settling in Kingston, Ontario and worked as a writer and consultant in the fields of education, art and NGOs. In 2009, while studying at a UK university he discovered evidence of a government sponsored covert surveillance and censorship program which he published on the internet. He has been arrested several times, charged with a variety of offences, bankrupted and warned to decist from such activism. In February 2012 he fled Canada for the United States,from where he continues his activism and is petitioning governments for political asylum. 

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http://thedailyjournalist.com/pen-and-pad/the-media-s-complicity-in-crimes-against-humanity/

LA'S HOMELESS ALLOWED TO LIVE IN CARS, APPEALS COURT RULES

Published time: June 20, 2014

AFP Photo / Frederic J. Brown

A federal appeals court ruled that a Los Angeles ordinance preventing homeless people from living in cars is unconstitutionally vague and struck down the ban.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said the law that banned people living in their cars or recreational vehicles on a public street or in a public parking lot (even overnight) is unconstitutionally vague and encourages arbitrary or discriminatory enforcement. The decision overturned the District Court of Appeals ruling in favor of the city.
The ban was enacted in 1983, but faced renewed enforcement in 2010, after Los Angeles officials held a September town hall to address complaints of homeless people living in vehicles on streets in the Venice area of the city. City officials repeatedly said at the meeting that the “concern was not homelessness generally, but the illegal dumping of trash and human waste on city streets that was endangering public health,” the ruling said in the factual background.
The Los Angeles Police Department then created the Venice Homelessness Task Force, made of 21 officers to cite and arrest people living in cars, as well as distribute information about local shelters and social services. During their training, task force members were told that “an individual need not be sleeping or have slept in the vehicle to violate” the city ban, and that the LAPD officers should look for “possessions normally found in a home, such as food, bedding, clothing, medicine, and basic necessities.” They were to offer a warning for the first violation, a citation for the second and make an arrest on the third.
In reality, the various members of the task force interpreted their enforcement duties in different ways, making it “incompatible with the concept of an evenhanded administration of the law to the poor and to the rich that is fundamental to a democratic society.”
"Is it impermissible to eat food in a vehicle? Is it illegal to keep a sleeping bag? Canned food? Books? What about speaking on a cellphone? Or staying in the car to get out of the rain?" Judge Harry Pregerson wrote for the panel. "These are all actions plaintiffs were taking when arrested for violation of the ordinance, all of which are otherwise perfectly legal."
One of the plaintiffs in the case, Steve Jacobs-Elstein, lost his home in 2007 and began living in his car. When he was told by a police officer of the city’s ban in 2009, he looked up the ordinance, and began parking at motels and other private property.
In September 2010, he was parked on a public street in front of a church, waiting for its food distribution program to open, when two task force officers ordered Jacobs-Elstein out of his car, searched it and gave him a citation. They did not give him any information on social services. The same officers later arrested him in October 2010. They, along with other members of the task force, repeatedly yelled at him and searched his car over the course of several months. It was not until January 2011 that Jacobs-Elstein received any information on complying with the city’s law.
“Yet Jacobs-Elstein soon discovered that this information was not helpful to him,” the ruling said. “It provided information only on RV parks, where Jacobs-Elstein could not park his car, and shelters, where he could not keep his belongings during the day.”
Jacobs-Elstein was joined by three other plaintiffs: Chris Taylor, Patricia Warivonchik and William Cagle. In October 2010, Taylor was issued a warning during his first interaction with the task force. He was subsequently arrested in December 2010, despite showing officers proof he had slept in a shelter and not in his car. In November 2010, Warivonchik was driving the RV she lived in to a local fair where she planned to sell artwork when she was pulled over for not using a blinker and given a written warning for living in the RV. Cagle was arrested in October 2010 because his van contained clothing, bedding, boxed foods, bottles of medicine and a portable radio. When he explained to the arresting officers that he was not sleeping in his vehicle, he was told that sleeping is not the only criteria for violating the ordinance.
Although the plaintiffs attempted to comply with the law, “there appears to be nothing they can do to avoid violating the statute short of discarding all of their possessions or their vehicles, or leaving Los Angeles,” the ruling said.
“This broad and cryptic statute criminalizes innocent behavior, making it impossible for citizens to know how to keep their conduct within the pale,” Pregerson wrote in the ruling.
The ban “is broad enough to cover any driver in Los Angeles who eats food or transports personal belongings in his or her vehicle,” the court said. “It appears to be applied only to the homeless.”
Carol Sobel, the lawyer for the group of homeless people, told KCRA that she hoped the ruling would force other cities within the 9th Circuit to amend their statutes against sleeping in vehicles. 

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