My Experience In Mecklenburg county jail! Charlotte N.C. 1/30/12

    What is the best thing about being in jail? I can not tell you the answer to this question at all other then to say that at least it was for something I believed in. There is nothing good or positive for Jail! I also do not endorse everyone getting arrested! If you can avoid it please do so! I will try as much as possible to describe it from my point of view in the next several paragraphs!

    I do have to start from the begging though to how I got in Mecklenburg County Jail in the first place. I will tell you that I went to a City Council meeting and saw freedom ripped right out from under Occupy Charlotte and more Importantly every American Citizen period should the City Manager Curt Walton declare an Extraordinary Event! The Following link is the ordnance they change 10-1. John Autry of District 5 being the one voice of true representation! http://charmeck.org/city/charlotte/CityClerk/CouncilRelated/Documents/Agenda%20Attachments/2012/01_23_2012%20mtg/2.pdf

    That all happened on Jan 23 2012 and I was prepared honestly to go to Jail that night taking Our flag's clearly out of a fascist government that has no right calming at all that they are worthy of being American at all! For those still clinging to the thought that this is a move by Right Wing America alone! They only have two republican council members! Also to point out John Atury is a Democrat so you right wing conservatives out there be warned that not all democrats are Lefty pinkos! Clearly this is greed based and D.N.C and for some unrealistic idea the Olympics making people give up Liberty for Security! Also to point out that they ousted every conceivable way to use objects they have since banned! I even learned that there is a way to make Markers that are not water based in to flame throwers according to one of the police officers. Before I get to ahead of my self I was with two other members of Occupy Winston-Salem Sally and Adam! http://triad.news14.com/content/652851/charlotte-council-votes-to-change-protest-ordinance
The Full meeting!

   Needless to say after this Adam "Apple" Price were out in the hall with Charlotte in Solidarity and ready to go to Jail then but the Police made no move to arrest anyone! Finding out that Occupy Charlotte was to be Evicted on Jan 30th Adam and I knew that we were coming back. So on Jan 29th we returned with our friends Tony Nedge and Kim!(Leaving last names off of some of our friends because I not asked permitting to use their names or they were not directly in the media!) to do what we thought was necessary! I was not sure at the time what that meant but knew the likely out come of what I was willing to do on an individual!

    Needless to say we found our selves there sunday evening among the people of Occupy Charlotte! It was    a great time and we were with great people. The only down fall was having to walk to the Magistrate office where I and Adam were later processed to use the Restroom! Despite Charlotte's new claim http://triad.news14.com/content/653141/haz-mat-crews-test-storm-drain-water-at-occupy-campsite-for-human-waste. Anyway I will post a few links as to the arrest only after explaining that Adam and I were Sitting in the front of the largest tent while 4 other protesters from Charlotte Occupied their Art supply tent! So we Guarded the people inside in solidarity!

The Arrest:

News 14 N.C.

NPR

Associated Press

WXII Winston-Salem

    In all honesty from my personal perspective I felt the need to stand in solidarity with Occupy Charlotte in solidarity! Despite the way my Blog happens to look! The things that Charlotte has had to endure over the past couple of months and for the people that stood their ground and the people who have endured through all of the things that have happened. From an attempted hijack for personal gain to Flag Burning and  Logistical stress they have endured so much in a small frame of time! Like a lot of the camps across the nation the ones that have ended up standing up at the end of the day are the ones that realize apolitical unity is necessary in order to make the necessary changes in a corrupt government poisoned with Corporate Greed and self serving politicians!            

     This is a hard battle that all the camps have faced. There are political divides with in Occupy but the ones that see Republicrat brainwashing are the ones that over all have endured! The realization that you have to get the money out of politics and then remove the ability for the politicians to have sheep's clothing  to hide under! Those who are normally are either on the left or right are waking up to this illusion and are indeed learning in these camps to cast off all the lies and deal with people by the content of their character! This is where Civil Rights turned away sharply in the 70s 80s and 90s! WE WERE ALL ROBBED BY INDIVIDUALISM THAT FOSTERED A GREED BASED CULTURE! This and a bunch of things was lost in the perversions of the middle class! These Camps are not new to history they however are new to three generations of middle class! Who are waking up to a reality that the poor and Minorities have dealt with "for if you want to get real serious!" Thousands of years!

   When Tyranny appears in what ever form it comes through out the ages the oppressed are left with nothing but their skin and faith's and Rebel at all cost. Except what we are dealing with is fostered by the Environment that surrounds the individual. It was evident to me while sitting inside Mecklenburg county jail! Charlotte N.C. while I was being processed!

  This is going to sound strange but when I was Arrested they put me in the back of the paddy wagon because I was too big to fit in the Police Car! I am 6^4 and I barely fit in Side the only other Vehicle they had available for transport! The funny thing is all they had to do was walk me across the street or less than 2 city blocks to be Processed! Yet here in I am in the back of the paddy wagon sitting in for me a very confined space. One of the other guys named Judson; who I have become familiar with from my trips to Charlotte was next in! Then there was Jason who went limp all the way to the door of the paddy wagon. They had to lay him flat in and told him to be careful not to get stuck! He sat up and there were the three of us waiting in the back of a paddy wagon to make a 5 second drive around the back of the police station. So we sang "Solidarity for ever! Solidarity Forever! The movement makes us strong!" in the tune of a very famous Hymn. Due to copyright I'll just avoid naming the title.

    So we wait about 15 minutes to go around to the back of the police station we are in front of . The waiting game begins and all three of us are waiting on the next step. So we make light conversation. Jason say "well I have learned one thing about getting arrested so far! Never lean on your handcuffs when you get put in the back of a paddy wagon my circulation is gone!" An officer checks on us and fixed his handcuffs.              
    Shuts the door and more waiting, I ask if anyone read any good books. Judson talks about one written in 2002 about the global affects of terrorism and then he and Jason sing the Peanut butter and jelly song!                  Then after this moral boosting they both left me to my gum chewing to be taken 2 blocks down to be processed. So I scooted closer to the window as not have to deal with the claustrophobic environment I was left to.        

   At this point all I am looking at is a distorted reflection of my self in a stainless steel cage. This is where I started to process the fact that one would feel like a dog or a wild animal in this sterile cramped space. About 45 minutes latter I was escorted to the police car and the officer was real polite. Opened up the door and I found out why I was not put in a car in the first place.
       I have large feet that would never fit on the floor board and I had to lay across the seat end to end. I looked at the bars in front of the passenger windows which were rolled down! I looked at the security barrier and plexiglass shield and said to the officer "This is a tight fit" His reply being "Yeah brother be careful not to get stuck it takes 2 hours to get you unstuck!" So here I am in the back of the car and he left the radio on and for some reason I looked in the cup holder and saw a Thirst Buster cup and was happy for the gum I was chewing! Yet for some reason it triggered my bladder to remind me that it had functions that were out of my control of alleviation.
       So I am trying hard to Focus on the music that is playing. Some Katy Perry song was playing and I envisioned my self as the officer and wondered if I would be changing the station while on duty! After that my bladder kicked off my focus of this momentary day dream! As the officer approached I asked him if I would be able to use the restroom in an hour or so. His response was "Hopeful it will be less then an hour for you got a rookie that's messing up paper work!" Needless to say I thought I could be a man and handle my functions! My bladder said other wise! I held on as long as I could and when the tank released the over flow. I begged the officers standing out there to let me use the Restroom.
      The officer ran back to the car and I said I understand that you have to do what you do and I need to be responsible but I really need  to go to the bathroom and I don't want to have to add Urinating in a police car be on my record and I do not want you to have to clean a mess you should not have to!  So he let me out of the car and took me to the bathroom. Switched the cuffs up so I could do natures business. He had to observe me but was thankful that his squad car did not have what was the longest piss I have ever taken all over the back and pooled under the front seats.  He put me back in the car and I waited about 30 more minutes because the rookie messed up the paper work 2 times. Two hours and forty five minutes later I arrive at the Magistrates office!

  I get out of the back of the car and the most boring process in my life began! Not that the people are the least bit boring if you have never been there but the process is slower then molasses in a Wisconsin blizzard. The electronic doors as you walk in are a clue as to the time that is to come. When you walk in they sit you on a metal bench and you have to wait for the second security door to open. I had long enough to wait that an older black gentleman  was sat down beside me! He looks at me in my Grinch tee shirt and maroon pants. He smiles at me and asks "So what did they get you for?" I told him about the arrest and he responded in disgust and puzzlement! "Are you fucking kidding me! Ain't that some bullshit! They should just leave you guys alone, you ain't hurting a goddamned thing! I only had time to tell him good luck because by then the doors were open.

    I got to the desk and was instructed to take my shoes off and answer some questions! So I got asked some questions regarding my mental stability and if I had been through any kind of drug treatment program. I   got patted down and they handed me the money I had in my wallet said I was going to need it in case of bail. I was also asked by the officer if I knew what they had charged me with! I did not know at all and had to get to the magistrate to find out! He did say "Sorry son I wish I could tell you and it would help if we have some more coming. I was then walked through a metal detector 4 or 5 times and finally they could not figure it out. So they sat me down and I waited for the nurse for 40 minutes.

    I watched them process about 10 or 12 people in front of me of a few different people all mostly black. I just sat there looking at the clothing and putting my self in each persons shoes. Staying quite at first through the whole process. I saw just about everyone trip the metal detector except one person. The nurse finally came and spent 5 minutes with me asking the same questions as the officer before me. After that they finally put me in another area where I saw Judson and Jason. Jason was placed in County shirt one half of a jump suit. Some how the guy behind me got processed quicker then I did. All we had to do was wait and I found out that you had to go in to the separation rooms to piss. I also found out that you could not talk unless in the separation room. Some of the younger brothers were defiant and got separated with the door shut.. I never asked Jason or Judson anything because they were grabbing sleep when they could. I was sitting beside people that were in full on jumpsuits and others dressed in normal clothing and I waited observing every thing!

    The older people like the guy that came in when I did just sat there and waited. I don't know why some of the younger ones just seemed to have something to prove to the officer who just asked them to be compliant with the rules. One Black officer was not playing around and made sure the young cats knew that he was aligned with doing his job to the letter. You could see frustration on the faces of the older guys who sat there and kept their mouth shut. This happened because the same guy that they were annoying and taking up time like every other officer had paper work to fill out so you could get up stairs to see the magistrate.

    A lot of what was happening was normal everyday stuff for me because I have been around these men in my life on a daily basis and the attitudes between the younger and the older among the African American communities and the poor communities  are as universal in the walls of a Jail as anywhere else in the world. I was about two hours in to being there that I finally got my mug shot and fingers printed. Which I was fascinated with the finger printing as its more like "Hand Scanning" the system now has every conceivable ridge and swirl of my hand. While its a scary thought at the same time it is also all you can do to grasp at sanity. I was now nearing forty hours of being awake so that is why I was doing everything I could to "Occupy my Mind" With the process. This took 15 minutes then it was back to waiting.

    I sat down and at that point one of the people that was in solitary when I had arrived was looking out the window and snapping his fingers. As a musician I wanted to respond with some kind of percussive rhythmic pattern. Yet while looking at him wearing a grayish blue Jumper with all the fixings of someone that had been brought here by D.O.C.;  I happened to notice that he had zoned out beyond the realm of  humanity. His eyes were like dolls eyes, or an animal at the zoo. It seemed to me that he was trying to remind himself as if he were human or trying to keep grounded. I knew that that guy had done some hard time. Like Huey P. Newton describes about solitary and how he learned that the system is nothing when you have had time to battle your own fears and demons. Some of the others acted tougher than they really are. I have met a lot of people that have done some serious hard time say that you become numb to Jail and It really becomes about  battling your self and time. I could tell some of the older cats knew the score and just played the game.

    In fact I finally broke my silence to the Guy I had met, that this was my first time in Jail. I got just comfortable to realize that my size was making the cops and the other people being processed friendly to me  the longer we waited. So the guy said to me "Being that this is your first time in jail, they will probably let you sign your self out on a misdemeanor. It ain't that way for everyone all the time but your out look is good brother don't worry. So Judson and Jason finally got sent upstairs and I got fucked on time again because shift change happened and it was another 45 minutes before I got up stairs. I watched the people getting off work clutching bags and lunch pales just like they would as if they were getting off an assembly line of the factory down the road. You could see the same characteristics of people everywhere else in America. The people that had family's to go back home to. The people that were going to get changed to go out to the bar. The people who were giddy about what ever sporting event they were going to get lost in! The Lonely ones who clutched on to their lunch bags and belongings like they were in a sacred ritual that only the loneliest people can understand.

   Then the new cast of characters Walked out from the elevator with that ever present I am ready to be at work! They were much the same as the people that were leaving but held a new energetic fervor. Yet now the process for those waiting on life and the punch of the clock just to hurry up and get them up the fucking stairs happened to shift in agitation because this was now, In everyone's mind bull shit! You did not have to be young or old, Black, Hispanic, or White to feel and all be the same way about the two guys snorting and chuckling about a game not one of us could give a shit about. Of course age before youth cursed them under their breath. while the young cats wasted time complaining about this and that infraction against them. Some got shut in the solitary rooms. Also at that time I found out one young man who was sitting next to me earlier was being extradited to Alabama on murder charges.

   Now Finally after 6 hours in to the arrest I finally got to see the magistrate! Or at least get to the room to come before the magistrate! For those of you that got this far thank you for sticking with me because this is what it is like being processed. If you can get through what I am telling you it's a breeze. This is a right of passage for Civil Disobedience. You have to be prepared to go through what is necessary. Time is all you are facing. So after 6 hours you would begin to think that when you go to see the magistrate that all is fine and quick. Yet I knew better when I finality meet up with not only Jason, and Judson but I was there with the others that were processed way before me. I was standing next to Adam and the others and they were happy that I finally made it through. I knew by that time that I was going to be the last one out.                    

   On the elevator we were all instructed as to what was going to happen. I was so tired the only thing I heard was have a seat on the green chairs. It was the same as before sit and wait. I was happy to see the others but it was not long before after Adam told me what was going to happen that we were separated again. I watched the others  sitting in the next room and thought how much more is left and I sat there waiting for my name to be called! The part I hate the most is the bad interpretative calling of my name. Each time I have been called they all pronounced it different. Most of the people I had already met when waiting for my turn to move up stairs but they brought up three of four more groups before I did see the magistrate!                        

    Now my disorientation not only betrayed my patients but my normal judgment of people that are different or are normally picked on by other people. At this point I got bored with other people that I had met because there is only so much you can observe people doing. They get repetitive and boring at a point. So When a homeless man came in and smelled like he had been wearing clothing soaked in shit. I watched the way people reacted to him not in sorrow or compassion but in need of something to keep my mind off of the time. The man looked homeless and I am not making an assumption if you have been homeless you know the ones that are chronic ,have addiction, and mental problems. It's also in the way the police treated him. They tried to get him to the showers before sitting him down in population. Yet he had to be sat down. People near him moved two rows away in either direction. I was to lost to stand up for the guy because I just wanted out or in a fucking cell to go to sleep. Yet it is all I had to watch except for C.N.N the most notorious for psyops. I chose to just watch the circus of human nature. The cruelty of nature in men that can live in an environment that is subjective to violence and death everyday. It lets you know who is really lying about how tough they are.

    There seem to be three types of people in this situation, Soft/Weak, Indifferent/Neutral and Experienced/Tough, the ones that are actually soft and weak talk the most shit and have something to prove. Neutral people are numb either way and say nothing and the Experienced would not move from their seat despite how the man smelled. It seemed if the room was full of soft people. When they moved the man to the showers after they moved him in to the separation room. The Officer at the desk walked up and down the isles spraying air freshener. Everyone bothered by smell was quick to beg the officer to spray it at the vents so it spread. They brought the guy back in to the room in a full jumpsuit. The event was over.                            

    At the same time all this was going on the police had brought what I can only describe as Norman Baits meets the Incredible Hulk. This guy was escorted by D.A.R.T. and 4 other cops wearing a green Moo Moo with a matching jacket that was right out of the T.V. show "Mamas Family" it was like watching the Caucasian version of John Coffie in the "Green Mile" only with layers of fat in a green Dress with a pokadot   pattern. He had fresh scaring on him. At this point every guy in the room was now intimidated because you just do not see a guy as tall as I am wider framed with muscle and fat. The dress was the largest sized dress I have ever seen. They took him down the elevator and had him processed quicker than anyone in the Room had ever seen and they brought him back up and closed him off!

   I am not telling you this to make fun of anyone, I do not condone making fun of anyone. It was the time that I had been awake and the hours of time that spun my imagination. You begin to look at people differently. Parts of the process were just so surreal that the only way I can describe this is through what I saw and how my mind processed this. It is boring and I really wanted to be put in a cell rather then just sit there. 7 and 1/2 hours in! I nearly contemplated throwing chairs to go to a padded room in a mental ward! If you cause enough trouble in a mental ward they shoot you up with Thorazine and strap you down or throw you in a padded room. Here they just make you wait and as close as you get to the out side world is Anderson Cooper on C.N.N.! mind you this is not jail this is just processing.

   "Mr. Lenbomb" Please go to room number 3."  ''Mr. Linbitch there calling you.please go to room number 3!"   Finally you pop out of the world of deluge and letting your mind wander and create its own Entertainment. I walk in to the room and there is a nice Black woman that smiles at me. She even pronounces my name right! For the 3 minutes I was In heaven because the following: "Mr. Leinbach all I want you to do after I let you Sign yourself out is that you promise me you will be back in Charlotte on march 11."  "Mam what am I being charged with?"  "Sir you are being charged with obstruction of an officer to preform his duty. Which is a misdemeanor! Sign on that line. You should be able to leave soon!" I left ready to leave because I just signed my self out! I went to the officer at the desk and showed him the paper work. His reply was "It will be a little while yet have a seat!    

     FUCK I CAN NOT TAKE ANOTHER MINUTE IN THIS ROOM! LEGALLY I AM FREE TO GO I SIGNED MY SELF OUT! FUCK THIS PLACE AND FUCK MECKLENBURG COUNTY AND CHARLOTTE N.C. !!!!!  
   
    That is what I wanted to say to the Police officer but the reality of it was I just had to say thank you and return to my seat and bide my time. 45 minutes later I walk out and Jason is still sitting behind me and asked me to ask about him. I did and I found my self being told to stand at the wall and take my shoes off! Pull the pockets out of both my paints. There is Adam still sitting in the room! I wanted to cry because I knew that it was another hour at least before I was to get out. Adam and I talked and went in to a room where he had been talking about the Occupy movement and the next thing They let him and Jason go to another stage! At this point I saw the phones on the wall and wanted to make a phone call but was informed I can not call out side of Mecklenburg!  I went back in the room and tried to talk about Occupy a bit further but I was tired and one young man got them uninterested in it and talked about normal criminal culture. So I left it alone and went back to the green chairs in another room that was only different because it had phones and a clock!    
Someone asked about food and I heard that we would not see food until 4 am!

     At this point I just laid up against a pillar and tried the best I could to sleep the rest of the time out! It did not work and I was in pain and restless. I kept drifting on and off and only minutes were nicked off the clock  and I Just waited shifting weight from one side or the other! The Cops had all been nice and I can say nothing bad about them at all! The whole experience was long and boring I made it through the last door not knowing it and when I found out I was finally being allowed to leave! I sat there waiting to get my stuff and put my hat and belt back on! Stepped out the final three doors!  

When I stepped out of the doors everyone cheered and everyone waited for me to get out! I had a bunch of hugs from 20 people! Then was handed a Mountain Dew and a Candy bar! Walked outside and asked for a smoke! Cracked open the Mountain Dew and was happy to be out of Mecklenburg County Jail in Charlotte N.C. This is all I can recall for now and if you are trying to add up the time I mentioned and try to make seance out of the time frame Remember all you are battling when you get in Arrested is Time! If you do the crime you do the time! All I know is I did take one hell of a bite out of the Snickers bar and It was the best damn candy bar I have had in a long time!!!!!!!!!!!

Why I Chose to be arrested

The Reason that I got arrested in Charlotte is simple! The Laws they changed give Powers to the City Manager that only the Governor of N.C. has the Right to grant to the City and mayor. It gives Extraordinary Event powers to the police. Any Local government that attempts to Break a State Constitution and The U.S. Constitution is no longer American. Nor dose any government have any right to define camping as a form of protest! What were Hovervilles if not people who lost their homes,farms and everything but protesters! I for one hope people do not think that we are not safe from a dust bowl. I can tell you now from having been homeless that you or the person standing next to you are not going to be fighting over politics! You will be fighting over a sandwich in the bread line! So you can either split the sandwich in half or quarter it or stab each other to have a whole sandwich!                                                                                      
   
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Ben Franklin                                                            

 How dose one non-violently resist the tyranny of a Fassict government? By Defying those laws and risk arrest to bring the battle in to the court of law instead of the need to become violent with any kind of wepon. Civil Disobedance is the greatest weapon you have to tyranny because the more rights being taken from Citzens of all political backgrounds the more one risist and the Laws that are restrictive stay center stage!  Just because it is a law dose not mean is Right and you should let your Government get away with anything that kills freedoms that everyone has by The U.S. Constatution!
   
  I will Risk arrest to do what is nessacary. If I am imprisoned it only makes me more defiant and also gives one understanding of the fallacy of the prison system and how they demoralize you. This being my first Arrest ever was in defiance of a group of laws that take away the rights of people. I obey and Respect the law and those that are ment to serve and protect when the laws are about Serving and protecting the Government which is the PEOPLE! Not as some would like to belive only Corprations and Self Serving People who want to call themselves Representitives.      

I do not want to make false accusations at any one but, sometimes people do not understand because of their position in life fosters a purist stance on their political point of View. It's all well and good if you have not been aflicted with the parts of the American System that strip the dignaty and rights out from under the feet of people who Live in a diffrent Culture (Poor, Homeless, or Minority)! There are more situations then this but theese are primary Issues! If you have not experenced any of this you have the abillity to put walls between your self and major problems. There is a portion of this that you can constatute to lazyness but that covers less than half of the real problem. People have lost their homes due to not only economic bubbles but to bad employment practices, Bad Finantial advice/lending , Classissium and Racisim! For every person one may simply accuse of being Lazy there are Thousands of people who have complex issues that are of an individual nature!

I for one when I hear "Get a Job!" and "Take responcability for your own actions!" I become discusted because all I truly hear is "I do not have time to care and I am doing well so it should be Just as easy for you!" And "All Problems that happen in your life are your own fault so suffer for your lack of responcability"!  I have heard this time and time again from seemingly hateful people that do not take the time to discuss or relate to peoples individual position! Then Again my favorite is If you do not love America why don't you leave it!" Which is what really bothers me! Apperently it is not right to Love your country so greatly that one becomes disgusted with how people are "Leaving the Campfire"!  I am sorry to inform people but if all they do to fix the problems in America is vote and put an Individual in office to fight a Mountain of problems we are failing as a socioty because It is only through Direct Action (Incuding holding those people you put in office!) that any one is going to be motvated to make changes and not Just polititions. Your Negibors in your communiy through negborhood and community involvement! Patriotisum starts when you walk out your door in the morning!

So for my First arrest ever I recived a bond of zero on a Misdmeaner charge of obstructing an offecer of the law. All I have to do is show up to court on march 11 and recive a sentance or Fine that I will gladly take responcability for my actions and I will gladly sit in Jail as a free man in my Heart. Free Men Do Not Bow To Tyrranny and I beleave that in my Mind Body and Sprit! If you do nothing to change or resist the system when it starts to become oppressive then you have done nothing and can do nothing when you have allowed any law to be passed that denies your freedom! There is no amount of safety that can or will protect you from Death! I for one choose death if someone wants My Liberty! So I will stand with any group that truly beleves in their right to freedom of speach! If there Freedom is taken then so is mine! I also beleive putting my money where my mouth is! Should anyone have a better way of doing it by all means go out and make it happen and quit talking about how to change it! CHANGE IT!

A Personal Thought

    There has to be some role in keeping focus on the principles of a movement because people are geared to be caught up in debate and miss the fact that we may not agree on some issues overall. This movement is going to be hard because it takes a lot of sacrifice on all sides to come to common ground. For instance people that are extreme on conspiracy theories, which I my self have been guilty of, need to realize that there is a certain amount you have to limit yourself to because it is very complicated and the general people are not going to understand anything when you bombard them with too much. 


    We are all excited and have a lot of issues we have a passion about. I have a few issues that people need to know about but because of the movement we can only hold back to work together. I have a right to answers that I would like but if it divides peoples’ ability to work together then everything that we do as people will fail. Work on the simple things first because if this works then we might find the answers to our questions with out having over-educated people. I am placing those things aside because people are waking up to a lot of things. Now that the struggle of people is reaching more people,


     I know that the work I have done so far is not in vain. I cannot express the intolerances that I have had to endure since birth. I was born deaf and through 6 corrective surgeries I was able to hear birds and experience the environment in a way that many take for granted. I have dyslexia so I have had to work harder than most to read and comprehend words that people take for granted. I was 230 pounds by 13 so I was overweight. I have another disorder that limits my vision to seeing in 2 dimensions. I was profiled as a potential threat to my school during the aftermath of Columbine because I had Bipolar Disorder and questioned authority. I had a rumor spread by a kid that thought it would be funny to tell everyone I was going to blow the school up. I am a drop out with a GED. I have run for city council. I have had my family home taken because my father’s employer committed two felonies. I have been homeless. I have been employed. 


     I have a lot of grievances to bear that have adapted to the fact that your perception changes in each situation that you are given. The one thing that I want to accomplish that my individual journey has led me to is to help humanity find common ground on which to stand as an individual human being free to enjoy life. Not one person’s perception should affect anyone from achieving the right to be human and enjoy being human. We got here somehow be it through God or the big bang. The simple thing is to know that evil exists and there are evil people that play a game like Risk (the strategy game) with human pieces. This evil must stop and will. I am not giving the people of this movement my time. I am giving my life to it. This means that I am prepared to die to do what is good for all involved.

Before you think that you got me figured out!

    I want it to be known that I do not think all cops or authority figures are bad! It is only my attempt to bring to light that there is a serious miss use of power in America! If this is is what you can see out in the open then imagine what the system that we believe is here to protect us and correct us is capable of behind closed doors! There are good people as much as there are bad people but we must stand up and fight injustice where Ever it Is.

      Just remember in the fight to take down "The bad guys" we could at anytime end up Like Sean Bell who did nothing but happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong kind! It reminds me of an experience that could have gone badly if I had not known to handle the police and a sharp cab driver helped stop something from being worse then it it ever Got!
     
    I was on Burke st. in Winstion-Salem trying to get a friend of mine to settle down! Another friend had followed my friend over to first street. My friend had thrown something large and metal out in the road causing a loud sound! The bars were close to closing up shop. And apparently the police heard it! By that time I got my friend to pick the item up out of the road! It was over a fight from earlyer and he was livid pissed my other friend was too drunk to help so she just stood around!

    A cab driver with a scanner heard the chirp go out over the radio and pulled through. asked me if I needed help. I said yeah I need to get thees two home. My friend with the issues was arguing with me, the cab driver and the air! About that time four stout officers come walking our way! Their ready for something because they got gloves on. They are all stout and I am a bout 6'4 and my friend is 5'11 and sees them and ain't in his right mind set and starts talking shit! I grab him by the shirt and shove him in the cab and put my other friend in the cab. The officers were on the other side of the street and saw me do all of that! one yelled at to asked if everything is ok at the same time the cab driver is saying the same thing. I get in the cab and shut the door and tell the other two to shut the fuck up as one officer approaches the the cab. The officer double checks with the cabby and the Cabby "Says no no problem! Just too much to drink "Time to go home!" The officer says ok go on have a good night!
   
     Hey big boy that was a close call brother! They was going to beat someones ass! I said thank you and we don't have far to get! There's going to be a good tip for you! So I made everyone Cough up all the cash they had on them! Gave 50 dollars to the Cabby and kept the rest for my self! Even with what I did with that sheriff the one time I still don't want to be rumbling with cops for no good reason!! it was a close one that did not even have to get that far! Though my over all point to this story is the fact that you can find yourself in a miss understanding with the law at all times. I have been lucky enough to find my self dealing with some pretty fair cops! Though the situations could have been a lot worse!
         
 What I am doing with this post is showing and exposing the excessive abuses of power with in the system. and again I do not think all people with a badge are bad people! So do not think that I am just hating on cops to be hating authority! Those in authority should be held to a standard and when they exceed or break the law I will be one to report on it rather then suppress the information!

Video Post: News Clips: Police beatings caught on tape!

Sean Bell: Is mentioned in this quite Ironicly another case that proves cops get away with murder!

Not a beating but a warning to people on the police and how excited they are to shoot and scare the hell out of people who did not even do anything harmful to others!

120 lb kid getting subdued by men twice his size. In the video you can see the cop stopping the air flow of the kid by covering his mouth and nose!

Here the cop lies to another cop and emts about what happened to the victim!

A 15 year old special needs student!!! Give me a break!

Fucking lying damn Cops

Video Post: Important Documentaries and News Clips! Move Shoot out!

The Following Documentaries and News that, I feel people need to watch about some of the things I talked about! Starting with the one moment that has defined my mission in my life! MOVE Shoot out 1978!

In this second part you will hear the people of the neighborhood say that MOVE are peaceful people! This also talks about the issue of one of the members having her baby killed!

Described in this part is a prophetic statement: Rizzo will go all over this city to kill move members! That would be evident with the 1985 firebombing on 6221 Osage Avenue in the Cobbes Creek area of West Philadelphia!

In this one you see a white reporter defending the law and makes the "Statement that if a Judge says they broke the law then they broke the law! a black guy standing next to him says "A Judge can lie just like me and you!" The White reporter then goes on to explain that they are trying to get the truth and both sides of the situation don't seem to like us at this point! It goes on to show a Reporter by the name Rob Jennings says that 6 people that he interviewed said they did not like M.O.V.E in this documentary you will find not one neighbor saying anything negative about move at all and they really do an objective assertion on the situation! The siege prep begins!

In this one the actual siege takes way as they take down the building with men,women and children still inside the  building! Shows the police using water from a fire hose to flood the basement! in the video its actually the police that shoot each other! Is suspect weather they had real guns in the MOVE house! In the video you can see one of the female move members walk toward the police claiming that they killed her son! She is unarmed! You see who I believe to be Chuck Africa come out with his hands up surrendering and the Rodney King like beating! they say that there was a gun but in the video there are no guns on anyone of the people that came out of the building!  


The rest I am going to let you watch for yourself and Decide what you think! 

Cover Up! Police State Terrorism in the 20th and early 21st centuries!

       I sit here and think that I am a year away from being 30 years old, I wonder how we have improved in society in the near 30 years I have lived. Honestly, the only thing that we have improved is our ability to cover thing's up and sweep them neatly under the rug! Not to mention Shove a whole lot of skeletal remains in our closets!
   
      My Brother is four years older then me and I have know for a few years now that the 1978 shoot out in Philadelphia happened with the police and The Move Organization. The funny thing is that in the year of my brothers birth it was more like a Shoot in by the police. Then there was of course the fire bombing by the police on the move organization in 1985. My brother being seven years old and me being  three.
     
      Now I am not going in to great detail right now because I would like to do much larger articles  in the future but for now its just an over view! Though my interest in injustices started at an early age it is not till now that I am now clearheaded enough to fit all of my thoughts together! I have gone the gambit that life can take me to get where I am mind wise. Now that I have the innocence of my youth fully shattered by all hope!

     That's not saying I have not any hope at all, I am just saying that I finality found out the reality in life that even though they want you to believe that we can all be men on white steeds riding in with our guns blazing to grab up the pretty woman and riding in to the sunset! I gave up being involved in the political fight I had dedicated my self to. I am not sad but reasonably the way the West Memphis three were released from Jail. I said Finality after years of it Just being a black Liberation thing that here we are An actual case that Will wake  "White America" To what African Americans, Chicano, and Native Americans have been dealing with In modern America,

     This is what this article attempts to uncover. Is the need to wake up to the fact that the same burdens of the world for the Minorities of the world is our world to because this is how the poor get treated. No matter what race you are you are thrown in to the system mangled up and even if the Police,Judges and Juries are wrong they will cover it up and make the person or persons do hard time for their Fuck ups!
     
    I look at how weird this system is where people like O.J. Simpson and now Casey Anthony walk away when the Trials become a media Circus. Yet daily there are Trials all over America where somehow people that are not Guilty.get incarcerated.
     
    A case that comes to mind here in N.C. Is Darryl Hunt from my home town of Winston-Salem who served 19 years for a rape and murder he did not commit. He was exonerated by D.N.A evidence but he had to endure 19 years in Jail for something he did not do! I could not imaging doing that kind of time for something I did not do!
 
    Now to Jump to more questionable cases! If I say the name Mumia Abu-Jamal if you are familiar with the man and the issue at hand! You are going to get free him from the people that believe in his innocence! Then you are going to get let that Cop killer Fry! Again I am only skimming the surface because other articles are to come! Mumia Abu-Jamal is the most notorious death row inmate and I encourage to go look up information about him.
     
     Now moving from the debate of people of peoples guilt or innocence we get to the part where I talk about the new age ability to sweep things under the rug! If you want to know of the most infamous event to expose the Police State Terrorism at its worst then we Bring up Waco T.X. and The Fbi/ATF stand of with the Branch Davidians!  One could suggest that that was indeed a recorded terrorist act against a religious group. Then there are others that will say that it was the Davidians that set fire to themselves and they fired the shots first! This again is another case that happened in my life time.
   
      Now There is another Case that is suppressed by the Media Dwight York known as Dr.Malachi Z. York was and still is the leader of The black Nuwaubian movement in Putnam County Georgia. He is in Jail for Child Molestation and Rico charges! The Child he was supposed to have molested has recanted her accusation saying that the police coerced her in to testifying against him!
             
    There is much more as these are going to be something's I cover in detail at a later Time. The seven instances I have listed are among many that have happened in America but their prevalence to me is the fact that there is wide speculation as to the Conduct of the authority.  Move happened in 78,85 Mumia Abu-Jamal and Daryl Hunt 81 and 84. Waco and WM3 1993 and Dr. York in 2002.
           
    All of these instances and they are not the only one raise so many questions in my mind about so much! I failed to even talk about Rodney King and the reasons for the L.A. Riots. I am now starting to raise the questions with in my self! Do we Hold any of those that serve the law really accountable for Corruption, Terrorism, and making tragic errors that Cost people their freedom! These actions have happened in the past and there is even historical proof that the C.I.A Was set up to be counter intelligence to the F.B.I during the the reign of J. Edgar Hoover. Then you look at programs like the Counter Intelligence Program COINTELPRO.

    I begin to think what is the truth. The truth my friends is that we are made to believe if we keep our heads down and "Duck and Cover" that we will get out of this alive with a false since of freedom. When in fact there are things happening Right here in our own back yard. Why do we need to go have wars overseas when we have a War that is invisible in the media but evident through out our history. Should we keep our heads down and refuse to be real leaders in our own country because you'll get your head blown off by a loan gun man with the persons three middle names!
   
    Go ask Fred Hampton Jr. Why his father was assassinated by  COINTELPRO While he was sleeping! Ask Leonard Peltier why he sits in jail in a Wheelchair while his two accomplices were acquitted for any criminal activity! We are assigned certain liberties if we stay  ignorant to the injustice of others. In my mind when I think about issues of importance to me, I do not jump to the conclusion of the Innocence our guilt of a person. However when I find my self imagining being a juror if I have things that stop me and make me see what I believe to be a flaw then I have a reasonable doubt. Yet we live and die by the presentation and often Trials are no longer about evidence as much as how you defend or prove the evidence which leads me in to the next part of what I have trouble with.
     
    What are we as people taught in this country about police officers and people that wear uniforms! I have had quite a few instances where I have seen a lot of people use their uniform or their affiliation as Cops or Military not in uniform to justify actions. one instance I would like to relate to you is the following! I can not and will not show respect to someone who is at a bar and drinking respect when they treat people around them with disrespect! All people should understand that when someone is in plan clothes and are a member of  a public service they disrespect the position that they have chosen! I have seen countless military and cops get in to fights and try to use their service to the community as a get out of Jail free card.

    I was once almost involved in a fight at a bar that a guy in his apology  used the words " I'm sorry about being an asshole I am in the Reserves and I just got called up to Active Duty! I am Going to Iraq." The fight was not with me directly but with my cousin.While I heard him saying this I was standing between them and I looked at the Guy and said this " I suggest that you go back to the bar and sit down and enjoy your beer! You apology ain't working for me and I am standing between the both of you and a bad night for all of us! You should be ashamed of yourself and Insulting the both of us. You chose to be in the reserves and both him and I pay for your choice! Should I feel guilty because you chose to serve in the Military and happen to be getting deployed! So excuse me if I am not happy with you justifying your actions! I am not going to get down on my knees and suck your dick because you made a choice to serve!

              Now for another example of conflict I am going to relate a story to you about an officer in Uniform! I was working at Greyhound Trailways and I had a young girl of 16 come up and buy a ticket she did not say anything other then she was going to see her grandmother! I I.D. her and she sat quietly in the bus station with her bags and waited for her bus. Did not think much of it until the next thing I know she was pulling to the floor while a sheriff in uniform grabbed her by the arm!

    At first I thought it was an arrest, Until I heard her and him arguing! "Goddamit girl your going to get in the car and come home with me right now! NO Daddy I AIN'T taking anymore beatings from you! Let me go! Let me Go! What I am about to tell you sound's like I'm lying but I did it. My office door swung open at the same time one of the private security officers was running down to secure the situation! I got an axe handle in my hand and the door hit the wall hard enough for it to grab the officers attention. I did not move forward and his hand went to his gun. I yelled before you do something stupid you pay attention to me! You are in my station and you are making my passengers afraid! If you want to think that I am not opposed to using this axe handle on you for hitting on a woman! Know I think your a disgrace and you should not be in any uniform ever! Those Cameras are going to show you beating on a girl and me the station manager coming at you with an axe handle. I would be a little smart about what we are doing! We are on Camera. Two Security officers entered the door! One saw me with the Axe handle and pushed me back in the office! The other Officer took charge of the situation. I don't know what all happened at that point because my bus arrived and I had to take care of it! So I almost got shot by an off duty sheriff but I did try to do something about it.
       
    If people are bound to try to do two of of many other things. In and out of their uniforms then I do not find the fact that people abuse power in other ways and at a far worse level. However as children we are taught that we must obey the law and listen to the police at all times. I do not find it to be as far fetched as it may seem. I had another instance even with the security officers at the bus station. Now they had all the rights and duties of a police officer except for official arrest. I watched one of the officers that I actually liked as a person make a rookie mistake but it was still wrong! He was chasing multiple people and actually ended up handcuffing a guy to the gate.Leaving him to not be able to defend himself. I had to write a report for Greyhound and for the security company. The guy knew that and knew I wrote some of the most helpful and accurate reports. So he actually came and asked me to not make him look bad in the report and find out what I was going to write. I asked him to sit down with me because I needed to talk to him.
     
     He and I sat and talked civilly. I told him this "I am going to write what I saw happen. I said I don't think badly of you as a person but what you did was wrong! Your a good man and I know it was a mistake but it happened and they are going to know what you did. Anyway I can help improve the mistakes or give you guys a description of what happens it allows things to have what is fair for the security of where I work smoother and done correctly I am going to do. I am not writing personally and can only do what is right. He took what I said and thanked me for talking to him about it. I hated that I cost a good person a Job but it was not my report that cost him his job it was his actions that did that!
   
    Living in the triad of N.C. we have had our fair share of police scandal and historically had quite a bit more then we would like to own up too. There were the shootings in Greensboro in the 70s, The Greensboro massacre occurred on November 3, 1979, which there is suspected police involvement with the K,K,K. to date there is a lot of scandals to be further discussed in later articles. Along with Winston-Salem Scandals and surrounding controversy through out the Local area!
     
   To conclude I think that it is important to preserve the true history and cover news that people seem to want to avoid out of fear because they do not agree with those in power that want to cover up and say that all they have done was to serve and protect the people! I walk in this world as free as one can be but that dose not sit well with me because their are people that are dead, or serving time for standing up for their rights. The mainstream media often puts prepackaged labels on theses people "Terrorist, Criminals, Child Molesters, Rapist, Murderers and Cop Killers before all of the evidence is collected and examined. Yet people that have committed perjury have taken the stand to make sure that these people get put away and locked up! Knowing what happened to the MOVE organization in 1978, I look at the fact that Mumia Abu-Jamal was a member of the Black Panther Party and a Journalist that covered the story and I put my self in his shoes. I am a target for a corrupt system of Cop's that bulldozed a house the same day they laid siege on MOVE the first time! I think weather Mumia weather he is Guilty or Innocent is not the question as much as even if he did do it was it an act of self defense! Uniform or no Uniform self preservation is not a Crime. If he is completely innocent then I believe that he should be walking free! I ask my self daily what and who should I be fighting for.
       
   I can not enjoy my false since of freedom and swallow Nationalism being pawned off as Patriotism. Nor can I say that I should allow others to tell me that I should be thanking the government for my freedoms and be a proud American because I have those freedoms. For me that's the same Issue I had with the guy in the reserves! That instead of improving the lives and freedom. I should be down on my knees sucking dick for the freedom that this Country stands for! No thank you I would rather be insulted by millions of people then ever sell out my beliefs!