The Oakland City Council passed a boycott Arizona resolution. This is the same city council that decided in June of 2009 to issue ID cards to illegal aliens (thereby breaking state and federal law along with Homeland Security directives). I’ve been working in Oakland since 1976, and been a business owner in the same spot for 27 years. Oakland has a murder rate ranking us third in the country as of November 2009. I’m not sure why our city council spends time trying to damage a state enforcing the law of the land, but I do know they have more important things they could be doing. We have all the representatives of major gangs here, including the Crips, Bloods, Hell’s Angels (hometown) and even our own chapter of the murderous Salvadoran MS-13 gang (the police did a sweep in Oakland, San Francisco and Richmond recently, rounding up 29 MS-13 gang members). I think the city council ought to concentrate on enforcing our laws rather than arrogantly presuming to represent the rest of us Oakland, CA residents in boycotting the enforcement of another state’s laws. You can tell in the following article not one of our genius council members has a clue as to the actual wording of the Arizona law and the columnist deliberately leaves it out of the article – a sin of omission which is epidemic in the rest of the media on this subject. I will be looking for products in Arizona to buy from now on.
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I'm deleting your comment Montana because I didn't see a single word in there that had anything to do with the Oakland, CA city council passing a boycott resolution against the Arizona law.
Address the subject of the post or blog your own. Another point to make here - brevity is the soul of wit. Try making your comment in a concise manner about the post.
Councils often make me shake my head. Have seen them make resolutions about subjects that are not within their jurisdiction.
Oakland City Council passes many inane resolutions that have nothing to do with their jobs, Bernita. Most times the resolutions are just silly. With this one they've crossed over into 'Worthy of Ridicule' land.
I am not sure whether Boycotting Arizona is the effective course here, but taking a stand against racism is always the right thing to do. My question is, why don't YOU feel that way?
http://www.truthout.org/connie-schultz-an-arizona-vote-to-secede59095
Gotta give you credit for sticking it out in such a cesspool.
I worked in Detroit for 22 years before finally getting out. The constant burgularies, thefts and in the latter years, some spooky personal incidents convinced me to move to safer zones.
Seems these cities become ever more concentrated with felons, ex cons, druggies and general lowlifes. A decent person is little more than a crime opportunity for the locals.
Its apparent from your posts that you are a hard case with the feeling that you were there first and no one is going to push you out.
Unfortunately, its been my experience that those types in the D still succumb to the criminal element. As one told me, the criminals are more persistant than you can be and eventually, they'll clean you out, rob you or worse.
Your comment carries no weight with me, John. It's obvious you have not read the law and I've already seen and heard all the race card cliches so...
The neighborhood around the shop has been improving the past few years, whydibuy. When I first came to work here in 1976 it was like the wild west. Unfortunately our murder rate in the city hasn't improved. You are right about many big cities collapsing into war zones. My point with the city council is how pointless and hypocritical they are in passing a resolution deriding a state enforcing their own laws while the council ignores Oakland's problems.
Looks like they should worry about their own issues before trying to clean someone else's house. But it's probably a bait and switch kind of move, to remove the focus off the city's own failures.
I agree, Charles.
California... it used to be the gem of the country. Now the news coming from there consistently makes me want to puke.
Yeah Matt, out here in nutty Cali we all individually stick our heads in the sand until the fire ants climb up our own legs. It makes for great touchy-feely media copy but endangers the very tenets of our country in addition to our lives.
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