Save Our State At National Night Out
This one snuck up on me, but since there's been no work for me I took the opportunity anyway. I received an RSS feed advising that there was to be numerous events for National Night Out, and since the one was just up the street from the old homestead, I decided to make that one. the parks district advertised there was going to be live doo-wop band, bounce houses, water slide and it was supposed to be an educational event to combat crime. Since we are interested in fighting crime in our neighborhoods, I dolled up the billboard and headed for the party.
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Here's one of the invitations we got through our RSS feed Quote:
And here's their on-line invitation: Neighborhood Night Out Date: August 3, 2010 Time: 6:00 – 8:00p Location: Rainbow Park On August 3, 2010 Southgate (916) 422-7610, ext 14.Recreation & Park District will host its annual Neighborhood Night Out event at Rainbow Park. The District’s event will represent just one of the over 10,000 communities across America participating in National Neighborhood Night Out. Held annually on the first Tuesday in August, the national event encourages neighbors to venture out into their neighborhoods. Residents will be given the opportunity to interact and celebrate with neighbors in an effort to heighten awareness of crime and drug prevention, building stronger partnerships between the community and public safety officials. Join us for an evening of live music, entertainment, food and beverages. Neighborhood Night Out is a free event, so bring the whole family and enjoy the festivities. For more information, please call |
OK, so here it is. Boy this is kind of ironic really, and it sure cast a shadow on the event, but I shook it off and made good as was intended
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About a half hour later, about 6 sheriffs deputies showed up and using my binoculars I could seem them looking my way. Only one deputy came over, and more or less didn't have any problem with me attending a public event. I pretty much thought that anyway, but I am going to take this up with whomever is the saner people in the parks district
So the rest of the evening went pretty well. I passed out fliers to people on the street, as well as those in cars. Several people stopped and read the info on the trailer, and a few got into discussions with me. Many people took photos of the sign, and there was not the usual fascination with taking pictures of me. The band was pretty good! The closest thing to espanyol was a couple Carlos Santana tunes. I'll tell you one thing; There's a whole lot less spanish being heard there lately. There were up to four illegal vendors though. Not to worry...I know what to do ;) |
Fantastic job of interfacing with people that tried to intimidate you.
Its a good thing that you knew your rights. So you were not allowed to set foot on the park per the "director" but illegals go there to entertain themselves all the time. Lovely, just lovely. Great video AG I really enjoyed it.:):):) |
You do such great work! I'm sure you made more of an impact then you realize. Great Job!
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Interesting. You are a taxpayer, to my understanding, you help fund that park as well as that Parks District workers job. What right do they have to keep you off that property? Seems to me that there may have been a civil rights violation there. Not to mention the threat made by land whales on your person should you enter the park that you helped pay for.
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Yeah, I'd say that goon issued a threat. I'll be visiting the park and rec district soon. This isn't going to be dismissed easily....not by us anyway |
I don't know how you keep your cool and know your rights so well. I would say you won the battle in the park inspite of the park goons.
Congratulations! :):):) |
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So I've been writing a letter to the parks district, replete with condemnations of the action taken, the blatant discriminatory prohibition, and the threats of force associated with them. Before I head off to the attorney, I'm going to see if they are open to mitigation
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Just wanted to say I'm really amazed at those "public officials" attitudes. If I was in that job and I acted that way to someone in the public, I'd get in trouble for it. I would not have been nearly as nice because I feel strongly about my rights and I say don't tread on me. I would most likely have blown it by being rude. The "parks" woman who "didn't invite you" had a terrible attitude and the "cop" who said if we can't remove you we'll find someone who can, I would not handled that well. Where I worked ANY complaint from the public about rudeness or treating us poorly was taken very seriously.
Just watching that video made me angry. just my 2 cents If it comes to it and you'd like others to write letters to the Mayor's office or whatever, I'd be happy to (and have you review it before I send it). Oh and the DA's office has that email, and then they have a phone number, if you want help sending this info to those addresses let me know. I mean I could say "I saw it", and "thought you should see this". Sometimes if it's more than one person and the people are courteous, it makes a big difference. When it's one person it's easy to ignore. |
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