Eureka Police Go After Children

[UPDATE Below :: Local EPD officers too stupid to understand Municipal Code.]

The new police chief works to tighten the screws on his police state policies by attacking our bicycle riding youth.

On Tuesday, September 9, 2014, the Times-Standard headline reports: Chief peddles tougher bike laws - Transportation Safety Commission to hear proposed ordinance.

No riding bicycles on  any sidewalks and increase penalties for disobeying traffic laws while riding a bike is his idea for reducing accidents and to make it more manageable for the police to monitor bike riders. [Emphasis mine.] They might try monitoring stop sign compliance for motor vehicles first. Then when they show us that they can enforce existing laws, maybe there wouldn't be such an issue with bike riders safety.

When the EPD is unable to enforce existing traffic laws, something positive that WOULD reduce traffic accident, this effort is just another ruse to enforce the militarization of "stop and frisk" policing on our youth. The EPD operate right now without any legitimate authority to effect an arrest without first getting the individual to agree by surrendering. Couple that with the fact that they operate in a nearly total state of paranoia, where they are, most of the time, scared crapless.

Considering the danger the average person experiences in any encounter with the police, do you want your young children faced with these kinds of violent confrontations? And it is a violent confrontation when they can confiscate the childs bicycles for not doing what they are told. I don't see the benefit of treating grammar school children as criminals, other than assault their self-worth and legitimate individuality.

When I was a kid my parents lived in the country and came into Eureka once a month for shopping. We always visited my grandparents after they were finished with business. I was eight or nine years old when I found a bicycle in the basement. After that, I spent the rest of those afternoons exploring Eureka. I went everywhere and NEVER worried about doing something that would attract a police officer. I don't ever remember having a bad encounter with a motor vehicle or a pedestrian. That problem only occurred when I graduated to riding motorcycle. Even then I didn't worry that the CHP officer was a scared silly paranoid just jerking me around to make sure I knew my place like they regularly did to the Hell's Angels.

It's a sad day the Eureka Police Chief believes such laws are necessary for the betterment of the City of Eureka. We really need to leave the Islamic State and their way of thinking to their own devises where they originated.

Here are some pro's and con's on bike riding on sidewalks I found with the picture at the Bike to Work Blog.

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[UPDATE Saturday, September 13, 2014]
Apparently, one of those Tuluwaa crybabies attended Police Chief Andy Mills presentation (request) for new law at the Traffic Safety Committee. They have some very interesting and relevant observations, one in particular that caught my eye:

"In his presentation Mills went on to say that the Municipal Code was too complicated for patrol officers to memorize or understand, so the new law regarding outlawing all sidewalk bicycle riding was necessary." [Emphasis mine.]

 If what he said is true, then this is very serious and disturbing. If these cops are too stupid to understand the LAWS (code) they are enforcing then t hey are clearly unfit to be carrying a badge and packing a gun - licensed and authorized to kill civilians. The solution is clear, get rid of the stupid cops, which is probably the most safe and prudent solution, or simply the Municipal Code.

My question, however, is what about the children from 5 to 15? Are they, today, supposed to learn and understand the "Municipal Code" to legally ride bicycles in this city? Yet, I see fathers taking their 6 to 10 year old children out riding bikes, on sidewalks and off; right up the middle of the street in my neighborhood all the time. They are a danger to themselves and to the motor vehicles try to navigate by them.

It seems to me that if the Motor Vehicle Code and the City Municipal Code applies to all bike riders regardless of their age, then underage bike riders are legally prohibited from riding on city streets. What is next, licencing all bike riders whatever their age.

At least someone at the Tuluwat Examiner had the necessary gumption to attend Chief Mills presentation and report on it. Good job. Chief Andrew Mills, apparently in his own words, exposed the sickness infecting the Eureka Police Department. I'd say, once exposed, this sickness infects far more than just the EPD.

--Joe

Anarchy in Humbug County – WHY?

The reason is, the people have spoken!

This was never more illustrated today than by this latest sick maneuver by some CHP officer and our illustrious District Attorney to legitimize murder. Or is the word a "killing"? It amounts to the same thing. Someone died at the hands of another. But, what else could they do?

We're talking about the latest in the saga of Allen Bear's “accused hitting and killing a cyclist last summer.” His name was Gregory Jennings. Read the article and NOTE: First, it's “Hoopa driver,” then is “Hoopa man,” and next it's “accused,” and “a cyclist.” To continue it is “reporting officer,” and “officer's opinion,” and we finally find out who the “cyclist” is half way through the article. This is the “Thought Police” at their best. Dehumanize, depersonalize and neuter the issue to abstract object entities and worthless opinions that devalues life.

Everyone can blame the California Highway Patrol and Paul Gallegos the District Attorney. God knows, the share responsibility. My question is, will any of them stand accountable? Doesn't seem likely, but the answer is – they and their families are already paying that price right along with everyone else that 'takes their lives in their hands' and ventures out on any city street, county road or state highway. These lawless anarchist assault us all.

The laws governing how we conduct ourselves when driving a motor vehicle are worthless. Not because the police DON'T enforce them. Well, mostly don't enforce them – apparently only when convenient. The laws are worthless because MOST drivers refuse to comply. The DEFACTO reality determines the law. When 90% of drivers treat stop signs as if they are non-existent the majority voter has redefined the law governing stop signs either non-existent or something else. THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN!

How then does the courts, the District Attorney or any police officer hold anyone accountable for failure to stop, let alone resulting deaths? They can't and they don't.

Allison White reports in the Times-Standard that: “Gross negligence, as defined in California statute, is an act done with such careless disregard for the safety of others' lives that it is likely to cause foreseeable injury.” The problem is with anarchy, when the majority vote, in this instance that stop signs don't mean stop and drive, or vote them as something ornamental, THEY MEET THIS STANDARD. What about the driver that consistently runs the Safety Corridor between Eureka and Arcata at 60 plus MPH? When one or two cars race by at that speed other drivers speedup to follow. By the time you get to the 65 MPH sign approaching Arcata everyone one of them is going 70 plus MPH. Every driver that deliberately and purposely drives this way or drives 35 MPH or better in a 25 MPH speed zone, rolls through a stop sign without even slowing down or only noticeably reduces speed because the turn requires it, is GROSSLY NEGLIGENT!

The sad truth is many of these lawless people I observe, driving without regard for life or property, have vehicles full of young children. What do they think they are teaching their children? To be safe on the streets and watch out for people like themselves? Hardly! And those that don't have children in their cars racing around like lunatics, how many of their children are playing Russian Roulette with people just like them?

Is it because life has no value? These people are more important than everyone else? Laws are only for the old and the stupid? These drivers are basically right-wing bullies? Left-wing socialist, pinko commies? Illegal aliens and foreigners that are ignorant of the law? Or American Indians that are citizens of sovereign nations and are exempt? Regardless! Anarchy or people that drive like Allan Bear are a loaded gun or a bomb, ready to explode.

Every driver that races through a stop sign is a driver trying to hurt or kill some innocent person. It's a no man's land out there and everyone is on his own. When the elected and appointed authorities don't do what decent, law-abiding people that believe in our system justice and civil order put them their to do, people do what people do – they live! That means when they see someone deliberately run a red light or a stop sign or any other gross negligent act and kill an innocent pedestrian, bike rider or mother and small children on their way to school, they take matters into their own hands and make that person accountable – the ultimate expression of ANARCHY.

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--Joe

California's NEW Stop Law

Does STOP mean s t o p ?

Based upon my observations of an intersection containing two stop signs and one bad blind corner on the right that has no stop sign, in other words through traffic with the right of way, at the most 25% actually stop. All others blow through the intersection as if they had the absolute right of way, most never slow to 15 MPH. Some treat it as an open intersection without any stop signs, but most just keep on rolling.

What's my point? The general scofflaw public has ALREADY VOTED IN CALIFORNIA!

They've made stop signs yield signs and probably for the same reasons as bike riders, save on gas, energy, or no laudable reason for actually stopping. Now is several states their thinking about making rolling stops actually legal for bike riders. Here's good explanation of what their talking about doing, thanks to Green Wheels. Here's another good link and discussion on the bike legislation.

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So what's next? Build roundabouts where no one (mostly) pays any attention to "Yield" signs and slows to 15 MPH in major intersections? Turn all the traffic lights to flashing amber and call it a free for all? In a society where everyone (mostly everyone) thinks they're above the law it might save a few people from getting hurt or killed, in particular pedestrians, thinking the law will protect them. Considering the present state on our streets and highways where these highbinders rule, I'm not real sure any of these new laws protect bikers, old or young.

Of course, it isn't any wonder why people believe they can act above the law with impunity in this country. At one time not too long ago, this country executed criminals for crimes President George Bush and Barack Obama committed. Aside from that, the criminal bankers get rewarded while while the same bankers foreclose on thousands of families on a trumped up economic disaster they caused. Closer to home we've got classic examples of the "Law" protecting and defending the rights criminal killers. One was the poor fellow crossing the street by the North Coast Eureka Co-op and the other was Roger Rodoni just to name a couple. When was the last time you actually saw a police officer enforce a stop sign?

--Joe