Trying to make a living.

[WileEcoyote]

Way it's going it will soon be illegal to breath without paying some kind of license fee.

There are hidden taxes to everything we do too. Those that own property generally don't have these kinds of "taxes". From minor to major matters poor folk get hit with all kinds of taxing matters.

Take your car (if you have one). If you don't own a private driveway and can't afford to rent a garage you will likely have to park your car on a public street. Where else you going to put it? That being so you must move your car regularly to avoid various citations. Things like street cleaning to so-called "quality of life crimes". If someone doesn't like your faded blue 1990 Chevy with the crumpled rear fender? They may call the cops and have it towed if your car stays in front of their property for more than 3 days.

Their "property" being devalued by your car. A car probably necessary for you to make a living with. If you have a job that is. Why is the homeowner bitching about your homely little Chevy? Keeps his own car in his driveway and wonders why you have to park near his house.

Answer: Not everyone owns a driveway...

In my neighborhood the population density is so high that there just aren't enough parking spaces for the cars belonging to those who live here. Over recent years landlords and "property" owners have built many illegal living space units. This has caused an increase in the car owning population. So many cars are here in fact that the streets get filled to the brim if you can't find parking before 3pm. Most of us in the service and other trades are still at work then. Again, if we have jobs that is. What this means is that you may have to park nearly a mile away from where you live in order to park your car at night. Fights erupt over parking spaces.

Ever work late at night and wake up late the next morning from exhaustion? Whoops you forgot about the street cleaning. Big ticket on your car because you were too tired to move it the night before.

Ever wonder why people have gotten shot OVER PARKING SPACES? Well now you know the reason.

Other "crimes":

Tax collections have gone down in municipalities throughout Amerika. Huge bureaucracies formerly well funded are going broke. All caused by sagging home sales taxes and formerly good earning property owners no longer able to pay their taxes. Not that the government isn't fighting back. Unsatisfied with war booty swag received through drug related arrests and convictions (illegal search and seizure) the authorities are now turning to law enforcement to become their newest collection agency.

Cops have always been in the collection agency business to some degree. However recent developments have turned your local cops into deputies of the "Sheriff of Nottingham".

For instance. We've long known that cops can demand proof of liability insurance from any driver at any time. Heck Cops can demand ID from anyone at anytime too. Or at least they try to and often do. If you are struggling to make ends meet you may have had to let your automobile insurance lapse. Was that your fault? No, stop blaming yourself.

The auto insurance agencies pushed through all the compulsory insurances laws and it has become a HUGE windfall for them. If you're in the service trades? You gotta drive. No two ways about it. So through insurance industry lobbying and perks to elected leaders your local governing body quickly learned that busting non insured drivers was a huge windfall.

If they put YOU out of business what do they care? They've already got your car now through illegal search, seizure and sale. Business is booming.




"High tech ghettos". A term coined by the late Edward Abbey. Ed was describing where the U.S.A was back then and he died 21 years ago!

Cops now have at their hands some intriguing technology. The infrared license plate scanner. Police can be eating doughnuts at the coffee shop and still get hits on all license plates in the parking lot or street. At about 30 grand each they have become the newest collection tool for municipal governments hungry for more "revenue". Revenue: Translation: "Blood".



Mayors, police chiefs, and other associated thugs will tell you how wonderful these cameras are. That they have caught car thieves, child abductors and various other criminals. And to a small extent i guess this is true. Overall though this is a BALD FACED LIE.

Infrared camera scanners are deployed mostly in or near government projects or areas where poor people and "quality of life crimes" can be expected to be found. Why?

Same reason thieves rob banks. It's where the money is! When the municipal government confiscates a car they either make the owner pay through the nose to get his vehicle back or they sell it at auction. Either way the town wins and the poor painter, carpenter, or domestic worker loses.

And when he can't pay? Loses his car. Cops know that poor people put up far less resistance in the court room. Can't afford good attorneys. This is why poor folk get victimized by the parasitical arm of government: Easy pickins...

Think that this doesn't happen? That cops are only looking for the bad guys? Guess again. Only place I've seen cops use these infrared scanners is in poor neighborhoods. One town, Daly City, CA (biggest bunch of crooks in Northern CA) uses infrared scanners on residents of San Francisco. A completely different county! What they do is station a scanner near a poorer area of San Francisco that is RIGHT ON THE BORDER OF DALY CITY. When the inevitable 1988 Nissan with lapsed insurance drives by they nail him.

More than that however is that Daly City cops know they will find a few more petty dope users in the process of their vehicle seizures. Now this becomes a "two fer". Or two for the price of one. Seized car to be sold at auction and another incarcerated victim of the "War on drugs".


Last autumn the Daly City police confiscated my own vehicle. Put me out of business. My crime? Trying to make a living. Next thing you know they will charge for air. The "breath tax".


Only property owners will be exempt from the breath tax...

One more time, keep clear. Big Brother is watching. This dog bites:




Post Script: Yesterday on my way through some public housing projects and poorer private homes in San Francisco I observed yet ANOTHER traveling cop car with infrared scanners. He was checking every single parked car. But not in the wealthy areas. Only the poor.