Save Our State At National Night Out

tim55 · #1 08-04-2010, 07:09 AM

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.

Ayatollahgondola · #2 08-04-2010, 07:58 AM

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Originally Posted by tim55

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.

I have stopped placing emphasis on being a taxpayer and having that be my justification for being able to enjoy my freedoms. I'm a US, California, and Sac County legal citizen. That's my ticket to freedom here. Base it on being a taxpayer and you are lumped in with all the foreigners and illegals. They pay taxes too they say.
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

Rim05 · #3 08-04-2010, 09:23 AM

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!

Ayatollahgondola · #4 08-04-2010, 09:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Rim05

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!

Well, I think I did lose my cool a little. A cooler head might have let them implicate themselves a little more. Sometimes my charitable nature is prone to helping stop some ignoramus from costing my public services money we can't afford in spite of my own damages.

Ayatollahgondola · #5 08-04-2010, 08:11 PM

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

george_haydukke · #6 08-07-2010, 02:57 PM

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.