Longtime local political activist and social critic Steven Argue describes the history of the police, the FBI and the mafia working together to delegitimize, to assassinate and to abuse their powers under color of law to harm political activists. He mentioned the Los Angeles Police Department's (LAPD's) Rampart Division where they planted drugs on suspects. The Santa Cruz Police Department (SCPD) is connected to the LAPD through its predictive policing system and PredPol.com. Argue describes police torture in Chicago, wholesale fabrication of witness testimony in Philadelphia which produced a mass indictment of police officers who were planting evidence on people, brutalizing them and abusing their powers with the collusion of the FBI and the mafia in both Boston and Philadelphia. He describes how the courts threw out hundreds of convictions but refuse to throw out the conviction of Mumia Abu-Jamal. Argue claims was Mumia Abu–Jamal's case was another framing but is too high profile to drop, so Jamal unlawfully remains in prison for the rest of his life. The fundamental sticking point in all these abuses was the police, the FBI and their criminal colluders were neve held accountable. He believes the SCPD has also used criminals which validates my experience at the Mission Gardens Section 8 Apartments where Carl Reimer was murdered. Argue describes the nature of the political system: Democratic fascism, a dictatorship of the wealthy, with many small coups, where there is a cycling between Republicans and Democrats but no real change. We both agree the electoral process is a sham, a mere veneer of democracy. Obama campaigned on hope yet sold out his supporters, disillusioning the working class, bringing in Republicans who promise change, but who do similar and even worse things. Argue says Revolutionary Socialism predicts all this. Then Take Back Santa Cruz (TBSC) member Aaron Whiting interrupted us with by video recording the HUFF protest from a white truck with a shell (accompanied by his daughter). Caught on video, Whiting waved to us, showing how blatant TBSC stalking and harassment of political activists is — later his fellow TBSC members like Tom M. Cunniff of Aptos (whose girlfriend is Santa Cruz Sheriff's Probation Officre Julie Feldman) made (death) threats against me on December 20th, 2014 but the SCPD refuses to protect me nor to investigate TBSC. City Attorney John Barisone refuses to provide me a written explanation about the SCPD refusal to protect and serve me, while Mayor Don Lane refuses to allow my sister to read my letters at City Council (abusing his authority under color of law to silence me, to deny me the ability to petition my government for a redress of grievances and segregating me based upon my disabilities). Argue described the switch between Democrats and Republicans as "good cop–bad cop", a game ultra-wealthy Capitalists — who represent the corporate state — use to control the populace. Describing Ferguson, Argue describes how police officers of color don't change anything. He describes how Obama is attempting to funnel the righteous anger of the people about Ferguson into useless measures like body cameras. Argue describes the military connection with Ferguson style police abuse because many police officers were trained to brutalize people in the military where they were also never had accountable for their (war) crimes, like we saw in Abu–Ghraib, acting in a culture of impunity, just like the police. He says police officers — like soldiers — are promoted when they commit crimes and brutalize people. Consistently these officers get away with murder. He explains the function of the police is not to protect and serve the public but to protect and serve the interests of wealthy Capitalists. We are seeing a continuing mass coverup although important witnesses are being murdered. Argue has information about the SCPD working with criminal elements which I can confirm happens at the Mission Gardens Apartments. Argue has been a target of police violence: he was falsely arrested and beaten up. He warned me (presciently) that I'm in danger, not knowing that TBSC in concert with the SCPD would threaten to kill me.

• published: 12 Jan 2015
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