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the months that make up the precious unrecoverable years of your life so that you
have something to show for it … A Life Well Lived.” – Steven D. Johann
To contribute, send me your story on the webpage Tell Me What YOU Think.
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Bias in Journalism:
Political Bias in Editorial Advertising, and Reporting – The Daily Post of Palo Alto
Political Bias in Editorial Advertising, and Reporting – The Daily Post of Palo Alto
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VICTORY
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DEFEAT OF THE PROPOSED
“HUMAN
HABITATION OF VEHICLES PROHIBITED” ORDINANCE!
Friday, January 6th, 2012, Peninsula Bible Church, Palo Alto:
Andy Burnham, Recovery Pastor of PBC on Middlefield Road has just informed me that in his recent contact with the City of Palo Alto, he was told that the proposed "Human Habitation of Vehicles Prohibited” ordinance has been – permanently shelved! Andy said that he was told that "There just wasn't enough support for it in the community.” I believe this fortunate event has happened this last Wednesday, as I was told, even though the reason for it would appear to be only a face-saving gesture. Tony Ciampi, a Palo Alto man who won a $35,000 settlement with the City in August 2011, on whom the Palo Alto Police used Tasers in March 2008, had sued in Federal Court for violation of his Civil Rights. He said in his e-mail below, just three weeks ago, that "Currently there is no ordinance before the City Council. It was to be enacted on July 25, 2011. We are in so-called negotiations with the City to come up with an alternative, however it is clear that the PAPD and city attorney's office are going to do whatever they need to do to move the vehicle dwellers out of town.”
Back in November 2008 Lt. Sandra Brown, retired just this last December, was working as the Head of Parking and Traffic in the Palo Alto Police Department. She and then Palo Alto Deputy City Attorney Donald Larkin, now Assistant City Attorney, met in November 2008 to craft a new ordinance that would prohibit overnight parking in ALL zones in the city. "I got four e-mails in the last two days. Members of the community don' know who's sleeping in these motor homes. There are issues with garbage, barbecues, noise and human waste.” said Brown. Doria Summa, a member of the College Terrace Residents Association's Parking Committee, said the ordinance is needed: "We want to be sensitive to people who have less and have difficulties in life. ... But this is not the standard of orderly neighborhood streets you expect in Palo Alto.” I agree with Doria!
Officer Brown said that she and Larkin would also be looking at other measures in addition to the proposed ordinance, such as putting in "No parking” and "No Mobile Home” signs in the commercial district south of Page Mill Road: "We're looking at what other cities do. Assuming the council wants to go forward with it, our goal is by the end of the year to have a decision as to whether it will go forward.”, said Donald Larkin then. What I've noticed coming out of this Police Department/City Attorney's meeting are cancerous tendrils of "NO PARKING 11 PM TO 5 AM EVERY DAY” signs going up all over this area, which is principally commercially zoned. And since campers, vans and motor homes are not allowed to park in or across the street from residential or utility zones due to an over-size vehicle ordinance, the last few remaining places in the City for People to go, where they won't bother residents, are now virtually gone! So this City has long been in the business of running the Homeless off of "their” streets, even before this, and then before this new Human Habitation of Vehicles Prohibited Ordinance was proposed! This City has done everything in it's power to make the lives of the Homeless a LIVING HELL!
All of this just goes to prove my point – that Palo Alto has been doing everything possible to rid itself of its Homeless, and absolutely nothing, in fact, less than nothing, to do the right thing and help them instead of hurting them!
“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.
With the realization of one’s own potential, and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.” – His Holiness, The 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet.
It's been said that "The road to HELL is paved with Good Intentions!” I think that this pattern of bad behavior by the City is living (or dying) proof of that! But then, "Downtown” Sandra Brown exclaims: "Palo Alto is the only city without a no-dwelling code in the vehicle ordinance.” And she's right! So Palo Alto is not alone in what I consider to be the unconscionable treatment of others who are temporarily or permanently so indisposed. And this is why, despite Palo Alto's recently doing the right thing and 86ing their discriminatory, persecutorial ordinance, I must continue to pursue Justice For The Homeless – With my three demands: That the City should renounce their proposed Ordinance, That they should seek and consider The Real Solution To The Homeless Problem from me, and that they should provide for those who cannot provide for themselves, either living in vehicles or in the bushes, a safe place to park their vehicles or to find shelter out of the elements, on City property. One has been rejected, one has been accepted, and one is to be decided.
Therefore I repeat my entreaty to You, my Dear Readers, and to All the Good People of Palo Alto to inveigh [vi to speak angrily in criticism of or protest at something.] with a righteous indignation the City's lack of compassion. Implore that this, Your City, will move to implement The Real Solution To The Homeless Problem, the Only Just Solution for both the Residents of the City, who deserve to have their streets clear of such a painful reminder of the sin of omission, as well as the Homeless Poor who so desperately need Your help! If You do not move them, with sufficient numbers that they will know the will of their People, by e-mailing to the lists below, I don't believe that this situation can be saved ... It's Too Expensive! It Costs Too Much! It's Too Difficult. Instead of harboring so many negative thoughts, why not dwell upon the hope of With God, ALL Things Are Possible?
Yours Truly, Steven D. Johann
Back in November 2008 Lt. Sandra Brown, retired just this last December, was working as the Head of Parking and Traffic in the Palo Alto Police Department. She and then Palo Alto Deputy City Attorney Donald Larkin, now Assistant City Attorney, met in November 2008 to craft a new ordinance that would prohibit overnight parking in ALL zones in the city. "I got four e-mails in the last two days. Members of the community don' know who's sleeping in these motor homes. There are issues with garbage, barbecues, noise and human waste.” said Brown. Doria Summa, a member of the College Terrace Residents Association's Parking Committee, said the ordinance is needed: "We want to be sensitive to people who have less and have difficulties in life. ... But this is not the standard of orderly neighborhood streets you expect in Palo Alto.” I agree with Doria!
Officer Brown said that she and Larkin would also be looking at other measures in addition to the proposed ordinance, such as putting in "No parking” and "No Mobile Home” signs in the commercial district south of Page Mill Road: "We're looking at what other cities do. Assuming the council wants to go forward with it, our goal is by the end of the year to have a decision as to whether it will go forward.”, said Donald Larkin then. What I've noticed coming out of this Police Department/City Attorney's meeting are cancerous tendrils of "NO PARKING 11 PM TO 5 AM EVERY DAY” signs going up all over this area, which is principally commercially zoned. And since campers, vans and motor homes are not allowed to park in or across the street from residential or utility zones due to an over-size vehicle ordinance, the last few remaining places in the City for People to go, where they won't bother residents, are now virtually gone! So this City has long been in the business of running the Homeless off of "their” streets, even before this, and then before this new Human Habitation of Vehicles Prohibited Ordinance was proposed! This City has done everything in it's power to make the lives of the Homeless a LIVING HELL!
All of this just goes to prove my point – that Palo Alto has been doing everything possible to rid itself of its Homeless, and absolutely nothing, in fact, less than nothing, to do the right thing and help them instead of hurting them!
“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.
With the realization of one’s own potential, and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.” – His Holiness, The 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet.
It's been said that "The road to HELL is paved with Good Intentions!” I think that this pattern of bad behavior by the City is living (or dying) proof of that! But then, "Downtown” Sandra Brown exclaims: "Palo Alto is the only city without a no-dwelling code in the vehicle ordinance.” And she's right! So Palo Alto is not alone in what I consider to be the unconscionable treatment of others who are temporarily or permanently so indisposed. And this is why, despite Palo Alto's recently doing the right thing and 86ing their discriminatory, persecutorial ordinance, I must continue to pursue Justice For The Homeless – With my three demands: That the City should renounce their proposed Ordinance, That they should seek and consider The Real Solution To The Homeless Problem from me, and that they should provide for those who cannot provide for themselves, either living in vehicles or in the bushes, a safe place to park their vehicles or to find shelter out of the elements, on City property. One has been rejected, one has been accepted, and one is to be decided.
Therefore I repeat my entreaty to You, my Dear Readers, and to All the Good People of Palo Alto to inveigh [vi to speak angrily in criticism of or protest at something.] with a righteous indignation the City's lack of compassion. Implore that this, Your City, will move to implement The Real Solution To The Homeless Problem, the Only Just Solution for both the Residents of the City, who deserve to have their streets clear of such a painful reminder of the sin of omission, as well as the Homeless Poor who so desperately need Your help! If You do not move them, with sufficient numbers that they will know the will of their People, by e-mailing to the lists below, I don't believe that this situation can be saved ... It's Too Expensive! It Costs Too Much! It's Too Difficult. Instead of harboring so many negative thoughts, why not dwell upon the hope of With God, ALL Things Are Possible?
Yours Truly, Steven D. Johann
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IT SEEMS TO ME that at Palo Alto's fork in the road, discussed below, if the People of Palo Alto could know where their Representatives decisions could lead them, even before these decision makers themselves know what they will do, or the consequences thereof, it would be of great value. For it is the People of Palo Alto who will have to bear the consequences of their leader's actions on their behalf. They need to know, in advance, if accession [n Agreement or consent, usually when given unwillingly.] to a better solution the The Homeless Problem serves their continuing interests better than simply banishing the Homeless from the streets of the City.
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a Julius Silver Professor of Politics, and Director of the Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy at New York University, as well as a Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He teaches Game Theory at New York University and Stanford using computer technology to try to predict events in the future. He proposes that science can, and should, replace crystal ball gazing and seat-of-the-pants guesstimates about what the future might hold for us. "... we have to recognize that small errors in decisions, small failures to work through logic and evidence carefully, can lead to disastrous consequences. ... What we have to think about is what would be a better resolution of a problem, and how can we bring other people around to that resolution. Can we help people see a better approach and produce a more peaceful world that's also a more just world?”
"What's really nice about this algorithm [n A rule of procedure for solving a mathematical problem.] is that thinking rigorously, and just thinking systematically, you often come up with predictions that are completely different from those that you would actually ... in your gut you think OH!, the right answer, we should do this. ... I don't know whether I'd want to call it saving ourselves from ourselves, but it really lets us detach our emotional, or our biases towards one set of behaviors being right, to what is the right behavior in this particular circumstance.” – Alastair Smith, Ph.D., New York University.
Dr. Bueno de Mesquita explains his theory thus, saying that "Game theory assumes people are rational. A lot of people misinterpret what that means. It really means something very simple. It just means people try to do what they believe is in their best interest. They can get it wrong, things can turn out badly for them. They make decisions based on their beliefs and their preferences.” In other words, Mr. Bueno de Mesquita has discovered what the Mafia, the Hells Angels, and other organized crime syndicates have known all along – That in order to enlist people's cooperation, people who ordinarily wouldn't even think of cooperating with you, simply Make Them An Offer That They Can't Refuse! Elegant (if sometimes brutal) and to the point, people do get the point: That in order to do what they believe is in their best interest, they must surrender their will to the other, regardless of how painful that may be, because It Is Less Painful than the alternative.
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a Julius Silver Professor of Politics, and Director of the Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy at New York University, as well as a Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He teaches Game Theory at New York University and Stanford using computer technology to try to predict events in the future. He proposes that science can, and should, replace crystal ball gazing and seat-of-the-pants guesstimates about what the future might hold for us. "... we have to recognize that small errors in decisions, small failures to work through logic and evidence carefully, can lead to disastrous consequences. ... What we have to think about is what would be a better resolution of a problem, and how can we bring other people around to that resolution. Can we help people see a better approach and produce a more peaceful world that's also a more just world?”
"What's really nice about this algorithm [n A rule of procedure for solving a mathematical problem.] is that thinking rigorously, and just thinking systematically, you often come up with predictions that are completely different from those that you would actually ... in your gut you think OH!, the right answer, we should do this. ... I don't know whether I'd want to call it saving ourselves from ourselves, but it really lets us detach our emotional, or our biases towards one set of behaviors being right, to what is the right behavior in this particular circumstance.” – Alastair Smith, Ph.D., New York University.
Dr. Bueno de Mesquita explains his theory thus, saying that "Game theory assumes people are rational. A lot of people misinterpret what that means. It really means something very simple. It just means people try to do what they believe is in their best interest. They can get it wrong, things can turn out badly for them. They make decisions based on their beliefs and their preferences.” In other words, Mr. Bueno de Mesquita has discovered what the Mafia, the Hells Angels, and other organized crime syndicates have known all along – That in order to enlist people's cooperation, people who ordinarily wouldn't even think of cooperating with you, simply Make Them An Offer That They Can't Refuse! Elegant (if sometimes brutal) and to the point, people do get the point: That in order to do what they believe is in their best interest, they must surrender their will to the other, regardless of how painful that may be, because It Is Less Painful than the alternative.
The Predictioneer’s Game: Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future –
Book by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
I've asked Dr. Bueno de Mesquita to use his proprietary algorithm to work out the destiny of the People of Palo Alto – What will happen to them if they choose the left fork in the road, and enact their anti-homeless ordinance; or if they choose the right fork in the road and enact a better alternative. This is the only way that this predictive program can be accessed, because it's only available to others who Bueno de Mesquita personally approves of: To students and faculty engaged in a bona-fide university course, for research, or to professional users – ONLY! Unfortunately, I've received the reply from Dr. Bueno de Mesquita that he doesn't have the time to assist us so ... HERE ARE MY PREDICTIONS:
Since Tony Ciampi's imploratory [adj To beg or plead earnestly with somebody to do something.] e-mail below to Palo Alto's Assistant City Attorney Donald Larkin, Assistant Police Chief Mark Venable, the entire City Council and other city officials and interested parties has been ignored – as well as his perennial [adj Persistent, enduring, constant.] efforts of over six months to negotiate a better solution with The City – my hopes are not high. He and others have even employed Michael Kasperzak, the Principal and Cheif Mediator of Dispute Resolution Specialists in Mountain View, to intercede! My e-mail reply to Tony and these others below has also been ignored:
t.ciampi@hotmail.com; molly.stump@cityofpaloalto.org;
donald.larkin@cityofpaloalto.org; james.keene@cityofpaloalto.org;
dennis.burns@cityofpaloalto.org; mark.venable@cityofpaloalto.org;
city.council@cityofpaloalto.org; hrc@cityofpaloalto.org; acluscv@hotmail.com; ahopper@aclunc.org; kevans@aclunc.org;
homeless@americanbar.org; humanrights@americanbar.org;
minorities@americanbar.org; mike.honda@mail.house.gov
Since it's been over two weeks since my e-mail reply to Tony et al on December 18th, I'd like to propose The Solution To The Homeless Problem here, since it hasn't been requested of me by anyone with the City as I had asked of them in my e-mail below: "If my advice is not sought and not considered, and this ordinance is passed, I will seek All legal means to bring justice to a very unjust situation for myself, and, all the other victims of Palo Alto's Heavy Handedness. And I now have the resources to wage proper legal warfare against Palo Alto's class warfare, even if it isn't taken up by a federal, state, or private agency!”
I considered this to be An Offer They Couldn't Refuse to acknowledge, however, because of the temerity [n Shameless, insolent disregard of propriety or courtesy.] the City has shown in ignoring my communication on such an important matter, I consider their lack of response to be a positive refusal to even consider any alternative to their inexorable [adj Not to be persuaded or moved by entreaty.] bullheadedness! What can I do? Well, I must now follow up on my threat, that is unless You, my Dear Palo Altan's, intercede! What is obvious to me is that your Representatives enmity [n Hatred and aversion, usually deriving from fear, anger, or a sense of injury.] towards the Homeless expresses absolutely no respect for these, God's People. What can You do? Plenty! Just as your city leaders are only doing what they've been asked by your most vocal citizen's in their ad hominem [adj Appealing to a person's feelings or prejudices rather than to their intellect.] appeals to rid the City of these unsanitary, unsightly, disruptive people who stink up their neighborhoods, so will they respond to the will of the majority ... If they object! So e-mail all those listed here above and below and let Your Voice be heard above those who cry for blood – the cries of which are heard on the streets of Palo Alto!
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So what's the only real alternative to driving so many off of their streets and out of their city, even as disgraced lesbian Chief of Police Lynne Johnson did to me as I've noted in my e-mail below? Let me extend your vision to the obvious: This city has a literal wealth of real property, all the way up to Skyline Drive! Why not allow the vehicle dwellers to park at nearby Foothills Park, just up Page Mill Road west of Highway 280 where currently only those who own or rent property in Palo Alto are allowed to visit? Talk about arrogance and snobbish elitism! Sure this would require extra policing and services, but space in the parking lot is already there, as well as sanitary facilities. While you're at it, how about putting up refugee-type shelters there upon those expansive spaces for those not fortunate enough to even have a vehicle! Provide, along with the churches, food and necessary supplies. Provide physical and mental health services, and retraining to rejoin the workforce as productive citizens for those who are able. Hasn't this win-win solution occurred to any of you?!
Now you may be wondering, what could be the consequences of our other alternative, to run the poor and afflicted out of the City and into our neighbor's back yards? After all, people have to go somewhere! Instead of being a model city for the Bay Area, and the Nation, demonstrating the compassion of how a humane people take care of their own – and even those coming from other, less friendly cities – I will personally hold the City and People of Palo Alto up to the entire Nation as Pariahs; as a people who are despised and avoided, just as you've made Pariahs out of all those so handicapped! In my own experience, All propertied residents of Palo Alto have contributed to this castigation [n To criticize or rebuke somebody or somebody's behavior severely.], either directly or indirectly: "To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.” – Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
I aver [vt To declare positively.] in all fealty [n Faithfulness: Loyalty or allegiance shown to anyone.] to my Creator that I will follow the failure of a positive resolution of this crucial matter with a Class-Action Homeless-Harassment Lawsuit in the Amount of Thirty-Three Million Dollars. Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum.” [L If You Wish For Peace, Prepare For War.] Perhaps Now I've gotten everyone's attention – but this probably includes some of the wrong kind of attention, so I take comfort in God saying "... I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. ... So that we may boldly say, the Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.” – Hebrews 13:5,6. Actually, this City has already done so much to me, much that isn't even in my e-mail below, that I'm inured [vb To make somebody used to something unpleasant over a period of time, so that he or she no longer is bothered or upset by it.] to it! Personally, it's OK with me if the People of Palo Alto want to do this either way,
Because ... It Will Be Either The HARD Way, Or, The EASY Way!
Nevertheless, even though this would seem to be an Offer That Cannot Be Refused, MY PREDICTION IS that you won't be able to mount a collective counter to the momentum of iniquity [n Gross injustice, wickedness, sin.] that is, and has been, forging ahead like a steam roller – Over Our Breaking Backs! If you believe that you still have a tie with your conscience, then Prove Me Wrong!
Yours Truly, Steven D. Johann
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"An apocalypse always involves destruction and rebirth. The nature of spirit always is, is that we're free to affect it. We're free to change it. We're free to have it happen in a completely different way than we thought it would happen. Destruction could mean the destruction of the planet. Destruction could also mean the destruction of the old ideas, of the old systems of exploitation, of the old systems of greed, that allows for a rebirth. Destruction and rebirth. But what will destruction mean?
That is up to us.” – Marc Gafni, Ph.D., Philosopher and Author
That is up to us.” – Marc Gafni, Ph.D., Philosopher and Author
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Let Us Consider the Less Fortunate Who Live Lives of Poverty, Disease, and a Living Death
... At the Hands of Our Cities!
... At the Hands of Our Cities!
Palo Alto is at a fork in the road and, as Yogi Berra the baseball legend would say, "When you come to a fork in the road ... Take it!" Only the City is just as unclear as to the right direction to take as Yogi was! The choice confronting Palo Alto is whether to banish the homeless off of the streets and out of "their" city, or to try a more humane solution that is respectful of their persons as well as their rights. Some residents of the City find that people living out of their vehicles on the street to be a nuisance, and this concern is a legitimate one. However, the solution to drive them out of the City, to who-knows-where, is not! According to Tony Ciampi the Human Habitation of Vehicles Prohibited ordinance below was to be enacted in Palo Alto on July 25th, 2011. However, he and others have been negotiating with the City since then, with the help of a professional mediator, to come up with an alternative plan to making it unlawful for people to live out of their vehicles – albeit unsuccessfully. He says "... it is clear that the Palo Alto Police Department and City Attorney's Office are going to do whatever they need to do to move the vehicle dwellers out of town." This is a direct attack upon the Homeless who are fortunate enough to still have a vehicle to live out of! Talk about imposing a Living Death [n Life emptied of joys and satisfactions.] upon, who else but, God's People!
View Tony Ciampi's e-mail copy to me on December 16th, 2011 about the status of Palo Alto's Vehicle Habitation Ordinance. View my reply to Tony on December 18th, 2011 to city officials and interested parties, Re: Palo Alto's Vehicle Habitation Ordinance.
Proposed Ordinance 9.06.010, Human Habitation of Vehicles Prohibited, City of Palo Alto, CA
(a) It is unlawful for any person to use, occupy or permit the use or occupancy of any vehicle for human habitation on or in any street, park, alley, public parking lot or other public way. For purposes of this section, “human habitation” means the use of a vehicle for a dwelling place and does not include temporary use of a vehicle for alleviation of sickness or physical inability to operate the vehicle.
(b) The following uses are exempt from the provisions of this section:
(b) The following uses are exempt from the provisions of this section:
(1) Any mobile living unit used for human habitation allowed by another provision of this code or required procedure of the city;
(2) Guests of city residents for up to forty-eight consecutive hours when parked adjacent to the resident’s dwelling.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Comments on What is Reality, a ScienceHD TV Documentary, by Steven D. Johann
Stephen Hawking’s revelation was that Black Holes, instead of lasting forever as everyone thought, eventually disappear, leaving no trace of anything, including something physicists consider a fundamental part of reality – information. Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Seth Lloyd says that “The fact that information is conserved in ordinary physics is at the very basis of physical law.” Today, information is as important as matter and energy in reality. Everything physical contains information. It’s the description of what something is: Its color, its mass, its location. Crucially, like energy, information can never be destroyed! Some theories of physicists are obviously true via empirical evidence, and some, via that same human intellect, are absurd even though widely accepted as true by the entire physical science community. How so?
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Searching For Mysteries Without Any Clues, by Steven D. Johann
Which is the predicament of Human Beings who don't understand Who They Are, or Where They Come From, trying to understand What Their Environment Is, and Where Their Environment Came From. Our Environment is, of course, this world and the universe that it’s part of. The premise here is obviously its own answer: If you fundamentally do not understand even yourself how, pray tell, can you possibly understand anything else, even with the assistance of external means of detection and measurement. A tool is only an extension of one’s consciousness ...
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