Woodlawn!


This past Monday was a very frustrating night. Stop Chicago (@StopChicago), Occupy Chicago (@OccupyChicago) and the Coalition for the Woodlawn Clinic (#SaveOurClinics) were raided again. This may not be a big story worldwide, but it should be.

Woodlawn

The WoodLawn Mental Health Clinic (6337 S. Woodlawn, Chicago, IL) is one of six clinics which Rahm Emanuel says the city can no longer afford. Mind you he is saying this at the same time he is spending millions on security, and other party favors, for the Western Military leaders of NATO. The City of Chicago cannot afford to care for its citizens, but it can afford to put on a bash to showcase Chicago to the Military Industrial Complex. We’ve obviously gone from the “Guns and Butter” economy of the 1960s, to Guns, Guns, and more Guns. The money for health care is obviously there. Rahm (and company) are spending it elsewhere.

For approximately three weeks (starting on April 12, 2012) now there has been a presence of protestors at the vacant lot across the street from the Clinic. It is a small lot. It is not even big enough for a McDonald’s with a drive through. It might accommodate a two bedroom shotgun shack with a dog run if it were ever developed. Initially, the supposed owner gave the protestors permission to occupy the land. This past Monday The City decided that the ownership, and permission, were questionable, and raided the property confiscated tents, and arrested ten people for trespassing. This is utterly absurd.

The lot is private property. It is not city property. The police have no right whatsoever to come on the property and arrest anyone for anything, let alone trespassing. The city doesn’t even know who actually owns the lot. However, Rahm’s Wehrmacht were ordered to take the tents and the good Chicago Troopers were just doing what they were told, No court in the United States of America has ruled this unconstitutional?
 
Amendment Four 

The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States reads:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

To put it succinctly, once the protestors gained (in good faith) permission by the owner on record of the property to use the property, then they and their positions are protected. Any dispute to ownership thereafter is to be settled by the courts and not Rahm and his storm troopers. Putting up a tent, and sleeping on it overnight in the cold does not constitute probably cause for any police action. To say otherwise is utterly ridiculous. Those who excuse such actions in this growing police state are doing so only because they are afraid of the consequences of addressing what is happening in the United States of America. The raid was clearly, and blatantly illegal.   
   
The Occupation is Not Leaving

I was able, due to a donation by a fellow Occupier, to make it to the lot yesterday. I am happy to report that the Occupation is still there. They are sleeping in cars, van, and in the open in opposition to Rahm’s plans to close the clinics. Being there at a participant and not an observer, I decided to put the camera aside. John, better known on Twitter as @Rebelutionary_Z, was holding a Live Stream twitter teach-in. It was my pleasure to participate in the instruction.  



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There is some noise of Rahm making concession to keep the clinics open. How reasonable those concessions are up for debate. One thing is very clear, the people of Chicago are not going to roll over and allow Rahm and his select men to gentrify the entire City of Chicago.
  
Mayday 

There are plans for more boots on the ground in Chicago. As if the Chicago Police Department, Rahm’s Wehrmacht and the Illinois National Guard are not enough. The Secret Service is cordoning off federally held public space in advance of NATO party in Chicago. While NATO will be celebrating in the city from May 20th to the 21st, the brothel loving Secret Service is taking to the ground, in full riot gear, starting tomorrow (April 30, 2012)

This is nothing more than the current security state’s response to the MayDay march scheduled for May First. It is intimidation at all costs to keep the people down while the once great United States of America crumbles in its own criminal misadventures. The reason we are paying for guns and not health care is that the criminals in charge know their days are numbered.

Frightened by the torture that she experiences, they will stand far away and cry out, "How terrible, how terrible it is for that great city, the powerful city Babylon, because your judgment arrived in a single hour!" (Revelation 18:10)


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