I'm sorry my children.  Before you were born I marched in the street and felt the sting of tear gas because my country was killing peasants in SE Asia and soldiers came home with their heads sooo screwed up.

Then I got busy living my life assuming our country was headed forward. Boy, was I wrong.  The activism of the 70's became the disco 80's where glitz and wealth was worshipped.  The 90's gave us Slick Willy who did a few good things but he caved on financial deregulation and that has led us to where we are now.  Sure, Bush is and was an idiot coached by warmongers who drove us deep into debt and even deeper into the collective disrespect of just about every other country on the planet.  But the real damage was done when these financial companies were allowed to invent artificial investment products with no value that were leveraged in geometric progressions - with brokers and dealers and inside traders skimming off billions.

And this says nothing about the absurdly exorbitant salaries and bonuses paid out to those whose occupation is to rape the rest of us.

For me....no longer young...except at heart, it is time to rebel, to rise up, to raise awareness.  It is time for demonstration again...and civil disobedience if necessary.  It is our right.  It is our responsibility.

Ignorance is the strongest tool the opposition has.  This is what we must defeat.  It will take a long time, it will try our patience.  But we must continue.

See you at City Hall tomorrow

We once were the Great Society.  We cared about the widow down the street who needed assistance to feed her children.  We cared about the elderly man who could not afford to see the doctor.  Out of this caring came action that resulted in programs like Social Security, Medicare, etc.  Programs for people, not for profit.

This caring was reflected even in the political process and financial institutions.  Maybe there never was a real bank like Bailey Building and Loan ("It's A Wonderful Life") but that idealized image was based in some reality.

We were once the Great Society.

Then, somewhere along the way, caring gave way to greed and consumerism and "we" was lost to "me, me, me."  This was, and is, only to the great advantage of the big multi-nationals.  Because when we are each alone, we are so much easier to manipulate, control...and subjugate.

Now we have started to remember that "we" are the 99%.  Now we have again begun to care.  This is the first wonderful step toward taking back our power and starting our journey to a new Great Society.

IF GOVERNMENT WOULD STAND BY THE CONSTITUTION THEN WE WOULDN’T BE IN THIS MESS, BUT INSTEAD THEY TAKE BRIBES / CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS AND THEY EITHER GIVE HUGE BAILOUTS OR THEY GRANT RETRO ACTIVE IMMUNITY FROM PROSECUTION,

HISTORY OF RETRO ACTIVE IMMUNITY IN THE UNITED STATES

1. given for unconstitutional use of torture

2. given for illegal merger of banks (we can see the effects of that now)

3. given to telecom company for illegal wire taps. (Fisa bill that led to the patriot act)

4. given to Judges for taking bribes. (SBX211)

SBX211 Retro Active Immunity given to California judges for openly taking bribes. Judges are employees of the state they receive their pay and benefits from the state. The Los Angeles Superior court judges are currently receiving an additional $57.688,00 from the county of Los Angeles. there is no bigger user of the court than L.A. County.(A party to the case and has a financial interest in most cases in the courts) Those payments were found to be unconstitutional / illegal in Sturgeon vs L.A. County. After that decision the judges paid a lobbyist to pass SBX211 ( RETRO ACTIVE IMMUNITY )

SBX211 does not restore due process

SBX211 violates Article 1 section 9

SBX211 violates the 14th amendment (no equal protections)

SBX211 violate checks and balances between legislative and Judicial powers.

Judges do not disclose the county payments at the onset of any trial where the county is either a party to the case or has a financial interest. (Judges violate Judicial codes of ethics)

Judges refuse to recuse themselves when requested under CCP170

Judges find themselves unbiased and then file an order striking statement.

In the year of 2010 alone $57,688.00 per year per judge X 460 judges = $26,709,544.00 paid to judges from L.A. County from tax payer money to only have the judges rule against the tax payer in favor of L.A. County or the County's interest. THE BRIBES WORK. Not only do judges get paid a state salary of $178,789.00 a year with medical and retirement benefits up to 75% of their salary, with the county payments the Los Angeles Superior court judges are the highest paid judges in the nation.

SBX211 is evidence of conspiracy of the California legislative branch of government to cover up the multiple felony's committed by the Judicial branch of government. By an act of Legislation, California's judicial branch has admitted to be corrupt.

SECTION FROM SBX211

This bill would provide that no governmental entity, or officer or employee of a governmental entity, shall incur any liability or be subject to prosecution or disciplinary action because of benefits provided to a judge under the official action of a governmental entity prior to the effective date of this bill on the ground that those benefits were not authorized under law.