in response to questions about racism (well even though its the 21st century, I guess they were inevitable)

sorry I wasn't clear, its not racist, all though its the same thing really, its just generally discriminate, -because the law says to bust people who don't have cars in public parking lots (public property) and unconstitutional laws are not entirely enforceable, so instead they discriminate who to enforce these laws on.

This is the 21st century, it doesn't make sense to single out "black" skinned people over another. Irish have always been just as big a problem to the police as blacks as far back as america was an empire... and irish aren't the only ones either...

This is sort of one of those "socks are niggers too" arguments. in this day and age anyone not intimately involved with babylon is a "nigger" Germans, Micks, the whole slew...

There used to be a saying "Irish would do for a nickel what a Nigger would do for a dime what a white man would do for a quarter." -and if it weren't for the fact that the irish stayed together and took over the police forces in Chicago, new york and san Francisco, things might have stayed that way even longer. Although Right about that time came the industrial movement and the age of McCarthyism and communist witch trials

The Communist witch trials were a ground breaking achievement for those who maintained order because it allowed for a broader, more abstract evil, akin to todays "terrorism" -a general term which would include any number of people.


They couldn't care less if you think you're superior to another race, because you're not, and they've made sure by protecting the social hierarchy. The people who run things have been around long enough to understand how community works and how individualism works and how to bate them against each other.

Jim Crow Laws were originally against blacks to the great extent this is true, but they were a lot more broad even then, being used to trap men without jobs (black or white) into indentured prison labor. Loitering laws, etc.

Segregation Laws as specific as mentioning skin color have been dismissed in the last 50 years, but there is no way to stop a police officer from discriminating on colour, or economic/social stature. and anyway segregation laws weren't always called jim crow laws, they sort of bled together. separate but equal had its own slew of federal and state defacto regulations long before the war or northern aggression (civil war)

Now a days most laws exist as a back-end to avoiding habeas corpus for the police. Without charges they cannot bust you, but if you broke some local ordinance, -say loitering or sleeping at night (sleeping banned here too) -or a multitude of there 21st century jim crow laws, they can do whatever they want and you're not likely to stop them, even once you get to court....

These laws are designed to control and maintain social order. To push homeless, minorities, street folks and troubadours around...

an infraction does not require the state to supply you with a lawyer, making it impossible or very hard for most to fight back. -this way homeless and troubadours have to either surrender to the extortion or leave town under a warrant.

It's the modern jim crow laws to control the streets of the town.

it's not particularly aimed at ex black slaves, because we have moved pass that slightly (it is the 21st century), in the sense that there are plenty of other people who the police want to get rid of.

This isn't a racist law, its a discriminate world. I've met many a street troubadour white and even rather young. and while many people in this town are white as snow, it doesn't matter because the law allows for them to bust whoever they want, I'm sure they'd take that over the ability to round up just one group of people.

But this is a great thing to remember:

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a Jew.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.