Anarchic Tendencies

[Updated] Santa Cruz “IndyBay”: No need for truth when you have an agenda

Update: Note that my redacted post has been returned to the comments @ Santa Cruz IndyBay. The provoking comment however has not re-appeared. I do not recall that it was trolling in any significant way. If it WAS the commenter left themselves wide open for a rational response and I still feel my work was left without context.

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I just spent quite a few minutes responding to a question at IndyBay Santa Cruz regarding the local property crime rate, just to find the rather pointed, but NOT OFF-TOPIC or rude comment gone, my response without context, and in the process a GRAVE DIS-SERVICE to understanding the issues at hand regarding the allegations of “Hysteria” in this community about public safety has been done.

The so-called “Moderators” at IndyBay Santa Cruz constrain the ability of commenters who respond to those legitimate if ‘loaded’ questions when they remove the provoking comment.

I’d like the moderator at Santa Cruz IndyBay to write one coherent sentence explaining their reason for causing me to waste my time, but they never respond, except by removing the request for response. I suspect they’re either illiterate, or ignorant.

The post I was responding to WASN’T troll bait.

It WASN’T Off-topic.

There IS a reasonable response that WOULD educate the community.

So what WAS the problem with the post I was responding to?

It wasn’t on their agenda.

I wrote, in response to the “rather pointed but NOT OFF-TOPIC or rude comment” questioning why Santa Cruz California has an allegedly “soaring” “Property Crime” rate:

Because property crime IS ALWAYS HIGHER in areas where the AFFLUENCE IS HIGHER.

Want to fix that? Get the jackasses called county supervisors and city council(ors) crackin’ on PLANNING for a NORMAL COMMUNITY with a broad spectrum of incomes, housing and jobs affordable to the people who actually live here… ESPECIALLY the kids.

After all, they’re the ones who commit most of the property crimes that spike the charts, like shoplifting, burglary and theft.

Further, on that “Housing Thing”, the latest housing development downtown, “Walnut Commons” has been advertised as ‘co-housing’ for middle class families… You know. Central kitchen and all that folksy communal type stuff delayed-gratification yuppies like to talk about but never actually live.

What middle class family with kids would actually live in that situation?

None.

The project is based on a LIE like all other housing developments purported to be for local people around here (The old ice plant… the slum behind the town clock etc), it gets turned into transient office worker or college student housing because all the workers here couch surf or live with eight other people to make the rent and still have money for food and transportation.

However it will be VERY attractive to people from out of state on contract to Deloitte Touche or somesuch who will rent the CruzIo cubies and have (I can see the ad in the back of the NY Times Sunday magazine now) ‘housing footsteps away from where you work just minutes from Sea and Trees’.

How about a deal like THAT for New Leaf’s baggers, CVS shelf stockers, and other SERIOUSLY UNDERPAID in relation to cost-of-living local workers?

But Nooooo. So you end up with a gentrified affluent ‘community’ with an allegedly soaring property crime rate, and the truth of the matter is the property crime rate has always been astronomical around here but until quite recently there weren’t freakzoids like TBSC reporting every rock kicked on their lawn, nor 1st Alarm guards who are a generators of mostly marginal-from-a-legal-perspective or bogus reports that, in the process, ensure their continued $15.00 an hour employment.

It simply make the problem worse draining $80,000 dollars a year from the city treasury for EACH PATROL (and aside from multiple ‘guards’ downtown, EVERY PARK IN SANTA CRUZ has a ‘watchman’ now) while everyone else suffers from that diversion of funds that could be put to much better uses as housing and job development funding.

So stop whining and enjoy your police state. I’m SURE that’s the option you chose so STFU.

References: Western Criminology Review 7(3), 7–26 (2006): The Distribution of Property Crime and Police Arrest Rates across Los Angeles Neighborhoods http://wcr.sonoma.edu/v07n3/07.davis/davis.pdf

http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20110927/upper-east-side/east-west-harlem-safer-for-property-crime-than-ues-soho?r=

http://economics.fundamentalfinance.com/povertycrime.php

MayDay IS Coming And They WANT The Servers… RiseUp Collective Server Seizure, April 2012

MayDay IS coming, as surely as the Earth turns, no matter what they steal.

RiseUp Collective Server Seizure, April 2012

On Wednesday, April 18, at approximately 16:00 Eastern Time, U.S. Federal authorities removed a server from a colocation facility shared by Riseup Networks and May First/People Link in New York City. The seized server was operated by the European Counter Network (“ECN”), the oldest independent internet service provider in Europe,

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Anonymous remailers are used to send email anonymously, or pseudonymously. Like other anonymizing services such as the Tor network, these remailers are widely used to protect the identity of human rights activists who place themselves and their families in grave danger by reporting information about abuses. Remailers are also important for corporate whistle blowers, democracy activists working under repressive regimes, and others to communicate vital information that would otherwise go un-reported.

On Wednesday, April 18, at approximately 16:00 Eastern Time, U.S. Federal authorities removed a server from a colocation facility shared by Riseup Networks and May First/People Link in New York City. The seized server was operated by the European Counter Network (“ECN”), the oldest independent internet service provider in Europe, who, among many other things, provided an anonymous remailer service, Mixmaster, that was the target of an FBI investigation into the bomb threats against the University of Pittsburgh.

“The company running the facility has confirmed that the server was removed in conjunction with a search warrant issued at the request of the FBI,” said May First/People Link director Jamie McClelland. “The server seizure is not only an attack against us, but an attack against all users of the Internet who depend on anonymous communication.”

Disrupted in this seizure were academics, artists, historians, feminist groups, gay rights groups, community centers, documentation and software archives and free speech groups. The server included the mailing list “cyber rights” (the oldest discussion list in Italy to discuss this topic), a Mexican migrant solidarity group, and other groups working to support indigenous groups and workers in Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa. In total, over 300 email accounts, between 50-80 email lists, and several other websites have been taken off the Internet by this action. None are alleged to be involved in the anonymous bomb threats. The seized machine did not contain any riseup email accounts, lists, or user data. Rather, the data belonged to ECN.

“The FBI is using a sledgehammer approach, shutting down service to hundreds of users due to the actions of one anonymous person,” said Devin Theriot-Orr, a spokesperson for Riseup. “This is particularly misguided because there is unlikely to be any information on the server regarding the source of the threatening emails.”

“We sympathize with the University of Pittsburgh community who have had to deal with this frightening disruption for weeks. We oppose such threatening actions. However, taking this server won’t stop these bomb threats. The only effect it has is to also disrupt e-mail and websites for thousands of unrelated people,” continues Mr. Theriot-Orr. “Furthermore, the network of anonymous remailers that exists is not harmed by taking this machine. So we cannot help but wonder why such drastic action was taken when authorities knew that the server contained no useful information that would help in their investigation.”

The FBI purportedly seized the server because it was hosting an anonymous remailer called Mixmaster… [In full, and in detail]