Author: tbusse

  • FBI Investigates Proposition A’s Political Director

    In July 2019, Gail Gilman became the Political Director of the Proposition A “Affordable Housing” Bond campaign. For the prior seventeen years she was the executive director of the Community Housing Partnership (CHP). Before that, she worked for Bridge Housing. Both stand to be the chief contract awardees of Proposition A bond proceeds. Gail Gilman is also a San Francisco Port Commissioner responsible for dishing out contracts from the 2018 Port Seawall Bond.

    The Libertarian Party of San Francisco has learned from a very highly placed and reliable source that Gail Gilman was pushed out of the CHP this year along with the CFO in the wake of an FBI investigation into fraud and racketeering at the organization. This involved the Section 8 Low Income Housing Tax Credit program (LIHTC). Gilman allowed the Community Housing Partnership to take eight to nine times the legally allowed tax credits at a development on 6th Street involving the Patel SRO monopoly. Moreover, the project involved no net increase in San Francisco “affordable” housing because it just swapped one down-market property for another.

    As an introduction to how the tax credit program facilitates difficult-to-detect fraud, we recommend this short documentary by Frontline and NPR:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKaR0q1vgP0

    In a famous 1935 speech, General Smedley Butler said, A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small “inside” group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. People like Gilman are allowedd to escape prosecution because things like LIHTC fraud and Proposition A are sophisticated rackets. To quote former DA Kamala Harris,  “Fraud is one of those things going without consequence because one of those things that we in law enforcement especially don’t like are those paper cases. Right? “

    The Libertarian Party National Platform 2.7 states, “Markets are not actually Free unless fraud is vigorously combated”

    To understand pay-to-play culture surrounding Affordable Housing programs, it helps to look at the boards of organizations such as the Community Housing Partnership and Bridge Housing.  CHP director Chris Amos attended UPenn with Donald Trump and was formerly a manager with the Carlyle Group, a Hedge-Fund-on-steroids founded in 1987 by Reagan National Security Advisor Frank Carlucci. It’s purpose was to harness the 1986 Tax “reform” to inflate domestic real estate then shift wealth offshore. Carlucci was also a senior advisor to Strategic Planning and Analysis Corporation where City Attorney Dennis Herrera interned as a very young member of the SF Port Commission. Herrera went on to join the Maritime Administration where he worked with John Greykowski, a John McCain aide from the Keating Five and Savings And Loan scandals of which the Carlyle group was a prime beneficiary, picking up fire-sale properties from the Resolution Trust Company.

    By partnering with Bridge Housing or the CHP, financiers like the Carlyle Group pay-to-play through buying influence. Although city officials take credit in approving “affordable housing” this is really just a way for private developers to take paper losses as tax deductions against their existing capital through a K-1 form. What these losses actually represent are kickbacks facilitated by partnerships with LLC “affordable housing” management companies.

    Although the City and County of San Francisco might audit the CHP as a charity in and of itself so the CHP’s operations appear spiffy clean, the CHP pays rent and “fees” to LLC management companies that hold title to “Affordable” buildings. All the fraud is raked into these special purpose LLC vehicles. The LLC can pay political consultants, inflated service contracts, or engage in any number of financial shenanigans and none of these payments are ever scrutinized or reviewed by an auditor. The LLC’s board meetings are not open for public review and the LLC is not required to file publicly-inspectable tax returns like a normal nonprofit.

    Last week, the White House Council of Economic Advisors released a major report on homelessness in America with a special focus on California. Although we do not agree with all of the report’s findings (especially gratuitous and unsubstantiated policy prescriptions regarding sanctuary city policies), here are the newly-published Council of Economic Advisor’s findings:

    • It takes ten permanent supportive housing beds to reduce the homeless population by one person.
    • Half of unsheltered Americans live in California. Even after adjusting for the state’s mild climate and high home prices, the state’s unsheltered homless less population is twice as high as expected.
    • Substantial housing regulatory reform would cut San Francisco’s homeless population by 54% and Los Angeles’s homeless population by 40%

    On September 24th, TruthInAccounting.org released its annual State of the States report itemizing a State debt burden of $21,800 debt burden for each taxpayer – a rating of “F.” Coercing individuals into debt for the benefit of the salesperson is a hallmark of racketeering. Practically speaking, this means any additional resources local voters throw at the housing crisis to the benefit of the “very few” insiders will be offset by state cuts in order to fund pension obligations.

    This is on top of San Francisco’s already staggering $16,400 per capita debt load. Every new dollar of the $20 million thrown at so-called “educator housing” will be offset by two dollars in budget cuts to meet the SFUSD’s $41 mllion (and growing) unfunded retiree medical debt obligation. In the meantime, the DCCC’s bankster cronies and their front-company spokespersons such as Gail Gilman will take the money and run while the public is getting fleeced.

    Links:

    https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-state-is-home-to-nearly-half-of-all-people-living-on-the-streets-in-the-us-2019-09-18

    https://chp-sf.org/about/board/

    https://www.truthinaccounting.org/news/detail/report-san-francisco-is-16400-in-debt-for-every-taxpayer

    https://www.statedatalab.org/state_data_and_comparisons/detail/california

    https://www.hud.gov/sites/dfiles/Main/documents/SOHUD_Response_POTUS.pdf

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml3C03VxJL8

    (Kamala Harris comments on white collar cases at 11:22)

  • Libertarian Solutions to the Housing Crisis: End Greenmailing

    Housing affordability impacts all San Francisco residents. In our official opposition argument to Proposition E’s “Affordable Housing” proposal, the Libertarian Party of San Francisco suggested reform of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) as an important to address the current housing crisis.
    We were delighted Reason Magazine (one of our favorite publications) just published this fantastic article describing the CEQA problem. Frequently, this broken law is used to “greenmail” developers for reasons having nothing to do with environmental protection. Greenmail both pushes up the cost of new development and delays housing construction, constricting supply and thus increasing market rates.
    Because this is San Francisco, we would like to add that although this article is very critical of labor unions, the LPSF is not strictly anti-union. Our party’s major criticism of unionism concerns the public sector where we feel civil service laws are more democratic and fair to the taxpayers. Furthermore, labor unions have a long history of unfair discrimination, and “right to work” was originally a civil-rights initiative to ensure racial minorities could negotiate employment contracts directly when shops shut them out. That said, labor unions in the private sector and public employee work councils play a very important role in protecting worker safety and ensuring fair treatment and wages. Craft unions, especially, can ensure the quality of work-product, and many employers (including public employers) find it convenient to negotiate project-labor agreements as a means of hiring qualified workers and assuring their customers of product quality.

  • San Francisco Diary: Black Eggs, Black Ops, Tail of Two Headless Torsos, Broken Beams, Broken Dreams, and Don’t Forget the Lucky Dog!

    SAN FRANCISCO ­– Passing the bustle and grime of Fifth street with its soot wafting down on the dingy Hall of Justice and its asbestos-ridden caves of crooks and cutthroats and where idling autos queue to sail past a plaque marking the end of the Eisenhower Interstate and Defense Highway System, one turns past a sketchy former SRO now unoccupied by residents but having something-to-do with a Carlisle Group affiliate called the Community Housing Partnership. I peered inside and did not see much housing, let alone community, so unfearingly I turned onto Clara street – more of a slot than a street by San Francisco standards. After all, before it was “South of Market,” it was “South of the Slot,” but it retained the Bay Windows characteristic of Oz. Before Governor Brown 2.0v2 banished redevelopment agencies to the far side of the Moon, Clara was officially blighted, or as the tune whistled by activists in decades-long eminent domain battles lauded over by San Francisco’s newly minted mayor went, “London Breed is tearing down.”

    One beneficiary of this heroic effort to displace long-term residents to build affordable housing (or in some cases hotels like the ghastly post-modern Marriott and the trendy Yerba Buena Center, scene of many an Apple product rollout) in the city where Jim Jones once sat on the Housing Authority is long-time Clara Street condo owner and newly minted California Senator Kamala Harris. Before her days of appearances on “Politics & Eggs” in New Hampshire or posed over an egg and cheese Breakfast on ABC’s Good Morning America, Harris lived for over a decade in a cheerful sunny condo here in the name of Amon Hurlihey overlooking a lovingly-maintained garden adjoining a rare Federal-style Victorian. There, in her modern kitchen inspected by Building Inspection Chief Angus McCarthy, a modern Horatio Alger rising from street riff-raff on the tattered sidewalk of Clara to became a developer to the Politico-stars (or so goes the fable), I imagine Harris poached her own eggs as she gazed down on her friendly gardener neighbor and collector of Oriental carpets – Brian Egg, lately severed of his head. She the then easied on over to dispense justice to the parents of truants and check in with her varied and sundry informants, or when her matters of importance rose so that a limo was necessary to loftier purveyors of fine kool-aid – it would idle in front of Brian Egg’s garden.

    I imagine she occasionally purchased her free range eggs from a nearby “formula-retail” establishment otherwise known as Whole Foods on 6th. Brian Egg’s head (before someone ran off with it, or more technically, “poached”) was usually stuffed with nourishment from St. Anthony’s Kitchen, a place hardly changed from when Upton Sinclair ran for Governor. Debasing myself to walk in his shoes with shoeleather journalism, I discovered Clara street formed tight and beautiful community of neighbors. The “suburban looking boy, clean, not like the others” stocking the Whole Foods would even bring over buckets of water – and sometimes Blood – hop up on the roof of Egg’s Federal Victorian and pour them down. Surely, he was testing the waterproofing. And so it went on for months, according to Egg’s other, far more approachable neighbor, a retired teacher and West Coast Artist named Wilma of the type that is becoming a rare breed in San Francisco, as I heard her recount the tales of the numerous military-looking men appearing on Egg’s block in the months surrounding his disappearance.

    Egg was certainly familiar with the type (High and Tight, muscled, roving in packs), having escaped to San Francisco in the 70’s like many with diminished capacity searching for communities like those once flourishing on Clara from his oppressive Father – an Army general buried at Arlington who for some reason liked Florida. Egg’s family were prone to untruths and concerned about the impact of notoriety on appreciated property values. Egg’s lifestyle was not sexualized. In fact, he proclaimed himself to be asexual, I learned, concerned more with art and things of beauty as he fertilized his garden and made it grow. Not enjoined by Wilma, I peered though a foxhole and gazed out to an untended Paradise.

    The real news on Clara Street is that of its community and its artists. It is the news of Wilma’s studio and the stories of how she bought the place when housing actually was affordable for some reason from its builder who recalled hauling rubble during the great earthquake. I met Wilma talking to neighbors on the street, and they were eager to speak and excited I actually presented myself as a journalist with a platform to tell their stories. In spite of the tabloid headline opportunities to match the Big Apple Post’s Headless Body in Topless Bar, that bar was not truly topless, and few journalists had made the effort to head down and check out the fishtank. It was not a fishtank. It was Brian Egg’s fishtank and Brian Egg’s garden and Wilma’s art that should be the news. The real news is what makes this community thrive and what are the threats to it as the city imposes parcel taxes, the state re-legislates re-development, and London, Mayor of the City, regularly dispatches clipboard commandos to poke and prod Wilma with harassing inspections in her earthen, almost-antiseptic smelling frame-home unique to those made of old-growth Redwood. The City Hall commandos are well dressed in pantsuits. I am sure they will ride someone’s coattails to more prestigious communities than Clara St., where the residents complain of a “besieged mentality.”

    Sadly, the News that is Fit to Print is that of San Francisco Thugs wielding sledgehammers to attack journalists.  They evidently can enter a building. The News that is Not Fit to Print is that of the Community on Clara calling for months in hopes the SFPD would care. After All, Kamala Harris is on the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, and the disappearance of her neighbor might be considered strange. This after the death of the Mayor, Police Commission President, and Public Defender.. So much loss. The SFPD claimed it had no authority to invade Brian Egg’s privacy. I wish the same was true of the Intelligence Community and its favored black ops contractor, EG&G.

    But that is the way of Justice. San Francisco is full of contradictions. Consider Just, Inc. an eggless mayonnaise factory on Folsom in the Mission with an inflated IPO that was once caught up in a lawsuit whether eggless mayo is mayo and where employees were caught buying up their own product at retail to prop up sales. I walked past it too – in a warehouse that used to be a Leather factory and where conductor Kent Nagano would produce underground performances of Shostakovich operas for the countercultural classical music scene in a facility surrounded by hides. Now, it’s full of Silicon valley types doling out fake mayo and fake news over easy money.

    Speaking of the Mission, Wilma told me the SFPD had just discovered bones in a double-wide Victorian on Folsom! A Green Double Wide! By the fake Mayo Factory! Were they Egg’s? Wilma was not sure, but she had seen pictures of Brian Egg’s dog, Lucky, shown to her after Egg’s disappearance in a photograph by “that very nice looking young man” from Whole Foods who was pouring the water and blood on the plants. Not that the SFPD would make a sketch (although I’m sure Wilma could – she is planning an exhibition of her recent work, which I can assure the reader is far less macabre but will get far less publicity. She once painted for the Navy in Alameda). The picture showed the dog in a beautifully spacious fully furnished Victorian room – the type one only finds in old San Francisco. Where is Lucky? Sadly, even I as a journalist have my limits.

    So Headless Torsos in a bygone community. Jack London once lived nearby. A new world Legend like the Headless Horseman of Tarrytown up from the Tappan Zee. Incidentally, as news of Egg’s Head broke, the opening of the Tappan Zee bridge was delayed seven days. A broken beam. Our London Breed would sympathize.

  • Dissecting SF Media Propaganda: Development Impact Fees

    Dissecting SF Media Propaganda: Development Impact Fees

    Ida Mojadad’s wretched March 28th San Francisco Weekly article on San Francisco’s “Development Impact Fee” is so factually erroneous that it deserves to be deconstructed for the propaganda it is. Far too often, reports in San Francisco are P/R repeaters, and I have noticed this type of fake news seems to crop up quite often when Supervisor Matt Haney is cooking up a kickback.

    First, “development impact fees” are clever ways concocted by lawyers to impose taxes without going to the electorate as required by the constitution by calling them “fees.” California even passed the “Stop Hidden Taxes” Constitutional Amendment about this (Prop 26) back in 2010. The twisted logic is the “fees” reimburse the city for its costs related to a new “development impacts” so they’re not a hidden tax, somehow. The specific “jobs-housing-linkage development impact fee” assesses new commercial developments (i.e. buildings with offices or stores in them) for the city’s costs providing affordable housing that is somehow related to the new development. Never mind that the city’s net population swells by 250,000 every workday from commuters and the city is under no obligation to provide any housing to either them or the new workers in the new commercial development. It’s just a legal mumbo jumbo “linkage” backed up with the full faith and credit of the City Attorney’s office.

    Consider Mojadad’s statement “the city’s current formula for funding affordable housing by charging office-space developers is based on a 1997 study.” Later she describes “one of the ways in which the 1997 study has become outdated” and “San Francisco is required to release a Nexus study to prove why it is allowed to charge a certain amount, and a feasibility study will accompany its release.” The implication is San Francisco has not considered its development impact fees for 22 years. This is simply not true. In 2007, the Controller’s office issued a City-wide comprehensive development impact fee study considering the individual fees holistically by several “nexus justifications” (“nexus” is legal mumbo jumbo again): development impacts for “Child Care Nexus” “Fire Facility Development Nexus” “Recreation and Parks Development Nexus” “Transit Impact Nexus” and “Residential Nexus.” (The SFUSD imposes development impact fees independently without policy coordination. How it wastes this money is worthy of its own article).

    Of those, only Transit Impact has any real legitimacy – a new development can result in more traffic. There is, of course, no oversight or enforcement that actual fees charged are used on projects that address the specific impacts created by a specific development. Delving into the city’s nine-page fee schedule detailing the city’s 32 development impact fees, we also learn that the city indexes the “fees” for inflation, further discrediting Mojadad’s implication the fee is somehow “outdated.” The SF Controller’s website indicates the fee studies are “biennial”  There’s a study from 2016 – this is not 1997. The two are different years. So, the City Attorney has suddenly asserted “office spaces are denser” as if cubicles or newfangled “tech spaces” formed “linkages” the way airlines measure legroom. What about the City Attorney’s own office space it rents in Fox Plaza from Swift Real Estate Partners? Did they pack in the same number of city attorneys per square foot in 1997?

    Mojadad slips into a typical P/R trick in her statement “Community groups like SOMCAN have criticized the Central SoMa plan for a lack of plentiful affordable housing.” Never mind that Mojadad just assumes everyone just knows what the SOMCAN acronym is, and we are left to have faith that SOMCAN is, in fact, a “community group.” The SFWeekly has fact-checkers, after all. We have faith in them to call out astrotufing, right?. Who gave SOMCAN (whomever they are) any authority to speak on the subject? Why did Mojadad cite their “criticism?” and not someone else’s (such as the Libertarian Party’s of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers’ Association?) Is SOMCAN’s very act of criticism itself – packaged somewhere in a press release –  the very mechanism though which “news” is generated? A simple internet search can reveal SOMCAN administers city contracts for social work – a euphemism for functioning as “gatekeepers” for “clients” to get into new “affordable housing.” Come to think about it, Jim Jones did the same thing when he sat on the board of the housing authority.

    Like any horrid piece of propaganda regurgitating some P/R rep’s charm, Mojadad’s article is more manipulative in what it leaves out. What about the detrimental “linkages” of affordable housing “lock-in?” (the process by which households in affordable developments tend to stay in them longer than would be to their benefit and/or limit their long-term career and life aspirations due to their current housing situation). SF Weekly’s enlightened journalist fails to mention the landmark 2016 conclusions of the California State Legislative Office,

     “While affordable housing programs are vitally important to the households they assist, these programs help only a small fraction of the Californians that are struggling to cope with the state’s high housing costs.”

    That small fraction undoubtedly includes the patronage cronies surrounding the SFWeekly and Haney’s P/R team.

  • When History Repeats Itself

    When History Repeats Itself

    On a warm Summer day in July 1916, over one hundred thousand residents descended on Market Street in San Francisco to witness a parade for civic “preparedness” – an ostensibly grassroots and patriotic movement for American involvement in War in Europe, the Pacific, Mexico, or all three organized and funded by the “Law And Order Committee” of prominent California industrialists. As leaflets depicting babies on bayonets rained down, suddenly at 2:05 PM an explosion rung out in front of the shop of Tobacconist John Clifton at Steuart and Market streets. Six people lay dead or dying: George Lawlor, Lea Lamborn, Dr. George Painter, Mrs. Hetta Knapp, Arthur Nelson, and Civil War veteran Adam Fox. Four more would die in the days ahead. Forty were maimed – some crippled for life.

     Authorities arrived immediately. Barely fifteen minutes later, Frederick Colburn of the Chamber of Commerce and District Attorney Charles Fickert directed an off-duty Oakland firefighter to hose down the entire scene – the gore of Lawlor’s head, which had been blown off, and the bits and pieces of a heavy tan suitcase seen left at 1:50 PM by two short men “dark complexioned, possibly Greek, Italian or Mexican” as described by Clifton – all washed away, compromising the evidence “to avoid distressing the public.” Fickert sent Clifton away, saying he had ample witness statements including an account of Martin Swanson, head detective for both Pacific Gas and Electric and Union Railroad. William Randolph Hearst’s papers ran an Extra hitting the streets at 2:45 PM running the same editorial, warning the public San Francisco was in the grip of a “Mafia of pacifists, anarchists, and coddlers of criminals” and something must be done. Two months later, a tall, ruddy-complexioned Irish-American Labor organizer “anarchist” and “socialist” Tom Mooney was convicted on the eyewitness testimony of a “gentle cattleman” named Fred Oxman and sentenced to the death penalty.

    One newspaper held out against the calls for “preparedness” – Fremont Older’s The Bulletin patronized by C&H Sugar magnate and religious pacifist John Spreckels – the force behind the Balboa Park beautification of San Diego. The paper on April 11, 1917, in a remarkable feat of investigative reporting, published letters between District Attorney Fickert and Oxman, showing PG&E had written, coached, and paid for the eyewitness’s testimony and travel in advance of the bombing. Fickert penned back in Hearst’s Examiner that the Bulletin was an “adviser of bloodthirsty anarchists … to convince you Mooney is the victim of an infamous conspiracy.” Within a year, the Bulletin’s shareholders were bought out, and a new executive editor pushed out Older for creating “unpatriotic controversy.” Shortly thereafter, the paper closed, but by that time America had entered the war and bodies of America’s best and brightest were strewn on Flanders’ Field.

    Strangely enough, Hearst invited Older to work at his other SF paper – The Call (once owned by Spreckels) and given editorial independence. On Friday Afternoon, November 22, 1918, two weeks after the war’s end, The Call published in full a highly secret and confidential Federal Dept. of Labor report where Labor Dept. Agent George Parson installed secret wiretaps on the District Attorney Fickert’s dictaphone. It revealed Fickert had fixed cases and admitted Mooney’s malicious prosecution was directed by an attorney for the US Dept. of Commerce, a California supreme court justice, and was coordinated by the fledgling Federal Bureau of Investigation, founded 1908. Soon thereafter, fearing “red communism,” Congress stripped the Dept. of Labor of its investigatory authority and the “Palmer Raids” took place across the nation. Later, Older would admit he promised to withhold publication until after the 1918 California gubernatorial election in exchange for the right to publish.

    Nearing the Centenary of the Armistice and a day after a California gubernatorial election, Thousand Oaks and Ventura County was struck by tragedy. Young lives such as those of Cody Coffman and Alaina Housley were mercilessly cut short at the Borderline Bar in Thousand Oaks. Their families and the public deserve justice – and answers. We know at least eight off-duty officers (two “on duty” per the Oxnard Police Chief) were inside the bar to witness the events, but their identities and accounts are not known to the public. Michael Chilton, a thirty-year veteran of the force, nearly broke down in tears, recalling how major news outlets and the sheriff’s Dept. refused to take his calls. We know that a state-of-the-art CCTV video system was installed at the Bar, but footage has not been released to the public. Local authorities routinely reject public records requests related to the incident. With the reported gunman conveniently suicided, there will never be a public trial to determine the facts of the case – facts needed to understand why this event occurred, to inform an accurate case history for forensic psychologists, and (more importantly) for voters as shareholders in a democracy to make informed choices about public policy to prevent history from repeating itself…again.

    This year on an antipodal autumn, three minutes following yet another tragedy without awaiting the discovery and trial of facts afforded by judicial due process and the true nature of terror– this time in ChristChurch, a patriotic parliament gathered to pass a six hundred page National Security bill nobody had read, the populace egging them on knowing it was uncouth amazing Australians – and not quite interesting Kiwis – could be evil, and this would firmly ensure “Never Again” in a way a new flag never would. A firewall broke out in the media – commanded and controlled by digital media behemoths manufacturing consent based in a progressive Sanctuary City in California – and raids took place against internet radio hosts, digital content creators, independent journalists, and anyone reported confidentially and anonymously to a new government hotline for violating a newly-enacted law against contraband literature subject to a new fourteen year prison penalty. And So It Goes.

    Was Thousand Oaks a sting operation gone wrong? A hoax? A false flag? Training for a false flag? Something else? Or did it happen as reported by the VC Star, Hearst Corporation, Gannett media, and prominent independent journalists and the credentialed experts would have us believe?  This could be confirmed by the now ubiquitous security video. Although the cameras did nothing to keep Justin Meek, Alaina Housely, or Cody Coffman safe, they could serve some purpose in ensuring justice – so the FBI came in and took them away to Quantico, Virginia. I, for one, grew up when images of the Rodney King beating played out repeatedly on television – public interest images of violence outweighing other considerations of privacy or emotional trauma. It brought home in visual form what many did not believe even though minority communities had complained for years – police misconduct is real. Justice is not ensured. Maybe for that reason, I found myself once again, taking the time to put up “Free Chelsea Manning” posters in the Castro. Nobody else bothered. Perhaps the folks at Equality California, Pride, the Human Rights Campaign, the NCLR, the ACLU, and all those clipboard commandos who promise to make it rain were fatigued from the last time. Perhaps they know something I never learned about social graces. Perhaps someone was tweeting about it, somewhere.

    In 1932, a curious photo emerged from the SF Public Library archives: it showed Tom Mooney watching the parade on the roof of the San Francisco Eilert Building seven large blocks down Market Street from the Stuart St Tobacconist (soon thereafter redeveloped as the Headquarters of Southern Pacific Railroad). Faintly, a public clock appears in the background – its hands pointing to 2:00 PM, exactly.

    Today the “Alibi Clock” still ticks away, now on the Vallejo waterfront. It keeps time accurately, no matter your opinion.

    –Thomas Busse

     

    Petition to the Civil Grand Jury of the County of Ventura (Cal. Constitution Article 1, Section 23)

    Whereas, tyrants throughout history have attacked their own people to manufacture consent to take away their civil liberties in the name of security; and

    Whereas, the Press has failed in its duty to inform the public regarding the events of November 7-8 in Thousand Oaks at the Borderline Bar; and

    Whereas, false narratives can inspire copycat crimes,

    I petition the Civil Grand Jury of the County of Ventura to investigate the mass casualty incident at the Borderline Bar and Grill.

    Please Mail signed petitions to: Civil Grand Jury, 800 S. Victoria Avenue L3751, Ventura, CA 93009. Under California Law, petitions must include your name, address, and telephone number.