More geniuses at SFPD are demanding that OccupySF

[EFerrari]

take down a tarp over one occupier who is a Stage 4 cancer patient. It's drizzling in the city right now.

Is today Stupid Tuesday or what?

Argh

:argh:

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Nope, it is standard harrastment

it never changes, just the language.

[FiveGoodMen]

2. This is no longer our country

Really.

We just haven't all realized it yet.

This is not America.

[ClassWarrior]

5. Bullshit. It's not THEIR country. And we're damn well taking it back.

NGU.

[Luminous Animal]

3. John Avalos has been the only supervisor (and mayoral candidate) that has

been responsive to these abuses.

Willie Brown destroyed this city.

[ClassWarrior]

4. Are you occupying, E?

NGU.

[KamaAina]

8. She and I are down here in San Jose

where we have our own small occupation.

[EFerrari]

9. No, I'm down in San Jose right now

but watching.

[WillyT]

6. Well... There Is THIS:

Link: http://nyletterpress.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/police-reject-candidate-for-being-too-intelligent/

:shrug:

[EFerrari]

10. Oh, fuck me.

:argh:

[KamaAina]

7. What part of "reasonable accommodation" don't they understand?

Last time I checked, cancer was considered a disability. My friends at our sister organization in The City would be quite interested to learn of this.

Serve 'em right if they got whacked with a king-hell ADA lawsuit. :grr:

[EFerrari]

11. Occupy SF just refused. This is the poster that filled me in:

@jherwatt jeff herwatt
@
@48thave A tarp has been put over Amanda a Stage 4 cancer patient. the police have demanded the tarp come down, it is drizzling


http://twitter.com/#!/jherwatt/status/126500913023160320

[ProgressiveProfessor]

12. I doubt this qualifies

[KamaAina]

13. Care to elaborate?

She has as much right to freedom of speech as anyone else, and more reason to exercise it.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

16. The requirement for no tents/tarps is not an inherent impediment to free speech

since tents do not constitute speech or an equivalent (like flag burning). Historically medical needs/accommodations do not figure into rules governing demonstrations.

That said, it still sucks that they are doing it.

[xchrom]

14. recommend

[Hell Hath No Fury]

15. That this is happening in SAN FRANCISCO --

-- pisses me off to no end. :mad:

The rightward lurch of my town continues with this bullshit. :puke: Fuck Ed Lee, and fuck Chief Gascon.

[Uncle Joe]

17. Those are the kind of ridiculous, petty draconian actions that only serve to reinforce and justify

the need for the Occupier Movement.

Thanks for thread, EFerrari.

[kctim]

18. Do you know

if the problem is with the tarp being fixed or with the tarp in general?

If it is with the tarp being a fixed standing structure, you can sometimes get around that by having people take turns holding the tarp over her so she doesn't get rained on.

Poor lady.