Protests lead to worry over police costs (Burbank Home Depot Illegal Lounge)

BURBANK -- Protests and demonstrations at the Home Depot day labor center have racked up law enforcement costs of more than $46,000, prompting worries that the extra costs are a burden on city coffers.

Between Sept. 30 and April 21, Burbank Police responded to 11 incidents involving anti-illegal immigration protests against center, which offers employment assistance to workers who are often not United States citizens, according to a Burbank Police memo.

The memo has raised questions from residents about the purpose of the $94,000 annual fee that Home Depot pays to the city, intended to cover costs related to the center.

"Initially [the council] was talking about the $94,000 going one place and all of a sudden it shifts," Burbank resident David Piroli said.

At a public hearing in April 2004, the fee was posed as a mitigation measure for potential problems that could arise at the center.

"In addition to the center, we also have funding to the tune of $94,000 that is not given to us specifically to run the day labor center, but rather funding that is given to us specifically to address the problems that may be related to the Home Depot facility," Councilman Jef Vander Borght said at the hearing. "So as a result we have even additional discretion to use those funds for other means, as policing, as the way by which we can achieve better control of potential problems that would surface."

But when the council unanimously awarded management of the center to Catholic Charities of Los Angeles on Jan. 10, the council elected to put the entire fee toward the center's operations costs, Marisa Garcia, an analyst for the Parks, Recreation and Community Service Department said at the meeting.

The fee has funded the center's operation since it opened alongside Home Dept. on Jan 14., Deputy City Planner Roger Baker said.

"We've been using it at our choice to run the daily operations at the center," Baker said.

The conditions under which Home Depot and the labor center were approved give the council full discretion over how the annual fee is utilized, Baker said.

But Councilman David Gordon said the center has become a "lightening rod" for community protest, and taxpayers should not have to bear the costs of increased law enforcement related to the center.

Overtime costs for officers providing crowd management and minimal code enforcement during labor center demonstrations amounted to $41,618 of the $46,749 total costs accrued, the Police Department memo said. The remaining $5,131 covered the salaries of on-duty officers.

But a strong police presence at these events is what assures they do not spiral out of control, Burbank Police Lt. Dave Gabriel said.

"While at first glance that may seem a large amount of money ... the Burbank Police Department has always had the policy to prevent problems before they happen," Gabriel said. "Our hope is to keep issues as under control as possible before they become really significant problems," he said. The department has succeeded in maintaining the peace during the 11 labor center demonstrations and no arrests were made, the memo said.

It's time to play hard ball. That is the ONLY thing dumb politicans understand. There has been enough talking and 'discussion'. Threaten them with real consequences. They will get it done or they will get the hell out of the way.

FREEPER ACTIVISM: If duly elected officials, under oath, are demanding and encouraging ILLEGALS to break the law, to obtain the unlawful right to vote, and obtain unauthroized government benefits using fraudulent documentation, and if elected and appointed officials did, in fact, allow illegals to break the law to serve on municipal councils, and if illegals are making monetary (taxing) decisions for U.S. Citizens, this might be a violation of the Hobbs Act. If officials took campaign contributions from said illegals, this could be characterized as extortion, and/or bribery, and a violation of the Hobbs Act.

The Hobbs Act was used recently to nail four TENN state legislators and their aides in an extortion scheme. The TENN group was arrested under the federal Hobbs Act, charging extortion, conspiracy to extort and attempted extortion, and accepting bribes as an agent of the state.

The Hobbs Act covers extortion by public officials, as follows: 2403 Hobbs Act -- Extortion By Force, Violence, or Fear

SOURCE October 1997 Criminal Resource Manual 2403 http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/eousa/foia_reading_room/usam/title9/crm02403.htm

9-131.000 THE HOBBS ACT -- 18 U.S.C. § 1951
9-131.020 Investigative and Supervisory Jurisdiction

Primary investigative jurisdiction of offenses in 18 U.S.C. § 1951 lies with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Inspector General's Office of Investigations, Division of Labor Racketeering (formerly the Office of Labor Racketeering), United States Department of Labor, is also authorized to investigate violations of 18 U.S.C. § 1951 in labor-management disputes involving the extortion of property from employers by reason of authority conferred on investigators as Special Deputy United States Marshals.

Supervisory jurisdiction over 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is exercised by the following offices with respect to the offenses noted:

1. Extortion under color of official right or extortion by a public official through misuse of his/her office is supervised by the Public Integrity Section, Criminal Division.

2. Extortion and robbery in labor-management disputes is supervised by the Labor-Management Unit of the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section, Criminal Division.

3. All other extortion and robbery offenses not involving public officials or labor-management disputes are supervised by the Terrorism and Violent Crimes Section, Criminal Division.

FREEPER ACTIVISM: CONTACT LAW ENFORCEMENT

EMAIL: ASKDOJ@USDOJ.GOV

REPORT ALL ELECTED LAWMAKERS' UNDER OATH AIDING
AND ABETTING IMMIGRANTS' FEDERAL CRIMINAL FELONIES

PARTIAL LIST---IMMIGRANTS' FEDERAL CRIMINAL FELONIES

1 - Use of illegal ID or documents
2 - Federal income tax evasion
3 - Re-entry into USA after deportation
4 - Obtain/Operate vehicles with illegal ID
5 - ID theft/fraud - Social Security fraud
6 - Knowingly gaining employment fraudulently
7 - Recruiting other illegal aliens workers
8 - Transporting illegal aliens
9 - Harboring &/or housing illegal aliens
10 - Undermining US national security
11 - Registering/Voting using fraudulent documentation
12 - Conspiracy to violate federal statutes
13 - Uttering false statements to public officials
14 - Obstructing law enforcement

FREEPER ACTIVISM: If the bonding agents for tax-exempt municipal transportation and highways, municipal school bonding, utilities bonding, infrastructures, and the like, are ignoring and/or aiding and abetting illgals' activities, the SEC should be advised of your concerns. EMAIL enforcement@SEC.gov.

FREEPER ACTIVISM Most bonding agents conducting municipal business are registered broker-dealers and members of the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) and the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC). NASD and SIPC should also be contacted regarding your concerns about illegal activity.

FREEPER ACTIVISM Banks doing business with municipalities that are conducting illegal activity are jeopardizing bank patrons, shareholders, and depositors and should be reported as follows:

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is the primary federal regulator for national banks. The OCC's Customer Assistance Group is available to assist customers with questions or complaints concerning national banks. Email to Customer.Assistance@occ.treas.gov.

General information about the Customer Assistance Group is available on their web site: http://www.occ.treas.gov/customer.htm.

You can reach one of the OCC Customer Assistance Specialists by calling toll free number, 1-800-613-6743, Monday-Thursday, 9-4, and Friday 9-3.

Public officials in their capacity as fiduciaries of the public's monies are required to be bonded. The express purpose of bonding is to protect the public's money. Each state sets their own regulations. Now, say public funds went missing and the public official failed to get bond coverage; the state would have no way to recover that money other than restitution through a criminal prosecution.

If you determine a public official was mandated---but does not have bond coverage----that could be an actionable offense.

Also, if a public official with bonding had previous financial problems---perhaps a bankruptcy or a firing for financial improprieties, etc---that they failed to reveal to bonding agents, that might subject them to legal penalties.

Classes covered by bonding include: Municipalities, counties, townships, school districts, ambulance districts, volunteer fire departments, community college districts, public universities, transit authorities, landfills, sewage treatment facilities, public works maintenance facilities, airports.

Now, if and when public officials and government agencies misused tax dollars-----to build muster zones for illegals, allowed illegals using phony documentation to get government benefits, or to vote in elections for public bond issues...........this is classified as fiduciary negligence, and could violate the state's bonding regulations, and the bonding requirements of the carrier.

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