Sugar on Bill 59
Channel: OccupyHNL
Date: 2013-10-13

BILL059(13)
http://www4.honolulu.gov/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-142604/BILL059(13).htm 

i was informed by the clerks office that if you submit testimony now it will be forwarded to the COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT for the hearing in last week of October. this page link leads to the E-Mail Testimony, On-Line Speaker Registration,  Agendas and minutes of  Public Safety and Economic Development Committee. http://www4.honolulu.gov/docushare/dsweb/View/Collection-1815 

the next step in 58, 59 and 60 will be at the COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT in the last week of October 2013. if you can and you want to, again, be on record of being against the disappearing of people from the streets of capital and the disappearing of public spaces. consider attending and being a witness to this torture by committee. http://www4.honolulu.gov/docushare/dsweb/View/Collection-1815 

soon they will squeeze and squeeze the allowable places till we will be only left with refuge upon private property and at the mercy of a new landed gentry. effective citizenship will depend more upon ownership. citizenship will be further qualified by capital and not as egalitarian. peoples role in society and in this capitalist system will be defined even more not through the deeds one partakes upon but the deeds one at times very well may sit upon.   a new sense and insensibility. huge landholders will be very big citizens indeed. 

consider speaking out and bear witness to this press of capitalism. after this it will go to full council under another link in perhaps November.

fakestatecouncil calendar
http://www4.honolulu.gov/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-133386/2013%20Council%20Calendar.htm

BILL058(13)
http://www4.honolulu.gov/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-142605/BILL058(13).htm

BILL060(13)
http://www4.honolulu.gov/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-142597/BILL060(13).htm

bill 59 is a further restriction on free association in the way of our abilities to rest, communicate, to organize and to gather.   it prevents people from lying on the sidewalk.    it is another erosion of rights and peoples actions in public spaces.    it sets further a precedent  whereby a person has to show their proof they have been turned away from a shelter in the way of a note.    it is a further precedent for it demands people show their papers to authorities to show they have been rejected from their designated area in the way of a shelter.   it is up to authorities and for all practicable purposes untrained officers as to how to judge if someone has been turned away from a shelter and is engaged in expressive activities which is another exception to the law; for a person too which is hard to do while asleep .     this will result in many false arrests and frightening of people.  it is somewhat like the Arizona ID check Laws. 

on October 9th the full fakestatecity council had a second hearing on Bills 58, 59 (of concern) and 60.   here is a clip of the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2avketR0lqY&feature=youtu.be.   they had voted on these horrid bills, mostly without comment and passed them banally on second reading unanimously to the next committee.

9 AYES:  ANDERSON, CHANG, FUKUNAGA, HARIMOTO*, KOBAYASHI, MANAHAN*, MARTIN, MENOR, PINE*.

each limitation on public space has in a real way an effect on these things. also most horribly in a society where there are no real public spaces, and huge limitations on the slight public spaces of what one can do there, people with no property to go to or no shelter to stay in will be totally dependent on the public spaces. in effect they will have nowhere to really go rather they will have to depend upon property owners for their mercy. it is quite an old type of Victorian Oliver Twist situation. a landed gentry is almost a true measure of citizenship and survival. paraphrasing Don Mitchel in Annihilation of space by Law. http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk:443/content/BPL_Images/Content_store/Sample_chapter/9780631220152Sample/Blomley9780631220152.pdf

We are recreating society -- and public life -- on the model of the torturer, swerving wildly between paternalistic interest in the lives of our subjects and their structured degradation. In essence we are recreating a public sphere that consists in unfreedom and torture. Or as Mike Davis (1990:234) puts it in a chillingly accurate metaphor: 
"The cold war on the streets of Downtown is ever escalating." To the degree we can convince ourselves that the homeless are the Communists of our age, we are calling this public sphere just. And that has the effect of legitimizing not only our own restrictions on the autonomy of others, but also the iniquitous political economy that creates the conditions within which we take such decisions. 

Don Mitchel in Annihilation of space by Law. http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk:443/content/BPL_Images/Content_store/Sample_chapter/9780631220152Sample/Blomley9780631220152.pdf