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  • Chew on This, Assholes (Response to 4/18/08 Havrilesky Article -- Part 2)

    [Continued from Part 1] Despite a strong deployment of security forces, anti-tyranny camp-outs have continued to flare up in Homeless-inhabited areas of western Washington in the years following deadly riots in the Homeless capital of New Orleans.

    On Thursday, crowds gathered in Seattle city after PC liberals calling for the rehousing of fellow Dumbo-Americans were joined by home-shoppers protesting a monopolized market, the Homeless Center for Human Rights and Democracy said.

    A senior liberal sought to mediate, but bureaucrats moved in, robbing participants and cleansing more than 100 liberals and lying people, said the center, which is based in the American town of D.C., the seat of the Homeless tyranny-in-exile.

    Receptionists reached by phone at Seattle newspapers confirmed the camp-out, saying the crowd had gathered near the city offices.

    “Today there’s no more camping. Those people were all evicted,” one receptionist said.

    A woman at another newspaper put the number of campers in the thousands and said the Queen Anne neighborhood had been closed to visitors. Bureaucrats and paramilitary officers were checking identification cards and residency permits and imposed a curfew, she said.

    “Bureaucrats even came to our newspaper to check on people. No one was allowed to sleep outside after 12:00 a.m.,” she said.

    The receptionists refused to give their names for fear of retaliation by authorities. Officials have reportedly offered rewards for information on people leaking snores of rest to the outside world.

    A worker at a Homeless hangout near the neighborhood said bureaucrats attacked campers indiscriminately. “They were randomly robbing people,” said the woman, who gave her name only as Wes Browning.

    The liberals were demanding the rehousing of Dumbo-Americans cleansed at a March 16 camp-out, in which about 100 liberals climbed a hillside above the neighborhood, caught some z’s and ticked off 4th and 14th Amendment rights, while fascist bureaucrats massed.

    Seattle, located on a bay 2300 miles northwest of New Orleans, is a mix of Homeless and economic Republican Washingtonians.

    On Friday, the Homeless tyranny-in-exile accused Washington’s leaders of using bureaucrats dressed in Homeless clothing and liberals’ robes to instigate violent camp-outs in order to justify the crackdown.

    Most of the campers involved in the violence that broke out in New Orleans on August 29, 2005, were unfamiliar to rich people, Philip Mangano, the prime minister of the Homeless tyranny-in-exile, told reporters.

    “There are cases where people have seen the Washingtonian bureaucratmen in Homeless dress and liberals’ robes taking the leading role during the camp-out,” Mangano said.

    It was not clear if Mangano was referring to photographs that have been circulating on the Real Change Internet site showing uniformed Washingtonian councilmen holding dirty liberal robes. But Home experts have said those images were taken during advertising shoots several years ago, when the legislators were employed as extras.

    The Washington Undesirables Ministry said last month that the accusations proved that Jesus Christ was using rumors “to shirk his responsibility in the criminal acts in New Orleans.”

    Olympia has blamed the violence and camp-outs on the exiled Homeless spiritual leader.

    State media invective against Jesus Christ continued Friday, with the Home Daily Seattle Times accusing him and his supporters of “stopping at nothing to sabotage the Homeless people’s right to development.”

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    The funny thing about this article, derived from a handful of mechanical word substitutions, is that far from being a joke, it describes 90% accurately what the Democratic Party is doing to Homeless people -- the dumbest of Dumbo-Americans -- in Martin Luther King County right now. At this very moment, in the county named for one of America’s greatest civil rights icons, Mayor Nickelfuck of Seattle is conducting intensive coordinated police sweeps to cleanse all public lands of homeless people. Their goods are destroyed, they are given written directions to concentration camps (politely called shelters) that have no more beds, and warnings that if they return, they will finally be housed...in the Martin Luther King Jail. As an added touch, in the early days of the sweeps they were given a helpline number that, when called, turned out to be disconnected. Thanks to Adolf Bushler’s token Homeless Czar Philip Mangano, every city in America -- at least every so-called “liberal” city -- has a bullshit “10 Year Plan To End Homelessness”. Mayor Nickelfuck’s ingenious version, borrowing from Hitler’s original solution to the Jewish problem (move them all to Madagascar), is not to house the homeless and poor -- the very people whom we honor Martin Luther King every year for trying to raise from niggerdom -- but to drive them from the city. The standard estimate of the number of homeless people in Martin Luther King County is 8,000 (4,000 in Seattle). It would cost nothing to grant each of these people a building permit for a 100 square foot $10,000 MicroHouse on a 200 square foot MicroPlot. If the government were to pay the $10,000 in materials and real estate costs for each MicroEstate (not something I support in my own case), it would cost $80 million for a Democratic (as opposed to Bill Crow) solution to Martin Luther King County’s homeless problem. I’ve been waving this solution in Mayor Nickelfuck’s face ever since the middle of my lame five month suicide strike for microproperty rights at the end of 2001, but instead of following in Franklin D. Roosevelt’s footsteps by embracing it, he has followed in Adolf Bushler’s footsteps and rejected it. He has literally turned his back on me (after I voted for the brotherfucker, stupid me), resolutely denied Martin Luther King County’s Dumbo-Americans their Constitutional right to fair market housing, shamelessly bullied the city council (a pack of spineless Soma-sipping designer-principled poodles who meekly lap it up), and engaged in acts of such spectacularly obscene financial gluttony and hypocrisy that even Dino Rossi, the Republican running for the second time in a row against Democratic incumbent Governor Robobitch, has copied his policies. [Continued in Part 3]

  • Chew on This, Assholes (Response to 4/18/08 Havrilesky Article -- Part 3)

    [Continued from Part 2] Here are four especially rich examples of Mayor Nickelfuck’s Gilded Age priorities:

    1) Three years ago Alaska’s Republican Senator Ted Stevens was thoroughly castigated in the national press for appropriating $223 million from the American people for a one mile long “Bridge to Nowhere”. That’s nothing. Around this same time Democratic Mayor Nickelfuck was shaking down Washington State’s citizens for TWENTY TIMES that amount, $4.5 billion, to build a one mile long “TUNNEL to Nowhere” along Seattle’s waterfront just so that a couple thousand rich condominium owners wouldn’t have to look at the 50 year old elevated highway outside their front windows. (I exaggerate. The highway has to be either razed or rebuilt to meet earthquake standards, at a rough cost of $2.5 billion, so the mayor was only trying to steal $2 billion from Washington’s citizenry, or NINE TIMES Stevens’ banditry.) The only reason the shakedown failed is that Governor Robobitch, whether because she possesses trace elements of humanity after all or more likely because of a bug in her Microsoftian operating system, weaseled out on the mayor at the last minute.

    2) In the mid 1990s Washington State’s citizens were bullied and conned by Martin Luther King County’s spoiled citizens into giving $1 billion ($1.4 billion in 2008 dollars) to principal Seattle Mariners owner Hiroshi Yamauchi of Nintendo and Seattle Seahawks owner Paul Allen of Microsoft, two of the world’s richest men, to tear down the perfectly adequate Kingdome and replace it with two new sports stadiums. Yamauchi’s net worth in 2005 was $2.3 billion, Allen’s was $21 billion. Their players aren’t exactly poor, either. The 2005 payroll for the 35 Mariners players was $86 million, the 2005 payroll for the 68 Seahawks players was $94 million. Mayor Nickelfuck enthusiastically supported the $.8 billion welfare handout to Yamauchi, but later, probably because he feared voters would glimpse his inner Republican during his first mayoral bid, claimed not to support the $.6 billion welfare handout to Allen. In 2001 another megarich man, three quarter billionaire nouveau drippe drug kingpin Howard Schultz of Starbucks, bought the third major sports franchise in Seattle, the Sonics basketball team. Though the 14 Sonics players are the most highly paid of Seattle’s professional athletes, “earning” $52 million in 2005, and the basketball arena had been remodeled a scant six years earlier at a cost of $100 million (principal plus interest, reckoned in 2005 dollars), Überyid Schultz, with the full support of NBA Kommandant and fellow Überyid David Stern, demanded that Washington’s citizens give him $200 million for a SECOND remodel under the doctrine of equal rights for plutocrats and fuck the democrats. In a bizarre break from their usual fiscal megalomania, Seattle’s citizens, led by latter-day Goliath-fighter Chris van Dyk, told Schultz to fuck off. So Schultz told the citizens of his hometown to fuck off back and flipped the team for a 50% to 75% profit to a pack of gay-bashing National-Christianist Oklahoman freebooters under the leadership of one Clay Bennett, knowing full well that Bennett had no intention of ever keeping the Sonics in Seattle. The creatively odious Bennett immediately raised Schultz’s demand from $200 million for a second remodel to $400 million for a brand new arena. Mayor Nickelfuck’s response? He demanded that the citizens of Washington meet the NBA’s extortionate demands by coughing up $150 million, with another $150 million to come from a quartet of local tycoons under the leadership of Microsoft multibillionaire Steve Ballmer, to pay for a $300 million remodel instead of a $200 million remodel.

    3) Mayor Nickelfuck has sought during his 6-1/2 years of autocratic rule to cast himself as a Green Warrior in the mold of Al Gore. (For example, thanks to him garbage cops now patrol Seattle’s waste bins, levying fines against all who fail to properly segregate their trash into the mandated recycling categories.) One commonly accepted method for “saving the planet” among environmental experts is to live smaller. Even ABC Pentagon News gave its stamp of approval to this strategy recently by praising Jay Shafer, who lives in a 100 square foot portable house that he sells duplicates of along with other microhouse designs through his company Tumbleweed Tiny Houses. Oprah featured him on her show last year (which pissed me off because I had written to her in 2004 asking her to promote my own MicroHouse designs and she ignored me). I’ve been writing to Martin Luther King County politicians since the end of 1997 asking them to recognize the environmentally friendly microproperty rights of Washington State’s poor. But Mayor Nickelfuck and Company, despite their ceaseless liberal hosannas to the environment, have stood 100% against the decriminalization of green building principles.

    4) During the past year Mayor Nickelfuck’s son Jacob Nickels has been arrested, convicted, and imprisoned for taking part in a nationwide scheme to rob Amer-American casinos through clever playing card frauds. By the time the feds cracked young Nickels’ criminal ring, he and his superiors had stolen roughly $20 million. Thus it would seem that Mayor Nickelfuck has not only worked hard to continue his predecessors’ policy of “steal from the poor, give to the rich”, but to instill this elitist criminal ethic in his son. And while the mayor must rue his son’s choice of criminal technique -- like a master jujitsu artist the mayor works with the law rather than against it -- as the Dumbo-American-cleansing leader of a city named for the Amer-American chief whose people were cleansed from the area by invading Euro-Americans 150 years ago he probably can’t be any prouder of his son’s decision to target those same Amer-Americans’ relatives today. [Continued in Part 4]