Police State updates : homeless required to have homeless permits in Nevada City ; early morning mayhem as an FBI Swat does a home invasion and almost shoots an unarmed 18 year female - in her own home ; Fema camp - where former prisons become new homes ; deportation being beta tested as a threat for those filing petitions to secede from the Union.

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2012/11/16/police-chief-uses-unique-method-to-control-homeless-population/

NEVADA CITY (CBS13) – A police chief says he’s found a one-of-a-kind way to manage a growing problem in his city, and it’s putting the homeless on the hot seat.

A new law would give Nevada City the power to hand out permits to a small group of homeless, which would give them permission to sleep in public. While the new ordinance would give some homeless a place to stay, it would tell others, mostly the troublemakers and the criminals, to stay away.

“I come down here every fall,” said Bob Barton, who chooses to be homeless in Nevada City.

For Barton, the new ordinance that would essentially identify law-abiding homeless and reward them is music to his ears.

“The goal is to start managing the homeless population within our city,” said Chief James Wickham.

Wickham asked council members to pass a no-camping ordinance.

“It just basically means you can’t set up a tent. You can’t live in your vehicle. You can’t live in the woods in Nevada City,” he said.

That is unless you have a permit.

The chief says his program is one of a kind, making only a select few of the city’s homeless population an exception to the law, like William Peach.

“There’s some of us out there like me who try to blend in with the community,” said Peach.

However, others who come to Nevada City to commit crimes or with a criminal history won’t be so lucky.

“Those are the ones we really don’t want in our city and that we’re trying to keep from camping in our city,” said Wickham.

“We’ve seen a huge upsurge in homeless people,” Teresa Mann said.

Mann, who owns a business in downtown, says it’s about time. And so do the homeless who stay out of trouble and want trouble to stay away.

“If they’re homeless and heartless, hey, we got a place for them,” said James, who is homeless. “It’s called county jail.”

For now, the police chief will give out about six to 10 permits. He’ll check back in six months to see if the program is working. If it is, that’s when he says he’ll give out more.

Wickham says he’s identified at least 60 homeless in his community, and 500 homeless countywide.

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http://beforeitsnews.com/global-unrest/2012/11/fbi-rushes-into-home-of-maryland-family-and-shoots-at-unarmed-18-year-old-girl-2448000.html

This Thursday morning in District Heights, Maryland, an FBI swat team rushed into the home of an average, innocent family and shot at an unarmed, 18 year old girl.
According to ABC News:

“An early morning FBI raid has a District Heights family in fear. The agents came into the house and drew their guns at the family’s daughter, but she wasn’t armed.  “They almost hit my daughter, man,” says Emory Hughley. “If I hadn’t told her to go back in her room they probably would have shot her.”

Hughley says he was asleep in the basement when he heard a bang at the front door. His 18-year-old daughter Myasia was upstairs in her room with two friends who were spending the night. Around 6 a.m. he says he came up to the living room and saw 15 FBI SWAT agents coming inside, guns drawn.

“I’m shouting ‘Nobody is armed, nobody has a gun!’ and then all of a sudden I heard ‘She’s got a gun!’ and they just opened fire,” he says.  Hughley says he looked up and saw his daughter standing outside her bedroom in the hallway. Then he heard gunfire.  “I’ve got eight holes in my wall. One bullet went past my head, almost hit me, ricocheted off my brick wall and some of the shrap metal hit my little daughter in the back of her neck, all for nothing.” says Hughley.”

The family and the whole neighborhood is stunned and traumatized by the attack, and the FBI has given no explanation aside from saying that they were “exercising a search warrant”

The girls mother is still demanding answers, “They tried to kill her,” she said. “They tried to kill my daughter.”

18 year old Myasia has since been treated and released from the hospital and has now fully recovered.

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http://www.infowars.com/meet-your-future-fema-camp-an-actual-prison-rebranded-as-a-refugee-center/

Meet Your Future FEMA Camp: An Actual Prison Rebranded as a Refugee Center

J.D. Heyes
Natural News
November 17, 2012

Imagine, for a moment, that you have lost your home in a natural disaster and with it most of your possessions. It’s wintertime, you live on the East Coast, and your old neighborhood has been leveled. What cash you have is being used for the most basic of necessities; you don’t have enough money to move into a hotel and even if you did they are all full anyway.

You have nowhere to go. You are completely reliant on the government for subsistence.

Life is as bad as it can get – or is it?
You learn that you will be moved from the miserable tent city where you are now being housed to a new temporary facility that used to be, of all things, a prison.

While some officials see this as the state making the best use of available resources, others see it as a prelude of things to come, should societal order break down at some point in the future.

‘They might as well use it’

Life in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy is still dicey for many New Yorkers and New Jerseyans who continue to suffer mightily in its wake. With so many residents now homeless, the state of New York is considering reopening the recently closed Arthur Kill Correctional Facility on Staten Island as a way to temporarily house people displaced by the storm and this past week’s nasty winter storm, The New York Post reported.

The facility, which was closed last December, served as a medium-security prison. Officials say it has the capacity to feed and house as many as 900 people who now have nowhere else to go.

“Our facilities staff have to go through it to determine what it would take to get it up and running for such a purpose,” Peter Cutler, a spokesman for the state Department of Corrections, told the paper.

“Of course, the challenge is the fact that it was closed a year ago and all of the major infrastructure components, such as boilers and wastewater system, were deactivated,” he added.

As many as 40,000 New Yorkers need shelter following the one-two punch of Sandy and the recent nor’easter. On Staten Island alone, officials said, some 5,200 people have applied for temporary FEMA housing, but like the FEMA in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the bureaucracy is painstakingly slow – only about two dozen people have been successfully placed in housing, say federal officials, leaving us to wonder if this agency’s historic bureaucratic inertia is still George W. Bush’s fault.

At least the Post understands the irony of using a former prison to house post-storm refugees, saying such an arrangement may “resemble a scene out of ‘The Walking Dead.’” But not everyone thinks it’s a bad idea.

“It’s empty. They might as well use it,” said Rob Conigatti, 39, who lost his Dongan Hills home and is now staying with his extended family. “At least they have the right facilities. You can’t keep them in schools. The kids gotta go to school.”

Note to self – Don’t rely on the government
A lot of folks are staying in homes without power and heat and are merely riding out the hard times. Others are staying with friends and family.

Many others; however, don’t have such choices. So they have to take what they get, essentially. In this case, they get FEMA.

“We have not got into the discussion of longer term transitional housings,” said Councilman James Oddo (R-SI). “If there is no other viable option, it shouldn’t be taken off the table because of a quote unquote stigma. Between being cold and having people dry, in a warm, secure place, I know what my choice is.”

But, of course, he doesn’t really have to make that choice.

Some have firmly rejected the notion. That includes Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro, according to sources who spoke with the Post.

A number of residents hardest hit by the storms feel the same way.

“I lost everything, but I still have my pride. We don’t have to stay in a prison,” said Wally Martinez, 44, who is staying at the Mount Manresa Jesuit Retreat House in Shore Acres with his wife, two kids and family dog. “My brother was once in that very prison and my mother used to visit him regularly. She used to tell me how miserable he looked and how filthy and disgusting that prison was.”

If there is a better reason to be prepared to take care of yourself in times of turmoil than having to rely on the “charity” of government, we can’t think of one.

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http://www.infowars.com/obama-supporters-call-for-secessionists-to-be-deported/

Obama Supporters Call For Secessionists to be Deported

Leftists want to characterize secession as a thought crime

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
November 15, 2012

Leftist control freaks are attempting to turn the call for states to secede from the union into a thought crime – by asking the government to have its advocates stripped of their citizenship, deported and exiled.

The viral stampede for secession has now reached a crescendo, with residents of all 50 states filing petitions with the White House calling to withdraw from the United States and form new governments independent of federal control.

The petition for Texas, the largest so far with over 107,000 signatures, states, “The US continues to suffer economic difficulties stemming from the federal government’s neglect to reform domestic and foreign spending. The citizens of the US suffer from blatant abuses of their rights such as the NDAA, the TSA, etc. Given that the state of Texas maintains a balanced budget and is the 15th largest economy in the world, it is practically feasible for Texas to withdraw from the union, and to do so would protect it’s citizens’ standard of living and re-secure their rights and liberties in accordance with the original ideas and beliefs of our founding fathers which are no longer being reflected by the federal government.”

A Daily Caller investigation found that the kind of people filing the petitions are Marine veterans, parents, mechanics and businessmen.

However, secessionist fervor has been met with a statist backlash, with other Americans, primarily supporters of Barack Obama, filing counter-petitions asking the government to, “Strip the Citizenship from Everyone who Signed a Petition to Secede and Exile Them.” A similar petition calls on the Obama administration to, “Deport Everyone That Signed A Petition To Withdraw Their State From The United States Of America.”

The two petitions calling for those who advocate secession to be deported have achieved a combined total of just over 32,000 signatures, whereas the petitions calling for states to secede are now approaching a million signatures.

However, one of the petitions attempting to characterize secessionists as thought criminals is just 4,700 signatures short of a 25,000 target that would automatically mandate a White House review – a figure already surpassed by at least seven of the petitions calling for secession.

Many Obama-supporting Twitter users have also voiced their desire to see secessionists targeted by the government merely for voicing a political grievance. View a selection of Tweets below.

Liberal Obama supporters calling for pro-secessionists to be demonized and punished as thought criminals would do well to remember the aftermath of George W. Bush’s re-election in 2004, when Democrats also called for secession.

Although some have tried to characterize calls for secession as anti-American, people like Congressman Ron Paul have pointed out that it is in fact as American as apple pie.

In a 2009 Campaign for Liberty video, Paul stated, “It’s very American to talk about secession — that’s how we came into being. Thirteen colonies seceded from the British and established a new country, so secession is very much an American principle.”

When asked how he viewed recent calls for secession, Ron Paul spokeswoman Rachel Mills said the Congressman “feels the same now” as he did about it three years ago.