December 21st, 2011 State Sponsored Terrorism used to Violate Human Rights, Based on Political Opinion

Days after the show of force and repression of people’s human rights in Loveland, Colorado, the state again used a vague law to repress people's human rights. The same lie about respecting our rights but needing to protect people’s health and safety was put forth by the state. This was December in Colorado and the state was doing everything it could to threaten people’s health, safety and human rights, by preventing basic forms of shelter from being erected. On Wednesday December 14th, Public Works officials served the assembly with a second official notice to remove all encumbrances, with a deadline of 10 a.m. on the 15th.

"The police officers were just letting them know of the illegal encumbrances in a public walkway," says Sonny Jackson, a public information officer for the Denver Police Department. Jackson says some members of the occupation voluntarily complied with the ordinance by removing their belongings. "No action was taken, and no citations were issued. The city can order the encumbrance removed, and if the warning is ignored, it can be considered a criminal offense, which comes with a maximum penalty of a year in jail and a $999 fine."

The state again pretended to listen to our concerns, however, like the last time the police chief Robert White, simply reaffirmed that they would up hold the law against our human rights. The meeting with the state did not lead to anything. Acting in bad faith and ignoring our legitimate political concerns, on December 21 in freezing weather on the streets of Denver Colorado the state again used force and violence in order to squash people’s human rights.


Women being assaulted by law enforcement due to her political beliefs 

Denver police forcing a television news reporter to vacate the area in order to prevent coverage of human rights violations.

The following day the state responded that they again would strictly enforce the encumbrance laws but confusing encumbrance laws with DRMC 39-7, when the mayor said,

"If it (a tent) goes up today it comes down today."

The chief of police Robbert White also said,

"It was pretty obvious they were going to keep those encumbrances, but it's our duty to enforce those ordinances," White says. Although several media outlets reported police aggression against both protesters and press, White described the behavior of the officers as "calm and patient." For the time being, the DPD plans to station police officers in the park to guard against further city ordinance violations. "We will have a presence in the park as long as it's necessary."

The amount of force used by the state to enforce city ordinance violation was specifically aimed at creating fear in the public in order to dissuade people from joining the assembly and exercising their political opinion. the chief of police also states that it will go on as long as necessary meaning we will never be allow to peacefully assemble, in violation of our human rights, with out it being a city ordinance violation.

The mayor also states, Denver's occupy assembly is smaller than others because the city has not allowed it to grow. This comment comes after conference calls with other mayors, Hancock says, specifically mentioning Boston. Yet the city has no records of federally directed conference call which was made. And we can clearly see the federal direction, in the documents released by the federal government.

 However, destruction of public documents is a common and illegal occurrence in Colorado. This can be seen as I have tried to legally obtain public documents from the state. Many times the state denies these legal requests and persecutes me for exposing the criminal violations by the state for destroying public documents of paramount importance to the public.

In response to this violence and repression I lead a group to call to attention the hypocrisy of the mayor's treatment of homeless.

As the state had terrorized enough people from assembling and exercising their political opinion, only a small group of people remained constantly assembled on the sidewalk around the park. The state now focused on not on overwhelming force but constant and irrational pressure, harassment and criminalizing the legal conduct we were currently engaged in. As the state began changing the laws Mayor Hancock stated that the public no longer cares about the issues our assembly was bringing up and that people were concerned with health and safety. This comment was made with not public input, and only based on the mayor’s personal opinion regarding the assembly, after months of state sponsored terrorism against a group of people exercising their human rights. This official government statement also came a little over a month after the mayor said he had not allowed the assembly to grow. This statement and previous proclamations by the mayor confirm the government actively repressed the Occupy movement in Denver specifically, as well as across the nation. As such and fearing for my life and liberty I am unwilling and unable to avail myself of the governments of the United States of America.