September to Oct 14, 2011 State Sponsored Terrorism used to Violate Human Rights, Based on Political Opinion

The history recorded here is not the first time the Governments of the United States of America have used violence and other repressive tactics in order to squelch human rights. My story begins when I took part in a large peaceful worldwide political assembly. When at the assembly, I discussed human rights and cannabis issues with people. In order to give visual to my dissent I began sleeping on the sidewalk in front of Lincoln Park, which is directly in front of the Colorado State Capitol and Denver City and County building. Lincoln Park and Civic Center Park are located across the street from one another. These two parks are the most prominent and visible public venue for political speech, as they are meters away from the state’s and city’s largest offices as well as 4 major thorough fares and 16 crosswalks. Throughout the history of the Government of Colorado, this is a major epicenter of political dissent, making it the epicenter of state surveillance and state repression.

From the first day, the state of Colorado used High Activity Location Observation video-surveillance program (HALO) to continually monitor the peaceful political assembly and myself. All local monitoring and repression was directed by the highest levels of both the federal government and the private interest, which control the federal government. The State of Colorado installed the HALO system in order to monitor and repress political opinion during the Democratic National Convention in 2008.

I started sleeping on the sidewalk in front of Lincoln Park to maintain a constant presence as was being done in other cities across the world. As the peaceful assembly began to grow, Lincoln Park a became a hub of constant political discussions which included The Thunderdome, a free kitchen, a medical station, staffed by registered nurses and information desk, which provided a wide litany of political information. This was all created under the constant eye of law enforcement; knowing the state will eventually silence our expression as was done countless times in the past.

The HALO cameras also provided law enforcement information on when we would have structured political discussions. The day after I started sleeping down in Lincoln Park the first structured political discussion of the assembly, dubbed Occupy Denver, took place. This discussion was immediately was interrupted by a state trooper who questioned our reasons for discussing politics on state property and then went on to inform the group that we had to vacate state property a 10 o’clock. This caused some people to leave the park completely in fear of being arrested and brutalized by law enforcement. The officer was very confrontational and this was the first interaction between the State and peaceful political assembly. As with this political discussions and at every point we tried to advance our peaceful political expression or provide basic amenities, food, water, shelter, the state came and threatened us with arrest.

Around day 7 the Thunderdome was erected. Law enforcement flaccidly tried to use health code violations to prevent The Thunderdome from feeding hungry people. When the information table began displaying political pamphlets the state attempted to enforce an anti-encumbrance law in order to prevent it form exesting. The medical station was said it could not exist because of health and safety reasons, although no specific reasons could be given by law enforcement. Health, safety and anti-encumbrance laws would be the template used by private interests and the federal government to permit states to sadistically violate our human rights.

As food and water we covered by the Thunderdome, I decided to pop a tent in order to provide people assembled with shelter during the upcoming winter season. Upon setting up my tent, law enforcement officers were alerted via the HALO cameras. Law enforcement quickly approached me and informed me that I was breaking the law, although none of the officers questioned could provide me with what law I was breaking, which is a come theme of law enforcement. They also informed me if I did not take down the tent I was subject to arrest. I did not take down the tent.

Shortly after popping my tent members of the public, wanting to express their political opinion, came down and began popping tents as well. By the end of the first day there were a total of 5 tents. As food, water and shelter were taken care of, something the state would not provide, many began to voice their political opinion. People did this through many means and by popping tents in Lincoln Park, as tents are seen to represent the plight of the masses and for many tents are their only home.

Tents being a person´s only form of refuge can be seen in hundreds if not thousands of tent cities throughout Colorado. The state primarily uses force and imprisonment to deal with the situation of tent cities and homelessness. As homeless people began coming down and voicing their political opinion about their situation, law enforcement used them as well “anarchists” to propagandize the protests as possibly violent violations of health and safety and nothing more than a homeless encampment.  Propagandizing the assembly in this manner allowed law enforcement to use unrestricted violence.  The following days the state began to talk openly about repressing us. This was how the whole federally directed campaign was to be focused as it drew attention away from the exact concerns which were being raised.

The best example of the states want to persecute people based on their political beliefs is when Gov. John Hickenlooper said,

"As close as I can understand, they're on state property -- but we don't have a jail to put them in, and we haven't been able to find a way that the city, that the district attorney will prosecute.”

It is clear the state did not want to take in to consideration the very real grievances the people have. Instead they simply want to arrest us in order to silence our political opinion. Governor Hickenlooper as Mayor of Denver built  a 635 million dollar jail which I eventuly was put in.

The Mayor of Denver Michael Hancock went as far as to imply we were nothing more than criminals and a danger to the safety of Denver.

"I know there's economic pain, but even though I empathize, my job is to uphold the law and keep Denver safe."

There are many instances in the following days where the bureaucracy chose to ignore our grievances and continue to call for our arrest. The state during this time was looking for ways to arrest us as there was a conflict of jurisdiction, as the state had no jails to cage us and the City and County of Denver who had the jail did not have jurisdiction to arrest us on state property.

"We have to figure out exactly how we're going to work the jurisdictional issues," he added -- and "that process appears to be underway." Colorado State Patrol spokesman Sergeant Mike Baker says.

Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, again ignored the grievances of the people and worked with the state to criminalize us.

“We're just requesting protesters to disperse lawfully and peaceably at night in order to avoid confrontation."

This quote by the mayor is a reminder of the public the “confrontation” people expressing their political opinions have faced at the hands of the State throughout the years. Michael Hancock also stated it was only allowed to go on as long as it has because he assumed we would tire of exercising our political opinion.

"I initially expected it would be just a few days and then it would fizzle," says Hancock, who expressed worry about the safety of the protesters, the police and the property. "And then you wonder what kind of precedent this is setting."

Knowing the confrontation we had in store for us, would be indiscriminate use of force and violence, The members of the peaceful political assembly wrote a letter to Gov. John Hickenlooper. This letter pleaded to Gov. Hickenlooper to respect our human rights to peacefully assemble and voice our political opinion. A storm of violent political repression was about the bear down upon myself and the other people peacefully assembled.

This storm ensued when Governor Hickenlooper made an official statement decreeing Lincoln Park closed and the reason for dispersing Occupy Denver:

"This is about health [and] safety of the Occupy Denver protesters, and the public."

Without thought, Governor Hickenlooper classifies the public assembly as something different than the general public and contends city ordinances and ambiguous health and safety issues and permits override our human rights to peacefully assemble. This was the continuation a campagin that began before the assembly started, led by the highest levels of government in order to violently repress people's political opinion. The state did not respect our human rights they were simply buying time so they could change the rules and regulations and these changes can go through the bureaucracy.

The governments around the nation had to violently repress our voice because we were bring up issues which the state was unwilling and unable to address, issues such as the War on Drugs, homelessness and private control of the political process. The state maintains that it was necessary to enforce the ordinances for matters of health and safety, even though we had a health code-compliant free-standing kitchen that serves scrumptious snacks and delicious hot meals 24-hours a day, and a fully-stocked and staffed medical tent. Both services the city and state would not provide for the people.

How did the State of Colorado, Gov. John Hickenlooper, State Law Enforcement and Mayor Michael Hancock respect the absolute human rights to peacefully assemble and to form political opinions?

This is how the state did it on Friday October 14, 2011


Illegal Closure of Lincoln Park. 

Law enforcement using militarized gear to disburse a peaceful assembly.


More law enforcement dress in paramilitary gear preparing to violate peoples human right to peaceful assembly


State Patrol also participating in the violation of peoples human rights.


Law enforcement preparing to assault people


Law enforcement assaulting a woman based on her political opinion


The State terrorizing people peacefully expression their political opinion

The State of Colorado in coordination with other cities, the federal government and private interests purposely criminalized people’s political opinions and used force to repress peaceful political assemblies. The state is on record, during my trial  in Andrew Rudolph´s court room, saying various levels of government discussed illegally ordering Lincoln Park closed. Lincoln Park had never been closed in the history of the state. Yet to uphold anonymous complaints about health and safety and minor municipal violations the state took steps never before seen in the state, completely without public input, which is a criminal violation. As the Colorado Sunshine laws clearly states.

(2) (a) All meetings of two or more members of any state public body at which any public business is discussed or at which any formal action may be taken are declared to be public meetings open to the public at all times.

(8) No resolution, rule, regulation, ordinance, or formal action of a state or local public body shall be valid unless taken or made at a meeting that meets the requirements of subsection (2) of this section.

Even though the state took unprecedented and illegal steps to close Lincoln Park, The Thunderdome where I was expressing my political opinion and feeding hungry people, was never in the park. It was set up on the sidewalk in front of the park. Although 5 tons of free food was stolen and destroyed when law enforcement destroyed the tents which were set up in the park. The people peacefully assembling to discuss their political opinions and enjoy the fine food and wonderful conversation in front of the Thunderdome, which was not in the illegally closed park, were also arrested. The vast majority of the charges were Unlawful Conduct on State Property. The sidewalk where the Thunderdome was set up was city property and everyone was legally occupying city property. This is but one of the many illegal and focused steps private businesses directing the federal and state governments took to repress political opinion and peaceful assembly.  All additional documentation can be provided by the state of Colorado and the city and county of Denver.

Oct 15, 2011 State Sponsored Terrorism used to Violate Human Rights, Based on Political Opinion

The state of Colorado took unprecedented steps when the Department of Personal and Administration in conspiracy with Governor John Hickenlooper and state law enforcement illegally ordered Lincoln Park closed. Lincoln Park as it had never been closed in the history of the state. Yet to uphold anonymous complaints about health and safety and minor municipal code violations the state took steps, never before seen in the state, without public input. The state was preventing the people from providing public comment against Governor John Hickenlooper´s authoritarian actions in illegally closing public space and the massive mobilization of state and federal law enforcement. Everyone´s political voice was silenced by these illegal actions by the state.

I was under increased surveillance and repression by the state on October 15th, upon returning to the Thunderdome, after I was released form from the kidnapping and  false imprisonment the state subjected me to. The illegal shutting down of Lincoln Park was done to specifically to force the Thunderdome and assembly to move across Broadway, to Civic Center Park, where the City and County of Denver unlike the state has a brand new $653 million dollar prision. The Illegal closure of Lincoln Park was done specifically to cleared up all those jurisdictional issues and allow the Denver district attorney to jail and prosecute people based on their political opinion. As those were the reasons Governor Hickenlooper cited as the reason the state did not use the law to persecute us sooner.

In order to enforce the Governors illegal orders of closing Lincoln Park, the state stationed brand new patrol cars on the lawn of Lincoln Park and officers on foot on the sidewalk around the perimeter of the park. Permanently stationing large amounts of law enforcement in both Lincoln and Civic Center Park’s began on Oct 15 and was one of the most used tactics by the state to terrorize the peacefully assembled people.

“Although the Thunderdome, the original harbinger of hope and free food at the Occupy Denver camp, was removed during the protest early Friday morning, along with 24 arrested volunteers, it was replaced quickly the next morning by a new version at the corner of 14th and Civic Center Park. Officers have twice asked for the Thunderdome to be removed this afternoon, and they have been politely refused with the same frequency.”

The Thunderdome refused because we were legally feeding people who were engaging peacefully assembling and discussing their political opinion. I even attempted twice to offer food to law enforcement as they looked hungry; I was twice rebuffed, once violently.

On Saturday thousands of people came down to express their outrage against the violation of human rights by the government and a renascence of political discourse took place. The Thunderdome had the honor of feeding these people. That honor was short lived as our refusal to stop feeding people and minor Denver Revised Municipal Code violations were used by the state to justify the violence and terrorism inflicted by the state. During the repression and violence which followed law enforcement pointed weapons at and used mace on myself and others, including macing a 9 year old. At the 7 min 20 second I am repeatedly assaulted for simply offering law enforcement officer’s sandwiches.


Law enforcement's gang unit, targeting us as gang members.


Two times in 24 hours. The state gearing up to violently repress peoples human rights


More illegal closures of streets by law enforcement


Law enforcement illegally shutting down Broadway and preparing to violently violate our human rights.


Law enforcement illegally closing Civic Center Park.


Me being again assaulted for simply being in Civic Center Park after being peppersprayed by law enforcement


Cleaning out the pepperspray.  The pepperspray which has permanently damaged my eyesight.

To add insult to all the injury the state inflicted on people peacefully exercising their human rights, the state also harassed legal observers, who were present to document the actions of the state and demonstrators. Harassment of legal observers and interference with the reporting of police actions is a uniform tactic of law enforcement across the nation.

The cost charged to the people by just the DPD and the Sheriff's Department to enforce an illegal law aimed at repressing people’s human rights was $365,000, in little under 2 weeks. The total cost of state of Colorado to enforcement of minor code violations over people’s human rights is estimated to be in the tens of million dollars. This was a nationally coordinated attempt to silence peoples political opinion as can be seen with the first five days of sister occupation Occupy Philadelphia has cost $164,000 in overtime costs and$237,000 in regular time, or about $80,000 a day to the City of Philadelphia.

October 16 through 29th, 2011 State Sponsored Terrorism used to Violate Human Rights

In the days between October 16th and the 29th, as people tried various means of protecting themselves against the elements, law enforcement and the state continued their repressive tactics. The City and County of Denver provided one meeting to give the impression that the state was listining to our greviences, they were not. It is important to note however the mayor said we could exercise our human rights as long as we stayed on the sidewalk. Once on the sidewalk however the state began criminalizing this activity as well. During this meeting Mayor Hancock simply reread the municipal code violation which the state would enforce over our human rights and nothing else was discussed. The only difference between was the mayor on behest of his corporate masters was reading the law, and not a member of law enforcement.

Throughout the week of the October 16th the state placed officers in patrol cars at 1 to 3 ratio to the people assembled, thus intimidating many from exercising their political opinion. The state also again continued with their campaign of criminalizing he people assembled by implying that are actions were criminal and the state needed to continue to enforce an illegal law and protect the public from us.

“We have to make sure our main focus is still on protecting those people still using the property across from the Capitol," says Cobler, a public information officer for the State Patrol.

This official government statement was made as the Governor’s decree closing Lincoln Park was still in effect. Raising the question of why is the state protecting some people’s political opinion who, against the governors decree, are allowed to use the property across from the Capitol. Yet we are prevented from even entering the park due to our previous peaceful political assembly? Why? Because the privately organized federal government directed local governments across the nation to participate in a targeted campaign of repression and persecution aimed at people exercising their human rights.

The days after the violent repression by the state, we were violently forced to disregard our human rights and conform to the Denver municipal code, by sleeping on the sidewalk in front of the park. During this time the temperature was below 0 Celsius, people huddled together under blankets to survive the night. Around 2 am on October 19th the City and County of Denver threatened mine and the lives of the people legally exercising their human rights by turning on sprinklers covering the people assembled in water in below freezing weather. Turning sprinkles against people who are peacefully assembling is also part of the federal government’s national strategy to squelch people’s human rights. This act caused the pipes in the cities sprinkler system to burst, thus costing the people of Denver millions of dollars for repairs of the park.

The actions by the state in denying tents, a basic form of protection in winter, in a city where people frequently freeze to death, clearly shows the state was not interested in the health and safety of its citizens. In this case the state’s actions to repress peaceful political opinion directly threatened the life and personal security of everyone. The states repressive actions would become more drastic as people desperately tried to shelter themselves from the elements. The desperation for shelter again made the tent a much recognized political symbol as it has been for many political movements throughout the history of the nation and world.

As winter rapidly approached people fearing for their safety attempted many times to take refuge in a tent or structure. Every time someone attempted to shelter themselves against the elements the state law enforcement would arrive with peperspray or other weapons drawn and violently force complacence with municipal code. When law enforcement arrived to enforce municipal code people were subject to harassment and property confiscation. State theft of property is another form of repression and violence faced by those who exercised their political opinion as well as a major tool for funding the War on Drugs.

The state went so far as to criminalize homelessness and political opinion when the state kidnapped a homeless man for defending home and only form of shelter.

“Reno had received a new pair of glasses that morning -- at his own expense, he joked with the understanding that he would be arrested. "At least they won't be dragging a blind man out of that tent," he said. "I'm homeless, and I believe this is my home now. I'm willing to defend it."

Reno was so violently removed from his tent by law enforcement that he was immediately taken to the hospital for back, neck and shoulder injuries. Once again law enforcement brutalized a person simply for exercising his political opinion and attempting to shelter himself from freezing to death.


Reno after the police abused him


The Thundercube object of law enforcement repression

The following night we decided to test the limits of the municipal code which the state was enforcing against our human rights. As law enforcement was perpetually stationed all around us the limits of the law turned out to be surprisingly tight. Within 3 minutes, of building the cardboard structure known as the Thundercube, law enforcement arrived to forced compliance with the municipal code 39-7. Law enforcement also stated even sleeping on the sidewalk was illegal but they would not enforce that law.

“The small box shack drew immediate attention from police constantly positioned across the street to monitor the group because its placement blocked part of the sidewalk, Denver Police Department Sargent Jeff Hausner says. Even the people sleeping on the sidewalks at night are currently in violation of the law, but we're willing to let that one go. This one, we cannot."

The Sergeant’s quote brings up the two interesting question regarding the true reason for enforcement. Why is the state strictly enforcing Denver Revised Municipal Code 39-7 and not strictly and violently enforcing other violations of the Denver Revised Municipal Code? As the Governor, Mayor and Attorney General all said they are there to enforce the law.

"I know there's economic pain, but even though I empathize, my job is to uphold the law and keep Denver safe."

The other question the official statement of Sgt. Hausner brings up is, what municipal code is being violated by sleeping on the sidewalk? The answer is there was no law criminalizing sleeping on the sidewalk in public. That would soon change as the State would enforce other laws criminalizing peacefully assembling on the sidewalk. On top of this the state would then go on to force through a law criminalizing both homelessness and the ability to peacefully assemble.

As temperatures continued to drop Stephen Lidanne built an igloo in the snow in the park to shelter himself from the cold. Law enforcement reacted to this quickly and violently. As law enforcement could not get Stephen out of the igloo through the entrance they violently attacked the structure with shovels and batons, eventually reaching and arresting Stephen  Law enforcement even had the brilliant idea to use bulldozer to destroy the what remained of the igloo and in the process damaged much of the turf and sprinkler system of Civic Center Park. These were acts of desperation by people trying to find shelter from the elements. These were also equal acts of desperation carried out by the state in repressing our human rights to assemble and form political opinions.


“He admits he was too worried or his health to spent the night at Civic Center Park during Tuesday night's snow: Instead, he slept under a bridge. “At the very least, it was warm inside by the time they came to shine their lights on me, and you can't say that for the rest of the park. They told me to get out. Liddane's answer: "Nah, I'm good."



The next day the state’s repression continued to force the people in to life threatening situations.



On the night of October 26, as a result of the state’s strict enforcement of DRMC 39-7, five members of the assembly were hospitalized for hypothermia after the 2011 season's first major snowstorm. However, this is not a unique to this protest as people frequently freeze to death on the streets of Denver. The hypothermia reinforced the vital need for tents not just for us but for the many people who would go the winter without shelter from the elements. The city of Denver intentionally forced us in to a situation where our safety and lives were directly due to the illegal and targeted campaign to deny our human rights to peacefully assemble and exercise our political opinion. As such I am in fear of loss of my life and liberity and am unwilling and unable to avail myself of the protection of the Governments of the United States of America.

October 29 through the 31 State Sponsored Terrorism used to Violate Human Rights, Based on Political Opinion

On Saturday, October 29th 2011, three tents were erected in Civic Center Park to symbolize the loss of our human rights. The state in response, increased the level of violence used to illegally enforce a municipal code. This time the state started by assaulting, shooting and macing large groups of people. October 29, 2011 marked the day the state again raised the level of indiscriminate and violent repression of mine and others human rights.

Documentation of the amount of police used to violate our Human Rights

At the 12 second mark you can see a officer pepperspray the people gathered in the park

At the 3 min 5 second mark you can see Mr. Becarra being shot in the face with rubber bullets and pepperballs

At the 5 second mark you can see law enforcement run over a mans foot

More video of police violence showing again where I get peppersprayed, causing seeing damage.


Law enforcement assaulting large a large peaceful political assembly.


Law enforcement attacking a group peacefully assembling.


View in front of Thunderdome, which was legally operating on the sidewalk. Not in the park.


Denver Police Officer 05024 pointing a gun which is lethal from that range, background woman being bludgeoned by law enforcement.

Officers of the state, again pointing weapons at people peacefully assembling.


JT Sexton being choked after being handcuffed


The continued brutalization of JT Sexton by a unidentifiable member of law enforcement


JT pleading for help after being brutalized by law enforcement


Cleaning off pepper spray

Once again, shameless violence is used by the state to illegally enforce municipal codes over our human rights. Law enforcement informed the people assembling of their violation of city ordinance 39-7 and warned that they must disperse and leave the park or risk being arrested for unlawful activity on a city park. Although everyone in the park was simply exercising their political opinion and taking part in civic life at Civic Center Park. The state was using selective and illegally enforced laws to criminalize everyone’s political opinion regardless if they were accused of violating DRMC 39-7. Instead of ticketing the individuals who set up the tents, of which I was one, law enforcement used indiscriminate violence to practice crowd control and attack a peaceful assembly. Not one person was charged with either violation of city ordinance 39-7. Law enforcement had no legal authority to close Civic Center Park, just as the governor had no legal authority to close Lincoln Park, as doing such violates people’s human right to assemble. Yet everyone, save another false charge by law enforcement, was charged with failure to obey a lawful order. Although the only lawful order given was to comply with city ordinance 39-7, and no one was charged with violating that law.

I was serving food in the Thunderdome as law enforcement violently approached to enforce city ordinance 39-7. The Thunderdome was again on the sidewalk not in the park or near the tents thus complying with the law. Around the 9 min 10 second mark of this video, you clearly see where park is demarcated from the sidewalk with the concrete barrier between the park and sidewalk. The Thunderdome was legally on the sidewalk, yet again law enforcement illegally destroyed the Thunderdome and for the third time stole and destroyed the food we were using to feed the masses. After the riot line formed by law enforcement destroyed the Thunderdome it went on corralling people from the sidewalk in to the park forcing everyone in to a situation where they would be at risk of being arrested by law enforcement illegally enforcing the law. During political assemblies law enforcement always corral people and force them in to places where law enforcement can mass charge and mass arrest people for a crime, such as failure to obey a lawful order, created on the spot by law enforcement. This template is well practiced by law enforcement across the nation.

Obstructing highway or other passageway, one of the crimes officers charged people exercising their political opinion and legally sitting on the sidewalk in front of the Thunderdome on October 15th 2011. Yet during this illegal operation Oct 29th, law enforcement closed the exact same street around the same time to exclusively enforce a municipal code violation no worse the the one the state was violation by blocking Broadway. Yet, on October 29 no law enforcement officer was cited, let alone arrested and jailed, for this violation.  This bears repeating. Law enforcement broke a law by blocking Broadway to violently assault a group of people taking part in a peaceful political assembly, based on an alleged violation of municipal code violation no worse than the one law enforcement was breaking.

The state illegally uses force so people accede to their will and if they cannot force compliance then the state will present false charges and charges tailored to favor the state, in order to justify state use of force. This unrepentant use of violence and targeting with false charges people is a common tactic as can be see with the focused state repression of myself, JT Sexton and Caryn Sodaro, Amelia Nicol and others. Unfortunately this type of persecution is not unique to this assembly or time but are the across the board policies of the Governments of the United States of America.

Official statement were made which raises more questions as to the legalities of law enforcement entering the park. The stated reason law enforcement entered the park was to enforce DRMC 39-7, which no one was ever charged with. However, the state says they were using crowd control techniques which by the very name means targeting and controlling group of people. The state illegally repressed a peaceful political assembly using crowd control tactics in order to disperse people legally expressing their political opinion. Law enforcement then talks in terms of targeting, and shooting of people who are directly targeted. The below statement was made to justify the illegal actions of the state and publicly discredit and criminalize people exercising their human rights.

"It's important to note that our types of crowd control are targeted directly at the people who are causing problems," Murray says. "We don't just shoot a can of mace like the old days and catch a bunch of people along with the person who actually needs to be maced. We don't just spray the entire crowd like that. With new technology, we can specifically target an offender without harming anyone else. We're very reactive, and we're trying to be prepared."

The statements made by a senior law enforcement officer are fully contradicted by the video and reports of this day as well as previous and subsequent days. One report from Kelsey Whipple, a blogger for the Westword, a free local weekly newspaper covering the assembly details how law enforcement indiscriminately attacked the crowd.

“At about 3:30 p.m., the first round of violent interaction occurred on the side of the park opposite the tents. Officers moved in on the gathering with pepper bullet guns already out and pointed -- an increase in aggression compared to the beginnings of previous demonstrations. As protesters grouped to shout chants at the cops and form a barrier between the officers and the camp, police opened fire on the group and openly sprayed tear gas at any occupiers standing in the way. One protester, Andrew Cleres, was shot from a tree with an entire round of pepper bullets while taking photos of the scene.”

Neither Phillip Becarra, who was shot in the face, or Andrew Cleres, who was also shot, were ever charged with a crime despite the violence inflicted on him. Philip is one of many people shot in the face by the state because they were expressing their political opinion. Emmi Einstein was pepper sprayed and beaten with a baton by a law enforcement officer whom she identified by the badge #05100. I too was struck with batons and maced by law enforcement for the second time in two weeks. I was maced shortly after law enforcement destroyed the Thunderdome and corralled people in to the park. I was assaulted with riot batons when I went over record the badge numbers of the officers cuffing and choking my friend JT Sexton. There are countless accounts, video and photographs, which clearly show how misleading Sgt. Murry statements are, such as Philip Becarra’s account of the events that day.

“Becerra was injured on his face and neck during the afternoon's first outbreak away from the tents. Another protester was injured when a police motorcycle rolled over his foot. "They pepper sprayed me and I fell and then went to pour water on my face," says Becerra, who returned to the area later in the night. "When I got back up, I was shot in the face. I had to go to the hospital to have the wound treated.”

There are many cases in Denver of law enforcement and the criminal justice system lying to cover up for the criminal activity of law enforcement. There are also many cases that go unreported so the true depth of the violation of peoples human rights will never be known.

The American Civil Liberties Union also took note and commented that the state used violence to repress people’s human rights.

"I'm particularly concerned about the practice of shooting pepper-ball guns into a crowd of people who are exercising their First Amendment rights.” says Mark Silverstein, legal director of the Colorado ACLU.

The illegal force used by the state on October 29th is a continuation of the repressive policies always used by the Governments of the United States of America against political opinion. State repression unrelenting increased in the following days.

On October 31 the city and county of Denver discussed a proposed bill which will criminalize homelessness and further violate people’s human rights to assemble and express political opinions. When I and others attempted to participate directly in government by going to a city council meeting, law enforcement denied us access to the city and county building. At this point the state used 21 police cars continually monitored Occupy Denver.

These event put me in fear for my life and liberty. As such I am unwilling and unable to avail myself of the protection of the Governments of the United States of America.

Nov 12 and 13th 2011 State Sponsored Terrorism used to Violate Human Rights, Based on Political Opinion

November 12 2011, again the state violated the human rights of people peacefully assembling to express their political opinions. The state illegally closed Lincoln Park again, this time using caution tape. The state then attempted and Civic Center park, through force and by order of the mayor who had no legal authority to do so.

Again law enforcement used overwhelming force, twice as many officers as the people assembled. Again the state used uncalled for violence. Again people were injured by law enforcement, third time I was pepper sprayed. Again the state violated its own municipal code in order to violently enforce municipal code, Kafkaesque. Again the state made official comments that are directly contradicted by video and documented reports. And again the Thunderdome was set up on the sidewalk, not the illegally closed park, which the state destroyed none the less. The state again trashed people’s homes and property and threw away food that was used to feed everyone. This marked the beginning of the state using the anti-encumbrance law to justify the distruction of the Thunderdome and anything else set up on the sidewalk which further squelched our human rights.

"From now on, officers will strictly enforce the ordinance and remove any items that block the sidewalk. People are still allowed to sleep on the sidewalk but they are "not allowed to set up homestead," Jackson said."


The sidewalk the Nov 12, 2011 in 100% compliance with the anti-encumbrance law.


Gearing up to violate human rights


¨If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face...forever.¨ George Orwell



Illegal destruction of the legally operating Thunderdome


Law enforcement brutalizing media


Law enforcement on the left pushing protesters in to traffic


Illegal destruction of Thunderdome and forceful denial of peaceful political assembly


Please take note of the live ammunition and gun being worn by the officer on the left.

The following day as upwards of 35 law enforcement vehicles were stationed at various points throughout Civic Center Park in order to repress anyone willing to peaceful assemble and express their political opinion. During this repression as I was walking through Civic Center Park and law enforcement arrested me and falsely charged me with inciting a riot.


Me walking through Civic Center park as law enforcement drives around harassing people.

December 12 2011 State Sponsored Terrorism used to Violate Human Rights, Based on Political Opinion

December 12, 2011, I organized a peaceful assembly against capitalism in general and Wal-Mart specifically. This political action was taken in conjunctions with other cities around the North American continent.  The West Coast Port shutdown was aimed at peacefully demonstrating against corporate plundering of our planet.  In Loveland, Colorado there is a Wal-Mart distribution center which is demarked from public property by a large yellow line, making the area in front of the line public property.  As such I planned a completely peaceful picket line to march on public property in front of the Wal-Mart distribution center.  All steps were taken to ensure that this action was a peaceful and legal assembly which everyone could take part in.  The state responded again by increasing the force used.  At this political assembly all law enforcement officials had live ammunition loaded in their guns and there was a private paramilitary officer also working with local law enforcement.

Please notice the automatic weapon being held by law enforcement officers

In Colorado the federal government turned this peaceful protest in to a terrorist threat.  The FBI’s Joint Terrorist Task force, which is based in Colorado, viewed both myself and others as terrorist threats, sent agents to threaten us based on a clearly legal political action. 

On December 12 I went in to my state mandated pretrial meeting, which is the state’s way of making a person guilty until proven innocent in legal proceedings. There I was led to an office where two FBI Domestic Terrorism Task Force agents attempted to integrate me. It was I and the two FBI agents in the room, when one of the agents read the US code regarding terrorism,

At which point I said I would like to talk to my lawyers. I then called my lawyers Adam Platt and Robert Corry. To justify the allegations that I was a terrorist the FBI agents said they received an anonymous tip from FBI informants specifically placed in Occupy Denver to spy and disrupt a peaceful political assembly. The repression used by the state in claiming I was planning terrorism put me in enough fear for my life and liberty that I did not participate in a legal expression of my political opinion. As such and fearing for loss of life and liberity, I am unwilling and unable to avail myself of the protection of the Governments of the United States of America.

Urban Camping Ban and the Criminalzation of Peaceful Assembly.

The state repeatedly used the law in order to criminalize our human rights to peacefully assemble as the assembly adapted to these changes so did the states reason for criminalizing the assembly. As we have seen in the federally directed plans the state always intended to repress this peaceful political assemble. Below is the story of how the state changed laws to not only criminalize our human right to peacefully assemble but also criminalize homelessness on the streets of Denver and Boulder.

"The mayor said Occupy Denver can protest 24 hours-a-day if it wants as long as they stay on the sidewalk and not in the park between the hours of 5 a.m. and 11 p.m. City parks are closed during those hours and the mayor says police will continue to enforce the law."

This was a blatant lie as the state was in the process of criminalizing peaceful assembly and political opinion. Days after the mayor said we can protest 24 hours a day if we want, he along with the city councilman Albus Brooks and Denver police department put in motion plans to deny and repress peoples human rights. This was done in the guise of health and safety and directed by the federal government.

The new law that the state was proposing specifically targeted Denver's homeless population as well as peoples right to peaceful assembly. Knowing this many of the people assembled recorded a video documentary on human right to peaceful assembly and basic forms of shelter.

The state constantly claims that this ban is not aimed at denying us our human rights but rather to protect the health and safety of the homeless population in Denver. This excuse is a again a lie as all organizations that deal with he homeless were opposed to this plan.

The state even went so far as to prevent us form entering the Denver City Council Building when the state first introduced the proposed bill.

As the discussion regarding what would be refereed to the Urban Camping Ban  was taking place, the state was violently enforcing minor municipal ordinances in order to repress the political assembly.

The government hypocrisy continued regarding health and safety on December 20th 2011 mayor Hancock read the names of the homeless who have died on the streets of Denver at a staged photo political photo op to again feign support regarding homeless issues.

The city council pretended to discuss and debate this proposed law and when they finally did pass it the people attempted to peacefully express their out rage but the state quickly repressed any attempt.


State making sure we comply.


Just in case the 6 other law enforcement officers need help.


Law enforcement preventing legal access to the city and county building

After the bill passed the ACLU also commented regarding the targeted enforcement and languageof the law.

"The ACLU of Colorado finds the Ordinance mean spirited. Simply put, the Ordinance criminalizes homelessness in open view. Arguments to the contrary are simply false and statements to effect that the Ordinance does “not endorse arrests” ignore the plain language of the Ordinance. The Ordinance clearly provides for enforcement through citations and arrest and even permits the arrest of someone on private property camping “without the express written consent of the owner.” This provision places the burden of showing the owner’s consent on the individual accused of unlawful sleeping on private property."

A statement of outrage was also printed by the Editor of the Westword Patti Calhoun, Denver's oldest free source of media.

"And although Denver City Council members managed to author, and approve, and even implement an urban-camping ban in a fraction of that time, Triangle Park remains a mess. The ban will only make it tougher to clean up, as service providers scramble to increase bed space; the Denver Rescue Mission is considering a project that would add 500 spots, for example, and other facilities are looking at all-night drop-in centers after the parks close at 11 p.m. and the homeless are pushed off the 16th Street Mall into outlying areas."

The targeted nature of this law can also be seen on how the state enforces the new law. As with tents in the park, DRMC 39-7, and other minor municipal code violations one would expect strict enforcement. However that was not the case, this law was written to allow the state to selectively enforce the law.

This "Urban Camping Ban," is a violation of our human rights shrouded in a false concern for the homeless in Denver. The sad part about this story is Denver was not the only city around the state to change the laws in order to criminalize homelessness and people's human rights. Boulder also illegally changed the laws to criminalize us as well.

"The Boulder County Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado (ACLU) urges the Boulder City Council to reject this current proposal," Golden writes. "We propose the City instead adopt a limited and narrowly-drawn no-permit reservation system ordinance that would allow a group exclusive use of a specific park or public space at a specific time for First Amendment activity. Public parks and the public will be adequately protected by this system, and by the enforcement of existing ordinances."

Boulder's change of law to violate our human rights was done in and even more totalitarian manner. The Director of Personal and Administration, the DPD, the mayor's and governor's office illegally and with out public comment closed Lincoln and Civic Center Park in Denver.  When that failed the state just changed the municipal code. In Boulder however the totalitarian change of law was done by one person City Manager Jane Brautigam. To allow the political opinion of one non-elected person in a position of governmental power to change laws in order to restrict and prohibit our human rights to assembly and political opinion is a clear and blatant violation of our human rights. The above violation of our human rights is another reason I am unwilling and unable to avail myself of the protection of the governments of the United States of America.