do people know what we are going to court for?
it’s not the L*vi’s thing, that was dropped by the city like a sack of burning crap.

we are going to court for taking about $150 worth of stuff (so it’s not that much stuff,) from Wh*le F**ds on the first day of deliberations for the Bart police shooting, then demanding that they call the cops. excessive force and extortion is what some people deem necessary, that is what they shall receive; but not us.

no, we are not live tweeting our hearing; we’re not that stupid. also, we should hope that fame is not attracting cynical comments from neighbourhood internet addicts who will undoubtedly point out that we are ‘we’ and not ‘i’. we are the McQueen, it was in the newspaper and everything, duh.
even if our lawyer is not more informed by the press than words coming from us, we have to be completely present and speak for ourselves anyway. Bucky Fuller did not allow anyone to speak on his behalf after the age of 30; now we are having more trouble maintaining this than ever in our adulthood.
this is also partially why we insist on going to trial, where a jury of our peers must hear us and not a secondary source.
our actions will remain in official public record long after insidious ad campaigns are forgotten and casual comments from the interwebs are deleted from the archives. ‘it is written’, as it were. people spend a lifetime hiding their own actions from themselves and others, opting to act in imagined worlds where personal history can be obscured; we live our life and spend our hours being present. a pile of casual words on the internet is meaningless, it is what we do that defines us.

from what we have witnessed, more people are already openly feeding themselves properly. our acquittal will only alleviate fear from those who know to help themselves. people do control themselves and only take what they need. desperation and hopelessness are what makes people take rash actions. only those who do not understand this town would think that allowing people to feed themselves will lead to a run on businesses; and only those who distrust self and others indiscriminately would think that overt violence from private interests is necessary to keep people from surviving.

rampant food poisoning has prompted congress to legislate a major overhaul of food safety regulations.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6B76PL20101208
more control, when what the public needs is education; dissemination of simple common sense such as:
DON’T EAT GARBAGE; EAT STUFF OFF THE SHELVES, NOT OUT OF THE TRASH; don’t eat expired food; smell stuff that’s been in the fridge for a while before eating it, etc.

to curb epidemics like cholera in developing countries, people educate the public: don’t eat shellfish in the summer; wash your hands after wiping your ass. we see posters proclaiming ‘help your self’ with a picture of garbage cans posted on the street. that’s not helping yourself, that’s killing yourself and asking for more intervention from authority figures. but we don’t go around telling people what to do, people do what they will. if (supposedly) barely educated people can handle public education, so can Americans.

while we are aware that if money doesn’t get earmarked for ‘major’ action, it would be difficult for social leaders to fund their vacations, we want to point out that public education is not only cheaper than legislative overhauls, it is also more effective.