When a workman didn't return from lunch one day, I learned that he had been cuffed in Clark Park and taken to the 18th district for several hours. He explained later that Philly's finest told him that "there are powerful people in the neighborhood" and they won't tolerate beer in Clark park.
Note: He was eating a sandwich. He was not drinking the beer, which was in a paper bag beside him with the cap on!
He was subsequently required to go to "community court." He was sentenced to two days on the UCD chain gang and given a $225 fine. Well, now we have a beer garden planned for Clark Park.
(Note: Community court is a mass processing center where one is guilty with no chance to prove otherwise. It is the bastardization of an old health care intervention model to divert non-violent drug offenders away from the criminal injustice system, but in its bastardized form causes serious harm to society. I did a great deal of professional work in this area and wrote the first known proposal to deliver intense drug treatment to addicted parolees in the city. Please note: most victims of these community courts do not have addictions, but are part of disempowered communities. Mandated treatment is a total lie and waste of expensive tx resources!)
I hope some people recognize that the privatization and commercialization of our parks is done in a step by step process over time! (e.g. The redesign of Clark Park and formation of the "invitation only" Clark Park Partnership took 7-8 years.) The new, prohibitively high rent, to obtain mandatory permits for peasants was announced last year by the city, but waivers were given to all at first.
Before imposing the new park rents to end all non-corporate community activities, it makes sense to begin the special commercial uses first, and then withdraw waivers from all groups except the special service district and its obedient sycophants, FOCP. Commercial uses of the parks will be normalized, and those banned from the park through the prohibitively high costs of permits will believe that connected special service districts don't get rent waivers, but they will.
It was clear from my research into the secrets about the new park rents that the ultimate plan is to turn over all permit rents to the special service districts, which will be the one group that will continue to get rent waivers for their beer gardens, etc. (I stopped my own research after the UC Review wrote an absurd and unprofessional piece calling my offer to work with them on an investigation, rumors.)
Here is the Nutter plan/the Penn plan: The special service districts are now called the caretakers of the physical space that was public parks. The park rents are justified as necessary revenue to care for the physical space. Based on experience, it's easy for me to see that the rents collected from volleyball players, community festival groups,etc. will be sent directly to the special service districts in the final form of the privatization. (Think of the plan to send property taxes to NIDS and BIDS)
Do you see why they didn't do all of this at once? With corporate control of powerful media propaganda, all dimensions of this transformation of parks to corporate commercial use and profits are marketed individually to a confused and distracted public. We will all be happy consumers going to Tony West's beer garden with lots of dollars, as the old community gatherings quietly disappear.
You might think that this criminalization of a workman while marketing an FOCP beer party is a clear violation of the old 14th amendment and equal protection of the laws within a jurisdiction. Or that misusing permits to confer special privledges to some that are denied to all would violate a century of 1st amendment rulings of the supreme court. Well, you would be correct but the US Constitution is null and void in these United Corporate States of Plutocracy. (Only a small part of the 2nd amendment is still active because armed roving gangs will be important to the brutalization during the final enslavement.)
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