Police on the Wrong Side of History... Often They Fight In Favor of EVIL... Beating Up Black People That Wanted to Vote... Anti-War Protesters... Arresting People for Marijuana... Why Do They Behave Crazy?

Ever Wonder What it Must Be Like to Be One of Those People? Dedicating Your Life to Preventing Black People from Voting... Strange!

Police Beating Up People Protesting Against the Vietnam War... You would have to be a Special Style of Stupid to think the Vietnam War Should be CONTINUED... "Let's Send MORE People to Die for Nothing! Whee!"

CAMP - The Campaign Against Marijuana Planting - Was a Total Failure -  now Marijuana is Legal but MANY people are still in Jail for Farming... #CrazyLawsSUCK

Murder of George Floyd by Policeman. 

Who Later went to Prison...

Sometimes it goes beyond the police and the National Guard Does EVIL... 

and It's World Wide... 

Tank Man in China Protest Tienanmen Square

and in Paris, The Government wants to Raise Retirement age fro 62 to 64... So the Police Attack!

There was ONE Time that the Police Were Actually In Favor of GOOD and Opposed to EVIL... January 6th at the US Capitol... Over a Thousand TrumpNiks® Were Arrested for Attempting to Overthrow the USA and Crown Trump King. THEY FAILED!

and here we are on March 19th, 2023 and Trump is Predicting he will be arrested Two Days from Now... and He's Calling for His Supporters to PROTEST! TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY!!!

Will we have ANOTHER 1,000 TrumpNiks® Arrested? That Would Be WONDERFUL... Maybe 2,000... That would be Even Better!

Let's FIX the Crazy Gun Laws - Ban Assault Rifles Like We Did in 1994 - That Was Proven to Save Lives.

CONCLUSION: Mass-shooting related homicides in the United States were reduced during the years of the federal assault weapons ban of 1994 to 2004. https://journals.lww.com/jtrauma/Abstract/2019/01000/Changes_in_US_mass_shooting_deaths_associated_with.2.aspx

LINK: The Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act or Federal Assault Weapons Ban (AWB) was a subsection of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, a United States federal law which included a prohibition on the manufacture for civilian use of certain semi-automatic firearms that were defined as assault weapons as well as certain ammunition magazines that were defined as large capacity.

The 10-year ban was passed by the U.S. Congress on August 25, 1994 and was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on September 13, 1994.^[1] 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Assault_Weapons_Ban

On FaceBorg SE Said: 

Whenever people attempt to have a rational conversation about gun safety or common-sense gun laws, some gun nut always brings up the subject of gang violence in Chicago. Because there are gang-related shootings and street crimes in Chicago and other cities, somehow this cancels out the need to do anything about mass shootings. To me, it's apples and oranges. Yes, gang-related shootings are a problem, but it's not at all on the same level as mass shootings. I'm not sure if there is any way to stop gangs from wanting to kill people in rival gangs. But to compare this to a school shooting is ludicrous.

JD Replied: Chicago is also really close to Indiana which has very lax gun laws. So, while the city of Chicago does have strict laws, a lot of the guns on the street in Chicago were purchased in Indiana.

VKK Said: Apparently as of 2020, the leading cause of death for kids is mass shootings. Not cancer, not car accidents. Mass shootings.

AI Said: it's guns in general including accidental discharges that are the leading cause of death for children, not mass shootings. Not that this makes it any better and not that I have the stats at hand to show you (that article is in an open tab on my work computer) but I had this discussion just after one of last month's mass shootings. And what a fucking horrible sentence THAT is.

I Said: Outlaw Guns, Collect Guns, Melt Guns. It's Not Complicated. I have to point out the Facts... Most of that "Gang Related" Murder is Really Black on Black Crime. Ask your Gun Nut Friends When they Started Caring so much about the lives of Black Men. Was It When George Floyd was Murdered? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_George_Floyd

NI Said: Gang shootings aren't just limited to gang on gang tho. Lots of innocent bystanders, especially young kids, get caught in the cross fire too.

SE Replied: True, but it's still unreasonable to try to compare them to mass shootings. Apples and oranges.

I Repeated Myself: If we simply Outlawed Guns, Collected Guns and Melted Guns there would be Fewer Gun Deaths... Fewer Gang Related Deaths... Fewer Suicides... Fewer Massacres in Schools... Fewer Deaths by Accidert... It's Not Complicated.

SE Said: I agree, I wish we could do what they've done in other countries where mass shootings aren't a problem like they are in the USA. But unfortunately, the 2nd Amendment apparently makes it impossible to do the obvious. We can't outlaw guns, but there is no reason why we can't regulate them better. The 2nd Amendment does not prohibit us from doing that much.

I Replied: It only Takes 60 Votes in the US Senate and We Can Get Things Done. Campaign Online for Democrats Nationwide... 

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/04/whip-inflation-now.html

It Costs You Nothing... 

Could Save America From Disaster... 

We Need to Outlaw Guns... The Problem IS GUNS! Not Video Games, Not Lack of Jesus in the Schools, Not Missing Fathers... The Problem Is Too Many Guns... IT'S GUNS! Write to Your Senator and Tell 'em What You Think! I Just Did... 

https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

If Marching in the Streets Waving a Sign that Says BAN ASSAULT WEAPONS is What YOU DO, Then By All Means DO THAT!

On a Different Subject:

Backstory (~);-} The Origin of Grateful Dead Artwork, Logo, Icons - Skull and Roses, Dancing Bears, Steal Your Face, AoxoMoxoA... Mouse, Kelley, Owsley, Bob Thomas, Rick Griffin, Wes Wilson, Victor Moscone, Bob Seidemann

Stanley "Mouse" Miller said: We [Miller and collaborator Alton Kelley] would go to the San Francisco library and peruse the books on poster art. They had a back room full of books you couldn’t take out with great references. We were just going through that and looking for something. And found this thing and thought, “This says Grateful Dead all over it.” I hate to say this, but Kelley cut it out with a pen knife. I always say that we Xeroxed it, but there weren’t Xerox machines then. I finally found it about two years ago, the actual cut-out piece, and I went, “Oh, my God.” It’s from the book of poems “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.” The edition was done by an artist called Edmund Sullivan. And the poem that goes with this illustration is fantastic. It’s short and sweet and had to do with wine, women and song.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._J._Sullivan

Skull and Roses Album Cover - Grateful Dead Record Cover

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List of All the Rock Concerts I've Ever Gone To. Since I've Started to Experience Dementia, I'm Writing this all down so I'll Be able to read it later... and say... OH YEAH! I Remember That!

To Simplify Things... Here is a List of Bands I Did Not See... Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Janis Joplin, The Doobie Brothers, Fleetwood Mac or The Beatles...

My First Concert Was... The Loading Zone at the Presbyterian Church in Los Gatos, CA... as a High School Freshman... 

The Tower of Power at The Chateau in Los Gatos... Outdoors in the Redwood Forest... I was High on LSD.

I Worked as a Security Guard at Forbes Mill in Los Gatos. We Had Live Bands on Friday and Saturday Nights and Folk Singers on Wednesday. I Don't Remember Any Names... They Were all other High School Classmates... 

The First Fillmore West Show Was: The Youngbloods - "Come on People Now, Smile On Your Brother. Everybody Get Together Right Now", Chicago Transit Authority and Coliseum...

another Fillmore West Show (also Known as The Carousel Ballroom) was Lee Michaels...

and Yet another Fillmore West Show was Johnny Winter And Rick Derringer... 

Winterland! An Ice Skating Rink in San Francisco - Recycled into Bill Graham's EPIC Concert Hall... Maximum Attendance about 5,000... 

1972 - The Grateful Dead, The New Riders of the Purple Sage and The Sons of Champlin... With My Girlfriend Liz Dunbar, Joe Franck and Rachael Ludlum... The Big Song of the Night was "Casey Jones."

1972 - The Rolling Stones and Stevie Wonder - Twice in One Day.

Emerson, Lake and Palmer (Tarkus) and The Mahavishnu Orchestra with John McGlaughlin --- ELP again on their Pictures at an Exhibition Tour... 

Traffic - Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason

Yes - The Guitar Player Played too Much and Rick Wakeman Didn't Play Enough...

Quicksilver Messenger Service

David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars on Halloween...

The Allman Brothers...

Johnny Winter, Foghat and Peter Frampton - He was The Best! 

Frank Zappa - The Grand Wazoo

I Guess That's All the Winterland Shows... 

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The Grateful Dead at University of Reno Football Field playing thru the Wall of Sound... I was high on LSD...

It's a Beautiful Day at Flint Amphitheater at Stanford... 

Ike and Tina Turner Review at San Jose Civic Auditorium...

I was High on LSD...

Chuck Berry, Bill Haley and the Comets at San Jose Civic Auditorium...

BB KING with My Wife JoAnn Humphrey at Circle Star... San Carlos... Near San Francisco... 

The Grateful Dead and Santana on New Years Eve at the Cow Palace. The Bands Merged into One... 

The Grateful Dead at San Francisco Civic. I Ate Magic Mushrooms... and We Played Volleyball before the Concert... 

Sopwith Camel at De Anza College Outdoors...

Boz Scaggs at De Anza College Indoors... 

Procol Harum with Robin Trower - Berkeley Community Theater...

George Harrison with Ravi Shankar and Billy Preston - Oakland Coleseum

Paul McCartney & Wings RFK Stadium - Washington DC

The Grateful Dead - RFK Stadium - On Some Unknown Psychedelic That Someone Dosed Me With - I Think it was MDMA... Don't Know

The Grateful Dead - Capitol Center, Landover Maryland - Many Times

The Grateful Dead - Meriweather Post Pavillion - Columbia Maryland - Six Times - LSD & Magic Mushrooms

The Grateful Dead - Madison Square Garden

The Grateful Dead - Balitmore Civic Center

The Grateful Dead - University of Maryland Boys Gym

Crosby Stills and Nash & The Grateful Dead - Three Rivers Stadium - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Furthur Festival - Shoreline, Mountain View

The Grateful Dead - Oakland Colesium - LSD

The Grateful Dead - Hampton, Virginia

The Grateful Dead - Levi Stadium, Santa Clara - Farewell Tour - Two Shows - Ate a Lot of Cannabis Cookies

Frank Zappa DAR Constitution Hall Washington DC

Tangerine Dream - Warner Theater, Washington DC

KRAFTWERK - Warner Theater, Washington DC

Kitaro - Warner Theater, Washington, DC

The Beach Boys -Oakland Stadium

The Beach Boys with Jimmy Page and Joan Jett - The Washington Monument in Washington DC on the Fourth of July with Fireworks. 

Blondie - Meriweather Post Pavillion - Columbia Maryland

James Taylor - Meriweather Post Pavillion - Columbia Maryland

Willie Nelson with Soon to be President Jimmy Carter and Family - a fundraising Concert for His Election Campaign... Meriweather Post Pavillion - Columbia Maryland

Willie Nelson and Leon Russel at an Amusement Park in Virginia.

Pat Matheny and Lyle Mays - Meriweather Post Pavillion - Columbia Maryland

ASIA - Meriweather Post Pavillion - Columbia Maryland

Edgar Winter Group - Wax Museum, Washington DC

Weird Al Yankovich - Wax Museum, Washington DC

Asleep at the Wheel - Wax Museum, Washington DC

NRBQ (New Rhythm and Blues Quartet) - Wax Museum, Washington DC

BETTY - and Many Local Bands at The Washington Monument, Washington DC

Root Buy Slim and the New Hope For The Criminally Insane - The 9:30 Club, Washington DC

Parlament/Funkadelic - CALNEVA Lodge Lake Tahoe

Parlament/Funkadelic - La Salles, Chico, California

Jeff Pershing Band - Central Plaza, Chico, California

and Many other Bands at the Friday night Concert in the Park... Every Friday Night All Summer Long... 

Humboldt Calypso Band in Arcata, CA - Creamery Festival

David Lindley at Humboldt State University

Samba Parade Many Times at Humboldt State University

Tim Day's Band - Blue Rhythm Revue - Arcata's Plaza

Tim Day's Band - Old Town Eureka

Calamity Jane! - Old Town Eureka

Unknown Punk Rock Band at a Iraq War Protest March... First they Observed a Moment of Silence for the Dead... and Then They Observed a Moment of NOISE for the Dead...

Tofu Mike Schwartz did the PA Sound System

Humboldt Folklife Festival in Blue Lake (twice)... Many Bands... including Lila Nelson and Mike Schwartz... Ukesperience, Fortuna Bandemonium, Rooster McClintoc... 

Slewfoot String Band - a Practice Session in Manila, Ca and then a Concert at the AA Bar and Grill in Eureka, CA 

Led Zeppelin, Lee Michales, The Tubes - Kezar Stadium, San Francisco

SNACK Concert - Students Need Athletics Culture and Kicks - Kesar Stadium - Many Bands - Bob Dylan, The Band

Trouble Funk - George Washington University, Washington DC

Herbie Hancock - George Washington University, Washington DC

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some more I Just Remembered

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John Cage - Composer: at National Science Foundation Auditorium

Gamelan Orchestra at the National Art Gallery East Wing (Modern Art)

Chip Davis: The Guy from Mannheim Steamroller at National Art Gallery West Wing (Old Paintings)

Jerry Garcia Band: 

Keystone Palo Alto, 

DAR Constitution Hall - With Robert Hunter, 

San Jose State Boys Gym

Bobby Weir Solo... Bobby and The Midnights, Kingfish

Phil Lesh and Ned Lagin: Seastones

Harry Belafonte at Wolftrap

1812 Overture with Cannons at Wolftrap

Henri Mancini at the US Capitol July Fourth

Beethoven's Ninth Conducted by Leonard Bernstein at the Kennedy Center

Japanese Techno Pop Group at the Kennedy Center

MUSICALS:

Oklahoma - Saratoga Drama Group

My Fair Lady - Saratoga Drama Group - I Worked as a Stagehand and Painted Sets... 

Carousel - Woodminster in the Oakland Hills

HAIR - Some Theater in San Francisco

The Boogaloo Has Started... and The Main Boogie is Trump Himself! Paving the way for Cancelling The Election and Crowning Himself CZAR.

Headline: Trump announces plan to send federal law enforcement to Chicago, Albuquerque... The president says the initiative is necessary to counter violent crime, but local leaders say it’s “unacceptable” and political. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/22/trump-law-enforcement-chicago-albuquerque-378692

Patriots Arise!
REJECT MONARCHY

KEEP ABORTION LEGAL- We need a Million People in the Streets of Washington DC. DAYS OF RAGE

If you can't go to DC, walk in to any government office anywhere and let your voice be heard. Or Just Take to the Streets Anywhere that is Highly Visible... Freeway Footbridges with a BIG SIGN, In Front of City Hall... OCCUPY!

KEEP ABORTION LEGAL - Nationwide Protest March on Tuesday - Join Us. 
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stop-the-bans-abortion-protests_n_5cdf8acce4b09e05780422da?guccounter=1

https://thehill.com/homenews/news/444368-aclu-womens-march-and-other-womens-groups-to-hold-nationwide-protests-over


https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/05/17/nationwide-protests-and-state-boycotts-planned-amid-wave-gop-attacks-abortion-rights

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American History: Seattle WTO Protest 1999 - This is What Democracy Looks Like - Documentary Movie - Protest Against the World Trade Organization WAS SUCCESSFUL... 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Seattle_WTO_protests

American History: Chicago 1968 - "The Whole World is Watching" chanted the Yippies as "The Pigs" started a Police Riot at the Democratic Convention... President Lyndon Johnson decided to NOT RUN for reelection... and then he went back to Texas and Drank Himself to Death... 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Democratic_National_Convention_protest_activity

Great Biography Movie: Heather Booth. A 1960s Civil rights activist who organized protests about Vietnam, Women's Liberation.

http://heatherbooththefilm.com/ An inspirational film about a person that made a difference in the world thru activism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Booth

She founded a school and taught how to become a community organizer.
Campaigned for Mayor Harold Washington in Chicago.

Anti-gun violence protesters shut down part of Chicago freeway...

Thousands of anti-violence protesters marched along a Chicago interstate on Saturday, shutting down traffic in an effort to draw attention to the gun violence that's claimed hundreds of lives in some of the city's poorest neighborhoods and pressure public officials to do more to stop it. Some stopped to write on the road with chalk: "Enough is enough" and "Peace."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chicago-interstate-94-dan-ryan-expressway-protesters-to-draw-attention-to-gun-violence-2018-07-07/

My Parents had a SNCC fundraiser at our house during the 1960s. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

 A Black Man gave a speech about The Civil Rights Movement and we sold admission tickets. Many people attended and the house was packed. In general, my parents were opposed to racism. Los Gatos had VERY few Black people but Many Mexican Americans and Orientals.

I remember watching the Television News. Black and White films of The MOON Landing and The  Police Riots at the Democratic Convention in Chicago in 1968. "The Whole World is Watching" chanted the Anti-War Protesters... Television was a new invention and bringing news films into the living rooms of America helped end the Vietnam War. The Moon Landing was kind of dissapointing as the film was grainy and dark... What a whiner I am...

I also enjoyed Rowan and Martin's Laugh In and That Was The Week That Was (a satire of the news).

Read more of my Autobiography at: http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html

Great Book: "Dreams from My Father" by Barack Obama. Insight into the problems of Black people in Chicago...

Autobiography... He was born and raised in Hawaii then spent three years living in Indonesia with his stepfather. Went to college in LA and NYC and then became a "Community Organizer" in Chicago. It's difficult for me to grasp that such a career exists... Yet, he did that and it paid him enough to buy Rent and food, a car etc etc etc...

Amazing... His main concern was how to get Black people jobs in a rust belt city. A generation before, they worked in factories and steel mills but by the time Obama got there all those jobs had gone to China. He did not succeed.

I admire his efforts to try and solve a problem that seems impossible to solve. To this day, Chicago has terrible troubles in the Black neighborhoods. Murder, gang violence etc etc etc