i went down to the peterson field this morning to run at the track and noticed SCUSD maintenance workers covering-up ground squirrel burrows with dirt from a large truck - i eventually approached the workers with a video camera and asked them what they were doing to the ground squirrels, and one of the workers jumped out of the truck and said this...(i will now be starting a campaign educating apartment dwelling folks about animal rights and/or human rights and/or the protection of civil liberties and/or civil rights - not encouraging, but also not discouraging further duck feeding at the apartments so our beloved ducks can be cared for in a compassionate fashion - and isn't it a bit strange that people can get away with poisoning ground squirrels, violently attacking duck feeders, lying to investigators, ignoring exculpatory evidence and violating civil rights statutes etc - but i can't feed the ducks?...hmmm - i think those little SC piggies need to go f#%k themselves - and as for the democrats in control of the city of sunnyvale and/or santa clara; all this green this and green that is leading to the inevitable; the green party taking your shit over, so i think both of your crooked backscratching political parties better get with the program or get the f#%k out of our faces, cuz we don't need any more bullshit than we already have, got it?) related story: X

Original Message - From: lik roper To: CityAttorney@ci.santa-clara.ca.us ; DA - Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 12:34 PM - Subject: Re: BEGGING TO DIFFER...
REGARDING THE DUCKS: the ordinance you recently cited was 6.15.010 - and if you read the law it clearly pertains to: 1) the 'keeping' of certain animals and fowl, and - 2) the nearness of dwellings to the said animals 'kept' - it reads as follows; "KEEPING OF CERTAIN ANIMALS AND FOWL - GENERALLY; a) it shall be unlawfull to keep or maintain any equine animal, any bovine animal, any sheep, hog or goat, any live hare, chicken, duck, turkey, goose, pigeon or other fowl as provided in this chapter. - b) any person maintaining any such animal or fowl within the city shall keep the premises upon which such is kept fenced. or if such animal is staked, so as to keep the animal from leaving the premises upon which such is kept, and shall not permit such animal or fowl to run at large upon the street or upon the property of any other person" (ordinance 1205 1 ~ 1, 2-18-69 formerly ~ 3-18)
first off; 1) the said animals (ducks) originate from and/or are being officially 'maintained' by (and/or are being 'kept' by) the various apartment complexes in the surrounding area; and - 2) both the city of sunnyvale and santa clara installed the duck crossing signs many years ago which clearly permit such said animals and/or fowl to run at large upon the street (and inadvertently upon the property of any other person); - 3) the various apartment complexes in the area likely have no permit to 'keep' the said animals in question (and/or realistic ability to 'keep' these said animals in the fashion specified by the ordinance, as the said animals are clearly more wild and 'unkept' than domestic); and - 4) these same said animals (ducks) have been 'kept' unfenced at various apartment complexes in the area for many years, and subsequently conduct their reproductive activities in the surrounding neighborhood(s) every year between the new moon of january/february, and the summer solstice on june 21st (the ordinance responsible for this process is known as 'natural law'); and finally - 5) there is likely a conflict of laws and/or interests of sorts between santa clara and sunnyvale ordinances regarding this matter, as one side of my street is santa clara - and the other is sunnyvale...
in retrospect; since the said animals (ducks) are incapable of being 'kept' in the fashion stated in ordinance 6.15.010, then 6.15.010 clearly does not apply to this situation, as the animals in question are clearly not caged farm animals - ordinance 6.15.010 was drafted back in february of 1969 when the valley of heart's delight was being paved over to create the silicon valley (i moved here with my family in 1967), so if you cite the year in which 6.15.010 was created; the clear intent of this ordinance was directed at farms and/or caged animals - not wild ducks who roam free, just ask the owners of the corn palace about that one...essentially; this ordinance was a roundabout way of shutting down the santa clara valley's agricultural past for a 'better' future with polluted groundwater, suburban sprawl and traffic jams etc...
and it occurred to me; why can the owner of the lake terrace apartments do whatever he wants with HIS property, but other santa clara residents cannot do the same with their own?...do you need loads of money to really do what you want with your property?...why can he pave over the ducks' habitat, and we cannot take up the slack?...and if i am technically 'maintaining' wildlife by feeding ducks then how about all the people who 'maintain' doves and songbirds? - are they not 'maintaining' wildlife in santa clara?...from now on i am not feeding ducks - i am feeding doves and pigeons and songbirds like every other old lady in santa clara; and if ducks happen to eat some...
my friends' roomate mick said there is a federal law against feeding wildlife, a law that mainly applies to hunters; so you can shoot ducks but you can't feed them? is that it? - i have found at least 5-10 dead duck carcasses on the street right by duck crossing signs this year, so what is the message here? - you can run over ducks but you cannot feed them? - what about the car wash in campbell that had ducks purposefully run over and all those campbell police department detectives looking for the culprit? what about the outrage, city of santa clara? do you care about our ducks or not? - sincerely, lik roper
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 12:32 PM - Subject: Re: BEGGING TO DIFFER - so anyway, now that i've made my point perfectly clear, i will likely resume the duck feeding at a future time when i deem it necessary - my ruling is quite clear, so i do not need to hear the biased opinion of some government-friendly judge (who is willing to obstruct justice just to protect city coffers) when the truth is obvious; at face value, ordinance 6.15.010 appears like it applies to this situation, but due to the unique nature of our neighborhoods' circumstances; ordinance 6.15.010 clearly does not apply - sincerely, lik roper (i have chosen common sense and reasonableness over irrationality and unbridled venom - simply put; i got it right)
> 3 jul 2007 - i talked to someone in santa cruz who said santa clara cops are all trigger-happy rookies!? (he lives in santa clara) he also said that at san quentin prison, almost all other california counties give inmates a substantial goody bag to start off with, but supposedly santa clara county is the worst of them all and only gives inmates stamps and envelopes (there is a silent evil here in the silicon valley, and it has alot to do with $$$) also; when he was incarcerated at elmwood, one of the CO's (corrections officers) allegedly snorted methamphetamines while on the job!?