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To help out a cause for the greater Fayetteville scene I am starting a petition on cb7tuner and a few other websites to help a friend who is going to city council to get a perminant spot we can hardpark and socialize without fear of police infringing our constitiutional right of freedom of assembly. All I ask is for you to post in this thread you are in favor of or not. Also all advice to prepare us more is welcomed too.
The city police has been pushing us around for no reason for almost a decade(from my experience, I am sure it has been longer though) and it needs to stop. We are tax payers and we pay their salary for them to protect and serve, not harass and instigate. Almost every weekend for the past 9 years I have been out to the local meet. Every year we are forced to find a new place to rid ourselves of police harassment. Everyone needs to join together and say we have had enough... In a democratic way. This is why I have chosen to help, I have simply had enough, the last straw was a couple nights ago when an alarm went off at the TJMax next to Circuit City(our meeting parkinglot). When the police arrived, instead of checking out the building for broken windows or doors, they came straight over and started yelling at us to leave. We are smarter than the average "bear" and had our police radios on when the alarm started blaring. We heard the call for the alarm, we watched them come in and say there was nothing going on over there(without even inspecting the building) but there were "suspected streetracers on scene". Then they turned on their blue lights and got on their P.A.'s and proceeded to force everyone out of the parking lot.
It looks like common sence that they would perfer us there. Here is why:
1. Everywhere we have been there is no crime there, no vandals, no break ins, our presence deter criminals simply because of the quanity of people.
2. We are all in a single area. Why not sit one cop to watch the lot and leave us be instead of disperse us all across the city where there is more chance of accidents, more chance of streetracing, and more chance of agressive driving due to the injustices of the "athorities".
3. If they had one officer "babysitting" us they would be much more successful when attempting to bust street racers. Whenever you see a large group of cars exiting the lot just radio in if it appears they are going to be racing. It is quite obvious when you think about it, all the streetracers who leave the lot to race rev their engines and accellerate quickly out of the parking lot and most are stupid enough to just take it to All American which is a few hundred yards away.
In Texas, California, Nevada, Idaho, Floridia and New Mexico(I am sure more places but those are the ones I have experienced) the police work with the car enthusiests. Why can't they do it here?
To help out a cause for the greater Fayetteville scene I am starting a petition on cb7tuner and a few other websites to help a friend who is going to city council to get a perminant spot we can hardpark and socialize without fear of police infringing our constitiutional right of freedom of assembly. All I ask is for you to post in this thread you are in favor of or not. Also all advice to prepare us more is welcomed too.
The city police has been pushing us around for no reason for almost a decade(from my experience, I am sure it has been longer though) and it needs to stop. We are tax payers and we pay their salary for them to protect and serve, not harass and instigate. Almost every weekend for the past 9 years I have been out to the local meet. Every year we are forced to find a new place to rid ourselves of police harassment. Everyone needs to join together and say we have had enough... In a democratic way. This is why I have chosen to help, I have simply had enough, the last straw was a couple nights ago when an alarm went off at the TJMax next to Circuit City(our meeting parkinglot). When the police arrived, instead of checking out the building for broken windows or doors, they came straight over and started yelling at us to leave. We are smarter than the average "bear" and had our police radios on when the alarm started blaring. We heard the call for the alarm, we watched them come in and say there was nothing going on over there(without even inspecting the building) but there were "suspected streetracers on scene". Then they turned on their blue lights and got on their P.A.'s and proceeded to force everyone out of the parking lot.
It looks like common sence that they would perfer us there. Here is why:
1. Everywhere we have been there is no crime there, no vandals, no break ins, our presence deter criminals simply because of the quanity of people.
2. We are all in a single area. Why not sit one cop to watch the lot and leave us be instead of disperse us all across the city where there is more chance of accidents, more chance of streetracing, and more chance of agressive driving due to the injustices of the "athorities".
3. If they had one officer "babysitting" us they would be much more successful when attempting to bust street racers. Whenever you see a large group of cars exiting the lot just radio in if it appears they are going to be racing. It is quite obvious when you think about it, all the streetracers who leave the lot to race rev their engines and accellerate quickly out of the parking lot and most are stupid enough to just take it to All American which is a few hundred yards away.
In Texas, California, Nevada, Idaho, Floridia and New Mexico(I am sure more places but those are the ones I have experienced) the police work with the car enthusiests. Why can't they do it here?
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