| From: | Carl Drega |
| To: | Philip Bradstock Film Office philip.bradstock@phoenix.gov  |
| Date: | Monday, October 22, 2012 3:43 PM |
| Subject: | More on Laws on shooting photos in Papago Park |
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One of the reasons I am asking you for a copy of the laws is that in the past I have problems in the past with government bureaucrats at the city of Phoenix Parks and Recreation who just make up laws and force us to obey them at gun point.
In the last case I discovered there is a Phoenix Parks and Recreation employee who hates homeless folks and is making up laws to keep them out of Phoenix Parks. In many but not all Phoenix Parks there are signs posted saying “No Shopping Carts Allowed - CC 24-26”I suspect the city of Phoenix government bureaucrat who put up that sign hates homeless people and made up the law to run them out of Phoenix parks. When you look up CC 24-26 in the Phoenix laws you will see that there is no law that bans shopping carts from Phoenix Parks. CC 24-26 doesn’t even mention shopping carts. CC 24-26 simply says it is illegal to operate bicycles and skateboards and other wheeled devices in a reckless manner that endangers people. The exact wording of CC 24-26 says: Sec. 24-26. Prohibition of wheeled devices in public parks.Of course the Phoenix government bureaucrat who hates homeless folks didn’t post a sign that said “You are not allowed to operate shopping carts in a reckless manner - CC 24-26”Of course if he was honest and posted what the law actually said that wouldn’t allow him to run the homeless folks he hates out of the city of Phoenix parks. So the Phoenix government bureaucrat simply lied and said “No Shopping Carts Allowed - CC 24-26”I complained to the Arizona Republic and they sent out a reporter to interview me on that. Prior to the Tucson case where the courts flushed the Second Amendment down the toilet and ruled that Arizona cities could ban guns from city parks my friend Ricky Duncan discovered signs in Phoenix parks that banned guns and cited a bogus law. The signs said something like “No guns allowed per A.R.S. 13-xxx”But when you looked up A.R.S. 13-xxx the law had nothing to do with guns and said it was illegal to litter so something like that. I think Ricky sued the city of Phoenix over that to get the signs removed. But Ricky died recently so I can’t call him to get the details. The last bogus law that I discovered that was enforced by city of Phoenix was on the light rail system. There were signs posted in English and Spanish and oddly the Spanish signs had an extra law in them. I suspect the government bureaucrat who posted those signs was a racist jerk who hated Latinos and wanted to make them accountable for some extra rules that didn’t apply to English speaking people. I complained about that and the newspaper wrote an article about it and it took them 6 months to yank down the Spanish signs and replace them with signs that had the same rules that were on the English signs. I know you told me a number of times that I should get all my information about the laws from “your” web page. But just because something is posted on a web page, or a sign in a park doesn’t mean it is a “real” law that was passed by “real” elected officials that we have to obey. As I just said, government bureaucrats routinely make up laws out of thin air and expect us to obey them. So if you can please answer my last letter where I asked for you to give me copies of the laws that require people to get a “permit” to take still photos in Phoenix parks, along with the laws that define what “commercial use” is. Thanks | |