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Posted by Unknown @ 7/05/2009 11:05:00 PM
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There is considerable confusion over the memorial for Wacko Jacko.
A large number of CD5 residents thought this was a memorial for Jack Weiss's political career.
If you should see any confused looking Jackass supporters in the crowds, please tell them that the memorial for Jackass is at Canters Deli on Fairfax, and they can get their tickets from Ace Smith - no credit cards, cash only. Just like it's always been.
Fox 11 just reported there is abuse of "to Protect & Serve" with Jackson family taking over LAPD as personal security all over the city. Officers are at Hollywood Hills mortuary, Encino Jackson home, Bel Air home, Hollywood star, Staples, and now Dodger Stadium helping the ticket giveaway. WTF???????? Who the hell is speaking on behalf of the city to stop this fucking insanity, Jan Perry? The Jackson weirdos are treating LAPD as their personal slaves. This shit better be over by tomorrow or we should all go to AEG and protest....
Thanks Jan Perry. This would never have happened if Jack were in charge as head of public safety, nasty little comment @3:49 just showing the spite-your-nose-to-cut-off-your face attitude of Trutanich fanatics. What a pathetic bunch of people - guess you're worried you've not seen the last of Weiss, you're literally losing sleep obsessing over him at 3:49 a.m.
Where are Parks, Smith and the other "budget hawks" on this, who along with Rosendahl voted to cut LAPD hiring and barely sustain its current level given attrition due to our budget crisis? Why aren't they making Perry demand that the Jackson family reimburse the city? The airwaves and print media are all saying the Jacksons will take this memorial show on the road to upto 50 cities to profit, that there is money in JAX's estate, that promoters and others are going to cash in, that there is insurance money: 8:41 is right, the LAPD has been devoted to a number of locations already, how much has it already cost us? The Times reports a big mobilization downtown tomorrow in case the tens of thousands denied tickets try to get in anyway and crowd the streets and vicinity.
I just sent this to Jan Perry:
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Dear Councilwoman,
I just read your quote online regarding Michael Jackson's funeral....you said you would "love it" if the Jackson family pays for at least SOME of the funeral expense.
Do you realize how weak and idiotic that sounds?
It's clear that you've lost control of the situation and you're cowtowing to the Jackson family and allowing THEM to call the shots and make all the decisions.
What is wrong with you and the rest of the City Council? Have you collectively lost your minds? Don't you have any regard for Los Angeles residents who will utimately "pay" for this expensive ceremony?
You and other City Council members will lose countless votes in the next election because you are putting the desires and demands of the Jackson family ahead of the rest of us.
I'm grateful that President Obama has the dignity and intelligence NOT to participate in this circus show of a funeral, although I'm sure you'd "love it" if HE made a personal appearance.
Believe me, when this funeral is over and done with and the citizens of Los Angeles are forced to clean up the mess and pay the price, financially........we will remember how the City Council allowed this uncontrolled insanity and we won't vote for you in the next election..
If you mean "because I didn't get tickets," Joe B. then maybe you didn't hear that one of the corporate sponsors of this event it HOME DEPOT!
I heard the city's footing Joe Jackson's hotel suite and what's worse, Joe's even making the city pay for a new set of DENTURES to commemorate the occasion! All thanks to Jan Perry. OUTRAGEOUS!!
Jan Perry was on CBS Morning News begging for private donations to offset the cost of the Jackson memorial stuff. She should have thought of this in the first place, not issued blanket permission for the promoters and Joe Jackson and his and Perry's other attention-whore friends Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, the Nation of Islam characters and so on who all profit on Michael's death as they did his life.
The mess at Dodger Stadium is just the start, it will get worse tomorrow and LAPD's Asst. Chief was on another show saying they'd have to deploy at least as many cops as for the Lakers. He didn't say but it's common sense that fans who don't get in or thugs who want to disrupt any occasion with the LAPD will be looking for an excuse and then to sue the city.
The cops are doing their job, even with Bratton gone they have their protocol in place from the Lakers etc. But they don't know how much it will cost and who will pay or what it will do to the LAPD budget. Then their Union's head Paul Weber is making noise because he wants to exploit the situation.
Jan hates Bratton and LAPD, bashes them over the 12/3 schedule and is always telling Bratton that they're still discriminating against blacks even though polls show a majority of law-abiding blacks feel otherwise about the "new" Bratton LAPD. Between her and Zine also speaking out, and he and Parks resenting Bratton for personal reasons and always trying to show up LAPD this is a mess. Zine and Parks won't say anything against Perry as a black woman, so it's upto the public to make noise and they are.
These permits should have been denied, or at least the burdens shared with Neverland where the fans expected the memorial to be. They have SO much more room out there but their officials wouldn't have it.
FUCK JAN PERRY!
(NOT THAT I WOULD)
BUT FUCK JAN PERRY!
Jan Perry and Carol Schatz are so close that you cannot tell them apart most of the time.
So hey Jan - why aren't Carol's cronies stepping up?
Or does the money only flow one way: FROM you TO her?
There are times I truly hate this town, and this is one of them.
The total whoring of City resources to the rich and famous needs to stop.
YEAH! WHERES CAROL SCHATZ AND HER BUSINESS BUDDIES WITH THE DONATIONS? IN JAIL OR SOMETHING?
Idiot Jan Perry just told Amy Powell on Ch. 7 that "I have no knowledge of any funeral arrangements," about the Forest Lawn burial tomorrow following the spectacles downtown (and on Hollywood Blvd., his Encino home and people still going to Bel Air).
She sounded nervous, maybe finally realizing what an idiot everyone thinks she is her first chance solo.
WHAT DOES SHE MEAN SHE HAS NO INFORMATION ON FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS? She's leaving Asst. Chief Earl Paysinger in charge to handle Forest Lawn and Hollywood, another Asst. Chief downtown, still another for the westside and Valley to run the law & order aspect of the city and LAPD on their own. Chief Bratton left them instructions and procedure from the Lakers and through all their re-training last 2 years but Jan Perry is unfit to run security or manage the budget for a farmer's market let alone something huge like this.
What makes you guys think the Jackson family need Jan Perry's, or anyone else's for that matter, permission?
NEWSFLASH: They didn't.
AEG operates Staples Center and don't require permits. THEY aren't closing streets so no approval process is required. Ever occur to you morons that the city is reacting to an event that is going to happen anyway and is trying to make the best of it?
Of course it hasn't... it is much more fun to bash the shit out of people while speaking out of your ass.
11:13, Perry is capable of funneling millions to Schatz and her cronies, so I guess she is actually good at something.
11:07/ 11:27: maybe that's why Jan was riding shotgun with Nuch on his Harley with Zine at the West Hollywood Gay Rights Parade, hoping that if she sucks upto him, playing the femme fatle (don't aks) he won't probe her dealings with Schatz and just go after the guys. Guess that leaves Wendy Greuel to look into her dealings, Wendy won't be swayed by her "feminine charms." Actually Nuch won't either so don't bother, Jan, just woman up to this mess you made.
And to 11:14 claiming Jan's hands are tied, no way, the city issues and denies permits for street closures, just as San Luis Obispo County denied one for Neverland even though it's out in the country. This is not a First Amendment/ Free Speech matter where it's difficult to deny a permit. But even then the length and scale is negotiated.
AEG operates Staples Center and don't require permits. THEY aren't closing streets so no approval process is required. Ever occur to you morons that the city is reacting to an event that is going to happen anyway and is trying to make the best of it?
If you want to be upset that the city is granting a "special event fee" waiver to AEG for the event itself, that's one thing. Because although this is under the guise of a "memorial" which it is, in spirit, to the people who will attend, it is actually a commercial event, with TV broadcasts and rights and merchandise and whatnot. So consider it like you typical Lakers, Disney on Ice, Bruce Springsteen concert, or any other commercial event at Staples.
WELL, the city shouldn't be picking up the tab/special event fee waiver for that any more than Dodgers, Vanity Fair, Grammies or any of the other commercial events I complain about:
HOWEVER, when it comes to city money having to be spent for crowd control (maintenance, traffic, police, fire, EMS, etc.), I think it's unfortunate that the city will need to spend money on all of that now, but I think there is no choice.
PEOPLE WHO DO NOT HAVE TICKETS WILL BE SHOWING UP ANYWAY. It is not Staples fault people without tickets will be showing up, anyway.
Consider it like a fire breaking out, or some other emergency event that you have to pay for.
MICHAEL JACKSON DIED. And there are very few people in this entire world that generates this type of outpouring and could generate this type of crowd. So what are you going to do?
WOULD IT BE NICE IF AEG/JACKSONS/INVOLVED PARTIES HELPED PAY FOR PART OR ALL OF IT:
HELL YEAH! Because not that I presented my argument, I would also like to add this is a big money-making, commercial, spectacle, event that is being fabricated in the true spirit of the type of PR stunts Michael orchestrated his entire career. So it's all par for the course and he must be looking down LOVING all of this.
But yeah, these big business people are using the city of los angles as the stage for their PR marketing machine to turn Michael into the next Elvis type of industry. And he deserves all the hype and hoopla, because he is getting the hype and hoopla.
So yeah, just cause ZD feels if he were to evaluate things from a strictly "legal/municipal/public safety issue, I say, "City should be saying, "NO" to the waiver of the event fee for the event itself, cause it ain't like this is even the actual funeral, but like that SNL sketch from the 70's when Elvis' JACKET went on tour.
But the crowd of knucklehead sheep that show up to an event without a ticket, just because they want to be a part of the crowd...WELP, I say the city is screwed and they have to pay for the crowd control.
This is a unique situation, because you have a rare individual who generates more "energy/karma/reaction" than basically, anyone of our lifetime. And possibly, for all future time.
So like Run-DMC said, "It's like that, and that's the way it is."
NOW FUCKING PONY UP AEG, YOU OVERLY SUBSIDIES COMMERCIAL PHONY WHO IS EXPLOITING MICHAEL JACKSON, BUT AT LEAST THE PEOPLE GET THEIR CHANCE TO PUBLICLY GRIEVE TOGETHER.
LIKE IT OR NOT, a person this HUGE and you are going to have to provide an outlet for the masses to gather. Sorry it's only a non-elected, pop singer.
THEY aren't closing streets so no approval process is required
THIS IS FALSE YOU MORON. THEY DO NEED PERMITS BECAUSE ALL THE STREETS AROUND STAPLES ARE CLOSED AND THAT REQUIRES DEPT. OF TRANSPORTATING, CITY SERVICES AND OTHERS TO BE AROUND TO ALSO WORK.
So glad Jan Perry is getting slammed. She could have prevented all of this if she knew how to behave like a adult and came out strong at the press conference Friday. This shows LA she will never get out of her district.
Yes it's good that this proves Jan Perry can never dream of becoming Mayor, but too bad we have to pay millions of bucks to prove the obvious to everyone but herself.
She's also been demanding her own sign district for billboards after cutting a special side deal with Clear Channel/ CBS Outdoors, opening the pandora's box in the ICO, and then other councilmembers like Wesson, Reyes, Hahn want their own too. She slammed the mostly white westside and valley activists who opposed her as "a bunch of rich people who don't care about the poor and have nothing better to do than worry about aesthetics," not realizing that her putting a couple of the 7-story lighted ones right on the freeway set a precedent for the whole city. Weiss did object on PLUM and got slammed and the whole council voted to support Perry. But then Zine, Rosendahl held a "town hall on billboards" airing over and over on CH. 35 that blamed Weiss for it. Why?
Because they both have big ambition too, Rosendahl is talking about running for Feinstein's Senate seat even though he told the Weekly he couldn't care less about foreign policy and Zine's been all over tv now claiming to speak for the council because he's Assistant Pro Tem after Perry.
But he hasn't done anything pro-active, either, just lets Jan Perry take the whole heat, blames everyone behind their backs. He's spent the last 2 years jealously trashing Weiss so now he's trying to pick off the others one at a time til he thinks he's got a shot at Mayor, the "cop Councilman." (He shares that with Smith and Parks but Smith isn't running for higher office and Parks lost for Supervisor so he must figure that leaves that designation to him.) What a bunch.
The circus will be reaping some of the benefits of all of this what is the cost of the elephants
Parading to the center we may have a two for the price of one saving the city a lots of money
Zuma Dogg,
That was a perfect post. You were right on target on every issue. If LAPD weren't prepared to handle it, they would be persecuted by the Mayor Sam readers. Instead, they are being persecuted for being prepared.
I hope some of you realize how non-sensical you sound.
I guarantee you that if Michael Jackson is looking down and "LOVING IT", as you say, he is mortified at what he's reading on this board and although he might revel in the spectacle of it all (which is quite extraordinary to have so much love surrounding you), he would feel responsible and he would want to contribute to the city's general fund for the expense his death may cause.
And if this were your beloved Reagan's funeral, would you be bitching? After all, that clown drew a lot of crowds (happy dancers, albeit) along the streets of Los Angeles and into Simi Valley. That wasn't free to the taxpayers. Go find a bitchy post back then about that, I dare you.
What a bunch of losers. I never want to read your anti-Zuma posts because you feel you're so awesome.
So, I've never been more embarrassed by some of my peers.
Let's be clear here. There is a memorial service for Michael Jackson - it's at Forest Lawn. It's appropriate for the City of Los Angeles to pick up the tab for that. Regardless of Michael's past criminal and drug issues, he's as much an icon of American music as Elvis.
But the event that follows at Staples Center is a COMMERCIAL event. AEG is not a charity, they are a for profit organization and they're staging this event for COMMERCIAL reasons. The 3,000, yes 3,000 members of the media are all PAYING for their places on the stands and for parking their broadcast equipment. The WORLDWIDE tv rights to show the 2 hour show have all been SOLD. So please tell me why we're expected to pick up the tab for a COMMERCIAL venture. It's not as if AEG are not making a ton of money out of this.
Reagan's funeral was not a COMMERCIAL venture so the comparison is irrelevant.
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