My Comments to Cudahy City Council: February 2, 2016

Good Evening, Cudahy City Council:

My name is Arthur Schaper, resident of Torrance, citizen of
the US, member of We the People Rising.

I am here to protest as well as exposed your outrageous
proposal to limit public participation and comment in the city of Cudahy.

The proposed ordinance reads as follows:

The City Council conducts its public meetings in the Council
Chambers of City Hall in accordance with The Ralph M. Brown Act (Gov. Code §
549501 et seq.). In recent years our country has seen a rise in the frequency
of violence in public places, including the recent shooting in a public
building in San Bernardino County, and such violence is often politically
motivated and directed at public servants. In keeping with the public’s
expectation that its government servants strive to protect the public, City
officials have discussed with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, the
issues of security and fire and life safety at public meetings.

First of all you, are not public servants. You serve
yourselves. You deprived little girls of the opportunity to perform for their
friends and family. You are spending money you do not have, then borrowing more
to plug a $1 million debt. I visited the La Princesa Bakery, and told them how
you are spending money the city does not have.

Second of all, at the San Bernardino shooting, those
individuals were not targeted for political reasons, The two Islamic terrorists
who attacked the building had a vicious agenda. Somewhat like yours. Those
terrorists brought guns. You bring stealth efforts to stop the people from
attending these meetings.

Here in this city council chambers, you had
four—four!—sheriff’s deputies stationed. You are not in danger at all, except
that you may face a recall, or more likely jail time!

If you are doing this because of what happened on January
11, let us not forget that it was Chris Garcia would started shouting at people
in the audience, which in turn led to complete pandemonium in these chambers.
He then stormed out of these meetings, snidely telling me that my “zipper was
open”. To this day, I still do not understand why he was looking down there for
so long. Jealousy, perhaps?

Furthermore, the four of you have invited  this anarchy and chaos by your decision to
turn Cudahy into a sanctuary city for illegal aliens—or is it for immigrants?
There is a difference, and the fact that you cannot tell the difference
demonstrates how little your understand your job or your place.

I am appalled and astounded at the cowardice and craven
fraud on the part of the four members of this city council. You cancel
regularly scheduled meetings, then try to call special meetings at the last
minute.

And now you want to move the meetings to another, smaller,
far removed place: why?

Not to protect the community, but to protect yourselves.

Not to ensure transparency, but to cover up your criminal
deeds.

Not to provide an open forum, but to close off the demands
for accountability.

We will contact the public integrity office again very soon
about your misdeeds.