Is THIS Jimmy Blackman himself or some other THUG?

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MOBILE DEMO WRAP
December 22, 2007
LOS ANGELES

Los Angeles - Activists convened for a round of three mobile demos on behalf of the Stop the Killing campaign.

The focus was on the six municipal Los Angeles animal shelters overseen by the corrupt, incompetent, and uncaring two-time loser General Manager Ed Boks - now reputedly allowing animals to linger until they die from preventable injuries and illnesses inside the pounds. Boks allows these crimes to occur in order to help his "numbers and stats." Factoring them - along with neonates, ferals, owner-surrenders, alleged "unsociables," and "escapees" - out of the kill stats enables him to declare himself near "no kill." At the same time, he claims that animals dying in-house or under foster care are an "unintended consequence" of the no kill equation.

Jimmy Blackman is a deputy mayor of Villaraigosa's overseeing the six LA Death Camps, and Robin Kramer is Chief of Staff for Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa - a trio of political derelicts and moral deadwood who can't marshal the "cojones" to fire Ed Boks and replace him with someone capable and dedicated who will implement the programs and protocols of No Kill Solutions. (Antonio, however, has no problem engaging that same body part in extracurricular pursuits with a certain comely Los Angeles journalist.)

Well, let's get on to the demos - shall we? First up was the home of Maria Teresa Blackman - ex-wife of Jimmy - Activists unfurled a banner, extricated signs and bullhorn, and got down to business letting the neighbors know that Jimmy refuses to use his power to make sweeping changes for the tens of thousands of innocent animals dragged to Boks' bump rooms for a lethal injection of "Fatal Plus." The neighbors were quite sympathetic and appreciated learning about what really goes on inside the animal Death Camps in LA. But the piece de resistance - hold onto your sombreros! - was the appearance of Jimmy Blackman, himself! An empathetic neighbor told picketers that it was indeed Jimmy Blackman, although he didn't look like Blackman to the picketer who has seen his ugly mug in the past, so we're still not certain! But assuming it was Jimmy (or maybe Maria Teresa's brother??) he sped up in his SUV, recklessly turning the corner, endangering the lives of two children playing there, slammed on his breaks, got out, charged towards the peaceful demonstrators and began shooting. Okay, not quite like it sounds - he shot us with his still camera while verbally threatening activists. (It was definitely a Kodak moment, as he was taking pictures of picketers and they were taking pictures of HIM!) The pivotal question here can only be, "Why doesn't he devote that same energy to doing the right thing for the animals?"

Even at Christmas (you know - peace on Earth, good will towards men), this thug just couldn't find it his heart to welcome peaceful picketers, who like Jesus himself, were standing up for the oppressed, abused and tortured. This guy acted like a paramilitary, following protesters and verbally threatening them! (A picketer informed him that Blackwater was recruiting and suggested he submit a resume.)

Next up - the Hoax, himself - Activists got right to work educating the neighbors about how Boks sucks $165,000 a year of their hard-earned taxpayer dollars to slaughter tens of thousands of healthy, treatable, adoptable animals and employs disingenuous ruses to make it look like he has reduced the kill rate. Well, sure - when you factor out 90% of the animals who are impounded, it's an arithmetical no-brainer! One neighbor whined about activists' being in her neighborhood on Christmas. A protester reminded her that animal abuse never takes a holiday - and, instead of snoozing in front of a warm fireplace or in the lap of a loving human guardian, hundreds of animals will instead be sent to their deaths. A neighbor who lives above Boks in the same condominium building came out on his balcony along with his kids and they all waved and gave a high five. Apparently he and his fellow condo owners do NOT want a murderer of healthy, treatable companion animals living in their building.

Off to the neighborhood of Robin Kramer - Now, this was priceless: a privileged, wealthy woman materialized from her home a couple of doors down with her two beautiful purebred poodles in tow (she stated she bought them from a well known poodle breeder!). Then shortly after this statement, proceeded to harangue activists! One picketer asked her to explain how she could simultaneously walk her own obviously pampered companions and scream like a banshee at picketers standing up for their not-so-fortunate fellows. "It's mind-boggling!" declared the picketer. "As animal rights activists, we really get to observe first-hand the sheer ugliness of the human species!" Kramer is Chief of Staff for Villaraigosa and doesn't appear to have a compassionate bone in her body for the lost and homeless animals of our fair city.

All in all it was a great day and picketers left feeling that they had acted as close to what Jesus stood for then those shopping for more "stuff" in local malls, watching the boob tube or partying it up with friends! One picketer stated at the end of the day, "Whether you're deeply religious, or believe that Jesus was simply a compassionate man who stood up for the oppressed and disenfranchised, what better way to spend the Saturday before his birth, doing what he himself would have been doing if he were alive today."