This is why it is moronically absurd that my home-town, The City of Stockton, is now declared bankrupt.

We have the best deep-water channel/port on the West Coast and quite possibly in the entire whole of The United States of America. As you can see from the photo below, which I took right before sunset today, there is a huge ship docked in front of the port and even bigger, ocean going vessels can travel here to load and unload precious economic cargo. The Central Valley of California is one of biggest growers of produce and we have this wonderful deep-water port to ship it out of. Goods of all sorts can make their way inland so that it is easier to truck items up and down the West Coast, along with easy routes to the Mid-West. Stockton geographically sits not only on the Delta but also lies in between Interstate 5 and Hi-way 99. Both are major freeways that connect drivers to everywhere. Why are we not taking advantage of our natural resources? Is there not any work being done at the port? Well, I'm sure business is being handled as per usual, with the same kickbacks to city officials who grow rich from the blatant corruption. That is also part of Stocktons history; we are historically corrupt. The rich get richer while the poor go with-out help. Soon the so-called Middle Class will starve. If responsible, moral business people --or at least not as greedy as the current assholes-- took back control of Stockton's economy, using the port and other natural resources that are at their disposal, which are actually quite plentiful if one looks carefully, then Stockton would not suffer the indignant embarrassment native Stocktonians feel whenever we see our city portrayed on the Mainstream Mass Media. I detest my city, not because of the way it looks or the horrid weather we have in the summer, but mostly because the City Government is utterly corrupt and it sincerely disgusts me. I have seen it firsthand. I have watched a Deputy District Attorney -who shall remain nameless-- amuse himself by tormenting folks he considered "bad people", along with his private investigator friend, who used to be a deputy sheriff. They'd plot against "enemies", using whatever power they had acquired politically to ruin lives or at the very least disrupt them entirely. This was during the reign of Baxter Dunn and Monte McFall, both of whom were indicted and

I believe convicted of what basically amounted to utter corruption. Baxter Dunn was once the Sheriff of San Joaquin County and the Deputy D.A. and his asshole buddy private investigator friend were in tight with the Dunn administration. How do I know all of this? Well, my deceased father was great friends with this Deputy District Attorney, who suffered from anti-social problems such as childporn addiction and Nyquil dependency and as a result did not have many friends. Allegedly, he was such a good friend of my dads; he risked disbarment when he associated with my fugitive father in 2007. This was shortly before my father died of a prescription narcotic over-dose, when he was living in Reno, Nevada. The D.A. bought my father a television and some other things when what he should have done is put him in rehab. He was too afraid of my father to do so but he could have really helped my family by getting my father into rehab, which was almost impossible for my mother and me to do. Unfortunately, the D.A. did not really help my father and thus is somewhat responsible for the death of my father, as all who were involved in my dads life are guilty. We simply did not do enough From seven years of age, I watched my father use these corrupt resources to influence litigation involving family, thankfully using the power he wielded for what I consider good. Of course, things sometimes got out of hand as my dad was sometimes a sinister character who loved to make mischief purely for boredom's sake. Anything could be done during those twilight years of my youth. Even I benefited when I was dragged to court on bull-shit charges of harassing my exgirlfriend it was actually the other way aroundand on other juvenile nonsense. Calls were made and I received absolutely no punishment whatsoever. Not that I did anything bad but a poor youth of color would not have been so lucky. I was once proud that I got away due to the connections of my father but now I am disgusted with myself. However, I would not change a thing and if I had half a chance to influence litigation or legal shit now, I would do the same, helping all of my friends who I feel are being treated unfairly by the court system. This is the very concept of my duality but I digress Please do not tell me that Stockton is bankrupt for any of the reasons stated by the City Council. It is all happening because somebody got too greedy. The simple

but sad truth is that Stocktonians are to blame because we elected these jerk chicken assholes or we allowed them to be hired. Simply put, we did not pay enough attention to our City Government. It is a wise practice to never trust a politician but alas, we were lured to sleep by the sound of gun-fire as the violence rages on in the streets of Stockton........

Res Ipsa Loquitur

Andrew N. Farrens Drew Kazinsky June 27, 2012 West Stockton, California