Shivering pups at the city Death Camps

City Attorney Vivienne Swanigan (who is being paid money to screw the animals by attempting to obtain an unethical restraining order against two animal rights activists,) approached them after a recent court hearing to ask about some small dogs she saw at the North Central "shelter." She asked Lindy Greene and Pamelyn Ferdin if the small dogs she witnessed shivering in their cages during the last bout of chilly weather and rain in LA were cold.  NO SHIT, SHERLOCK!  Swanigan stated that since she doesn't own any pets, she didn't know if these small dogs shivering and trying to get out of the rain were getting enough warmth in their OUTDOOR cages!

Greene and Ferdin realized that this Deputy City Attorney who is being paid to silence activists calling for the No Kill Equation to be implemented at LAAS by the Mayor's office is, lets just say, "out in the cold" as to this issue of shivering dogs! So, we proceeded to try to educate her about the fact that the 154 million-dollar, tax-paid shelters have such egregious design flaws and were built in such a shoddy manner that not only do the caged animals lack warmth in cold weather, but the rescue community has lodged a whole host of other complaints against these expensive but non-functional buildings. We also informed her of the tasks Ed Boks has been asked for months to do to solve some of these issues at the shelters - but, of course, nothing has been done, because he's too busy blogging and killing animals. Swanigan responded that she has heard awful things about Ed Boks' mismanagement of the City shelters! Interesting! 

Vivienne Swanigan, along with fellow Deputy City Attorney Hugo Rossiter, are being paid with YOUR tax dollars to try and silence Greene and Ferdin in their calling for Jimmy Blackman to honor his pledge to bring in No Kill Solutions to consult and implement the No Kill Equation inside LAAS. Swanigan has requested the court force Greene and Ferdin to stay 100 yards (size of a football field) away from the home that Jimmy Blackman owns in Tarzana. James Madison and the other Framers of our Constitution must be turning over in their graves at such a request by an agent of the court such as Swanigan.

In a conversation in Judge Rico's chambers, Swanigan admitted that Mayor Villaraigosa and City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo were both behind the decision to fund Maria Blackman's attempt to secure restraining orders against Greene and Ferdin using taxpayer dollars - even though she is not a City employee. Furthermore, there is absolutely NO EVIDENCE that either Greene or Ferdin violated any laws. In fact, at every picket in which Greene and Ferdin participated, neither was ever approached by police to state that they were acting in any manner other than perfectly legally in the neighborhood where Deputy Jimmy Blackman owns his home. Maria  Blackman has no evidence - photographic, video, or audio - of Greene and Ferdin ever doing anything the least bit offensive, harassing, or illegal.

As it stands now, attorneys for Greene and Ferdin have filed an ethics complaint for the misuse of taxpayer funds in this ludicrous attempt by the City to violate one of the most protected activities in the First Amendment; seeking redress of grievances in a public fora such as demonstrating on our tax paid side walks. The two defendants have their next court date at the end of March. Ferdin states, "Not only have my co-defendant and I never harassed or stalked Maria Blackman, but we have never even spoken to her. I've seen her three times in my entire life - two times in court and once at the very first picket in Jimmy Blackman's neighborhood which I attended. At that picket in June 2007, Maria Blackman came storming out of the home screaming obscenities in front of her teenager. She was yelling not only at the legal picketers, but also into the phone on which she claimed to be communicating with Jimmy Blackman. Maria was calling Jimmy every name in the book and throwing a full-blown tantrum, while silent picketers looked on in shock. Then, she grabbed her little dog with such anger that he squealed in pain. This woman definitely has a screw loose. In all the pickets my co-defendant and I have participated in this neighborhood, we have spoken to neighbors who are quite open-minded and some have even told us that they will write the Deputy Mayor asking him to implement the No Kill Equation inside LAAS."

This ludicrous attempt at obtaining a temporary restraining order against Greene and Ferdin is simply an effort by Maria's ex-husband, Mayor Villaraigosa, and Rocky Delgadillo to use their power and influence in an unethical, illegal, and unconstitutional way against individuals who are exposing Villaraigosa's and Blackman's shameless responsibility for the needless slaughter transpiring inside LAAS. Unfortunately, Vivienne Swanigan is being "paid" to do things that are not only unethical and immoral, but which fly in the face of what our fore fathers fought and died for in order to preserve First Amendment activities.