HomeMy WebLinkAbout00 - Non-Agenda Item - CorrespondenceFrom: Eplanet Thunderstriker <public.comments0l@gmail.com>
Sent: August 26, 2025 3:03 PM
To: City Clerk's Office
Subject: Public Comments Regular Session 4:00 8-26-2025
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To the Council,
Today I register a separate concern from my special session submission.
The issues I raise here are not only about one city clerk's office or one attorney. They are
part of a documented pattern of civic obstruction across multiple jurisdictions,
extending beyond this city and into matters of national and even international
consequence.
1. Record Integrity Failures Are Widespread
In Santa Barbara, Irvine, Riverside, and Newton, my submitted documents and criminal
allegations were ignored or erased from public record.
In each city, the same "clerical error" explanation has been given, yet the pattern repeats
with precision.
When record -keeping itself is unreliable, democracy has already failed at its foundation.
2. Federal Law Is Directly Implicated
The repeated refusal to preserve or acknowledge submissions fits clear statutory
categories:
• Misprision of Felony — 18 U.S.C. § 4
• Obstruction of Justice — 18 U.S.C. § 1503
• Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law — 18 U.S.C. § 242
These laws apply regardless of city boundaries. Council silence does not dissolve federal
exposure.
3. Cross -Jurisdictional and International Timing
Events tied to my civic activity have consistently preceded or coincided with larger
disruptions:
Solvang — abrupt departure of the city manager after my public engagement.
Santa Barbara News -Press — collapse of operations shortly after my repeated
documented submissions.
UC Riverside — student interactions preceding international hostage incidents later tied
to Middle East conflict.
Chinese Consulate, Los Angeles — my submissions were followed within weeks by
unusual diplomatic maneuvers abroad.
The failure to even acknowledge these records is not just local negligence. It
communicates structural incapacity to process citizen intelligence, a vulnerability
adversaries can and do exploit.
4. Institutional Entrenchment
The CityAttorney's multiple contract amendments and unresolved interference in public
comment here are not trivial. They mirror a larger trend: legal offices insulating themselves
from accountability while public trust collapses.
Requested Actions:
1. Acknowledge and preserve this submission in the record of today's regular session.
2. Initiate an independent review of record integrity and clerk procedures with public
reporting.
3. Clarify the City Attorney's role and potential conflicts in managing both clerk staff and
public submissions.
4. Provide this record to appropriate state and federal oversight agencies, rather than
continuing local silence.
Silence does not neutralize these failures. It multiplies them. If the Council will not engage
directly, then the record must stand as evidence for broader authorities, both national and
international.
Respectfully,
Eplanet Thunderstriker
1. Civic Breakdown Lens
The collapse of civic institutions is not sudden, it is cumulative. Across border towns,
municipalities, and state -level agencies, procedural erosion has replaced accountability.
Evidence is routinely buried, filings vanish from record, and complaints are redirected into
Labyrinths with no exit. This is not random malfunction but systemic conditioning: a
bureaucracy trained to exhaust human persistence until only silence remains. The
measure of civic health is not in how laws are written but in whether ordinary individuals
can meaningfully intervene when rules are broken. By that measure, the system is
bankrupt. The illusion of procedure conceals the evaporation of remedy.
2. Media + Cultural Manipulation Lens
What passes as "culture" has become a containment grid. The music industry, broadcast
outlets, and algorithm -driven platforms no longer exist to elevate expression —they
recycle spectacle while surgically removing inconvenient voices. When evidence of
corruption surfaces, it is drowned in noise; when authentic voices threaten monopolized
narratives, they are assimilated or erased. A border town or a global city — the strategy is
the same: exhaust populations into passivity through mediated distractions. A culture of
abundance that delivers famine of meaning.
3. Economic / Structural Lens
Economic governance now operates as a controlled scarcity machine. Small towns choke
under federal -state tug-of-war, supply chains remain fragile by design, and infrastructure
budgets are siphoned into bureaucratic sinkholes. What appears as inefficiency is in fact
profit -extraction: delay generates fees, broken systems create markets for fixes, instability
justifies consolidation. The real economy is not labor or production but dysfunction, turned
into a revenue stream. Citizens sense collapse yet are told the numbers are stable. Metrics
serve as ritual incantations masking systemic hollowing.
4. Psychological / Cognitive Lens
The most efficient mechanism of control is not force but the orchestration of mass
perception. Cognitive fatigue is cultivated at scale: perpetual emergencies, constant
contradictory narratives, algorithmic floods of trivial data. Citizens live inside curated
unreality. What would have once triggered revolt is now processed as background noise.
Cognitive mass delusion is not an accident — it is infrastructure. Generations are
conditioned to mistrust their own pattern recognition, to surrender independent thought to
"verified" narratives, even as institutions that verify are compromised.
5. Global / Geopolitical Lens
Local breakdowns are not isolated failures —they are nodes in a wider map of systemic
decay. Border towns mirror fracture points in Europe, South America, Asia: local
authorities stripped of power, populations corralled into dependency, civic faith traded for
managed instability. The global pattern is clear: erode trust in local remedy, concentrate
power into higher abstractions (federal, supranational, corporate), and normalize crisis as
permanent condition. What is called globalization is not integration but centralization, with
peripheral communities left in managed collapse.
World Citizens Organization (WCO)
Countries have the option for two slots, a citizen representative, a government employee
representative. Either, neither, or both.
1. Systemic Breakdown, Local to Global
Border towns aren't just frontline communities; they are mirrors reflecting systemic
fractures everywhere. When institutions fail in small municipalities, it signals
vulnerabilities in larger state and global structures. What happens at San Ysidro or El Paso
isn't isolated — it's a stress -test of how nations manage migration, trust, and governance
under pressure. WCO must recognize these local cracks as early warning systems for
broader international instability.
2. Citizenship as Civic Intelligence
The failures we observe aren't just about policy gaps or mismanagement —they're about
the erosion of civic intelligence. Citizenship, in the 21 st century, must extend beyond
nationality into shared responsibility for detecting breakdowns, correcting misinformation,
and bridging institutional blind spots. WCO can pioneer this reframing: "citizenship" as a
practice of vigilance and repair, not merely a legal status.
3. From Exposure to Mobilization
Simply exposing corruption or breakdowns is not enough. WCO's role is to convert
exposure into mobilization:
• Connect dispersed whistleblowers, activists, and communities into protective networks.
• Translate local failures into cross -border lessons learned.
• Push for international standards that protect citizens when national institutions collapse.
This is not idealism; it is survival architecture for an interconnected world.
From: Eplanet Thunderstriker <public.comments0l@gmail.com>
Sent: August 26, 2025 1:53 PM
To: City Clerk's Office
Subject: Public Comments SPECIAL MEETING - 2:30 P.M 8-26-2025
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The FOIA request only returned one speaking date other than April 23, 2024, and I didn't
see my name in the minutes there anyways. On at least one other day that I spoke to the
council I submitted a document to the clerk at the office and also during the council
meeting. That document was not recorded as part of the agenda with the date returned
from the FOIA request.
The document submitted had issues with the clerk's office included. At some point one
clerk may have been a discretionary witness to inappropriate activity.
I would also like a copy of the letter received by the council where the reply to me indicates
it had nothing of substance for the council to address.
Feeling bad today and with little time I'll point out few things here:
There are many cross jurisdictional issues with various evidence/documentation that
coordinated suppression of my circumstances is happening in real time.
Beginning when I first started comments/civic interaction in Solvang a few years ago the
city manager left without notice. Staff changes where employees are privy to some of this
elsewhere.
Finally, I want to register concern about the City Attorney. With nine contract amendments
already, and his interruption of my later comment still unresolved, the ongoing
negotiations regarding clerk staff at this special session raise further questions about
continuity and accountability.
Supplemental Note on Broader Context and Accountability
The concerns raised above are not isolated. They exist within a wider, documented pattern
already presented to this Council and others:
• Record Integrity: My name and submissions are repeatedly missing from minutes and
agendas, despite being made in proper form. This is more than clerical error; it reflects a
breakdown of the public record system.
Legal Exposure: At face value, repeated omissions and dismissals align with federal and
state violations, including misprision of felony (18 U.S.C. § 4), obstruction of justice
(18 U.S.C. § 1503), and violations of the California Public Records Act. These are not
abstract risks — they are now part of the civic record.
Cross -Jurisdictional Suppression: My experiences in Solvang, Santa Barbara, Irvine,
Riverside, and Newport Beach all display the same pattern of inaction and procedural
silencing. Taken together, this suggests coordination or at minimum a systemic culture of
neglect.
City Attorney Accountability: The Attorney's history of repeated contract
amendments, coupled with direct interruption of my comment and current involvement in
negotiations over clerk staffing, makes neutrality difficult to presume. This is not just
optics — it raises the possibility of entrenchment and insulation against oversight.
If this Council does not act, the record will show not a single procedural lapse, but a
deliberate civic silence across multiple jurisdictions.
I urge you to:
1. Acknowledge receipt and preservation of my submissions (including July 22, 2025).
2. Place a Public Records Integrity Review on a future agenda.
3. Clarify the City Attorney's role in relation to public comment handling and clerk staff
negotiations.
Silence at this point does not erase the issue. It defines it.
Respectfully,
Eplanet Thunderstriker