New Detroit Corporate Empire

Detroit Mayor Dave Bing and his accomplices have an agenda — the Rape of Detroit. Extract anything that is good and decent from the city, sell it off to the wardens of a new Detroit Corporate Empire.

The people have a choice, either:

1. Lay down and submit, Consent to Agree
2. Stand up, educate, use the law, and Fight Back

This is why Free Detroit - No Consent was formed. The people of the city are not willing victims in this “Consent Agreement”, WE DO NOT CONSENT. We the people are being enslaved by this system.

Friday, June 22 Mayor Bing asked for a Special Meeting with City Council to remove Corporation Counsel Krystal Crittendon. He needs six votes from council, council denied him that June 11. This was his second attempt.

Public comments were heard for about a half hour and the Mayor couldn’t handle the heat. Each person coming to speak was supportive of the lawyer and reinforced that she was doing her job, yet the Mayor was not doing his job. He has continued to operate outside the law of the City Charter. The people have had enough!

The Mayor claimed to have a phone conference he had to be on with Washington DC. He interrupted public comments twice. Council President Charles Pugh asked the Mayor if he would return so the meeting could be kept open. The Mayor was not specific and left.

Forty five minutes later a representative from the Mayor’s office spoke with press who were in the room and asked them to come to the 11th floor for a press conference. The people were waiting, City Council was waiting while this happened. The Mayor put the city on hold while he spoke to the press - then he did not return to complete the meeting. City Council closed the meeting around 4pm. It had started at 2pm.

The Mayor continues to exercise privilege of the press in portraying the residents of the city in a degrading manner, indicating Friday's meeting was a "sideshow"[1][2][3][4].

Mayor Bing several times has stated he no longer consults with Corporation Counsel as required by the City Charter (sec 7.5-201.1). Changes approved to the Charter in January 2012 (sec 7.5) clearly state Corporation Counsel and the Auditor General are independent of all branches of the government. This change was made to prevent corruption. Mayor Bing employs legal counsel from Miller-Canfield. Is the money to do this coming from the City Budget? Would that mean the City is on the line for Miller-Canfield's bill or are they working pro bono for the mayor? What contracts and receipts are in the city's books? All contracts are to be filed with Corporation Counsel (sec 7.5-206).

Miller-Canfield is a law firm we will show  to be in collusion with the State of Michigan, and Court system in the enslaving of the poor. There has been a focus on communities that are predominantly black. Miller-Canfield attorney Mike McGee is Mayor Bing's top choice - he wrote the changes to Public Act 4 creating a dictatorship when an Emergency Manager was placed; he drafted and revised the Financial Stability Agreement along with Ernst Young (each making $1 million in that process); and we'll have more information as investigation continues. How can a person so close to State law be placed in a position guiding the Mayor? This is all about creating a corporate empire within the State of Michigan, that is able to subjugate the people with government, rather then serve the public. They will interpret the law rather than follow it - watch for this and call it out when it happens.

Free Detroit started on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr’s assassination, which is the date (April 4, 2012) that the Consent Agreement was approved 5-4 by City Council. It wasn’t a super-majority, nor was it placed to the people for a vote. We are now enslaved by a system that demonstrates Taxation without Representation. We intend to fight on many fronts.

Free Detroit has created an Ethics Complaint that can be downloaded, signed, notarized, and turned in with the Board of Ethics. We are seeking to have Mayor Bing and his accomplices removed from office and legal proceedings held against him that may land him in prison as available through the Charter. The next Board of Ethics meeting is July 27 (see calendar), please have your complaint turned in through Free Detroit by Monday July 23rd. Your complaint needs to be notarized and we would like to know how many are being turned in. Contact: 313-444-0061 or info@freedetroit.org for assistance or to help in the process.

Written by: Stephen Boyle.
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Thanks to: Public Enemy [video credit: Can’t Truss It (by PublicEnemyVEVO)].

PressTV coverage and Two Detroits

Detroit held a featured segment of the OWS Week broadcast on PressTV. The General Electric shareholder meeting brought over 2,000 people coming from across the country to protest at the Renaissance Center and the surrounding streets. Protesters blocking traffic for upwards of an hour as the march overtook Jefferson Ave.

Stephen Boyle from Free Detroit - No Consent spoke with the reporter and offered his view of how the representative government and corporations continue to distance themselves from the people at large. Reductions in social services are leaving Detroiters with an overwhelming desire to leave Detroit. Those in need can go anywhere else in the nation and receive benefits better than Detroit can offer. At what point do eliminations stop? Within our Declaration we see the emergence of two Detroits: one thriving, one abandoned.

If mobility is cut off and social services restricted, those who rely on society will die. Gentrification of the city will occur as a new populace moves into the core of Detroit. Gated communities will flourish in the core as the poor are placed into perimeter encampments. This is how Mayor Bing, Governor Snyder, and the corporate/bank interests behind them plan to create pockets of welfare-serviced communities around the core of the city. The perimeter which fails to receive welfare will be blighted waiting for demolition and replanted as corporate farmland. Monsanto, ADM (Archer Daniels Midland), and other agro-corporations will own or assist in growing genetically engineered crops in the newly formed corporate farms (reference Hantz Farms, a Monsanto affiliated farm planning to purchase 5,000 acres). This is the foreseeable future as it is showing up through privatization of transit, public lighting, education, water, and handing over Department of Human Services to state/corporate interests.

The people of the city have grown tired of fighting for human rights for centuries. Corporations have grown at the expense of the workers which sustain them. There is a due diligence to the people enabling their freedom and pursuit of happiness, which continues to erode as corporations globalize and leave a trail of waste they foist upon the society used to propel their success. Financial and political reforms are needed.

The people united will never be defeated.

We are the blood that courses through corporate veins.

When you stop the blood flowing, you stop expansion.

The people deserve more than what is being offered.