are sanctified by faith that is in me. the biggest sin you can commit is not to believe in jesus christ, according to jesus christ. that's the biggest sin you can commit. >> next speaker. hi, my name is trevor johnson. i'd like to bring an issue to the attention of the supervisors. this affects all your districts. there is literally a scourge on the streets of san francisco right now, putting all our citizens and visitors alike in danger. there are two illicitly operating taxi companies operating under the guise of ride sharing smart phone apps that have collectively over 1,000 unlicensed and underinsured vehicles operating as taxicabs in the city. both of these companies prey on the under employed and fib experienced of the city putting them to work in under insured

nonlicensed and under regulated vehicles for the purpose of in town point to point transportation for hire. thea companies also heavily promote heavily to their driver during busy time to tell them no special license or insurance is required and the transportation that they are providing is on a for-hire basis. this makes them taxi companies in practice, definitely not ride sharing, especially when these companies are taking 20% of what the drivers are getting paid. both of these companies are publicly claiming that they are exempt from regulation, that they are providing ride sharing. and the moneys collected are donations. however, they are actively recruiting drivers with claims of making extra money and meeting interesting people just like you do as a cab driver. i've seen many incidents reported on one of their internal driver lounges on facebook reporting accidents, extortion up to threats of vie will betionv. i've heard anecdotal reports there are as

many, many people driving under one driver's registration with lip specifically, and legal threats by ceos of lift and side car to drivers asking for proof of extended insurance. this is a problem. we are des mating the taxi industry. we are making it hard for hard working honest people who are getting licensed and insured legally to drive [inaudible]. * we're ruining it for the city, guys. we need to do something about lift and side car. >> thank you very much. next speaker. thank you, very honored to be here in this illustrious halls and particularly after the amazing presentations of your honorees this afternoon. it is a very, very exciting afternoon. i am a member of the revolutionery poets for gays and they are poet laureate has asked us to introduce poetry

into the politics of our city. so, this will be as quick as i can get it. a song for san francisco. and i am delighted that you are considering rebuking our fed who are the nbaa but that come at the end of this. so, i don't want to have too many bells before that. (applause) an increase in homelessness [speaker not understood] because benches were removed elsewhere. why remove benches to take seats away from people who live and breathe in san francisco? and make sitting or lying on the streets an offense? send the homeless to different neighborhoods like playing [speaker not understood]. people need to sit somewhere out of sight cannot be out of his mind and for the car owners who seek a sunday, 1800 citations for parking on sunday, $72 for the city

coffers for each offense. bike theft increased and remind me why i bike no longer. three box stolen from me by lock cutting, that was in europe. gangses, violence, theft is universal. neighborhood courts with volunteers, unpaid judges earn money for cities with restorative justice for first offenses. pay a stipend for those administering justice to ensure a fair playing field for unemployed. work requires compensation. our country is wealthy. 37,000 unemployed in san francisco, our city is wealthy and can spend money on competition for boring machines for historic women who might or might not become symbols. san francisco stands up for human rights. >> thank you very much. thank you. (applause) good afternoon, members of

the supervisor supervisors, members of the public. star child, [speaker not understood] director for the chapter of the libertarian party here in san francisco. i had a question regarding item 36, the indefinite detention provisions of the national defense authorization act. will there be an opportunity to comment on that separately? >> this would be the time to do it. okay, i will comment on that now in that case. thank you, supervisor chiu, for introducing that, and the supervisors who co-sponsored it. i'm just wondering about the other supervisors farrell, carmen chiu, yee, wiener and cohen, encourage you to add your names to that list of sponsors so that we can have unanimous sponsorship as this is a horrible measure. and it's very important that we speak up now about the civil liberties abuses and constitutional rights, violations happening under president obama, a democrat president so that we have the credibility to speak up later when it's republican president committing these abuses as happened in the past. and many of the members of the public don't have the

opportunity to interact with someone like obama when he comes to town. they typically hide from their detractors in the public. but as representatives, you may have the chance to perhaps say a few words to obama at some point. so, when you do i hope you will ask him why and under what constitutional basis does he claim the authority to have anyone anywhere in the world at any time including u.s. citizens killed just on his say so that they are terrorists? and you might ask him when his forthcoming book, the audacity of power is going to be coming out. please speak up about civil liberties. as quiet as bradley manning has been kept in detention for over a thousand days now without trial, without due process. he's the whistle blower who reported on war crimes being committed by u.s. government troops in afghanistan. and he is still sitting in jail as we sit here today.

in honor of african-american history month, i would encourage the board to think about renaming justice herman plaza -- >> thank you very much. thank you very much. thank you very much. i'm sorry, we provide everyone the same amount of time. so, i very much appreciate your comments. (applause) >> and if i could mention, we do have a rule in the board chamber to keep the proceedings going and be respectful of those folks speaking for people to not applaud or express dissatisfaction with comments. and let me also mention for anyone who wishes to make public comment on any of the resolutions we have, this would be that time to speak. next speaker. good evening, supervisors. my name is [speaker not understood] and i have lived in san francisco for 61 years. i was instructed to come down tonight based on a news item carried by kcbs. in my opinion, tomorrow's

swearing in is a low point in san francisco. in my opinion, it continues the continuing trend of corruption in san francisco. when someone so young can be given a seat, something tells me that something is wrong in this city of san francisco. i was totally [speaker not understood] that district 7 was independent and i would like to see whether that's going to be really true or not. also, if ex supervisors elsbernd and chiu who are so sharp financially, how come they didn't contribute to any plan to save the 49ers? losing the 49ers is a black eye to the city of san francisco. and mayors brown, newsome, and lee, you share the blame along

with board of supervisors. let's put it this way. somebody has to be blamed when things go wrong so, why not blame our leaders? in my opinion, detroit has been solved. norxv new orleans is on the way. and eventually, eventually, sadly i'll have to say san francisco will be added on the list and eventually it will be served. * and let's put it this way. i never thought the mayor had to have the help of districts 7 and 4 in order to do a decent job. thank you. >> next speaker. hi, i'm auberry friedman from the libertarian party in san francisco. and we fully support david

chiu's resolution against the detention provisions of the ndaa. under the guise of the war on terror, the detention provisions were slipped into the ndaa giving the president unlimited power to detain and hold in military prison indefinitely, without being charged, any person who provides substantial support to terrorism or commits belligerent acts against the united states. what exactly do substantial support or belligerent acts mean? that wording is so vague that almost anyone who exercising their first amendment rights can be interpreted as being belligerent and end up in a military prison without even being charged. this resolution is an excellent first step in ensuring that our basic civil liberties are preserved.

we intend to push for full state nullification of the detention provisions in the ndaa. thank you, david chiu, for introducing this resolution. >> thank you. thank you. >> next speaker. my name is philip byrd, i was three times a libertarian candidate in this district. i'm blind from hiv/aids and part of that blindness is attributable to lack of government accountability in the sense that the drugs that were clearly available to me in 1992 [speaker not understood] were not legalized by the [speaker not understood] of 1996. and i lost my eyesight. [speaker not understood] police authorities and the feds and

the people who invented those drugs were simply going to be subject to fines or imprisonment if they did anything but obey those rules. you also must be accountable. you as supervisors are accountable above all for our safety and our law. [speaker not understood] you are given tremendous power. you have a police department at your disposal. you have [speaker not understood]. you are accountable to the mayor for that. you are accountable to the district attorney for that. you are accountable to the state government and to the feds for your proper use of that. the president of the ndaa is accountable to nobody. he's already been accountable to the voters and that's it. the constitution provides that understood -- the founders understood it is in the state interest to kill somebody and they have in the constitution a provision called a bill of

mark, marqe. i congratulate you and i hope you will urge the congress and the president to use their proper constitutional powers and have the killing done by congress where at least there is some accountability. thank you. (applause) >> thank you. thank you. next speaker. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is john [speaker not understood] and i represent an african university and kenya school of law. i also am interested in talking about mohammed ibrahim award for 2013 and 2014. i currently reside at providence church at 1601 mc kinnon and previously resided at 5 47 haight street in san francisco. there is an interesting program that's being commended by bevan

dufty. our city has secured a million dollars in state funding to expand and improve our shelter system such as the one i'm living in at providence. this bayview shelter requires approval by the city planning commission. there will also be an opportunity to participate in that process later this year, he he said, and again there will be a public notice. if approved, there will be a competitive bidding process to designate the shelter operator. i was going to offer a name of a church. i know there are many you know here in the city including st. francis of assissi. i would like to offer up saint john's church and mother brown as a parties -- participant for three reasons. one is the brain trust we allow. also the second reason * of course is the teachings of the prophecy by john of jesus christ.

and third, an address [speaker not understood] 66 sixth street. i would like to include -- have i run out of time? >> you have 20 seconds left. thank you. you're part of the contract. god told him to obey its term. you personally and all your prosperity have this continuing responsibility that every male among you shall be circumstance um sized. [speaker not understood] shall be cut off. the foreskin of his penis shall be cut off. >> thank you very much. next speaker. * hello, supervisors. i also would like to thank supervisor chiu for the ndna resolution. and the reason for that, not just thanking him, but also encouraging all the other supervisors to stand behind

this resolution. it's very important. this is a city that has "san francisco" values. we should stand up for values that are constitutional, that support individual rights, that are values that we know as a city. and i would encourage all of you to stand behind supervisor chiu. i would also encourage, if i may, to take this a little further. you know, you are already for the resolution planning to encourage members of congress and that's great. that's a tremendous -- a step in the right direction. but how about also encouraging the members of our state legislation to nullify the whole thing? i mean, we can. by law we can. we could go through the court system and this will take years, but i think the legislative process is there

for people like you and me to stand up and say, hey, this is unconstitutional. we don't like it. and i would encourage all of you people here to take up this fight. thank you again, supervisor chiu. we are very he proud of you. >> thank you very much. (applause) >> next speaker. and if i could remind folks that -- to not express either support with applause or opposition to statements, but you can use your hands to indicate positive support if you like. next speaker. thank you. my name is winston sin, private citizen, generic tea partier. i'd like to commend supervisor chiu also for having the awareness and foresight and the courage, everyone here consider co-sponsoring this resolution.

i would have felt that it's needless to say anything about this because on the face of it, isn't it unconstitutional? where is the due process to have anyone without charge, warrant, any due process, jury trial afforded, access to attorney to be able to be picked up by any federal authorities and be labeled a potential terrorist and so forth. so, anyway, so, i'll keep this short. thanks again. please back the resolution. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. good evening, michael lang. thank you, mr. chiu, for the resolution regarding the ndaa.

the united nations began here in the city in an earnest effort to call an end to the fighting, or at least to try to promote peace. of course we have the u.n. plaza right outside the door with the inscription embedded in the concrete advocating an end to the fighting, and an eye toward peace. not a great deal of help is on the way from washington when it comes to our civil liberties. we need to hold the line locally. i urge the supervisors to vote unanimously to pass this resolution of mr. chiu's. we need to hold steady with the bed rock american values of liberty, justice, equality. thank you. (applause) >> thank you. next speaker. i'm going to keep it really brief. i know it's been a long night and i want to also just say i

really enjoyed the commendations today. it was really inspiring. my name is nadia. i'm a legal fellow with the bill of rights committee. i've worked with many organizations here supporting supervisor chiu's resolution. i want to thank all co-sponsors and encourage any other supervisor interested to seib on as a co-sponsor and to support the resolution. i just wanted to mention that the issued you heard tonight, the resolution is supported by 27 different community organizations * from across the city and from across different communities that's including groups such as the coalition for safe san francisco, council on american islamic relations, chinese progressive alliance, japanese american citizens league, and i'm not going to list them all out again. i want to be brief. * issues and i think all of you have heard enough about why the provisions of the nda are concerning and the resolution from san francisco make sense. i won't stress those points again. difficult want to mention i have 89 letters that have been signed by san francisco residents. these taken at a table at a day

of remembrance event that happened last weekend and these are citizens who again are seeing the connection between the kind of indefinite military detention provisions that are included in the ndaa and the experience of japanese americans during the interment in world war ii. so, again, there is a wide variety of support for this resolution and i'm very much looking forward to a yes vote from all of you. thank you. (applause) hello, my name is alex [speaker not understood] and i really would like to say that i'm so proud to live in a city that dares to tell the national government, no, you will not abuse constitutional law in our city. i am very, very proud of all of you that are signing onto support this law. i would like to offer an international perspective here. as a naturalized citizen in

this country, i inherited the history of this country and that involves the good, the bad, and the really, really ugly. and as a political science major and history major, it [speaker not understood] me the interment of the japanese american and the japanese latino that we did in this country without due process of law. this is the history that i inherit in becoming an american. as an american, i also carry the burden of current events and current laws. and let me tell you where i was during /11. -- 9/11. * i was teaching american political science abroad in asia. and it was very, very difficult to explain to my students what

was happening in guantanamo, holding people without the due process of law. coming back to america now for two years, it's amazing that we have to tell the government to obey the law? there is no debating that. it should be absolute silence in appreciation that we have a law in place already. >> thank you. clam clap (applause) * hello, my name is robin crop, i live in san francisco and i'm a member of the l7 99 coalition that's working hard on this issue. first of all i want to thank you all for the wonderful commendations today. it was so exciting and so

wonderful to listen to everyone and what they have done and to watch your appreciation for everyone. so, thank you for that. i want to say that the ndaa has -- the opposition to it has already occurred in two california cities, evidently santa cruz and fairfax. and if san francisco also passes this resolution against indefinite detention, it will be the 18th city in the country and the largest one. so, it will be very proud if you pass this resolution. we we'd also like to encourage more cities to pass it as well. i consider this a very historic vote. i wanted to tell you all, we also had a press conference outside about it today, which is going on live. for me personally, i went last week to see some film, it was called films of remembrance. last week was the 71st anniversary of fdr's ordering of japanese americans into camps and we got to watch footage of people having to leave their homes, be held in

holding areas, be bused to these camps, live in the camps, and also getting out of them. we listened to people say, what is this nonalien business? i'm an american business. they had nothing to do with the bombing of pearl harbor. we also watched a very moving film called the flickr in eternity. i believe it was about a young man named stanley who was 19 years old and he made a journal about his experience in the camps. they consider him like an anne frank at the time. it was really interesting. he was actually drafted into europe world war ii and was killed over there. they found his journal. they made a film and it's wonderful. and he, to me, -- he was able to tell the experience in the first person and i really want to encourage that more people see that film, a flickr in eternity. that's the human side of this, thank you. (applause) >> thank you. let me ask, are there any other members of the public that wish to speak in general public comment? okay.

seeing none, general public comment is closed. and with that, madam clerk, could you read our adoption calendar? >> items 36 through 37 are being considered for immediate adoption without committee reference. a single roll call act of these items is [speaker not understood]. can remove the item and consider it separately. >> thank you. colleagues, would any like to sever items? i'd like to sever item 36. why don't we take a roll call vote on item 37. >> on item 37, supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar absent. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye. president true? chiu aye? supervisor chu? chu aye. there are 10 ayes. >> item passes. madam clerk, if you can please call the next item.

>> item 36 is a resolution opposing the indefinite detention provisions of the national defense authorization act. >> president chiu. >> thank you, mr. chair. colleagues, i appreciate your consideration of this resolution. as you know, i don't offer -- i don't often offer resolutions that impact federal matters, but when i learned about the indefinite detention provisions and the national defense authorization act, i frankly was so offended and so surprised at them that i thought it was important that we as a city speak up on this issue. and we will be joining in solidarity states, counties, and municipalities around the country at this moment. i believe we would be the 17th city to support this if that were the case and the will of this body today. the national defense authorization act, the specific provisions that we're talking about, allow our military to arrest and detain american citizens on u.s. soil without a warrant or due process. this would repeat the forced

incarceration of the 1940s of 120,000 japanese americans who spent years in interment camps without notices of charges, right to an attorney, or right to a trial. from my perspective and the perspective of many constitutional scholars, these indefinite detention provisions violate fundamental american legal principles of the presumption of innocence, our fifth amendment right to due process, the sixth amendment right to fair trial, the eighth amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, and these provisions would allow activists and journalists to be detained for exercising their first amendment rights to free speech. i want to take a moment and thank the large coalition that has come together to ask us to support this. there are dozens of organizations in the city including the bill of rights defense committee, the coalition for safe san francisco, the asian law caucus, the labor council, the san francisco 99% coalition. i want to thank supervisors avalos, breed, cam pos, kim and

mar for their co-sponsorship. from my perspective, i know we have a different perspective today in 2013 than we did in the early 1940s, but i really do believe those who forget history are bound to repeat ti want to make sure we don't forget our history. with that, colleagues, i would ask for your support. (applause) >> thank you. colleagues, any other comments? madam clerk, can we have roll call on this item? >> on item 36, supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? fair ill aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. * supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye. president chiu? chiu aye. supervisor chu? chu aye. there are 11 ayes. >> the resolution is adopted. (applause)