Thoreau notices:
Oakland is doing the utterly predictable, and contemplating factory farming of a taxable crop. When politicians view something as a revenue source, they want more of it, and they are prepared to get in bed with any businessman who can make that happen. Most significantly, if it’s a source of tax revenue they are perfectly happy to provide security for those businessmen, which means that you get the sort of businessmen who don’t have their own street gangs and hitmen.