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  • Call to Action

    It is my conclusion that this democratic-republic is dead. There is no saving it. The People themselves have given up on the idea of a free society. Whether its cause is hatred of the ‘other’, preoccupation with the self or just sloth, most of The People would not hike their overweight leg even a millimeter above their Lazy Boy view in support of a fellow citizen unless there was a cash reward. For this reason, there is NO HOPE for a free society. Authoritarians are always at work in free societies to gain enough control to thwart the Power of the People. When the People band together in harmony and mutual respect, no authoritarian can overwhelm them. Even an authoritarian with superior fire-power can’t hold when all of his lackeys realize their future lay with the People instead. But in America, the authoritarians have won the marketing battle; like Heinrich Himmler, they have recognized that brainwashing the unthinking masses is far more effective than any military maneuver or technology.

    However, WordPress continues to harass me with recommendations that say a website should give the reader hope and a path forward. Let me be clear, reader, that there is virtually no hope. This country has become a refuge for the physically, but worse, intellectually lazy. Most Americans will not leave their couch for any public benefit.

    In order to eliminate the popups, I will suggest the following:

    • Get into a jury box. Stop trying to avoid this service, which is the second most important activity in a democratic-republic. The authoritarians win when they pass laws through their authoritarian methods that marginalize and segment people from the whole. In Machiavellian terms, authoritarians follow the principle of “divide et impera” (divide and command). If you slice out the weakest members of society, one at a time, and alienate and destroy them while they are weak and isolated, you can continue carving out weak elements until you have a core group of people that won’t or can’t leave the authoritarians. The jury box gives you an opportunity to use your own judgement about whether the defendant is TRULY guilty of an ACTUAL crime. Stop assuming the police and prosecutor are truthful about the facts, the constitutionality, or the morality of the so-called event. If you believe they are really guilty of a deprivation of another citizen’s unalienable right to life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness, then give them a fair punishment that educates them about how to approach a future life in society and deters them and others from similarly consuming at another’s expense. But if the state is false in its presentation of the defendant’s behavior as a violation of society’s contract OR the state relies only on persons who have a profit motive in testifying against the defendant (police who gain federal program dollars, bonuses, promotions or prosecutors/judges who gain promotions, Italian vacations, or below-market mortgages), then set them free.
    • Get in the voting booth. This too is a hollow suggestion. The truth is that the oligarchy (not a conspiracy, as such, but a fact of the super-/vulture-capitalism that we have in the USA), only allows us choices that have already been vetted to continue the status quo. Do I have a solution? Asked and answered. This country is done. The People have given up and there is no real solution.
    • Give and support people who are giving a damn and doing something. The ACLU, the Innocence Project, the Marshall Project, et. al. are all on their feet, doing something. Donate. Or Hell’s bells, you could just stop criticizing people who are marching in the streets in support of a free society. Instead of whining about broken windows by protesters or a few burnt cars, join them and provide more constructive avenues for the angry public energy. Where would the USA be today if people have ignored the substance of what the Tea Party of the American Revolution were protesting against just because of some damaged tea? Where would Jews (beyond the six million massacred) be if the once-anti-Fascist American, British, and Russian military force had not done a little property damage to reign in the German Fascists? Violence happens when oppressed people seek equality. Stop criticizing it just because you and your family got what you wanted.
    • Flip over some damned cars until all of us are free: not just wealthy people or the custodians of their corrupt justice system (police, prosecutors, judges, legislators, and other miscellaneous hired thugs).
  • Villain: Susan L Strong

    Villain: Susan L Strong

    Hannah Arendt coined the term “banality of evil” after watching Nazi officer Adolf Eichmann’s trial; it’s believed that her meaning is that evil is sometimes the result of small, incremental acts that a person allows themselves to do by telling themselves they are just doing their duty or obeying orders. Nebraska Judge Susan Strong is a perfect example of this banality of evil. She willingly supplies innocent people to keep the concentration camps of Nebraska stocked. It does not bother this so-called “judge” a bit that the police and prosecutors are lying their asses off about the facts of cases. She breezes along, ignoring any contrary facts and dutifully keeping the prison pipeline full of profitable humans. It doesn’t bother her that “the crimes” that she rubber-stamps aren’t actual crimes in the first place and even as such, the police and prosecutors have to commit civil rights violations and evidence manufacturing to meet their quotas; she just keeps mumbling her monotone script and destroying innocent lives with impunity.

    Some might take issue with labeling these camps as concentration camps because they are not as bad as Nazi concentration camps. Of course, they are not as bad as Nazi camps. Nothing I know of has been more depraved and inhuman than the Nazi examples. And yet, something need not be just like the worst of its kind to be labeled what it is. My definition of a concentration camp, generally, is a place where political prisoners or people whose crime is in who they are or how they live that doesn’t impact anyone else’s pursuit of life, liberty, property, or happiness, are confined under inhumane conditions. And with their rotten food, exposure to freezing temperatures in the winter and exhausting heat in the summer, violence and rape by guards, Nebraska is certainly running concentration camps.

    The fact that “judges” no longer exercise any judicial discretion to keep the state from arbitrarily harassing (pulling people off the highway for obvious-lies like “seatbelt safety checkpoints,” upon which verifying that the seatbelt was correctly in use, they continue to harass) and then implementing cruel imprisonments for private recreational choices is one of the largest reasons that the US is no longer a republic. Judges have become a cog in the profit machine for states and counties needing people in prison beds to collect federal program dollars as well as income from parasitic prison-adjacent industries. That does not count the direct income they make from the convict-lease programs. In Nebraska, the state itself (Cornhusker Industries) as well as private companies, like Sillosocks and Millard Lumber, use the slave labor of prisoners to make millions of dollars of income. All that money at stake has corrupted “judges” all over and turned them into human traffickers, and Susan L. Strong is a prime example.

    Her webpage: https://supremecourt.nebraska.gov/hon-susan-i-strong

  • Beginning of Civil War II

    Beginning of Civil War II

    One of my favorite articles about the drug war and the most telling quote, from one of Nixon’s henchmen, that the war began for the purpose of destroying Black and liberal communities. All the fake reasons that have been passed along for this atrocity are exposed in this one quotation by John Ehrlichman in an interview he gave to author Dan Baum in 1994. In a surprise response to other questions, Ehrlichman admitted:

    You want to know what this was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.

    Baum, Dan. “Legalize It All: How to win the war on drugs.” Harper’s Magazine, April 2016, https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all. Accessed 15 Jul 2021.

    Countless hundreds of thousands of lives have been ended and ruined by these lies; lies told to gain these politicians and many since then an unfair advantage in their own elections. Some of those ended and ruined lives are innocents from foreign countries that our military and intelligence agencies have mowed down. Others are people murdered because they owned property that was advantageous to government agents to continue conducting their war. Then there are the obvious victims – people who made their own adult choice of recreation in the privacy of their own home. The privacy our own homes was among the first civil liberties to fall.

  • 12 February 2019 – Tuesday

    12 February 2019 – Tuesday

    Had a dentist appointment at 0645 this morning. Left the kitchen at 630, left for D&E, got naked for the Nebraska perverts, and then we were told that the quack-dentist had called in sick. That’s the second time (2/2) the D&E dentist didn’t see us as scheduled. When I first got to D&E, I was supposed to see the dentist and they “ran out of time”. Ravenhorst said “we’ll get you later” and then naturally as a lazy, incompetent Nebraskan, he didn’t.

    The non-working members of the room were bitching that I made too much noise closing my locker door. They, who make plenty of noise while I’m sleeping. Fuck them. the locker is bent and makes more noise than the others. I put in a work order for it.

  • 11 February 2019 – Monday

    11 February 2019 – Monday

    501 down; 229 to go.

    Talked to TH last night – he is going to email that Dillon Miller guy from Aerotek for me. Hopefully that guy responds to TH even though he didn’t respond to me.

    Downtown Abbey was back yesterday – yeah! Watched Victoria last night, too. I love them both. They advertised a version of “Les Misérables” on NET/BBC/PBR for April – a six-part mini-series. I definitely want to catch that.

    When will this Nebraska Hell end!!!!

  • 10 February 2019 – Sunday

    10 February 2019 – Sunday

    500 down; 230 days to go.

    230 days left in this Hell.

    Got into it with Dominque Moody, worthless piece of shit. He walked into the storeroom and walked out with a box of juice despite my telling him he wasn’t allowed in there. I told Jody and she kind-of told him to stay out of there. But the battle had begun.

    Bought some Burger King chicken nuggets from a guy in the unit that smuggled them from an outside job and shared with Dan and Zack.

  • 9 February 2019 – Saturday

    9 February 2019 – Saturday

    499 down, 231 to go.

    Week #71 completed and only 21 scaramuccis to go: 231 days. Kitchen started out unpleasant with Aaron and Moody bitching again about how they ignorantly perceived me as the cause of his (Aaron’s) getting kicked out of the storeroom. Jody heard him making threats or plots and threatened him back.

    The new storeroom helper, DJ, started telling me about a fantasy plot idea that he has been working on in excruciating detail, like combat by combat move. I told him once to tell it at a higher level, but he seemed incapable of summarizing at all. Anyway, he finally caught on that I had lost interest and finished up. I loaned him by PHB.

    Watched the end of a Mr. Rogers documentary on NET, “Won’t you be my Neighbor?” I wish I had watched the whole thing. I was reading “The Federalist #3” (John Jay) and started “Heart of Darkness”. Those were good too, I guess. But I want to read more about Fred Rogers at some point. A piece of the documentary said he was for gay rights or at least toleration and he seems like an actual good person. I love the quote that he repeated of his mother’s: “Look for the helpers when something scary happens. There are always people helping”. I would like to be more like that. The person helping other people; not just when things are scary, but always. Scary and stressful times would be a good place to start, though.

  • 8 February 2019 – Friday

    8 February 2019 – Friday

    498 down; 232 to go.

    Super-ugly morning in Hell’s Kitchen. Aaron was kicked out of the store room and for some reason he was angry and threatening to me. I asked him if he was threatening me and he just shut up. Then Linda pulls me in the chemical closet and asks why/if I was rude to Belinda about her stupid-ass ordering skills. I said that I did not say anything rude to her – nothing any more than the usual funny/sarcastic schtick that I give to everyone freely. She (Linda) said Joe tells everything to Belinda so it could be anything I said in front of him too. That’s ridiculous. Needless to say I have no intention whatsoever of apologizing to that ugly, evil bitch.

    Well, some better news after the break. Joe said that Aaron was kicked out because of some fight he had with Linda, not anything about his stealing. Then after lunch I was called to the case worker’s office and CM Boucher had my 4B class change paperwork to sign. He made some nice conversation about how I was previously booked for CCCO and ended up here. He was aware and agreed that CCCO is better (4 to a room, library, cable TV, etc.) I also asked him about the special exception to the personal pass and he nodded at Wingate, who reluctantly said that it had been approved by the warden. He told me to bring back the denied paperwork and he would approve it. Boucher might be a decent human being. I let mom know that I would be able to visit longer.

    Bunkie Zachary Wanamaker is being sued for $170k for burning down two buildings in some stupid drunken event. His situation reminds me that I need to follow-up on the bankruptcy while I’m still in prison so I can avoid the fees and class-taking requirements.

    Feeling a little better than I have for the last two weeks because the work release paperwork is moving forward and the pass for Sunday, Feb 24 was approved.

  • 7 February 2019 – Thursday

    7 February 2019 – Thursday

    497 down; 233 to go.

    The more I interact with Nebraskans and the more that I watch their local news, the more they nauseate me. What disgusting, hypocritical people. I have come to hate them and their blight upon the world with a passion I haven’t had about anything else to date. They are like roaches scurrying around stupidly, grabbing whatever isn’t nailed down, without principle or focus, destroying the accomplishments of other organisms to parasitically sustain themselves. We need to build a giant roach motel for them.

    Wingate: (1) lied multiple times about being “very close to work release” when he really had no idea or more likely did know, segue to: (2) “lost” my work release application, and (3) ignored the approval that I had for a second personal pass from the case manager.

    My bunkmate, Zack, told me he was here on arson charges. Somehow, he skipped a real prison, which means he got some preferred or platinum level justice. In this fucked-up home of devils, you get worse punishment for private recreational substance use in the privacy of your own home than for real crimes that deprive others of their life, liberty, or property. Scummy Nebraskans.

    Called DP, but that old bastard clicked to decline my call. There was some show today about how hundreds of people die or go blind every year from consuming adulterated alcohol.

    I have a dentist appointment Tuesday the 12th.

  • 6 February 2019 – Wednesday

    6 February 2019 – Wednesday

    496 down; 234 to go.

    Finally a day off from Hell’s Kitchen. Finished “How Democracies Die” last night. Great book. I love the possibilities it presented at the end that our democratic-republic might be saved after Dumpster Fire if we return to the practices of mutual toleration (by partisans) and institutional forbearance that served us well from post-Reconstruction to Nixon. Even thought that period of civility was bought at the expense of racial exclusion and single-party authoritarianism in the South.

    Finished “The Truth Machine” this morning. Also enjoyed enjoyed that book quite a bit. I would be interested to learn more about the technology aspects of distributed ledger technologies and block-chain systems. Not so much as cash-like currencies, but for things like reputation stores for some of the interesting use cases in the book. Wonder if I would enjoy doing development of that sort?

    I’m going to start on “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad and “The Federalist Papers” by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay now.

    That moronic deviant Wingate denied my second personal pass. It had been an exercise in twisted Nebraska humor that they pretended it was a possibility. I think now that Wingate is the one who has been sabotaging my process. He’s pissed off that he had to displace Burgos on the lower bunk when I got here and that I embarrassed him in front of his inmate-groupies when I corrected him about his dead-wrong story about human chromosomes. He is probably the one who “lost” my work release application all the while telling me “I must be coming up soon” for it. He denied a bunch of my clothing items too (suit, tie, socks, books, bag). He’s going on my Arya’s list (non-physically-violent version). Apparently this was a game of “dumb cop-bad cop” (dumb cop = Donovan). This place is ridiculous. Once again I hope they all burn in Hell.

    Someone in Kearney gave birth to twins and then took off. They said no crime was committed because of Nebraska’s safe haven laws. So why are the police looking for her then? They want to find anything to charge her with and harass her to death or try her in Nebraska’s court of public opinion. They definitely do not want to be forced to care for these children, that they allegedly love so much until the moment they’re born.