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Method to Their Madness…
29
July

When I began writing this article in the aftermath of last Friday’s terror massacre of 77 souls in Norway (22JUL), my initial focus was on the widespread nearly universal racist and Islamophobic reaction of the corporate news…led by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.  Madness does not prevail in a vacuum.

Another Murdoch pooper-scooper...

I couldn’t help but be reminded of the first 3 days after the April 19th, 1995 bombing of the federal bldg in Oklahoma City. Watching from our prison TV, we witnessed a parade of the usual suspects–Islam and Al Qaida–identified as almost certainly the culprits. more…

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Supreme Court vs. California Prison System…
27
July

The latest issue of the Prison legal News (July 2011) headlines a front-page article on the US Supreme Court’s recent 5-to-4 decision calling for relief of California’s “cruel and unusual” prison system.

San Fran's San Quentin Prison...

The Story & beyond:  The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), a network of 33 state prisons, is one of the largest and most overcrowded prison systems in the world with over 170,000 prisoners. more…

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New Orleans August 5th: Democracy vs. Corporatism…
25
July

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), will be holding their 2011 annual meeting at the French Quarter’s New Orleans Marriott August 1st thru the 6th. This is no ordinary public-policy organization.

New Orleans, Louisiana...

Paul Weyrich and others founded ALEC in 1973 as an agency designed to channel gifts and “donations” to right-wing legislators in order to enact “model legislation” that empowers corporate profit and control. We are today witnessing that reality in full bloom. more…

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Nature’s Vacuum…
22
July

I really get a chuckle out of watching Sarah, Michele, Glenn and the rest of that silly horde propagated by Rupert Murdoch’s Fox New’s scam trying to explain their beliefs.

Kharon with Fox viewers...

I have a theory: In order to believe what Fox puts out, one would have to be terminally ignorant. Far more likely, most of them simply feel more comfortable with a network that is as stupid and prejudiced as they are…not realizing that Murdoch is their Kharon to Hell. more…

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Corporatist Armageddon: Class War…
20
July

I suppose with most of my 69 years in progressive political action, along with a few combats, a chain-gang, and over 20 years in federal prisons, my silly-talk neurons have become jaded.

Funny conservative, John Wayne Gacy...

Some people simply love to argue; it gives them the illusion of intelligence.  And so-called conservative-libertarians, etc., few having any grounding in social consciousness or empathy, substitute the vacuum with manic polemics.  Of course, they stay perpetually frustrated–and all the more dangerous.

For instance, I would never consider for a moment arguing with, say, the shrub, George Bush Jr. He’s quite simply an over-indulged, self-entitled, drunken frat-boy with a silver spoon up his ass (and that’s being generous). What’s to argue with? more…

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Hunger Strikers Face Death…
18
July

Being ignored by the corporate media since July 1st are hundreds of prisoners across some 13 prisons in California conducting a hunger strike to the death.  Many prisoners are also refusing water and medical care.

Pelican Bay State Prison SHU...

Prisoners are protesting a variety of conditions, including poor medical treatment, indeterminate sentences in the Segregated Housing Units (SHU), collective punishment, and a coercive form of debriefing that relies on snitches to determine one’s criminality and allegation of gang membership. more…

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Weasels & Cowards…
15
July

I’m sure that many of us recall occasions when we were children and were tormented by aggressors and bullies. Often, supervisory adults rewarded the offensive behavior by “channeling” these individuals into positions of authority over the rest of us, their victims.

How far away?

They made them hall monitors, safety patrol, sports “leaders,” or other positions of sanctioned control. And, I suppose in many instances, this turned out to be generally good practice.

But, I can also correlate the fact that many of these mean muthaf****s grew up to become social predators, either of the extreme criminal type, or—if they managed to avoid a criminal record—cops and other forms of “lawful authority.” more…

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Trials & Tribulations (3)…
12
July

(Note: In the first of this 3-part series, I spoke briefly to my arrest by SEMCO in Detroit, February 11th, 1989, and the year leading up to it. In the second article, I commenced a two-week trial by jury in August of 1990.)

Allow me to briefly note here some comments made by observers as to my being involved in the drug business yet denying my guilt.  Circa 1983, when the CIA et al. popularized crack on the West Coast to finance the White House Contra War, most of us on the left got out of that business.

Recent cooler days...

Cocaine had become devastating to the black and poor communities; there was no longer any political justification for including cocaine in our fund-raising (but, of course, that didn’t stop the gov’t…).

By the time 1989 rolled around, I had been out of that business some 5yrs.  This case involves the gov’t (failing to entrap me with their informant) inserting me into a conspiracy of which I was never a member.  I make no other claims of “innocence.” more…

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Trials & Tribulations (2)…
10
July

(NOTE: This is the second of 3 articles on the gov’ts original case against me. The first spoke to the preceding circumstances leading to the bust. Here, I speak to the gov’ts case at trial.)

Probably the greatest error that I committed in the case was in briefly becoming a fugitive.  The second error was voluntarily returning.  But that was all now 22 years ago…

Detroit: Wayne County Jail...

Despite a written surrender agreement, the feds threw me in the Wayne County Jail. Normally, federal prisoners are held at FCI Milan outside of Detroit.

One of the Sheriff’s Deputies I knew (where, as an investigator I used to visit clients) told me that the feds ordered the “special treatment” because I refused to “cooperate.” Well, they got that right. more…

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Trials & Tribulations (1)…
07
July

(NOTE: The following 3 articles over this next week will speak to the preceding circumstances, trial and some commentary concerning the origins of my case.)

On April the 5th, 1990, I started a 25yr sentence in federal prison. On Friday, July the 8th, 2011, I will have completed that time.

Cellmate, Chief of Navajo Nation...

I served 16yrs in high- and medium-security prisons, another 3yrs in federal prison camps, and the past 2yrs on severely restricted home detention. I was 47 when I started this journey. I’m now 69. In many respects, I might as well have been off-planet. more…

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