I really need to stay away from reading the latest about the California Governator and his prison budgets… cuz, it really pisses me off! In a way, I really wanna know what is going on with our money, but then when I find out, I just get upset because its jacked and there seems to be little anyone can do to relieve popular hysteria that is allowing the large prison unions to suck us all dry.

The California Parole system is broken, but it is broken for a good reason, to line the pockets of the correction system unions with 6 figure salaries, people who would only be qualified to work at Jack-in-the-crack without them. I mean, you need tons of people to get tons in overtime and they make sure getting tons of people is no problem. Civil rights? hell, they got trumped by 100k+ salaries to idiots who flunked out of pre-school.

Seriously, the California prison system is one of the largest on the planet with the highest rate of paperwork and parole violators on the planet to match. The Governator just asked for billions more to build more California prisons so California can hire more cousins as guards and give people prison time on their parking tickets so more guards can buy those gas guzzling Hummers they seem to love. Hell, almost makes you wish you were related to a California prison guard, no need for education or even 1/2 a braincell, they take care of their own, ya know.

There is a family I know, if it wasn’t for the correction officer union they would all be on welfare and there is over a dozen of em. They make me sick, always saying how great it is to be able to vote for your own raises and be able to hire all your friends and family. Yep, they claim they vote on whether to get a raise or not… ahh, let me think about that one… “I vote not. California is in a budget crisis ya know… my new Maseratti can wait! DUHHH!”

The sad fact is that the California parole board makes it very hard for parolees to NOT get violated. Getting pulled over for a traffic ticket may get you a year and 3 years of parole no matter what the original sentence, is mandatory. Many people do more time on violations than the original offense, keeping the union fat and happy.

Many parolees are forced into crazy restrictions, even though they are now “free”. I just saw a story about a block of houses in the ghetto. It seems that the parole officers are FORCING the parolees to live there. Once there, they are not allowed to get back to work and are made to file for welfare, whether they want to or not. The welfare is to pay for the housing and the fleet of BMW’s (and all the gold teeth) the cousin, sorry, I mean the home owner wants.

They stack bunk beds 10 deep in the bedrooms and force the “free” men to stay there and pay rent with the welfare money that gets sent directly to the cousin, sorry, the homeowner. If the men have a home and a job to go to and actually leave… well, it’s a violation and another year in prison.

I talked to this kid, he was about 21, he told me he refused to go on welfare, he said he had a wife and child to take care of and if he did the welfare, they would take it out of HER paychecks from work (his wife), he was actually allowed to work (after many complaint letters) and tried to work but the job was 50 miles away from house and it took 2 hours on a bus to get to work. He said they refused to allow him to live closer to his job, seems it was just too much paperwork. Anyway, he is now back in prison because he was late coming back twice… 2 to 3 hours late… Once because of the bus and once because his boss needed some overtime. His wife and child? well, seems their home is now in foreclosure because she just can not pay all the bills alone. Child support? she gets none because “cousin” takes the welfare check. He needs a few more 140″ flat panel plasma tv’s, to give as gifts to the union members that set him up, fat, collecting welfare checks for 30 fools living in his 3 bedroom house. All thanks to the Governator and the State of California!

Here is a quote regarding this issue..

Whoa! Take a deep breath for a minute. I happen to be a Correctional Officer in a state institution that holds about 7200 inmates. I must say (and I am a progressive) that you don’t want these men back on the streets. Many can barely read, don’t have a work ethich other than selling dope, and are prone to violence. God knows what people are capable of doing while under the influence. Be careful what you pray for, you just may get it…

Funny how “ethic” is mis-spelled above from the original quote. That attitude sums us the California budget crisis in regards to the bloated prison population. “God forbid that someone who can not read, be taught how to read, hey, they would then be able to read the paperwork, point out the mis-spellings and maybe some other bullshit being spread on taxpayers.

Just throw them into the bottomless hole where they belong and do everything possible to keep them there for years after the original sentence was completed, drain dry the struggling taxpaying families, schools and social programs to lock up as many people as possible for as long as possible “. Speaking about being prone to violence… I saw some news piece some time back about the Coecoran prison guards who were setting up prison fights to the death for the sake of their own entertainment and gambling… Does that qualify as violent? Criminal sentencing needs to stay where it belongs, with the justice system, NOT the labor unions and their kin.
Unrealistic parole rules set as a blanket, regardless of the individual situation is insane. What is sick ass shit is that the only reason they make it impossible for the parolee’s to get back into society, work and family is to make sure the prisons stay FULL. Without full prisons, there would be no need for tons of overtime! It sickens me that every other state wants parolees to get to work and become self-sufficient while California forces them into insane conditions, all set up to bring them back into prison for the 3 years! WTF Taxpayers? We need school books NOT welfare for parolees that are not allowed to work.

Crazy thing is, that 21 year old kid also said that he tried smoking crack at the house for the first time ever(he was not into drugs, he went to prison over a stupid drunken brawl). He said everyone is so bored that all there is left to do is dope. Thats great, my 28% of income tax is going into starting some kids drug problem and keeping up the neighborhood’s crack house. GO GO Governator!

wanna know more about the governator Arnie and the california budget due to intentional prison overcrowding to make a few rich? read this article about how much money California may waste as our school children lack the funds needed for things like…. books

This sums it all up, comment from another article about needing billions more yearly to build more prisons..

I find California’s prison system to be a “MONEY PIT”. And until they revise the Sentensing process and Parole System and get these parts out of the hands of the Prison Unions their will never be an answer. California has turned the Fox Loose in the Hen house.

Bro, the Union’s foxes seem to have penned up not just the hens, but every rooster, turkey and pigeon for their pluckings.

Making money hand over fist and still taking..

People need to be more educated in the real reason why more prison are being build. I college student and my research has been on the Prison Industrial Compex. PRISONS ARE THE NEW SLAVE TRADE. Fortune 500 and multi-billion dollar corporations such as McDonalds, Microsoft, Boeing, Sprint, Compaq, Toys R Us, and Revlon and Victoria ’s Secret use prison labor for packing, telemarketing, and manufacturing. Hattery, Angela and Smith, Earl. (2006) The prison industrial complex. Sociation Today, 4 (2).

The Lagunajournal website has a great deal of information on Orange County Sheriff, now ex sheriff Mike Carona. Looking through it, I found this story that I have never heard of before today.

This really angers me, as it should all of us. How is this a justifiable shooting?

The Orange County Sheriffs yesterday, were testing a new type of gun. The gun has a camera built into it so there is a record of the shooting from the officers perspective. The crying from the cops over this technology is a post in itself, seems they believe a camera to be unfair and biased… yes, the camera has a point of view that can not be twisted, the suspect either had a gun or did not… that seems to scare them. Why?

The writer of this Commentary is a minor. Name is withheld.

Off Duty U.S. Customs officer shoots unarmed 19-year old Arab-American in head and face according to eye witness’s. Orange County Sheriff Michael Carona ’s spokesmen stated that officer committed no wrong-doing and did not even take him in for questioning.

This incident happened about 15 minutes from my house in the Madrid apartment complex in Mission Viejo, CA on Feb 5, 2005.

As far as a political discussion, this would probably fall under the same category as Amadou Diallo Case, and Abner Louima in an example of law enforcement brutality bordering on outright criminality. Here are the relevant facts:

Early in the morning on Saturday February the 6th around 1:30 am, Bassim Chmait along with three other friends were walking through an apartment complex heading towards a college house party. As they were walking through the apartment complex one of the neighbors threw a soda can at them from above. In frustration, one of the young boys threw the can into the street, and continued walking down the pathway of the apartment heading to the party. At that point Douglas Bates, an off duty U.S. Custom’s officer, left his home with his badge in hand and gun drawn confronting the group of 4 to 6 friends. . he started to yell at them, and when the group of boys turned around, they saw the provoker yelling at them about laughing and being too loud, he was heading towards them pointing his gun a them with a badge in the other hand, yelling “You don’t want to fuck with a cop, do you?” Apparently he was upset at the noise and commotion. Mr. Bates then pistol whipped one member of the group. The aggressor was an off duty border patrol/homeland security officer who was not in uniform, his name is Douglas Bates. The four unarmed boys were questioning him, asking why he was pointing his gun at them and begging him to put it down. One of the four boys that were there kept asking the gunman to stop pointing the barrel of the gun in his friends direction. Because of that, the aggressor pistol-whipped his friend on the forehead w/ the gun. Anticipating that the provoker was going to hit his friend again Chmait Bassim got in front of his friends telling the man to please put the gun down. Almost instantly the off duty cop shot Bassim in the head and face by Douglas Bates. After shooting Bassim, Mr. Bates simply walked back into his apartment. While friends were screaming about what happened to Bassim, neighbors dialed 911. About 5 minutes later the murderer opened his door, with the gun still in hand and yelled at neighbors to shut up, and he want back inside his apartment.

This story comes straight from four witnesses, and neighbors that were there when the murder took place, they saw and heard everything that occurred that night.

You would think that this would be an easy case to prosecute. You would think that Douglas Bates is in jail right now. But he’s not, he’s a free man, he was never arrested, he was never charged, he was never even asked to come to the police station to give a statement. The Orange County Sheriff’s Department Spokesman, Jim Amormino stated, “We treated this the same as we would any case. There was no clear evidence of a crime being committed, so there was nothing to book him on.”

Here are the reports that this information was taken from:

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Yesterday, something horrible happened in a high school. 3 boys were accused of drugging and raping 3 girls in a park, a public restroom until stopped by on lookers. Because of a few very very bad eggs 1000’s of other boys get the same punishments for never even having committed a crime.

News like that causes hysteria and panic, the lawmakers trying to boost popularity make harsher laws to treat the good, bad and every one in between in the same manner as the worst offender.

You see, you can’t get a whole bunch of tax money over a few bad eggs, but you can get it in truck loads if you scare the public into believing it’s an epidemic.

Read this letter and think twice before judging or voting on more money towards tracking these perverts of society. (BTW, less than 15% of the registry is even considered serious or violent but all get the same treatment from the serial rapist/murderer(.0001%) to the high school sweetheart). If you don’t believe me, it’s public and you can count how many for yourself.

I was born 22 years ago to a middle class family. We lived in the suburbs, my dad a carpenter and my mom waited tables part time. We had money for most things, not rich, but able to afford yearly vacations and such.

Growing up, I was never the cool or popular kid. I was shy I guess. I got bullied a bit in school as most kids do at some point or another. In Jr. High, the girls never liked me, I was a bit geeky I guess. I loved math and science and that wasn’t the coolest thing to be into.

In high school, my luck with girls didn’t improve much until my senior year when I met a girl who thought I was great. I thought she was incredible, funny, brilliant and HOT. We dated all through my last year of school, I was a senior and she was a freshman. That did not matter, we had a great time together.

I graduated and she went into the next grade. It was summer. I applied at a few colleges to study law and she was so proud of me. The school I chose was only a few hours away so we could see each other on weekends.

We had never had sex, but discussed it, she wasn’t ready and I was not gonna push her. One summer night we ended up at the beach, we dismissed the “close at dusk” signs and went anyway. We were caught making out and charged with trespassing. It was kinda awkward but funny. Her parents picked her up from the station and I was just allowed to leave with a ticket being an adult now.

About a month later, my parents (who I live with) got a call asking me to come into the station for an interview, I did. The police asked me what we were doing on the beach. I told them it was a date, we thought it was romantic. They asked me if I knew her age. I said of course, we had been dating for a year now. We met in high school , 2 semesters back. They asked if we had sex. I replied “is that your business? but no, we haven’t yet. They wanted to know what we had done and I told them we kissed and played around a bit, but that is all.

To make a long story short, I got charged with child molestation and spent the next 6 months in jail. I am now a registered sex offender and my college education is but a dream. I am not allowed to live at home with my family because I have a younger brother who is 13. I am classified a violent predator, a child molester and my photo is on the sex offender website. My parents have now become separated over this and how much money has been spent on making sure I am not homeless since I can not get a job nor live at home. My college scholarships were revoked over this and my parents took out a loan for my college tuition that they still have to pay interest on.

My little brother keeps running away and if I even go near him to talk to him, I can go to prison for 3 to 7 years. My now ex girlfriend is over 18 and has become addicted to meth. I have not seen her in years but I hear this from others. My life is over, I can never have a family since I can never be around kids and what woman would want me now anyways, jobless, homeless and a status of violent child predator? Another law in my state is getting passed that says registered offenders can not live within a few miles of a school or park. There is one of each in every community so I have no idea where to go. Like most in my situation I will go where they would like us to be, in prison.

The difference between you and this sorry fool, he got caught doing what every teen does.

The laws in many states say that a 3 year age difference, even when both are juveniles is a “sexual predatory” offense and molestation with life long consequences. So why do most schools open the door by being 4 to 5 year schools? Do they expect high schoolers to alienate themselves from junior classes? WTF? sick ass unjust shit.

I wish that boy luck, but I know he will never get any luck nor justice. The witch hunt for the high (state dollars) paying predator incarcerations continues. Especially now since marijuana is becoming legal in many states and the 2 to 5 year jail sentences for possession are but a memory of money lost to corrections unions… the money has to come from somewhere … and there are tons of teens. The few horrific crimes in recent years also put them into the “public safety above all” clause allowing a persons rights to fly out a speeding cop cars window. Basic human rights, living in a home, privacy(address not published unless crime involved violence), having family, kids and FREEDOM. Do you smell that, I do, Our  Beloved Constitution Burning.

more than most…

In not many professions can you screw up badly and get a paid vacation as punishment, however, if you are in law enforcement it seems to be your right.

Steal a few kilos of dope, rape, rob and pillage and you will in fact be suspended with pay. Now, if the story gets out and people are angry that you are in fact not working for the taxpayers yet still getting paid, you will get the worst, un-paid leave, but to make up for the loss of pay, the Union will step in and pay your salary. So, no harm no foul, We really “punished” law enforcement that crossed the line to criminal.

Wow, I wonder if I can steal some shit, murder a few “SUSPECTS“, get caught and get a long paid vacation to boot! Vacation on a Mexican resort(maybe Europe or Bahamas), not San Quentin, mind you.

This political cartoon says it all!

This is from a few years back in Washington, I believe, but I gotta say I wonder how this got resolved. It sickens me that anyone else would have been charged with something… involuntary manslaughter, disturbing the peace… something. I wonder if anyone was, unfortunately we have no way to know because the killers name was withheld.

The story goes as so, an optometrist was being investigated for illegal gambling. The police went to arrest him, an unarmed optometrist leaving his home, and one of the cops shot him dead.

They claim it was accidental and the gun went off due to an act of God or something. There are a few problems with the story… like, why are they even pulling guns on an unarmed man who poses no risk and if they were not holding him at gunpoint, how does a holstered gun pointing down shoot the man. hmmm.

The point is why does this go, unnoticed. The more this type of thing happens, the wider the door is opened towards complete corruption by being “protected” and above “every regular man’s” law.

Sheriff’s academy halts training for cadets as questions of cheating arise.

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s cheating, incompetence and lack of intelligence  blamed on Fox Reality.

Yes, It seems that Fox filming the reality series The Academy distracted the cadets so much that the instructors had no choice but to allow them to cheat to pass the exams. Some of the instructors had such little confidence that the class would pass that they actually gave the cadets the answers to the tests before they took them… to make sure they would pass, sadly, even then many failed and were allowed to re-take the test unill they did pass.

Of course, none of this was going on before the Fox camera crew got there.. hmmm.

The report also said inspectors heard anecdotal reports about students who were not required to pass the physical-conditioning sessions and who failed firearms and driving tests and were retested multiple times.

Well maybe that explains some of those “accidental” suspect shootings. Actually, I can now see that excuse used at the next trial for shooting an unarmed suspect or some police brutality issue. “Your Honor, It was not my fault, I was not properly trained and my instructor passed me even though I missed the broad side of the barn…. 37 times”

Anyway, they have a month to fix the cheating issue.

Did I mention, glad to see they are teaching them to lie and cheat right out of the gate, or before they even reach the gate, in order to protect their own ass and get what they want.

I bet the Orange County Sheriffs are breathing a sigh of relief that it wasn’t them getting busted this time.

from the Daily News, the full story on the LA Sheriffs new problem

Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca has ordered training for new recruits at the Sheriff’s Training Academy halted for a month amid questions raised by state inspectors over equipment, crowding, testing-security procedures and whether filming of a reality TV show at the academy is distracting cadets from training.

The temporary halt came May 6 after Baca recently received a copy of the inspection report from the state Commission on Peace Officers Standards & Training, which certifies law enforcement academies and reviewed the sheriff’s facilities last June and July.

Among the findings, POST inspectors cited some instructors who gave cadets answers to test questions and allowed others to retake driving tests multiple times in order to pass, according to a copy of the confidential 29-page report obtained by the Daily News.

“Significant test security issues were identified during the certification review,” the authors wrote. “In one instance, the (training officers) staff was reportedly directed to take a test into the classroom and give the answers to the students.”

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Over 50 years and still no word. Maybe it is safe to say that aliens snatched up US nuclear weapons since no other explanation has found the missing war heads, or at least none we, the public, know about.

This is one of about 16 nuclear weapons that the US claims to have lost over the years, go figure, these people can find a drop of blood within a block of a crime scene to solve it but still can not find massive multi ton bombs encased in metal the size of a truck?  Below is only one of them.

Nukes disappear into the air

March 10, 1956. A B-47 carrying two nuclear weapon cores from MacDill Air Force Base in Florida to an overseas airbase disappeared during a scheduled air-to-air refueling over the Mediterranean Sea. After becoming lost in a thick cloud bank at 14,500 feet, the plane was never heard from again and its wreckage, including the nuclear cores, was never found. Although the weapon type remains undisclosed, Mark 15 thermonuclear bombs (commonly carried by B-47s) would have had a combined yield of 3.4 megatons.

More about nuclear weapons and atom bomb tests in the 50’s - Bikini Atoll

The following are from books that are available on the subject of police misconduct and the Music industry. Anyone who follows some of these old cases knows there is a huge amount of misconduct and cover-ups involved. Maybe one day we will get the truth.

by Randall Sullivan — Acclaimed journalist Sullivan follows Russell Poole, a highly decorated LAPD detective who in 1997 was called to investigate a controversial cop-on-cop shooting, and eventually discovered that the officer killed was tied to Marion “Suge” Knight’s notorious gangsta-rap label, Death Row Records. Poole would come to realize that a growing cadre of officers were allied not only with Death Row but with the Bloods street gang. He began to uncover evidence that some “gangsta cops” may have been involved in the murders of rap superstars Notorious B.I.G. And Tupac Shakur. Poole became lead investigator in the murder of Notorious B.I.G. His shrewd detective work pointed to crooked cops such as David Mack, who orchestrated one of the biggest bank heists in LA history. Poole found his investigation stifled by a police chief wary of doing further damage to a department sullied by the OJ trial, the Rodney King beating, and the Rampart corruption scandal — in which dozens of officers were implicated in a conspiracy of robbery, brutality, drug dealing, and false imprisonment. Igniting a firestorm of controversy in the music industry and the LA media, the publication of Labyrinth helped prompt two lawsuits against the LAPD (one by the widow and mother of Notorious B.I.G., the other by Poole) that may bring this story completely out of the shadows.

The Notorious B.I.G. exploded onto the hip-hop scene with his platinum-selling album Ready to Die in 1995. The life of B.I.G. a.k.a. Biggie Smalls-born Christopher Wallace-had come a long way from the years spent in his Bed-Sty neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York where he dropped out of school at 17 to master his rapping style. It was on the street that Smalls began emceeing his original raps and was discovered by Sean “Puffy” Combs, who recognized Smalls’s potential and took his gangsta image to the next level. Within a few years he moved from the street to two successful rap albums, several million dollars in earnings, a Billboard Music Award in 1996 for Rapper of the Year, a marriage to R&B singer Faith Evans, a very public affair with L’il Kim, and hanging with Tupak Shakur, Marion “Suge” Knight, Puff Daddy, and Mary J. Blige. During his rise up the charts he had run-ins with the law ranging from assault to drugs and weapons possession. In 1994, he and Combs were publicly accused by Suge Knight and Tupac’s camp of setting up the shooting of Tupac, a charge they both denied. The high life was brought to an end March 9th 1997, after Biggie attended the Soul Train Awards in L A, Smalls was gunned down in his car like Shakur had been 6 months earlier. Years after the murder continues to raise more questions than it answers.

Nicole LeBlan — The saga behind the headlines of gangsta glamour, gold-drenched drug dealers, and street-corner society. After ten years of reporting, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses reader into the intricacies of the ghetto world. She charts the cycle of the generations, as girls become mothers, mothers become grandmothers, boys become criminals, and hope struggles against deprivation. Two romances: nineteen-year-old Jessica’s infatuation with a successful heroin dealer, Boy George, and fourteen-year-old Coco’s first love with Jessica’s little brother, Cesar, an aspiring thug. The young couples try to outrun their destinies. Chauffeurs whisk them to getaways and nightclubs. They cruise in Lamborghinis and customized James Bond cars. Jessica and Boy George ride between riches and ruin, while Coco and Cesar stick closer to the street, all four caught in a dance between life and death. Friends get murdered; the DEA and FBI investigate Boy George’s business activities; Cesar becomes a fugitive; Jessica and Coco endure homelessness, betrayal, prison, and poverty. The teenagers make family where they find it. Girls look for excitement and find trouble; boys, searching for adventure, join crews and prison gangs. Adrian Nicole LeBlanc has slipped behind the cold statistics and surrounding inner-city life with a riveting, haunting, and true urban soap opera that reveals the clenched grip of the streets.