Yet, opponents of prison labor “virtue signal” all over the place. They pose as the friends of inmates. They besmirch those of us who advocate allowing them to work as favoring “slavery” of all things. No, no, no, the very opposite is true. Not compelling prisoners to work actually enslaves them: to a continued life of crime.
I’m sure there are more provocative titles than this one: “Louisiana Votes to Keep Slavery.” The trouble is, I can’t think of any, even after cogitating on this matter for quite a while!
What’s going on? Did Louisianans really vote to bring back slavery? Of course not. Don’t be silly. Rather, the issue was prison labor. Should inmates be forced to work while incarcerated?
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Well, the rest of us, pretty much all of us work. (Ok, ok, children and the very elderly don’t). Why shouldn’t convicted criminals join the remainder of the human race in this regard? What is the alternative if they do not engage in labor? Working out, pardon the expression, in the gym? Watching television? Hanging out with one another and plotting future crimes? If prisons were put on a market place basis, they most certainly would work, and the proceeds of their labor would go to at least partially compensate their victims.
No, no, no. There are two good reasons why convicts should engage in labor, whether they want to do so or not. First, deontology. They violated rights, or they wouldn’t be in jail in the first place (apart from those wrongfully found guilty). Ideally, they should work so that the amount they produce, over and above the costs of incarcerating them, should be sent to their victims. The latter can never be made “whole” again, but, at least, if there were monies forthcoming to them from their abusers, that would be a vast improvement vis-à-vis the present system. Right now, these victims suffer twofold. Once, from having the crime perpetrated upon them. Second, from being forced—via taxes—to keep these criminals in jails with comfortable air-conditioning, gyms, basketball courts, televisions, etc.
The western elites in all their stupidity preach the danger of climate change and ignore the danger of depleted uranium.
In conclusion, we can say that the elites of Europe and the West currently in power in all their stupidity preach the danger of climate change and ignore the danger of depleted uranium, dismissing it as not dangerous to public health, while scientists prove that it can be.
In March 2023 the UK and in September 2023, the US, delivered shells filled with depleted uranium to Ukraine, or maybe they delivered it before already, we don’t know, usually when they announce something it already happened!
Depleted uranium can be used to reinforce armour-plating on tanks but is favoured for weapons because of its extreme density and ability to pierce conventional tank armour. These types of shells sharpen on impact, which further increases their ability to bore through armour, and they ignite after contact.
In September 2023 after the delivery of these shells filled with depleted uranium, the Russian Ministry of Defence stated that it carried out strikes on warehouses where Ukrainian troops stored these depleted uranium shells and UK-made long-range Storm-shadow missiles.
“Last night, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation launched a group strike with high-precision long-range air-based weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles at the storage sites of Storm-shadow cruise missiles and depleted uranium ammunition,” the ministry said in a statement back in September 2023.
Although the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Grossi, said that there is no danger to public health in using depleted uranium, the Washington Post and other so-called quality newspapers however, said that there is a real danger to public health. The UK was the first to start deliveries of depleted uranium shells and long-range Storm-shadow missiles to Ukraine in March 2023, also ammunition with depleted uranium for the British tank Challenger 2. The US announced on 6 September 2023, that it would send depleted uranium ammunition and cluster bombs to Ukraine.
In May 2023, information emerged about a powerful explosion in one of the warehouses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near the city of Khmelnitsky in western Ukraine. Most likely due to a rocket attack by the Russian forces, a warehouse for British uranium-filled grenades was hit. According to some reports, another warehouse containing depleted uranium ammunition was also hit by Russia in the Ternopil region.
This caused panic among the residents of Western Ukraine, but also in the borderlands of Ukraine like Poland. In the Ukrainian media information emerged about an increase in the level of gamma radiation after the destruction of both storage sites. Scientists said a fairly small dose of gamma radiation came from the depleted uranium in the ammunition; a large increase indicates the destruction of a very large number of munitions with depleted uranium, thereby increasing the level of radioactive material in the air.
In recent days, British scientist Dr. Christopher Busby, scientific secretary of the European Radiation Risk Committee, came up with more revelations, studies and reported an increase in the concentration of uranium particles in the air in the south-east of the UK. But he previously published an abstract/paper called: “Uraniumweapons being employed in Ukraine have significantly increased Uranium levels in the air in the UK”.
“As to adopting the ways which the state has provided for remedying the evil, I know not of such ways. They take too much time, and a man’s life will be gone.”
“Unjust laws exist: [most all of them] shall we be content to obey them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?”
~ Henry David Thoreau
Those in government, and those freedom pretenders, continue to seek to cure the ills of government and rule, by promoting different and more government and rule.
“Without justice being freely, fully, and impartially administered, neither our persons, nor our rights, nor our property, can be protected. And if these, or either of them, are regulated by no certain laws, and are subject to no certain principles, and are held by no certain tenure, and are redressed, when violated, by no certain remedies, society fails of all its value; and men may as well return to a state of savage and barbarous independence.”
~ Joseph Story
We are faced with extreme tyranny, based on a totalitarian model, and one that promises justice where none exists. This should have been realized at the so-called beginning of this country, but alas, the people were once again fooled, as is the common theme of mankind throughout time. As the government gains more and more power, which is the natural state of all government, the people become more enslaved until societies eventually fail. When this happens, a dictatorship may be the result, but more often than not, the lowly masses, and the surviving ruling class, attempt to solve the despotism responsible for the failure, by building a new dominant governing system where a ‘new’ ruling class is given power. Nothing could be more asinine.
What this amounts to, is attempting to solve the problem of rule, by more rule. It matters not if the ‘new’ rule is expected to do better than the last, as that has never happened in history, but that the many think that seeking redress from those who caused and administered the tyranny, to be viable and legitimate. This is an impossibility of course, but has been clung to perpetually, all without any function of logic, reason, common sense, or use of intellectual brain stimulation.
These same idiotic attitudes are extremely active today, as so many believe that by picking new masters, accepting new politicians, ‘voting’ for different overlords, seeking redress for grievances from government and government courts, or begging government to cure itself, is an answer to anything other than more brutal rule and tyranny. Only fools, seekers of power, or manipulators, pursue such a path of idiocy.
But that is exactly the tactic being sought today, as the mainstream of society has not changed its position or opinions about the State in eons, and likely (obviously) never will. This is known by all who desire to gain power over others, regardless of their claims to be men of liberty, simply attempting to make the criminal State better, when in fact, the opposite is the case. One cannot gain freedom by seeking it in the arms of government, any government. All those who claim to want to make things better by putting new rulers in place, or seeking rule themselves, are either duped ignoramuses, or outright liars. This is without question, as asking permission from government at any level to do things that free men have a right to do, is as mindless and pathetic an undertaking as can be imagined.
This could never be more evident than during these pitiful and absurd election cycles, where all news of importance is sacrificed for the stupidity of picking a new master, or as many have been brainwashed to believe, a new ‘leader.’ The useless term ‘leader’ in every aspect of sanity, is self-defeating, because if one seeks a ‘leader,’ he is admitting to being only a follower, which is the first step to evil unintelligible collectivism, and slavery. No individual seeking real freedom could participate in such nonsensical and preposterous imbecility, but then has not that always been the way of this country and many others. This could only happen if the masses of populations are so dumbed down and indoctrinated, as to be beyond the ability to reason, and instead, voluntarily accept their lot in life as allowed by their chosen masters. This has been the case for thousands of years, and yet, the bulk of humanity has never figured out the grand plot of the ruling classes; which has actually brought about their own serfdom at the hands of the worst of mankind.
Even now, as Israel has attempted to genocide and ethnically cleanse an entire people, supported, at least initially, by most all Western governments; those heinous monsters claiming to speak for each of you, Not only that, but the support of this effort of murder has been paid for with the very money stolen from each of you,; making complicit all those who remain silent in the presence of evil in their names.
Fake ‘pandemics,’ fake ‘viruses,’ intentional fires and murders, poisoning and death due to government-mandated and approved toxic bioweapon injections, fully funded wars by the U.S. in Syria, Yemen, Palestine, and much of the rest of the world, total economic devastation at the hands of this criminal federal reserve and U.S. government, destruction of supply lines for food and energy, planned takeover of all with central bank digital fiat currencies, massive monetary inflation causing a doubling or tripling of prices, worldwide famine, all-consuming surveillance, censorship, monitoring of all activity of every individual, and on and on, and on. Even with all this, most are searching for a new rule to fix the problems that only rulers and a complicit society could cause.
In short, decentralized CRs will be used as always to condemn legislators who vote no—but now not just occasionally and especially during holiday seasons, but instead every month of every year.
On November 14, nearly all Democrats joined with a plurality of Republicans to pass House Speaker Mike Johnson’s continuing resolution. The CR was rapidly passed in the Senate and signed by President Biden.
The CR appropriates funding for some programs through January 19, for most others through February 2, and for the Farm Bill through September 30.
This gives the CR a couple of seemingly-new twists. Kicking the can past Christmas is superficially new. In reality, this just makes governing by CRs last longer, which is nothing new. Fanning out a single resolution so funding allocations expire not on one date certain but on three is new. In reality, this likely will work out to be not-at-all different.
Johnson claimed before the vote, “I’m done with short-term CRs.” But at each of this CR’s three dates-certain, the pressures and incentives will remain the same, and the same bipartisan majority will stand ready to pass still-more continuing resolutions.
Like the latest CR, each new CR could stagger the dates certain for its remaining programs, setting another one of its program’s date certain about a year out. And as each fanned-out CR would come due, the same old script would likely get acted out again.
Rolling Pork and Rolling Vacations
Decentralized CRs will be used as opportunities to condemn any legislators who vote no to an omnibus bill, a near-omnibus bill, another decentralized CR, or an appropriation bill. Voting no would be shutting down the government department, depriving everyone of vital services, ultimately defaulting on honoring Treasury bills and Social Security and Medicare repayment obligations, and ultimately costing people their jobs, standard of living, housing, medical care, even food. Legislators could only avoid condemnation by voting to fund essentially all pork, and to repay any federal pay and contractor payments that would get temporarily shut down one program area at a time.
In short, decentralized CRs will be used as always to condemn legislators who vote no—but now not just occasionally and especially during holiday seasons, but instead every month of every year.
Heating up the public debate without taking action is a losing strategy we’ve seen play out before. President Trump talked about building a wall and prosecuting Hillary Clinton. Trump got all the blowback while delivering none of this action.
When Republican nominal leaders and Republican rank and file have faced blowback in the past, the leaders have scheduled votes, and hefty minorities of the Republican swing votes have joined with all Democrats to fund pork plus shutdown vacations.
Mike Johnson has at times personally supported pork and other coercion. Included in the major votes scored by Conservative Review in the period from 9/8/2017 through 1/11/2019 were votes by Johnson to pass the Pelosi-Schumer-Trump debt deal, pass an $81 billion spending increase, advance a $1.3 trillion omnibus, pass a $1 trillion crony-socialist farm bill, extend government flood insurance, pass a nation-building bill, pass a $900 billion socialist farm bill, end debate on USA involvement in a foreign war, release dangerous criminals from federal prisons, and make federal pay mandatory spending.
As speaker, Johnson quickly said that his “first priority” is to reach agreement on funding government.
On Friday the UN said that it was no longer able to continue aid deliveries into Gaza as an Israeli fuel blockade of the enclave has led to a widespread communications blackout. The World Health Organization warned that the ending of aid deliveries means the “immediate possibility of starvation” for the 2.3 million people in Gaza.
House Speaker Mike Johnson has released over 40,000 hours of J6 footage including capitol police body cam footage to the public in the interests of transparency, an action which should have been taken years ago. Each new piece of footage only confirms what many Americans already understood – That the few scant minutes of available video recycled by the media paint a false picture of what really happened. Many would argue that J6 was nothing more than a protest that was turned into a riot by police incitement and establishment spin.
Even worse, there are many people now languishing in prison because of that spin.
The latest footage shows capitol police inviting protesters into the building as they peacefully assembled in the corridors (the same people who would later be prosecuted and labeled “insurrectionists”).
🚨Newly released footage of Matthew Perna (seen in red sweatshirt) shows Matthew walking calmly in the Capitol shooting video.
Matthew pled guilty to initial charges, believing he may face 6-12 months in prison.
However, what about what happened before the “riots” started?
Did they happen spontaneously, or were they incited?
New video clips seem to show capitol police firing rubber bullets, tear gas grenades and stun grenades into crowds of peaceful protesters on J6 before anyone tried to enter the capitol building, possibly triggering the violence that would follow (and creating the footage that was played ad nauseum on major news networks as proof of insurrection).
Good parents do everything in their power to protect their children. But what happens when the government takes that power away?
Once again, the United Kingdom has given us the answer.
Dean Gregory and Claire Staniforth, a British couple from the Derbyshire region, are grieving the death of their infant daughter Indi, who passed away on Nov. 13 after suffering from a mitochondrial disease. But baby Indi’s illness isn’t what killed her. The blames lies at the feet of the U.K. government.
Doctors from the National Health Service (NHS) determined that Indi’s treatment at the Queen’s Medical Centre could no longer continue, citing concerns about the pain caused by “prolong[ing]” her life. The case went to the Family Division of the High Court in London, where a doctor (unnamed in media reports) reported, “We feel very sad…. We have tried to treat [Indi] to the best of our abilities.” Despite that fatal determination, Indi’s parents felt her life was worth fighting for. “Our daughter responds to us,” pleaded her father, “and on her good days, she is babbling, making noises, moving all her limbs…. We know she is disabled, but you don’t just let disabled people die. We just want to give her a chance.”
That chance was stolen from Indi and her parents. Not only was she denied life-saving treatment from the NHS, but she was also cruelly prevented from obtaining it elsewhere. In her final days, Indi and her family became prisoners of the U.K. government.
Treatment Denied
Indi was offered an alternative by the Italian government and the Vatican. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni offered not only free health care to the child but even transportation and Italian citizenship. Meloni urged the British government to “defend the right of [Indi’s] mom and dad to do whatever they can for her.” In response, Gregory and Staniforth jumped at the lifeline. They requested that their daughter be allowed to be treated at Rome’s renowned Bambino Gesù (Baby Jesus) Pediatric Hospital, which is “under the jurisdiction of the Holy See.” According to the Washington Post, doctors there offered a treatment that they said “would ‘more likely than not’ enable Indi to survive without artificial ventilation.”
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