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American Spring by watisjeplaatwaard.nl
I am writing about a situation that affects everyone in America, the unPatriot Act; I am using one example of one legal case in the Pasadena, California, area. Many of the persons involved attend recovery meetings anonymously; therefore their names cannot be used.
Prior to 9/11, many of us drug and alcohol allergic types, as part of our own recoveries into health, would go to court with people charged with petty crimes, such as "drunk in public," aka public inebriation. We would sometimes just stand in court and look at a judge and nod our heads when a certain man or woman's moment in court arrived from the day's docket. The judge would administer a severe warning, then sentence the accused to 30 meeting in 30 days, sometimes 90 meetings.
Under the Patriot Act, the ugly, vulgar words that come out of a drunk or an addict's mouth are now "a terrorist threat," with sentences ranging from a year and a day (hard prison time) to five years to life for a "thrid strike."
What the people who wrote, voted for, and the people who extended the patriot act don't seem to get, is that they are now the Taliban. The President, the Congress, the Senate, and all the Judiciary can now take a man's life (old, weak, sick drunks are cannon fodder for inmates in our draconian dungeons we call prisons). Under the Patriot Act, the Penal System is the fastest growth industry in the US. How unAmerican, how home of the brave, how land of the free. Shame on our government. I guess they have issues; they cannot see their own Talibanism. They forgot for whom they work. Anybody who supports the Patriot Act has not my vote. We still unelect Judges. Pasadena needs the whole lot replaced. So does the house, senate, and Presidency, unless they yield to the will of the people.
A few days ago, a local Pasadena Judge had a mean-mouthed drunk before her, just some local American man. Recovery people went to court, spoke on his behalf, asked the Judge to let him go on his Own Recognizance (O.R.), to go back into recovery meetings.
The Judge stood up, pointed at the man, and said, "You are a terrorist! Under the provisions of the Patriot Act, I sentence you to 1.5 years hard time in prison." My Uncle Jerry sacrificed his right hand for this Judge's right to point her finger and stone a drunk to death for public inebriation. The man she sentenced is probably too old and weak to survive in prison. The Judge has now become the Taliban, and she basically just stoned an American man to death for his drinking issues.
How many children and nephews of vets do we have locked up for drugs and alcohol issues, post 9/11? How many have police officer brothers, veteran sons, Dads and Uncles? In our Brave New World, our dystopian, Orwellian 1984-2011, how many wives, mothers, aunts, and grandmas of vets do we lock up for drugs and alcohol. How many women vets should we give hard time to for sipping a martini with some Pristique to "cope" with their PTSD?
I can recall my Mom's Aunt, Muriel, making the comment that "my Dad was just a cook in Korea." My Dad took sniper fire frequently while cooking, returned fire with a Garand M1. My Dad drank and sometimes said mean things; the alcohol brought out his PTSD. My Uncle Jerry was more of a happy drunk; he lost usage of his right hand when his best friend was blown apart on Anzio Beach in Italy. My Dad got addicted to diet pills, had PTSD, and beat all of us severely until he finally kicked the diet pills. I grew up just as drunk, drug addicted, full of my family's PTSD from the Korean and WWII. I've never seen foreign combat, but clearly remember Viet Nam. My family life felt like Viet Nam.
I've been testing some homemade body armor with some SWAT officers from my brother's former police department; so far the results have been pretty promising. I'm an old peace and love hippy, but I want to build some non-toxic personnel armor to stop 7.62---51mm NATO and .556x45mm NATO bullets. I'm getting ready to build what I believe is a prototype armor that will stop DOJ (Winchester .223 and Federal Sierra Match King .308 boat tail hollow points. I'm clean and sober, I go to recovery meetings. If I drink and use, ugly things come out of my mouth, some of my Dad's PTSD rubbed off on me. I guess it is called Free Will in a Free Country. I have issues. Am I cannon fodder for the Judiciary to lock up, or am I the guy to build the next generation of body armor? Am I Johnny Olive seed, or am I a terrorist because I have issues? Our country has become the Taliban, looking for the next PTSD person who needs to be locked up for unAmericanism. This is McCarthhyism on steroids, fascist Italy circa 1920-1945. Did my Uncle, my Dad and now my son, go to war, so they could come home and go to prison for having a drink and saying something ugly? PTSD people see threats to self, real or imagined, and react involuntarily. It is the PTSD, and it is largely American. How unAmerican of us to become the Taliban in our own land. Shame on all of us.
Months ago, I brainstormed Olive Tree Culture for food and bio-diesel with a colleague, and aging "compost hippy." It seems like a "building Hoover Dam" like project.
Put a dent in hunger, create some jobs, and put some returning vets and their extended families to work. Not base the Olive Tree's "food" or "fertilizer" on petroleum-based "fertilizer." Call the White House and demand withdrawal, no more Judges' stoning American's to death with hard prison time. McCarthyism on steroids. Witch burning.
The witch-hunt and witch burning of American Citizens must stop. We have McCarthyism right under our noses again, and our media is not even talking about it. We have embedded, censored journalists with no right to free speech. This is not a witch-hunt for one Judge; there should be no national clamor for one scapegoat. Shame on all of us. From Obama on down to every judge, prison turnkey, or cop that has locked up a drunk vet or drunk vet family member for "terrorist threat." National schizophrenia, public bipolar disorder. Shame on us all, we no longer live anywhere but right here in unAmerica.
We have 50 years of oil left, because there are simply too many of us still having too many babies. We have less than 150 years of coal left.
I think we need to take our veterans, and the families of our veterans, and do something healing with them. Replace most of the prison industries and oil industries with Olive Culture for food and for future Olive bio-diesel. The Petroleum industry is not healing anyone, domestically or abroad. The sprawling, all powerful Judicial industry (this is an industry, there is nothing "Just" or "full of liberty" about our Judicial Prison industry. Most of the inmates are veterans and/or very close relatives of veterans. What are we teaching the people in prison? It is not how to grow Olive orchards or how to extract biodiesel from Olive fruit.
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