The Prison Industrial Complex Part 2

Over the course long years, we witness the fruit of modern day Western society. We all desire peace on Earth, but far too often human imperfections cause instability among numerous quarters of the globe. The prison system is a mess not only in America, but throughout the world. Abuse, human degradation, and denial of basic human rights are common themes that exist in the prison industrial complex. Prison is not the spot. You get to be told, when to eat, when to sleep, when to take a bathe, and when to communicate with friends, loved ones, and family members. Its not a picnic and not the golden road. I dont wish that experience on anyone. In our society in America, many people are still brainwashed to accept the John Wayne, fiscally reactionary rhetoric.The reality is that we are still our brothers and our sisters keepers. Its my constitutional right to vote for whom I want, but no one is entitled to their own facts. Some folks want us to be united. The question is unity under whom? Is it unity under the false gods (of narrow-mindedness, intolerance, materialism, historical revisionism, scapegoating of the poor, omission of the crimes of the super-rich, jingoistic patriotism, etc.) or is it unity under truth & justice. No one is demonizing people who are successful or rich. People are exposing oligarchy, economic corruption, and greed instituted by certain Wall Street & international banking interests. I understand that people are capable of dreams, but discrimination and oppression still restricts people of that very dream that we all seek. If you want a dream, we should fight back against ills. When oppression is around, we don't say let's ignore it. We don't say, let's minimize it. We say, let's fight it and eliminate all forms of injustices in the world society now. I believe in judging a person on the basis on the content of their character not on a color of a persons skin. Although, I do accept the premise that economic exploitation and neo-colonialism ought to be condemned from the rooftops.It is still wrong for Africom to set up military bases all over the motherland in order to try to control some of the

political actions of various nations in the Motherland. It is not only our individual responsibility, but our collective responsibility to care for the widow, to care for orphan, to help the sick, to provide health to all Americans, and to adhere to the common good. No mental chains can trap my mind, because my soul and flow comes naturally beyond brainwashing tactics.
People realize the evils of the prison industrial complex. For decades, folks have discussed about this issue comprehensively. People from across the political spectrum realize how corrupt much of the judicial system can be, because those of affluence suffer fewer consequences than the poor if tried for the equivalent crime. That's just common sense. The incarceration of our brothers and of our sisters blatantly has a negative effect in our community. This oppressive system oppresses all backgrounds too not just my own people. The harm of prisons can increase the spread of hardships among human beings. Of course, the USA imprisons more people than any nation on Earth. Louisiana has an incarceration rate of 5 times higher than Iran and 13 times higher than China. The tough on crime rhetoric that has been pronounced by reactionaries officially doesn't work. This tough on crime rhetoric was glamorized when the rebellions of the 1960s came about. It was definitely glamorized by Richard Nixon when he was running for President in 1968. Nixon claimed that the riots were solely the products of hoodlums, but riots are a little more complex than that. I believe that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. outlined one of the best analyses on why riots existed in the first place. The late Dr. King said that the horrible conditions of poverty and oppression against the disinherited can cause the roots of riots (riots arent spontaneous all of the time. Some riots grow as a cry for help and a sense of a yearning to be heard, albeit in the wrong fashion). The present War on Drugs hasn't work to cause a reformation of society either. Michelle Alexanders The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is one of the greatest books in the world that exposes the War on Drugs in a great fashion. Never forget, that under Nixon and FBI head J. Edgar Hoover, our brothers and sisters in the Black Panther Movement were slaughtered by the feds unjustly. When these brothers and sisters were unjustly murdered by these pieces

of work (I can call these murderers other names too. Well, we know the words now dont we. LOL), we should always be inspired to fight for Revolution and truth even more. Our ancestors shed blood, so that we could exist in the near 22nd century. I will not let my Creator and my ancestors down. More than two million
Americans are in jails and prisons in 2012. Since the 1970's, minor infractions have evolved into lengthy prison sentences. Most of the people of color in prisons are there for non-violent crimes. Many of their lives are ruined and they are restricted of voting and human rights after they made their debt to society. Scholars and heroes like Margaret Kimberley& Michelle Alexander explained fully that imprisonment of human beings is one tactic that the establishment uses in order to turn away the legitimate progressive improvements of society. Even the 13th Amendment (the Amendment is right to promote citizenship, so I want to make that perfectly clear) says that slavery is abolished except when you're imprisoned. So, if you are imprisoned, you can be treated like a slave theoretically inside of the USA. It's fine to work in where you want and to live in where you want. Yet, if you don't have justice& real Power, then your total liberties are threatened. Imprisonment negatively affects the lives of Americans including black Americans from marriage problems, diseases, lack of job opportunities, and other negative consequences. Even small infractions are made to be used to justify evil, long sentences against human beings. The evil stop and frisk policies in NYC contribute to this problem. Police brutality and police abuse are rampant in Western society plus in other nations in the world. Police brutality is so rampant in the USA, but even people in the suburbs have been victimized (along with my people and the poor as well). Victimized people deserve justice. A post-racial society is fantasy presently, therefore the struggle continues. There was the Detroit water strike. AFSCME Local 207 in Detroit claimed victory in a brief strike by water workers. Union official John Reihl said that Michigan's governor wanted to seize the mostly Black city's water resources via suburban control and privatization. Privatization is a blatantly enemy of social progress. Today, you have a person wanting to use the Supreme Court to end affirmative action as we know it. Race and class disparities are real, so you have to use policies to enrich educational opportunities for Americans. There must be a radical changing of our judicial system. There is a higher incarceration rate in America despite

violent crime decreasing over three decades. The policies of three strikes, mandatory minimum, and harsh War on Drug War contribute to more people (who are non-violent offenders) to serve prison sentences longer than some murderers and rapists. This is why people want to end the War on Drugs, create alternative sentencing, end mandatory sentences (since all crimes aren't monolithic), have programs to have rehabilitation for prisoners, have more DNA testing to prevent innocent human beings from experiencing the death penalty, and end the privatization of the prison system.

Also, felons who paid their debt to society should have full voting rights. Ultimately, a national program of education, national investments, and rehabilitation can restore safe neighborhoods. It is morally right to replace the war on drugs with a health-based treatment and prevention approach. An ending to disparities in our justice system and discrimination ought to exist. Our human civil liberties can be restored by eliminating the Patriot Act and all unconstitutional, unjust laws.
Many individuals who drop out of schools and some unfortunately are found in prisons and jails, because of many reasons. Some lack real opportunities and seek crimes as an outlet to achieve stability. Crime is wrong, but we have to look at how crimes exist and the conditions in society that cause the prison industry to flourish among certain areas of the nation. Politically, the two major parties in America have huge similarities regardless of what the mainstream media says. Romney care and Obama's ACA are very similar to each other. They are based on the propositions that were originated created by the Republicans' Heritage Foundation. Both parties advance the controversial NDAA law, which Chris Hedges heavily criticizes as being a threat to our human fundamental civil liberties. Both the President and Mitt Romney receive cash from these same "too big to fail banks" that fund each other campaigns. There should be like a huge Marshall Plan like plan to fight against poverty in America. The War on Poverty decades ago made some reforms, but many of those programs were unfunded (and that money was placed in the Vietnam War). Extremists don't believe in a role of the government for the economy, but intervention has help citizens for eons of time. We don't need the sick fascist agenda of Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Pinochet, etc. We don't need outsourcing, corporate raiding, union busting, etc. We don't need the futile policy of Robin Hood in reverse. Ryan's Budget will slash programs for the poor and the elderly (in the future). I don't respect that agenda. I don't support Mitt Romney's agenda of cutting funds from PBS either. It isn't just the Republicans responsible for our ills. The left gatekeepers and the DLC/neo-liberal types are just as responsible for our economic problems as the Republicans are. Glass Stegall, welfare reform, and other reactionary policies have been passed under Democrats. I respect an agenda for a cultural revolution where the poor are respected and justice is maintained. I respect an agenda where false patriotism is the thing of the past too. People are discussing about the Stacey Dash and Mitt Romney controversy. Why is this important for me to discuss? The reason is that Stacey Dash represents the issue of dissent, culture, political correctness, and a lot of issues in the world. I made my views known on many of occasions. The Sister Stacey Dash expressed her support for Mitt Romney. I believe that she has a constitutional right to vote who she wants to vote for. That doesn't mean that she hates her people or is a traitor to black people. Yet, Mitt Romney is a man that benefits from the system of white supremacy rather greatly because of his privilege. I believe that she is wrong, because Mitt Romney is wrong on promoting states rights above human rights. Consequentily, human rights is federally expressed in our federal legal system. Mitt Romney is wrong is refusing to end the War on drugs and end the prison industrial complex. Romney is wrong to promote war mongering words against Iran as a means to promote tensions in the region (and possibly, he can agitate war against Iran. These anti-human sanctions have been harmful to the civilian population of Iran). Romney's foreign policy advisers are known neo-conservatives and war mongers. Romney wants those who can't afford to get into a public college to borrow their parent's money.That's silliness, because some parents can't afford to pay their children's tuition. Public assistance can help the poorest among us to achieve a college education. Paul Ryan's budget will radically cut Pell Grants, which is necessary for the poor. Romney said that he wants to cut funding to PBS when PBS is a very small portion of the federal budget. Even the mother of one Navy Seal, who died, doesn't want Mitt Romney to talk about her son.

Mitt Romney recently lied and said that people dont die, because of a lack of

health insurance. Health problems arent just a state issue since health issues are a national crisis, so you need national universal health care to handle it (since a piece-meal, gradual state by state approach will cause some states to have better health care than other states. The truth is that all states should equal access to quality, affordable health care nationally. The current health care system status quo doesnt work and its the least efficient, most expensive, and its a bad system). Even the Affordable Care Act is better than the status quo. The privatization of the health care system (as the Romney/Ryan ticket nearly supports) isnt going to cut it. Our foreign policy should be about people, advancing peace,
negotiation, trade, reconciliation and real dealings with other nations. He recently shifted positions on political matters in the matter of weeks from abortion to economics. Stacey Dash said that she decided her choice based on the content of the person's character not on the color of the person's skin, but Romney believes that some people who disagree with him want free stuff (which is a judgment on Romney's part other than human character). Paul Ryan said that people in the urban areas needs discipline and great character to fight crime when urban communities have people with great discipline. Crime is heavily a product of socioeconomic reasons, so resources and a shift of the power structure is necessary to fight crime in any place. Most Americans live in urban areas. She was on Piers Morgan to respond to the criticism that came to her. I don't believe in some of the slurs that she was called, because personal attacks against her (via in an unfair fashion) are of course wrong. She said that she wanted America to be united. The question is that united under whom? I don't want to be united under the false flag of a Pax Americana, extra tax cuts for the super wealthy, and white supremacy. Stacey Dash is wrong to assume that people like us want to demonize the rich or successful. We want to expose corporate corruption not to demonize "successful people." As of the dream, I believe in the dream. Yet, in order to achieve the dream, then we should eliminate all forms of discrimination, injustice, and white supremacy from the Universe. The poor need opportunities and compassion, not scapegoating like the Tea Party types believe in. The free market and private charity can't solve all problems, but public intervention is sometimes necessary to promote the general welfare of society. So, we should respect Stacey Dash as a human being irrespective who she votes for.As many people know, I have some disagreements with President Barack Obama (as many intelligent people have. I dont agree with his support of murderous drone attacks against people, his support of NATO war crimes in Libya [he refuses to expose how terrorists are killing innocent black brothers and black sisters in Libya now], his support of anti-civil liberty measures, his advancement of the deficit commission, etc.), but I dont hate the man or the White House. As Cornel West said, Mitt Romney represents catastrophe economically for America. Mitt Romney is a hypocrite by wanting more government spending in promoting militarism overseas (some of this funding will help to maintain American-backed juntas), but he complains about spending money in the Presidents watered down health care package. Likewise, there are things that we

mostly can agree upon. Most of us desire religious liberty rights. Most of believe in individual freedom. Most of us believe that irrespective of your socioeconomic status, if you work hard & play by the rules, then you should be rewarded for your work. Most of us believe in showing compassion and assistance to the poor. Most of us dont scapegoat the poor & the middle class for the problems which were caused by some in Wall Street. Most of us want our national sovereignty to be maintained and most us believe in equal rights for all us. These legitimate concepts unite us. I will unite under the concepts of peace, progressive thinking, and human rights
for all.

Economic genocide has been the goal of the establishment. The wider issues are ignored by many in Washington, D.C. Our economic system has been damaged by international situations of an over reliance of petroleum, political corruption, fraud, and the evil war on terror. Our economic crisis mostly was created because there was financial manipulation and institutionalized fraud. The bank bailouts were wrong since it transfer wealth to Wall Street banks without a massive change in the system. This increased public debt. Its not a secret our enemy wants to loot taxpayer funds and destroy of state social programs as a means to promote an archaic economic philosophy. Our economic crisis is beyond just American shores. Its an international system that desires to maintain national security and strategic objectives. US/NATO military engine promotes this slick neo-imperialism. Today, we have the borderline fascist Tea Party types and the President who sometimes appeases to the political establishment as a means to not lose votes. Yet, the corporate elite is not criticized by the mainstream media at all. The radicals and the reactionaries want to get rid of the major systems of the New Deal and Great Society programs. Wars, bailouts, and tax cuts for the rich arent right to harbor real economic growth. Even Webster Tarpley is rather to say that if the social safety net is radically eliminated (with health care, Social Security, etc.), then people will be exterminated. The wild thing is that the 1 percent has record profits. Suffering under the guise of sacrifice is austerity.

People from across the political spectrum have exposed the War on Drugs linked to the prison system. The folks from both political major parties in the USA refuse to heavily talk about this issue (except in a few exceptions). The current system allows people who possess drugs to serve longer sentences than murderers, pedophiles, and rapists in some circumstances (which is wrong and sick). The system promotes a stereotypical so-called hyper masculine image as a means to glamorize cultural debauchery and prison life (when prison life is exploited as a mean to circumvent genuine cultural, political, economic, and social changes in especially communities of color). Regardless of our issues, we must move forward. We must speak will all of humility and strength in opposing the status quo. We must act in helping our the human race. Its easy to complain about issues, but it takes a real human being to go out publicly and build up society. Also, we must promote truths. The truth is that there are not only class disparities in the judicial system, but black people are heavily unfairly treated in the judicial system. One simple example is how people with crack cocaine (who are hyped as being used by minorities) suffer higher sentences than

people found with powdered cocaine (which is seemed as a mostly white people talking the drug). Far too often, the white Marxist/Communist crowd legitimately exposes class oppression, but they ignore and minimize how the racist system of white supremacist (which mainstream capitalism is related to) acts as a means to oppress people of color. Institutional racism existed back then and its a common occurrence in the world society. Now, not all white people are the same. Many white people & non-black people sincerely want to help society in the world just like my black people. Back centuries ago, many Founding Fathers proclaimed articulate words on liberty and the phrase of all men are created equal. Yet, in real life, some of them were slave owners and wanted freedom primarily for working white males, which wasnt a progressive activity at all. Even the Emancipation Proclamation, which is so praised by some individuals, never freed a single slave in the territory of the Union during the Civil War. The black Africans still fought for the liberation long before Lincoln was ever born and after the Civil War was over. Today, the GOP has been blatantly reactionary. Even the gains made by the social contract of Franklin D. Roosevelt and by our civil rights heroes have been threaten by the reactionary Republicans. Some Democrats have been more Republican-lite over the past 30+ years. Even the mild reforms (some of these reforms are legitimate) of the Affordable Care Act are condemned by some Republicans who feel that our health care system is mostly fine (which is a lie). The Party of Lincoln evolved into the Party of the South Strategy and the party of sick rhetoric (not only against minorities, but against immigrants, against the poor, against people of other backgrounds as well). Its a shame and a scandal, but you have to move forward. You move forward to accept the concept of people having the right to love for loving your neighbor is never wrong. You move forward in preserving the human rights of immigrants. Some people sent me Youtube videos on the corruption of the Sheriff in Arizona named Arpaio about how he ignored the victims of sexual crimes. Arpaio leads a prison in Arizona. Therefore, we should not forget about the brave voices in Arizona who are fighting for real justice and progressive freedoms for human beings. You move forward to reject stereotypes and believe in liberty for all peoples. One Republican is wrong to say that slavery was a blessing. I know everyone in the GOP isnt like this, but the GOP mostly doesnt condemn the extremists or their rhetoric in their own party. So, you have to move forward and believe in human life not war. The counterrevolution of Reaganomics may still be here, but that movement will be defeated. Yet, regardless of our ideological disagreements, we have to love and believe in activism. Nothing gets done in the world without struggle and without activism. If one person can have a dream or refuse unjust laws to create great success, we can do our part in building up the real components of society. Much of American history unfortunately has been a part of growing Western empire excluding the strategy giving all humans true freedom. This doesnt mean that people should escape personal responsibility. We shouldnt, but the victim is not to be blamed for all of the oppression that surrounds the victim. The victim is different from the oppressor. The oppressor is the originator of the oppression not the victim. The War on Drugs expanded the prison population by huge multiples since the 1970s. Legalized racial profiling is still in New York City with the stop and frisk policy where 90 percent of those stopped are Black and Brown Men. Fundamentally, the only solution to the prison industrial complexs crimes against humanity is Revolution or the abolishment of it.

Theres no need for illusions since bowing down to massa (as these people are not our Masters at all. DSouza may sellout his own people and hate anti-colonial thinking, but anti-colonalism is the reason why liberation movements were successful for the peoples of the world over. Thats real. God is our true Master) isnt going to cut it. I respect my ancestors, my people, and my God. You can be a good boy or you can be a grown righteous man or a righteous woman (if youre a female). If youre scared, then just say youre scared. If youre not, then there is nothing wrong with fighting constructively for freedom. If you do the time and paid your debt to society, you shouldnt wear a scarlet letter next to you. You

should be afforded all of the liberties and human rights as any other person deserves (yes, that including voting rights as well).

ON NIXONS LEGACY: Richard Nixon's legacy is ever known. Nixon was one inventor of the War on Drugs and the truth about him is ever known. He was a hypocrite on this issue. He talked about addicts, but he was known to get drunk and pop pills of prescription drugs. There is talk of him opening to China, the EPA, etc. There is a comparison with Nixon and ideological Republicans. Yet, some have ignored the more evil side of Nixon's legacy. That is that he shaped the mood of the GOP by advancing the slick bigoted Southern Strategy. He also used dirty election tactics in both 1968 and 1972. It is no secret that the veiled racism against President Barack Obama by some extremists is linked to Nixon's coded appeals to unreconstructed white segregationists in the South over 4 decades ago. Republicans in recently years have tried to use election rigging. Nixon helped to sabotage President Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam peace talks in 1968 and he was involved in the Watergate chicanery in 1972. In 1968, LBJ was on the verge on bringing the bloody Vietnam War to an end. This didn't happen since Nixon allowed the South Vietnamese government to boycott the Paris peace talks. This is documented by numerous U.S. Archives and from personal accounts of South Vietnamese and GOP participants. For example, we now know that President Johnson ordered his national security aide Walt Rostow to remove from the White House the top secret file on Nixons sabotage of the Vietnam peace talks and that Nixon after learning of the files existence from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover ordered Kissinger and White House chief of staff H.R. Bob Haldeman to conduct a search for this missing file. Kissinger and Haldeman were able to recreate the file. They failed to locate the actual file. This influenced Nixon's mind back in June of 1971. That was the time when the NY Times published the Pentagon Papers. The Pentagon Papers documented the Vietnam War deceptions from 1945 to 1967 under mostly Democratic administrations. Nixon knew that there was a sequel to the Pentagon Papers.

This was about a file where wiretap evidence shown that Johnson called Nixon's act treason of how the war was prolonged. This was done as a means for Nixon to gain a political advantage over Vice President Hubert Humphrey in 1968. If the missing filed came before the 1972 Election, Nixon might have been defeated or even face impeachment. So, according to Oval Office tape recordings released in connection with the Watergate scandal Nixon on June 17, 1971, ordered a renewed effort to locate the missing file. One of Nixons aides believed the file was hidden in the safe at the Brookings Institution, leading Nixon to order a break-in at Brookings to recover the file. Even many Nixon critics omit this history. Nixon supporters claim that Nixon knew little or nothing of the actual Watergate crime. 2 weeks after break in at Watergate, Nixon proposed having ex-CIA officer E. Howard Hunt to create a special team to conduct the Brookings break in. This never took place. Yet, Hunt did organize a team of burglars whose political spying was exposed by June 17, 1972. Five of its members were caught inside the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate complex. The 2 scandals of the 1968 peace talk sabotage and the Watergate spying were linked. Nixon feared that the first scandal could lead to the exposure of the second one. The participants in the Watergate robbery said different accounts. Yet, the burglars were seemed to be involved in a general intelligence gathering operation. They were helpful for Nixon's reelection campaign. Nixon wanted to know about the Democratic vulnerabilities as a means to know about how to effectively win the 1972 election. Walt Rostow had the 1968 wiretap evidence of Nixon trying to stop the Vietnam peace talks. The X Envelope has the file and it was still not complete. By June 1971, when Nixon ordered creation of Hunts team to search for the missing file, the war was ripping America apart as thousands of body bags with dead American soldiers continued to come back from Vietnam, as another million or so Vietnamese died, and as the war spread into Cambodia. Much of the modern GOP's actions of suppressing the voters of African Americans and other minorities originated from the tactics of Richard Nixon. These facts outline the sinister side of the Nixon Presidency.

QUICK WORDS ON THE 2012 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: The 2012 Presidential election have interesting choices. There is never a dull motion as it pertains to this election. People have the right to vote who they want to. Also, for those who dont want to vote for Mitt Romney or President Barack Obama, there are many third party choices in the ballot boxes as well. Its a shame that third party platforms typically have better plans than the 2 party duopoly in America (and third parties dont have much political power nationally). People shed blood for the right to vote and I dont want that right to be relinquished at all. So, I do respect the activists that are fighting against the unfair voter ID laws in the nation. I do like some of the voting rights victories in Ohio and other states in the Union. Restricting days on when a person can vote definitely will cause voter suppression in the short term and the long term. Today, we live under unique times. We are either for the interests of the 1 percent or for the interests of all Americans. The progressive human rights movement has reach success in many places like Scandinavia. Scandinavias social democratic experiment has decreased poverty, promoted universal health, and built up the educational apparatus in that region of the world. The pro-corporate, pro-global 1% banksters hate this since it refutes the 1%s ideologies of neoliberalism & Austrian economics. Deliverance and justice are concept etched in people of every color and background. It has been a part of real spirituality. The origin of the system of compassion, humanism, and social justice of course came from Africa. Africa is the homeland of the first humans on Earth; therefore all people should have a specific appreciation of the great continent of Africa. We are linked in the world as a community not in isolation. The USA can achieve the civilization of social democratic principles, because of the young generation is waking up heavily about the world in general. A nation which has enslaved and persecuted Africans, and almost exterminated all Native Americans can truly repent by developing into a more humane, democratic, and egalitarian society. The Presidential race has interesting dynamics. As Tavis Smiley said, one candidate is afraid of losing the election and the other candidate is desperately trying to win. Mitt Romney has promised to cut taxes on rich, which receive record low taxation in decades. He wants to block many regulations in the financial arenas. I believe in religious freedom and religious tolerance, but Webster Tarpleys new book on Mitt Romney and his Mormonism opens the truth on that religion of Mormonism. Its a strange religion indeed to believe that you will become gods ruling other planets with polygamous women as wives with the assistance of Masonic underwear, passwords, handshakes, secret names, and various Temple rituals. Its a strange creed indeed to believe that Jesus Christ and Lucifer are spirit brothers. Until 1978, Mormonism was a religion that explicitly promoted white supremacy. Mormon leader Gordon B. Hinckley back in 2002 said that: All writers should be put in a box and thrown in the sea The Romney/Ryan ticket wants to privatize part of Medicare & part of Social Security in the future. This austerity economic death wish will make the profits of private corporations to increase since privatization by its very definition will help private corporations. Romney wants the private sector to have more profits while the poor to experience no radical national solution to their plight. Romney wants to sacrifice the resources of the many (by cutting pre-K educational funding & wanting

kids to borrow money from parents in order for children to pay for college. Romneys lies and constant switching of positions are examples of desperation on his part) to benefit the interests of the few. Mitt Romneys foreign policy team includes the following neo-conservative war hawks: John Bolton, Robert Kagan, Eliot Cohen, Robert Joseph, and Dan Senor. The Democrats promote their errors via sheath and slickness without being as so overtly reactionary as the Republicans are. President Barack Obama is wrong to refuse to eliminate the unjust laws and unjust foreign policy measures that were instituted by the previous Bush administration. The President is wrong in trying to justify assassinating potentially American citizens if they are accused of terrorism without due process of law. Thats wrong. The Simpson/Bowles Commission and pro-AIPAC rhetoric signifies the errors of the Democratic establishment too. The current President should be made accountable for his political policies indeed. Yet, as the Umoja crew wrote (They wrote such books like The Beauty Con Game and Black Love is a Revolutionary Act), the brother President Barack Obama isnt responsible totally for this system of corruption. Its a white supremacy power structure (going on for centuries before the current President was born) that is responsible for the current oppression going on in the Earth. Private oligarchs control a lot of Western society. So, we have a choice. We can vote for either men or for a Third Party candidate. Regardless of who wins the election, we shouldnt be pessimistic or hopeless. We have the responsibility and power to fight against poverty, help our communities, build up our people, and to love justice to be given to all of humanity. Instead of harboring a genuflection of rugged individualism, we must to go and adhere to the establishment of the beloved community. I will always believe in the dignity of human life still.

PRO-AUSTERITY HYSTERIA EXPOSED: Pro-austerity hysteria is part of the agenda of reactionaries. Even CNBC has people who worship the free market completely. You can't have unrestrained capitalism and constrained government in order to realize the Promised Land. It just doesn't work at all. The economist Paul Krugman has interesting pieces of information. Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz, former Council of Economic Advisers chair Christina D. Romer and countless other eminent economists who have studied the New Deal and recession recovery data since the 1930s have insights to the recession. More than 320 economists criticized the budget slash agenda of the reactionaries. The reality is that we have fiscal scare tactics and deficit hysteria in America. The austerity budget is a real threat that can harm the financial security of the poor and the middle class. As Krugman accurately pointed out, you need to handle mass unemployment beyond just obsessing with shaving a few billion dollars off government spending. Eliminating government spending too soon can hurt economic growth. That is why the Economic Policy Institute found that state and local austerity has deprived the economy of 2.3 million jobs over the past three years. You need public investments as providing the foundations on which business investment depends. So, the government and the private sector have to play roles in handling & growing the economy. In other words, you need massive economic growth first and then you can handle the debt or deficit long term. Since the 1970's, corporate interests have dominated much of our political and economic system. Even back in August 23, 1971, soon to be Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. (then a Richmond, Virginia attorney) drafted a confidential memorandum for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. This memo outlined a strategy for the corporate takeover of the dominant public institutions of American society. Wall Street is known to have responsibility for much of the economic problems that we witness presently as well. The massive corruption, deregulation, and wars caused our current financial crisis in August of 2007. There was the asset price bubble in the housing market. Many Fortune 500 companies have contributed significantly to the deficit by not paying adequate taxes at all. The super-rich have paid the lowest taxes in decades. In the 1940s, corporations paid 43 percent of all the federal income taxes collected in the U.S. In 2010, that percentage was only 8.9 percent. In 2010, the tax bill of General Electric, with reported worldwide profits of $14.2 billion (and $5.1 billion from its operations in the United States), was: zero. Fundamentally, human beings have the right to advance economic justice. It is wrong to see further concentration of wealth into the hands of the corporate plutocracy. Even Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made critiques on capitalism for its exploitation in the elite's foundation of discrimination and racism. So, we should continue in the global struggle against poverty and exploitation. For exploitation

isn't just the experience of my own people. It exists among all people and in every continent of the Earth. Dr. King made the profoundly accurate point on August 31, 1967 address to the National Conference for a New Politics in Chicago. He said the following: "...We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifices. The fact is that capitalism was built on the exploitation and suffering of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor, both black and white, both here and abroad...The way to end poverty is to end the exploitation of the poor. Insure them a fair share of the government's services and the nation's resources. We must recognize that the problems of neither racial nor economic justice can be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power..." Poverty is complex and it isnt to be blamed on the poor collectively. It's a whole system that must be transformed or radically changed in order for poverty to end. A national program calling for full employment, full education, full universal health care, to provide housing for human beings, and other rights are necessary in our age. Freedom is not won totally today, but freedom can be won completely in the future. Therefore, we shouldn't lose hope. We should have hope, inspiration, and love to carry forward with a strident focus on desiring justice for the entire world.

Conclusion

Its a historical fact that the middle class grew in power not by free market fundamentalism, but by a social contract among human beings and governmental action. The middle class and the poor ought to be respected in the Universe. There were many legitimate parts of the New Deal and the Great Society like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc. Our economic problems existed long years before President Barack Obama or even before Bush Jr. were in office. For example, our huge economic inequality and other serious problems have been growing since the late 1970s. Its just been festering overtly in time. A radical GOP with their Blue Dog Democratic allies has supported either compromise or straight up austerity in society. You cant take from the poor and send that money to the rich as a legitimate policy. Now, our economy still has a long way to go in order for it to be better. Our GDP rate is only growing in about 1.3 percent in the second quarters. Job growth has been very slow, because when you have centrist financial policies, you will have moderate (even gradual) results. If you include people looking for full time jobs and unable to get them, then the true unemployment rate is close to 17 percent. Even the Pew Research Center said that since 2000, the middle class has shrunk in size (and income and wealth has been lowered among the middle class). The Hoover/Ayn Rand policies among some Republicans have fought against radical solutions. Even the early 2009 stimulus was too small (which the GOP wanted if not no stimulus). The stimulus kept us from experiencing worse economic issues and the GOP still opposes some stimulus. The GOP controlled the House mostly after the 2010 midterm elections. Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman said that the stimulus was inadequate and the government efforts were inadequacy in handling financial complications. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (or ARRA) helped to end the depression from being a total disaster (made up of 787 billion dollars and increased to 840 billion dollars in the 2012 federal budget). Many Republican Presidents from Hoover and George W. Bush exposed how Republican slash and burn, austerity philosophies dont work. Our median income is going down. We have high poverty rates. Now, the reason isnt because economic recovery isnt happening. The reason is much of the new jobs being formed are low wage wages from retailing, food preparation, etc. There is nothing wrong with these jobs, but they dont pay much. That is why populists want a higher minimum wage, new stimulus, and public investment. Market fundamentalism doesnt work and we need to ban Citizens United and have other policies to help society. One of the sickest parts of the prison industrial complex is how it promotes kids being in solitary confinement. A new report from the Human Rights Watch group and the ACLU document this reality via their report entitled, "Growing Up Locked Down: Youth in Solitary Confinement in Jails and Prisons across the United States." The report was authored by Ian Kysel. It includes 141 pages of interviews and correspondences with over 125 young people (who experienced solitary treatment in 19 states). The report cites Molly J being placed in solitary confinement. Some children suffer emotional trauma and social degradation when they experience this confinement. Some of them feel less than human. Molly said that her experience was harsh, unreal, and like the worst thing on Earth. No nation in the developed world tortures its children like this overtly. This sick action occurs against children below 18 years old. It's blatant torture. In America jails, some kids spend 22 to 24 hours a day alone. Some of these children in those barbaric conditions receive no access to books or other human beings. This isolation will last for days, weeks, or even months at a time. This can damage young people emotionally. Children need healthy human interaction at any age in order for been to transition their life in human development including real rehabilitation. Many children spoke to the ACLU about having fear, anxiety, some cut themselves, and some children have attempted to do suicide. That is why the ACLU and the Human Rights Watch want children to be held not in solitary confinement at all. They want children to not be held in adult facilities, but in separate areas with other kids. The states should ban solitary confinement of the young completely. Young people are still developing emotionally and physiologically. Using that solitary confinement procedure will damage them possible for life. Other people have called for interactive treatment programs and proportional interventions to handling children's problems in a prison. Liz Ryan directs Campaign for Youth Justice. Liz found that 20 states require juveniles to be kept apart from adult prisoners, but most of the nation's 3,000 jails lack the dedicated facilities for children (in that sense, they make kids to go solitary). Many children in solitary haven't been convicted of a crime, because most people in jail are awaiting trial. It's a fact that solitary confinement is cruel and unusual punishment. It's inhuman treatment. It's a throwback of barbarism from some of ancient man. Also, as Cynthia McKinney said, we are not free yet. We may live in a country with some enmities, but we are not free. We are not free when torture is abundant in the prison industrial complex. We are not free when unjust bombing campaigns exist worldwide. We are not free when materialism and narrow-mindedness plague the minds

of brainwashed individuals. We can never be free until real freedom and real justice are sent to all people without limitations or preconditions.

One bad reality about the prison system is that mass Black incarceration has caused a decrease of resources to be sent into black communities, while there has been funds sent to prison towns or prison dependent counties. The reason is that when prisoners are in these prison towns, there census is sometimes included in the population of that small town (not where the prisoner was originally from). Human beings are locked up in cages and treated almost like slaves. This has been going on for centuries in the four corners of the Earth. That is why in 2009, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights wanted great care to be taken to get an accurate count in the Gulf States where population movements havent been settled four years after Katrina. Prisoners in many cases were lacking human rights, but were counted in the prisoner towns as a means for those town to gain more federal and states resources (at the expense of the hometown communities of the prisoners). Unjust mandatory minimums and other policies have grown the prison state indeed.
There is oppression in the world. Injustice based on class and gender is wrong too. When you get older, you can become wiser about this situation. Even feminists like Bell Hooks, Angela Y. Davis, Joy James, etc. are correct to proclaim opposition to an extreme form of patriarchy (or what we call the subjection of women. For you can't have a progressive society with basic human freedoms restricted from women. Oppression is always linked to the suppression of the rights of females). There is an interrelationship between oppression and class exploitation. We certainly aren't free yet. Society has issues with oppression. It is also hypocritical to condemn welfare when others don't say a word on the subsidies relieved by the super rich. An economic bill of rights is fine with me as well. Also, just because a program is controlled by the state level, doesn't mean that program will be successful. The state once used tyranny and also promoted cuts to the suffering. That is why the federal government can help Americans since the government is made up of the people. See, people are in the government. Therefore, corrupt government is the problem not the essence of government in general. The federal government can have the power to give people opportunities and protect people's human rights. The Transcontinental Continent railroad, land grant colleges, and other programs relied on the federal government's help. These acts have enhanced human freedom without massive restrictions to it. The Federal Bill of Rights is superior to state's rights. The state can't do all things, so the federal government can make a difference in building up society. It's a historical fact that spending money the right way can grow jobs and develop the economic structures of nations. The privatization of Social Security is really extreme when Social Security has been an economic successful program for decades. So, it is important to show compassion to our

fellow man. For we judge a person on their character on a persons physical appearance, race, gender, nationality, or any other characteristic of a person. Also, it is not a sin to love a person legitimately. For God is Love. Many reactionaries (recently some of them praise slavery and promote Confederate History Month. This was done by Republicans. Any human being would find this abhorrent regardless of their political persuasion) are even in the alternative media masquerading as freedom lovers, but the truth must be told still. So, it's our duty to promote freedom and subsequently tolerance for all humans of every background. The prison industrial complex is a global problem. People in the four corners of the Earth suffer inhumane conditions, torture, and various forms of obscene abuse in the various prisons of the world.

Not to mention that we have to fight for our liberties. Either we fight or we lose. Its as simple as that. Certain states want to increase budgetary funds for prisons, while

decreasing budgets for funding childhood education. The good news is that we still have time to battle against injustices and against the threat of some of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to be eliminated. The problem of hunger in America is a solvable problem. That is why people who take food stamps and real food programs shouldnt be vilified. More people who are trying to get food assistance are some of the middle class. The comments about free stuff is reprehensible, because people in the world are struggling for nutrition and lifesaving services (these people arent irresponsible at all). Some of the most reactionary states in the Union have some of the biggest problems with hunger, poverty, and other likeminded issues.

Not everyone in prison is guilty, so we wish for all innocent people and all innocent political prisoners to be freed from prisons all over the world. To all those behind the bars (who are innocent or want to make a real change in their lives), Keep your heads up. More jails and more of the over 40 year war on Drugs dont work officially. Real folks still

support you. Some people want just want to be soldiers instead of being soldiers & Kings at the same time. Regardless of the Kings and Queens in the world, we always know who the real King of Kings in the Universe is. In spite of everything, I still believe. I believe in God, in hope, in being free, in being myself, and in the human race. We have to fight for the interests of all of the people not the 1%. So, that is whats really good. I am going to keep it real and funky like always.
By Timothy