Education, Incarceration, Drugs and Paranoia Part 2

I talked about education, incarceration and drugs in my last log entry but only touched on paranoia. Paranoia is, of course, usually a result of using several street drugs, primarily, but not exclusively stimulants or lack of education or intelligence. I lived in a trailer park for a while here in Humboldt County, California which was inhabited by "speed freaks". Not all speed freaks but a sizable percentage were. They would sleep a day or two at a time wake up and start another speed run. These runs would last for days during which they would get further and further "out there". They would become terrified of things that were not actually happening, things that could not actually happen and they would become accusatory. One neighbor lady who lurked near her front window most of her many waking hours would run out and accost passers by with accusations of all sorts. Her favorite was that these people were "getting in her head". When she did some really crazy thing it was because some particular person "was getting in her head and making her do it". About 2 A.M. one night a young man I didn't know knocked on my door and asked if he could use my phone as it was an emergency. I said he could and he proceeded to dial 911 while assuming a crouching position behind my metal table. He told the 911 dispatcher that people with guns were trying to kill him. By this time it was apparent that he was tweaking heavily and in a state of extreme paranoia. There were no people and no guns. My floppy drive made a clicking noise as it engaged and he said "there! You hear that...they're right outside the window and cocking their guns!". The sheriff arrived, he went out and got in the back seat as the deputy held the door open for him and they drove away.



I am half way through a book on the other September 11^th...September 11^th, 1973. That is a day the fascists hold in reverence as a milestone. Bear with me for a minute. This will tie together. It is the day that Salvador Allende was overthrown in a violent coup in Chile allowing CIA backed General Augusto Pinochet to assume supreme dictatorial power and create the first terrorist network, the prototype for those that would soon follow and the descendants of which we are now being attacked by. After murdering Allende a very popular elected president they created DINA, terror squads which went around rounding up suspected liberals and leftists. Many were tortured, murdered and their bodies hidden, often dumped from helicopters far out to sea. In short order this organization spread it's terrorist activities to other countries including Argentina which experienced an even greater reign of terror a few years later as their economy was simultaneously savaged with inflation over 1,000% as I recall. They even assassinated one of their "leftists" a couple of blocks from the White House in Washington D.C. They were spreading real fear but paranoia was the "justification" for the coup and "justification" for the subsequent death squads. The reason for the coup was that Allende was redistributing land which had been owned by a tiny fraction of the people of Chile. While claiming patriotism to Chile as their own some, if not many, of these factory and large land owners were working with our C.I.A. and extreme right wing elements in the Chilean military. This all came to fruit on September 11th, 1973 with the bloody coup.

While the basis of the coup was for the criminal aristocracy to regain their ill gotten gains the method of implementing it was paranoia. Fear of a "Communist" takeover and a resulting "totalitarian" regime. None of this was in the offing. There was no evidence of this what so ever. While the right wingers did everything they could to undermine Allende, mostly by creating economic upheaval; artificial shortages, closing factories etc and economic blockades by the U.S. Empowering the population to manufacture goods and farm themselves allowed the ecomony to do pretty well. After 17 years of economic and social devastation Pinochet was gone and socialist reforms were required to save lives and mitigate the unprecedented poverty Pinochet and his henchmen left in their wake. Socialist reforms greater than any Allende had planned. In Argentina where many thousands of "leftists" were "disappeared" while the fascists disappeared large chunks of the economy FDR style public works palns have been implemented and the recovery has been impressive. Not only the million or so people who have these good paying jobs but the people they buy their groceries from etc. are moving from poverty into the middle class.

Like the young man who came to my house and called the sheriff on himself enough of the Chilean population went along with Pinochet and his band of right wingers' claims of some imaginary emergency to allow themselves to actually become enslaved in a totalitarian dictatorship. Those who opposed this were educated on the whole while those who went along with it were poorly educated or poor students like Pinochet himself. Poorly educated or evil bastards.

The story of the evolution of opposition to Pinochet is an awe inspiring tale and I will write more about that when I finish the book. Pinochet was arrested in Britain and held in jail for 500 and some odd days for his crimes against humanity in spite of exempting himself and those who conspired with him. Henry Kissinger is also wanted in connection with the coup and death squad activities and has also exempted himself.

On a final related note I have moved all troll posts to their very own special page. I usually collect a few days worth at a time so recent ones may not be posted there yet. Aso I haven't done much editing so some are repeated as are some "comment deleted" ones. They think I am a fool for allowing open posting; as President Bush said of the "terists" who perpetrated the more recent September 11^th coup "they hate our freedom" and show their contempt (not to mention their brain deficit) by abusing it.

Education, Incarceration, Drugs and Paranoia

Tomorrow school starts for the kids here in Humboldt County, California. California was previously tied for last place in school (test) results with Mississippi. Then George W. Bush gained the Governor's mansion in Texas by framing his opposition for planting a bug in Karl Rove's office. In a short time Texas dropped to last place in the United States saving California and Mississippi from that embarrassment. It was no coincidence that Texas also relieved California of another dubious distinction; having the largest prison in the country as well as the highest per capita rate of imprisonment.

The Top Ten
The mainstream media would have you believe that people are mostly being sent to prison because of violent crime, and that we need to lock more people up to make our streets safer. It's simply not true. Here are the top ten charges for which Californians are now entering prison:

possession of a controlled substance
possession of a controlled substance for sale
robbery
sale of a controlled substance
second degree burglary
assault with a deadly weapon
driving under the influence
first degree burglary
petty theft with a prior
vehicle theft

Note that all but two of these are non-violent offenses. None of these violent charges are even on the top ten list: murder (first and second degree), rape (and all other sex crimes), manslaughter, and kidnapping. In fact, more often people are being sent to prison now for charges such as forgery, fraud and theft than for charges such as rape or murder. source

My own view is that the two violent crimes mentioned here are often caused by the use of certain drugs. Speed, cocaine and other stimulants induce a state very much like paranoid schizophrenia. Speed freaks commonly have an arsenal, think small random sounds are people coming to get them etc. Very dangerous people. Junkies can be dangerous when they need a fix. In spite of that I don't think prison is the place for these people. More on drugs later.

The decline of education is a problem that bears much greater scrutiny. Poor education means worse jobs which in turn means less money. Today's economy is getting worse and worse. High tech jobs are going overseas rapidly to countries with educated work forces. Menial jobs are being automated or going overseas to cheaper labor forces. Haiti is a good example of this. There is a good chance that something you are wearing right now was made in Haiti. And over 2,131,180 people now reside in America's Prison Industrial complex many of them working for prison industries as virtual slaves. All of these groups competing with American workers.

Why do people use drugs? Why do they produce and sell them? The second question is easier to answer than the first. People produce and sell drugs because it is a lucrative business requiring little education other than chemistry in the case of producing "designer" drugs. Lots of money. Why do people take drugs? That is a harder question. Lack of education might be one answer. Who would take their first hit of speed or crack if they understood they would almost certainly end up addicted and in a state of paranoid schizophrenia? Depression and lack of hope for the future is another reason. No job or a poor job certainly lead many to drugs and alcahol which in turn lead people to have no job or a poor job in the future also.

Why is our educational system so poor? I don't think it is because we are not "tough" enough, though people certainly seem to have a complex about that. Being tough to the weak means being mean. Being mean will not solve any of these problems, particularly the education problem. Babies are born wanting to do nothing but eat and learn. They soak everything up as fast as they can. Parents usually can't adjust fast enough to comprehend how much their children have learned. When they start school most are disappointed. They don't want to go back the second day other than to play with the other kids. The first lesson they learn is that learning is work. A hard job. I took my son out of the public school after a short while and taught him at home. I didn't do a great job but his test scores etc. soared into the 90^th percentile and he is very literate. 2 years back in the public school system now and he can handle it better. He'll need to learn that skill for the work place, what's left of it.

Henry Ford is a name I have mentioned often in my rants here. For his backing of the Nazis and the holocaust. He also has a lot to do with the state of today's education system. The days of the little school house with a dedicated teacher who knew all the kids and their families quickly disappeared with the advent of mass production both because, being enamored with the cheap products of mass production such as Ford motor cars, they started building large schools on the principals of factories and because of the advent of buses they could bus kids from a distance to facilitate these large factory schools. This may have had some advantages in the days when most people lived on farms and kids were cheap labor and otherwise chatel but the whole system needs to be examined in light of what we have and what is going on today.

It is little wonder that we have the problems we have today. Drugs, unemployment, underemployment bad government, the largest prison system on earth and a dumbed down electorate.

More later.

Iraq war Like WW2?

According to CNN Bush Incorporated plans to launch a new campaign to portray the assault, battery and occupation of Iraq as being like WW2. While I think they are daft, using Madison Avenue sales techniques to "sell refrigerators to eskimos", reversing the truth Orwellian style, I have taken the bait and cannot resist regurgitating it. This is a subject I can't get over. The whole scenario from the dramatic hits on the World Trade Center and Pentagon to the "pre-emptive" attack on countries who had nothing to do with it resemble WW2 very closely. It is almost verbatim out of Hitler's play book. A play book backed to the hilt by the owners of the Republican Party from 1921 up through the very end of WW2. From the burning of the German parliament building, the Reichstag, the subsequent implementation of the "enabling" act, similar to the "Patriot" act, round ups and extrajudicial imprisonment of people based on stereotypes or politics, the uber nationalism to the attacks on Poland, who the corporate media in Germany was faithfully reporting was lobbing artillery into the Fatherland, Germany, and preparing a greater attack, ridiculous assertions spoon fed to the media by the Nazi leadership.

The Reichstag burns. Torched by the Nazis and blamed on "Communists"

Like the Nazis, this war has been perpetrated at the behest of corporate interests for the purpose of personal enrichment with the tool of fear and loathing, playing upon human weakness. Fear of real and imagined enemies and loathing for those one can not understand. Hatred of mentally impaired, homeless people, homosexuals, gypsies and Jews fueled the fires in the German "Homeland" and fear of humble Poland from whom Germany was receiving much of the steel for it's war machine which was being purchased in very large part by...Prescott Bush, "W"'s grandpa, in partnership with both German and American Nazi party members, and the company they managed for Hitler's backers in America and Germany. One of these businesses was taken from them a bit less than a year after Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese and The U.S. entered WW2. Here is a link to the document.



As in Germany, the real outside threat is our own leadership who's allegiance is not to the "homeland" portrayed in their glitzy advertising campaign but to international big business and themselves. To greed. Greed for wealth and personal power driven by feelings of inadequacy and facilitated by the intense rationalization that goes along with it. Rationalizing that the ends justify any brutal means and intelligent political and moral opposition be damned. Both Hitler and Bush bought the support of churches while condemning the "liberal" intelligentsia. Bush and Hitler both ignored the advice of their own experienced military leadership and both punished them for giving good advice. One difference is that Hitler was a moving orator with a personal axe to grind backed by international corporate interests while Bush is an intellectually inbred prince of international corporate fascism who speakes basic english poorly.

Venomous Anti-Semite Henry Ford receives Germany's Highest Medal, the Grand Cross of the Supreme Order of the German Eagle, from Nazi Counsuls in Dearborn, Michagan in 1938

The rest of the world, including the U.S.A., fought corporate puppet Hitler once his intentions, brutality and madness became understood and Germany itself was the final victim.

Images from Wikipedia of Dresdem Germany after vengeful allied bombing.

Do What We Say Or We'll Kill Your Loved Ones!!

Recent news explaining the obvious, that Hiroshima and Nagasaki had no military importance and that newspapers in this country parroted the government lie to the electorate that they were military targets should give us all pause as it recently has for some who post here. Targetting civilians rather than military oponents was a major component of the cold war Mutually Assured Destruction "strategy". Cities were targeted. During the first crusade the Pope told the troops that Muslims had no souls, were therefore just animals and that it was just fine to eat their babies. They did. The Muslims didn't likely surrender so easily after those first few battles! The Nazis didn't hit civilian areas when they first sent the Luftwaffe over London. After a couple of them went off course and dropped their ordnance in a residential area the Allies began systematically targetting civilian areas in Germany.

If this, like many things nations do, were done by an individual they would be deemed criminally insane. And, if you didn't see it coming, is perfectly exemplified in the multiple personality troll who has been haunting this blog. Their sexual harrasment especially of women posting here, threats and abusive language not only indicate some heavy drug use and a neandrathal mindset but his paranoia and projection, other people are harrasing him (or her...unlikely), are very much similar to this administration and it's followers. The almost 50 pages of vicious anonymous posts (when printed) surely indicate at least the strong possibility of some serious drug use or, worse, severe mental disorder. Most likely both. If you again look at a nation that acts this way it is pretty easy to see how a few people with razors could pull off the attacks of September 11th, 2001, how Osama can still remain at large and why everything else in the United States is disintegrating and the government is focusing on persecuting homosexuals, advocating teaching "intelligent" design as science and securing exemption from crimes against humanity prosecution for BushCo.

"Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction." No he didn't. But his accusers did and do. Thousands of nukes. Anthrax and other biological weapons. Chemical weapons. And the means to deliver them. Huge numbers of them. The U.S., Briton, Israel and Pakistan. The 30,000 mostly very large "conventional" bombs dropped on Iraq in the initial invasion resulted in "mass destruction" of life, limb and property. Anyone within miles of even one such explosion will never forget it and I can testify to that. Imagine what people living in Bhagdad lived through or died through. Or Falluja. Why don't they love us? Where are the chocolates and flowers? Why are we so much less safe than we were in 2000? Or 2001? or 2002?

Police State; Quality versus Quantity

Quality

One fixated anonymous troll who posts here often suggested that he could document certain events via "fragments" of police reports he had "received". Having been at the scene of this event I had some idea of the viewable facts of the matter. Police reports are less credible than statements made by most people you may meet at random. Now I understand this may be a pretty bold statement and will draw cries of protest from some, though not many, the history is pretty clear and the disdain that law enforcement has for the law is legendary. It is their resentment of legal restriction that has led the Bush Administration to do so much to circumvent due process, to have "sneak a peek" policies imbedded into the (un)-Patriot Act for one thing. Sneak-a-Peek means warrentless searches. They have been doing this for a long time anyway. During the 80s I began monitoring police activities here in Humboldt County, California when the CAMP program began and after people claimed that the police were breaking a lot of laws including treetop level flying, warrentless searches, stealing four wheelers and so on. It all turned out to be true, we got injunctions restricting them to the FAA safety regulation 500 feet, plenty low enough to spot pot, especially in the quantities they claimed to be looking for. I got some evidence of the theft only due to underlings slipping on the radio and many, many first person stories, mostly from credible people. We got one judgement for a family that had their property trashed because it was on a ridge top and had a good place to land a helicopter. Everywhere that CAMP went they trashed and "confiscated" everything they could regardless of whether or not their was any sort of illegal activity going on because of the ignorance and contempt of their leaders. And the ineptitude. The incredible ineptitude. Pot was grown very openly here at that time in huge quantities of often gigantic plants some as much as 10 pounds. In spite of that they performed sweeps of the whole population and targeted their political critics. The land I lived on was searched from the air all day on the first day of their 1995 operations. There was no dope to find but they persisted with one team after another for 8 to 12 hours in spite of the fact that they could easily have filled their nets with dope and loot from other nearby areas. I have all of this on video and much of their radio communications too.

Now, 20 years later, they still are out trying to bust college kids for joints while speed is destroying the lives of many, many people in America today. Speed, as I have gone on about in previous posts, is a favorite of the right wingers. Timothy McVeigh and his aryan militia associates were heavy users, and that it is typical of the right wing. It was invented it in Germany. Hitler used it and cocaine from the time Henry Ford and others in Prescott Bush's circle began to back him circa 1920 up through until the end when he died in his hidey hole. His troops marched on the stuff and the SS used an even more potent form along with steroids. Today, under increased pressure to do something about the speed epidemic the Bush administration made some lame excuses and a mealy mouthed affirmation that they will be doing more. But you can bet that the emphasis will remain on undermining medical pot laws and "eradicating" pot grows all over the world.

Quantity

Since the first days of CAMP law enforcement agents of different sorts have increased in number exponentially as has the prison population in the U.S. now the greatest on earth. You are not only more likely to go to prison in America than in any other country on earth, you are more likely to go to jail for something you did not do or something that is very trivial. A friend of mine shared a house in southern California a few years ago with a vice squad cop who told him they planted evidence on people regularly. Because they just "knew" they were "dirty". They just couldn't get actual evidence. Now that the quantity of police has increased so vastly and they have succeeded in getting the crimnals who run our government to get rid of those pesky pro-democracy civil rights laws, due process, and that silly "guilty until proven innocent: business we can only assume that the reign of terror will spread. It will spread as more and more American's jobs are outsourced to countries with virtual slavery or a better educated work force. It will spread to the suburbs and the middle class as BushCo's mismanagement and criminal activities become worse and better known. They will get desperate. The Nazis started Union leaders and Communists but rapidly moved on to street people. They were an eyesore, a burden and there were lots of them. "Crazy" people too. They researched their mass murder tecniques on them. Then came the Roma people, (gypsies) and then the Jews. Finally they turned on their "Christian right" who's support they had bought at the begining by giving them economic advantages. As their power increased the Nazi's broadened their brush strokes to include more and more people with less and less "evidence" of any wrongdoing. In 1945 one guilt ridden Lutheran Pastor wrote the following famous words;

First they came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.

by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945

Stimulated Insanity; The Bush Base

The attack

Meth use is epidemic in the U.S. I tried to find state by state stats on meth with little success. It's no secret that it correlates pretty well with the "red" states and seems to break down further pretty nicely with Bush's percentage of support state by state. In fact most of the statistics I found had a lot on marijuana, apparently since it is the most used. The most emphasis seems to be put on "eradicating" it's use for that reason. Maybe that has something to do with why meth is replacing pot as the main drug of choice amongst teens as well as others. Most meth labs busted seemed to be in west coast blue or almost blue states. Hmmm...

Instant Nazi; Just add meth!

One symptom of it's use is the perception that one is "working hard" while doing little or nothing like Mr. Bush who often talks about "hard work" while it is evident that he himself doesn't do a hell of a lot and has taken 50 vacations since seizing the White House in January 2001. A false sense of power and the ability to rationalize anything at all are other symptoms of it's use as are diminishing capacity for empathy and raw aggression. Nothing I've said is news and it's effects have been known and used since the Nazis invented it and marched into Poland on the stuff. "Marching Powder" I'm told was it's original name there. I bet.

The Perpetrators

Is it possible that the right wingers would foist this stuff on our electorate on purpose? They most certainly flooded certain areas of our country with cocaine, converted to crack, after that got actor Ronald Reagan into the White House. The CIA and their "assets" former Nicaragua brutal dictator Samoza's enforcers the "Contras" did this and it is well documented. A "Contra" member named Oscar Danilo Blandon Reyes recruited "Freeway" Ricky Ross who flooded South Central L.A. with cocaine, the recipe to convert it to crack, and illegal automatic weapons. From where it spread, weapons and all to other areas of the United States of America. It is more than possible; it is undeniable. A reporter for the San Jose Mercury News did extensive research and documented all of this beyond any reasonable doubt. The Mercury News buckled under vicious attacks by the right wing and retracted the story. Gary Webb then wrote a book with this information. This Pulitzer prize-winning reporter was found dead of two gunshots to the back of his head in December of last year. It was immediatly ruled a suicide in spite of the fact that there were two gunshots to the back of his head.
Here is a link to early reports on this.
May he rest in peace and his work bear fruit.

A little More History

After WW2 the CIA was created from the ashes of the OSS and an influx of Nazis from defeated Germany. At that time the CIA began experiments with drugs and germs and the means to distribute them amongst the general civilian population. Ken Kesey got his first hit of acid in a VA hospital where he worked in Palo Alto, California. Vehicles were equiped with spraying devices and driven around populated areas to test the effectiveness of that method of distribution. Our own combat troops have been given speed. Navy Seals I have met from the Vietnam era tell me they filled their pockets with dexedrine prior to long missions in the woods in Vietnam. The airmen who were shooting up wedding parties, "tall guys" and Canadians in Afghanistan were jacked up on this stuff too, not sleeping for days at a time.

The Present and the Future

I have already written about the influx of Heroin coming in from Afghanistan since the U.S. invasion and destruction of the infrastructure there. It is almost certain that burgeoning Al Quaeda and the mostly intact Taliban are running this show. Filling their coffers with money and our streets with heroin. People crashing off of speed want downers....

Humboldt Hate Crime (web) Log

Before there were blogs, (short for web logs) I started a web log concerning the small part of the war on the poor going on outside my door and in the area surrounding my residence in Redway, California in notorious Humboldt County. Notorious for drug production, un investigated murders and wealthy people with no visible means of support.

I found these old pages of mine on a free server,
Fortune City while searching for something else concerning corruption and ineptitude in law enforcement. Since that first page I moved to Eureka and started a second page on the same theme here but have since moved on to other things, trying to address the larger problem of corruption in the United States of America which has reached treasonous proportions by almost all accounts.


These pages are old and many of the links to other sites long since dead but things have changed little here since that time. Some of the people in Redway who were so venomous in their hatred of the homeless and low income have moved away or been indicted for major crime, as in the case of one man who owned a tow truck company noted for stealing cars, major drug production and selling illegal weapons who was tipped off the night before his place was raided and fled, supposedly to Chile. Another man mentioned in the Humboldt Hate Crime Log was an officer Anderson of the CHP who was notorious for brutality, speed use and general corruption and I recently heard that he had stopped a pair of men on a pretense, searched them, found an ounce of speed and told them "this is your lucky day" whereupon he put the drugs in his pocket and let them go. They were themselves police on their way to a sting. Mr. Anderson was given truck inspection duty as a result. I am not sure what that means but I think it means manning the weigh station. My feeling is that people who are entrusted with such power and authority should be held to a higher standard of accountability if they commit crimes, especially in the line of duty behind the shield of authority and that the higher the position the greater the punishment. As long as we have any trace of capitol punishment in the United States of America it should be reserved for the highest office holders when they commit crimes such as use the military to rob Iraq murdering countless thousands in the process.

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I talked to one Mexican American today who I knew had been accused of a crime he didn't commit and had been advised by his public "defender" to plea bargain for a lesser charge. He was more mystified than upset when there was a fight that he witnessed where men were beating each other brutally with baseball bats and no arrests were made.



I grew up in suburban Washington D.C. and never saw anything like what I have seen here or other places I have lived since then. It is with no small amount of anger and disgust that I write about this and the frustration of so many people, more and more each day, will bring this country to it's knees. People who live in places like Chevy Chase or Potomac Maryland, Shaker heights, Ohio, Malibu, California and the rest should serve a year in places where the average income is the average income of America or below. Maybe in lieu of taxes for that year. Already the greedy criminals in the halls of government are picking the bones of our democracy for the last scraps of wealth they can steal from the rest of the population while their pitch men in the media which they have bought fend us off with slight of hand, fast talk and lies.


I had just about concluded that all of our protests were having no effect on the fascists who dictate every aspect of our lives when the Secret Service paid me a visit last Thursday but they likely wouldn't have done so if my words were not a threat to them. I will keep writing as long as I can in hopes that just one person reads my words. I've lived long enough, am sick and am very tired but my anger drives me on. Yours should too. Your anger and desire to live free and prosper.