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MAGNES
22nd September 2011, 08:42 PM
BECOMING A DEVIL by Joseph Sobran (http://www.sobran.com/)
WASHINGTON -- John William King has been sentenced to death for the cruel murder of James Byrd Jr., a black man whom King and his friends dragged behind their truck until his body was torn to pieces. Most murders are cruel, but in this case the cruelty was the whole point. Far from repenting, King, a white supremacist, still gloats over his act. After his death sentence was handed down, he addressed an obscenity to Byrd's family. Such vicious hatred is almost unfathomable.
The entire town of Jasper, Texas, is ashamed of the crime. King's family is mortified and apologetic. But like many diabolical acts, this one has summoned grace: It has united the town in the desire for justice for the victim and mercy toward King's family.
But a perverse moral has been drawn. Liberal pundits are citing this bizarre murder as evidence of persistent white racism in America. King is being turned into a symbol of general white guilt.
The truth is more specific. A clue to the real explanation lies in King's personal history.
King served a two-year prison sentence for burglary, which suggests a predisposition to violate other people's rights. While in prison, he joined a white supremacist group and covered his body with Nazi and Klan tattoos.
One psychiatrist at his trial suggested that this may have been a way to deter attacks by black inmates. Time magazine quotes another witness as saying King became part of a group known as "peckerwoods," described as "whites who would not yield money or sexual favors to blacks."
Just a few details mentioned in passing. But they are worth dwelling on. White convicts complain, unavailingly, of a particularly ugly fact of life in prisons: racial attacks on whites by non-whites. Assault, robbery and homosexual rape are commonplace. The fact that there was a special slang term among inmates in King's prison for "whites who would not yield money or sexual favors to blacks" is grim evidence of this condition. Apparently there was no need for a term for blacks who wouldn't yield money or sexual favors to whites.
There could hardly be a better recipe for racial hatred. Young whites like King, a minority in prison, are thrown to the wolves, and they know they can expect no protection or sympathy from prison officials, liberal opinion or society in general when they are bullied and raped. The fear and humiliation they suffer is almost unimaginable, and it goes unreported.
In such snake pits, their only safety may lie in joining racial gangs. It should be no surprise when they emerge from prison not only hating blacks, but despising all conventional standards of morality.
This doesn't excuse them when they commit crimes like King's. No "root cause" can relieve them of responsibility for their acts. But it does explain their race-hatred as something other than the residual racial prejudice of the larger society. That hatred is the natural result of the specific experience they are subjected to.
Few men want to talk about having been raped. It has the same horror for them as for women, with the added disgrace of feeling one's manhood annihilated in a setting where one can least afford to lose it. To be raped in prison is to become a target for frequent rape. When the rapes also have a racial motive, the victim can be expected to respond by going to irrational extremes -- murder, suicide or generalized hatred against the whole race he feels violated by. In a twisted way, he may try to reclaim his lost dignity by adopting racial supremacism, posing as racial victor instead of racial victim.
So King may have come out of prison with a lot more race-hatred than he took in with him. James Byrd did nothing to deserve to be the one to pay for it. But neither do other whites deserve to be blamed for his fate.
If society in general can be blamed for anything, it's for making a prison sentence a sentence to hell, where becoming a devil may be a survival strategy -- for men of any race.
MAGNES
22nd September 2011, 08:49 PM
Joe Sobran
“Perhaps the finest columnist of our generation”
— Patrick J. Buchanan
FIRED BY THE NATIONAL REVIEW !
Just in time for the NeoCons to take it over to use as a major propaganda organ.
From the NRO, real conservatives were attacked as traitors by NeoCons scums.
Frum, Mr PNAC First Jew " axis of evil " CIA speech scandal, " now we turn our backs on them. "
Sobran is a giant, and many of his articles are a joy to read, so right and foretelling of the future,
full of history, wit, and some fun thrown in for free, on issues that matter.
Back Issues
http://www.sobran.com/backiss.shtml
R. I. P. Western Warrior.
Joe Sobran (1946-2010)
http://theoccidentalobserver.net/tooblog/?p=3493
Joe Sobran will be much missed. I met him only once, but I am a great admirer of his writing. The American Conservative wrote this:
The 20th century produced many great conservative writers, but none brought together wit, erudition, and humanity on a single page so well as Joseph Sobran.
At VDARE.com, Steve Fulford included (http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2010/09/30/joe-sobran-remembered-if-i-had-known-then-of-their-associations-with-republican-leaders/) this very appropriate quote from Joe:
Most prejudices aren’t created by official doctrines; they result from popular experience and the slow spreading of a group’s reputation. The first gypsy I ever met — on a street in Rome — grabbed a wad of money out of my hand. I’d been too naive to be wary of her, though my companions had warned me against her.
(Editor’s note: Readers of this post have posted many other wonderful quotes from Sobran in the comments section. Well worth reading. Joe clearly understood exactly what was going on and who are enemies are.) My own favorite quotes, culled from Chapter 2 of (http://www.kevinmacdonald.net/SAIDchap2.pdf)Separation and Its Discontents (http://www.kevinmacdonald.net/SAIDchap2.pdf), include the following:
In comments reminiscent of those of Heinrich von Treitschke (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_von_Treitschke), columnist Joseph Sobran has also raised the issue of Jewish media control and how it shapes discussion of Jewish interests versus those of the Christian Right:
The full story of [Pat Buchanan’s 1996 presidential] campaign is impossible to tell as long as it’s taboo to discuss Jewish interests as freely as we discuss those of the Christian Right. Talking about American politics without mentioning the Jews is a little like talking about the NBA without mentioning the Chicago Bulls. Not that the Jews are all-powerful, let alone all bad. But they are successful, and therefore powerful enough: and their power is unique in being off-limits to normal criticism even when it’s highly visible. They themselves behave as if their success were a guilty secret, and they panic, and resort to accusations, as soon as the subject is raised. Jewish control of the major media in the media age makes the enforced silence both paradoxical and paralyzing. Survival in public life requires that you know all about it, but never refer to it. A hypocritical etiquette forces us to pretend that the Jews are powerless victims; and if you don’t respect their victimhood, they’ll destroy you. It’s a phenomenal display not of wickedness, really, but of fierce ethnocentrism, a sort of furtive racial superpatriotism. (Sobran 1996a, 3)
This quote ended with the following footnote:
In another column, Sobran (1996b) quoted an essay, reprinted in the May 27th issue of the New York Times, by Ari Shavit, an Israeli columnist describing his feelings on the killings of a hundred civilians in a military skirmish in southern Lebanon. Shavit wrote, “We killed them out of a certain naive hubris. Believing with absolute certitude that now, with the White House, the Senate, and much of the American media in our hands, the lives of others do not count as much as our own.” Sobran comments that “in a single phrase—‘in our hands’—Shavit has lighted up the American political landscape like a flash of lightning. Notice that Shavit assumes as an obvious fact what we Americans can say publicly only at our own risk.” Sobran lost his position with National Review because of his views on the influence of American Jews on U. S. policy toward Israel.
As indicated in the last line, Sobran paid for his honesty about the Israel Lobby. His departure marked the rise of neocon domination at the Buckley’s execrable National Review and the equally execrable Republican Party. It was a huge loss for conservative thought in America.
The following may be called Joe Sobran’s Dictionary. These are quotes attributed to Joe. I can’t vouch for the authenticity of these, except for the definition of an anti-Semite (which has become a classic). But they certainly fit his character. A particularly insightful comment, not included in the dictionary, is the following — very appropriate in an age where the courts routinely overturn popular referenda, such as the recent Arizona immigration law: “Our constitution has never been an impediment to those who rule us.” The same thing happened to California’s Proposition 187 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_187_%281994%29). As Thorborne Richardson notes (http://theoccidentalobserver.net/tooblog/?p=3495), the American legal system is a fraud.
Joe Sobran’s Dictionary
anti-Semite: a person who’s hated by Jews
association, freedom of: discrimination
bigot: one who practices sociology without a license
bribe: an irregular transaction through which the citizen may get his money’s worth of service from the government
civil rights: government power used in behalf of large groups
guilt: the deepest vested interest
isolationist: an American who thinks America should behave like other countries
opinion polls: clever devices to make the hostages think they control their captors
political correctness: the felt pressure of enlightened public opinion, under which we sense that certain thoughts, though technically legal now, are already destined to become taboo.
psychoanalysis: a form of aggression for humorless people
public opinion: what everyone thinks everyone else thinks
rich: politicians’ nickname for “other people” (as in “tax the rich”)
rights: authorizations for new areas of government control
rogue nation: a country that behaves like America
voting: trying to say something with a gag in your mouth
Rest in Peace.
Tags: Kevin MacDonald (http://theoccidentalobserver.net/tooblog/?tag=kevin-macdonald)
This entry was posted on Friday, October 1st, 2010 at 8:55 PM and is filed under Jewish influence (http://theoccidentalobserver.net/tooblog/?cat=31), Jews as an elite (http://theoccidentalobserver.net/tooblog/?cat=33), Media Influence (http://theoccidentalobserver.net/tooblog/?cat=59).
MAGNES
22nd September 2011, 08:59 PM
The Anti-Defamation League's extreme double standard in regards to 'hate crimes'
http://www.examiner.com/nonpartisan-in-los-angeles/the-anti-defamation-league-s-extreme-double-standard-regards-to-hate-crimes
By Robert Stark (http://www.examiner.com/user-robert-stark-la), LA Nonpartisan Examiner
The ADL Applauds Senate's Passage of Hate Crime Legislation (http://www.adl.org/PresRele/HatCr_51/5569_51.htm). The Bill which is known as the The Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention (http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s909/text) Act, passed the Senate 63-28, and is supported by the President who will sign it into law. Organizations such as the ADL have aggressively promoted hate crime legislation. These organizations have endorsed Europe and Canada's policies on prosecuting what they deem as hate speech. The ADL openly advocates for their model anti-hate law (http://www.adl.org/99hatecrime/intro.asp) which has been adopted by many states.
The bill is unconstitutional because it violates the 10th Amendment by granting the Federal Government authority over local and state government in prosecuting hate crimes. It violates the 14th Amendment by granting certain groups special protected status, as well the double jeopardy clause of the 5th amendment.
Recently the Plains State ADL Director (http://www.examiner.com/x-9462-LA-Ron-Paul-Examiner%7Ey2009m6d1-ADL-director-declares-war-on-our-right-to-freedom-of-speech) denounced the 1st Amendment by saying that "freedom of speech does not extend to racist groups, nor give their supporters the right to threaten and intimidate others or commit acts of violence."In many western nations, an individual can be prosecuted by the government for certain speech. In 1988 the ADL gave out an award to law student Joseph Ribikoff for writing a proposed hate crime bill that would criminalize hate speech against gays and minorities.
In testimony (http://www.adl.org/combating_hate/hate_crime_prevention_act.asp) before the Senate Judiciary Committee, ADL Washington counsel Michael Lieberman spoke in support of the Hate Crimes Bill. "We have no illusions about this legislation," Lieberman testified. "We know that bigotry, racism, homophobia, and anti-Semitism cannot be legislated out of existence. A new federal law that finally addresses all victims of hate crimes will not eliminate them."
Let us take a look at how the ADL has handled two major hate crimes. They exploited the racial Murder of James Byrd (http://www.adl.org/ADL_Opinions/Civil_Rights/James_Byrd_Anniversary.htm)using the tragedy to call for stiffer hate crime laws and a tougher stance against white racism. However they take a very differant stand when whites are the victims of hate crimes.
Not to excuse his crimes but it is important to note that John King, the white supremacist who was responsible for the murder of James Byrd became a hardened racist due to his his experience being gang raped by black gang members while incarcerated in a notorious Texas Prison for a petty crime. He latter joined a white gang for protection [See Becoming A Devil (http://web.archive.org/web/19991007034436/www.uexpress.com/ups/opinion/column/js/text/1999/03/js9903045790.html), by Joseph Sobran].
That part of King's story was completely ignored by the media because it would change the perception of him as from an evil white supremacist to a man who was driven insane and full of hatred by being a victim of a horrific crime just because he was white. When Michael Jackson was accused of child molestation it was brought to attention that he was abused as a child and that gained him sympathy by some segments of the society while hardly anyone had any sympathy for King.
In regards to the horrific black and white crime known as the Knoxville murders the ADL took and very differant position. Quoting an article by James H. Lilley, also stated in other blogs, etc:
On Saturday January 6, 2007 Hugh Christopher Newsom, age 23 and Channon Gail Christian, age 21, both students at the University of Tennessee went out on a date. They were driving in Channon's Toyota 4-Runner when they were carjacked at gunpoint. Suddenly the crime turned far more savage than an armed car theft. Chris and Channon were kidnapped and driven to 2316 Chipman Street where they were forced into the home at gunpoint. While Channon was forced to watch, her boyfriend was raped prison style and then his penis was cut off. He was later driven to nearby railroad tracks where he was shot and set afire. But Channon's hell was just beginning. She was beaten; gang raped repeatedly in many ways, had one of her breasts cut off and bleach poured down her throat to destroy DNA evidence-all while she was still alive. To add to Channon's degradation the suspects took turns urinating on her. They too set her body afire, apparently inside the residence, but for some reason left her body there-in five separate trash bags...
For the whole article from Mr. Lilly see click here (http://www.sullivan-county.com/wcva/jl.htm).
The mainstream media including most mainstream conservatives with the exception of Michelle Malkin, Walter Williams, and Michael Savage refused to cover the story because they knew it would instill anger on behalf of whites. Compare that to the coverage the Duke Lacrosse gang rape of a black stripper by white Lacrosse players that ended up being a Hoax.
The ADL Condemns White Supremacist Attempts to Exploit Knoxville (http://www.adl.org/PresRele/Extremism_72/5061_72.htm)murders. Yet they have gone out of their way to politically exploit any crime commited by white supremacist such as the recent Holocaust Museum Shooting as well as the murders of James Byrd and Matthew Sheppard, whom the hate bill is named after. The ADL also defended the horrific atrocities of Israel's Operation in Gaza (http://www.adl.org/main_Israel/Israel_Gaza_Operation.htm). Regardless of their race all victims of horrific crimes deserve justice. The ADL has not only failed to live up to it mission "to secure justice and fair treatment to all," but has gone out of it's to support injustice whether for Chris Newsom and Channon Christian or for the people of Gaza.
MAGNES
22nd September 2011, 09:11 PM
A Slaughter That No One Noticed
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=24144
I hate Frontpage editors, NeoCons, but they have some good writers.
No alternates.
http://www.google.com/search?q=A+Slaughter+That+No+One+Noticed&btnG=Search&hl=en&oq=A+Slaughter+That+No+One+Noticed&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=s&gs_upl=3297l3297l0l3391l1l0l0l0l0l0l0l0ll0l0
But where does 44yearold Ken Tillery fit into all this? Just a month ago, in the town of Jasper, three men in a car offered Tillery a ride, which he accepted only to be kidnapped and driven, against his will, to a remote location. When the terrified Tillery jumped out of the vehicle and tried to flee, the kidnappers caught up with him, beat him, and finally ran over him dragging him to his death beneath their car’s undercarriage.
Ken Tillery’s name is unfamiliar to most Americans. Though he died very near to where James Byrd had died before him, few people outside of Jasper ever heard about his gruesome slaying. No civil rights activists attended his funeral. There were no pained oped pieces lamenting his death. No prominent political figures issued public statements about the national significance of his killing. Mr. Tillery, you see, was white, and his three killers Darrell Gilbert, Blake Little, and Anthony Holmes were black. Thus his death had no political currency for those whose reputations depend upon their ability to portray themselves as crusaders for justice, ever guarding against white racism. Even though blackonwhite killings far outnumber the whiteonblack variety in this country, unfortunate people like Ken Tillery die in complete anonymity as opposed to unfortunate people like James Byrd, whose deaths are spotlighted in the national media. Should a murder victim’s skin color determine the significance of his or her death? It’s a serious question, well worth pondering.
[ Apparently people are reporting from local media accounts a few of these instances.
Not reported nationwide, these same people reported gang rapes in prison and doing
the research they are proved right, the killers expressed absolutely no remorse, that is
how deep their hate was, that came from prison experiences, Sobran did a good job
in his article, there is no excuse but we are not all devils. Sorry JewsMedia. ]
MAGNES
22nd September 2011, 09:30 PM
http://i53.tinypic.com/mcypgj.jpg
http://www.milum.net/first_anniversary.htm
Young Boy Dies In Carjacking
[ dragged to his death screaming ]
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/02/23/national/main163981.shtml?source=search_story
(CBS) A six-year-old child was dragged for about four miles when his mother's car was carjacked Tuesday, reports CBS affiliate KCTV.
Motorists watched in horror as the stolen vehicle sped down a highway, dragging to death the little boy who was entangled in a seat belt outside one of the doors.
Six-year-old Jake D. Robel of Blue Springs died Tuesday before the driver of the Chevrolet Blazer could be stopped by pursuing motorists. Witnesses said the chase reached speeds of 80 mph.
"Witnesses stated that they heard the juvenile victim screaming for his mother to help him," Detective Michael Skaggs said in a statement Wednesday.
"He came flying around us and we saw the kid hanging out the side of the car bouncing," said Fred Byam, who chased the Blazer. "I was honking my horn and flashing my lights."
An 11-year-old boy from one of the pursuing vehicles later took a blanket and placed it over the victim, whose clothes had been mostly torn off.
Prosecutor Robert Beaird would not comment Wednesday about whether the man knew the child was being dragged. Asked if the murder charge might be upgraded to a first-degree charge, he said the case would be reviewed for the grand jury to determine if the evidence rises to that level.
Kim Davis–wearing bulletproof vest–is
escorted to courthouse
http://i51.tinypic.com/10p99o7.jpg
MAGNES
22nd September 2011, 09:50 PM
Lawrence Russell Brewer: The First Interview
http://www.kfdm.com/articles/russell-44236-brewer-lawrence.html
Brewer is one of three men convicted of capital murder for the dragging death of James Byrd Junior. Byrd was tied to a chain and dragged for several miles down Huff Creek Road on the outskirts of Jasper. It was June 7, 1998. Law enforcement officers quickly arrested Lawrence Russell Brewer, John William King and Shawn Allen Berry. All three were convicted of capital murder. Berry got a life sentence. King and Brewer received the death penalty.
"I know in my heart I participated in assaulting him, but I had nothing to do with the killing as far as dragging him or driving the truck or anything."
"I have no regrets," Brewer said during his interview. "I'd do it all over again to tell you the truth."
"Going through all those trials and still absolutely zero remorse," said Rowles. "That's just so far over my head I can't comprehend it."
Rowles and others close to the case say to understand more about Brewer, more about what led to the crime, you can look at the tattoos that cover his body. They tell a story of hate.
"I wouldn't consider it a white supremacist," said Brewer. "More like a separatist. Like you do your thing and we do our thing."
Brewer joined the Confederate Knights of America when he was in prison. It was years before he ended up in Jasper. He says the group molded him. It molded his views about blacks and other minorities.
"I came out of prison after being there for four years and watching the blacks and Mexicans literally beat people near to death just to get them to say that they'd give up," said Brewer. "So I come out of that mentality. Had hatred toward them so I just wanted to be around white people."
Beliefs branded on his body and showing his loyalty to the Confederate Knights.
"When you're a member you need to identify yourself," said Brewer. "Everyone would recognize you."
MAGNES
23rd September 2011, 03:43 PM
From a very interesting and disturbing website run by good
Charitable Christians it seems.
http://www.pfmdev.org/justice-fellowship-home
Brutality Behind Bars By |Published Date:
http://www.pfmdev.org/key-issues/issues-in-criminal-justice-reform/issue-1/pf-commentary-prison-rape/12778-brutality-behind-bars
This article appeared in World Magazine.
When the gavel came down, a Texas man named John found himself sentenced to an eight-year prison term for burglary. He was sent to the Beto Unit, known for being the roughest prison in Texas.
It didn't take John long to figure out why. Shortly after he arrived, John-a 140-pound white man-was viciously gang-raped by black inmates.
The experience left John with a burning hatred for African-Americans. A gang of white supremacists-who had reportedly asked guards to put John in the black section of the prison-now encouraged him to join them in exchange for protection.
Upon his release, John's rage exploded into violence. Riding in a pickup late one night, John and two friends spotted an African-American ex-con named James Byrd, and picked him up. A few minutes later a fight broke out. John William King and his companions slashed Byrd's throat, tied him to the back of the truck, and dragged him to death.
Mr. King's prison experience in no way justifies his heinous crime. It may offer some explanation.
Were he alive today, Dante might well have placed an American prison in one of his circles of hell. While the tortures suffered by inmates may not be eternal, they're a daily reality for thousands of men.
Especially men who are young, slender, and white-first offenders who lack street smarts. These are the "fresh fish" who are reeled into the cells of sexual predators-the prison piranha who gang-rape and torture newcomers in a process known as "turning out." Once turned out, a "punk" is fair game for other inmates-offenders who may rape him again and again unless he agrees to become the sex slave of a fellow prisoner. This inmate will protect his new punk from the others in exchange for sex.
But while a prison "daddy" can protect a fellow prisoner from the pain of repeated gang rapes, he cannot protect him from disease. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, AIDS is now five times more prevalent inside prison than out. And the Bureau notes that in New York State, HIV has reached epidemic proportions with more than 10 percent of inmates testing positive for the virus. In practical terms, this means the punishment for stealing a bag of chips from 7-Eleven is a potential death sentence. Victor Hugo's Jean Val Jean in Les Miserables, who served 20 years for stealing a loaf of bread, got off easy by comparison.
Poorly paid corrections officers, far from preventing the assaults, are often part of the problem. Some accept bribes from inmates to put youthful new inmates into their cells; others reward offenders for raping offenders considered disciplinary problems. Many guards ignore the screams and cries for help that indicate a gang rape is in progress. Worst of all are guards who themselves rape.
There's no shortage of victims to choose from. The most comprehensive data on prison rape comes from a 1994 survey of the Nebraska prison system. In that study, conducted by Dr. Cindy Struckman-Johnson, 22 percent of male respondents said they had been either pressured or forced into sex acts; 25 percent of these incidents qualified as gang rape. Inmates identified prison staff as perpetrators in 18 percent of the attacks.
How many victims? Whenever there is a hard-to-count social problem, such as homelessness, big numbers get tossed around by interested parties. But add up the evidence from that Nebraska study and others from New York, California, and Philadelphia. Filter in the sad fact that, according to Bureau of Justice statistics, some 6 million individuals are under federal and state prison jurisdiction at some point during the year. Don't forget the several million who float through city jails, which are sometimes the worst places to spend time. Put it all together and the estimate of Stop Prisoner Rape, a nationally recognized nonprofit, does not sound incredible: Some 600,000 men and boys, and 12,000 women and girls, are sexually assaulted every year in America's jails and prisons, with many raped multiple times.
For the most part, the U.S. government ignores these victims. The government doesn't even count prison rapes when it compiles rape statistics-despite the fact that a man in prison is far more likely to be raped than is a woman who is not incarcerated.
Part of the problem is that few of these assaults are reported, never mind prosecuted. Prisoners fear retaliation by other inmates, staff attitudes, or being put into protective custody. Most of all, they're suffused with a deep sense of shame over what they consider their lost manhood. Young inmates have it worst. Juveniles locked up with adults are five times more likely to report being sexually assaulted than kids sent to juvenile facilities.
The rape itself is just the beginning. Once released, rape victims bring AIDS into their communities, along with a flood of rage. Prison rape converts run-of-the-mill criminals-drug users, car thieves, and turnstile jumpers-into violent felons-in-waiting. Once released, they have a higher propensity to visit violence upon others. That's an ominous detail, given that the vast majority of prisoners are eventually released.
The reality of rape behind bars bloats the crime rate in other ways, as well. Michael Horowitz, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., says a federal judge told him that judges are reluctant to lock up small, white first offenders because they know what will happen to them. And a New York City detective told Mr. Horowitz that he knew of cops who routinely bullied information out of white boys or slightly built black kids, exploiting their fear of prison rape.
And yet, politicians and the mainstream media have largely ignored the problem of prison rape. They're about to be jolted awake.
Mr. Horowitz is about to apply the media equivalent of an electronic cattle prod against slow-moving lawmakers and journalists. A veteran of political wars over human-rights issues such as religious persecution, genocide in Sudan, and international sex trafficking (see sidebar), the feisty Mr. Horowitz is gathering together old allies from both the political right and left to begin fighting anew on behalf of prison rape victims.
These political soldiers may fight largely alone. Despite the magnitude of the problem, many other groups-even those committed to human rights-are reluctant to touch this issue. The reasons are disturbing. Civil-rights activists keep mum because prison rape is often a black-on-white phenomenon; they're afraid of feeding incipient racism. Gay-rights groups also shy away from the problem because they fear that publicity about male-to-male rape will advance the idea that homosexuals as a group are predators. The reality is that most prison rapists are heterosexual; they rape men partly because women are unavailable, and partly out of a desire to gain power in a setting that strips them of all normal authority over their lives.
And human-rights organizations? They're often dominated by feminists who appear to care far more about "politically correct" prison assaults: those involving male guards raping female prisoners, even though male victims vastly outnumber female victims.
Their help may become superfluous in any case if the Horowitz coalition succeeds in getting Congress to pass the Prison Rape Reform Act of 2001. The proposed legislation would provide for hearings to determine the impact of prison rape and establish standards for reducing and eliminating it. An Office of Prevention would gather reports of rapes, mandate the removal of juveniles from adult facilities, and develop what prison experts say is a crucial weapon in the war against assaults behind bars: a means of confidentially reporting complaints for action.
The legislation would also force accountability onto the shoulders of those who run America's prisons. Annual reviews of prisons would expose those with the highest rape rates; the people who run them would be forced to explain to Congress why they couldn't get the assaults under control.
At least one sheriff didn't need congressional prodding before attempting to reign in the rape epidemic. The San Francisco County Jail System has "the best program we found," Mr. Horowitz said. It's run by an unorthodox former attorney named Michael Hennessey. Some 20 years ago, Mr. Hennessey took part in a National Institutes of Mental Health study on prison rape; he then designed and implemented a protocol for dealing with the problem. "He's been able to observe firsthand the dramatic effect of having a very good prison rape protocol," said Roanne Withers of Fort Bragg, Calif., a former executive director of Stop Prisoner Rape.
The Hennessey tactics include separating violent and nonviolent offenders, and steering the vulnerable away from the dangerous. He designed two new jails to avoid "blind spots" where rapes are likely to take place, and developed a procedure for the treatment of rape victims. Those strategies are clearly working. In 1998, San Francisco's jails, with a daily population of about 2,000, had just nine reported rapes-far below the estimated national average.
If the public wonders why other sheriffs and prison officials don't seem to care about crimes against criminals, perhaps the answer can be found in a disturbing statistic uncovered by The Boston Globe six years ago. The Globe polled 400 registered Massachusetts voters, asking them if society accepts prison rape as part of the price criminals pay for breaking the law. Fifty percent answered yes. To put it bluntly, Americans don't care much about prisoner rape.
Charles Colson, chairman of PFM, finds this attitude appalling. "Prisoners have a right not to be brutalized, and we should not tolerate it," he said. "I know it's all too common, because in the last 25 years I've been inside 600 prisons, and I've talked to the victims." Others who have peered into the grisly world of prison rape also warn that if Americans are unconcerned about stopping assaults for the sake of the prisoners, we will end up paying a steep price.
Just ask Roanne Withers. Some 15 years ago, a man who had just been released from prison sexually assaulted Ms. Withers. She's now convinced that he was, in a twisted way, attempting to regain his sense of manhood.
It's a grim reminder that the horrors of a thousand prison hells, left unchecked, may boil over onto more and more innocent victims.
Anne Morse is a senior writer for Breakpoint magazine.
MAGNES
23rd September 2011, 03:45 PM
Same informative website.
Resources
(http://www.justicefellowship.org/key-issues/issues-in-criminal-justice-reform/issue-1)
Justice Fellowship Prison Rape Page (http://www.justicefellowship.org/key-issues/issues-in-criminal-justice-reform/issue-1)
Justice Department’s proposed rules (http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2011/January/11-ag-098.html)
National Prison Rape Elimination Commission Standards (http://www.pfmdev.org/National%20Prison%20Rape%20Elimination%20Commissio n)
National Prison Rape Elimination Act law (http://www.justdetention.org/pdf/PREA.pdf)
Attorney General Weakens Prison Rape Standards (http://www.pfmdev.org/what-is-restorative-justice/justice-fellowship-resources/15841-attorney-general-weakens-prison-rape-standards)
http://www.pfmdev.org/what-is-restorative-justice/justice-fellowship-resources/15841-attorney-general-weakens-prison-rape-standards
Attorney General Eric Holder has significantly weakened (http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2011/January/11-ag-098.html) the standards proposed by the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission to combat prison rapes. Without strong standards (http://www.sheriffs.org/userfiles/file/5.1_MasterAdultPrison_andJail_andImmigrationStanda rdsClean.pdf) to hold prison officials accountable for ending prison rape inmates will continue to be victimized by sexual predators. The Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates that 124 adult and juvenile inmates are sexually assaulted in US prisons every day.
There is still time to convince the AG to put teeth back in the standards, but you have to act quickly. Letters commenting on the AG's changes to the standards are due by April 4. I hope each of you will write the Attorney General and express your outrage that the process Congress established to enact tough standards has resulted in weak and ineffective protections. Go here (http://www.justicefellowship.org/get-involved-with-justice-fellowship/12920-get-involved-stop-prison-rape) to write the Attorney General today.
Here are just a few of the ways the Attorney General weakened the standards:
Allows Cross Gender Pat Downs
The Bureau of Justice Statistics has found that a significant number of sexual assaults begin with aggressive pat downs by officers of the opposite sex. This is such a major problem that most prison systems and jails prohibit pat downs by officers of the opposite sex absent exigent circumstances. The Commission banned them unless there is a bona fide emergency. Yet, the Attorney General’s standards allow cross gender pat downs.
No Prison Rape Standards for Immigration Prisons
The Attorney General ruled that immigration prisons (ICE) do not have to comply with any of the prison rape standards. Horrible rapes and assaults have occurred in ICE prisons. Yet, the AG has exempted them from the standards. If Mr. Holder felt that the DOJ did not have authority over the ICE prisons, he should have asked Congress to give him that authority, and Congress would have done it with no hesitation. Remember, the original Prison Rape Elimination Act (http://www.justdetention.org/pdf/PREA.pdf) was passed unanimously by both houses of Congress when the DOJ clearly had authority over immigration. Under the AG's rule, tens of thousands of foreign detainees are subject to sexual predators, and there are no standards to hold authorities accountable for protecting them.
Prison Systems May Audit Themselves
For standards to be effective, prisons' compliance should be audited by an outside organization. The Commission's standards required: that all facilities be audited; that audits must be conducted at least every three years by independent and qualified auditors; that the auditors have access to all parts of facilities and all documents; and, that the audits are made available to the legislature and the public. The Attorney General allows agencies to audit themselves with no guarantee of access to facilities and documents. He suggests that random checks might be instituted in place of individual audits of every facility. He also suggests that audits might be required only if cause is shown. That is a recipe for disaster. "If it isn't counted, it isn't done" is a reality in every bureaucracy, and prisons are no exception. The AG’s revisions of the standards make an accurate monitoring of compliance with the standards very hard to accomplish, allows possibly biased auditors and allows the results to be hidden from the public.
No Need To Actually Protect Inmates -- Having a Plan is Enough
The Commission's standards require a Zero Tolerance Policy, and that it be enforced in each facility to provide a basic level of safety for inmates. The AG also requires a Zero Tolerance Policy, but he removes the requirement that it be enforced and substitutes a requirement that the prisons outline its approach to prevention. There is no requirement that the plan be enforced; only that they have a plan. The AG does not require that inmates actually are protected, but only that there be a plan to do so. And what is the consequence if the plan is not implemented? Well, they have to develop another plan. This is not a standard at all, but merely a call for planning.
Estimated Costs Are Grossly Inflated
The Prison Rape Elimination Act wisely provided that the Attorney General shall not establish a national standard "that would impose substantial additional costs compared to the costs presently expended by Federal, State, and local prison authorities." Congress didn’t want a “runaway” commission to impose absurdly expensive requirements on prisons such as mandating that all prisons be replaced with new construction. However, the AG has significantly exaggerated the costs of complying with the Commission’s standards.
For example, they interpreted standard PP7 to require electronic surveillance. That is not what the Commission’s standard requires, and it is clear from the record that our standards did not mandate that. The proposed standard merely says that electronic surveillance should be considered as one method of protecting inmates. By misinterpreting the standard, DOJ inflated the upfront costs to 24x the actual costs. Take out the amount caused by their erroneous interpretation (which they admit is 96% of the upfront costs) and the total upfront cost is reduced to a $260 million, out of a total of $70 billion spent on prisons this year. That is, to start complying with the Commission’s standards it will cost prisons and jails a mere .00371 of total spending on prisons – or less than 4/10ths of 1%. For the AG to say that this amounts to “a substantial cost” compared to the costs of all prisons is laughable.
Why Would the AG Weaken the Standards?
It is difficult to imagine that an Attorney General with so much experience in the justice system would not understand the magnitude of rape in our prisons, and would underestimate the damage in human terms caused by our prisons’ failure to protect inmates from sexual aggression. So, why would Eric Holder propose to weaken the standards? The explanation I have been told by people close to the professional staff at DOJ is that the career employees were planning to recommend only minor changes to the Commission’s standards. However, the “political people” took it out of their hands and caved in to pressure from the unions that represent prison employees. It appears that with an eye toward 2012, the unions held sway. If that is true, it is a sad day for the Department of Justice and a very sad day for inmates who will continue to be prey to sexual predators.
A telling comment on the AG’s proposed standards came from a question by a renowned expert on prisons, “On the day after the new standards go into effect, what will the Federal Bureau of Prisons have to do that is different than what it does now?” Shockingly, the DOJ employees could not think of a single thing.
The former members of the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission will hold a press conference on March 23 to express their strong opposition to the changes the Attorney General has made to their recommended standards. These diverse commissioners, who spent several years studying the scandal of prison rape and learning the best ways to prevent it, are united in urging the public to join them in opposing the weakening of the standards.
There is still time to press the Attorney General to change course and adopt stronger standards. Federal law allows the public to submit comments until April 4. Please go to our website (http://www.justicefellowship.org/get-involved-with-justice-fellowship/12920-get-involved-stop-prison-rape) where you can send a letter to the Attorney General immediately.
No prison sentence, no matter how heinous the crime, includes being raped. It is our responsibility to protect those who cannot speak for themselves.
MAGNES
23rd September 2011, 03:47 PM
Former Prison Rape Commissioners Decry DOJ’s Proposed Prison Rape Standards (http://www.justicefellowship.org/news-and-events/15845-judge-challenges-rape-standards)
Washington, D.C. (March 23, 2011) — Former members of the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission (NPREC) held a press conference at The National Press Club to challenge the Department of Justice’s proposed prison rape standards. Commenting on the original commission being operationally out of existence but present together at the press event today, Judge Reggie Walton, chairman of the Commission, made clear to the DOJ, “We’re not going to go away.”
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The Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates that on average 124 adult and juvenile inmates are sexually assaulted in US prisons every day. The 8-member group spent five years researching the occurrence of prison rape by using independent expert panels, independent studies, site visits to prison facilities and other detention facilities, and public hearings to inform its course; and in 2009, compiled a 242-page report (http://www.cybercemetery.unt.edu/archive/nprec/20090820155502/http:/nprec.us/files/pdfs/NPREC_FinalReport.PDF) that chronicles the nature of the problem and the prevalence of the problem in America’s jails and prisons.
Judge Walton, speaking on behalf of the Commission, said, “One of the reasons prison rape needs to be addressed is that as a nation, we believe in freedom and justice and justice includes treating people humanely when they are incarcerated. Obviously when individuals are sexually abused, or when they are involuntarily detained, I think it is inconsistent with who we are supposed to be as a nation.”
Vice Chairman John Kaneb, and Commissioner Pat Nolan were present to buttress Chairman Walton and represent the Commission at the press event.
Nolan, also vice president of Prison Fellowship, said, “In America, about 125 prisoners are sexually assaulted every day. Each day we delay is more human suffering. If it’s just business as usual, the public is poorly served.”
About 70,000 are forcibly raped each year in prisons and jails and that is an intolerable number the Commissioners said.
Judge Walton pointed out the importance of implementing standards that are more rigid than the DOJ’s recommendations. “The standards we developed, we believe, are comprehensive and have to be put in place in a holistic manner. You cannot piece-meal what we’ve proposed and be effective in addressing this problem — we believe our standards are what need to be adopted in order for us to have a real meaningful impact on this problem.”
“We are here today because we have concerns that the rules that have been proposed by the Justice Department will weaken our recommendations for what we believe needs to be done. We do commend the Department for some of the recommendations that they made, but there are core problems that we think if not adequately addressed by the Department we feel will undermine our good efforts that we engaged in to try to address this problem,” Commissioner Walton said.
The Commissioners members highlighted a few of the proposed standards they feel need to be strengthened:
Cross gender pat downs — Most states, do not allow male guards to pat down female inmates. The Department’s would relax this rule.
Protection for immigrants — The Commissioners agree that though there are individuals in immigration facilities who have committed crimes, many of them have not, and they, too, deserve protection. The Justice Department’s standards do not include standards for immigrants.
Audits — The Commissioners made clear that audits were critical to stronger standards, and feel that though self-policing is important, it has not curbed prison rape. Regular audits are not included in the DOJ’s proposed standards.
“Self-policing has not adequately addressed this policy,” Walton pointed out. Vice Chairman Kaneb added, “Independent audits are the foundation of this house.”
Commissioner Nolan said the DOJ needs to speed up the standards, rather than developing plans. “Planning is not a standard. We need standards that protect inmates, not plans.”
Finally, Walton addressed the costs. The commissioners pointed out some states, like Oregon, California, and Michigan are already adopting the Commission’s standards and still able to stay within their budget.
One major expense not covered in the DOJ figures, pointed out Nolan, is the cost of settling cases. For instance, in Michigan, court costs rose beyond 100 million to settle one prisoner being sexually assaulted. Nolan asked, “What if we spent that money on prevention?”
Wrapping up the press conference, Walton explained that the DOJ has said, “It’s taken a long time to get a hold on the problem. . . .” Walton continued, “Once they (DOJ) adopt the rule, it’ll have to go through other government agencies.” This process is taking and will take time. We must educate society about abuse while incarcerated. Prisoners pose greater risk on society if they are abused in prison.” Walton made clear regarding the Commission, “If the DOJ doesn’t impose stronger standards, we will continue to be outspoken. Although we are no longer a commission in operation, all of us are committed to seeing what we proposed adopted. So we’re not going to go away and our voice will continue to be heard.
Nolan concluded, “In America, people sentenced to time in prison, should not have sexual assault be a part of their sentence.”
Join the coalition desiring stronger standards on Tuesday, March 29, at 10am. For more information, visit online at www.justicefellowship.org (http://www.justicefellowship.org).
Send a message to Attorney General Holder urging the adoption of the stronger standards of the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission (http://www.justicefellowship.org/holder-letter)
Press Release: National Prison Rape Elimination Commissioners Challenge Proposed Standards (http://www.justicefellowship.org/news-and-events/15851-press-release-national-prison-rape-elimination-commissioners-challenge-proposed-standards)
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MAGNES
22nd June 2020, 09:55 PM
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Some good scary reading related to what is happening these days, circa MAY JUNE 2020.
The NeoCons took out Sobran, along with others like Pat Buchanan ,
Paul Craig Roberts,the authors at Chronicles, etc ... , invasion of the
body snatchers, pushed aside the real conservatives and
claimed in the culmination of their work that went on for decades [NR Buckley]
that they are the Neoconservatives, the Paleoconservatives are "traitors"
said Frum for not going along with the ZOG wars. People like Kristol the
godfather now openly sides with Democrats, LOL . Literally was recognized
as The Godfather of the Neoconservatives. A family commie history, look
it up.
Alls you need to know he is a Jew doing what Jews do.
It is all about ZOG wars and co opting anyone to promote them.
They will never stop.
“For Fear of the Jews” Joseph Sobran
(http://gold-silver.us/forum/showthread.php?57553-%93For-Fear-of-the-Jews%94-Joseph-Sobran)
(http://gold-silver.us/forum/showthread.php?57553-%93For-Fear-of-the-Jews%94-Joseph-Sobran)They are running the social engineering and at this point
anyone that cannot see it or deny it is a no good liar.
Who owns the MSM and what are they promoting ?
The unrest and social engineering serves as a great distraction
to society, they can get away with more and I think they will,
what is happening in your neigborhood with the RIOTS is
directly related to what Israel is doing with their wars.
(http://gold-silver.us/forum/showthread.php?57553-%93For-Fear-of-the-Jews%94-Joseph-Sobran)
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