Lies and Crap about Joanne Chesimard from the FBI and Rightwingers

Here, from an extremely stupid rightwing net mag called The Blaze.

Joanne Chesimard (otherwise known as Assata Shakur) is a fugitive from US justice. She is the first woman ever added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List. The fact that she has suddenly been placed there makes no sense and smacks of political bullshit, nonsense and crap, just like everything the United Snakes government does.

Chesimard was a member of a radical Black guerrilla group that split off from the Black Panthers. This group was called the Black Liberation Army. They apparently committed quite a few times in the short period during which they were active, mostly in the early 1970′s. Chesimard appears to have been involved in quite a few crimes, including robberies and possible homicides.

She is charged with the murder of police officer Werner Foerster in 1973. She was in a car with other BLA members when they were pulled over for a tail light violation. In an ensuing struggle, Foerster was shot dead. According to the article, Chesimard killed him, but she has always insisted that she is innocent and was shot herself in the incident. The gusano* author added in this bit of idiocy:

As trooper Werner Foerster grappled with the driver, Chesimard shot him twice–then her gun apparently jammed. As Foerster lay on the ground wounded and helpless, Chesimard grabbed the trooper’s own gun and blasted two shots into his head, much in the manner of her Cuban idols Che Guevara and Raul Castro murdering hundreds of their own (always defenseless at the time) “counter-revolutionary” enemies.

There were 600 executions after the revolutionary victory. Those executed were accused of war crimes during the war, mostly running death squads. Rightwing death squads had slaughtered 10,000′s of Cuban civilians during the war: teachers, students, union members, peasants, etc. Those criminals got what they deserved!

Also I am not aware that Raul Castro himself ever executed a soul. The death squad members were killed by firing squad.

Prior to this incident, Chesimard had been arrested or detained a number of times, and had been put on trial more than once for various crimes. Somehow she always seemed to get acquitted. She moved around all the time. Police often raided places where she had just stayed, finding only empty apartments. She seemed to be some sort of master urban guerrilla, often donning disguises and seeming to stay one step ahead of the law. Even when she was imprisoned, she seemed to escape. She was finally captured four years after the crime in 1977, tried and sentenced to Life + 33 years.

In 1979, she was broken out of prison by a super-professional team. The ridiculous article above written by the fanatical anti-Castro Cuban gusano* Humberto Fontova says that Cubans helped to break her out of prison. I have read quite a bit about this case, and I have never heard that before. True, the team that broke her out was very good, but I have always heard that they were just BLA members or other radicals such as Weather Underground cadres.

She was then taken to Mexico, where arrangements were made to ship her to Cuba. At that time, Cuba was regularly taking in what they called “US political prisoners.” This article makes it sound like Cubans were helping the BLA all along. That would certainly be news to me, and in all of the reading I have done on the BLA, this is the first time I have heard that the Cubans helped them. Then we read this bizarre quote:

Since then, according to New Jersey State Police Col. Rick Fuentes, Chesimard “flaunts her freedom…To this day from her safe haven in Cuba Chesimard has been given a pulpit (by Castro) to preach and profess, stirring supporters and groups to mobilize against the United States by any means necessary. She has been used by the Castro regime to greet foreign delegations visiting Cuba.”

I have read Assata Shakur’s writings for years now. She isn’t stirring up anyone to do anything, and there’s no one to stir up anyway. There are no US radical leftwing groups of any significance, and there are certainly no armed ones. So whatever she says has no consequences anyway. She’s no threat to the US; that’s ridiculous. Rick Fuentes is probably another Cuban gusano from New Jersey. New Jersey has nearly as many lunatic gusanos as Florida does.

“Joanne Chesimard is a domestic terrorist,” declared FBI agent Aaron T. Ford, during a recent news conference. “She absolutely is a threat to America.”

Listen to this FBI dipshit! Perhaps Chesimard is a domestic terrorist, though I doubt it. They thought they were at war with the US government, and apparently cops were a fair target in that war. Many guerrilla groups target various types of cops in their wars against the state. Bottom line is she is probably not a terrorist for killing a cop. Cop killer? Ok. Terrorist? No way. She is a threat to America? What an idiot! How is that? She is sitting over there in Cuba just like she has been for over 30 years now. She’s never leaving Cuba. She can’t possibly harm the US in any way whatsoever.

What is bizarre is why all of a sudden the stupid government has dredged up this old case. Chesimard has been on the lam for 34 years now. Now all of a sudden she is thrown onto the FBI’s Most Wanted List? Makes no sense.

What seems to be going on here is a major US multipronged attack on the Cuban government. Why this is happening is not known. A spy who went to Sweden long ago, wanted by the US on charges of spying for Cuba, has seen her case suddenly dredged up. She has been sitting over in Sweden forever, and almost everyone had forgotten about her case.

Around the same time, Beyonce and Jay-Z were called in to the State Department and charged with the bizarre crime of taking a vacation in Cuba. Yes, it is actually illegal in this “free country” for Americans to go to Cuba for any reason, including taking a vacation. Why? Because the Cuban Lobby (the gusanos) has demanded this, and the Cuban Lobby gusanos have always run the US government on the Cuba Question.

Recently, Cuban officials made strong overtures to the Obama Administration saying that they wanted to have talks on all issues, including the US colonial base occupying sovereign land in Guantanamo Bay to the embargo to any other issues. Obama told Castro to go to Hell. These anti-Cuba measures are probably an offensive by the gusanos and their allies in the US government to head off any improvement in relations between the two nations.

*Cuban exiles, especially the fanatical anti-Castro variety (Is there any other kind?) are known in Cuba as gusanos. Gusanos is Spanish for worms.

Disturbing Video About Pedophiles in California

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Narrated for the BBC by Louis Theroux, one of my favorite broadcast interviewers. One thing I love about Louis is how he tries to relate amicably to anyone and everyone he interviews, no matter who they are or what they have done. I don’t know how he does it, but he does it very well. This is one thing that journalists need to learn how to do. If you don’t find some space to connect with the person you are interviewing, they simply will not cooperate.

In addition, anthropologists and linguists have to do the same thing.

When I was studying how to do anthropological fieldwork, I read a book called Globetrotting in Sandals, Culture Research Field Materials Guide. One thing they emphasized was how the anthropologist had to connect completely with those he was studying. You did this by simply totally and utterly accepting their way of living, no matter how awful, stupid or repulsive you might find it. Otherwise you aren’t going to be able to work with them well.

In this show, Louis goes to Coalinga State Hospital in California where the state has chosen to frankly warehouse sex offenders even after they have done their time in prison. The way this trick is done is to find them “mentally ill and in need of treatment.” Then they are socked away preventively as a danger to society in a mental hospital for the rest of their lives.

The problem is that this feint is not logical. The vast majority of sex offenders are not mentally ill in any real way. They get around this by diagnosing them with disorders like Pedophilia and “Coercive Paraphilia” (this is supposedly the mental illness that rapists suffer from). The latter is not even a diagnosis that actually has been proven to exist by psychological science. This confirms what anyone knows – that rapists aren’t nuts – they are simply criminals.

Pedophilia exists, but the vast majority of child molesters are not pedophiles. A true pedophile is primarily and only attracted to prepubescent children as their source of sexual attraction. They have been this way from an early age. They have little or no attraction to mature individuals. In general, they are incurable, and their attraction to kids will never go away.

The vast majority of those who molest children are not pedophiles. They are no more attracted to kids than they are to mature males or females, goats or inanimate objects. They have no particular desire or interest in having sex with children, and it’s not apart of their sexual fantasies. Instead, they are simply criminals. They take advantage of children sexually for a variety of reasons, possibly because they are an easy target.

DSM-5 has tried to open up a huge can of worms by creating a new diagnosis called Hebephilia which supposedly means someone who is preferentially or otherwise attracted to early adolescents. Since all normal males have some degree of attraction to girls that age (though lesser than the maximal response for females 16+) the very diagnostic category itself is dubious. Indeed, psychological science questions whether Hebephilia actually exists as a disorder.

A recent study have found that out of 28 rapists sentenced as mentally ill sex offenders (Paraphilia NOS was the grab bag dx in these cases) under these laws, 26 of them were simply criminals and only 2 had a Paraphilia NOS. So these laws are being seriously abused in an unconstitutional way.

I really doubt if most of the men in this prison are true pedophiles, but I can’t be sure.

Some other things bothered me about the show. The emphasis in therapy seemed to be on curing the men of their interest in children. However, if they are true pedophiles, their interest in children is incurable and will never wane. So why try to do the impossible? They are also subjected to regular penisthograph tests to gauge their attraction to children, once again under the assumption that such attraction is amenable to change in the first place.

In another part of the video, a man was confronted over refusing to take a polygraph. He said he didn’t want to take it because they were going to ask him about all the kids he molested. He didn’t want to talk about that because he had only been sentenced for a few molestations. Apparently there were many others that he had never been arrested for.

He was afraid that if he confessed to the other cases, new charges would be filed against him and he would have to go back to prison. It seemed a legitimate worry to me.

70% of the men in the hospital were not taking part in the therapy program, so they will never get out as long as they are recalcitrant like this. Even those in the therapy program rarely get out.

I have serious issues with not releasing and re-imprisoning folks after they have done their time on the basis of “dangerousness.” Down that road likes a slippery slope indeed.

Tulio on Black Crime and Feminism and What to Do About Them

Tulio, a Black man in his 30′s, is a regular commenter on the site. It was nice to see him move out defensive mode on the subject and write a deep and heartfelt post about these matters which are so painfully dear to his heart. He said that he thinks about this stuff constantly, as he is a young Black man. That’s sad, but if you care, it’s understandable.

Tulio notes that the problem is now so entrenched that it seems to be intractable. He also notes the corrosive effect of a lot of the new Black music.

Even White prison gang members have remarked on how detrimental they feel this music has been to White youth in recent years. They say young White man come to prison after listening to hip hop for years and think they are tough badass gangsters going to live it up in paradise in a maximum security prison. And boy do they have another thing coming!

I would like to thank Tulio for this post. Even if these problems seem intractable, we should at least be discussing them, as the human and societal damage is of epic proportions.

Black Crime

As for Black crime, it’s a confluence of a lot of different things and not an easy problem to solve.

Single motherhood. You have a lot of fatherless homes and single mothers. While not all single mothers raise bad sons (I personally know great guys raised by single moms), most guys in prison never had a strong father in their life. Women’s role is nurture; men’s role is discipline. Boys aren’t afraid of their moms. They’re afraid of their dads. Boys need fathers first and foremost.

I don’t know what the high cause of single motherhood is in the Black underclass. I truly have no idea, and I think about this stuff all the time since I’m a Black man. It wasn’t always like this. There was a time that Blacks were known for having strong families. The explosion seems to have happened in the 60s.

I don’t think there’s anything genetic about it. This doesn’t seem to be the case in Africa, especially traditional African society. It seems to be something unique to Black Americans. I don’t know what it looks like amongst Black Latins or Caribbeans. But family in Africa seems pretty strong, so I know it’s not genetic.

Dead zones. Secondly you have a large cultural vacuum in certain parts of the country.

Do you ever read about how there are dead zones in the ocean? Certain areas where there is not enough oxygen and that part of the ocean is devoid of life?

The inner cities of America are dead zones. They are islands of misery, hopelessness, broken schools, high unemployment, drugs, urban decay. There’s very little there to give people inspiration and hope. The church is often the only thing. The people living there have just enough so as not to revolt, yet not enough for them to be functional players in the economy.

The origin of such ghettos can be traced back to segregation. Some of these communities thrived at a time and were fairly self-sufficient. The Black middle class fled these places. And all that was left behind were the poor and a crumbling society. The middle class Blacks might have served as role models to those less fortunate. The Whites didn’t care about them either. Everyone that could afford to get out, got out.

So what can be done about it? I don’t know. The problem seems almost intractable. So I guess the only real solution here would be some sort of gentrification. Concentrated poverty is a very dangerous thing. As I’ve shown before, it can turn White people violent as well like it did in NYC tenements or as it currently does in Glasgow.

Spreading the poor out a bit should help. And it should also make their behavior better through cultural osmosis.

I can imagine no worse situation than being a Black kid raised by a poor single mother where the only male role models are thuggish rappers and drug dealers. They need to see other things and get out of that box. They need something positive to aspire to.

High unemployment. When unemployment is high, it makes working in the dark side of the economy more seductive. I’m sure many of these kids coming up would like to be able to make a decent living and not have to worry about ending up in jail or getting gunned down. But the fewer jobs there are, the more it makes the risk of selling drugs seem worth it. Even fairly decent people will start acting shady if that’s the only way they have to survive.

Well one major problem is that many blue collar jobs that Blacks used to do for a living wage either went to China or went to illegal aliens. It wasn’t uncommon to see Black carpenters, drywallers, construction workers, meatpackers, etc.

Now these jobs are almost all entirely done by Mexicans illegally in the country. This was a huge issue in the rebuilding of New Orleans after Katrina. There were a lot of Blacks out of work that wanted those construction jobs, and they were livid that they were going to Mexicans who aren’t even citizens and don’t even have any roots in the city. How can anyone not feel their pain?

The gutting of solid blue collar work has had a huge effect on Rust Belt White America but it has been an utter disaster for Black America. I see no easy solution here either.

Music. I also thing the music is a problem. Now maybe it’s an issue of art imitating life, or it’s the other way around, I don’t know. But I do think it has something of a feedback loop effect. A lot or rap music, even if not explicitly advocating violence, tends to reinforce a lot of selfish attitudes, hyper-materialism, fast money, fast women, party hard, a lot of Machiavellianism. It’s pervasive, even in the more lukewarm hiphop music.

Sometimes it’s just the attitude. The anger. One rarely sees rappers smiling or seeming happy unless surrounded by money, bling and sexy women. This stuff has to stop, and if I had a kid, I’d be very careful about what they listen to.

That said, not all rap music is like that, a lot of it is positive and life affirming. Some of it is great to dance too or just enjoy in the background if you have the smarts to not get caught up in the Machiavellian stuff.

It should also be noted that not all “Black music” is like this. The majority of Black music is not rap and does not contain violent lyrics. Unfortunately though, most of the music young Black males of the inner city listen to will be rap and often with terrible messages. What can anyone do about this? Not much, as long as there’s a first amendment, rappers can pretty much talk about whatever they want sell their music to whomever they want, most of which is bought by Whites anyway.

Sorry I don’t have any easy solutions, but these are just a few things that contribute to the issue.

Feminism

As for feminism, and I assume we’re talking about feminism of the more militant variety, the Pandora’s Box is open on that one. I wish things had stayed with equity feminism, and we could’ve left it there. But it then evolved into an assault on gender roles and gender as some sort of social construct rather than biological reality. That’s what happens when people with PhD’s take over the movement.

I know it’s not realistic for every American man to find a foreign woman, but for those that can, I think that’s the best solution. Foreign women are much more enjoyable to be around.

This Is So Not Right

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I realize that this kid is severe bad news all the way around, but no way in Hell can I see giving a kid an 85 year prison term for a crime he committed when he 13 years old. No way, no way, no way, no way. Put him in the youth authority until he is 25 years old. If he’s too dangerous to be in youth authority, put him in adult prison in some special wing. No way on Earth can you give someone life for a crime they committed when they were a 13 year old boy. Forget it.

By the way, I also do not believe in preventive detention, which is possibly what’s going on here. You can’t lock someone up just for being dangerous. It’s not illegal to be dangerous or even to be dangerous as Hell. That’s the price you pay for living in a free society. You have to live with dangerous people and take your chances with them.

Sick, Evil and Wild Videos for All to Enjoy

Lots of new sick, evil and wild videos up at the video site. Bring the whole family! Gather round! Pass the popcorn! Come one, come all! To Robert Lindsay Returns!

Africans Attack Girl Who Rejects Their Advances in France. Previously posted here.

Man Attempts Suicide on Live TV in Italy. Wild video. On a talk show in Italy, a middle aged Italian man, name unknown, pours flammable liquid all over himself and tries to set himself on fire. He is stopped by people on the show.

Man Dies of Heart Attack on Live TV. A famous Indian man dies of a heart attack on live TV. Shocking footage.

Georgian Reporter Hit by Live Fire During Battle. During the recent war between Georgia and Russia, a Georgian TV reporter is hit by shrapnel as she is reporting on the war. She is not seriously hurt.

Colombian Congressman Has Stroke on Live TV. Upsetting footage. A middle aged Colombian Congressman is debating a bill in the Colombian Legislature when he has a sudden stroke and dies.

Indonesian Soldiers Torture Papuan Men. Previously posted.

Offensive Interracial Sears Ad Pulled Off the Air. Previously posted.

Saddam’s Body After Hanging. Previously posted.

Video of Al Qaeda Shooting Down a US Helicopter. Interesting video of Al Qaeda in Iraq taking down a US Chinook helicopter in Karma, Iraq recently.

Saddam’s Funeral . Previously posted.

Projectile Vomiting. Seriously gross video. Video is in French. A hospitalized man is being examined by a doc in a hospital when he suddenly pukes all over the doc!

Ricardo Lopez Live Internet Suicide Video. Profoundly disturbing video is obsessed fan Ricardo Lopez. He started to fall apart psychologically and became more and more obsessed with the singer Bjork. I am not sure if he was in love with her or what, but he was very angry that she had taken up with the Black man that she had taken up with. He made a lot of videos explaining his obsession with Bjork and become something of an Internet celebrity nutcase.

At one point, he completely fall apart, painted his face camouflage green and made an acid mail bomb to send to the singer. Somehow the cops captured the package before it got to the singer. Soon after, Lopez videotaped himself blowing his brains out on live video. It’s extremely shocking, and it’s one of the most amazing cases of Epic Fail ever documented.

There are reportedly 20 hours of videotape available of Lopez that shows him increasingly falling apart. It’s extremely disturbing to watch, but apparently you can get it on the Internet, maybe for free or maybe for money. I might want to get my hands on that to see if I could handle it. You can see some experts from the tapes on Youtube. Very disturbing stuff.

Mexican Drug Gang Beheads a Man. Profoundly disturbing video that I recommend you do not watch. Rival drug gang kidnaps a worker for another drug gang. He is forced to confess on tape that his boss ordered a war on several other gangs, including the gang that kidnapped him. Then he is brutally executed with a dull knife. The executioners are lousy, and they can’t seem to get the head off, so the guy drowns in his own blood. Fucked up! Avoid!

Aftermath of Domodedovo Airport Suicide Bombing. Previously posted.

Man Has Hole in His Head. Very weird video of an elderly man who has a hole in the left side of his face around his eye. He apparently had a tumor somewhere around the optic nerve and they had to carve a huge hole in his damned head to get it out. He laughs and jokes on the video.

Webcam Stripper Has Fatal Accident Live on the Web. A woman, possibly an Arab woman, is stripping to music, maybe Arabic music, on the web. She’s sort of doing a variation belly dance. She goes up against a dresser and the whole thing falls down on top her. She reportedly could not get out from under it and suffocated. Weird video.

Truck Runs Over Man in Russia. A man wanders across a busy road in rural Russia. He may be drunk, he is weaving all over the place. A large truck tries to avoid him, but misses and runs him over instead. Pretty yucky video.

Diving Board Face Plant. A young woman does a triple back flip on a pool diving board and hits her head! She’s apparently ok, as she swims back to the side of the pool afterward.

Hideous Diving Board Accident in a Pool. A 15 year old boy is competing in the US Diving Championships in Indianapolis recently. He does a quadruple or quintuple back flip and hits his head on the board on the way down. He seems to be unconscious at first in the water. His coach dives in fully clothed and rescues him, but the boy is having convulsions as he is being pulled to the side of the pool. The outcome is not known, but apparently he survived. Really disturbing.

Robber Badly Hacked Up by a Machete in Brazil. A man invades a house in Brazilia recently and tries to rob the pregnant woman inside. He kicks her and knocks her down. The husband appears, grabs a machete and hacks the guy up good. Footage is from the hospital afterward. The guy has some horrible wounds and he’s screaming loudly. He was a bad person, but the video is very hard to watch nevertheless.

Last Guillotine Execution in France. Footage of the last guillotine execution in France in the 1930′s. It’s taken from a distance and you can’t see much of the gruesome details, which is good or bad depending on your perspective.

Flasher on a Train Confronted by His Female Victim.Some asshole flashes a woman on a subway in New York and she catches him in the act. There she is on camera, pointing out the guy who did it and calling for the cops to arrest him. Supposedly this crap goes on all the time.

Half Man, Half Tree in Indonesia. Very strange video. A 35 year old man in Indonesia is so covered with warts that he looks like a human tree! Everyone rejects him, and he lives with his family. Doctors can’t seem to treat him, but a US doctor is thinking about treating him with doses of Vitamin A.

Bullfighter Gored in the Throat by a Bull. Already posted here, but we did not post the video. Now you can watch the video!

Maniacs on Top of a Crane in Paris. Totally insane young men climb to the top of a crane high over Paris, probably hundreds of feet up in the air, where they do calisthenics, pullups, etc. to rock music.

Teenage Girl Fights It Out with a Cop. Previously posted.

High Line Power Workers Defy Death. Amazing video about the guys who risk their lives fixing high tension wires and exposing themselves routinely to 500,000 volts in the process.

Cops Taser Violent Man on Drugs. Previously posted here.

Various Prison Assaults Caught on Tape. Seriously crazy video shows prisoners, Black and White, violently assaulting each other on live camera with shanks, fists and feet. Wild stuff.

Skinned Alive. Disturbing video shows raccoon dogs being beaten to death in China and then skinned. They are raised there for their fur. Then a rabbit, also raised for fur, is strangled and slit near its rear end. Messed up stuff.

Martin Lee Anderson Boot Camp Beating Video.Video of the famous beating death of 14 year old Black boy Martin Lee Anderson at a boot camp in Florida. He complained of fatigue after a few laps and refused to do anymore. 7 guards engaged in a number of measures to coerce him to continue exercising, including forcing him to inhale ammonia, which apparently killed him. A nurse was there watching the proceedings.

All 7 guards and the nurse were tried for manslaughter, but all were acquitted. At least some of the guards were themselves Black, but this did not prevent the NAACP from making it into a race thing.

Billy Joe Blythe Martial Arts Student Nearly Beats a Man to Death. A student of the famed White martial arts teacher, Billy Joe Blythe named Willie J. Dennis is challenged to a martial arts match by a man who is said to be of limited intelligence. Both fighters are Black. Dennis takes the guy on martial arts style and nearly beats and kicks him to death in front of a crowd. The crowd finally intervenes to break it up. Ridiculous video.

Islamists Publicly Lash Woman For Wearing Trousers. Idiot Islamists publicly lash a woman for wearing trousers in Sudan. She screams as she is beaten badly by the laughing policeman. The scene occurs in public. Seriously messed up people and scene.

Caged Lion Attacks Man in Iran. A janitor is grabbed and bitten by a lion in a lion’s cage in Iran. The video opens with the poor guy locked in the lion’s jaws around his shoulder. Another man tries to pull him off. Finally a guy in a uniform shows up and shoots the lion dead! Then a medical team shows up and goes to work on the poor guy who got mauled by the lion. The guy apparently survived. One of the weirdest and most disturbing videos I have ever posted.

Kim Il-Sun Beheading Video. Extremely disturbing video of a Korean man working in Iraq who was kidnapped by Zarqawi’s group and held for ransom. The South Korean government did not agree to end its involvement in Iraq, so the group executed him. He is seated on the ground in front of his captors the whole time, screaming his head off that he does not want to die. Then they throw him to the ground and chop his head off. At the end they hold the head, dripping lots of blood and stringy, entrails like stuff off the neck. Absolutely hideous and grotesque video. Recommend that you do not watch it.

Marcin Wasilewski Broken Leg Video. Video of the famous Polish soccer player breaking his leg in a recent match in Belgium. Set to some haunting music. Shows the incident that broke his leg, then the chaotic scene that followed.

Polar Bear Cub Starves to Death in the Arctic. This is actually a very upsetting video! Due to global warming, polar bears are being forced onto the land much earlier every year, where there is not much food. Usually they spend many months on sea ice where they are able to consume their stable food, seals, but all the sea ice is melting. The population of polar bears in the video, the West Hudson Bay population, is expected to go extinct in 25-30 years. The video shows the last moments of life of a polar bear cub, as he goes into convulsions from starvation. Absolutely heartbreaking video for some reason.

Daredevils Walk El Camino del Rey in Spain. El Camino del Rey is a narrow footpath that was built from 1901-1905 in far southern Spain to connect two hydroelectric stations in a gorge far below. The trail is only about 3 feet wide at most. Over the years, it has fallen into serious disrepair and most of the handrails are now gone. In many places, the trail itself has worn away, and all that remains are steel bars or other objects connecting one part of the trail to another. If you fall, it’s hundreds of feet down, and you will surely die.

Several people have fallen to their deaths in the trail recently, and the government has closed the entrances. Yet apparently a lot of idiots and maniacs are managing to hike the trail. Video shows some nuts hiking this insane trail. You would have to be totally out of your mind to hike this trail. Seriously crazy video!

Prison is Good for Black Men

Repost from the old site.

Oh, I know, I know, I know, you’re all mad about the headline. But don’t go away, not yet anyway.

Do allow me to explain.

Prison is not a great place. It’s not even a good place. It’s not even a fair or ok place. I’ve been in jail for six hours in my life, and my wimpy middle-class White-boy self is still traumatized. At least the memories kept me on the right side of the law. I do not ever want to go back there, not even for a minute. If only arrest had this effect on everyone…

But Blacks, I think especially Black men (I don’t think there are a lot of Black females in prison) seem to handle it ok. Don’t ask me how they do it. Maybe you learn some real life survival skills growing up in the hood.

Black men in prison have a much lower death rate, than those living outside. Inside, it is 206 per 100,000/yr and outside, it is 484 per 100,000/yr., a 57% drop.

This is a fact. A fact that won’t go away. That stares us in the face and demands to be recognized, parsed, anything but ignored.

The lower death rate in prisons is not so much a tribute to our obviously horrible prison system, which frequently denies the heavily-Black prison population access to basic medical treatment, among other things. More than that, this is a stark, punch in the face reminder of just how deadly life in the hood really is for the Black male.

There are a million ways to dissect this data, including some really nasty and racist ones. Google will direct you to those if you look hard enough, or you can just use your imagination.

Let’s look at some real reasons why a Black man statistically stands much better chance of surviving in prison than on the street. Prison health care, crappy as it is, is maybe still better than the zero health care many Blacks get outside of prison. And it’s hard to take a lot of drugs and drink a lot inside prison. You can do a bit of both, but not much.

Despite all the talk about prison violence, there is strict gun control inside prison. Guns are deadly for Black men outside of prison, where they are six times more likely to be felled by bullets than non-Blacks.

And maybe there is plenty of time and motivation to exercise, and perhaps the prison diet is not deliberately unhealthy. In addition, one is removed from many things that can kill you, like vehicles and machinery. Black males are especially likely to die in vehicle accidents compared to other races.

As long as Black men are living longer inside prison, and as long as so many are in there anyway, can we maybe make it a nicer place to stay for them? Maybe dorm-style rooms and more conjugal visits for promising, well-behaved prisoners?

If the disintegration of Black life in the hood continues at this pace, we may even reach the outrageous point at some point in the future where Black men may want to voluntarily check themselves into prison to live a longer and more healthy life.

Let us now imagine a future world where the hood was so bleak that Black males were volunteering for prison, if only for a chance to survive.

In this theoretical case, could we make it more pleasant for the voluntaries, if there were any? Could we design special prisons for them – the voluntary prisons? Check out any time you like, prisons? And how would we make it begin to pay for itself, or at least not be a money pit?

Dorm-style rooms, TV and movies, jobs for good wages, all the conjugal visits you want…I know this sounds like sick comedy, but these are human lives we are talking about here. How could we justify the costs? Life in the hood, with Black men sick, injured and dying young, are all costs to society. Healthy Black men in the voluntary prison, capable of working, living a more normal lifespan, may cost society less.

Even here, most Black males will choose freedom over chains. More than demonstrating the humanity of US prisons, this appalling statistic is one more metric showing the utter unlivability of the Black ghetto.

For White and Hispanic men, prison is a little more deadly than life on the outside, but not much.

Great discussion here , with talk of possible bias, reasons for the disparity, etc.

Interesting liberal take on this issue, from which I may quote and agree:

While prisoners’ rights and care are imperative, it is a disheartening paradox that being in jail decreases mortality.

But the reasons quoted in that paper are somewhat absurd – the reason why more Black men die on the outside? Racism? And there is less or no racism inside prison? Sometimes liberals, to paraphrase Gallagher, embarrass me.

Interesting Comments on Sex Offenders

Repost from the old site.

From the comments section, a commenter writes:

Incest and friends of the family make up approximately 98% of all sex offenses (I think they mean child molestation and not rape, but I’m not sure). There has been estimated that 60 million individuals in this country that has experienced child sexual abuse. 50%, 30 million will go on to abuse a child. This is the crux of the problem, and we are not addressing it.Instead, law makers are creating laws that do more harm than good. For example:

The public registries: 98% of those come from the family and friends of the family. It is a fact, that once caught, 95% of them never repeat another sex crime. And that’s without therapy.

The remaining 5% are hiding in the registries. Those who did not know their victims, the violent rapists and the repeat offender.

And, approximately, 95% of all new sex offenses are committed by individuals NOT on the registries. Is it no wonder, because law makers have totally ignored the fact that Incest and friends of the family are the crux of the problem. There are 30 million abusers out there and lawmakers have done nothing to address prevention through education.

By ignoring incest and friends of the family, law makers have created a greater risk to children and society. If we do not openly discuss it, do not propose any educational models to better inform ourselves and keep ourselves afflicted with guilt and shame which washes over all concerned, perpetrators, victims, and other family members alike, we all help shield and perpetuate the crime.

These sex offender laws are being passed without advice of the experts. They are knee-jerk regulatory reaction which is just another way of saying, additional punishment is justified. Congress and the Legislatures have ignored the experts in the field.

But when it comes to light bulbs, they clamor for expert testimony. There is something very fundamentally wrong with their approach when it comes to sex offender laws.

Randy Lopp, treatment subcommittee chairman of the Oklahoma Sex Offender Management Team said, ”Most people who know anything about this are frustrated. It is just not helpful — the laws as they are now.

“I think if the general public understood the research, they would be willing to back the legislators to change the laws to make more sense and to protect children, because the laws as they are written are not protecting children,” he said. “They are doing more harm than good.”

US Department of Justice, 2003

• Sample size – 9,700 sex offenders

• Length of time – 3 years

• Re-offense trigger – reconviction (Doesn’t mean a new sex crime)

• Results – 5.3% sexual offense. 3.3% child molestation.

Arizona, Department of Corrections, 2006

• Length of time – Ten years

• Sample size – 2,444 sex offenders

• Results – 3.2% returned for a new felony sex offense, 1.4% returned for a new felony case of child molestation

• Reoffense trigger – new conviction (Any conviction)

And there are many more studies and they have the same results. Low recidivism rates for first time sex offenses.

Law makers pass these laws as non-controversial. Without debate and there is nothing I can think of that is more controversial.

Constitutional rights are being side stepped and it has been said that when you deny the constitution to one, you deny it to everyone. Please, look at the real problem. Incest and friends of the family and Prevent through education. Do away with these draconian laws that protect no one but endangers every child.

I don’t really know what to say to any of this stuff. I don’t have much personal interest in it.

I’d be interested to see how these laws are endangering kids and doing more harm than good.

Surely life is often Hell for these sex offenders. And you can see here that these insane laws are being used against all sorts of 18-21 year old guys messing around with 15-17 year old girls. The guys are totally normal, and now their lives are fucked forever.

They’re on Sex Offender Lists, it’s hard to work anywhere, they go to jail and get threatened by other inmates as “pedos” (that’s weird, I figured most prison inmates would gladly fuck a 16 year old girl if they could get away with it). They can hardly live anywhere and often have to move back home.

Their career dreams are shot, and the military won’t take you (I guess fucking a 16 year old girl is evil, but actually killing human beings, albeit towelheads, is cool). Lots of guys are also going down due to lying little girls telling tall tales of fake molestations and teenage bitches screaming rape.

I thank God I’m not on one of those blasted lists! I have enough problems as it is; I couldn’t imagine what Hell my life would be if I was on one of those things.

Sex Offenders: Second Thoughts

Repost from the old site.

After I posted a couple of pieces on child molester mass hysteria, they got linked to some sex offender support groups and I got some comments. I started doing a lot more research, and I must say, I am not impressed with the sex offender support groups or their research. One of their favorite papers claims to show only 5% recidivism rate over 3 years or 10 years or 15 years or whatever, but apparently that’s fraudulent.

One good study did find a 25% recidivism rate after 15 years. This is the same study that the RSO (registered sex offender) supporters quote as having a 5% relapse rate. At that’s only for re-offenses.

While at Fresno State University in the early 1990′s, I did a ton of reading in journals. I liked the psychology journals a lot.

In one I found a study that used confidential interview procedures to determine the true rate of recidivism, because a lot of these guys reoffend and don’t get caught. Anyway, these guys can admit to molesting kids online or in an interview, and there’s usually nothing that can be done, since we don’t know who the victim is, when the crime occurred, etc.

That study found a re-offense rate (not a re-arrest rate) for child molesters of 50% over 25 years. I think that’s about right.

There’s tremendous debate about what constitutes pedophilia, but this site, Wikisposure, ought to give you a pretty good idea. It’s an anti-pedophile site set up the To Catch a Predator folks (Perverted Justice), and it profiles lots of sex offenders, most of whom are out and out pedophiles. Looking through the profiles gives you a pretty good idea of what these guys are all about.

I’m even listed in the “articles to be done” category, which is either scary or hilarious, since I signed a petition calling for reform of these crazy laws. So anyone who wants to go there and say a bunch of evil stuff about me, just get yourself an account and log on .

According to the FBI, a large number, possibly a majority of cases, are not committed by opportunistic non-pedophilic molesters, but by males who are actually pedophilic in one way or another. To what degree, I’m not sure, but most of those profiled at Wikisposure are obviously preferential molesters.

The sex offender propaganda says that 90% of molestations are just opportunistic crimes by non-pedophilic males. Apparently that’s just not true.

However, all normal heterosexual adult males are maximally attracted to females aged 16, 17 and up into adulthood, so I strongly disagree with calling men who have sex with these girls pedophiles or even sex offenders. It’s not called “pedophilia”; it’s called “fucking a teenage girl.”

All males also have very high, though not maximal, attraction to girls aged 14 and 15, so that’s not really abnormal or pedophilia either. Once you get into girls aged 13 and below, no adult of any age should be messing with them, period. They’re just too young, and at some point, it is out and out child molesting. However, I do not think that persons under age 18 having sex with a 13 year old is abnormal.

Main thing about pedophiles, if you look at Wikisposure, is that it’s obvious that the vast majority really don’t have much interest in adults. A few do, but those are the minority. What turns em on is kids, and they usually have a preferential AoA, or age of attraction . It’s usually phrased something like, “My AoA is 6-11.”

A few of these guys are completely out and well-known in the community. Some have admitted to molesting kids and just got away with it. That’s not enough to arrest or convict someone. A number of the older ones are roaming around the world. Mexico seems to be a favorite place. Boylovers do seem to dramatically outnumber the girllovers, despite the gay rights protestations.

I’m very sympathetic to teens going down for consensual sex and to young men aged 18-21 going down for sex with girls 14-17. The Romeo and Juliet cases are the most tragic of all. I’m also sympathetic to guys aged 21-29 going down sex with girls aged 15-17. The latter is surely illegal, and you’re a fool if you do it, but whatever it is, it’s not pedophilia.

I would prefer to see the age of consent lowered to 15 for both sexes.

For 14 year olds, sex with 14-21 year olds should be legal. Adults having sex with those 13 and under would be a crime. For 13 year olds, sex with 13-17 yr olds should be legal. These are Romeo and Juliet cases.

I’m primarily opposed to the conflation of this sort of sex with actual pedophilia and child molesting.

I also find the whole Child Molester Mass Hysteria thing very alarming. People are being accused of being child molesters merely because others regard them as odd or eccentric, for trying to make pleasant conversation with teenage girls, even when the girls have jobs that require them to interface with the public, or for ogling older attractive teenage girls.

These people have not been convicted or accused of any sex crimes whatsoever, and these are the most tragic cases of all. It’s normal to try to talk to anyone who has a job interfacing with the public. All normal males are attracted to pretty 16-17 year old females. In this way, utterly normal behavior is insanely conflated with “child molesting” by a puritanical, man-hating public.

Teens trading naked pics of themselves on videophones are going down on child porn trafficking charges. 15 year old girls take crotch shots of their pussies and send them to 18 year old males, and the guy goes down on child porn charges.

How bout the girl? One thing I noticed about all this stuff above: it’s always the boy who goes down, never the little teenage slut running to the cops. Some justice.

Nor do I think pics of naked 14-17 yr old girls, having sex or not, is the same thing as “child porn”. I imagine your average male would like to look at something like that. But please, if any of you guys out there have any such pics on your computer, get rid of them. Society has gone insane about this stuff these days.

I still think that the residence and lifestyle restrictions for these guys is absurd. Screw a 15 year old girl, and you can never be in any place where “children” are present! That means Starbucks. That means the supermarket. That means anywhere. What a bunch of police state bullshit. GMAB.

I think Perverted Justice, which puts real adults behind fake profiles of mostly 13-15 year old girls, is silly. Most of these guys aren’t “pedophiles” anyway. Jerry Lee Lewis married his 13 year old cousin when he was in his 20′s.

They arrange a meeting with the guy, the guy shows up, and he gets busted, and he never bopped any girl, and there was no girl anyway. The guy gets 3-16 years (WTH?) in prison. Entrapment anyone? Adult males, don’t talk sex to teenage girls on the Net. Don’t go meet them for sex. There are traps everywhere.

But I’m not particularly sympathetic to guys who committed what I consider actual sex offenses. You guys messed up, and a lot of you have got a problem. You need to get it under control, quit blaming the victims, and try hard to make sure you don’t do that again. Yeah, it’s a witch hunt, but there’s also a bunch of twisted idiots out there we need to watch, and a bunch of others who fucked up bad and need to clean up or else.

More Sex Offender Mass Hysteria

Repost from the old site.

Good article, and the comments are great too. The article and comments go beyond the sex offender bit into other ridiculous and absurd excesses of law enforcement and punishment.

Reading stuff like this, I am starting to understand why the libertarians and anarchists hate the state so much. It seems we do have an out of control Injustice System in this country. It’s not just sex offenders, it’s all sorts of offenders. Little did I know that a felony conviction nearly screws you for life.

Little did I know that the system is set up for the purpose of making money – that the entire law enforcement, corrections, treatment, monitoring and parole system is designed to milk money out of people who are mostly too poor to pay for it. As if the conviction wasn’t bad enough, the system extracts profit from you like a slave on a plantation.

When I lived in the mountains a couple of years ago, a friend downstairs did 6 weeks in jail. For what? For being poor. He had some old DUI, and he had to pay all these $1000′s in fines, and I guess he was just too poor to pay them. He got pulled over and hauled into jail essentially for the crime of being poor .

There’s a fellow here in the complex who has a similar mess. He was driving a car without a license. Why? He didn’t have the money to pay for the license. He kept driving the car anyway, because he needed it to get to work. He got a ticket for driving without a license. Now he’s apparently got a felony conviction.

Both of these guys are White. I shudder to think of what Blacks and Hispanics must go through.

We are one of the world’s leaders in imprisoning people. You can say what you want about that, but that the criminal justice system has been turned into just another capitalist industry, making its money off convicts and parolees, is downright sickening.

Another View of Sex Offenders

Repost from the old site.

From the comments section, a commenter answers my question, “Can you all please explain to me why these new laws are making these worse, and endangering kids even more? That doesn’t seem to add up from the data that you have given to me.”

Magister:

The experts tell us that offenders need stability, a home, a job, a support system and a feeling of connection to a community. Stress affects offending behavior. If one feels helpless and hopeless it, of course, increases stress levels to an unbelievable amount.

There have been hundreds, if not thousands of studies looking at offending behavior and the conditions and circumstances predating it. America has a world record amount of people in prison. It is like a revolving door.

It does not take much imagination to realize that if you warehouse people in a prison with people even worse than they are, in an antisocial environment, release them back to a society where they have no home or job, their offending behavior is likely to occur again.

Now, add to that, for sex offenders the fact that they are dehumanized by society, called garbage, monsters, they are being killed, beaten, their families are shunned, their children are picked on mercilessly, they have to pay an exorbitant amount of fines for probation, sex offender treatment, GPS monitoring, all while greatly restricted on what kind of job they have.

Many states are now putting their employers on the Registry which pretty much guarantees that no one will hire them. Residency restrictions make it almost impossible to find a place to live. NIMBY is rampant. When they do find a small area to live in, a great hue and cry goes up about “clustering” and the problem starts all over again.

They are denied many of the social services that our other poor citizens have. They are not even allowed in a hurricane shelter!

I would think being treated like a monster, told over and over again that you are a monster, would make any person likely to commit desperate acts. It amazes me that in the present circumstances, there ares not more re-offenses than there are. I think the fact that re-offense is still low, shows just how repentant the vast majority of these people are.

There is not one study that shows that residency restrictions work, not one. In fact there are multiple studies that show that they do not work. Again it just takes common sense to tell you that if a person is going to re-offend they are going to go away from their home, the area they are most likely to be recognized, to offend.

Studies prove this out. Several states, which bothered to listen to the experts and do comprehensive studies of their own, declined to implement residency restrictions.

Iowa, which has statewide 2000 ft restrictions, is a perfect example. The prosecutors ‘association and the sheriffs’ association have come out against these restrictions. They see that they do no good, and have caused many offenders to abscond because of the conditions.

The police and parole officers cannot find the homeless men and women. So instead of allowing for increased monitoring of those who are most dangerous, there is less monitoring of everyone.

But the people of Iowa, who have been fed false information like everyone else will not allow these restrictions to be stopped. That just boggles my mind.

Everything that the experts tell us reduces re-offense, we do the opposite. We stubbornly hold on to our misinformation like a life raft in the ocean. It is like we need a group of people to hate and denigrate.

Most states have expanded the definition of crimes to be called a sex offense until almost anyone could fit into the category. The registries are so watered down by no risk, low risk offenders until our law enforcement cannot keep up. The state of California just did a recidivism study that mirrored the one the Department of Justice did. They got the same results. Re-offense rate overall between 3.5 and 5%.

The American people do not know this! Either that or they stubbornly refuse to believe it. Yes, there are groups or types of offenders who have a much higher rate of re-offense. We have experience and tests to know which ones these are.

To me, that means that those who are not in any of those high risk groups have almost no risk of re-offending and even the high risk groups have a lower rate of re-offense than other types of criminals. Treatment does work. Treatment has been refined over the years and there is a success rate of over 40%. Some studies show success in the 90% range.

When all our attention and resources are being focused on once caught offenders we are developing a false sense of security and ignoring the 90% of the population that are the next molesters of our children. Who are they? They are family and friends who are not on the registry. We are not learning how to recognize warning signs and keeping our eyes focused on the Registry.

What a disservice we are doing our children. Victim advocacy groups and child protection groups, are saying the same things, residency restrictions and making monsters of these people do more harm than good.

Victim advocacy groups are getting involved in creating transitional housing and mentoring for the higher risk offenders. This is how we create a lower recidivism rate. It only makes sense. This is such a complicated issue that one could talk for hours and not make a dent in the truth and the harm our society is doing.

All I can say is the Internet is a fount of information. Studies from the professionals and our own government can be found just by Googling. You can find many studies here .

I don’t really know what to say about all this. This isn’t exactly my favorite subject, but the purpose of this blog is to piss people off, and nothing pisses people off more than being soft on pedos. Obviously, it’s a position I just have to take. It’s just too irresistible.

I’ve noticed that if you know anything about pedophilia and child molesting, as I do, people get really, really worried and think you must be one. It’s like if you know anything about homosexuality, you must be a fag. If you know about heroin, you must shoot dope. If not now, you’re going to do one of these things in the future.

The only thing you can say about child molesting in polite company is “Kill all the pedos!”

I got most of my information from John Douglas’ books and writings. I figure if he can get interested in this stuff from a criminological point of view without going out and molesting kids, hey, so can I.

I don’t think we are going to get anywhere as a society with this issue as long as all rational conversations about it are shut down with a horrified look of, “You’re not a pedo yourself, are you!?”

If it’s true that 90% of child molesting is a family member or friend of the family, that 90% of those on the Registries are this type of molester, that’s very interesting. The 60 million molested figure and 50% of them (30 million) are going to do it themselves is fascinating. The notion that residency restrictions don’t work and may do more harm than good and that only 5% re-offend over 10 years is also fascinating.

It’s important to distinguish between pedophiles and non-pedophilic child molesters. Non-pedophilic molesters are probably the vast majority. They have no particular interest in kids; they are just opportunists who do it for various reasons.

Probably 10% of molesters are real pedophiles. These guys either prefer or require kids to get off. Some may never act on it, but I bet most will. These people will be impossible to cure. All you can do is get them to not act on their urges, and that may be quite difficult. The conflation of pedophilic molesters with non-pedophilic molesters is unfortunate and makes no sense scientifically or societally.