In article <367F5382.5C467083@primary.net>,
Sanity Clause <sanity@primary.net> wrote:
> Johnny Thunderbird tells me "you should try harder to tell the difference
between
> words and blood." Hey, having spent over a year in jail without having been
> accorded my right to counsel, I believe the distinction is clear to me.....
>
> I still say Nophunking way! I've had to sleep in the same cell <...>
 

> Try the Fully Informed Jury Assn.
> http://www.fija.org/ > Sanity
 

OK, Sanity, let's talk. I don't understand how after your year,
you're still trying to defend imprisonment. My time I spent thinking
of ways to wreck the place. My idea of prison reform is to raze those
places to the ground and plant hemp over the ruins.
 

What's bothering you is thinking of particular individuals as beyond
control. I don't know whether there are any people like this, though
I have known some people with emotional and cognitive disorders that
seemed hopeless. That's a public health problem.
 

Who we're really talking about is nasty people, who to our perception
are beyond morality, and just don't seem to have any internal social
control. Bullies, exploiters and sneaks. I feel that much of this is
due to their reaction against our evil society. I have seen change in
these kinds of people.
 

Some techniques I have found successful, if you're ever interested:
get them in a collective living situation with a common goal and
tasks to be done requiring cooperation. Trip with them. Put them
on the spot by merciless analysis of their behavior, by the people
they have to live with. This works best when done by someone they
want sex with. This kind of change works, and can be deep and
permanent.
 

The extended family rarely experiences criminal behavior. None of
its members wish it any harm, and because their interests are bound
up in the collective there is no incentive to reward exploitation.
There is a problem with intimidation, but only when this behavior
is sexually rewarded. When the females band together to cut off
bullies from sex, intimidation behavior vanishes and harmony prevails.
 

This ain't theory. This is what works. Nasty people can be changed
to hippies under these circumstances. The plan is to extend this
living arrangement to cover more of society, de-emphasizing the
tyranny of the mom-pop-and-junior nuclear family, de-emphasizing
the huge with its tyranny of the fearsome. When most people live
in dozens, crime will not be an interest except historically. i
hope you like the idea, because your help is needed to implement it.
 

The fallacy of crime and punishment is based on slicing people apart
from each other. The power monster wants to monopolize all your
attention, to make you forget your connections to the people around
you, so you will concentrate on the contrast between your individual
vulnerability and the power monster's capacity to run bulldozers over
your hopes and dreams. The power monster wants you to fear your
neighbor so you will turn to the power monster for protection. The
last thing the power monster wants you to do, is get together with
your neighbor and spontaneously organize a defense league against
the power monster.
 

That kind of chance is what the Millenial Amnesty resolution offers
us. In case you haven't noticed, people on the whole are fed up with
government. We don't have to push anybody, we just catch the wave.
 

Let's do it.
 

Johnny Thunderbird
Millenial Amnesty Planning Board
http://www.InsideTheWeb.com/mbs.cgi/mb275670 http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/millenialamnesty
http://www.dejanews.com/~millenialamnesty
 

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