I. Dishonorable Justice:

The PBS documentary Snitch just put on
the air, verified the travesty caused by
the fascist combination of mandatory minimum
sentencing, conspiracy prosecutions, extorted
informants and asset forfeiture in the Us
over the past 13 years. Clearly US criminal
law now has no correspondence with factuality,
but is thoroughly corrupt. Drug prosecutions
are a farce staged for political advantage of
an ideology. This fierce charade only fools
a rapidly dwindling social class, that justice
is served by the war on drugs, and the class
which has faith in the legitimacy of law is
increasingly isolated from the main population.

II. Blinded Swordswoman:

In textbook terms, the US is now a totalitarian
police state. This technical expression is used
advisedly. Quantitatively, all the secret police
of every dictatorial regime of the 1940's added
together, are fewer secret police agents than are
actively on the US payroll today. Count them:
from Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's Italy, Stalin's
Russia, Franco's Spain, Salazar's Portugal, Tojo's
Japan, Peron's Argentina and Chiang's China; add
them all up, and there are more plain clothes
armed police in the US right now than there were
in the whole sickening lot of them.

III. Doesn't a war have two sides?

The absolute majority of all felons now are drug
convicts. The convention now is to label this a
victimless crime. My own idiosyncratic preference
is to call it a religious heresy. The social
dynamics fit the religious model for the drug
culture: in the face of escalating ferocity from
persecution by the State, rising to hysterical
levels, it doesn't go away nor get any smaller.
That's the behavior shown by a religious faith
under persecution, specifically one which is
about to swamp the parent culture. What sort of
a crime would show this stubborness to submit
to coercive pressure? It's not a crime, this is
rebellion. Faith in the law is wavering, while
faith in drugs remains unshaken.

IV. Battle of the prophesies:

The mandate of government to predict the future
will run out abruptly. As soon as inmates lose
their belief that the judges can predict what
will happen ten or twenty years into the future,
they will likewise lose their fear of government
reprisals. The mystique of imprisonment is the
supernatural dread that court pronouncements are
more powerful than a mere human agency. The
State is credible as a prophet of future
captivity, only because inmates believe it will
outlive them. On losing its credibility, the
State becomes just a gang of people with guns,
formidable but not superhuman. Immediately its
ability to extort informers is lost, when the
threat of some specified period of future
incarceration is perceived as meaningless.

(Thus the Day of Freedom proposal for Millennial
Amnesty, when the prisoners come to believe it
may be realizable, will drastically curtail the
number of cooperating defendants, and thoroughly
sabotage prosecutors who have become dependent
on extorted testimony to obtain convictions.) http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/millenialamnesty

Modestly, gently,
Johnny Thunderbird
http://fly.to/heavyLight
http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/illegalizegovernment

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