REPROOF (c) Issue 2009-1
While everyone’s noses were to the grind-stone the country was sold…
as were the grindstones.

Our Laws Are Business’ Pleasure
The United States has consumed itself into an unfortunate financial corner that will be studied by its replacement government many generation into the future of empire and failure. There are no single seminal causes that conspire and merge simultaneously to bring down a government or society. A tired underpinning of feudal consumerism, subservience and social ennui grows to constrict all victim citizens into a financial fetal position. From this vulnerable position the people must react against the forces that have caused their distress and disenfranchisement.
Welcome to the sense of incarceration and sudden awareness of endemic civil deficiencies in our formerly cozy word. You are a metaphorical inmate; actual financial inmate.

The usual response arc for an inmate is retro self-education of the system that has incarcerated them and condemnation of the processes as wholly unjust. That analysis is mostly accurate. So now how do we react? Try to correct course from within the current framework? Change the fundamental framework?

Reproof believes undoing degeneration of fundamentally sound principles is the most concise answer. Can we now blow the carbon and corruption out of the fouled system that we have become our own subjugates of?! Financial crisis has generated the awareness that is the first step of interest in socio-civil matters and the prison system is one of the most profoundly affected.

In the specific case of Colorado state prisons there are cultural and political driving forces that have caused gratuitous population of the system into a financial box canyon. The primary cultural driver is emulation of the big prison states; most specifically California. Their prison medical services have been under federal receivership for two years to mitigate its homicide rate and the financial stability point of the hugely overpopulated system is estimate at 50,000 inmates lower. That is to say that California’s citizens, politicians and immensely powerful prison guards’ union incarcerated beyond their financial means, and likely societal needs – by 50 out of 180+ thousand inmates; over-incarcerating by a wasteful 39%.

Colorado’s equivalent is a hobbled parole system that keeps 8000+ parole eligible inmates, of approx. 22,000 total, fruitlessly incarcerated.

There was a cultural expectation of more incarceration in the 90’s that was exploited by a terrible corporate contrivance, the private prison industry; wielding the worst political weapon, lobbyists with pre-written laws. The ’93 legislature passed the marquis canned law for these business school predators, called the Mandatory Parole Act. No elected person of aid thereof put any ink on paper in creating this prison industry roofie that has been date raping the public ever since. The bill is an off-the –shelf blue print, no different from an architectural print for a prison that engineers the over –incarceration to fill the non-public buildings and siphon public treasure.

The bill replaced “statutory discharge date” with “mandatory discharge date” and created a recycle loop of inmates to be sent back under the pretense of violating post-sentence supervision falsely forced into the statutes as parole;1 via guileful manipulation of the legislative process. The number of people subjected to re-incarceration under this contrived and counterfeit parole has paralleled the number of inmates sold to the private prison industry (mostly: Correction Corp. of America) year for year ever since.

Private prison infiltration into Colorado civics is not the only driver of the over-incarceration crisis in the state. It is however the largest and should be outlawed for its civilly foul premise.

Other Laws and Coincident Numbers
Results are mostly in on the Halliburton administration’s economic stimulus of late fall 2008; it was an executive final bonus payout. The $700,000,000,000 was used to re-capitalize degenerate large businesses and perversely reward the equally degenerate bosses for their theft. At the generally accepted 250:1 ratio of executive to regular employee pay one can calculate how many subsequently lost jobs financed executive final payouts at moribund corporations. For example; $2,500,000,000 is a proclaimed total of spoliation. Assuming $40,000 annual compensation for rank and file employees; (2 1/2 billion -:- 40 thousand =) 62,500 of the jobs lost since the Halliburton stimulus financed executive bonuses.

Send your numbers to Reproof, along with speculation of how the next stimulus will bypass workers.

Reproof guesses: it will be used to finance reorganizations' mergers and liquidations that will salvage the stock prices for the investors to cash out high and leave more implosion to befall workers.

Humility; The Badge Of Victimhood

"The species in which deception and manipulation are most extensively developed is our own, by virtue of our language capability." -Intro to psychology textbook.

There may not be a greater contrast of context for victimhood than a criminal defendant's prosecution and subsequent imprisonment. A first time defendant brings their humility into a courtroom when confronted by the criminal justice system and is parried by a prosecutor's mercenary pursuit of any conviction. Their service is to law school debt and conviction rate, which relieves first time defendants, victims and associated family members of all their sweet naiveté. Just as Greene's "48 Laws of Power" puts a modem context on Machiavelli our courts are for appearance, not effectiveness. If someone is incarcerated for each perceived crime the appearance of balance holds and no one cares until they have a turn of their humility and naïveté stomped in a confrontation with the prosecution system.

Appearance and decorum mask duplicity so well that epiphany comes with the slamming of the prison door. Thus is minted a terrible promissory bond to the people the prosecutor is supposed to have represented.

There is no place in prison for the humility and social graces the prosecutor capitalized upon. Once leveraged in court a first timer is sent to be further victimized and rent of the humility that enabled maximum, and often aggrandized prosecution. Of course not all defendants are browbeaten victims, nor are all inmates permanently wrung dry of humility, but it is quite close .

In Memoriam
Anastasia Baburova, 25, reporter Novaya Gazeta. Vlad Putin's Russia has well degenerated back into a KGB dictatorship in which investigative journalism is a state enemy. Ms. Baburova and a human rights lawyer were smoked by a state contractor, with a silenced pistol, just two blocks from the Kremlin. This is an escalation from the previously secretive and subversive hits that became fashionable since the U.S. passed its patriot act under an oil energy oligarch government. [Three men have been acquitted of accessory culpability in the 2006 murder of earlier victim Anna Politkovskaya. Novaya Gazeta's deputy editor said, "The law enforcement system did every¬thing it could to save itself because they were involved in the murder. "]

John Updike, author (unwitting guest obit.)
As close as I can tell all he was, "The Sissy's Guide to Life Experiences," like explaining what it's like to be broke, or lose a baseball game or some other chickenshit thing that us non-insulated ones either know from experience or from instinct. He spent his time explaining to fat rich people what it feels like to be hungry and they think he's brilliant. I'll take "On the Road" any day.

Other Suggested Titles On Freedom; Nemesis:The Last Days Of The American Republic By Chalmers Johnson, Lockdown America by Cristian Parenti, With Justice For None by Gerry Spence, In its 20th year since publication Spence's precursor to "From Freedom to Slavery," is tragically relevant to self-oppression. It lays out how the judicial branch and law school drones became the whip of injustice that We The People swing upon ourselves.

Practice civil engagement by getting informed at your local library.

Watch for a Constitutional convention in Colorado- It will be a test of all its citizens’ fortitude.

1 Parole = Conditional release from physical incarceration before completion of sentence. Colorado sentencing statute § 18-1.3-40 1•• (l)(a)M(B) [formerly § 18-1-105] " ... any person who is not paroled and is discharged pursuant to law, shall be subjected to the mandatory period of parole ... " How contradictory does this seem to you?! Send the relevant session laws to Reproof for further analysis.
Reproof is:
Jason Pecci #111132 BCCF / 8P
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Las Animas, Co. 81054

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