Monday, February 24, 2014
More misc.
Another thing I've realized is that although I've always known I came from a backward place, I didn't realize before my brother made a homophobic comment on someone's Facebook stream, that coming from a backward place IS THE NORM, not the unusual.
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Okay, it's pointless to keep writing about how horrible Hollywood movies are because they keep making them
I hope I never have to experience a time when I'm considered to be "in lockdown." America has adopted and applied to its population all the tactics of the prison. I suppose this is to be expected, since we are the most likely country to put people in prison to begin with. But just as I have hoped never to have to work in a corporate environment again, I also hope to never be treated as if I am a criminal simply for existing in a certain place at a certain time. When I see children leaving an elementary school with their hands up, it makes me want to cry.
(and now, apparently, it no longer matters if your hands are up... they will shoot you anyway.)
The ten year nightmare with B****ski (a judge in Ohio who hates my family) is bad enough. This past week he sentenced someone to five years in prison for accidentally causing a fire at the college. AN ACCIDENT. The kid's life is ruined. In the online version of the local paper, all the idiots that live in that town applaud the decision, saying things like the kid needs to "cool down." Oh yes. Let's have him get raped a little bit. That'll help him with his anger. Nothing like a little involuntary ass fucking to turn you around. But this 'judge' is so horrible, he bases his decisions not on evidence but on his own fat gut. The crime of the justice system in this country is that it cannot correct itself or its acknowledged mistakes. There is no law that governs judges. There is no law that undoes the damage of corruption.
Law is governed by theory, not benefit. So we get kids in Elyria for whom simple mistake of smoking ends in a five year sentence, while bankers, who actually rob people of their money using illegal tactics that they know are illegal, are allowed to keep their jobs and are allowed to keep robbing us.
I hope I never have to experience a time when I'm considered to be "in lockdown." America has adopted and applied to its population all the tactics of the prison. I suppose this is to be expected, since we are the most likely country to put people in prison to begin with. But just as I have hoped never to have to work in a corporate environment again, I also hope to never be treated as if I am a criminal simply for existing in a certain place at a certain time. When I see children leaving an elementary school with their hands up, it makes me want to cry.
(and now, apparently, it no longer matters if your hands are up... they will shoot you anyway.)
The ten year nightmare with B****ski (a judge in Ohio who hates my family) is bad enough. This past week he sentenced someone to five years in prison for accidentally causing a fire at the college. AN ACCIDENT. The kid's life is ruined. In the online version of the local paper, all the idiots that live in that town applaud the decision, saying things like the kid needs to "cool down." Oh yes. Let's have him get raped a little bit. That'll help him with his anger. Nothing like a little involuntary ass fucking to turn you around. But this 'judge' is so horrible, he bases his decisions not on evidence but on his own fat gut. The crime of the justice system in this country is that it cannot correct itself or its acknowledged mistakes. There is no law that governs judges. There is no law that undoes the damage of corruption.
Law is governed by theory, not benefit. So we get kids in Elyria for whom simple mistake of smoking ends in a five year sentence, while bankers, who actually rob people of their money using illegal tactics that they know are illegal, are allowed to keep their jobs and are allowed to keep robbing us.
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