tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post6072623287625124309..comments2024-03-22T05:17:53.112-04:00Comments on Big Bad Bald Bastard: Local Iteration of the National DisgraceBig Bad Bald Bastardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-59985825657816161522015-07-30T17:42:49.633-04:002015-07-30T17:42:49.633-04:00I admit quite openly, I am now, for the first time...I admit quite openly, I am now, for the first time in my life, more afraid of the police than whomever they are supposed to protect me against.Syrbal/Labryshttp://www.experientialpagan.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-21768671466081782882015-07-30T11:09:09.128-04:002015-07-30T11:09:09.128-04:00Unfortunately, the badge and gun combo tends to at...Unfortunately, the badge and gun combo tends to attract people who should have neither.<br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-22640434434945191682015-07-30T10:29:07.616-04:002015-07-30T10:29:07.616-04:00As most of you know, in my younger days I spent my...As most of you know, in my younger days I spent my share of time 'behind bars'. These are institutions built on meanness and cruelty - not just disregard or lack of care, but an active, relentless process of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual violence. Everyone is a predator, and everyone is prey. It is all justified by the sense that you're there to be punished, and there should never be a moment when that punishment is relaxed. There are a profusion of signs, the most common of which reads "What part of NO don't you understand?" Asking for anything - access to a lawyer, a doctor, a newspaper, a pair of underwear - is weakness, and is gleefully exploited by being savagely and unequivocally denied. On top of that, everyone is sick all the time due to the proximity and the lack of medication/treatment. Temperatures are always either freezing cold or brutally hot. It's never quiet, it's never dark, there's never a moment of safety or peace. <br /><br />And it will never change...mikeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13057701313718589322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-21632724474029945342015-07-30T01:16:40.659-04:002015-07-30T01:16:40.659-04:00Incarceration itself is inherently unnatural to fr...Incarceration itself is inherently unnatural to free people. But there is a callousness to tending to life of incarcerated individuals--when the duly authorized authorities hear "I can't breathe"--they don't think this is the time to help a perp--oh no. Perps ain't people. We need to reintroduce the idea that any citizen awaiting signing in for jail, in the midst of the bail process, or even under trial, is still not yet considered guilty of anything. Their lives are therefore to be treated like precious gold. No jail cell hanging. Every watchful eye should be preventing what apparently does happen to too many incarcerated people.Vixen Strangelyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01976594951225450413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-20109168921755373272015-07-30T00:26:11.092-04:002015-07-30T00:26:11.092-04:00It's worse than that. Since mid-July, at least...It's worse than that. Since mid-July, <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/07/28/3685435/fourth-black-woman-found-dead-jail-cell-since-mid-july/" rel="nofollow">at least 5 women, all coincidentally black, have died in jail</a>. It's not quite the end of July, so we are talking about 5 in a matter of a couple of weeks.ShortWomanhttp://www.shortwoman.comnoreply@blogger.com