How can the Koch's be against prohibition when they profit so many ways on prohibition? Oh they don't. They just say what you want to hear.
Demonstrations, Protests and Videos about ALEC, KOCH
Immigrant detention and private prisons...Wed May 18, 2011
Today many have had their eyes opened regarding the huge profits made off of what is commonly called the "Prison Industrial Complex." Suddenly awareness has turned from disbelief to anger as taxpayers realize the screwing private prison companies, their lobbyists and elected Legislators have been giving them for more than three decades now. full story
Lawrence O'Donnell Exposes ALEC
Last night, People For’s Andrew Gillum went on the Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss PFAW Foundation's new report on ALEC, the group that helps corporate donors get legislation they like placed in statehouses.
http://www.youtube.com/wa...bedded&v=FiQAcDDOros
Shut Down Abusive Drug Detention Centers DWR
This week, the World Medical Association and the International Federation of Health and Human Rights Organisations have called for compulsory drug detention centers to be closed.
Drug dependency treatment should be voluntary
Proposition 19 - Joseph Califano & Gary Johnson colbertnation
Joseph A. Califano
Willis Group Holdings PLC
Joseph Califano sourcewatch
Joseph A. Califano Jr. nytimes
Three Strikes - The Impact After More Than a Decade
Mandatory sentencing
The Three Strikes Law is not a solution to crime.... by B. Cayenne Bird
Stop Bill S-10 (Mandatory Minimum Sentences)
Heston died, NRA's Mandatory Minimum Didn't
Life in Jail for Ganja
http://www.youtube.com/wa...;feature=player_embedded
In Prison Reform, Money Trumps Civil Rights
THE legal scholar Derrick A. Bell foresaw that mass incarceration, like earlier systems of racial control, would continue to exist as long as it served the perceived interests of white elites.
Ganjawar: Slave Labor, Rape & Pillage Deterrent
At the same time, the United States blasts China for the the use of prison slave labor, engaging in the same practice itself. Prison labor is a pot of gold. No strikes, union organizing, health benefits, unemployment insurance or workers' compensation to pay.
http://www.youtube.com/wa...;feature=player_embedded
Former state troopers in the Legislature have revived a bill that would make it harder for people to qualify for a medical marijuana card, and tighten controls on the people growing it.
Bill Would Tighten Ore. Medical Marijuana Access
GOPerverted Koch Roaches Need the Drug War for Profit
Got ALEC?
ALEC: The Voice of Corporate Special Interests In State Legislatures May 16
PFAW’s latest Right Wing Watch In Focus looks at the American Legislative Exchange Council, a right-wing policy group that funnels pro-corporate legislation to the states at the expense of citizens whose rights and interests are sold off to the highest bidder.
Soon after Drug Czar Turner left office, Nancy Reagan recommended that no corporation be permitted to do business with the Federal government without having a urine purity policy in place to show their loyalty. Carlton Turner became a rich man in what has now become a huge growth industry: urine-testing.
~ Official Corruption: Carlton Turner,
Jack Herer, Emperor Chapter# 15
Bush. Religious drug treatment in Texas - 06/10/00
CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex. - Over the door of one church-based drug treatment center in Houston, a sign printed in foot-high letters announces: "Drug Addiction Is NOT a Disease. It's a Sin." At another, clients pass by a poster of an addict in a hospital bed, ripping IV tubes out of his arms and throwing his pills in the garbage. An angel hovers nearby, offering her protection from this plague of prescriptions.
And at a Christian young adult home in Corpus Christi, police recently took the unusual step of arresting a supervisor after teenagers complained that they were beaten and roped to a bed, all in the name of Christian discipline. More arrests are anticipated, authorities say.
These are some of the results--expected and unexpected--of Gov. George W. Bush's "bold new experiment in welfare reform." With his conviction that religious groups can transform lives in ways government can't, Bush sponsored laws in 1997 that allow churches to provide social services their own way, outside the intrusive glare of the state.
The new laws exempted faith-based drug treatment programs from all state health and safety regulations followed by their secular counterparts, a list contained in a rule book as thick as a Russian novel that covers every detail from fire detectors to frayed carpets. Counselors in religious treatment programs now may skip the criminal background checks and hundreds of hours of training required of their state-licensed peers.
Calvina Fay Prohibition Inc.
Anti-Drug Campaigns Dumb Down Vital Message
Calvina Fay is the Executive Director of Drug Free America Foundation and Save Our Society From Drugs (S.O.S.) From 1976-1985 it was known as Straight, Inc. and had a reputation for abusing kids as a drug rehabilitation program. Mel Sembler and his wife Betty founded Straight, Inc. In 1985 it changed its name to Straight Foundation, Inc. in order to protect its money and its principals from civil suits. In 1995 it was changed again to Drug Free America Foundation. DFAF is a national and international drug policy think tank and provider of services for drug free work places.
Straight Inc., Legacy of Torture as Treatment
Straight Inc. was a drug rehabilitation program for teens, that operated from 1976-1993 in several states across America. Clients were forcibly indoctrinated with the program, deprived of all basic human rights until they could demonstrate a sincere internalization of the group's values. All clients underwent sleep deprivation, isolation, food and water deprivation, verbal and physical abuse as a matter of course. All forms of personal autonomy were considered privileges and were earned through adopting the abusive personality of a "Straightling."
America's Private Gulag - 04/21/01 19:39:46
What is the most profitable industry in America? Weapons, oil and computer technology all offer high rates of return, but there is probably no sector of the economy so abloom with money as the privately-run prison industry.
Boycott Koch Industry Products!
Slave Labor, Prison Privatization, Prison Industry
ALEC Conservatives push this agenda nationwide!
ALEC claims that corporations can run and operate these necessary programs and prisons more efficiently than public employees. They claim this will reduce government staffing and thus government payrolls and somehow make us all safer (corrections), smarter (school voucher programs), our kids better trained to enter the workplace (repeal of child labor laws) and help reduce municipal, city, state and county costs (using inmates in place of public employees).
"The horrors experienced by many young inmates, particularly those who are convicted of nonviolent offenses, border on the unimaginable. Prison rape not only threatens the lives of those who fall prey to their aggressors, but it is potentially devastating to the human spirit. Shame, depression, and a shattering loss of self-esteem accompany the perpetual terror the victim thereafter must endure." U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Farmer v. Brennan
Boehner & Cantor expose their ties to ALEC, Koch, CCA, Geo in 09 ALEC speeches!
Republicant dominated assemblies are also pushing for privatizing their state prison systems. Though on the surface this issue appears to lack the same seriousness as the right to work laws they're trying to implement, or the attacks on workers and Unions, but as you'll discover below, it is just as important - and in fact exposes the real agenda of these conservative lawmakers and Governors...tentacles of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and corporations such as Koch Industries. Many of us were unaware the new Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, John Boehner was a member of the notorious American Legislative Exchange Council back in the 80's when this agenda was developed and put into operation...or that House Majority Leader Cantor was a 2009 recipient of ALEC's "prestigious" Jefferson award!
Victims of Teabog rhetoric?
How the So-Called Guardians of Free Speech Are Silencing the Messenger
by: John Pilger, t r u t h o u t | News Analysis
As the United States and Britain look for an excuse to invade another oil-rich Arab country, the hypocrisy is familiar. Colonel Gaddafi is “delusional” and “blood-drenched” while the authors of an invasion that killed a million Iraqis, who have kidnapped and tortured in our name, are entirely sane, never blood-drenched and once again the arbiters of “stability.”
International Journal on Human Rights and Drug Policy
Fourth Amendment not valid if police say they thought they heard something.
'Relax Your Muscles as Much as Possible'
What's life like in our prisons for those 77,000 marijuana convicts? Let's steel our nerves and go visit the Web site www.spr.org, where the Los Angeles outfit "Stop Prisoner Rape" has posted the little plain-talking handbill it has prepared for young men entering our prison system, titled "For Prisoners: Advice on Avoiding HIV/AIDS."
The group's handout -- targeted primarily at heterosexual men who have no desire to ever be involved in homosexual activity -- advises:
"HIV/AIDS transmission during a sexual assault is a serious concern. The following are practical tips for reducing your risk. ...
If you have a choice, try to avoid men who used needles for drugs in the past or are still doing so. ... The more often you are raped, the more exposed you will be, so especially try to avoid anal gang-bangs. The most dangerous situation of all is if your %*!% is bleeding, for that allows easy entry of the virus into your bloodstream. So try to use a lubricant or grease or cream if you can to minimize injury to your delicate internal body parts, avoid anal gang-bangs, and if you must endure forced anal penetration, try to relax your muscles as much as possible. These tactics are not 'cooperating' or consenting, they are just common-sense measures to try to save your life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyRqo0lwUYQ
Straight, Inc. (1976-1993) publicly claimed to rehabilitate teenage drug users by using tough love and Alcoholics Anonymous principles. Straight, Inc. provided NO professional counseling: The REAL Straight, Inc. was a facility that used coercive thought reform (aka mind control, brainwashing), public humiliation, sleep & food deprivation, extremely harsh confrontational tactics, kidnapping, isolation and emotional, mental, psychological, verbal and physical abuse to forcibly break us down then remold us in the Straight, Inc. image.
Slave Labor Means Big Bucks For U.S. Corporations - 02/06/01 23:32:53
As if exploiting the labor of prison inmates was not bad enough, it is legal in the United States to use slave labor. The 13th Amendment of the Constitution states that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted shall exist within the United States."
Slavery: Another Fine Product Still Made in the USA! - 12/17/01 20:30:25
Contrary to what we may learn in school, the American Civil War did not see the complete abolition of slavery in 1865. The 13th Amendment to their constitution reads "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude except as punishment for a crime..."
Which justice system do we get?
Human Rights Watch has documented abominable conditions for children in detention in countries around the world. In the United States (Colorado, Georgia, Louisiana, and Maryland), Pakistan, Jamaica, among other countries, children are subjected to excessive force, inadequate medical and mental health care, and are provided with little or no education. Often, these children are placed in the facilities along side adults, exposing them to physical and sexual abuse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM6IsVGpO9A
Sembler and straight officials need to be sodomized daily in prison for what they have done to these kids!
THE TRUTH ABOUT OUR PRISONERS by Kay 'Grandma' Lee
U.S. prison population largest in world
Women in Prison
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E64lWEeg2A
AARC is a "treatment" program in Canada that uses the Straight, Inc., Synanon, SEED model. It is abusive. CBC News was good enough to expose this abuse and air it.
Demonstrations, Protests and Videos about ALEC, KOCH
Immigrant detention and private prisons...Wed May 18, 2011
Today many have had their eyes opened regarding the huge profits made off of what is commonly called the "Prison Industrial Complex." Suddenly awareness has turned from disbelief to anger as taxpayers realize the screwing private prison companies, their lobbyists and elected Legislators have been giving them for more than three decades now. full story
Lawrence O'Donnell Exposes ALEC
Last night, People For’s Andrew Gillum went on the Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss PFAW Foundation's new report on ALEC, the group that helps corporate donors get legislation they like placed in statehouses.
http://www.youtube.com/wa...bedded&v=FiQAcDDOros
Shut Down Abusive Drug Detention Centers DWR
This week, the World Medical Association and the International Federation of Health and Human Rights Organisations have called for compulsory drug detention centers to be closed.
Drug dependency treatment should be voluntary
Proposition 19 - Joseph Califano & Gary Johnson colbertnationJoseph A. Califano
Willis Group Holdings PLC
Joseph Califano sourcewatch
Joseph A. Califano Jr. nytimes
Three Strikes - The Impact After More Than a Decade
Mandatory sentencing
The Three Strikes Law is not a solution to crime.... by B. Cayenne Bird
Stop Bill S-10 (Mandatory Minimum Sentences)
Heston died, NRA's Mandatory Minimum Didn't
Life in Jail for Ganja
http://www.youtube.com/wa...;feature=player_embedded
In Prison Reform, Money Trumps Civil Rights
THE legal scholar Derrick A. Bell foresaw that mass incarceration, like earlier systems of racial control, would continue to exist as long as it served the perceived interests of white elites.
Ganjawar: Slave Labor, Rape & Pillage Deterrent
At the same time, the United States blasts China for the the use of prison slave labor, engaging in the same practice itself. Prison labor is a pot of gold. No strikes, union organizing, health benefits, unemployment insurance or workers' compensation to pay.
http://www.youtube.com/wa...;feature=player_embedded
Former state troopers in the Legislature have revived a bill that would make it harder for people to qualify for a medical marijuana card, and tighten controls on the people growing it.
Bill Would Tighten Ore. Medical Marijuana Access
GOPerverted Koch Roaches Need the Drug War for Profit
Got ALEC?
ALEC: The Voice of Corporate Special Interests In State Legislatures May 16
PFAW’s latest Right Wing Watch In Focus looks at the American Legislative Exchange Council, a right-wing policy group that funnels pro-corporate legislation to the states at the expense of citizens whose rights and interests are sold off to the highest bidder.
Soon after Drug Czar Turner left office, Nancy Reagan recommended that no corporation be permitted to do business with the Federal government without having a urine purity policy in place to show their loyalty. Carlton Turner became a rich man in what has now become a huge growth industry: urine-testing.
~ Official Corruption: Carlton Turner,
Jack Herer, Emperor Chapter# 15
Bush. Religious drug treatment in Texas - 06/10/00
CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex. - Over the door of one church-based drug treatment center in Houston, a sign printed in foot-high letters announces: "Drug Addiction Is NOT a Disease. It's a Sin." At another, clients pass by a poster of an addict in a hospital bed, ripping IV tubes out of his arms and throwing his pills in the garbage. An angel hovers nearby, offering her protection from this plague of prescriptions.
And at a Christian young adult home in Corpus Christi, police recently took the unusual step of arresting a supervisor after teenagers complained that they were beaten and roped to a bed, all in the name of Christian discipline. More arrests are anticipated, authorities say.
These are some of the results--expected and unexpected--of Gov. George W. Bush's "bold new experiment in welfare reform." With his conviction that religious groups can transform lives in ways government can't, Bush sponsored laws in 1997 that allow churches to provide social services their own way, outside the intrusive glare of the state.
The new laws exempted faith-based drug treatment programs from all state health and safety regulations followed by their secular counterparts, a list contained in a rule book as thick as a Russian novel that covers every detail from fire detectors to frayed carpets. Counselors in religious treatment programs now may skip the criminal background checks and hundreds of hours of training required of their state-licensed peers.
Calvina Fay Prohibition Inc.
Anti-Drug Campaigns Dumb Down Vital Message
Calvina Fay is the Executive Director of Drug Free America Foundation and Save Our Society From Drugs (S.O.S.) From 1976-1985 it was known as Straight, Inc. and had a reputation for abusing kids as a drug rehabilitation program. Mel Sembler and his wife Betty founded Straight, Inc. In 1985 it changed its name to Straight Foundation, Inc. in order to protect its money and its principals from civil suits. In 1995 it was changed again to Drug Free America Foundation. DFAF is a national and international drug policy think tank and provider of services for drug free work places.
Straight Inc., Legacy of Torture as Treatment
Straight Inc. was a drug rehabilitation program for teens, that operated from 1976-1993 in several states across America. Clients were forcibly indoctrinated with the program, deprived of all basic human rights until they could demonstrate a sincere internalization of the group's values. All clients underwent sleep deprivation, isolation, food and water deprivation, verbal and physical abuse as a matter of course. All forms of personal autonomy were considered privileges and were earned through adopting the abusive personality of a "Straightling."
America's Private Gulag - 04/21/01 19:39:46
What is the most profitable industry in America? Weapons, oil and computer technology all offer high rates of return, but there is probably no sector of the economy so abloom with money as the privately-run prison industry.
Boycott Koch Industry Products!
Slave Labor, Prison Privatization, Prison Industry
ALEC Conservatives push this agenda nationwide!
ALEC claims that corporations can run and operate these necessary programs and prisons more efficiently than public employees. They claim this will reduce government staffing and thus government payrolls and somehow make us all safer (corrections), smarter (school voucher programs), our kids better trained to enter the workplace (repeal of child labor laws) and help reduce municipal, city, state and county costs (using inmates in place of public employees).
"The horrors experienced by many young inmates, particularly those who are convicted of nonviolent offenses, border on the unimaginable. Prison rape not only threatens the lives of those who fall prey to their aggressors, but it is potentially devastating to the human spirit. Shame, depression, and a shattering loss of self-esteem accompany the perpetual terror the victim thereafter must endure." U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Farmer v. Brennan
Boehner & Cantor expose their ties to ALEC, Koch, CCA, Geo in 09 ALEC speeches!
Republicant dominated assemblies are also pushing for privatizing their state prison systems. Though on the surface this issue appears to lack the same seriousness as the right to work laws they're trying to implement, or the attacks on workers and Unions, but as you'll discover below, it is just as important - and in fact exposes the real agenda of these conservative lawmakers and Governors...tentacles of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and corporations such as Koch Industries. Many of us were unaware the new Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, John Boehner was a member of the notorious American Legislative Exchange Council back in the 80's when this agenda was developed and put into operation...or that House Majority Leader Cantor was a 2009 recipient of ALEC's "prestigious" Jefferson award!
Victims of Teabog rhetoric?
How the So-Called Guardians of Free Speech Are Silencing the Messenger
by: John Pilger, t r u t h o u t | News Analysis
As the United States and Britain look for an excuse to invade another oil-rich Arab country, the hypocrisy is familiar. Colonel Gaddafi is “delusional” and “blood-drenched” while the authors of an invasion that killed a million Iraqis, who have kidnapped and tortured in our name, are entirely sane, never blood-drenched and once again the arbiters of “stability.”
International Journal on Human Rights and Drug Policy
Fourth Amendment not valid if police say they thought they heard something.
'Relax Your Muscles as Much as Possible'
What's life like in our prisons for those 77,000 marijuana convicts? Let's steel our nerves and go visit the Web site www.spr.org, where the Los Angeles outfit "Stop Prisoner Rape" has posted the little plain-talking handbill it has prepared for young men entering our prison system, titled "For Prisoners: Advice on Avoiding HIV/AIDS."
The group's handout -- targeted primarily at heterosexual men who have no desire to ever be involved in homosexual activity -- advises:
"HIV/AIDS transmission during a sexual assault is a serious concern. The following are practical tips for reducing your risk. ...
If you have a choice, try to avoid men who used needles for drugs in the past or are still doing so. ... The more often you are raped, the more exposed you will be, so especially try to avoid anal gang-bangs. The most dangerous situation of all is if your %*!% is bleeding, for that allows easy entry of the virus into your bloodstream. So try to use a lubricant or grease or cream if you can to minimize injury to your delicate internal body parts, avoid anal gang-bangs, and if you must endure forced anal penetration, try to relax your muscles as much as possible. These tactics are not 'cooperating' or consenting, they are just common-sense measures to try to save your life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyRqo0lwUYQ
Straight, Inc. (1976-1993) publicly claimed to rehabilitate teenage drug users by using tough love and Alcoholics Anonymous principles. Straight, Inc. provided NO professional counseling: The REAL Straight, Inc. was a facility that used coercive thought reform (aka mind control, brainwashing), public humiliation, sleep & food deprivation, extremely harsh confrontational tactics, kidnapping, isolation and emotional, mental, psychological, verbal and physical abuse to forcibly break us down then remold us in the Straight, Inc. image.
Slave Labor Means Big Bucks For U.S. Corporations - 02/06/01 23:32:53
As if exploiting the labor of prison inmates was not bad enough, it is legal in the United States to use slave labor. The 13th Amendment of the Constitution states that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted shall exist within the United States."
Slavery: Another Fine Product Still Made in the USA! - 12/17/01 20:30:25
Contrary to what we may learn in school, the American Civil War did not see the complete abolition of slavery in 1865. The 13th Amendment to their constitution reads "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude except as punishment for a crime..."
Which justice system do we get?
Human Rights Watch has documented abominable conditions for children in detention in countries around the world. In the United States (Colorado, Georgia, Louisiana, and Maryland), Pakistan, Jamaica, among other countries, children are subjected to excessive force, inadequate medical and mental health care, and are provided with little or no education. Often, these children are placed in the facilities along side adults, exposing them to physical and sexual abuse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM6IsVGpO9A
Sembler and straight officials need to be sodomized daily in prison for what they have done to these kids!
THE TRUTH ABOUT OUR PRISONERS by Kay 'Grandma' Lee
U.S. prison population largest in world
Women in Prison
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E64lWEeg2A
AARC is a "treatment" program in Canada that uses the Straight, Inc., Synanon, SEED model. It is abusive. CBC News was good enough to expose this abuse and air it.
