Kevin “Rashid” Johnson - "First Do No Good:" the Hypocritical Oath of Prison Medical Care. It's Not Medical Care but Medical ‘professionals’ who Don’t Care

By [Kevin Rashid Johnson] who is Black prisoner currently being denied cancer treatment at Nottoway, a Virginia state prison. Rashid is a Black Panther, realitarian and writer and artist.

THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH VERSUS THE HYPOCRITICAL OATH

The Hippocratic Oath, often reduced to the four words “First do no harm,” is one of the oldest professional pledges in Western society. Still preserved and taken by medical professionals in various forms today, it is a commitment to provide patients with healing care, to protect their privacy, and so on.

In the profit-driven medical industries of capitalist society the pledge amounts to little more than rhetoric, but even worse is the context of U.S. prisons (the world’s largest prison system) where its purpose is turned in its head to one of “First do no good.”

The grossness of medical neglect and abuse in Amerikan prisons would likely shock many in society, and is such a common condition that almost any case of prisoners’ medical treatment can be given as proof of this inhumane reality. In fact I need look no further for a random example than the prisoner housed in the cell right next to me here at Virginia’s Nottoway Correctional (sic!) Center.

UNTREATED BROKEN BONES AND LOST VISION—THE PRODUCT OF PRISON MEDICAL CARE

My neighbor is Jaxon Chavez Reyes, #1527438. Jaxon has had not one but two recent serious injuries needing medical care, which was essentially not given. As a result he has suffered a now permanently broken jaw and partial blindness in his left eye.

His first injury, a broken jaw, happened on June 27, 2022 while he was playing soccer. Jaxon immediately submitted emergency complaints of needing medical care, and was seen by the prison dentist who examined him and declared she could not treat him. He was sent to an outside hospital for x-rays that confirmed his jaw was broken, but he was returned to the prison without treatment.

It took him and other prisoners complaining that he needed care for his jaw for him to be sent out and admitted to another hospital on July 12, 2022, where he was belatedly scheduled to receive surgery to repair his jaw on July 15, 2022. However, on July 14th, the day before his scheduled surgery, prison officials removed him from the hospital and returned him to prison without treatment.

When he and other prisoners continued protesting his denial and need of care, he was taken back to the hospital two weeks later on August 1, 2022; where doctors told him it was by then too late to treat his broken jaw, since the delays and interruptions in care by the prison and it’s medical staff caused his jaw to progress too far in healing in its broken state, so that now he has been left with an untreated, permanently deformed, and painful jaw.

Jaxon’s second untreated injury is even more egregious, and stems from the disregard and inhumane treatments prisoners suffer as slave laborers. Jaxon works in the prison’s kitchen for only a nominal payment of a few cents per hour. Although he is forced to work with hazardous chemicals and under other dangerous conditions, he and the other prisoner workers receive no protective equipment or gear, and receive no safety or health instructions or precautions, as is given workers in society.

On July 5, 2022, a concentrated chemical degreaser called Native Green was sprayed into his left eye, causing severe irritation, burning, and redness. The warning label on this chemical warns that skin and eye protection should be worn by anyone working with the agent, and a poison control center and emergency care should be immediately consulted should skin or eye contact occur. Also immediate flushing of the affected areas.

When the chemical got into his eye Jaxon immediately sought emergency medical help, but was told by the prison medical staff it was not an emergency, and he was left to merely rinse his own eye with water. Nothing was done to treat his eye or even determine what the chemical was that got in it.

It wasn’t until his eye became blood red, he lost vision in it, and several other prisoners went with him to the medical department to demand care for him that he was sent out to a hospital several days later; where doctors immediately questioned why the prison’s medical staff waited so long to get him to a hospital.

At the hospital he had to wait several hours for the prison to find out and inform the doctors what the chemical was that contaminated his eye. Then came efforts to treat his eye, which yet again was by then too little too late. As a result Jaxon is now partially blind in his left eye.

THIS IS NOT MEDICAL CARE IT’S MEDICAL ‘PROFESSIONALS’ THAT DON’T CARE

Jaxon’s experiences came at the hands of the same prison medical department and staff that has left me with untreated cancer for nearly a year, and untested for over six months after they knew that cancer specific blood tests showed that I likely had cancer. They have been deliberately allowing needless delays in testing and care that will assure the spread and growth of my cancer so that it will almost certainly prove fatal.

We are subjected to extreme suffering and permanent injury, and even murder by medical neglect, at the hands of an indifferent and negligent medical bureaucracy that simply doesn’t care. Many of these prison medical officials are people who cannot find work in society because of lack of professional ethics or concern for patients. In prison jobs they are free to commit the grossest malpractice because the people of color and poor people who are the disproportionate targets of U.S. mass imprisonment are demonized in the public eye, as we have been throughout Amerikan history, so that the public remains indifferent and blinded to our exploitation and brutality at the hands of this profit-driven system. This is the basis of the hypocritical standard of harm we suffer at the hands of the prison medical industry. An industry that, like the public medical industry, must be dismantled and replaced with one that is people-and not profit-centered.

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Larken Rose: The Belief in Authority, that Certain People Have the Right to rule over others who are legally obligated to obey is Irrational and Insane

According to FUNKTIONARY:

authority - (from the root word author)—which means to originate. Only you have authority over your Self...anything else. i.e.. to accept any authority external to one's Self once of discriminating age, is the very definition of irresponsibility. There is no freedom in the presence of so-called authority, i.e. outside of one's Self and Self-Nature.) 2) the handmaiden of autonomy. 3) internal power. 4) Nommo. All authority, like the kingdom of heaven, is within. Be an authority unto yourself as all authority should come from your own authentic experience—that is the only source or wellspring of authority. Authority is the means by which society uses to control its population. Ignoring or belittling authority does not mean people are either good or bad, whether or not they are punished for their insubordination. Healthy people do not need authority figures to tell them what to do, but only the knowledge of themselves. You can teach a parrot to quote from either scripture or statute, but a parrot is not an authority. Only by you becoming truth do you have authority to speak—and then only on your behalf (i.e., your inner truth), your innerstanding. An authority is an eyewitness or an I-witness. and to picture the dynamic truth no proofs or negatives are needed nor possible—as reality isn't certain or static. When you are dead to sin and Alive to the God-Self-Divine, you become the Buddha, the Christ, the true authority within. (See: Obedience, Predictive Programming. Autonomy, Anarchy, Nommo, Sin, Alive. Authentic, Responsitivity, Dharma, Follower, Spontaneity, Conditioning, Conditions, Freedom & Responsibility) [MORE]

'Just b/c Your Hands are Up Doesn't Mean Cops Won't Shoot:' Suit says Newark Never Explained Why a Plainclothes Cop Jumped Out an Unmarked Van and Shot Carl Dorsey to Death or What crime he committed

From [HERE] The family of Carl Dorsey III, a South Orange resident who was fatally shot by a Newark Police Department detective, is still seeking answers from authorities around the shooting incident more than a year after his death.

Without even as much of an update from the Attorney General’s Office on an investigation into the incident to date, the grieving family has taken legal action, announcing Wednesday that they filed a civil lawsuit in State Superior Court against the Newark Police Department, the City of Newark, and the officers involved for the unwarranted and unlawful killing of Dorsey.

“We announced this today, not in a joyful mood but in a sorrowful, somber mood knowing that this is a journey that this family is going to have to move forward with,” said Robert Tarver Jr., an attorney representing Dorsey’s family in the lawsuit.

The lawsuit comes after Dorsey was killed in a police shooting that occurred on Jan. 1, 2021. At approximately 12:03 a.m. near Woodland Avenue and South 11th Street in Newark.

Officers, including Det. Rod Simpkins, had reportedly arrived on the scene after hearing gunshots fired in the area. 

Private security camera video confiscated by the police and later released by New Jersey's attorney general shows Dorsey running across the street as an unmarked van appears in the frame and comes to a screeching halt. A detective Simpkins quickly exits the sliding door of the van and then he appears to intentionally run into Dorsey in order to stop or slow him down.

After the detective collides with Dorsey he turns and shoots Dorsey dead. Dorsey falls to the ground, where he is no longer visible between the cars. It is not clear how many times Simpkins discharged his weapon or how many bullets struck Dorsey.   

The officer gets to his feet and walks toward Dorsey as two more officers emerge from the car.

Four more officers then run on screen from farther back up the street passing the area of the shooting and heading down the street. Simpkins is still standing over Dorsey on the ground.  He then walks away in the direction of the other officers. They all disappear off screen before someone walks back up the sidewalk and appears to bend down toward the victim. A group of officers also walk back and gather around where the man is lying on the ground. 

During the 1 minute 46 second footage, no one is seen administering medical assistance. 

The video is the only footage so far found of the incident. There is no dashcam or bodycam footage from the incident because the police claim no video exists and New Jersey state law does not require plainclothes officers to use them.

The state Attorney General's Office, which is investigating the fatal shooting, said no weapon was recovered from Dorsey or from the immediate area. 

Tarver said during a press conference held at the Gateway Center in Newark that the video of the shooting incident demonstrated that Dorsey posed no threat to police and that he was shot while moving away from officers.

“You can take a look at the video. The video is clear. The video is unambiguous,” Tarver asserted.

Weeks after the shooting, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said that he found the information to be “tragic and disturbing" but incomplete.

“While the Attorney General’s Office is conducting an ongoing investigation, we are asking the public’s help to fill in some gaps,” Baraka said in a statement. "We will be asking the Attorney General’s Office to turn over information to our consent decree unit to review if the use of force or any other policy was violated.”

Charges in the lawsuit include the use of excessive, unlawful force and that the city failed to correct a pattern and practice of unlawful behavior that had not been corrected.

The lawsuit states that in 2009, Simpkins was a defendant in a lawsuit in which he was alleged to have pulled over, in plainclothes, a football coach and two teenagers. The lawsuit states that during the motor vehicle stop, Simpkins pointed his gun at the people in the vehicle and told them, “You have no f***ing rights.”

Madinah Person, Dorsey’s sister, said her family was “devastated by the whole experience.”

“I would just like to say to the officer that killed my brother and to the officers that watched him die on the concrete that I’m very disappointed in you as human beings,” said Person. “I’m very disappointed in you as cops and using your right to protect and serve. You did not protect and serve my brother. 

The lack of response from authorities has irked community leaders, too.

Larry Hamm, chair of local social justice advocacy group People’s Organization For Progress, has led multiple rallies and marches across Newark to raise awareness around what he believes was an unjust killing of Dorsey.

“Carl Dorsey should be alive today,” Hamm said. “But he was a victim - as far as we're concerned - of the use of excessive force. Over the past 18 months, we have organized protests to bring public attention to the death of Carl Dorsey because we have determined to not let this get swept under the rug.”

What’s even more frustrating for the family, Tarver said, is that it remains unclear if any corrective action was taken against Simpkins for the fatal shooting. Following the shooting, the detective was placed on administrative leave until an investigation is complete.

The "War on Cops" is Propaganda, Lies. The No. of Line-of-duty Deaths Declined Over the Past 5 Decades. 4X as Many Cops Killed Themselves than Were Killed in 2021, At Least 20 Jobs are More Dangerous

Textbooks aside, we must recognize that defensive projection is a way of life, a way of being and moving in the world.

Authority Falsely Attributes its Violence to Citizens to Transform its Evil Into Positive Images

The "War on Cops" is propaganda. Contrary to authoritarian propaganda designed to control thought and manufacture false relations, multiple studies reveal that it is safer than ever to be a police officer! The number of line-of-duty deaths has declined dramatically over the last five decades. Policing is a much safer profession now than it was 50 years ago.

POLICING NOT EVEN IN THE TOP 20 MOST DANGEROUS JOBS

Yahoo observes, America loses a lot of working people every year due to occupational hazards. According to the U.S. Bureau of labor statistics' Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, 5,333 fatal workplace injuries were reported in America in 2019. This was up 2% from number of work-related fatalities witnessed in 2018 and the largest annual fatality number since 2007. The fatal work injury rate was recorded to be 3.5 per 100,000 full-time equivalent (FTE) workers for 2019, the same as that of 2018.

One would think that becoming a police officer or a firefighter would be the most daring thing to do, data shows otherwise. The most dangerous job in America is being a truck driver. The number of deaths for firefighters in 2019 was only 8, and for police officers, the number was 86. Driver/sales workers and truck drivers accounted for a major chunk of the total number of fatalities in 2019, having recorded 1005 fatal injuries. 732 people died from coming into contact with objects and equipment in 2019. The leading players in the power tools, industrial, and household tools are Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. (NYSE: SWK), Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT), and Hitachi, Ltd. (TYO: HTHIY). These companies have to up their manufacturing game by making "safer" tools. The alarming number of deaths caused by coming in contact with objects and equipment malfunction can be significantly reduced if tools with enhanced safety features are available in the market. The most common cause for the deaths recorded in 2019 was transportation incidents, registering a count of 2,122, followed by falls, slips, and trips that accounted for 880 of the 5,333 total fatalities. [MORE]

WAR ON COPS IS A BELIEF SYSTEM OF MINDLESS DOGMA

TechDirt explained, Evidence abounds that it's safer to be a cop now than it's ever been, and yet, officers still claim they're being targeted and use these unfounded fears to obtain military equipment and qualified immunity rulings.

We've covered how safe police work is before. But the narrative coming from the law enforcement community refuses to change, despite evidence to the contrary. Research is piling up, exposing law enforcement agencies' claims of cops being targeted by a vengeful populace as a self-serving lie. At best, these claims are merely wrong. But given the easy access to law enforcement officer death data, a refusal to see the stats for what they are is incredibly disingenuous at best.

Adding yet more documentation to the pile is a study released by researchers from three American universities. The study [PDF] shows policing just keeps getting safer.

The number of line-of-duty deaths has declined dramatically over the last five decades. Policing is a much safer profession now than it was 50 years ago. Despite a 75% drop in deaths, however, there has been remarkable stability in geographic-, temporal-, and incident-level characteristics. Also, several notable changes over time reflect favorably on improved safety in policing, such as declines in deaths resulting from aircraft crashes and accidental gunfire. Other trends are troubling, though, such as the stability in deaths during auto pursuits and a two-fold increase in deaths from vehicular assaults. Currently, the “war on cops” thesis is not supported by any evidence, and we apply the 50-year lens in this study to provide important context for understanding recent trends in officer deaths.

The number of deaths continues to drop despite a few high-profile incidents in which cops were targeted and killed. What's interesting is officers' lack of concern for their own safety, as is evidenced by the numbers of deaths related to vehicle pursuits.

Interestingly, deaths occurring during automobile pursuits remained stable over time (5% to 6%) despite policy changes adopted by departments to restrict and control pursuits (Alpert, 1997).

In addition, significant shifts in cause of death occurred among nonfelonious cases. The most common cause was automobile/motorcycle accidents, and the proportion increased significantly over time from 37.9% in 1970–1979 to 52.0% in 2000–2016.

There's nothing "interesting" about this. Departments have regularly enacted policies meant to curb the use of high-speed pursuits to capture criminal suspects. Just as regularly, officers have ignored these policies. There is also an observed tendency for officers to drive aggressively when responding to calls, increasing the chance of accidents, injuries, and death.

Aggressive action by officers -- not just in terms of driving, but also in terms of interactions with the public -- appears to be greeted in kind.

Researchers have also documented an association between aggressive patrol style and greater rates of assault (Kaminski et al., 2003; Morrison & Meyer, 1974; Regens et al., 1974; but see Wilson & Zhao, 2008). Fridell et al. (2009: 550) concluded that “agencies that have a culture of aggressiveness will likely ‘produce,’ not just more force against subjects, but also violence against police.”

Escalation remains a problem. De-escalation could save lives, as could simply treating the suspects like human beings, rather than punching bags or bullet receptacles. Aggressive tactics are making cops less safe in an era of unprecedented officer safety. [MORE]

COPS KILL THEMSELVES

In reality cops are more like to kill themselves than to be killed by citizens. As the number of officers killed in the line of duty decreased, the number of cops taking their own lives has increased. The website Blue H.E.L.P. (Honor. Educate. Lead. Prevent.) has been tracking these numbers for years in an attempt to prevent police officer suicides.

Cops are killing themselves at a rate nearly equal to 4 times the rate they are dying in the line of duty and this subject seems entirely taboo. Last year, it was nearly five times higher.

A report commissioned by the Ruderman Family Foundation showed that officers’ highest risk of death is by suicide with most deaths in California and Texas. [MORE]

Miami Firefighter Fired after Making Truthful Statements, “Cops exist for the government to exercise its monopoly on violence. All cops are good for is protecting rich property owners, status quo”

From [HERE] and [HERE] A white Miami firefighter has been fired after text messages surfaced of him criticizing law enforcement.

• The firefighter texted "who cares?" regarding the death of a Miami-Dade police officer, per reports.

• The firefighter later apologized, saying the deceased police officer "did not deserve any of this."

A Miami firefighter has been fired after text messages surfaced of him harshly criticizing law enforcement following the death of a Miami-Dade police officer.

Kevin Newcomb of the City of Miami Fire Rescue was removed from duty and then fired on Friday following "antagonistic" messages he sent in a group chat about fallen Miami-Dade Police Officer Cesar Echaverry, a spokesperson told WSVN 7News.

Echaverry, 29, was critically injured in a shooting on Monday, and he died in the hospital two days later, 7News reported.

"Who cares? Another dead cop, probably against gun control. They didn't give an [expletive] when kids were dying in that school shooting they stood outside," Newcomb wrote in a group chat, per 7News.

He appeared to be referring to the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, where hundreds of law enforcement officers were criticized for waiting over an hour before confronting the shooter, who killed 19 students and 2 teachers.

Newcomb's text message continued:

"Cops exist for the government to exercise its monopoly on violence. They want the whole world to stop when one of theirs goes down. How many idiots I had to transport with honor guard their dead bodies from coronavirus because they all were too stupid to wear masks or get vaccinated? All cops are good for is protecting the rich property owners and the status quo. Everything else is a farce. [Expletive] the police."

Miami Fire Rescue Chief Joseph Zahralban said Newcomb's texts make it "impossible" for him to "carry out his duties as a first responder in the City of Miami," according to 7News.

"We have confirmed that the firefighter in question authored a written statement using a social media platform that demonstrated a disregard for human life, demonstrated a violent and antagonistic stance towards civil servants and represented conduct unbecoming of a Miami Firefighter," Zahralban said in a statement, per 7News.

In a statement to 7News, Newcomb apologized for writing the text messages.

"I am writing this to apologize for the statements that have been circulating that I made earlier this week with some friends in a private chat," Newcomb told 7News. "I sincerely apologize to those closest to officer Echaverry who have been made to feel more pain because of my words. I wish I could take them back."

He added: "I hope that my actions do not continue to distract from the mourning of Officer Echaverry, who did not deserve any of this."

Black Gun Owner Discovers "Rights" are Just Favors from Master in Liberal Cleveland. Suit Filed after White Cops Arrested Him for Carrying a Gun, which the Ohio and US Constitution Say Citizens Can Do

The quality of Black citizenship is so low that; no matter what the law says, Blacks are prohibited from possessing guns. [MORE] According to FUNKTIONARY

adherent rights – privileges disguised as so-called “rights” created by men via deceptive word-manipulation in written form called “symbolaeography,” and legal documents. 2) privileges granted by an apparent or putative authority at the expense of one's inherent or unalienable ‘rights.’ (See: Inherent Rights & Rights)

REALITY 101 – THE DISTURBING AND PERHAPS EVEN ASTONISHING FACT THAT TRUTH AND REALITY ARE INCOMPATIBLE. FOR UNCOUNTED CENTURIES WE’VE WANDERED TRUTH’S DESERTS, WASTING LIFE ALONG THE WAY. THE CAUSES OF OUR FAILURES AND THEIR REMEDIES WILL NEVER BE FOUND WHERE MOST PEOPLE WASTE TIME ARGUING. THAT RULES OUT RELIGIOUS OPINION, THE MAKING OF LAWS, POLITICS, SCIENCE, IDEOLOGIES, SCIENCE, ECONOMICS, PSYCHOLOGY, TRADITIONAL EDUCATION, SOLCIOLOGY, OR OTHER SUPERFICIAL ANALYSES OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR. OH, THEY HAVE THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS (ALBEIT LIMITED), TO BE SURE, BUT UNTIL AND UNLESS WE GO DEEPER TO EXPLORE THE IDEAS WE HAVE ABOUT REALITY AND ITS ATTRIBUTES, WHICH UNDERLIE ALL ARGUMENTS, WE STUMBLE BLINDLY ALONG. UNDER ALL IS INFINITY. THE MOST IMPORTANT FACT OF EXISTENCE THE WORLD KNOWS NOTHING OF IS THAT REALITY IS A STATE OF INFINITY, WHICH IMPLIES UNCERTAINTY, CHANGE AND IMPERFECTION. THE SECRETS OF INFINITY BRIDGE THE GULF BETWEEN WHAT IS AND WHAT COULD BE. THE IMPLICATIONS OF INFINITY HOLD THE PROMISES OF INFINITY: FREEDOM, CREATIVITY AND LOVE. IN THE PROMISES OF INFINITY ARE THE ANSWERS TO EVERYTHING! WE MUST FIRST JUDGE CIVILIZATION BY ITS CONSCIOUSNESS; JUDGE CONSCIOUSNESS BY ITS TRUTHS; AND JUDGE TRUTH BY REALITY. THEN, CHANGE CIVILIZATION BY CHANGING ITS CONSCIOUSNESS. CHANGE CONSCIOUSNESS BY CHANGING ITS TRUTHS; AND CHANGE ITS TRUTHS BY CHANGING ITS UNDERSTANDING OF REALITY. [MORE]

From [HERE] A Black man arrested while openly carrying firearms on the city’s East Side, is suing the city and more than a dozen police officers in federal court.

The lawsuit, filed Monday, alleges the city violated Antoine Tolbert’s civil rights when he was arrested and brought to jail overnight on May 23,, 2022.

It’s legal to openly carry firearms in Ohio.

Tolbert had a shotgun in his hand and a handgun in a holster as he walked down St. Clair Avenue. He’s part of a local activist group called New Era Cleveland that conducts armed security patrols as a way to help prevent gun violence and has spoken to classes of police cadets about policing in Cleveland.

Body camera footage from the incident shows the first officers at the scene allowing him to continue without being arrested, with one describing an arrest as a “lawsuit waiting to happen.” But when a sergeant named Lance Henderson arrives, he makes the decision to arrest Tolbert.

“He can’t walk down the street with a firearm in his hand,” Henderson told an officer at the scene. “Holster is one thing. But walking down the street with a firearm in his hand. Can’t do that.”

Initial police reports indicate Tolbert was arrested for inducing panic and carrying a concealed weapon but was released without formal charges. On body cam footage, Sgt. Henderson can be heard saying the charges include improperly handling a firearm, which applies to carrying a gun in a motor vehicle.

“Officers cannot merely just decide to arrest somebody, detain somebody and take them down to the county jail just because they don’t like something that they’re doing,” said Tolbert’s attorney, Tiana Bohanon. “He had not been carrying any concealed weapon and he had not been improperly handling a firearm inside any motor vehicle.”

Tolbert is asking for damages from the city of Cleveland and 14 police officers involved in the incident.

In addition to spending the night in jail, Tolbert lost a new job at the community development organization Burten, Bell, Carr. He was also forced to move out of his house temporarily because his wife’s ex-husband was using video of the encounter to seek full custody of their young child.

For 8 Minutes 7 Cops and 2 Paramedics Stood and Watched as a Latino Teen Hung Himself, but None Intervened at Rikers, a Reprehensible Jail Run by Liberals. 4 Cops Now Charged w/Felonies

From [FTP] Eight minutes — this is the amount of time multiple officers and a captain stood by and watched as 18-year-old Nicholas Feliciano wrapped a homemade noose around his neck and proceeded to hang himself in a jail cell. More than a half dozen officers and jail staff did nothing as he hung from his neck, flailed around before going completely limp.

Only after watching the 18-year-old go still and his lifeless body hang limp in the jail cell did anyone move to cut him down. On Nov. 27, 2019, the rope was cut and Feliciano's limp body slammed to the floor.

According to court documents, Feliciano used a sweater to try to hang himself from a U-shaped piece of metal in the ceiling above the toilet. The ceiling fixture was supposed to have been removed after another detainee had used it to attempt suicide six days earlier. It was not.

For seven minutes and 51 seconds, seven correction officers, a captain and two paramedics walked by or watched on from a guard station as Feliciano hung himself, and according to the surveillance footage, not a single one of them acted.

For three years as Feliciano remained hospitalized with severe brain damage, requiring round-the-clock care, not a single one of the officers faced charges, and, in fact, they all continued to collect their paychecks from the New York City Department of Corrections.

Last week, however, that changed and Darcel D. Clark, the Bronx district attorney who has jurisdiction over Rikers Island, filed felony charges against four of the officers involved.

The NY Times reports:

A spokeswoman for the Bronx district attorney’s office said that the cases against the guards took nearly three years to prosecute because the city Department of Investigation brought them first to federal prosecutors before taking them to Ms. Clark’s office.

Charged with official misconduct and reckless endangerment on Monday were the correction captain, Terry Henry, 37, and Officers Kenneth Hood, 35, Daniel Fullerton, 27, and Mark Wilson, 46. All four men pleaded not guilty and were released without bail. Their lawyers declined to comment.

Mr. Feliciano’s family welcomed the charges against the officers on Monday but said they were too slow in coming.

“These officers should have been indicted a long time ago instead of still working at Rikers Island while Nicholas was still in the hospital trying to live,” Feliciano’s grandmother, Madeline Feliciano, said in an interview. “It hurts. It’s very painful. It is devastating to see him the way he is because of somebody’s negligence.”

Despite the fact that four other officers were present and watching Feliciano hang himself, none of them have been charged or fired and all but one is still working at Rikers. [MORE]

Over the Objections of the Victims Family Texas Murdered a Laotian Man Whose Conviction Relied on Discredited Forensics to Get Revenge for the Victims Family. He was Unarmed and Strapped to Chair

From [DPIC] Texas authorities murdered a Laotian man who fatally stabbed a white suburban Dallas real estate agent more than 16 years ago, the second execution this year in what has been the nation’s busiest death penalty state.

He was unarmed and strapped to a chair. [MORE]

Kosoul Chanthakoummane is the second defendant of color in less than a month to be put to death over the objection of the victim’s family.

Chanthakoummane was convicted and sentenced to death in Collin County for the 2006 murder of Sarah Walker, a real estate agent who was found murdered in a model home. He has long maintained his innocence. 

Chanthakoummane’s conviction relied on bite-mark analysis and witness hypnosis, two discredited forensic techniques, and statistically flawed DNA testimony. The son of Laotian refugees who escaped to the United States during the Vietnam war, Chanthakoummane admits that he stopped in the model home because he was having car trouble. While there, he says, he got a glass of water from the sink, leaving behind his DNA. Prosecutors say his DNA was found under Walker’s fingernails and in various locations throughout the house.

Walker’s father, Joe Walker, said in a video, “I don’t have any hate towards him at all. I don’t want him put to death.”

When her body was discovered, Sarah Walker had a bite mark on the back of her neck. Prosecutors retained forensic dentistry consultant Brent Hutson to try to link Chanthakoummane to that bite. Hutson made a mold of the bite and, using Adobe Photoshop, compared it to a mold of Chanthakoummane’s teeth. At trial, Hutson testified that he was “unable to exclude [Chanthakoummane] from that population of individuals that could have inflicted this injury.”

Bite mark evidence is notoriously unreliable and was been discredited by the National Academies of Science, which, in its landmark August 2009 report by its National Research Council, Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward, found “no evidence of an existing scientific basis for identifying an individual to the exclusion of all others.” As of 2019, false bite mark testimony had been implicated in 31 wrongful convictions. In 2016, the Texas Forensic Science Commission joined the National Academies in concluding that “there is no scientific basis for stating that a particular patterned injury can be associated to an individual’s dentition,” and recommended that bitemark testimony no longer be permitted in criminal cases.

Prosecutors also presented testimony from two witnesses who testified that they had seen a “man of Asian descent” walking toward the model home on the day of Walker’s murder. However, Texas Ranger Richard Shing had hypnotized the witnesses, encouraging them to use their “mind’s eye” to imagine the suspect from different angles. Hypnosis of witnesses and suspects was widely used by the Texas Rangers until 2021, when they suspended its use because it can lead to false or misleading testimony.

In seeking the death penalty against Chanthakoummane, prosecutors ignored the vocal objections of the victim’s family. At Sarah Walker’s funeral, her father asked those in attendance to pray for her murderer. He also told prosecutors that he did not want them to seek the death penalty. In a video, Joe Walker, who has since died, said, “I’d be foolish to say I wasn’t angry about [the murder]. But I’m not angry enough to reject the Lord and his teachings. … Our Lord said that the greater the sinner, the more entitled they are to mercy.” 

In 2017, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (TCCA) granted Chanthakoummane a stay of execution and directed the trial court to hold a hearing on his junk science claims. At that hearing, Chanthakoummane presented expert testimony that the hypnotically refreshed testimony against him was unreliable, that bite-mark identification testimony has no scientific validity, and that the prosecution testimony on DNA relied on erroneous data in the FBI DNA database and flawed statistical methodology. The trial court rejected his claims, signing the proposed factfinding submitted by Collin County prosecutors verbatim.

In 2020, a badly divided TCCA voted to uphold his conviction and death sentence. Four judges agreed that Chanthakoummane had shown that the prosecution had presented false DNA testimony, but found that proper DNA analysis would still have pointed to him as having been present at the crime scene and the contributor of DNA found under the victim’s fingernails. The majority also agreed that the bite-mark testimony had been discredited, but deemed its use harmless in light of the remaining evidence against him. The court also rejected Chanthakoummane’s challenge to the use of hypnotically-induced testimony on procedural grounds, saying that the flawed nature of the practice was already known and should have been raised at the time of trial. Three judges dissented, saying the court should have agreed to review the constitutionality of the hypnosis evidence.

Chanthakoummane is one of sixteen defendants sentenced to death in Collin County, three-quarters of whom have been Asian (2), Black (3), or Latinx (7). Seven of those defendants have been executed, five of whom were Black (2) or Latinx (3).

South Carolina "Whichcraft" Law Challenged: Court Hears Expert Evidence On Execution Law that Forces People to Choose between Authorities Murdering Them by Electrocution or Firing Squad

From [EJI] A Richland County court heard expert evidence last week in a lawsuit challenging a law that forces people facing execution to choose between electrocution and firing squad. 

The plaintiffs—four people sentenced to death in South Carolina—argue that both methods violate South Carolina’s constitutional prohibition against cruel, corporal, or unusual punishments. 

“The electric chair and the firing squad are antiquated, barbaric methods of execution that virtually all American jurisdictions have left behind,” the plaintiffs alleged in their lawsuit.

In 2021, South Carolina passed a new law providing that, if the department of corrections determines that lethal injection is not available, the person will be electrocuted in South Carolina’s 110-year-old electric chair unless they elect death by firing squad. The person is required to make that election in writing before the execution date.

Richard Moore was scheduled to be executed on April 29, 2022. South Carolina corrections officials said they could not obtain lethal injection drugs, which forced Mr. Moore to elect death by firing squad to avoid the electric chair.

“I believe this election is forcing me to choose between two unconstitutional methods of execution,” Mr. Moore said in a written statement on April 15, “and I do not intend to waive any challenges to electrocution or firing squad by making an election.”

The state supreme court issued stays of execution for Richard Moore and Brad Sigmon, who faced a May 13, 2022, execution date, which allowed their lawsuit to proceed to a hearing.

Electrocution and Firing Squad Both “Painful and Excruciating”

At the hearing in Richland County last week, South Carolina Department of Corrections director Bryan Stirling and Colie Rushton, director of security and emergency operations, testified about their knowledge of execution protocols—or lack thereof.

As the Greenville News reported, Mr. Stirling said he did not know the age of the state’s electric chair and was not involved in any testing of the chair. Both Stirling and Rushton, who has worked at SCDC for nearly five decades, said they did not know why a specific three-phase voltage and timing sequence is used in electrocutions.

Mr. Rushton testified that he developed the state’s firing squad protocol based on information from Utah—one of four states where the firing squad is legal—and the internet.

John Wikswo, a Vanderbilt Univeristy professor with expertise in molecular physiology and biomedical engineering, testified that no scientific evidence shows that electrocution causes instantaneous or painless death. He added: “The animal husbandry community, after intense work, has concluded that they would not do to an animal in the slaughterhouse what is done in South Carolina in the death penalty.” 

On Wednesday, forensic pathologist Dr. Jonathan Arden joined three expert witnesses for the State to testify about the effect of electrocution on the  brain, heart, and skin and how quickly someone may lose consciousness when shot directly in the heart by a firing squad, the Greenville News reported.

Dr. Arden testified that, “As long as the person is still conscious when that person would be perceiving the high voltage of electricity through his or her body, that in and of itself would be painful and excruciating.”

“I’m sorry to have to say this so plainly, but you get the effects on parts of the body, including internal organs, that’s the equivalent of cooking,” he said.

In firing squad executions, “bullets have to break through soft tissue and bones to reach the heart, where sharpshooters are aiming,” Dr. Arden testified. “If someone were to be shot like that and then have a brief period of consciousness and were to breathe or move, that person would be experiencing excruciating pain.”

Dr. D’Michelle DuPre, a former police officer and medical examiner, said that the firing squad would be “very rapid” and painless—but only if the shooters have the requisite level of marksmanship skill. She admitted on cross examination that she’d seen nothing in the protocol requiring a certain level of marksmanship for the shooters. 

And even purportedly qualified marksmen have failed to hit their target. Wallace Wilkerson suffered for 27 minutes after a Utah firing squad shot him in the torso and arm, shattering the bone; and in 1951, another Utah firing squad shot Eliseo Mares in the hip and abdomen, rather than the heart, and he bled to death painfully over the course of several minutes.

Closing arguments completed the hearing last Thursday. The court has 30 days to issue a decision, according to the state supreme court’s order.

[In The Free Range Prison You Either Comply or Go to Jail. "Rights" are Theater for Your Mind] WV Slave Catcher Cops Arrest Black Man for Failing to Disprove that Marijuana Near His House is Not His

NO RIGHT TO BE LEFT THE FUCK ALONE, EVEN IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE IN THE FREE RANGE PRISON. From [HERE] What you’re about to see here is outrageous body cam footage that has never before been seen by anyone, other than law enforcement. It shows what happened to my clients, Jason Tartt, the property owner and landlord, as well as Donnie and Ventriss Hairston, his innocent and mistreated tenants, on August 7, 2020, when they were subjected to civil rights violations by two deputies with the McDowell County Sheriff’s Office, Dalton Martin and Jordan Horn. 

Today we filed a federal civil rights lawsuit, which is posted below. But you can watch the footage for yourself. Before the body cams were turned on, what you need to know is that there was a complaint received that an abandoned church, in an overgrown parcel of land not owned by any of these individuals, apparently had four marijuana plants growing there, among the thick brush. Crime of the century, right? The perpetrators must be one of the elderly African American residents nearby, of course. Instead of treating them as human beings, let’s accuse them first thing, then mistreat, harass, and retaliate against, them if they dare to get uppity, or not know their place. 

Donnie and Ventriss Hairston were sitting on the front porch of their rural home, when two deputies approached and began to harass and intimidate them. Their landlord, who lives next door, joined them shortly afterwards and began to ask questions. When they asserted their opinions and rights, retaliation ensued. The landlord, Jason Tartt, was seized and arrested. The Hairstons were shoved into their home against their will. This is never before seen footage, outside of law enforcement of course. Take a look and form your own opinion about what happened.

POSSESSION CAN BE ACTUAL OR CONSTRUCTIVE. CONTRABAND NOT ON YOUR PROPERTY CANNOT BE ACTUAL. "CONSTRUCTIVE POSSESSION REQUIRES PROOF BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT THAT A DEFENDANT KNEW OF THE CONTRABAND’S LOCATION; HAD THE ABILITY TO EXERCISE DOMINION AND CONTROL OVER IT; AND INTENDED TO EXERCISE SUCH DOMINION AND CONTROL." SO, IT’S NOT EVEN CLOSE HERE - COPS HAVE NO FACTS, JUST THEIR IMAGINATIONS.

IMPORTANTLY, WV COPS HAVE NO RIGHT TO DEMAND ID UNLESS THE INITIAL SEIZURE OF THE PERSON WAS CONSTITUTIONAL - MEANING THAT COPS HAVE REASONABLE, ARTICULABLE, AND PARTICULARIZED SUSPICION THAT THE PERSON IS ENGAGED IN CRIMINAL ACTIVITY. COPS HAD NO SUCH BASIS, ONLY A STUPID GUESS THAT PLANTS IN THE VICINITY MIGHT BELONG TO SOMEONE IN THE HOUSE. MORE ON SO-CALLED “RIGHTS” BELOW.

HERE WE ALSO SEE MORE ACCUSATIONS OR ALLEGATIONS THEMSELVES AS THE ACTUAL PROOF. REVERSING THE ENTIRE PREMISE OF THE LEX-ICON IN THE SPECTACLE, “GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT” (BURDEN SHIFTING). SAID FASCIST TENDENCY HAS APPEARED IN MANY CONTEXTS LATELY IN THIS SYSTEM OF LAW OVER HUMANITY AND AUTHORITY WORSHIP. FOR INSTANCE, ALL FALSE FLAGS OPERATE ON SAID PRINCIPAL; AUTHORITIES MAKE THE ALLEGATION AND DARE YOU TO DISAGREE. ALSO THE “ME 2” MOVEMENT AND THE JAN 6TH HONKEY-KONG ALLEGATIONS COMMITTEE. NO NEED TO PROVE ANYTHING WITH EVIDENCE IN AN ADVERSARIAL FORUM, JUST ACCUSE.

SUCH HYPOCRISY IS NOT NEW TO BLACK PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT SLEEPING. DR. AMOS WILSON EXPLAINS, “THE PERPETUAL DOMINATION OF AFRICAN AMERICANS BY WHITE AMERI­CANS PSYCHICALLY REQUIRES THE WHITE AMERICAN CRIMINALIZATION OF THE AFRICAN MALE, I.E., THE WHITE AMERICAN PERCEPTION OF THE AFRICAN MALE AS INHERENTLY CRIMINAL. IN THE CONTEXT OF WHITE AMERICAN DOMINATION THERE IS NO INNOCENT BLACK MALE, JUST BLACK MALE CRIMINALS WHO HAVE NOT YET BEEN DETECTED, APPREHENDED OR CONVICTED. “

Rights are myths. Did “Rights” protect the Black people in the video? Perhaps they “had rights” only after another authoritarian retroactively makes that determination in the future. Surely, the attorney above is competent and will hopefully obtain an excellent result. But at the moment authority began ordering them to do things where were the Rights? Clearly the slave catcher cops didn’t agree that there were some rights. The back and forth between the cops and the Black people is merely a pretense of civility by barbarians. The cops preferred consensual compliance to forced compliance. Such a preference is to only maintain the illusion of freedom where there is none. If the Black man goes along with it (obeys), it will be better for his mind but he never had a choice in the matter. He probably still disagrees, but that’s mind control (the purpose of government). FUNKTIONARY explains,

“rights” – useful fictions declared in order to make agents of another type of fiction (“government”) have to play along in their deadly theatrical (tragicomedy) game. 2) mere fictions, the contemplation of which leads only to a progressive social, personal, racial and jurisprudential separation from reality. Discussion and debates about “rights” merely evades the FAQ, i.e., the frequently avoided question of who is to enforce any “right” and who will benefit from the pretense. “Rights” are separated into two categories—those flowing from “negative liberties” and those flowing from “positive liberties.” In law, rights are remedies and if a person is without a remedy (as is with citizens of the United States) he is without a right, and only a ‘thing’ is without rights. (See: Negative Liberties, Positive Liberties, Bill of Rights, Liberty, Freedom, Civil Rights, Human Rights, Ma’at & Justice)

rights – fantasmatic or fictitious objects having no reality in actuality by those imagining as an identity being in possession of them. Rights are cultural gratuities perceived through various fantasy frames, recognized, and sometimes even created, by man’s system of law to provide a modicum or pretense of civility under a system whereby their very undermining and violation is vouchsafed. Rights are merely rites unless you know how to assert and defend them in order to enjoy them. 2) things people are free to do whether they are able to or not. 3) conditions of existence required by hue-man’s nature for their potential survival (primarily against the cartoon that kills, i.e., the wholly unconscionable entity called the “State”). It is a mistaken notion that rights are enjoyed by one at the expense of the many—that is the realm of privilege. Enjoyment of rights in a neo-imperialistic world controlled by Yurugu through the Greater System (Symbolic Order), paradoxically, entails not only a recognition of their inevitability but, equally, their impossibility. How can we be endowed with rights, or even know what rights are when they are based on binary considerations? Rights, as ontological ephemera, cannot be universally observed, recognized, realized or enforced—and paradoxically, act also as its own eternal source for its assertion and vessel for its fulfillment in our imaginary enjoyment of them. [MORE]

With No Gun "Rights" Freedoms Can Be Shut Off Like a Light in Canada/Ireland/UK/New Zealand. Historical Analysis Shows Disarmed Formerly Free People Have No Defense Against Slavery or Govt Violence

THE ACTUAL FULL CHART CAN BE SEEN HERE

From [HERE] All of the ten major tyrannical regimes of the twentieth century and beyond confiscated the weapons of the populations they planned to murder or terrorize en masse.

The ten regimes are listed below:

• Ottoman Turkey

• USSR

• Nazi Germany

• China

• Guatemala

• Uganda

• Cambodia

• Rwanda

• Yugoslavia (the former)

• Sudan.

Of the ten regimes, not one announced its intentions to its victims.  All the victims were deliberately fed disinformation until the last minute in order to preclude resistance. In the 20th Century:

• Governments murdered four times as many civilians as were killed in all the international and domestic wars combined.

• Governments murdered millions more people than were killed by common criminals.

How could governments kill so many people?  The governments had the power - and the people - the victims - were unable to resist. The victims were unarmed.

Naomi Wolf states,

“The democratic protections of the formerly free nations of the world — Canada, the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand — have been shut down with the ease of someone switching off a light, and with almost no resistance from citizens. Yes, there have been protests, and there have been petitions, and innumerable complaints online; and a few brave legislators have spoken up, if only to echoing chambers. 

But the fact remains that when the unidentifiable police or mercenary forces, as in Canada, are violent, and the protesters have nothing but the moral high ground with which to deter their violence, then even the bravest of resistances is fleeting. 

In Australia, citizens are now arrested when they seek to escape forcible quarantine. This happened so easily. Australians yielded 650,000 privately owned guns in 1996-7 [https://www.vox.com/2015/8/27/9212725/australia-buyback]. Australians can now offer little deterrence to this kidnapping by the state. 

The unarmed people of Shanghai have nothing which which to deter their mass incarceration. Neither can the unarmed citizens of China as a whole deter the transportation of ethnic minorities into detention camps, or organ harvesting or forced abortions. 

You can hate guns. I have hated guns most of my life. I hate violence. I hate gun violence. I hate the slaughter of innocents. I am a peaceful person. 

But it is becoming obvious even to us pacifists, vegans, and tree huggers, that formerly free people who are unarmed are defenseless against the criminal tyrannies exerting massive violence and control upon them. 

And it is becoming obvious that similar tyrannical moves against the people of the United States have been thwarted in advance or deterred - and only state by state — pretty much only because the people of the United States have the right to own and carry weapons, and because many do so. 

This question of who has access to firearms has become all the more serious as the war against the US and the free world is ramping up. The mostly-Bill Gates- and CCP-funded WHO planned at the end of May to try to drain sovereignty from sovereign nations, in the name of “Global Health” and the prospect of “future Pandemics”; in the interest of “Global Health Security”.

This power grab was delayed. It is not off the table.

Who then will be the armed men at your door? They can easily be global private mercenaries, sent by Tedros Ghebreyesus; mercenaries sent to lock you in your home, or take you to a quarantine camp against your will, under the guise of a “public health emergency.” [MORE]

At Sentencing in Parkland Case [there was no trial], Judge Makes Videos/Photos of “Massacre” Unavailable to Public. With False Flags Its Always About Reaction and Belief, Actual Evidence Rarely Exists

SEEING IS NOT BELIEVING, IT IS KNOWING. A media hoaxed NYT reporter writes, “To shield heartsick families from the most macabre details of how their loved ones were murdered in a mass school shooting in Parkland, Fla., the court handling the gunman’s sentencing trial has taken an extraordinary step: Graphic videos and photographs are shown only to the jury, so that victims’ relatives and others in the courtroom gallery do not have to endure them." Such is the nature of public, criminal trials- enduring through actual evidence, weighing its value and discarding lies. Here, Like most mass shooting episodes no trial took place - a guilty plea was accepted by the court after facts were read from a document out loud in the courtroom. Nikolas Cruz, plead guilty to 17 murders and 17 attempted murders. Now the case has entered into the sentencing phase where it will be determined whether he gets life or the death penalty. [MORE]

Due to the contrived nature of the Parkland narrative, voluntary confession, many fake looking/sounding media interviews with in-credible witnesses providing inconsistent facts, a lack of corroborating forensic evidence, a lack of cell-phone video from high school students, miraculously quick medical recoveries by kids shot in the chest, books that deflected bullets and more, many consider Parkland a false flag operation or cover story. Belief isn’t needed to come to such a conclusion- go watch the many videos online about it. On the other hand however, belief is needed to conclude that an actual massacre occurred because the evidence has never been seen. We must believe cops and whatever emotional words the media put before our eyes. It takes absolutely no intelligence to believe.

The fact that there was no trial only strengthens the doubt of persons who don’t blindly believe whatever the media says. In all microwave terror episodes the media simply parrot whatever police say from a crime scene closed to the public in an instantly open and shut case. To be clear here, no criminal trial means no contested, adversarial proceeding in which the government would have to establish facts beyond a reasonable doubt with actual, admissible, authenticated evidence and credible witness testimony that is subjected to rigorous cross -examination, rules of evidence, discovery, Brady disclosures and the defendant’s right to face to face confrontation with his accusers. What better way could there be to drop any doubt as to whether this fake looking bullshit ever took place?

instead of a real trial the public continues to get, ‘but wait there’s more’ emotional reaction from the media and probotic authorities. If authorities made all this shit up would they be truthful about it? They make it up because sheeple believe whatever authorities and their media tell them to believe. Let’s be clear about the meaning of “belief” here: According to FUNKTIONARY:

Belief- the psychological calm of imagined certitude safely beyond de-stabilizing doubt and troublesome reality-entanglement. 2) a construction of approximate truths, absolute truths, mass truths and primary myths, based on genetic predisposition, and environmental and socio-psychological conditioning. 3) the institutionalization of the unknowable, i.e., a conviction that is not necessarily based upon any empirical, direct-mind or experiential knowledge. 4) a non-physical surviving thought-form. 5) any conclusion based on a fundamental assumption; the evidence of things not seen, no longer actively sought. 6) an intellectual rationalization surrounded by (based on) "'proofs," reasons and arguments. 7) that which springs out of cultural ideology. 8) the greatest fiction. 9) a trick of the mind to repress doubt. 10) a mental doubt-suppression tactic. A suppressed doubt is neither faith nor even trust. 11) repressed doubt. 12) an explicit or implicit assent to dogmatic propositions (with or without overgrown religious foliage) on someone else's authority. 13) reverential blindness that thwarts fresh perception and intuitive apperception. 14) a prejudice without any experience to support it. 15) a peculiar blend of fatiloquent assertion on one hand and adamant denial on the other. 16) a manic flirtation with the terminally unprovable. 17) certainty based in the unknown. 18) having another "see" it for you while seeing him see it (for you)—in effect being for another. 19) a conclusion without the verification of direct experience—make-believe made real. 20) the inability or unwillingness to master the requisite logic or reason to counterbalance (or overcome) the willingness to be misled. 21) the abnegation of internal authenticity for outside authority. 22) ego-consoling faith. 23) acceptance of a statement, tenet or creed with available verification and substantive evidence to its contrary. [MORE]

Like folks selling invisible hairpins, the NYT reporter explained that actual photos, videos and forensic evidence aren’t available to the public but stories about it are, “But the horrifying particulars, conveyed in emotional witness testimony, chilling audio recordings and dispassionate forensic accounts, are impossible to avoid altogether. How a teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School tied a baby blanket around a wounded student’s arm as a tourniquet. How the gunfire from a semiautomatic rifle boomed inside a classroom under attack. How the high-powered bullets ravaged children’s bodies and so on…” Exactly there was no trial, so we must just believe what we are told.

Sheeple: ‘But I don’t see any hairpins in the box’

Authority/Media: ‘Of course not, they are invisible’

Sheeple: ‘Really?’

Authority/Media: Yes, out of stock for 7 days but we are still selling them. They are absolutely invisible.’

As explained by Osho Rajineesh, “When things are invisible, you can go on selling, promising. There is no need to deliver the goods, because in the first place they are invisible, so nobody can ever detect them.” [MORE]

The Media Overstates Alex Jones' Case to Chill Speech: There Was No Trial On the Merits. Default Judgements Don't Make Sandy Hoax Real (e.g. A Default Judgement Also Wouldn’t Prove Santa is Real)

From [HERE] and [HERE] Alex Jones was ordered by a jury to pay $45.2 million in punitive damages to the parents of a 6-year-old boy killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting.

The order follows a separate $4.1 million award granted by the same jury on Thursday for actual damages, or the harm suffered directly by the parents of the alleged murdered child. The case in Mr. Jones’s hometown is the first of several seeking damages for statements made after the shooting.

Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, the parents of six-year-old Jesse Heslin who died in the 2012 shooting, sued Jones for defamation. A reporter on  Jones’ Infowars radio show claimed that Neil Heslin lied about holding his dead son in his arms to trick people into thinking the shooting happened. Heslin and Lewis originally asked for $150 million in damages.

There was no actual contested trial. The court proceedings only pertained to how much Heslin and Lewis should be awarded in damages. Heslin and Lewis were given a default judgment against Jones in 2021 after Jones’ legal team did not supply the necessary documents for the lawsuit to proceed. [MORE]. The defaulting process results in an abrupt end and final end to litigation with the claimant declared the winner in the dispute and with a conclusive, enforceable judgment against the delinquent party, the loser. Sort of like the Bengals being declared champs at this year’s Super Bowl if the Rams failed to show up and play the game for some reason or if Andre Ward failed to make weight before fighting Kovalev; Kovalev would surely be declared winner by default. But don’t make it more than what it is; a win by default doesn’t mean that Kovalev/Bengals demonstrated anything substantive in reality.

Connecticut Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis cited his "willful noncompliance" with the discovery process as the reasoning behind the default judgment ruling. [MORE] Default judgments are a drastic action because they confront the judicial preference for disposition on the merits. Default judgments don’t prove that something happened - they just mean someone lost a lawsuit where something was alleged. If an actual, contested trial defamation trial had taken place Heslin and Lewis would have had the burden to actually prove that Jones made false statements; not vice-versa. That is, the plaintiffs would have had to show that Sandy Hook was real - with actual authenticated, admissible evidence and testimony subject to cross-examination, credibility determinations and inspection in an adversarial process before a jury who would decide on the merits. But that never happened. In other words, if plaintiffs brought suit because Jones said Santa was fake and thereafter Jones failed to respond to the lawsuit, a default judgment would eventually be entered. Such a judgment wouldn’t make Santy real though. In The Spectacle The Dependent Media goes on pretending otherwise.

Once a default judgment was made by the court the only thing left for the jury to do was to determine the amount of damages for the alleged defamation. Jones participated in that part of the proceeding.

ACCORDING TO FUNKTIONARY:

Sandy Hook – a staged CAPSTONE false flag media psy-ops event. Medical personnel and first responders turned away from the crime scene where 26 people allegedly were murdered. Sandy Hook never happened. Sandy Hoax did.

cover-stories – headlines that provide cover (hiding and distraction) for the real untold and undiscussed stories behind the one’s they are really (deliberately) not covering, undressing or addressing at all. 2) planted actors and/or provocateurs providing misinformation immediately after a false flag operation—like 9-11, Sandy Hook and the Boston Marathon bombing. The methodology: Sell the lie with authority, then change the subject to something emotional. [MORE]

During the proceedings for damages, Jones admitted that the shooting was “100% real” after initially suspecting that the shooting was staged. Jones said during his non-trial testimony that he changed his position after meeting the parents of Sandy Hook victims and that “the media still ran with lies that I said it wasn’t real on air yesterday… They won’t let me take it back. They just want to keep me in the position of Sandy Hook man.”

Nevertheless, it is inaccurate to imply or claim that his post-default “admission” (during the damages portion of the case) was anything other than an effort by Jones to mitigate the amount of the damages. After all, if he did not make such a statement the damages could have been substantially higher. The media misleads the public making it appear that during an actual trial he was made to admit that he was a liar. As stated, there never was a trial because a default judgment was entered; only the penalty phase occurred. (here, it should be observed that this is the pattern with false flag episodes such as Dylann Roof’s trial (not a real trial because he fired his attorneys before trial started and was appointed attorneys for his sentencing. The trial was “fake” because he represented himself and did not raise a single objection to inadmissible statements and unautheticated evidence or properly cross examine any witnesses or conduct any discovery or investigation ) and Parkland (the alleged shooter already plead guilty. The hearing presently going on in the Parkland case is to determine whether defendant will get the death penalty). In said cases and in Jones’ case, the facts are not established during a contested, adversarial trial. Thus, the public will never know what actually occurred through such proceedings.)

Obviously, contrary to Dependent Media “analysis” his so-called admission during damages does not prove that Sandy Hook occurred. To the contrary, substantial amount of evidence shows that Sandy Hook was indeed a false flag or staged “cover story.” Don’t let massa’ media also do your thinking for you. For starters check out the video above. (the real question is why didn’t Jones participate and force the plaintiffs to prove their case? There is a substantial amount of material to use in defense of whether Sandy Hoax happened. What did he have to lose? or gain?)

This case was one of many related to Alex Jones’ claims about Sandy Hook. Jones lost another lawsuit by default in September 2021 which accused him of calling another Sandy Hook parent a liar. One more dealt with claims that Alex Jones falsely portrayed a man named Marcel Fontaine as the shooter. Fontaine later died in a fire while litigation was pending. 

More proceedings are occurring to determine whether Alex Jones and Infowars are liable for any punitive damages.