Showing posts with label Kash Jackson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kash Jackson. Show all posts

Sunday, June 11, 2023

Kash Jackson Sentenced to Four Years in Prison: The State is Trying to Take Your Children Away So it Can Sexually Abuse Them

Table of Contents

     I. Introduction: Former Gubernatorial Candidate Imprisoned After Admitting to Threatening Judges

     II. Jackson Provoked into Issuing Threats After Bitter Custody Dispute

     III. Jackson Demonized as Deadbeat Dad; and Shaken Down for Money by Attorney Sally Lichter, Tied to Numerous Attorneys Suspected of Child Abuse and/or Defending Accused Child Molesters in Court

     IV. Pedophile Defender Got Jackson's Ex-Wife to Make Him Her Attorney; Parental Alienator Got Jackson to Make Him His Attorney

     V. Kash Threatened Judge Joseph Salvi, Who Helped Stop Child Sexual Abuse Lawsuit Against Teacher David Miller from Going Forward

     VI. Kash Jackson's Ex-Wife is Raising Her Kids in Lake County, Illinois, Where Child Sexual Abuse Survivors Go to Die

     VII. Kash Jackson is an American Hero

     VIII. Demonization of Fathers Leads to Exposure of Children to Sex and Genital Mutilation

     IX. The Police Aren't Obligated to Protect Abused Children

     X. Parental Alienation is Torture

     XI: Conclusion: Lake County Family Law Court System Deliberately Ganged Up on Kash Jackson in Order to Sabotage His Mental Health and Destroy His Reputation

    XII: Update

 

 

 

Content

  

     I. Introduction: Former Gubernatorial Candidate Imprisoned After Admitting to Threatening Judges

 

     On April 6th, 2023, Kash Jackson was sentenced to four years in prison, as part of a plea agreement.

      [Source:

     http://www.dailyherald.com/news/20230407/former-governor-candidate-gets-4-years-in-prison-for-threatening-lake-county-judges
     http://www.dupagecounty.gov/news_detail_T2_R774.php]

 

     He was sentenced after pleading guilty to Threatening a Public Official. He threatened two judges during a phone call he made in 2021.

 

     Jackson is best known as the 2018 gubernatorial nominee of the Libertarian Party of Illinois. He is also an activist, most notably on the topic of parents’ rights, supporting 50-50 joint custody as the default for custody agreements made in family law courts.

 

     Judge Michael Reidy delivered the sentence.
     [Source:
     http://www.dupagecounty.gov/news_detail_T2_R774.php]

 

     Although the average person might be quick to judge Kash for his crime, we should not judge too quickly, because his full story has never been told. That is, until now.

 

 

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     II. Jackson Provoked into Issuing Threats After Bitter Custody Dispute

     Jackson, born Benjamin Adam Winderweedle in Louisiana in 1978, did not threaten judges because he felt like it.

     Kash Jackson was provoked and incited into threatening the judges who denied him joint custody of his children, by the judges themselves; and by the attorneys who betrayed Kash, gouged him for money, and took advantage of his children's need for stability.

 

     Kash Jackson lost joint custody of his children as the result of an obviously political persecution, which was intended to stop Jackson's gubernatorial campaign, interfere with his freedom of speech, silence him about the state’s abuse of family courts to alienate children from their parents, and to enable greedy attorneys who want to gouge parents for money.

     This state of affairs - this unnecessary disruption of the lives of families dealing with divorce - has been allowed by Title IV-D of the Social Security Act, a federal law which obligates (and also pays) the states to force parents obligated to provide their ex-spouses and children with monetary support.

     And this political persecution against Kash - which eventually (as anyone could have predicted) became a prosecution designed to land him in prison - was evidently spearheaded by Judge Joseph Salvi's brother Al, whom is also a judge.

 

     Jackson became party to that custody dispute after his ex-wife made false allegations that Jackson had stalked her over social media and harassed her. She also made unsubstantiated allegations surrounding a time when Kash punished his son. That punishment did not involve the use of force, verbal abuse, sexual abuse, nor starvation; and Kash has never been accused of striking any of his three children.

 

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     III. Jackson Demonized as Deadbeat Dad; and Shaken Down for Money by Attorney Sally Lichter, Tied to Numerous Attorneys Suspected of Child Abuse and/or Defending Accused Child Molesters in Court

     Democratic Party -backed media (including Jordan Klepper, formerly of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart) framed Kash as a “deadbeat dad” for comedic value, and demonized him as such. But, far from being a deadbeat dad, Kash was, in fact, fighting to expose the fact that Illinois parents are subject to paying 20% more alimony than the average state in the nation. Some states charge even higher.

 

     Guardian Ad Litem Sally Lichter, who represented two of Kash's children in the custody dispute, gouged Kash - to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars - to talk to his children on the phone just twice.

     Lichter charged Kash thousands of dollars that she knew he didn't have, and knew would be better spent on alimony. On July 27th, 2021, Lichter admitted in court that she had never even bothered to find out whether Kash punished his son in the manner in which his wife claims (which were, at that time - prior to his threats against judges - the most serious charges that had ever been levied against Kash).
     [Source:
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERIBpZuzqfo]

 

     Lichter is friends with another G.A.L., named Joe McKeown. They are friends on Facebook, and have probably met in person as well.

     Joe McKeown once used a picture of "Family Guy" pedophile "Herbert the Pervert" - gazing lovingly at a poster of the Jonas Brothers - as his Facebook profile pic. McKeown once "liked" a local chapter of the Masons on social media.

 

     McKeown works in the law offices of Richard S. Kopsick, my father. In 2019, I accused my father of molesting me at the ages of eight and nine (in 1995 and 1996). I later recovered memories of anal abuse.
     In the early 1990s, Richard S. Kopsick defended a man named Kenneth Hasty, for attempting to rape a 19-year-old. Hasty (of Waukegan, Illinois) had previously attempted to rape a 15-year-old. Despite Hasty's second offense, Richard Kopsick claimed that Hasty had reformed his sexual behavior.

     [Sources:

     http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1993-06-11-9306110377-story.html
     http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1993-08-06-9308060436-story.html]

     Richard Kopsick formerly shared office space with Scott Gibson, who groped children’s buttocks at his pool parties in the 1990s (and loudly bragged about it in full view of other parents). Gibson works in Waukegan, and lived in Lake Forest when these incidents occurred.
     Richard Kopsick currently shares space with Doug Zeit (who defends accused child molesters, according to my mother Linda Cervetti. Cervetti admitted to knowing that Jonathan Dick was accused of child sexual abuse, and not telling me about it until twenty years later. Cervetti continues serving as her ex-husband Richard Kopsick's legal secretary, despite her apparently believing my accusations against his father (according to Special Victim Unit prosecutor Victor o'Block).

     Victor o'Block declined to file charges against Richard Kopsick for sexual abuse in 2020, despite his admission that his ex-wife and youngest son believe the accusations against Richard, and despite my insistence that I have an audible injury to my left rib which was caused by my father the last time he tried to abuse me (in the year 2000).
     Kopsick is an accused child rapist, who is defending accused child rapists. He currently lives in the Knollwood neighborhood of western Lake Bluff, Illinois, and works in downtown Waukegan.

 

     During the short time I spent as a secretary for my father, I personally observed Joe McKeown’s frequent absences from, and his frequent taking of showers in, his basement office. This made me suspect that McKeown had been masturbating at his desk. It’s likely that McKeown (the son of retired attorney Dennis McKeown) is both a pedophile and a Mason.

 

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     IV. Pedophile Defender Got Jackson's Ex-Wife to Make Him Her Attorney; Parental Alienator Got Jackson to Make Him His Attorney

 

     Kash's ex-wife's attorney, in the custody dispute, was Raymond Allen Boldt. In 1996, Boldt defended a pastor named Jeffrey B. Hannah for statutory rape of several teenage girls. Hannah was sentenced to nine years in prison, after Boldt described him as "psychologically immature" but not a sexual predator.
     [Source:
     http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1996-10-11-9610110122-story.html]

 

     One of the first attorneys Kash hired was David del Re. Mundelein father Sam Gorg claims that David del Re helped Gorg’s ex-wife alienate his children from him. Gorg also claims that Sol Rappaport, a Lake County psychiatrist, assisted del Re in that process.
     Sol Rappaport recommended Dr. Michael Feld to Richard Kopsick (for his son), at a time when Kopsick knew that his son had recovered memories of being molested, and was trying to make his family believe that my behavior at the time was the result of mental illness rather than the result of beginning to recover memories of being molested. Kopsick did this in order to discredit my claims.

     Feld prescribed me Abilify, but I never took it; in part because Feld never diagnosed me with any mental illness, and he never told me the name of the medication. I later discovered that Abilify had been the subject of the 14th most costly pharmaceutical lawsuit in U.S. history; and that it causes dissociation, mania, depression, and restlessness, while it was originally intended to get rid of those problems.
     After five visits with Dr. Michael Feld, I stopped going. Shortly thereafter, my aunt told me that Dr. Feld had been accused of having a sexual affair with one of his patients. If this accusation is true, then Feld violated Section 85d of Illinois Administrative Code, Title 68, Section 1283.100, in doing so. It would also mean that Feld is not informing his patients of the accusations against him, when some of his patients (including myself) include sexual abuse survivors.
     [Source:
     http//casetext.com/regulation/illinois-administrative-code/title-68-professions-and-occupations/part-1283-marriage-and-family-therapy-licensing-act/section-1283100-professional-conduct]

     I reported Michael Feld and Sol Rappaport to the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation in April 2021. I received an acknowledgment of receipt of my complaint, but I received no formal response.

     http://rumble.com/v2sm7uk-reporting-dr.-michael-feld-and-dr.-sol-rappaport-to-the-illinois-dept.-of-p.html

 

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     V. Kash Threatened Judge Joseph Salvi, Who Helped Stop Child Sexual Abuse Lawsuit Against Teacher David Miller from Going Forward

 

     One of the judges whom Kash threatened was Judge Joseph Salvi.


     In 2019, Joseph Salvi (along with justices Robert D. McLaren, Donald C. Hudson, and Mary S. Schostok) prevented a sexual abuse lawsuit from proceeding against Lake Forest High School theater director David Miller, applying Illinois’s statute of limitations on reporting such abuse.

     That statute was repealed in 2020, giving child sexual abuse accusers until the age of 40 to come forward, or unlimited if they were threatened. Justice Hudson died in April 2023.

 

     This year - 2023 - David Miller celebrates 47 years of grooming underage boys for sex, without legal consequences. He has abused at least five boys, and perhaps even as many as ten or more (judging by the list of plaintiffs who have been willing to come forward against him).

     At least five other L.F.H.S. teachers or officials helped cover-up Miller's abuses, as well as at least one Lake Forest police officer, and at least one therapist. The set of five or more L.F.H.S. teachers and officials includes former L.F.H.S. Principal Jay Hoffmann (who intimidated boys into saying that the texts they received from Miller weren't inappropriate, which is odd, given that Miller admitted they were inappropriate), and Hoffmann's boss, former District 115 Superintendent Harry Griffith. One of the boys confronted by Hoffmann was apparently not even one of the boys who had accused Miller, according to the 52-page investigation of the district's handling of the accusations against Miller, which was written by attorney Rebecca Veidlinger.

     [Source:
     http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/20475829/lake-forest-high-school-district-115-investigation-into-former-employee-david-miller.pdf]

     Attorneys Veidlinger and Howard Kallem tried to have it both ways, by concluding, in that report, that the school could have done more, but also responded adequately.

     I worked in the technical crew for many of Lake Forest High School's plays between 2001 and 2005. Miller was there all the time. We knew that he had a beer gut and an anger problem, but nobody ever told us that he was any sort of sexual threat, or even that he had done or said anything creepy. Curiously, Miller appeared in only two of the four yearbooks issued by L.F.H.S. between 2001 and 2005.

 

     At least three other teachers, besides Miller, have been accused of sexual impropriety towards children, in the same area as Miller (i.e., Lake Forest and Lake Bluff), in the last fifty years; math teacher Charles "Chuck" Ritz III at Lake Bluff Middle School, English teacher Diane M. Ross at Lake Forest College, and driving instructor and coach Cynthia "Cindy" Martin at Lake Forest High School.

 

     It's unclear what legal consequences befell Cindy Martin, who groomed girls in the 1980s, but it's clear that Martin, like Miller, targeted children who had lost friends or family members, and groomed them with marijuana, alcohol, hugging, and massages, before engaging in sexual advances.

 

     Diane Ross (who posed as a teenage girl, using the screen name "Snowy Violet" and sent child pornography) was arrested in 2000, and posted a $20,000 bond. Lake Bluff residents were shocked to see her standing in the public square, enjoying the music of a local band, in full view of everyone, shortly after she was released. At this time, Ross had children who attended Lake Bluff Middle School. I am not aware of any attempts, by that school's principal at the time (Kathleen o'Hara, now the Mayor of Lake Bluff) to make an official statement to local parents about the accusations against Ross.

 

     Charles Ritz (who abused John Bollman in 1978, and others between 1975 and 1985) pled guilty to public indecency in 2017, after a 1985 party in Waukegan in which he provided minors with alcohol and marijuana and encouraged them to engage in mutual masturbation.
     [Sources:
     http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/lake-forest/ct-lfr-lake-bluff-sex-abuse-lawsuit-tl-0426-story.html
     http://abc7chicago.com/lake-bluff-charles-ritz-teacher-sex-abuse-indecency-charges/2358255/

     Ritz lived, and continued to teach, in California, between 1985 and his 2016 arrest. It's likely that he continued abusing boys during this time as well. Ritz's accusers claim that District 65 (which includes Lake Bluff Middle School) knew that he was abusing children and did nothing.

     Ritz's alleged victims include John Bollman, Jim Moss, and Joey Lombardi.
     [Source:
     http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/lake-bluff-teacher-abuse-lawsuit/48134/]

     Judge Joseph Salvi, one of the two judges threatened by Kash Jackson, was also involved in Cynthia Miller's case.

 

     Just a mile south of Lake Forest High School - in Market Square - there is an ice cream shop called Sweet's, whose owner Jonathan Dick was accused of rape by his nephew, who said the abuse occurred at age ten. That abuse occurred some time around the year 2000. The victim's mother wrote in her book that she was worried that Dick might have a lawyer on retainer in case he needed legal defense for crimes against additional children.

     In the cases of these five people - Miller, Ritz, Ross, Martin, and Dick - all five pursued victims who were the same sex as the perpetrators.

 

     Judge Joseph Salvi is, thus, part of the machine that is keeping David Miller (and people like him) free. Is the fact that Judge Joseph Salvi still draws air - and walks around a free man - supposed to make Kash Jackson happy?

 

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     VI. Kash Jackson's Ex-Wife is Raising Her Kids in Lake County, Illinois, Where Child Sexual Abuse Survivors Go to Die

 

    Don't forget what Dennis Hastert, Anthony Weiner, and Jeffrey Epstein did to American children. Don't ever forget that those scandals were real. Don't forget, either, that Joe Biden pinched a child's nipple live on C-SPAN on January 3rd, 2015. We have video evidence of the sitting president molesting a child.

     Moreover, the entire police force of West Virginia is currently under investigation for sexual exploitation of minors and adults. Don't think for a second that there's a single state in the Union that doesn't have pedophile attorneys, sadistic judges trying to profit off the jailing of teens.

     Here in Illinois, there's even a rumor going around that our police departments' child sex crimes divisions are filled with people who are eager to see the evidence of those crimes and use it for sexual gratification. Evidently, some officers are being assigned to review such evidence, to note and count each specific criminal count; and then reporting to their superiors that the job is traumatizing them. These officers are not being relieved of their duties, nor are they being given adequate psychiatric counseling to help deal with having to look at those images. So they end up quitting, and the only people left are the ones who are there because they enjoy watching people rape children on video.

     We need to ask ourselves whether some G.A.L.s and police officers are choosing their professions solely to get legal custody of children and/or witness records of child abuse for self-gratification.

 

     The state is trying to take your children away so it can sexually abuse them.

     The fact that Kash Jackson and I have the exact same set of abusers, shows that the same group of people which is trying to take kids away from parents for no good reason, is the same set of people that is defending accused child rapists in court. And in some cases (as in the case of Richard Kopsick and Scott Gibson), these attorneys are child sexual abusers themselves.

     We have enough evidence to conclude that that is the case. We cannot live in denial. Not when people like Ted Gunderson have been warning us about well-known politicians abusing children since as early as the 1990s.

     The threats our children face are clear, and they need the protection of both parents, in order to make it safely to adulthood, without becoming too traumatized or ignored to be able to put their trust in the local authorities and courts.

 

     Kash's children - and his ex-wife - are not safe. But Kash's children are unsafe, not because of Kash.

     They're unsafe because they're in such close proximity to pedophile defender Raymond Allen Boldt, parental alienator David del Re, friend to pedophiles Sally Lichter, and the child predator attorneys and teachers, racist police officers, and rapist psychiatrist who drug their patients, that are crawling in every corner of Lake County professional society.

     Other people and agencies which have been specifically named by Kash Jackson as having assisted in the alienation of his children include Judge Janelle J. Christensen, Judge Christopher B. Morozin, attorney Nicole F. Slobe, Libertyville-based attorney Ronald L. Bell, Waukegan-based attorney Laura Horner, Bannockburn-based attorney Marc R. Fisher, former Lake County State's Attorney Michael Nerheim, former Lake County Sheriff Mark Curran, and the Office of Child Support Enforcement.

     He also named Libertyville-based attorney Gary Schlesinger, a friend of child-raping attorney Richard S. Kopsick.

     Lake County Sheriff Mark Curran's replacement, John Idleburg, has been a harsh critic of Kash Jackson as well. Lake County State's Attorney Michael Nerheim's replacement, Eric Rinehart, professes to support sexual abuse lawsuits going forward, and allies himself with Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center, but he declined a 2021 offer to appear on David Rych's Reality Radio to discuss sexual abuse in Lake County with Joe Kopsick.

     Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center made no attempt to convince Victor o'Block to file charges against Richard Kopsick after his son accused him of sex offenses in 2019 and then came to Zacharias to seek a therapist.

 

     Lake County, Illinois's court system - and its ability to respond when children accuse adults of sex crimes - are broken. Any child in this county whom is abused by someone with enough money or power or connections, is liable to "slip through the cracks". The fact that many other counties are like this, doesn't mean it's not a problem.

     Lake Bluff Middle School, Lake Forest High School, and their respective districts, have each been caught covering-up for, and turning blind eyes towards, child molesting teachers in their midst.

     In 2012 and 2013, three teenage boys who attended Lake Forest High School jumped in front of trains for unknown reasons, committing suicide.

     In mid-2020, Charles Ritz's accuser John Bollman removed me from the Facebook group Scout Pride - intended to facilitate discussion about child-molesting teachers in the area - after I made a post accusing my father and Scott Gibson of molesting me.

     Kids in Lake County who fail to get charges filed against their abusers, did not "slip through the cracks". Kids who killed themselves in Lake Forest did not "slip through the cracks". Lake Bluff and Lake Forest and Waukegan are cracks. If Lake County, Illinois had a flag, it would be a picture of a giant crack for child sexual abuse accusers to slip into.

 

     Yet this is where Kash Jackson's ex-wife has chosen to raise her children.

 

     Kash doesn't even want to be here. He wants to live in Arkansas. He wants his children to grow up on a farm, with a horse.

     He wants them to have a real childhood, unlike the suburban parents of Lake County, who want their children so cloistered, sheltered, and dependent that they never stop submitting to adults in exchange for help.

 

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     VII. Kash Jackson is an American Hero

     Kash’s detractors have got him all wrong.

     He is not a child abuser; he doesn’t even believe in spanking.
     He is not a deadbeat dad; he is a veteran of a navy that has refused to pay him decently for his valiant 19 years of service.
     Nor is he a redneck or a racist; he opposes deportation of non-violent undocumented immigrants, and gave a speech on mounted horseback while defending the water at Standing Rock.
     He is not a woman-hater; despite the media's attempts to rake him over the coals for making an (obviously not seriously intended) joke about women belonging in the kitchen (which he did in front of his then-girlfriend, and she voiced no objection). In fact, the reason why he punished his son was because his son had forgotten to leave the toilet seat down for the females present in the house.

 

     He restored cynical Libertarians’ faith in democracy when he won his primary by a single vote (defeating his two opponents).
     And he is the most successful non-elected candidate the Libertarian Party of Illinois has ever had (making it into a live gubernatorial debate, in which he sparred with J.B. Pritzker and Bruce Rauner to their faces.
     He is a patriot, he inspires patriotism wherever he goes (which is why he has been incarcerated), and he is the closest thing that Illinois has to an Abraham Lincoln figure, who is still living today.

     But most of all, Kash Jackson is my friend. He welcomed me into his home, and fed me. I know my friend, and he does not deserve to be in prison.
     And he certainly doesn’t deserve to see the state brainwash his children into believing that their father is evil because he gets angry at the government sometimes.
     Nor does he deserve an ex-wife who has made it so difficult for Kash to have a normal relationship with his children, that interacting with their father became so rare, traumatic, and so expensive for Kash, that Kash could do nothing but pay court costs and attorneys’ fees (which he would have otherwise sent to his children for support).
     He certainly doesn't deserve an ex-wife who is so clueless that she would choose a lawyer, to represent the interests of herself and her children, without even checking as to whether that lawyer had previously defended any child rapists.


     Kash Jackson hasn’t seen his children in years, and the State of Illinois is trying to fool everybody (including Kash himself, and his children) into thinking that that is Kash's fault.

     It is nobody's fault but the State of Illinois, its family court system, and the network of greedy and predatory lawyers (some of whom, I have shown, either make their livings defending pedophiles, and/or are pedophiles themselves) whose offices pepper the legal district of Lake County's seat of Waukegan, Illinois.

 

 

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     VIII. Demonization of Fathers Leads to Exposure of Children to Sex and Genital Mutilation

 

     We must free Kash Jackson and end parental alienation now.

     But we must also resist the state's attempts to artificially justify its own power, by provoking and inciting us into becoming so angry that we have no choice but to issue violent threats; against its obviously unjust rule, and against its the greedy, predatory, remorseless people who choose to serve it.

 

     Which is worse? That one boy should spend a few hours in therapy because his father made him stack bricks in the snow (at either age six or ten, according to conflicting reports); or that ten thousand children have their breasts and testicles removed, and get exposed to sex by teachers and drag queens, because the state has successfully demonized Kash Jackson, and all of America's fathers along with him?
     If Kash Jackson had been elected Governor of Illinois in 2018, fathers' contributions to households would be respected, and ninety percent of this "children in drag" and "child genital mutilation" bullshit would never have happened. At least not in Illinois, which is unfortunately, instead, the home of Jennifer Pritzker, the governor's sister, and the world's only transgender billionaire.

     Some fathers are abusive; this is true, but Kash Jackson is not one of them. Just as some fathers are abusive, some mothers are creepy, or vindictive, or gold-diggers, or misandrists.

     Such mothers tend to have inane, nihilistic ideations about the proper way to raise a child, which expose children and their unwitting fathers to untold levels of emotional torture and degradation. Taking away the one person (the father) out of his children's lives - when he would otherwise be around to help bounce ideas off of his own and his wife's heads - is the last thing we should be doing to help women and children.

 

     Kash's children are not safe. Not because of Kash, like his ex-wife wants people to think they are. Kash's children are unsafe for the same reason that Kash's ex-wife is unsafe.

     They're unsafe because they're in such close proximity to Kash's ex-wife's lawyer, pedophile defender Raymond Allen Boldt. And to the children's Guardian Ad Litem, Sally Lichter, a friend to pedophile attorneys. And to parental alienator David del Re, who was able to trick Kash into trusting him.

     Lake County, its police departments, its schools, and its attorneys, are hiding child rapists. Rapist psychiatrists who drug their patients are helping them get away with it. We know their names. We know their victims' names.

     I guess, now, we know why a man might lose his temper for a moment, and threaten a judge or two.

 

     There are a lot of lawyers in Waukegan whose jobs would be on the line, if Judge Joseph Salvi or Judge Al Salvi got their feelings or reputations hurt the tiniest bit. And Waukegan's former mayor Sam Cunningham, who defended Joe Biden's groping of children, would be upset as well.

     But I guess it's all worth it, as long as Kash Jackson is deprived of adequate nutrition and hygiene in a jail cell until he looks like a crazy person.


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     IX. The Police Aren't Obligated to Protect Abused Children

 

     The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that parents have a fundamental right to raise their children (in Washington v. Glucksberg, 1997; and Troxel v. Granville, 2000). And that is good for people who fight for their children's rights to have normal relationships with both non-abusvie parents.

     But on the other hand, the Supreme Court has also ruled that the state has no obligation to protect children from parental abuse (in DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, 1989). Additionally, police have no obligation to enforce agreements to transfer custody of children unless there is a warrant signed by a judge requiring them to do so. The decisions in Warren v. D.C. (1981) and Castle Rock v. Gonzales (2004) protect police officers from being held legally responsible for failing to protect individuals who do not have a pre-existing private contract with the police.
     This state of affairs endangers children, and it is obviously morally wrong. But do not give in to despair; at least we know, now, that these are the specific problems and contradictions at hand when we deal with custody laws, and we know the name of the Supreme Court decisions which need to be overturned or modified (and reconciled with one another) in order to protect children and innocent parents alike.
     We need to craft laws that purge police departments and family courts of predators. We need to make family courts rare by making 50-50 joint custody the default and the norm unless and until abuse has been proven. And local governments should apologize profusely for their mistakes, and beg parents to put their trust in the new officers hired to replace the untrustworthy old ones (which, ironically, are probably mostly the young ones).

     Parents need to be able to trust police to make wise decisions when they show up to a child drop-off, and the child is screaming that she doesn't want to go with her mother because her mother is watching while she allows her boyfriend to touch her daughter's private parts. This does happen, it happened in Texas, and the officers helped the mother take custody of the girl even though they had no apparent duty to do so.

 

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     X. Parental Alienation is Torture

 

     Parents who have not abused their children have rights.

     Alienating children from their parents is torture, and it is a deprivation of human rights. Kash Jackson didn’t abuse his kids; the court system did. And the people who took Jackson’s custody away, and put him in jail, would have abused those children a whole lot more, if their mother had become unable to take care of her children.

 

     Just a year before Kash's sentencing, one of Kash's few trusted attorneys, Ted Bush, died of cancer.

     This occurred after Bush was involved in his own bitter custody dispute, with his disrespectful, arrogant, vindictive ex-wife Erica, who knew Ted was dying and evidently made no efforts to treat him any more politely out of respect for his predicament. That case was presided-over by Judge Julie B. Aimen.

     Additionally, Kash's mother Paula is dying of cancer.

     This innocent man has been tortured enough.

 

     Kash Jackson is the last hero of the parents’ rights movement. But he doesn’t have to be. We can all be the new heroes that this movement needs.

     And you don't even need to be a parent in order to do it; all you need to do is tell people to learn about parental alienation. Everyone in America needs to know the phrase "parental alienation", and the harm it inflicts on children and wrongly accused parents alike.

     We must stand up for falsely accused and maliciously prosecuted fathers, and get people to understand that not everyone who fights for fathers' rights is a child-beating woman-hater.
     And, as for us in Lake County (which includes Kash's most recent hometown of Antioch). we must spread awareness about the child abuse enablers in Lake County's family courts, schools, police departments, and therapy clinics.
     Until then, you can celebrate Kash Jackson's birthday on October 4th; whether in your own home, or in the streets with other people who care.

 

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    XI: Conclusion: Lake County Family Law Court System Deliberately Ganged Up on Kash Jackson in Order to Sabotage His Mental Health and Destroy His Reputation

 

     During his custody dispute, Kash Jackson claimed that Lake County court officials misled him, and failed to inform him in time, about his upcoming court dates. This caused him to miss court dates, and to suffer severe consequences afterwards, in terms of his reliability and his reputation.

     The family court system of Lake County, Illinois deliberately sabotaged Mr. Jackson, and deliberately provoked him into such a severe state of emotional distress, that he issued the threats that he did.

     This pedophile-enabling gang, which runs the Lake County family court system, ganged up on Jackson, making him live in reasonable fear that pedophile attorneys were coming after him and his children. I believe that I have proven, above, that they were, in fact, coming after his children.

     Any person would lose their mind in such a situation. You don't have to be crazy to do something like that; you just have to be crazy about your kids.

 

     Mr. Jackson's conviction should be thrown out; not only because he was intentionally provoked into a temporary state of insanity, in which he was not in full control of his faculties (because the state didn't want him to be).

     But also because of the obvious conflict of interest (i.e., the state's prevailing interest to take custody of children in order to subject them to unwanted sexual touching, and the interest of pedophile attorneys and judges and police officers to discredit credible victims on purpose in order to protect each other's jobs).

 

     Suddenly Jordan Klepper doesn't seem so funny anymore, does he?

 

 



    XII: Update (Posted on December 10th, 2023):

     Kash Jackson was released from prison in late November 2023.

 

 

 

 

Written on June 11th and 12th, 2023.

 

Published on June 11th, 2023.

 

Edited and expanded on June 12th, and December 10th and 26th, 2023.

Tuesday, October 2, 2018

The 2018 Candidates for Governor of Illinois







     The following is a list of the four candidates (#1-#4) in the 2018 gubernatorial election for Illinois, who will be on the ballot; and ten (#5-#14) of the people who have declared their intent to run as write-in candidates for the governor with the Illinois State Board of Elections.
     Since write-in candidates for governor are required to seek ballot access in each county separately, the only way to find out how many write-in candidates there are for Illinois governor, would be to call each board of elections in all 102 Illinois counties, and find out whom has filed. Only the ten most highly populated counties' election boards were consulted during the course of research for this article.
     The election for Illinois governor will be held on Tuesday, November 6th, 2018.





Candidates on the Ballot





1. Incumbent Governor Bruce J. Rauner, on ballot


Personal Campaign Website:
http://www.brucerauner.com/

Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Rauner

Illinois.gov pages:
http://www2.illinois.gov/gov/Pages/default.aspx
http://www.illinois.gov/gov/contactus/Pages/default.aspx
Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/BruceRauner/
http://m.facebook.com/GovRauner/

Twitter:
http://twitter.com/brucerauner?lang=en

Residence:
Springfield, Illinois

Running Mate:
Evelyn P. Sanguinetti






2. Democratic challenger J.B. Pritzker, on ballot


Personal Campaign Website:
http://www.jbpritzker.com/

Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._B._Pritzker

Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/jbpritzker/

Twitter:
http://twitter.com/JBPritzker?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Residence:
Chicago, Illinois

Running Mate:
Julianna Stratton






3. Conservative Party nominee and current Illinois state senator Sam McCann, on ballot


Personal Campaign Website:
http://mccannforillinois.com/

ilga.gov page:
http://ilga.gov/senate/senator.asp?MemberID=1796

Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_McCann

Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/senatormccann/

Twitter:
http://twitter.com/mccann_sam?lang=en

Email Address:
McCannForGovernor.Jen@gmail.com (campaign field director)

Campaign Phone Number:
309-839-9440 (field director)

Residence:
Plainview, Illinois

Running Mate:
Aaron Merreighn






4. Libertarian nominee Kash Jackson, on ballot


Personal Campaign Websites:
http://www.kash2018.com/

On the Issues:
http://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/grayson-kash-jackson-illinois-libertarian-candidate-governor/

Email Address:
kash.jackson.restoringfreedom@gmail.com

Personal Website (Restoring Freedom)



Twitter pages:
http://mobile.twitter.com/kashjackson2016?lang=en
http://twitter.com/KashJackson2018?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Campaign Pages on Facebook

Wikipedia

More Articles About Kash Jackson

Residence:
Antioch, Illinois

Running Mate:
Sanjeev "Sanj" Mohip









The Write-In Candidates





5. Jo 753, write-in independent candidate


Personal Campaign Website:
http://www.7532020.com/GUVRNR.htm
http://www.7532020.com/UBoWT.htm

Personal Website:
http://www.nooalf.com/JO753.html

Email Addresses:
JO@7532020.com
nooalf@aol.com

Residence:
Wauconda, Illinois

Running Mate:
Unknown








6. Robert G. "Bob" Canfield, write-in independent candidate




Google+ Page:
http://plus.google.com/113045066829836440567

Email:
bc.indpt@gmail.com

LinkedIn page:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-canfield-a2739b33

Article About Previous Campaign:
http://www.chicagonow.com/publius-forum/2011/12/the-other-8th-district-candidate/

Residence:
Palatine, Illinois

Running Mate:
Unknown








7. Dan Fein, write-in candidate, and nominee of the Socialist Workers Party


Dan Fein for Governor Campaign Phone:
312-455-0111

OurCampaigns.org page:
http://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=420658

Articles on Fein:
http://www.themilitant.com/2016/8012/801203.html
http://independentpoliticalreport.com/2014/12/socialist-workers-partys-dan-fein-kicks-off-campaign-for-mayor-of-chicago/

Socialist Workers Party of Chicago General Email Address:
swpchicago@fastmail.fm

Socialist Workers Party website:
http://themilitant.com/2018/07/28/socialist-workers-party-launches-2018-campaigns/

Residence:
Chicago, Illinois

Running Mate:
Laura Anderson








8. Nancy Foster, write-in independent candidate


Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/DrNancyforGovernor/

Facebook Messenger:
@DrNancyforGovernor

Residence:
Belleville, Illinois

Running Mate:
Unknown







9. Thomas Kuna-Jacob, write-in independent candidate


LinkedIn pages:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-kuna-jacob-bsfs-ma-a6149726
http://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-j-kuna-jacob-b68281160

OurCampaigns.Com page:
http://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=422197

Twitter:
http://twitter.com/tomkunajacob?lang=en

Co-Authored Books on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Books-Thomas-J-Kuna-Jacob/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AThomas%20J.%20Kuna-Jacob

Residence:
Unknown

Running Mate:
Unknown







10. Gregg Moore, write-in independent candidate


Email:
greggmoore01@gmail.com

LinkedIn pages:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregg-moore-b5032084
http://www.linkedin.com/pulse/introducing-your-next-governor-moore-gregg-moore

Financial Disclosure Pages:
http://www.elections.il.gov/Campaigndisclosure/CommitteeDetail.aspx?id=IvLuxyWRvUn2KVIh0khV3g%3D%3D
http://illinoissunshine.org/committees/gregg-moore-for-il-governor-23277/

Residence:
Broadview, Illinois

Running Mate:
Unknown








11. Kevin D. Ryan, write-in independent candidate



Personal Campaign Website:
http://kevindryan.com/

Email (fill out the form):
http://kevindryan.com/contact/

Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/RyanForGovernor/

Facebook Messenger:
@RyanForGovernor

Twitter:
http://twitter.com/KDforIllinois
@KDforIllinois

Residence:
Chicago, Illinois

Running Mate:
Unknown









12. Michael W. Scruggs, write-in independent candidate


Ballotpedia page:
http://ballotpedia.org/Michael_W._Scruggs

Email:
michaelscruggs1942@gmail.com

Phone Numbers:
618-975-8168
618-767-1503

Twitter:
http://twitter.com/michaelwsceuggs / @michaelwsceuggs

Instagram:
http://www.instagram.com/michaelscruggs1942/

Video from his 2016 presidential campaign:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPVk4CHEpBs

Residence:
Centreville, IL

Running Mate:
Unknown









13. David Tholin, write-in independent candidate


Personal Campaign Website:
http://www.myfriendsarereal.com/

Personal Email Address:
exerciseprogram1@aol.com

Email Address (fill out form):
http://www.myfriendsarereal.com/contact/

OurCampaigns.com page:
http://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=422001

Residence:
Evanston

Running Mate:
Unknown





14. Mary A. Vann-Metcalf, write-in independent candidate

Elections.IL.gov Page:
http://www.elections.il.gov/ElectionInformation/CandDetail.aspx?CandidateID=Ga95t%2BsZCKESXKuTzr3cng%3D%3D&ElectionID=FL3a9Ron9Vg%3D

Email:
marymetcalfforcongress@gmail.com

Residence:
Chicago

Running Mate:
Unknown







Sources:
http://www.thegreenpapers.com/G18/IL
http://www.sangamoncountyclerk.com/documents/11-18AllCandidates_008.pdf
http://www.lakecountyil.gov/DocumentCenter/View/13059/Candidate-List
and other county election board websites





     Note: I apologize for not providing the personal phone numbers and addresses of the candidates; I have refrained from doing so in order to protect their privacy.



Written and Published on October 2nd, 2018
Edited on October 3rd, 26th, and 30th, 2018
Updated and Expanded on October 4th, 5th, and 9th, 2018
Top Image Created and Added on November 1st, 2018

Tuesday, August 14, 2018

A Libertarian “Family Values” Solution to Fighting Gang Violence


     Between 3 P.M. on Friday, August 3rd, and 6 A.M. on Monday, August 6th, 2018, seventy-four people were shot in Chicago, Illinois. In the first three hours of that Sunday alone, thirty people were shot, in addition to another ten people within the few hours before and after that. Eleven or twelve of those 74 people reportedly died as the result of their injuries.
     As a response to the escalation in violence, hundreds of additional police officers have been put on patrol in the city. The rash of shootings has prompted calls for the resignation of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Emanuel, who served as Barack Obama's chief of staff during the first year and a half of his presidency, condemned the shootings, calling them “unacceptable in any neighborhood”. Chicagoans might have considered this number of shootings “normal” if they had occurred during the Fourth of July weekend, but given that they took place in early August, it just seems out of place.
     The shootings have also renewed public interest in calling-in the Illinois National Guard to help the Chicago Police Department patrol problematic areas of the city. Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner disagreed, saying “the national guard is not for neighborhood policing”. Rauner, who is up for re-election this November, added that improving economic opportunities would help to end the violence in the city.


     In November, Rauner faces re-election challenge from Democratic nominee and fellow billionaire J.B. Pritzker, Conservative Party nominee and state legislator Sam McCann, and Libertarian Party nominee Kash Jackson, as well as, possibly, various other independent, minor party, and write-in candidates.
     On March 3rd, Kash Jackson was nominated for governor by the Libertarian Party of Illinois, defeating challengers Matthew C. Scaro and Jon Stewart. Although Stewart was the only one of the three candidates who was open to considering deploying the Illinois National Guard in Chicago, he articulated his own comprehensive plan to address gang violence during their campaigns, as did Mr. Scaro and Mr. Jackson. All three candidates agreed that economic opportunity would play a part in the solution to gang violence, as well as the decriminalization of non-violent drug offenses and gun possession. Jackson in particular would like to give inmates the opportunity to acquire skills while in jail that will help them become valued, contributing members of society and the labor force.
     The Libertarian Party and its candidates, of course, do not agree with Bruce Rauner on everything. If we liked Bruce Rauner, we wouldn't be running anyone against him. However, I, and many L.P. members, feel that Bruce Rauner and Kash Jackson are correct in their agreement on this particular issue. Economic opportunity should be part of the solution, and calling-in the National Guard should not.
     In my opinion, this is a position which fits in line perfectly with what libertarian-inspired public policy should look like. It also stands as an example of what moderate Republicans do right, as far as libertarians are concerned; looking to freedom, rather than brute strength, to fight gangs, gun crime, and violent behavior associated with the use and sale of drugs.


     You don't fix urban gang violence by calling the National Guard into cities, nor by imposing a curfew on adults. That would violate the freedoms of all people within the areas being patrolled; even adult citizens who vote and pay taxes, and who of right ought to be allowed to make their own decisions. To impose a curfew is to disregard people's natural freedom of locomotion (movement; travel), and makes them unfree to leave their homes. This is not Saudi Arabia, nor it is Egypt in 2011, where governments can get away with using brutal, uncivilized means to supposedly achieve civil “order” (which essentially amounts to a state of legalized terror over the public).
     The patrol of streets by police officers, who often watch and even follow people without warrants or reasonable suspicion, essentially create a standing threat against citizens. When supplemented by officers trained in military techniques, and especially when provided with military-grade weaponry and surveillance technology, police departments can be transformed into what essentially amounts to units of a standing army. That is what the second and third amendments to the U.S. Constitution were intended to prevent.
     Calling-in the National Guard sends the message that not just law-breakers, but also potential law-breakers, will be dealt with as if they were an invading army of foreign militants, posing an immediate threat to people. This makes people feel as if they are not at home in their own country. This treatment especially negatively affects people of color, and brings back bad historical memories (more than those whose relatives do not have stories of similar situations can imagine).
     Additionally, the ubiquitous presence of police results in what is called “the alienation of the will”, as well as the “Panopticon” effect. It causes people to worry that they are being watched, and change their behavior as a way to compensate. The motivation behind the Panopticon is to cause people to “police their own behavior”. Unfortunately, this has turned many of us into our own worst enemies. Thus, the Panopticon has done little other than to put a man's leash into his own hand, and to allow police to get away with shouting “fire” in a crowded theater with no fire, by shooting at people who they claim to be threats.
     This can have disastrous consequences, including 1) more secretive behavior on the part of citizens and law enforcement officers alike, 2) government encouraging citizens to spy on their neighbors, and 3) criminals killing more witnesses and police in order to get away with their crimes than they otherwise would have (a problem which is spurred-on by the harsh penalties involved). Moreover, 4) an environment of fear is created in the community, as well as the perception that one is being watched, and that privacy is impossible. Also, 5) some citizens begin to behave as if they were police officers. Not by protecting and serving, mind you, but by using the violation of petty infractions as an excuse to shoot people who are engaging in harmless behaviors which they personally don't like, and by extrajudicially detaining someone who “looks like a terrorist” in a grocery store for no reason, while they call the cops.
     Making people believe that they are being watched at all times, has more unintended consequences than we can anticipate. There is little evidence that creating an environment of Kafkaesque fear – fear that we'll be accused of anything and everything, and be on our own to defend ourselves against charges our accusers can't even articulate, and fear that we could be breaking some obscure law no matter where we go and what we do - has ever made people into better or more law-abiding citizens.
     This environment of fear has, thus far, only served to reproduce in the streets what the people of Pamplona feel every year; that of an approaching stampede shaking the ground, and of a public panic about to ensue, which, for everybody's safety, needs to be prevented.


     The “law of the instrument”, explained by a quotation whose origin has been attributed to many different people, states that “every problem looks like a nail if the only tool you have is a hammer”. Not all of our problems can be killed or destroyed; didn't we learn that from our failed war on the ideology of terrorism?
     I believe that it is impossible to solve gang violence by treating ordinary citizens as if they were standing threats to public order, even if they are supposedly walking in dangerous neighborhoods. We cannot put all of our potential “problems” in jail, just because we think that they might do something bad or harmful. Especially when our “problems” are human beings, who nearly always have perfectly rational motivations for the things they do.
     The idea that we can police our way into paradise, and that all we need is increased police presence on the ground, presumes people guilty until proven innocent, instead of innocent until proven guilty. It puts the responsibility upon the accused person, to defend himself against accusations which the accuser has little to no responsibility to even articulate, much less for which to provide evidence. All of this subverts our civil liberty to due process of law and fair legal proceedings. It plays into the idea of “thoughtcrime” (a term coined by George Orwell in his novel 1984) and “pre-crime” (a term used in the film Minority Report).
     Using this logic, we might as well put everyone in jail! But then, who would hold the keys?


     Willingness to violate a petty infraction does not make one a violent criminal, and failing to follow the law should not merit being treated like some sort of hostile foreign invader who is incapable of living in a civilized society.
     In Illinois, many Republicans want a more strict enforcement of the law, and say “make an example of small-time rule-breakers”. But ironically, some of them defend calls for Democratic former Illinois Rod Blagojevich to be pardoned, and prematurely released from prison, after being sentenced to 14 years in prison for corruption. Granted, political corruption is not technically a violent crime, but this is our government, and we ought to be holding our elected officials to higher standards than ordinary citizens.
     Why these Republicans are defending a corrupt Democrat is confusing enough as it is; but maybe they're just taking Trump's lead. Either way, the fact that they'd rather release Blagojevich (who isn't eligible for release until May 2024) than “small-time rule-breakers” is not only disturbing, but perhaps even shows a tinge of racism. Maybe these are the same people who chose to set Barabbas the murderer free instead of Jesus Christ.
     It amazes me; the lengths some Illinois Republicans are willing to go, to compare non-violent petty offenders to murderers, and to cast Rod Blagojevich as a faithful public servant who was unfairly targeted. The man offered to sell the vacated seat of the outgoing U.S. Senator who became president, and all but admitted it on audio tape.


     As we saw in Operation Iraqi Freedom, “shock and awe” failed to win the United States of America “the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people”. Likewise, the police should not expect to be able to win the public's trust.
     Especially not by simply making sure that most of the police officers who are arresting minorities, are themselves minorities, or “look like the neighborhoods they're policing”. Especially not if they are arresting their own families and neighbors for petty theft, minor drug charges, and the possession of weapons without permits and licenses.
     The only way the police can gain public trust is to make sure that people are less afraid of the police than they are of gangs. And one of the best ways you can do that is to decriminalize the non-violent possession of drugs and weapons, and decriminalize prostitution by consenting adults, and repeal laws against victimless crimes. Fortunately, it's also one of the easiest ways to deal with the problem, because the police would have less work to do, and therefore less resources would be expended, leading to lower taxes.
     Why shouldn't legalizing harmless, peaceful, non-violent market activity – even if it is supposedly “black-market” activity - be part of extending economic opportunity to these often poor, overlooked neighborhoods experiencing gang violence? We should be careful to avoid confusing non-violent “black market” behavior, which is technically illegal but harmless; with violent “red markets”, which involve crime for profit, such as murder-for-hire, robbery and burglary, and coerced prostitution. The longer we pretend that the black and red markets are the same, the longer they will work together to avoid their mutual enemy the state.
     Of course, selling drugs and becoming a prostitute is by no means the only type of “economic opportunity” which would help struggling neighborhoods. Bootlegging could be decriminalized. Jurisdictions could reduce fines on becoming a food vendor without applying for a permit, or they could get rid of the permits, or reduce the fees or requirements therefor, or they could re-evaluate which professions need strict permits altogether.
     Job opportunities aside, minor traffic and parking infractions which result in no harm to person or property could be dealt with more fairly; and in a more lenient fashion; and without relying on the impossible dream of an omnipresent state, to make all behavior everywhere to conform to what the state wants.


     When the people are not constantly antagonized - and overregulated, tracked, and spied on – in their places of business (legitimate or not) and elsewhere, then the prospect of citizens and police getting along, and working together against violent crime, will become possible. Only when that happens, will the people be less afraid of the cops than they are of the gangs.
     To expect people to “snitch” on members of criminal gangs that would want them dead for doing such a thing, is patently absurd. But it is nowhere near as absurd as the idea that one set of violent criminals (the state) is qualified to crack down on another set of violent criminals who help them enforce the drug cartel. The state has just as much of a history threatening and intimidating peaceful people as organized criminal gangs do; maybe even more. Considering how much material support Al Capone's gang provided to needy people, I almost want to recommend that people turn-in problematic police officers to their local gangs.
     To many people, to snitch on a criminal is a “turn in a friend, get a free plea deal” situation; it's a no-win situation. This is to say that small-time drug dealers are afraid to turn-in drug dealers who steal, kill, or poison the drugs they sell; and that prostitutes are afraid to call the cops on pimps and johns who abuse them. Not only are prostitutes and small-time drug dealers not criminals; if they are reporting any of the offenses I have mentioned, they are victims of crime. To prosecute such people is to send a clear message that the police have no interest in protecting and serving vulnerable members of society.
     It's not that co-conspirators, accomplices, and accessories to the crime shouldn't be prosecuted; what I'm saying is that people who break laws against victimless crimes, such as vice laws, should not be perceived as criminals, simply because they have broken some petty infractions. Harming “the public” is impossible, because what “the public” is, is a social construct. It is a fantastical, made-up thing, which does not tangibly exist, and thus cannot be physically harmed, much less called to testify in open court. When the public is the accuser, a fair trial is all but impossible, since one cannot confront one's accuser, except through a duly authorized representative (and what makes that representative acceptable is a matter of debate).

     Whether we're talking about decriminalizing non-violent black market activity, or legalizing under-the-table work in “gray markets”, or just getting rid of some of the many laws that ordinary people violate every day without even knowing it (several felonies per day, by one estimate); the point is to rid ourselves of the need to create laws whose enforcement results in the police unnecessarily antagonizing the people.
     Through liberalization, legalization, and decriminalization of non-violent behaviors, the need for police to enforce the law can be diminished, and the presence of police in neighborhoods will diminish due to that lessened need. Perhaps it helps to think of the police as an occupation force, like the United States was, and still is, in Iraq and Afghanistan: as the people rise up to defend their homeland, the police will draw-down their level of active duty assistance in policing those neighborhoods.
     But of course, people are only governable if the set of laws by which they're expected to abide are reasonable, and are limited to the protection of people and justly acquired property. Otherwise, a system of officers of the peace (who may not go on patrols), citizen militias (who may not forcibly recruit), and deputized citizens (whose arrest powers must be limited), would burst through those constraints, and collapse into an occupying army. “Mission creep” would set in, and many people would be coerced into becoming Stalinist “see something, say something” spies on their neighbors - volunteer snitches who do police bidding without caring whether the laws they're enforcing are just in the first place – in order to survive through currying favor with the authorities.
     But no army, nor police force, can survive long, if it is itself itself occupied with enforcing unjust laws that are impossible to obey, and which are undesired by the people. It is only through the efforts of people, who put up with and sometimes even help enforce unjust laws, that the legitimacy and finance of the occupying police army are maintained (or else destroyed).


     While we, as libertarians, may feel the impulse to reject calls to resolve the problem of gang violence by “restoring family” as socially conservative, traditionalist, or outmoded. However, the gubernatorial nominee of the Libertarian Party of Illinois, Kash Jackson, believes that fatherless homes are a major contributing factor leading to increased likelihood of youth drug use and involvement in gangs. The statistics prove him right on that.
     Jackson believes that family values are a potential solution to gang violence, but he does not promote family values in the manner in which Republicans are apt to promote family values. His is a “family values” platform which avoids that control-freak fantasy of an omnipotent, state that can make criminals into law-abiding citizens by locking them in cells and depriving them of opportunities, nor that it can make peaceful citizens into better people by treating them as criminal suspects.
     Nor does he stoop to paternalism; his platform supports equality of the sexes, as the Libertarian Party has since its formation in 1971. When you listen to Kash Jackson, you will not hear any judgmental, dog-whistle-laden talk about minority fathers in urban areas being deadbeats, nor talk about single mothers leading immoral lifestyles. Rich or poor, white or black, whichever gender; Jackson and his supporters in Illinois are following through on their promises to treat individuals the same, regardless of their demographic differences, and regardless of what they can do to benefit the candidates personally.
     On June 29th, 2018, after the Libertarian Party of Illinois turned in tens of thousands of signatures to the Illinois State Board of Elections in Springfield, the candidates and several state party officials held a press conference. At that press conference, Kash Jackson criticized Social Security Title IV-D (child support), saying that “Illinois sets support orders that exceed double of the national recommendations.” Kash Jackson recognizes that it is the Social Security system, not necessarily moral failings on the part of parents, that has created the mess that families are in (especially in Illinois).
     Like Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, Jackson has also criticized what Ryan called “the poverty trap in welfare”; something that is a key factor contributing to the difficulty of transitioning from welfare to work. In this “poverty trap”, people are cut-off from government assistance as soon as they become required to report new income. As a result, people who receive government assistance are effectively given a disincentive to get off of welfare. While Ryan criticized this problem more generally, Jackson has criticized it in regards to the fact that single-parent households are more likely to need some form of supplemental income than two-parent households, whether from government or through child support. But then, of course, Jackson emphasizes in his speeches that the government of Illinois gets paid by the federal government every time it helps to collect on child support orders. That aside, the point is that not only does Social Security offer this perverse incentive; other government assistance programs do too.


     It would not be unfair to conclude that a two-parent household – with parents of any gender, sex, or sexual orientation – can do a better job of raising a child than the state can.
     The Libertarian Party joins those conservatives who recognize that, at least in Illinois, child support is an extortion racket, which all too often assumes fathers to be at fault, and which hurts good parents as well as “deadbeat” and abusive parents.
     But the Libertarian Party also joins those liberals and progressives who know that parents also shouldn't have their children taken away, nor their right to become parents, simply because they are an undocumented immigrant, or gay, or unwed either.
     At the Libertarian Party of Illinois's June 29th press conference, Jackson stated, “No Illinois citizen should be kicked out, and separated from their children. The exact same thing that happens to the kids on the border, that's been happening to American citizens with child protective services and with our family court system, should be ended today, because it's Draconian, it's archaic, and it shouldn't happen.”
     And all the evidence we have seen – from the concentration camps at the border (which, for all we know, are operating on a for-profit basis) and the separation of children from their parents (at the border and internally); to the jailing of first-time and petty offenders who then learn criminal lifestyles while in jail; to the failed wars on crime, drugs, terrorism, and poverty – points to Jackson and the Libertarians being right.
     It's just too bad that Libertarians want to defund public schools. Without public schools, who would teach your children that all of these catastrophic failures of leadership are just the price we pay for living in a civilized society, and that the community and the government know better than parents what's right for their children anyway?




Written Between August 8th and 11th, and 14th, 2018
Published on August 14th, 2018

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