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.

Protecting Children from Censorship: Why it's Unethical to Provide Puberty Blockers and Genital Mutilation to Minors

      Putting minors on puberty blockers is unethical.


     Aside from the issue of children not being able to give informed consent, parents cannot give informed consent on their children's behalf, unless and until they have become aware of all the potential negative consequences and risks (as well as the alternatives).



     Puberty blockers prevent skeletal growth.
     One reason why puberty blockers are administered to boys wishing to become women, is that it prevents the boy from getting too tall.
     Although this is done under the guise of helping the "patient" transcend gender and traditional gender roles, it is actually reinforcement of the gender stereotype that women are supposed to be short (and that tall people cannot be feminine, nor "pass" as a woman).
     It is also done in the name of helping the patient avoid the awkward, uncomfortable, humiliating, suicidal-thought-inducing process of going through the puberty associated with the sex they were assigned at birth. Patients are almost led to think that puberty is irreversible, when it is gender transition that is much more difficult to reverse.

     Despite the characterization of these medications, by some medical professionals, as “life-saving medications”, there is no evidence that indicates that suicidal ideation or gender dysphoria decrease when a child is encouraged to attempt to change gender or sex. Children who are questioning their gender identity, and are being led to falsely assume that changing one’s biological / genetic sex is yet scientifically possible, are being subtly programmed to adopt this line of thinking.
     They are also being led to assume that any refusal to support gender transition - even among children – constitute “trans genocide” (a genocide of transgender people). The rationale is that a generation of transgender children will be lost to suicide if their demands to be allowed to transition are not honored.
     These children are, thus, being led to believe that making suicidal threats is a perfectly acceptable method to get your way. This way of thinking is destructive to society, and to young developing minds. Such people will need to be taught the value of trying to convince others of their opinions without subjecting others to pressure, threats, or other forms of coercion in order to try to force them to agree. This is what is necessary to build a civil society which will respect the rule of law because it will have been founded upon needing to obtain the consent of the governed.
     Minors who have begun gender transition should be screened for Dissociative Identity Disorder, asked if they have been sexually abused, and told that nobody will be angry at them if they want to stop transitioning or need to come out as homosexual.

     One puberty blocker which is being administered to boys who want to become females, is Lupron. Lupron is used to chemically castrate child rapists.
     Apparently, the rationale of those promoting medical and surgical transition of minors, is that a "genocide" will be caused, if we don't confuse homosexual teenage boys into thinking that they're women, so that they allow doctors to administer medications that will make them sterile before they're old enough to decide whether they want to have families. Men don't have to be heterosexual in order to want to father children the traditional way; they can donate sperm to female friends or surrogate mothers.
     In some states, underage girls who want to transition are given less warning, about the potential negative consequences of getting sterilized (and having their breasts removed), than are women between the ages of 18 and 25. If young women aren't old enough to decide that they want irreversible surgery that will stop them from having babies forever, then people under 18 certainly aren't old enough.



     The right to freely debate health policy, or U.S. involvement in a foreign war, has been curtailed for adults. Adults are being exposed to censorship; while our children are being exposed to genital mutilation and suicidal ideation.
     Books containing drawings of teenagers having sex are being placed in our public school libraries, and the people defending it say they are doing it in the name of preventing censorship and protecting the freedom of speech.
     Instead of protecting children from being exposed to sex, we are protecting them from censorship.

     It's time that states craft policies allowing adults to modify their bodies, and dance in drag with other adults; but which also punish adults for exposing children to their naked bodies or to obscene material, or who promote genital mutilation and body modification to minors.
     Restrictions upon activities participated in by transsexual, transgender, and transvestite individuals must not interfere with the rights of those trans people who are minding their own business and are not actually attempting to groom children.
     If such restrictions do enable the authorities to interfere with the rights of those trans people who are not criminals or threats to children, then those Republican-supported statutes which were intended to protect children but also curtail the rights of adults, will continue to be (appropriately) criticized by Democrats who oppose the theological repression of sexuality.
 


     Bills are being debated, in the legislatures of California and Washington State, which would enable those states to take custody of children whose parents whose parents refuse to put them on puberty blockers (which potentially puts them on the track towards irreversible surgeries before they reach the age at which they are able to give informed consent regarding sexual matters).
     These children have been confused by their educators, and by the naive culture of reckless promotion of all things trans, which is all around them.
     From piercing and tattooing, to circumcision and female genital mutilation, to excessive vaccinations, to puberty blockers, to orchiectomies and child sex change surgeries, to double mastectomies (which are medically unnecessary when administered to teenage girls who don’t have either breast cancer or back problems due to excessively large breasts), child body modification has got to stop.
     Children and adults have different sets of freedoms, rights, and responsibilities. Sexual liberation is for adults, not children. Censorship is for children, not adults.
     You do not have to base your ethics on a religion in order to notice that this is wrong. Wake up.



Written and published on June 11th, 2023.

Saturday, June 10, 2023

Congressman Steals from Taxpayers to Fund Girls' Pipeline from Sports and Dance to Modeling to Pornography

     At a "Congress on Your Corner" event in Zion, Illinois, in early 2021, Congressman Brad Schneider bragged, to a crowd of about forty voters, that he had helped secure P.P.P. loans for a dance studio that would benefit children in Illinois's 10th District.

     P.P.P. loans were loans intended to relieve businesses impacted by Covid-19 -related shutdowns.


     Upon investigation into the list of 10th District companies which received such loans, I determined that the dance studio Schneider was talking about was (most likely) Reverie Dance Academy in Buffalo Grove, owned by instructor Lacey Rust.
     Reverie Dance Academy, Inc. received a $59,702 loan and a $56,983 loan, a total of $116,685.
     [Source:
     http://www.federalpay.org/paycheck-protection-program/il/22600]

     Reverie's P.P.P. loan was forgiven - and so were 92% of the P.P.P. loans, according to a report by the Small Business Administration - and at taxpayer expense.
     [Source:
     http://www.npr.org/2023/01/09/1145040599/ppp-loan-forgiveness#:~:text=Yet%20nearly%20three%20years%20after,companies%20with%20mega-rich%20owners.]

     Since these loans were pitched to the taxpayers and voters as loans and not as gifts, the fact that the loans were forgiven should reflect intent to commit voter fraud on the part of any and all politicians who ran on securing such loans.


     Reverie Dance Academy is teaching young girls to dance in eroticized manners, while underdressed. Their being underdressed is always attributed to a need for the dancer to achieve maximum range of motion.

     The choreography which Reverie teaches to girls ballet and jazz, but also more mature dancing, some of which would look more appropriate being done by the Rockettes (or even showgirls).

     Granted, Reverie's choreography is not the most inappropriate dancing being done by girls in America today (although it's still problematic).

     The bigger problem is with the dance studios that are teaching hip-hop moves that could be described as "freak dancing", which are obviously too adult.

     Molly Long is one of the choreographers who is teaching this type of dancing to children.

     And much of this is photographed and filmed, and shared on social media (including by Reverie).


     This is not only a problem because it exposes kids to controversial music and dancing, and to leering crowds in person and over social media, but also because it exposes them to potential grooming by dance instructors.

     Mitchell and Dusty Button, Mark Chavarria, Jordan Viscomi, David Silvas are some of the dance studio owners and dance instructors who have been charged with rape or statutory rape recently.

     We should also not forget that Cirque du Soleil's recent choreography comes from Wade Robson, the Australian who was on good terms with Michael Jackson until he decided to speak out against him. Robson met Jackson as the prize after he entered and won a Jackson dance-alike contest at age seven, when the rules stated that contestants had to be at least eight. The holders of the contest suspended that rule due to audience demand that Robson win.

     It is much easier to understand now, more so than thirty years ago, why Michael Jackson would agree to meet a boy who had once been considered too young to dance in the sexualized manner for which Jackson had become known.


     Kids being funneled into Reverie Dance Academy, and other dance studios which teach their students to dress and dance in inappropriate manners for their ages, is also problematic, because of the widespread promotion of dancewear and athletic wear on social media.

     This commercial promotion of young girls' clothing has tempted hundreds of mothers to start social media accounts on which their daughters model leotards.

     The majority of these mothers are leading their daughters to believe that they are "brand ambassadors", promoting the given athletic wear brand, or dancewear brand. But some do not hide their intent to share images of their children for the purposes of helping them becoming fashion models.

     Either way, it is necessary to ask ourselves why these women feel so comfortable sharing these images of their children on social media. We cannot know whether these children will regret having done this modeling when they become adults and gain the ability to give informed consent to do so.

      The reason why many of these mothers feel comfortable, I suppose, is because they are getting paid by companies like SheIn, and other manufacturers of leotards and of athletic wear, to promote their products. The sheer number of sellers of dancewear and athletic wear, promoted on these girls' "mother-run" accounts, makes it difficult to guess exactly which brands may be consciously promoting the objectification and trafficking of girls. But SheIn seems to be among the most problematic, given that it is being investigated for forced labor.
     [Source:
     http://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/01/shein-china-congress-forced-labor-inquiry.html]

     Through a combination of a sort of reactionary nihilism, and (often) an absent husband, these mothers are able to rationalize-away all concerns about the exploitation of images of their children and of the children themselves.


     Changing subjects: There is currently a lawsuit in progress against pornography websites PornHub and GirlsDoPorn.

     The makers of GirlsDoPorn were able to lure young women into doing coercive and exploitative pornographic films, by offering them opportunities to do tasteful modeling of athletic wear.

      PornHub posted the content, and is being sued in addition to GirlsDoPorn, the original source of these videos. GirlsDoPorn has been shut down.

     [Note:

     You can watch a two-part interview, about some of the crimes committed by the makers of GirlsDoPorn, at the following addresses:
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVHJW5j7cYQ
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUeAmI8v060]


     The makers of GirlsDoPorn used grooming techniques to do what they did.
     They offered tasteful modeling gigs, and then they repeatedly asked models to do porn until they eventually got a yes; and when that didn't work, they convinced women to come out to do a photography session, only to physically prevent them from leaving, and blackmail them into having sex on camera for publication (threatening to tell their families that they had done porn).

     It's also noteworthy that what GirlsDoPorn did was reminiscent of the manner in which Jeffrey Epstein (possibly with the awareness of Victoria's Secret owner Leslie Wexner) posed as a model scout in order to get teenage girls to give him massages and sexual favors [Ghislaine Maxwell and Ivana Trump allegedly scouted girls as they were getting out of middle school or junior high school in the afternoons, as well].



     Now, to tie this all back into athletics:

     It was recently reported that, during the last months of his life, Jeffrey Epstein wrote a letter to Larry Nassar.

     http://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/06/02/us/jeffrey-epstein-death-documents-larry-nassar/index.html

     Nassar was an Olympics gymnastics coach who molested or raped at least 150 of his teenage female students.

     What do you think Epstein said to him?



     This is the pipeline to which young girls are potentially being exposed when they begin gymnastics, "rhythmic gymnastics", cheerleading, or dance lessons; or when they post photos on social media.

     Be careful whom you allow to teach your children dance and sports. And be careful for whom you vote.

     The fact that someone is (so far) a trusted member of our community, should not stop us from asking why that person would want to devote their career to teaching children to dance or do gymnastics (which inevitably involve placing one's hands on the child in order to pose them in certain positions).

     Making money off the exploitation of children is pimping. Making money off the exploitation of children's images is pornography. If a child removes even a single glove while dancing onstage, it is stripping.
     Involving children in these activities is a crime, and it should be prosecuted as such.




Post-Script, Part 1:

     For more information about the safety of children on social media, please see the following articles and videos about the Wall Street Journal's recent investigation into pedophile networks on Instagram.
     Be advised that some of this content will be upsetting, as it reports that children are being subjected to sex acts - including with animals - over social media, in what some have come to describe as "dark-web challenges".

     http://techcrunch.com/2023/06/08/meta-child-protection-dsa-warning/

     http://www.theverge.com/2023/6/7/23752192/instagrams-recommendation-algorithms-promote-pedophile-networks-investigation

     http://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/all-news/article-745755

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=056eneLvie0

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2j1SneOcGk





Post-Script, Part 2:

     For the sake of providing a historical context for the trafficking of girls from athletics to modeling to pornography, it may be helpful, for the reader, to watch the 1938 documentary Olympiad, directed by Leni Riefenstahl.
     That documentary may help provide insight into the minds of Europeans during the early part of the twentieth century; not only Germans (who impressed the world when they ordered tens of thousands to perform simulated moves in the 1936 Olympic stadium in Berlin), but also the British and French, cultures that were, at the time, actively promoting participation in sports and athletics.
     The content of Olympiad makes it clear that - to those people - attractiveness, sexuality, athletic prowess, displays of physical strength, civic pride, and national and racial superiority, were all intimately connected with one another.



Author's Note:

     I have previously written on the topic of dance studios that may be seeking to exploit children; in an article titled "Six Locations in Schaumburg, Illinois Where Human Trafficking Is (or May Be) Occurring", originally published in May 2021.
     Please read the following article to learn about several dance studios - and several locations in Schaumburg, Illinois - which, I believe, should be investigated for child exploitation and/or human trafficking:
     http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2021/05/six-locations-in-schaumburg-illinois.html

     I have also published articles on the topic of Brad Schneider's corruption. You can read those articles by clicking on the links below:
     http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2021/07/rep-brad-schneiders-staffs-racist.html
     http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2020/02/where-does-congressman-brad-schneider.html

     




Written and published on June 10th, 2023.

Edited and expanded on June 11th and 16th, 2023.

Post-Scripts and Author's Note
written and added on June 16th, 2023.

Friday, June 9, 2023

Which Presidential Candidates I Support and Oppose in the 2024 Election

Candidates Whom I Support

     (#1 = Support Most Strongly; #13 = Support Least Strongly)


1. Pastreich, Emanuel (Green Party)
2. ter Maat, Mike (Libertarian Party)
3. Stein, Dr. Jill (Green Party)
4. Oliver, Chase (Libertarian Party)
5. Hornberger, Jacob (Libertarian Party)
6. Rectenwald, Dr. Michael (Libertarian Party)
7. Mapstead, Lars (Libertarian Party)
8. Williamson, Marianne (Democratic Party)
9. West, Dr. Cornel (independent; formerly People’s Party and Green Party)
10. Elder, Larry (Republican Party)
11. Scott, Tim (Republican Party)
12. Ramaswamy, Vivek (Republican Party)
13. Hutchison, Asa (Republican Party)


Candidates Whom I Oppose

     (#14 = Oppose Most Weakly; #24 = Oppose Most Strongly

14. Smith, Joshua (Libertarian Party)
15. Kennedy, Robert F., Jr. (Democratic Party)
16. Uygur, Cenk (Democratic Party)
17. Burgum, Doug (Republican Party)
18. Pence, Michael R. "Mike" (Republican Party)
19. Phillips, Dean (Democratic Party)
20. Christie, Chris (Republican Party)
21. Haley, Nikki (Republican Party)
22. DeSantis, Ron (Republican Party)
23. Trump, Donald (Republican Party)
24. Biden, Joe (Republican Party)



Candidates Whom I Would Support (if They Were to Run)

1. Whitney, Mark (Libertarian Party)
2. Baraka, Ajamu (Green Party)
3. Hawkins, Howie (Green Party)
4. Noem, Kristi (Republican Party) [possible vice presidential contender in 2024]
5. Brown, Sherrod (Democratic Party)



Written and published on June 9th, 2023.

Originally published under the title
"Which Presidential Candidates I Support and Oppose for the 2024 Election"

Edited and expanded on December 10th, 11th, 15th, 23rd, and 26th, 2023.

Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Economics Uses a False Definition of Scarcity (and Ignores Abundance)

     Mainstream economics is using an incorrect definition of scarcity.

     Scarcity is usually defined as if it were synonymous with finite, limited, and fixed.

     But scarcity, finitude, limitedness, and fixity are not the same thing. That's why we have different words for each of those concepts.

     If you examine the various definitions of scarcity, it is almost as if scarcity has no independent definition unto itself; it seems to be defined solely through its relation to limits, and being finite and/or fixed. At best, the definition of scarcity is incomplete.

     Fixed means there will never be more and there will never be less of a given resource (for example: naturally-occurring, non-manmade land on earth, if you ignore the formation of islands by volcanoes).

     Limited means that the amount of a given resource can never exceed a certain number or size (like how wolf populations are limited by the amount of prey animals available to them for food).

     Finite means that the amount of a given resource can be quantified with reference to a real number; that is, it is not infinite.

     Scarcity refers to a state in which you have less than you need, and need more than you have. It is not the same thing as the resource being fixed or finite (although they may be related; it is a supply and demand relationship).



     The real trouble in defining scarcity incorrectly, and assuming these terms to be interchangeable, is that we come to believe that every resource is scarce (and also fixed, finite, and limited, all at the same time).

     The most popular prevailing definition of economics (coined by British economist Lionel Robbins) is (to abbreviate) "the study of human management of scarcity". Management of abundant resources is not mentioned. 

     Is there something about the management of abundant resources which is inherently "against economics", or which is "not economics"? No. Is there something about management of abundant resources which is completely unconnected to the management of scarce resources, that would merit giving the study of them two different names? No.
     So, then, why isn't abundance included in the definition of economics?


     What this shows is that the prevailing definition of economics implicitly assumes that all resources are scarce. Mere definitions of words are not supposed to make such haughty claims. The issue of whether all resources are scarce, should be determined through debates between economists, not by the dictionary.

     But still, we go on assuming that all resources are scarce, because we have been told that since we were born.
     And since the primary form of 'human management of scarcity" is through governance by the state (which entails the use of legitimized violence), it is further assumed, by the teachers of mainstream economics, that all resources which are scarce (which is supposedly all of them) must be managed by the centralized, monopolistic state.
     This way of thinking leaves absolutely no room for free markets, heterodox economics, nor decentralized planning of resource distribution.


     Scarcity is not defined as "a state in which everything is scarce, which is everything, always, and therefore we must have one supreme government rule over us, and over all of our economic affairs"; it is a situation in which we have less of a given resource than we need.
     These two definitions have almost nothing to do with one another, and yet most of us do not care which of these things is the actual definition of "scarcity". And the reason why we don't care, is because we would never guess that knowing its true definition might have some positive effect on our lives, or make it easier for us to live (and acquire the resources we need) without having to work so long and so hard.


     Those who study economics must not make the mistakes, and wild leaps in logic, which come with defining scarcity as something it's not.
     Scarcity, finitude, limitedness, and fixity are four different things, and abundance of some resources (such as air) exists. Therefore, any definition of economics which does not address these differences (or at least take them into account), is an incorrect definition of economics.

     The idea that all resources are scarce is being used to excuse and justify more competition, and more ruthless competition, than is necessary. Truth be told, competition is the less efficient and less ethical choice, in emergencies and non-emergencies alike, as compared to cooperation. It is because of the over-emphasis of the role of competition in solving economic problems, that the role of cooperation (especially voluntary cooperation) is being undermined and under-emphasized.
     Entire business schools, and university systems, are founded upon the principle that education is necessary to help individuals compete in a global economy in which resources are scarce.
     If universities cannot prove that all resources are scarce, and prove that competition is preferable to cooperation when it comes to managing resources in emergency as well as non-emergency situations, then our educational institutions are guilty of widespread education fraud, and should be found legally responsible as such.



Written on May 17th, 2023.
Published on May 17th, 2023.

Thanks to Tom o'Donnell and Tim o'Donnell
for teaching me this information.

Tuesday, May 9, 2023

No Man is Man: Thoughts on Privacy and Sexual Segregation in Sports Participation and Restroom Access

      Like most other issues in politics and society, the transgender sports and bathroom issues are being framed in a false dichotomy: "Should sports be sexually segregated everywhere, or nowhere?"
     In this article, I would like to ask: "Why can't sports be sexually segregated in some places, but not in others?"
     I believe that this strategy will provide balance, achieve compromise, and offer something to everybody who wishes to be accommodated.


     The idea that all sports should be sexually segregated, whether in private or public contexts, is too extreme, because it doesn't let women voluntarily choose to expose themselves to the great challenge of competing against men and trans people who are (on average) much stronger than they are.

     (This is the same principle that Mary Wollstonecraft communicated, in A Vindication of the Rights of Women, when she explained that girls were considered stupid because nobody had bothered to teach them to read. We should be asking ourselves whether the average woman would be larger if psychotic cave males had beaten and killed fewer of the larger cave women.)
     Women do not lag behind men in all activities. But for those activities (reading, specific sports, etc.) in which women do lag behind men, women who expose themselves to the challenge of competing against men, do it because they want to get better at it, compete against the best, and win solely by merit (not because certain people or types of people were excluded).

     But the idea that no sports should be sexually segregated, is also too extreme, because it places unreasonable demands on individuals who don't want to shower, change, or relieve themselves in the same rooms as people who have different gametes and reproductive function than they do, or were born with different organs, or whatever the criteria of the person who feels that their privacy has been intruded upon.

     Sexual orientation could be part of that criteria, just as well. There is no reason why a building shouldn't or can't have multiple bathrooms - one for gays, one for lesbians, one for cis hetero men, one for cis hetero women, one for trans people, one non-gender-specific stall - if that is what the most frequent users of the building (or the company's customers) demand, based on the needs and demographics of the people who use it. There is no reason why gay men shouldn't be able to keep lesbian women out of their bathrooms, in neighborhoods where gay men are threatened by lesbian women (and you can repeat this idea with any other combination of people you can think of).
     If that is reasonable, then shouldn't heterosexual men, too, have the right to access safe, secure, and private bathroom facilities - which are for heterosexual men only - in neighborhoods which are heavily populated by homosexual men?

     It should be up to an individual athlete, whether that person wants to participate in sexually segregated sports, or whether that person would rather participate in sexually integrated sports.
     Public schools should permit both to exist, side-by-side, while also ensuring the privacy and safety of each individual athlete, to access restroom and changing and shower facilities, with the expectation of privacy, however each person defines it (within reason).
     If a school cannot promise safety and privacy - and achieve them, de facto - then that school should stop expanding its athletic program until proper security is hired and all bathrooms and locker rooms are safe.

     At the same time that we should honor the rights of people who want to shower and change in groups, we must not delude ourselves into thinking that this would achieve actual, full privacy.
     Privacy means being free from being observed or disturbed by other people.
     Unless you are using a very loose definition of privacy, “privacy” does not refer to a group of people changing clothes or showering in the same room. They have privacy from some people, but not from all people. One does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy when that person chooses to get naked in a room full of naked people.
     In a single-person shower stall, or a single-person bathroom stall, however, that is different; one does have an expectation of privacy there.

     Policies, regarding sexual orientation and identification, as they relate to participation in sports and access to locker room facilities, should not be based on self-identification, but based on how to achieve the total equality and total freedom of each individual involved, at the same time. Neither freedom nor equality can be compromised, nor should they.

     Sexual segregation in sports (and sports accommodations) should be legal in private contexts, and non-sexually-segregated sports should also exist and be legal. But, just as nobody should be prohibited from participating in sexually segregated sports, nobody should be compelled to integrate with people they don’t feel comfortable around in close quarters.

     But also, a person should not be compelled to change and shower in the same room as other people, simply because they are of the exact same combination of biological sex, sexual orientation, and gender role as the other people are. Some people, such as survivors of sexual abuse, do not feel comfortable showering or using the bathroom or changing around anybody. Not enjoying being naked near complete strangers is not a crime, and it is not unreasonable to suggest that accommodations can and should be made for such people, and that doing so would not be an undue burden upon anybody.

     Same-sex bathroom stalls can and should solve most or all of the bathroom access issue, because it achieves equality of accommodations, through separation. There's nothing wrong with being separate but equal, as long as you're actually equal, and there's no slavery. The only way to have no slavery, and be totally equal, is to be completely free, and thus equal in our freedom.

     Belonging to a group isn’t what makes us unique, or special, or deserving of freedom or rights. Being individuals is what makes each of us unique, special, and deserving of freedom and rights.

     No man is Man.




Written and published on May 9th, 2023.

Thursday, April 13, 2023

Practicing Mindfulness: Update Regarding What I've Been Up to Lately, and What My Plans Are for the Future

Dear readers:

     This post is a comment on the break that I have taken from posting, over the last two-and-a-half months.

     I have been holding off posting new articles to my blog, for the most part, due to the large number of articles that need to be edited, before I can move forward with new articles.

     I would apologize to my readers for the lack of updates, but right now, it is essential - for the sake of perfecting my quality of work, refining my points and improving my credibility, and making the fruits of my work manifest physically - to spend as long as it takes to refine and finish the political articles which I posted to my blog incomplete (and to fix-up my art, and some other things around my house), before I can commit to new projects.
     A partial list of these unfinished articles can be found at the following link:
     http://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2019/10/links-to-all-of-my-published-articles.html
     When these articles will have finally been completed, some of the articles towards the top of the list (in the link above) might appear in a book, bearing a title something like Lost Essays.
     That book will eventually be available on the Books page of www.joekopsick.com (which is still under construction) and on the Books page of this blog.
     You can buy my collections of best essays (prior to 2019) at the following address:
     http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2017/05/two-collections-of-essays-now-available.html
     

     About a month ago, I finally got a new phone, after going several months without one. Getting a new phone allowed me to set up a new Facebook account. I'm not giving that number out freely yet, though, because I’m trying to avoid getting too many phone calls (which was a huge problem for me in 2021 and 2022, because it began to interfere with my ability to get work done).
     You can follow me on Facebook at the following address:
     http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090385913768


     Part of the reason why I have been away, includes the fact that I was kicked off YouTube in early 2021. After that, I uploaded about half of my videos to a new YouTube channel (username @joekopsick1540), and posted the more controversial of my videos to Rumble, where it is unlikely to be removed or censored.
     Please visit the following link to see my new YouTube channel:
     http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_sq2Ku0ZpWiGeQetFGa_wg
     Please visit the following link to see my Rumble channel:
     http://rumble.com/c/c-1519125




     I am currently working on ceasing to print the documents that I use in order to keep my life organized, so that I can edit them digitally whenever I want, without slowing myself down by printing them. These include my to-do list; my list of things to buy; my list of binders full of documents and how to organize them; and my lists of contacts, and whom I need to call.
     I would like to take this opportunity to suggest, to my readers, that if their finances need organization, they make a list of all the websites they use (or at least all the websites associated with their utilities and bills), and make a list of the usernames, passwords, and e-mail addresses which they will need in order to access their favorite websites and pay their monthly bills.
     Doing this has helped me save time, and has helped me to plan my finances better, so that I can focus on other, more important tasks (the most important of which - when this list of people to call is complete - will be to resume levels of socializing which were normal before the Covid pandemic and its related restrictions.

     This will allow me to move onto the next step; of organizing my digital archives (including plans to edit and finish articles, and turn them into books, making them available for purchase; as well as archiving for my website, www.joekopsick.com, in order to finish construction on it).

     Then, I need get my work-related documents together, for the purpose of unionizing my workplace; and get my health-related documents together in order to make a more complete medical history of myself than the hospitals which have treated me.
     This phase part of a more long-term plan, which includes goals such as making better health decisions, researching Covid and other topics related to public health (for the purposes of writing political articles about those subjects), obtaining a raise, getting a better health insurance policy for the company, and beginning the task of reforming the private security industry (or at least outlining a plan regarding how it should be done).

     Another project will be to neatly frame those paintings and mosaic art pieces which I have already created, and making them available for sale on Etsy (and through my website). I plan to spend the proceeds, from selling that art, on more art supplies, because I want to make more Lego mosaics, more drawings, and also learn how to make stained glass pieces. I also hope to take up wood crafting some time soon, so that I can make musical instruments and shelves.

     I plan to sell books as part of my next campaign (not sure when that will be, or what position). Once the next round of political writing (during that campaign) is done, I can work on hobbies (music, screenwriting, visual art, etc)..

     I'm also currently putting together two demo albums of parody songs, for my band Nippleback. This will hopefully lead to studio sessions and a professionally produced CD (or at least recorded with good quality and physically created by myself).

     I will probably write an article on conversational etiquette at some point too (reflecting upon my experiences being talked to, on the phone, too much, during the COVID shutdown).

     I am also slowly putting together PowerPoint presentations, for Chicago College of Complexes, about government surveillance software, and the roots of C.o.C. in the I.B.W.A. mutual aid society and its "hobo colleges".

     I'm also working on putting together digital and physical libraries of anarchist and libertarian literature, for the Lake County Libertarian Party and its website.

     Additionally, I am helping a friend set up a political discussion salon in her home (which includes a library); and developing a poll about amending the Constitution, which she will hopefully help me market to a large audience.

     More long-term goals that I have, include creating my own version of a three-dimensional color-coded political spectrum (which I have written about before, and plan to call "the politosphere").
     I hope that, when it is finished, the politosphere will eventually be available made-to-order, as an educational tool, and that it will come with a guide to help the student understand its dimensions.
     I plan to use that politosphere as a basis from which to write a textbook about anarchism. I plan to develop that textbook into a syllabus for a university-level course.

     I was also thinking about not telling people too much about what I plan to do in the future, because it spoils the surprise. But now that this article has been written and published, that will be difficult, so I will just have to learn how to do that selectively.




     What I am trying to do here, in this article, is to demonstrate how to practice mindfulness.
     I learned about mindfulness from spiritualist Alan Watts. Watts has said that meditation does not require one to empty one's mind.
     Ancient Chinese philosopher Wu Hsin made a similar statement, which possibly influenced Watts's comments. Wu Hsin said, “The inherent nature of mind is to process thought. To attempt the cessation of thought goes against what is natural. The goal, therefore, is not the cessation of thought. The goal is cessation of identification with thought.”


     I have found, lately, that if I talk about what I am doing while I am doing it, it improves the quality of what I am doing.


     Talking about what you are doing while you are doing it (or, at least, putting what you are doing at the forefront of your mind), in order to avoid getting distracted by irrelevant conversation or stray thoughts, in order to avoid making mistakes and do things correctly. Exercising mindfulness has been helping me solve my problems with task initiation and executive functioning.
     My hope is that practicing mindfulness will be instrumental in allowing me to accomplish the mountain of tasks I have to achieve (listed above), and in helping me be more thorough in refining and completing the task at hand, so that I can either finish it once and for all, or "finish it enough" for now and set it to the side until a later designated date.


     I suggest that everyone who follows me - whether on my blog, on Facebook or Twitter, or on YouTube or Rumble - check out Alan Watts and learn about mindfulness.
     Thinking about how to be more mindful about what I am doing, has been very helpful to me lately, when it comes to deciding which task is most important to begin next, how to "think outside the box" by standing above what I'm doing and seeing it all at once, and avoiding taking things too seriously.
     Visit the following link to listen to Alan Watts talk about mindfulness:
     http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CUMqKdSoXc

     You can follow me on Twitter by visiting this address:
     http://twitter.com/joe_kopsick?t=3dAPuU_Pf6o6ClscKwbDA&s=09

     Please let me know if you are interested with assisting in any of these tasks, by e-mailing me at jwkopsick@gmail.com. And feel free to e-mail me with questions and comments about any topic.








Written on April 13th, 2023
Published on April 13th, 2023

Edited and expanded on July 25th, 2023


Waukegan Mayor Sam Cunningham Normalized the Same Type of Political Violence He Claims to Oppose When it is Practiced by I.C.E. (800th Post!)

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