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Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Links to All of My Articles and Videos on Policing, Police Killings, Crime, Gun Control, and Mass Shootings

     Please click the following links to view all the videos I've published - and articles I've written (excluding the policing portions of my past congressional platforms) - on topics related to policing.
     These articles and videos focus on the specific topics of gun control, mass shootings, trials of murderers, private prisons, killings and rapes committed by police officers, and protests and riots (especially those which occurred in May 2020).
     I have also included a link, at the bottom, which leads to all of the articles and videos that I have published regarding the case of Jussie Smollett.


1. My July 2011 video “The Colorado Batman Massacre”:
            - http://rumble.com/v20eg41-the-colorado-batman-massacre.html


2. My October 2017 video “On the Las Vegas Shootings and the 2nd and 9th Amendments”:
            - http://rumble.com/v214loz-on-the-las-vegas-shooting-and-the-2nd-and-9th-amendments.html


3. My March 2018 video “Gun Control Doesn’t Prevent Mass Shootings, it Causes Them”:
            - http://rumble.com/v216onv-gun-control-doesnt-prevent-mass-shootings-it-causes-them.html


4. My May 2020 video “Woman Talks About Police Militarization, J.F.K., Malcolm X Hours Before Chicago Riot”:
            - http://rumble.com/v21f0i1-woman-talks-about-police-militarization-j.f.k.-malcolm-x-hours-before-chica.html


5. My May 2020 video “Racist Homebum Defends Chicago Cops to B.L.M. Before Explosion Heard”:
            - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHGhAafR9CE


6. My May 2020 video “Amateur Footage Captures Moments After Cop Car Set Ablaze in Chicago”:
            - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8_4W1WtHXA


7. My May 2020 video “Amateur Footage Captures Moment After Sound Cannon Goes Off, Possibly Set by Police”:
            - http://rumble.com/v20eg4l-amateur-footage-captures-moment-after-sound-cannon-goes-off-possibly-set-by.html


8. My May 2020 video “Chicago Police Pepper Spray Mostly Peaceful Protesters Without Warning”:
            - http://rumble.com/v20eg0z-chicago-police-pepper-spray-mostly-peaceful-protesters-without-warning-may-.html


9. My May 2020 video “Cops Kick Protesters Off State & Wacker”:
            - http://rumble.com/v20eg6j-chicago-cops-kick-protesters-off-state-and-wacker-may-30th-2020.html



10. My video, from May or June 2020, titled “Cops Can Legally Kill You and Have No Duty to Protect and Serve”:
            - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3UzmDHOIZc
            - http://rumble.com/v20egt1-cops-can-legally-kill-you-and-have-no-duty-to-protect-and-serve.html


11. My (thus far incomplete) September 2020 article “Ending Involuntary Servitude, Police Brutality, and Cruel and Unusual Punishment”:
            - http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2020/09/ending-involuntary-servitude-police.html


12. My June 2021 video “Why I Think Nikolas Cruz is Schizophrenic and Not Faking It (Part 1: 19 Reasons)”:
            - http://rumble.com/v1mxrgw-why-i-think-nikolas-cruz-is-schizophrenic-and-not-faking-it-part-1-19-reaso.html


13. My June 2021 video “Why I Think Nikolas Cruz is Schizophrenic and Not Faking It (Part 2: 11 More Reasons)”:
            - http://rumble.com/v1mxvyq-why-i-think-nikolas-cruz-is-schizophrenic-and-not-faking-it-pt.-2-11-more-r.html


14. My July 2021 video “Boogaloo Bois Want to PREVENT a Second Civil War, NOT Incite One”:
            - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlF3-K2lCjc


15. My November 2021 video “Thoughts on the Kyle Rittenhouse Murder Trial”:
            - http://rumble.com/v1mysgq-thoughts-on-the-kyle-rittenhouse-murder-trial.html


16. My May 2022 video “On Right-Wing Hypocrisy and Killer Cops”:
            - http://rumble.com/v21ewud-on-right-wing-hypocrisy-and-killer-cops.html


17. My June 2022 video “On Donald Trump’s Proud Boys Comment”:
            - http://rumble.com/v20ejfr-on-donald-trumps-proud-boys-comment.html


18. My August 2022 video “Notes on the Highland Park Parade Shooting”:
            - http://rumble.com/v1n3aih-notes-on-the-highland-park-parade-shooting.html


19. My September 2022 video “Who Ever Said Private Prisons Have to Be For-Profit?”:
            - http://rumble.com/v1mc8aj-who-ever-said-private-prisons-have-to-be-for-profit.html


20. My October 2022 video “On Prisoner Abuse, Defamation Lawsuits, and Gay Conversion Therapy”:
            - http://rumble.com/v1ouwn2-on-pedo-elites-defamation-lawsuits-and-gay-conversion-therapy.html


21. My October 2022 video “You Can’t Murder People Just Because They’re on Drugs (George Floyd):
            - http://rumble.com/v1ou7ic-you-cant-murder-people-just-because-theyre-on-drugs-george-floyd.html


22. My January 2023 video “Jennifer Pan Tried to Prevent Her Parents’ Murder but Couldn’t Afford It”:
            - http://rumble.com/v27djgp-jennifer-pan-tried-to-prevent-her-parents-murder-but-couldnt-afford-it.html


23. My January 2023 article “Letter to Officer Tatum Regarding the Police Murder of Tyre Nichols”:
            - http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2023/01/letter-to-officer-tatum-regarding.html



See also:
     My February 2020 blog post "Link to All of My Articles, Videos, and Memes About Jussie Smollett":
     - http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2020/02/links-to-all-of-my-videos-and-memes.html
     [Note: The memes are no longer available, and will be made available, through the link provided above, at a later date. Also, the article on Jussie Smollett is incomplete. But there are over six hours of footage, regarding my investigations into the charges and claims against Smollett and the Osundairo brothers, at a link in the post above.]





Compiled and published on July 19th, 2023.

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, December 1, 2020

If Jeffrey Epstein Didn't Kill Himself, Then Isn't it Possible That He's Still Alive?

      After Jeffrey Epstein's apparent suicide by hanging on August 10th, 2019, independent researchers have looked at the physical evidence in the case (especially the corpse's hyoid bone) and questioned whether the death was indeed caused by self-inflicted hanging.
     Most independent researchers agree that "Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself", a phrase which spawned a meme, resulting in people yelling it on the TV news.
     But shouldn't the probability that Epstein didn't kill himself, perhaps point to the possibility that he never died in the first place? That is to say, what if someone smuggled him out of his jail cell a few hours before the reported suicide, and someone in the jail who looks like Epstein was made to take his place?
     That is, indeed, what some researchers into the matter have concluded is a possibility. Such researchers have pointed to photographs of Epstein's nose and ear, which seemed to look different in pictures of Epstein while he was alive, and the photographs of the corpse found in Epstein's cell.
     This is one example (Warning: The following images depict a DEAD BODY and one of them is very graphic):














  




     Some researchers even believe that Epstein's body was replaced with the corpse of Anthony Bourdain. Bourdain, who hosted a travel and food show for C.N.N., died, apparently of suicide by hanging, on June 8th, 2018. Bourdain had gray hair like Epstein, and kind of looked like him. But that possibility is not what I'd like to focus on.

     The next image shows my analysis of the "Epstein Alive / Epstein Dead" comparison photographs.





     That set of images aside, I will next focus on Epstein's nose. Epstein did not seem to have a crooked nose during his life, but the photograph of his corpse seems to show a nose which is bent slightly to the right.



     Finally, the dental records of Epstein and the corpse found in his cell, need to be examined and compared. I say that because Epstein has a right front tooth which may or may not be on an odd angle ,and pushed forward as compared to the rest of his teeth.
     To the contrary, however, there is a noticeable gap between that tooth and the tooth to its right, in both the corpse photo shown by Fox News, and photographs of Epstein when he was alive. That gap is also visible on photographs of the left side of Epstein's mouth, but the angle of his left front tooth is apparently not as pronounced and/or not as far forward as is his right front tooth.
     Readers should nose that it's entirely possible that the two images below do not depict any real differences between Epstein's teeth and the corpse's teeth. But the image directly below might. The only way to know for sure would be to look at physical dental records, i.e. molds of the set(s) of teeth which are available for discovery by attorneys.







Another photo of Epstein's corpse,
with bent right front tooth and gap visible.

     I will admit that the image above does look an awful lot like Jeffrey Epstein if he were dead. But my doubt remains.
     What if someone at the prison where Epstein supposedly died, was in cahoots with someone who wanted to set Epstein free? If that was the case, and someone else was put in Epstein's cell and murdered, then the man obviously must have been chosen based on how much he resembled Epstein.
     How many old Jewish men with gray hair, would such a prison employee have access to, to find someone who looks enough like Epstein to take his place? Probably not very many. And we can only speculate as to how many old Jewish inmates at that prison had irregular right and/or left front teeth. But all it would take is access to a photo database of inmates. If someone high up in the government who favored Epstein, of which there are many, were to give the OK, classified software that's only for prosecutors could have been used. For all we know, all the inmates in the State of New York were searched to find the perfect match for Epstein.
      Anyway, that's the only thing that would explain the extreme similarity between pictures of Epstein when he was alive, and that of the corpse found in his cell. The evidence is unclear and incomplete, but these photographs are nonetheless worth examining for anyone interested in making a serious inquiry into this matter.



     Researchers into Epstein's death, whether acting independently or in official capacity, should look at the differences between the ear shape, nose shape, and right and left front teeth, of Jeffrey Epstein when he was alive, as compared to those of the corpse which was found in his cell on August 10th, 2019.

     Epstein had a lot of enemies; people who didn't want him to talk. But he also had a lot of friends; people whom he'd financed, and helped house, and pay for their education. He also seemed to have found rape-slaves for a lot of his friends.
     The point being this: Someone could have smuggled him out. Sure, on one level, he was a fraudulent banker who had maybe betrayed a few too many people, and was about to talk. But on another level, he was one of the most elite child traffickers in the world, friends of presidents and kings. He almost certainly remains so.
     Are we supposed to believe that Epstein died in his cell, instead of fleeing to Israel, or Saudi Arabia, or London, or somewhere in the Virgin Islands, or to the homes of one of his many wealthy and powerful friends? Ghislaine Maxwell founded a submarine "nonprofit" (called the TerraMar Project). Epstein could be under the sea, for fuck's sake! He could be transiting from underground fuck-lair, to submarine port, to under the sea, to submarine port, to other underground fuck-lair, right now.
     Not only that; Epstein was friends with numerous elite scientists, such as Bill Gates and Steven Pinker, and probably even procured children for them. For all we know, Jeffrey Epstein could be hiding out in a secret space colony. Sound farfetched? Keep in mind that we're talking about a man who had begun to build clone farms to impregnate twenty women at a time. That wasn't reported by the National Enquirer; it was reported by the New York Times. Anyone who wants to impregnate dozens of women is trying to create either an army or a race of super-babies.
     The point is, Epstein was an insane psychopath, to whom imagination was his only limit. There's literally no telling where he could be.

     Moreover, Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested in New Hampshire of all places. From the sound of things, Epstein could be under your child's bed tonight.

     Look at the dental records. Do justice to Epstein's and Maxwell's victims. Prosecute Maxwell, find Jeffrey Epstein, and put all of the British royal family and all of Epstein's friends who knew about this, and said nothing while the public stood in darkness and children suffered, and put them all in prison for the rest of their lives.
     The "duly-elected representatives" (slavemasters) of the "sovereign governments" (child trafficking operations) of the world will have Hell to pay if they are not found and brought to justice.







Written on December 1st, 2020

Thursday, December 27, 2018

The Gulags Were Less Harsh Than American Prisons Are

     Contrary to what we have been told, gulags are a humane alternative to the American criminal justice system, which is based on punishment instead of rehabilitation, restoration, reintegration into society, and learning skills.
     The term "Gulag" is an acronym for Glavnoe Upravlenie ispravitel'no-trudovykh LAGerei, which translates to Main Administration of (corrective) Labor camps. That was the name of the Soviet bureaucracy which operated the prison labor camps, and penal colonies, that existed under the Soviet system.
     As many as 1.5 or 2 million people were imprisoned in the gulags at any one given time. While the gulags were known for being forced-labor camps, I believe that some elements of the system were desirable, and thus, should be retained, while rejecting the element of forced labor.

     First off, what were the benefits of the gulag system? For one, it helps eliminate long sentences.
     While it may seem ridiculous, at first glance, to claim such a thing, since many prisoners toiled in the labor camps for years, prisoners did not serve any longer than 10 years. This is more than you can say for the American system (in which life sentences can be given), or even the Norwegian system (which can incarcerate an individual for no longer than 21 years).
     The idea of the gulag system having a ten-year limit, was that if a ten-year sentence was not going to rehabilitate a prisoner, then a longer sentence wouldn't be likely to achieve that goal either. Of course, killing prisoners after 10 years is cruel; however, it would arguably give the prisoners “incentive” to behave themselves (although, in truth, it is a threat, not a truly positive incentive).
     The fact that many prisoners served long sentences, should help account for the many deaths in the gulags. The fact that gulag prisoners were living in the cold of Siberia, and were exposed to the harsh elements of that climate – a situation which is difficult to survive whether you're a prisoner or not – ought to help explain why many of the deaths “from gulags” were really just deaths “in gulags”.
     Additionally, the numbers of people who died in the gulags have been routinely over-estimated by scholars. While author and security analysis consultant John Heidenrich puts that number at 12 million, various other reliable estimates put the number of gulag prisoners who died in the camps at only 2.3 million.

     Another benefit of the gulag system is that it was arguably less cruel to prisoners who have families than the American prison system is.
     Also, some gulag prisoners were even allowed to move their families to the places where they were being detained. Although this statement could be construed to excuse slave plantations, or the imprisonment of whole families, it could also be argued that allowing families to move to places of detention is more humane; at least as far as the prisoner is concerned.
     Also, in comparison to how American prisoners serving long sentences are treated, with their privileges to see their families limited. It could even be said that many American fathers, who have committed no crime other than to be divorcees, have less of a right of visitation than did those gulag prisoners whom were allowed to live with their families.

     Another advantage of the gulag system – or, for that matter, any prison, or system of prison labor camps – is that it accomplishes the bare minimum of how to deal with dangerous criminals: take away their freedom in some way, while secluding them far away from anyone they might hurt, until it can be shown that they are no longer a danger to others, and have been rehabilitated.
     Although spreading prisoners out arguably puts prisoners “right in my backyard”, the case can also be made that spreading prisoners out helps eliminate the problems associated with the overcrowding of prisons. Namely, the possibility of prisoners attacking or raping each other, and the risk of outbreaks of contagious disease.

     Yet another advantage of the gulag system is that the prisoners provide for themselves through working. While it is true that, in American prisons, prisoners acquire skills and education, but their labor is also exploited for surplus profit. Some states even have no minimum wage for prison labor, or a minimum wage of only several cents per hour.
     Prison labor should not be exploited for the profit of others. But a prisoner cannot be reintegrated into society until he has acquired the skills and education necessary to become independent and self-sustaining. That is what is necessary for prisoners to provide for themselves while in prison, so that taxpayers do not have to foot the bill to keep potentially violent criminals alive; and that is what is necessary for prisoners to provide for themselves when released from prison.

     The gulag system, as bad as its reputation was, served a purpose. It got criminals far away from people they might harm. The limited sentences, and the dispersed nature of the prisons, prevented overcrowding, and the problems associated with it.
     It is possible to have prisoners provide for themselves, without either working them to death, or giving them too much freedom. If prisoners must work, then they should be adequately compensated, and those who prefer to work outside in the fresh air should be given that opportunity.
     If you remove the forced labor from the equation, the gulags - rather than being a horror story and a warning about what our prison system could become – could serve as an example for how the American prison system could be improved.
     Although this may sound cruel, or indifferent to the horrors suffered by gulag prisoners, I maintain that if the U.S. were to adopt the positive aspects of the gulag system – by reducing a sentence to a mere factual deprivation of freedom – then it could make its own prison system less cruel.

     Additionally, if the U.S. did so, it would be better able to easily shift its focus from a punishment- and suppression- based model criminal justice - working prisoners like beasts, and treating them as if they are certain to offend again - to one based on restoring the status of the wronged person(s), and rehabilitating criminals.



Post-Script
     In 2013, the U.S. incarceration rate was 716 per 100,000, and it peaked in 2008 around 1,000 per 100,000. Despite the mass incarceration of some 110,000 Japanese-American citizens during World War II, the incarceration rate for the U.S. never exceeded 140 per 100,000 during the war.
     The Soviet Union, on the other hand - if we assume that no more than 1,500,000 were in gulags at any one time - can claim only a maximum 800 incarcerated per 100,000.

     The U.S.S.R. under Stalin cannot boast lower incarceration rates than the U.S.; these rates were similar, and comparable; not wildly dissimilar in a way that should show favor of either power. The similar incarceration rates should not reflect negatively on either government any more than the other.
     That being said, though, I think it would be fair to try to argue that, if two countries have similar incarceration rates, then if one treats its inmates more humanely, then that country would logically be the one with the less harsh prison system.




See the following link to learn more:
“The Truth About the Soviet Gulag – Surprisingly Revealed by the CIA”

http://www.greanvillepost.com/2018/10/09/the-truth-about-the-soviet-gulag-surprisingly-revealed-by-the-cia/?fbclid=IwAR1THQZHyMaZQuXnYF5v9KdUeKqtuud_J9yeM3Bph8pM6aFekrERn1seoJg






Originally Written on December 27th, 2018
Originally Published on December 27th, 2018

Edited and Expanded on January 4th, 2019
Edited on January 6th and February 14th, 2019

Post-Script Written and Added on January 6th, 2019
Link Added on May 1st, 2019

Sunday, December 6, 2015

On the Death Penalty



Originally Written on March 17th, 2003
Edited on December 6th, 2015
Edits Shown in [Brackets]



      Since the time of Babylonian leader Hammurabi, fair and proper punishment has been a difficult and complicated issue. Hammurabi’s code says “an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.” This code, commonly misinterpreted as a call for revenge, is in fact a call for fairness. If a man steals a loaf of bread, he would not have his hands cut off. The punishment must fit the crime, so he would have something of equal value taken from him, or he would be made to pay a fine. The code also states that if a man takes another man’s life, then his life must be taken as punishment.
      In [the fictional 2003 film] The Life of David Gale, Kevin Spacey plays a Texan ex-college professor who opposes the death penalty. He works with the abolitionist organization called “Death Watch,” which tries to prevent death row inmates from being eliminated. He is accused of killing the leader of the organization[, Constance Hallaway (played by Laura Linney)], who is also his colleague. Beginning four days before his death by lethal injection, News Magazine’s Bitsey Bloom ([played by] Kate Winslet) conducts three interviews with him.


      This film seeks not to entertain (although it does), but to inform and to explore the issue and reveal the flaws in and wrongs of the process of what some call “legalized murder,” and also its possible benefits. Many valid arguments come up in the course of the film, and it is a must-see for anyone with any opinion at all [about] the death penalty.
      A simple and obvious question frequently asked when discussing this issue is “Is death a reasonable punishment for murder?” After all, the death penalty attempts to teach murderers that it is wrong to kill by killing them. Life imprisonment would make them learn the consequences of their actions, whereas death [would not, but] would offer them release from what could [arguably] be a harsher, more effective, and more proper punishment.
      On the other hand, [death may be a more merciful punishment than life in prison, because] a cancer patient or someone with serious organ failure may want to end their own life rather than having to live for months with endless pain. The death penalty complies with Hammurabi’s code, and it may be fitting to do to the guilty what they have done to the innocent and prevent them from killing again.
      Former Illinois Governor George H. Ryan commuted the death sentences of all eligible death row inmates to life imprisonment only days before he was succeeded by Rod Blagojevich. This did not abolish the death penalty in Illinois, although [some in the State Legislature are trying to abolish it]. Flaws in [the death penalty] process can cause innocent people to be killed as punishment for crimes they did not commit. This sentence cannot be taken back if it is discovered that the accused was innocent after he is put to death. If a term of natural life in prison is [given as a sentence], he [may] be removed from jail with no harm done. Ryan stated that all murder cases are very important matters and must be examined closely, and that there should not be simply a blanket decision on whether murderers can and should be killed for their crimes.
      Lawyers have the ability to remove and select jurors for cases, and if they are corrupt or prejudiced, they can purposely choose jurors who[m they believe are likely to] find the accused guilty or innocent based on their race[...]. Some say all murders committed must be treated as the same crime, be they committed by black or white [people], and [whether] the victims [be] male or female[, b]ut what if the murderer is mentally disabled or insane?
      The debate about the death penalty is complicated and [there are] many exceptions to the rules. Every state has the right to choose whether or not convicted violent criminals will live or be executed, but [it would be difficult to] disagree that each case must be examined until there is no doubt whatsoever as to the guilt of the accused.

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!)

I. Introduction      The following speech is an address, regarding immigration, which I delivered to the Waukegan City Council on October 20...