No Fourth Amendment Violation for Abusive Group Strip Search of Female Prisoners
On strictly legal grounds, I have to agree with the decision here, given the law. However, one could argue that this was more than “visual inspection”. It’s a damn shame that the jury did not decide in favor of the women on their 8th Amendment claim: cruel and unusual punishment.
Excerpts from the Article:
On July 16, 2019, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, in a two-to-one ruling, affirmed a district court’s dismissal of a Fourth Amendment claim prior to a jury trial, at which the jury found for the defendant prison officials on an Eighth Amendment claim.
The facts of the case were that 200 female prisoners at the Lincoln Correctional Center in Illinois were forced to strip and stand so close together that they were touching, in groups of four to 10. “Menstruating inmates had to remove their tampons and sanitary pads in front of others, were not given replacements, and many got blood on their bodies and clothing and blood on the floor,” the appellate court wrote. “The naked inmates had to stand barefoot on a floor dirty with menstrual blood and raise their breasts, lift their hair, turn around, bend over, spread their buttocks and vaginas, and cough.”
Meanwhile, trainee guards made “derogatory comments and gestures about the women’s bodies and odors, telling the prisoners that they were “dirty bitches,” “fucking disgusting,” “deserve to be in here” and “smell like death.” Male guards watched the women from a gymnasium during the 2011 training exercise.
The plaintiffs originally raised a Fourth Amendment claim, which was dismissed by the district court based on Seventh Circuit precedent, holding “that a visual inspection of a convicted prisoner is not subject to analysis under that amendment, though a claim properly lies under the Eighth Amendment if an unnecessary or demeaning inspection amounts to punishment.”
Following the jury’s defense verdict on their Eighth Amendment claim, the plaintiffs appealed trying to have their cause of action under the Fourth Amendment reinstated.
Because the prisoners were ordered by prison guards to expose their genitals themselves, and were not probed by staff members, King v. McCarty, 781 F.3d 889 (7th Cir 2015) was held not to apply in this case.
“Applying the Fourth Amendment to all unwelcome observations of prisoners would eliminate the subjective component [of Eighth Amendment analyses] and create sort of Eighth Amendment lite, defeating the objectives that the Justices sought to achieve by limiting [Fourth Amendment] liability in Whitley v. Albers, 475 U.S. 312 (1986) and similar decisions,” the appellate court wrote.
The majority went on to identify a split between the circuits on this issue in Harris v. Miller, 818 F.3d 49 (2d Cir. 2016) and Hutchins v. McDaniels, 512 F.3d 193 (5th Cir. 2007), and noted dissents in some Seventh Circuit panels.
The Court of Appeals reasoned that once convicted of a felony, even a former prisoner on parole has a greatly diminished expectation of privacy and may “be searched without either probable cause or suspicion,” citing Samson v. California, 547 U.S. 843 (2007). The Seventh Circuit ultimately decided that until the Supreme Court holds otherwise, the established precedent that the “Fourth Amendment does not apply to visual inspections of [convicted] prisoners” would remain in effect.
“It has been 35 years since the justices last considered the extent to which convicted prisoners have rights under the Fourth Amendment while still inside prison walls,” the majority opinion stated. “For more than 20 years it has been established in this circuit that the Fourth Amendment does not apply to visual inspections of prisoners. It is best to leave the law of the circuit alone, unless and until the justices suggest that it needs change.”
“The Fourth Amendment affords all people a base level protection against the most intrusive of searches by government officials,” countered Ruth Brown with the law firm of Loevy and Loevy, one of the attorneys who represented the prisoners. “This was, for the 200 women, degrading. This is what the Fourth Amendment is designed to protect, in our opinion.” See: Henry v. Hulett, 930 F.3d 836 (7th Cir. 2019).
Mother of man who died after Lincoln County Jail suicide attempt gets $300,000 settlement
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Prison Abuse – Why Massive Indifference is a Massive Mistake
Excerpts from the Article:
Lincoln County officials and the mother of a man who died in 2016 from injuries related to a jail suicide attempt settled a lawsuit for $300,000 on Thursday.
The settlement, approved by a U.S. district judge, comes after Monica Brown, the mother of Mark Jaconski, filed a lawsuit against Lincoln County and its law enforcement and jail staff in 2017 alleging civil rights violations, medical malpractice and wrongful death.
Supporters of Jaconski started an online petition and social media pages accusing Lincoln County officials of denying him access to medication prescribed for his mental health.
Lincoln County sheriff’s deputies picked up Jaconski on outstanding traffic warrants on June 17, 2015, according to his estate’s complaint. Authorities took Jaconski to a hospital, where he was evaluated for mental health issues and injuries from being apprehended and detained. He was deemed “fit for confinement,” the complaint states.
Brown said she called the jail and left voicemails to let officials know her son had prescribed medication for his mental health issues, but she said she never heard back. According to the complaint, Jaconski told a corrections officer, Sgt. Caleb Noland, that he was bipolar and schizophrenic. Noland was aware of Brown’s calls but did not respond, the suit said.
After two days in jail, Jaconski appeared before a municipal court judge who authorized him to be released. During lunch that day, the suit said, Jaconski told Noland he needed his medication and that he was going to hurt himself, and the sergeant had corrections officers put Jaconski in an isolated cell. Approximately 40 minutes to an hour went by with Jaconski in the isolated cell before someone noticed Jaconski hanging by the neck from his pants tied to the top bunk rail.
Jaconski was taken to a hospital, where he suffered from anoxic encephalopathy, quadriplegia and seizure disorder for a number of months.
He was released from a rehabilitation center to his mother for hospice care, and he died on Jan. 22, 2016.
Police detain man eating a sandwich on a San Francisco train platform – Outrageous! – kra
This is clearly racism and over criminalization! The officer ignored several other white people eating and drinking on the platform! Mr. Foster is likely to sue, and rightly so! See numerous articles on my website about racism, and READ this too:
Excerpts from the Article:
A police officer detained and cited a man eating a sandwich on a San Francisco train platform, a confrontation captured on a viral video.
In the video posted on social media, the Bay Area Rapid Transit policeman told the man, later identified as Steve Foster, that eating on the platform is against state law. The officer keeps his hand on Foster’s backpack while Foster angrily addresses the camera and the officer.
Foster insisted he was doing nothing wrong and refused to give his name. The November 4 incident escalated and Foster was handcuffed when a second officer arrived at the train platform. “I’m definitely upset, mad, a little frustrated, angry about it,” Foster told CNN affiliate KGO.
BART spokesperson Alicia Trost said Monday that an officer issued a citation to Foster but did not arrest him. “The court will determine level of fine he should pay,” she said.
“Eating in the paid area is banned and there are multiple signs inside every station saying as much,” the statement said. “As a transportation system our concern with eating is related to the cleanliness of our stations and system. This was not the case in the incident at Pleasant Hill station on Monday. ”
“The officer asked the rider not to eat while passing by on another call,” the statement continued. “It should have ended there, but it didn’t. When the officer walked by again and still saw him eating, he moved forward with the process of issuing him a citation. The individual refused to provide identification, cursed at and made homophobic slurs at the officer who remained calm through out the entire engagement.
Several BART riders upset with the incident held an “eat-in” on the platform in protest. “I hope they start focusing on stuff that actually matters like people shooting up dope, hopping the BART, people getting stabbed,” Foster told KGO.
Queens landlord will pay $1 million for denying apartments to previously incarcerated people – Good – kra!
Another moron will pay for his stupidity! Those in reentry who can afford an apartment are likely excellent tenants!
Excerpts from the Article:
A Queens landlord has agreed to pay $1 million for wrongly refusing to rent apartments to people who were previously incarcerated. The deal, which resolves a lawsuit filed in 2014 against the owners of the Sand Castle apartment complex in Far Rockaway, was hailed Tuesday by the Fortune Society as an important legal precedent.
“This settlement fires a warning shot across the bow of any landlord in America who blanketly refuses to rent apartments to people with criminal justice involvement,” Fortune Society CEO JoAnne Page said in a release announcing the deal.
“Landlords will take notice of its deterrent effect. Many will look more closely at whether they have policies that comport with the law, and they will be concerned about the exposure for costly litigation.”
The Fortune Society, which is a major provider of services for formerly incarcerated people, had charged in Brooklyn Federal Court that the 917-unit apartment complex on Seagirt Ave. had a policy of automatically refusing to rent an apartment to a person with a criminal record, regardless of the nature of the conviction or the amount of time that had passed since the crime.
It was unclear how many people were affected by Sand Castle’s ban on people who had done time. The Fortune Society learned of the policy in 2013 after receiving a grant to help cover rent for 25 apartments in Queens. The nonprofit tried to rent apartments in Sand Castle because it is safe, affordable and near a supermarket.
The society charged that Sand Castle violated the federal Fair Housing Act through the ban on ex-cons, which they said disproportionately affected black and Hispanic people. The group said the settlement of $1,187,500 is one of the largest, if not the largest, ever in a lawsuit involving similar allegations. Once Fortune inquired with Sand Castle, staffers informed them of the blanket ban on anyone with a criminal record from renting an apartment or living in the building.
“When housing providers deny basic rights to those who have been formerly incarcerated, they are imposing harsh limitations on where these individuals can live and work which perpetuate poverty and segregation, and dramatically increase the likelihood that they will return to prison,” John Relman, an attorney for the Fortune Society, said.
Inmates at Iowa women’s prison will learn computer coding thanks to NewBoCo grant – with Letter to the Editor – PUBLISHED!
Educating inmates, all studies show and many articles on this website remind us, is the best way to reduce crime! This program should be in every prison in every state.
The Letter below is PUBLISHED at the top of page A5 of The Delaware State News of 11/12/19. Speak out!
Excerpts from the Article:
NewBoCo will receive a $175,000 grant — and possibly more — from Google Impact Challenge Iowa to provide computer coding classes at the Iowa Correctional Institute for Women in Mitchellville. NewBoCo, the startup and business development nonprofit, has partnered with the Iowa Department of Corrections to bring DeltaV Code School classes to the women inmates to acquire skills they can use once released from prison, officials said in a news release.
The curriculum is provided by Code Fellows, based in Seattle. NewBoCo aims to help lower recidivism rates with this vocational training program while also helping address Iowa’s technical workforce shortage, according to the news release.
The public also has a chance to select their own Google.org Impact Challenge winner by voting for the “People’s Choice Award.” The nonprofit with the most votes will receive an additional $125,000, which NewBoCo is hoping to receive to help more former offenders throughout the state have a chance to become software developers through DeltaV.
“I am always looking for new opportunities across the state that not only help individuals find employment upon release, but also introduce employers to skilled, trained workers that can fill open positions,” Dane Sulentic, statewide apprenticeship coordinator for the Iowa Department of Corrections, said in a statement. Sulentic said these classes will provide an opportunity for incarcerated individuals to learn the necessary skills and be trained in “one of the fastest-growing industries in the state.”
NewBoCo launched DeltaV Code School in 2016 to help solve Iowa’s severe technical workforce crisis, according to the news release. On average, there are 4,000 open programming jobs a month in Iowa, but state universities only graduate about 450 computer science majors a year.
InDeltaV, adults with little to no technical experience become Full Stack JavaScript Developers in 20 weeks, NewBoCo officials said. Since DeltaV began, 100 percent of graduates were employed within four months as software developers with an average starting salary of $58,400.
“We’ve proven that going through DeltaV gives people the skills to enter highly in-demand careers in Iowa,” Aaron Horn, NewBoCo chief operating officer, said in a statement. “But with such a low unemployment rate in Iowa, we need to think outside of the box and train people with backgrounds not traditionally represented in technology to help solve Iowa’s technical workforce shortage.”
There are about 8,500 individuals in Iowa’s nine prisons and an additional 40,000 individuals in community-based corrections, such as probation and parole programs, according to NewBoCo officials. Research shows that people who receive vocational and educational training while incarcerated are far less likely to return to prison because they are able to find meaningful employment upon their release.
The Google.org Impact Challenge Iowa offered $1 million to nonprofits to support innovative proposals to create economic opportunity in Iowa. Five nonprofits, including NewBoCo, were selected as winners.
NewBoCo’s programming supports entrepreneurship, innovation, and tech education to help Iowans become more resilient and thrive in a changing economy.
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Letter to the Editor or Commentary Op Ed Submission – Really Reduce Crime! – 11/9/19
Educating inmates, all studies show and many articles on my website remind us, is the best way to reduce crime! This program – NewBoCo – in the Iowa Correctional Institute for Women in Mitchellville, Iowa should be in every prison in every state!
NewBoCo will receive a $175,000 grant — and possibly more — from Google Impact Challenge Iowa to provide computer coding classes at the Iowa Correctional Institute for Women in Mitchellville. NewBoCo, the startup and business development nonprofit, has partnered with the Iowa Department of Corrections to bring DeltaV Code School classes to the women inmates to acquire skills they can use once released from prison, officials said in a news release.
Since DeltaV began, 100 percent of graduates were employed within four months as software developers with an average starting salary of $58,400. And I assure you, for someone who has gone to prison, and likely lost everything, that starting salary is a fortune!
These classes will provide an opportunity for incarcerated individuals to learn the necessary skills and be trained in “one of the fastest-growing industries in the state.” Research shows that people who receive vocational and educational training while incarcerated are far less likely to return to prison because they are able to find meaningful employment upon their release.
Kathleen Jennings, A G of Delaware, look into it!
This is not “coddling criminals”, as some will say; it is common sense cost-effective crime reduction!
Ken Abraham, former Deputy Attorney General of Delaware, founder of Citizens for Criminal JUSTICE, Dover, DE 302-423-4067
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I get lots of letters published, and ghost write for others. THIS IS THE BEST WAY TO REACH THOUSANDS OF READERS! The keys to getting your Letter published are:
1. Keep it to 250 words or fewer.
2. Do not make it about “poor little old me”. Describe the problem as one which not only affects the individual, but is a senseless or ineffective measure, policy, or law which also harms communities and society. For example, with reentry, the obstacles make it unnecessarily difficult for the individual, but also harm society by making it hard to become productive, spending money and paying taxes in the community, and they cause increased recidivism = increased crime.
3. Speak from your heart.
4. Google any facts you are not sure about.
5. Do not name-call.
Do what works: Write that Letter!
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Letter to Editor – sign name, town, state, and your phone number (they often call to verify that you sent it), and “Member of Citizens for Criminal JUSTICE” if you like – shows you are part of a large group.
Send the email to yourself, and put on the “bcc” bar the email addresses for Letters to the Editor for the top ten newspapers in your state and several national ones – The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, U S A Today (google the Letter to Editor email addresses). Any questions, CALL me at 302-423-4067!
GOOGLE THE EMAIL ADDRESSES FOR “LETTERS TO THE EDITOR” FOR THE TOP TEN NEWSPAPERS IN YOUR STATE AND SAVE THAT INFORMATION FOR REPEATED USE – Some papers will print a letter from you every 2 ekke, some every 30 days, some every 90 days. They have varying policies. But if you really want to make a difference shoot them a new letter once a month! I send one out every 2 weeks.
Need a Letter on some criminal justice issue and not a great letter writer? NO EXCUSE! Email me a rough draft and call me and I’ll polish it up! kenabraham3138@gmail.com .
ANY QUESTIONS, CALL ME AT 302-423-4067.
Support the Delaware ACLU – and the ACLU in YOUR Area! – kra
All of these are good ideas, and badly needed to curb injustice.
Just Announced:
2020 Legislative Priorities for the Coalition for Smart Justice
We made historic progress in criminal justice reform this year. From expanding access to second chances to reforming the drug code and more, there’s a lot to be proud of! But our work isn’t done yet. You helped us get this far, so we wanted you to be the first to know about our priorities for the 2020 half of this legislative session.
Next year, we’ll be tackling these key issues:
Fines, Fees & Drivers’ License Suspensions
We want to end the criminalization of poverty that traps people in a punitive cycle by allowing the court to consider a person’s ability to pay court fines and fees, and ending the practice of automatic suspension of drivers’ licenses where someone is unable to pay.
Data Collection & Transparency – Collect and publish data to understand racial disparities, measure policy impacts and inform better policy choices.
Sentencing Reform – Eliminate most mandatory minimums and expand opportunities for sentence modification and early release.
Pretrial Reform – Reduce the number of people in prison before they’ve been convicted of a crime and ensure fairness through the pre-trial process from arrest to trial.
Probation Reform – End the revolving door to prison by implementing post-release policies that promote success after incarceration.
Treating Children as Children – House all children in juvenile facilities and increase the minimum age at which children can be prosecuted criminally.
Stay up-to-date on our work by following us on Twitter and Facebook, and keeping an eye out for emails as they come through.
We can’t wait to make more history with you as we continue to work toward our goal of ending mass incarceration and challenging the racial disparities in Delaware’s criminal justice system!
ACLU: 302-654-5326 ext. 106, 100 W. 10th Street, Suite 706, Wilmington, DE, 19801
www.aclu-de.org
At detention facilities, legal rights ‘in name only’ Whether we call them ‘concentration camps’ or detention centers, the lack of justice for those seeking refuge must end.
These ICE detention centers are atrocious, and are a national disgrace. Below I am pictured speaking about them 4 years ago in Wilmington, DE.
Excerpts from the Article:
As President Donald Trump prepares to pick a new secretary for the Department of Homeland Security, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is preparing to appear in a Brooklyn court. She is being sued for blocking a man on Twitter who criticized her for calling immigration detention sites “concentration camps.” Her opponents seized on the comment. One of their talking points: America’s hardworking immigration officers should not be equated with Nazis.
To some extent, I can understand their perspective.
I recently visited four Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention sites across the country. I met many of their workers. They carried clear plastic backpacks and lunchboxes as they filed through security in the morning, looking weary and bored. As I left each site, some asked me whether I had had a “nice visit” and wished me safe travels.
These workers don’t bring to mind cinematic villains. Yet they are part of a system that, no matter its appearances, is inflicting the horror of trapping people inside.
I saw it in the eyes of the people I interviewed in detention. A 28-year-old Cuban woman told me about spending five days sleeping on the ground in an outdoor cage run by Border Patrol, the “perrera” — a place for dogs. That was followed by 17 days in the “hielera,” a frigid room. She had been denied a shower the entire time.
She recounted this months later, when I met her at an ICE detention site in Adams County, Mississippi. She had not seen or talked to her husband for months, since U.S. authorities separated and detained them. She said that last summer, an asylum officer interviewed her and determined that her fear of persecution if she returned to Cuba was credible — the first step in an asylum case. But she said she had never seen a judge, had no court date, no lawyer, no ICE officer assigned to her. She was alone and trapped: She had no idea of what would happen to her next, how to move her asylum case forward and whether she would ever be released.
Adams County is part of the immigration detention boom. Detention levels have skyrocketed to a record high of about 50,000 people a day, at an annual cost of more than $2 billion. Counties are grabbing at detention contracts that provide jobs, although many will be filled by out-of-town residents. New detention sites are opening in the Deep South — hours from urban areas with networks of pro bono or low-cost attorneys. Even in big cities, the number of people detained far outpaces the number of attorneys available to help them. The result is that these immigration jails are effectively legal black holes, where legal rights often exist in name only.
“You come to this place and you can never win,” another woman told me. She had spent three months in an ICE detention center near Miami, separated from her then 5-month-old baby. Her husband, a U.S. citizen, was driving her to Walmart when local police questioned them during a random traffic stop. She was not accused of a crime, and she was in the process of petitioning for residency based on her marriage to a citizen. But police took her to a local jail and held her for ICE.
“I haven’t seen my baby in three months,” she said, and asked me what would happen to her.
Without a lawyer, she is likely to remain in detention for months or years — and ultimately be deported away from her husband and child. Just 3% of detained individuals without a lawyer succeeded in their cases, compared with 74% of nondetained and represented individuals who won in theirs, according to a study that focused on New York immigration cases. For asylum-seekers, the stakes are often life or death.
Yet immigrants have been denied the right to a government-appointed lawyer in their deportation proceedings. I met many who didn’t have enough money to make a phone call from prison, let alone pay a lawyer. Even those who could afford it struggled to find one, since they are stuck on the inside without access to Google, email or a cellphone.
Our immigration system is set up for them to fail, with Kafka-esque limits on their ability to apply for legal relief and appeal to federal courts. Navigating this complex and unforgiving set of legal rules is hard for lawyers, let alone for detained individuals. Some are offered release on bond, but in unaffordable amounts like $25,000.
Many people I met had never seen a judge, several months into their detention. They had no idea how or when they might ever be free. They were confused, scared and, in some cases, suicidal. A woman from Cameroon who fled its ongoing civil war after her father was murdered told me she prayed that God would provide her a way out.
Local governments should end ICE detention contracts, if they exist, and prohibit new ones. Cities and states should robustly fund free legal service providers and bond funds. Major law firms should send their lawyers to the Deep South to work with local pro bono providers to address the drastic shortfalls in legal services. Community groups should lobby Congress to cut funding for detention and pass comprehensive reform legislation like the Dignity For Detained Immigrants Act.
Trump’s new Homeland Security secretary is likely to ramp up immigration detention to even higher levels, using the specter of prison to deter people from coming here and the reality of it to punish those who do. We cannot afford to be divided by semantics.
Whatever we call them, America’s immigration prisons are antithetical to the free society we claim to be. We must do all we can to dismantle this system. Naureen Shah is the senior advocacy and policy counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union, working on immigrant rights.
NYC Can’t Stall Suit Over Trans Woman’s Death at Rikers
Thank God that more and more judges are starting to realize that prison abuse, truly atrocious abuse, is the norm all across the land, and they will not swallow attempts by officials to avoid or delay accountability.
Here, a 27 year old transgender lady with epilepsy and schizophrenia died while in jail because she could not post $500 bail on a misdemeanor charge!
Did she die from medical neglect? Did she commit suicide? Did guards beat her to death? Did another inmate kill her? The truth will out!
Excerpts from the Article:
Before a nearly full courtroom Friday, a federal magistrate refused to pause a lawsuit filed by the mother of a transgender woman who died in solitary confinement on Rikers Island last summer. The city had asked to delay the case twice in October, saying it did not want to interfere with the ongoing investigations into Layleen Polanco’s death by the Bronx District Attorney’s Office and the Department of Corrections.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Sanket Bulsara wasn’t buying it.
The city “relied on inapposite authority, misapplied the state of the law, and attempted to invoke privileges in an improper manner,” Bulsara said in Brooklyn today, calling any potential interference during the discovery process with a state investigation totally speculative.
“There are parallel investigations going on all the time,” Bulsara said, going on to emphasize that it was the defendants, not Polanco, who were the subject of the investigations.
Relatives of Polanco said she had epilepsy and schizophrenia before she died at age 27, locked up because she had not been able to pay $500 bail on misdemeanor charges. In New York City, her death has become a rallying cry for criminal justice reform, particularly for black trans women.
The District Attorney’s Office has not issued a report or charged anyone yet, despite having reportedly completed the interviewing and document collection phases of its case.
In Oct. 16 court papers, David Shanies, attorney for the Polanco family, objected to the request for a stay. “It would be … perverse if the city were permitted to block a civil action by declaring that its own ‘investigation’ precludes litigation against it,” he wrote.
Polanco’s mother, Arecelis Polanco, appeared in court Friday with her lawyers in turquoise-rimmed glasses and a black blazer. In Spanish after the proceedings, she said her faith in the U.S. justice system had essentially come full circle. When she first came to the country, she had confidence in the law, but she said the death of her child in jail shattered that trust. She said Layleen gave her “the greatest joy in this world.”
“This judge on this case gave me faith back,” Arecelis Polanco said, her remarks translated by Layleen Polanco’s sister Melania Brown. “It gave me faith that there’s justice in America.”
“I’m not clear that this couldn’t happen again,” he said. “The entire city should be concerned.”
Defendants also include officers, a Corrections Department official, and a doctor. The plaintiffs said they anticipated adding one or two other defendants. “I’m thinking specifically of the officers who were in the housing unit where Layleen died,” Shanies said.
Kimberly Mckenzie, director of outreach and community engagement at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, said she was pleased with Friday’s proceedings. The day was about supporting Layleen Polanco and her family, she explained.
“Our lives matter,” Mckenzie said, “black trans women. This should never happen at the hands of our city.”
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Great Idea # 8,230 – THE UNITED STATES TRUTH POLICE – kra
THE UNITED STATES TRUTH POLICE
The advent of the IRS Criminal Investigations Division was a good idea.
Establishing the FBI was a good idea.
But now it is time for THE UNITED STATES TRUTH POLICE!
Yes, a federal agency tasked with monitoring every individual, media (can you say “Fox News”), corporation, organization or group for untruths or lies. Empowered to fine and/or imprison any violator for “speaking, uttering, broadcasting, or publishing any patently, clearly demonstrably false information”!
If it takes a new Amendment to modify the First Amendment, so be it!
The liars are so diabolical and so out of control that this measure is needed for the good of our Nation.
This will also be a huge boon to the economy!
The litigation will be through the roof! Think if it!
Thousands of lawyers and politicians will be imprisoned!
Bail bondsmen will thrive.
All manner of fact checking and “truth verification” companies will blossom. Hell, the industry leader may eclipse Google and Apple in its size and influence!
Stock in polygraph machine manufacturers will soar, and new lie detector devices will fly off the shelves.
No more impeachment proceedings! Any state in which tRump opens his mouth can arrest and jail him; huge problem solved!
My Little Statue Tells the Sad Tale! – kra
Just read so many of the articles on my website, field just a few of the calls I get every week, to realize the sad truth of My Little Statue, below!
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