Here in Monterey county, and most likely throughout the state of California, Governor Schwarzenegger proffered his likeness and position against Proposition 66. In his commercial, he stated statistics: Under Proposition 66, 26,000 dangerous criminals; Murderers, Rapists and Child Molesters will get out. Between the Governor and the other person(s) that told him of the need for this commercial, they knowingly and intelligently affected the election, by undue influence of false statistics and intimidation of the voters.
California Constitution, Article II, Section 4: “The Legislature shall prohibit improper practices that affect elections and shall provide for the disqualification of electors while mentally incompetent or imprisoned or on parole for the conviction of the felony.”
California Constitution, Article VII, Section 7(b): “Laws shall be made to exclude persons convicted of bribery, perjury, forgery, malfeasance in office, or other high crimes from office or serving on juries. The privilege of free suffrage shall be supported by laws regulation election and prohibiting, under adequate penalties, all undue influence, thereon from power, bribery, tumult or other practice.”
How and why was there fraud by Governor Schwarzenegger in his commercial? The following statistics are from California’s Department of Corrections, Data Analysis Unit, Estimates and Statistical Analysis Section, Offender Information Branch. This report was entitled, “Second and Third Strikers In The Institution Population by Offense Group and Admission or Return Status As Of March 31, 2002.” These are the only statistics currently available to this writer, and most likely have not changed by any more than 25 percent increase since 2002 publishing.
Printed Statistics as kept by Calif. Dept. of Corrections:
Crimes Against Persons | 3rd Striker No. | 2nd Striker No. | 2nd Striker PV-RTC | 3rd Striker PENDREV |
Murder 1st | 167 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Murder 2nd | 127 | 237 | 0 | 0 |
Rape | 136 | 188 | 0 | 5 |
Lewd act w/ child | 241 | 634 | 13 | 6 |
Subtotals | 671 | 1059 | 13 | 11 |
The truth behind the lie is that any 1st degree murderer and any 2nd degree murderer would not get out of prison if Proposition 66 passed. They would still be sentenced to an indeterminate sentence because of the crime they committed. Of these 1,744 so-called convictions, 521 would not be counted towards any benefit from Proposition 66’s proposed changes to the law. Thus, 1,223 prisoners might possibly get some type of relief, of the prisoners (i.e. Murderers, Rapists, Child Molesters) identified by the Governor and his other anti-Proposition 66 personnel and/or special interest. These rapists and/or child molesters, identified in official CDC statistics, also may not have benefited from Proposition 66’s changes in law, if they had prior felonies that were still violent and /or serious as changed within proposed changes to Pen. Code §§667.5 and 1192.7. For the sake of this discussion, in arguing, these rapists and child molesters most likely had violent prior felony convictions that made them fall into the category of 2nd or 3rd “Strikers.” Therefore, they would not get any relief from the proposed changes to the law.
In the event that the Governor was also including Murderers, rapists and/or child molesters that were convicted prior to the enactment of the three strikes laws (Pen. Code §§667 (b) to (i), 1170.12), in his statistics of the 26,000, the People of the State of California were intentionally mislead by the Governor. Any change, via Proposition 66, would not change the sentences of prisoners not sentenced under the “three-strikes laws.”
Calif. Elections Code §18500 Fraud, casting of votes; felony, imprisonment
“Any person who commits fraud or attempts to commit fraud, and any person who aids or abets fraud or attempts to aid or abet fraud, in connection with any vote cast, to be cast or attempted to be cast, is guilty of a felony, punishable by imprisonment for 16 months or two to three years.”
Calif. Elections Code §18540 (a) Every person who makes use of or threatens to make use of any force, violence, or tactic of coercion or intimidation, to induce or compel any other person to vote or refrain from voting at any election or to vote or refrain from voting for any particular person or measure at any election, or because any person voted or refrained from voting at an y election or voted or refrained from voting for any particular person or measure at any election is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for 16 months or two to three years.
It is evident that the Governor’s actions intimidated and/or coerced voters, because why else who he tell voters to vote no on Proposition 66? As proved, his statistics were blatantly false and misleading. He acted in concert with more that one other person to prepare the commercial.
On January 6, 2004, Governor Schwarzenegger implied: (A) He cannot stand for waste/fraud in any government agency; (B) That he was the Governor for people without power. On 2/22/04, on Meet the Press, Governor Schwarzenegger stated that he admitted to having made mistakes. In a Times-Herald August 17, 2004 Associated Press article written by Don Thompson, “I don’t care. He [Judge Thelton E. Henderson] can take it [CDC]. It’s no sweat off my back,” Schwarzenegger said.
The old adage, “how can you tell when a politician is lying?” comes to mind. The evidence itself is enough proof in and of itself. The conspiratorial actions will eventually be dealt with, as the populace sees fit. However: why the California population would want a Governor that lies to them? Must be due to the complacency of the status quo.
Maybe gun towers and concertina wire should be placed around California’s Capitol, to help the state feel more secure when mistruths and falsehoods are propounded by the California government.
- a California Prisoner, April 2005