The Great Deception

Don't be deceived by what's taking place with the actions of our Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for his words are words of deception. For example, his last minute change of mind on prop 66. Explaining his actions on the basis of him not fully understanding prop 66 when it is his job to know these proposals. Millions of dollars were donated and lost due to this proposal not being explained right – was that intentionally done?

Today's main concern is this deficit. One of the ways Mr. Schwarzenegger is correcting this deficit is by cutting public funds, programs, etc. To the contrary, he's allowing another prison (Delano II) to open in which more staff are hired by the state to run it. Even more police are being hired. Our money is being spent in areas of control and the cuts are to reduce the people's strength.

Those who pass laws aren't trying to prevent crimes. Crime and law control the direction of the society. Look at the tougher sentence laws (3 strikes). It was devised long before the Pauly Klaas case. You can see the reflection of this plan by the construction of new prisons since the mid-1980s (18 new prisons). All of these prisons aren't California State Prisons. Some are privately owned, which is a clear sign of an investment to house what will become the effect of the 3 strikes law. When enough prisons were built to sustain the increase of prisoners caused by this new law, 1994, the Pauly Klaas incident happened to be the perfect excuse to enforce this law (3 strikes).

California Department of Corrections is a major key to the objective of this order. When jobs are hard to find, bills need to be paid, a person becomes prone to commit crimes to survive and prison is the means to control rebellious individuals (criminals), and still have them contribute to the "state." CDC has a prisoner work force which is manufacturing products at a lower cost than a Third World country. Not only the state and country are benefiting from this new slave class, but also corporations like Visa who are obtaining contracts from smaller businesses to manufacture their products in a privately owned prison which is owned by them, Visa. More prisons mean more prisoners, more contracts, and more staff bring more money to the prison guards union (CCOPA). More money for CCOPA political clout by endorsing election campaigns. Everybody benefited and now the 3 strikes law makes sense.

It doesn't stop at the courts. Those prisoners who are kept in locksup (SHU ADX, Supermax) are subjected to psychological ill treatments (please refer to Madrid v. Gomez case for greater detail). Those psychological practices are to make those classified prisoners become anti-social, unable to survive and adapt in the society as a result eventually coming back to prison.

The new Delano II prison consists of 13 yards. Each yard approximately hold a thousand inmates, California Department of Corrections is not that over crowded. To fill those bed spaces a lot of parolees will be violated and the courts are going to be convicting a lot of people to prison instead of giving them alternative programs or probation.

- a California prisoner, March 2005