HOW TO OBSTRUCT U.S. INJUSTICE
Ivan Gowch
The U.S. system of "justice" is a tragic joke,
and everyone knows it.
Police abuse, and sometimes kill, innocent persons
at will. Cops plant evidence, they lie, they coerce
confessions and they commit perjury. Many are,
simply, criminals.
Prosecutors suborn perjury. They introduce "evidence"
they know is false, they fail to disclose and try to
suppress exculpatory evidence and they knowingly
prosecute innocent people.
The laws against some drugs are primarily a means
to give the cops an open-ended warrant for search
and seizure and a mechanism to keep poor people,
young people and especially poor, young *black*
people fearful, off-balance and easy to control.
The law that mandates heavier penalties for crack
cocaine possession than for the powdered Hollywood
variety is an outrageous act of oppression aimed at
ensuring that blacks are punished more harshly than
whites for the same offence.
Criminal court judges, for the most part, are in
collusion with the cops and prosecutors and many
wouldn't know justice if God came down from Heaven
and handed it to them on a golden platter.
The result is that almost one in four (23 percent)
black men in the age group 20-29 is either in prison,
jail, on probation, or parole on any given day (four
times that of whites). The number of young black men
under the control of the criminal justice system
is greater than the total number of black men of all
ages enrolled in college as of 1996.
That the system is a blunt weapon for the continued
oppression of black people -- and, in a larger sense,
poor people -- is so obvious it needs no further
assertion.
The prisons are overflowing with people who have
never harmed a soul, and uncounted thousands
who are innocent of the crimes they were convicted
of.
The system must be brought down. It must be
strangled, clogged and made so unworkable that it
collapses under its own corrupt weight. Once the
system grinds to a halt, the powers-that-be will
panic, the legislators will be forced to act and the
laws will change.
Accomplishing this may not be as difficult as it
sounds. What it will take is to educate young people
-- and especially young BLACK people -- to follow a
few simple rules when dealing with the authorities.
The rules should be posted in foot-high letters on
billboards in every city. They should be scrawled as
graffiti on every ghetto wall. They should be taped
to lockers in schools and carved into police-cell
walls and posted all over the Internet. They should
be set to a beat and turned into a hip-hop song.
They should be seen wherever people who are the
system's favourite targets gather.
If everyone followed the rules to the letter, the
system would stumble to a halt under its own ponderous
weight. And then, either the laws would change in
an attempt to eliminate injustice, or the system would
be forced to cast off its mask and reveal the monster
police state lurking underneath.
If that happens, there can be only one response, and
that's to take it to the streets, dismantle the
motherfucker and start afresh.
The rules fall into two categories: Stymie the Cops,
and Get Your Rights -- ALL Your Rights.
You've waited long enough. Here are
THE RULES OF RESISTANCE
NEVER tell the police anything the law doesn't require
you to tell.
(According to a disastrous U.S. Supreme Court
decision in June 2004, that means your name
only [unless you're driving a car].
Practice these words for all other cop
questions: "I'd rather not say.")
NEVER consent to a search of your person, your
vehicle, your possessions or your residence.
(Insist they get a warrant. If they
search without one, they generally can't
use as evidence whatever they might find.)
NEVER confess. To anything. Never admit to anything.
(If arrested, say "I want to speak to a
lawyer." Say nothing until you have. Never
believe the cops when they tell you things
will "go easier with you" if you give a
statement, turn in your partner or point them
towards evidence. This is the biggest lie
cops tell, everyone knows it and yet, dumb
motherfuckers fall for it every day. Don't
be a dumb motherfucker.)
NEVER discuss your case with cellmates or others
in or out of jail.
(Assume everyone you meet in jail is a
police informant. Many of them are.)
NEVER plea bargain.
ALWAYS demand a lawyer.
(From the moment you are arrested,
tell the cops you want to speak to a lawyer.
At the police station, tell everyone you
come into contact with that you want a
lawyer. Don't talk to the cops until you've
spoken with a lawyer.)
ALWAYS plead not guilty.
(Even if you're guilty as hell. Make them
prove it. Often, they won't be able to
if you don't help them.)
ALWAYS demand a full jury trial.
(Use the rights you have. Challenge
jurors. Drag out the process. Make it
as expensive as possible for the State.)
ALWAYS appeal, if you are convicted.
ALWAYS pass on these rules to everyone you know.
===
There they are. Ten simple rules that hold awesome
power.
Skeptical? Good. But think about it.
Can you imagine what the impact would be on the
system if every single mother's son picked
up by the cops refused to co-operate? Refused to
tell them where he threw the dope, declined to
identify the other dudes who were hanging out
on the street corner, withheld permission for a
search, demanded a lawyer, refused to confess or
make a deal and insisted on a trial, complete with a
jury of his peers? Do you think the system could
withstand that for long?
It could not. The system sustains itself only because
it is a revolving door into which the vast majority of
its victims are sucked into the vicious vortex of
arrest, bargain, confession, guilty plea, prison.
Kind of like a giant garbage disposal unit.
But there are not enough public defenders
to represent even a small percentage of charged
persons if *everyone* demanded a lawyer and pleaded
not guilty, not enough prosecutors to prosecute them,
not enough courtrooms to try them in and not enough
judges to fall asleep during their trials. Just
finding enough people to sit on the vastly increased
number of juries that would be required would throttle
the system into paralysis.
And consider the effects on the police, if they knew
that every single sonofabitch they charged would
eventually face them in court, demanding to see their
evidence, with a lawyer at their side to challenge
their every lie.
The costs of running the system would rise
astronomically. It could not be sustained. Things
would change. And change is good.
So here they are again. The rules. Pass them on.
Post them. Give them to your friends.
Think about it -- revolution without firing a shot.
You have nothing to lose except the gun in your
back.
THE RULES OF RESISTANCE
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
NEVER tell the police anything.
NEVER consent to a search.
NEVER confess.
NEVER discuss your case with others.
NEVER plea bargain.
ALWAYS demand a lawyer.
ALWAYS plead not guilty.
ALWAYS demand a full jury trial.
ALWAYS appeal, if you are convicted.
ALWAYS pass on these rules.
--
Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the
greatest injustice. - Arcesilaus
truckinsp
>The U.S. system of "justice" is a tragic joke,
>and everyone knows it.
The rest of the BS snipped....if anybody wants to read it, see the original
post.....
Ivan,
You are truly clueless......don't you know those "rules" of yours have been
around a LONG, LONG time???? Tell me HOW crime has gone down in the last 50
years? Tell me HOW there are less prisoners now than there ever were?
Tell me HOW you think there are less victims of crime than there ever were.
Tell me HOW you think life has gotten better in the last 50 years????
You are just like everyone else out there who thinks that when they decide
to do something, then it is just OK and the rest of the world be
damned.....but it sounds like in your case, a police officer or the courts
DIDN'T think what you wanted to do was just OK......I wonder what your
victims thought? I noticed you DIDN'T include anything about them.....hard
to think about other people when you are just concerned with yourself, isn't
it?
MOST people in this country get along fine and NEVER have any bad contact
with police officers, lawyers, and judges.....but then there are people like
you....the vocal minority.....
Why for once, don't you try being responsible for yourself and being a PART
of this society instead of doing what you WANT to do and looking for a way
out of paying for your acts? Do you think convincing other people to behave
like you is going to help YOUR situation????....Well, maybe, you'll have
some more people to cry in your beer or smoke your dope....but don't count
on them being your friends cause they'll have the same attitude as you
do.....and you are just as expendible to them as they are to you....
V
"truckinsp" <truckinsp@ nowhere.com> wrote in message
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WELL SAID!
V
Ivan Gowch
> > You are truly clueless......don't you know those "rules" of yours have been
> > around a LONG, LONG time???? Tell me HOW crime has gone down in the last 50
> > years? Tell me HOW there are less prisoners now than there ever were?
> > Tell me HOW you think there are less victims of crime than there ever were.
> > Tell me HOW you think life has gotten better in the last 50 years????
First, tell me HOW you think those questions
are in any way relevant to what I posted.
> > You are just like everyone else out there who thinks that when they decide
> > to do something, then it is just OK and the rest of the world be
> > damned.....but it sounds like in your case, a police officer or the courts
> > DIDN'T think what you wanted to do was just OK......I wonder what your
> > victims thought? I noticed you DIDN'T include anything about them.....hard
> > to think about other people when you are just concerned with yourself, isn't
> > it?
How fascinating that you think that someone who
criticizes the atrocious U.S. INjustice system must
necessarily be an embittered ex-criminal.
Listen up, moron. My one and only personal experience
with being on the wrong side of the law involved several days
in a hoosegow stemming from a deliberate act of civil
disobedience during a Vietnam-era anti-war demonstration.
Not exactly something I'm ashamed of. Wasn't even an
unpleasant experience.
So if you're going to try to discredit my arguments
with a personal attack, you are going to have to do
much, much better than this.
> > MOST people in this country get along fine and NEVER have any bad contact
> > with police officers, lawyers, and judges.....but then there are people like
> > you....the vocal minority.....
Vocal minorities have been known to bring governments
to their knees.
> > Why for once, don't you try being responsible for yourself and being a PART
> > of this society instead of doing what you WANT to do and looking for a way
> > out of paying for your acts?
Why, for once, don't you try actually reading what
someone writes and being PART of sentient life,
instead of parroting brain-dead neo-con propaganda
while attempting to avoid dealing with another point of
view by incompetently trying to slander the messenger?
> > Do you think convincing other people to behave
> > like you is going to help YOUR situation????
Do you think making childish and stupid accusations
against someone whose point of view offends you is
going to accomplish anything except to make you look
like an idiot?
> >....Well, maybe, you'll have
> > some more people to cry in your beer or smoke your dope....but don't count
> > on them being your friends cause they'll have the same attitude as you
> > do.....and you are just as expendible to them as they are to you....
> WELL SAID!
> V
Oooh! An attaboy from one brainwashed robot to another.
How impressive. Not.
FernDog
>>THE RULES OF RESISTANCE
>>NEVER tell the police anything.
>>NEVER consent to a search.
>>NEVER confess.
>>NEVER discuss your case with others.
>>NEVER plea bargain.
>>ALWAYS demand a lawyer.
>>ALWAYS plead not guilty.
>>ALWAYS demand a full jury trial.
>>ALWAYS appeal, if you are convicted.
>>ALWAYS pass on these rules.
Excellent rules to pass around. I would like to add:
Never pay the monsters, whether it be for a traffic ticket, probation, or
whatever. Spend time in jail and turn profits into a liablility.
truckinsp
>> > You are truly clueless......don't you know those "rules" of yours have
been
>> > around a LONG, LONG time???? Tell me HOW crime has gone down in the
last 50
>> > years? Tell me HOW there are less prisoners now than there ever were?
>> > Tell me HOW you think there are less victims of crime than there ever
were.
>> > Tell me HOW you think life has gotten better in the last 50 years????
> First, tell me HOW you think those questions
> are in any way relevant to what I posted.
Ivan, since you didn't understand it the first time:
THOSE "RULES" OF YOURS HAVE BEEN AROUND A LONG, LONG TIME. EXACTLY HOW HAS
THE LEGAL SYSTEM OR THE COURTS GOTTEN BETTER????
Rest of BS snipped......
truckinsp
> How impressive. Not.
Methinks Ivan is one of those guys who thinks the only PARTS of the US
Consitution apply and only when HE wants them to apply....
Ivan Gowch
wrote:
==>Ivan, since you didn't understand it the first time:
==>
==>THOSE "RULES" OF YOURS HAVE BEEN AROUND A LONG, LONG TIME. EXACTLY HOW HAS
==>THE LEGAL SYSTEM OR THE COURTS GOTTEN BETTER????
It's not that the "rules" sprang newborn
from my fertile brain . . . it's that people don't
follow them.
People continue to act against their own
best interests by co-operating with police
when there's no good reason to do so;
by giving cops more information than
they are absolutely required to give; by
granting permission to search; by
identifying friends and helping to locate
evidence; by confessing and plea bargaining.
People who think they may be suspects should
talk to police ONLY through their lawyer and
demand ALL their rights during every step of
the case as it runs its course.
The purpose, since you seemed to have missed it,
is to cripple and strangle the system so lawmakers
are forced to enact needed reforms.
That these rules are imbued with power is evidenced
by the annoyance with which they are regarded by
law-and-order types -- and cops, of course, who know
better than anyone that if a majority of suspects
actually started following The Rules, the cops would
have to start working for a living.
--
THE RULES OF RESISTANCE
truckinsp
>==>
>==>THOSE "RULES" OF YOURS HAVE BEEN AROUND A LONG, LONG TIME. >EXACTLY HOW
HAS
>==>THE LEGAL SYSTEM OR THE COURTS GOTTEN BETTER????
>It's not that the "rules" sprang newborn
>from my fertile brain . . . it's that people don't
>follow them.
ROTFL......OK.....if it makes you feel better to believe that....go
ahead......