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Modern Political Prisoners in America

Szandor Blestman
July 20, 2010

When I was growing up, I learned in school that one of the reasons the United
States of America was better than the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was
because we didn’t hold political prisoners in our jails. That was something the
bad, bad communists did. That was something that was done in communist countries
to keep dissidents in line and to silence them. Such a thing could never be done
in America. I don’t know if this is still taught in the schools, but if it is
then I believe our children are being grossly misinformed. The United States of
America has become the leading nation when it comes to jailing its citizens, and
the vast majority of them have been jailed for non violent crimes. We are, in
effect, being jailed by the political class for disobeying rules they have
deigned necessary, not for actions that have harmed another human being or his
property. Most of those jailed are, in effect, political prisoners.

People such as Ed and Elaine Brown and
Wesley Snipes aren’t in jail because they didn’t pay their taxes, they’re
in jail because they refused to obey.

The federal government of the United States of America has declared war on
its own civilians and the majority of those spending time in jail are prisoners
of that war. They call this war many things, the war on drugs and the war on
terror being the most prevalent, but it is really a war fought against people in
order to try to keep a concept hidden from the public consciousness. That
concept is the concept of freedom, the concept that individuals own their own
bodies, their own labor, their own property and best know how to run their own
lives.

The power elite and their political puppets use such emotionally charged
terms as “war” to elicit specific responses from the populace. They want people
to believe that anyone with a differing or divergent point of view from that of
the establishment is a bad person. They want people to believe that anyone with
a difference of opinion is a menace to society and a threat to all that is good
and just. Nothing could be further from the truth. Most of the people who are
spending time in prison are not only ordinary non violent folk who just happened
to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, they are likely kind, loving
individuals with family and friends who care for them and miss them dearly. Many
of them were likely hard working, productive members of society until they were
caught or reported breaking one of the multitude of “laws” created by control
freaks who seem to see us common folk as cash cows meant to be milked for their
benefit.

This war has spilled across the borders of the United States and is affecting
the population worldwide. The DEA seems to think it has the right to enforce the
laws of the United States in whatever country it deems necessary. I don’t know
that the DEA has the right to do this, but it certainly has the power thanks to
your tax dollars. A good example of this is the case of Marc Emery. Mr. Emery is
a Canadian. He was simply selling marijuana seeds. This is a practice that is
not illegal in Canada. Yet it is illegal in the US, though hardly ever enforced.
Mr. Emery was set up by the DEA in a sting operation in which he sold seed
across the border. The DEA then used its power as a federal agency of the United
States to coerce the federal Canadian government into extraditing Mr. Emery to
the United States.

Mr. Emery’s business harmed no one. It only maybe hurt the feelings of a few
bureaucrats who felt perhaps Mr. Emery’s opinions were becoming too popular. You
see, Marc Emery not only sold marijuana seeds, he ran a magazine named Cannabis
Culture and used the money to fund marijuana legalization activism worldwide. He
believes, as I do, that everyone owns their own bodies and can determine for
themselves which substances to use and which to avoid. He would likely still be
free if he had just pocketed his profits rather than using them to promote his
marijuana legalization efforts. It appears as if Marc Emery was targeted not for
his illegal activity, but for his political activism. And they had to use an
unethical sting setup to make it look legitimate.

The same is true of tax protestors. People fighting the unethical,
unconstitutional income tax have been forced into prison despite the obvious
unpopularity of this theft. Even though the vast majority of the populace seems
to be brainwashed into thinking the federal income tax is legitimate, the
arguments against it are intriguing and compelling on both legal and moral
grounds. Ed and Elaine Brown were two such protestors who wished to make such
arguments during their trail. The federal judge presiding over their trail
denied them the opportunity to make over thirty such arguments in their defense.
As a result, they realized the court system was rigged in favor of the state and
refused to take part in it any longer.

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Ed, a contractor, and Elaine, a dentist, gathered together such a following
that the Feds determined that the only way to get to them would be to
unethically infiltrate their supporters. It appears as if the Feds are worried
about their image and don’t want to be thought of by the general public as the
violent agency they are. They want people to forget such incidents as Waco and
Ruby Ridge, but a leopard cannot change its spots. Ed and Elaine Brown were
productive members of society until the Feds put them in unproductive prison
cells.

People such as Ed and Elaine Brown and Wesley Snipes aren’t in jail because
they didn’t pay their taxes, they’re in jail because they refused to obey. They
refused to knuckle under to the coercion and threats of the federal government
and decided to exercise their rights. They refused to cower in fear before the
political gang that runs this nation and decided to show them for what they are,
a violent gang of thugs who believe they own us and a portion of our labor.
These are arguments the authoritarian power mongers don’t want to hear because
they’re true, and the truth is sometimes hard to face. They would rather do harm
to those who have never harmed another than face the reality that they are
greedy failures in a coercive monopoly funded by theft and unable to compete in
a legitimate marketplace.

What happens when the practices used by the policing agencies are used
against them? Barry Cooper is a good example to look at. A former narcotics
officer, he created a sting operation to catch the police breaking the law and
disobeying the constitution. His police training served him well as he had
learned to setup drug dealers. He filmed the police breaking their own laws and
streamed it to the web in such a way so that their guilt could not be denied.
This angered the cops. As a result, Barry Cooper and his family have been
harassed by authorities ever since. Candi, his wife, lost custody of her eight
year old son. They have both been arrested and charged with filing a false
police report. They await trial on said charges. It seems what’s good for the
goose is not good for the gander. It seems that the police can setup and harass
ordinary folk to catch them breaking laws, but when ordinary folk do the same to
the police, the ordinary folk better watch out.

The system is plagued with unfairness. It is set up so that those with
authority aren’t burdened with any personal responsibility for their decisions.
They are not held accountable for their actions even when such actions harm
others or are financially unsound. It takes those who rail against it and make
honest, sensible arguments and silences them by removing them to cold prison
cells. We might not have the cruel and unforgiving gulags the Russians had under
communist rule in the last century, but we have prisons populated with political
prisoners who don’t even know they are political prisoners. Our government has
interrupted and ruined the lives of millions for its political power, expediency
and agenda.

The war against the people needs to end. The federal government needs to step
aside. The common folk need to reestablish their lust for freedom. The
bureaucrats need to start respecting the rights of the individual once again.
The federal government needs to be recognized for the monstrous mechanism of
tyranny it has become. Hopefully, the cogs inside that mechanism will start
refusing to allow it to run smoothly. We should be allowed to spend our money as
we see fit, to smoke what we want to smoke, to say what we wish to say, and to
live our lives as we wish to live them without fear of government intrusion and
imprisonment. The disobedience of a few have shown us the ugly truth. The
disobedience of many will help set us free.

This article was posted: Tuesday, July
20, 2010 at 8:42 am

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