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at 14:35 on April 7th, 2009
We added them for you.
at 14:10 on April 7th, 2009
NP, can y'all do anything w/ these cyber stalkers? I am trying to add my taglines. First it stuck when I tried to add the tag "African American," and I had to start over. Now it is sticking at the word "Taser." These folks are trying to censor everything I write. That is one reason this march is necessary. Citizens must stand up to the wrongs being done in America in non-violent demonstrations as we were taught by Dr. King, or loss of civil rights will only continue and worsen. Yes, this march concerns prisoners, which anyone can become at any time - all it takes is a traffic stop. But ignoring the civil rights of prisoners is how abuse of power begins - with the least among you. Then it spreads. First, they came for . . .
Maybe if I write the "offending word" repeatedly here they might give up trying to censor it. Here goes: Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser,
at 05:46 on April 8th, 2009
Thanks, Jenny D! I appreciate the commendation. It took all day yesterday to do this. Amy helped post the pictures, which I think add just the right feel for the problems prisoners face. We only need to firm up the date, then the announcement for the march will go out to 10,000. Hopefully, it will be a good gathering and it won't rain!
Prisoner activists are very fragmented. Many groups fight the same problems, but they mostly concentrate their efforts toward prison problems within their own regions and/or on one particular issue. I listed the 25 issues that represent the concerns I recognize from online dialog with prisoner support groups and observed personally. There are 2.3 million prisoners in America, and it is safe to assume that each one has ten people who care about his/her wellbeing, including relatives, friends, and people who are concerned about human rights in general. Just look at the prisoners in America's War on Terror offshore camps. The people who helped put a stop to their torture did not know them personally at all.
Considering these factors, I estimate that at least 30 million people want U.S. inmates to be treated like human beings, not abused or killed at will with no fear of reprisal, like Larry was. The march will help lawmakers see that it is time for justice to become a reality in America's justice system. Prisons were never intended to become money-making machines that reduce human beings to commodities that are traded on Wall Street. That is not called "crime and punishment," but "slavery." See this article:
Is America's Prison System Legalized Slavery?
www.nowpublic.com/health/americas-prison-system-legalized-slavery
Blessings!
Mary
at 07:09 on April 10th, 2009
Attorney Gen. Eric Holder replaced the internal ethics leader at the USDOJ. That is a positive step toward improving justice in America. Here is a link to an article about that personnel change: USDOJ's Leader of Internal Ethics Fired
Mary
at 17:14 on April 13th, 2009
Special attention is in order for this prison issue, because it has the potential to affect us all:
19) new trials with substantial new evidence, like the Troy Davis case
I think Davis is being preserved to execute one day and set off riots to excuse Martial Law (when the "emergency centers" are ready). President Obama should pardon Davis, a likely innocent man who is repeatedly denied a new trial, and remove that threat to national security. Perhaps holding Davis on death row without new trial despite significant doubt about his guilt presents a setup - a "sting operation" for predominently black Americans. If the man is ever executed, EVERYONE SHOULD JUST STAY HOME AND PRAY. Don't fall into the trap.
People should take advantage of peaceful demonstrations like the HUMAN RIGHTS FOR PRISONERS MARCH will be.
Disorganized public reactions immediately following abuses of power should be avoided. Remember:
An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression. ~ Proverbs 29:22
Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go. ~ Proverbs 22:24
Do not wait until some injustice happens one day before talking to your children about the importance of remaining calm and peaceful in the face of adversity. After Oscar Grant's murder, the demonstrations almost turned violent. Decide right now that when faced with gross injustice, you will remain home and work out peaceful resolution when tempers are not high. The Human Rights for Prisoners March provides an opportunity to protest police brutality, prisoner abuse, and the expansion of the police state in the absence of any immediate issue.
Failure to employ the non-violent methodology to advocate for needed change, but waiting instead for some calamity, could provide a convenient excuse to actually use those "emergency centers" and militia who are being trained to contain rebellion within the U.S. We must give guidance to young people about the power of non-violent social change by using our right to PEACEFUL assembly. It could be too late later.
Teaching young people methods of non-violent conflict resolution is just as important as it is to give them "safe sex" and "say no to drugs" information. Non-violent conflict resolution and anger management classes should be mandatory for everyone before leaving junior high school. Such classwork being taught early may help to curtail the nation's high rate of violent crime, including domestic violence, and prevent explosive public reactions to perceived abuses of power. Prayer has been dismissed from public schools, but there are secular methods available and necessary for imparting moral guidance and a sense of social responsibility to our young people.
Let no man pull you so low that you hate him. Always avoid violence. If you sow the seeds of violence in your struggle, unborn generations will reap the whirlwind of social disintegration. ~ Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
at 10:57 on April 12th, 2009
The abuse and wrongful deaths of unarmed citizens and U.S.prisoners both within America and in offshore determent camps related to the War on Terror prove the words penned by a certain human rights advocate a century ago. He stated:
“[Y]our national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy -- a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.” ~ Frederick Douglas
All we say to America is, "Be true to what you said on paper." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
at 20:10 on April 23rd, 2009
Google shows it right away :
Web
Results 1 - 10 of about 293,000 for Human Rights for Prisoners March. (0.16 seconds)
Searching with Ask.com gets results
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www.nowpublic.com/world/human-rights-prisoners-march-planned-may-16-atlanta - 137k - Cached - Similar pages -
www.blogtalkradio.com/stations/.../HUMAN-RIGHTS-FOR-PRISONERS-MARCH-ON-MAY-16-2009-IN-ATLANTA-GA - 163k - Cached - Similar pages -
www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/1114734 - 84k - Cached - Similar pages -
www.care2.com/c2c/groups/disc.html?gpp=17280&pst=837503 - 77k - Cached - Similar pages -
www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/30/090330fa_fact_gawande - Similar pages -
at 09:21 on April 7th, 2009
i liked this contribution .
at 14:11 on July 16th, 2009
CYBERSTALKERS hate this article. Took it off my PC. Does not come up when I search at NP, I have to go out of NP to Google or Yahoo to get here. They hope to delete it, but the day they do, that will not be the only thing deleted. Promise. I used a million words to say what Michael Jackson said in a simple, repetitive song. How do you like that? Maybe I should learn to sing -- no hope for my voice, though.
http://my.nowpublic.com/culture/michael-jackson-they-dont-really-care-about-us
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Here is another opportunity to march for justice. Many are planning to march on June 27 against wrongful convictions and protest the archaic, barbaric practice of capital punishment. Here is an inspiring video about that plan: http://www.freedommarchusa.org/
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Thanks for the recommendation. I hope you will come when we reschedule. Look at the list of concerns, and I am sure you will find one you support.
Mary
at 15:14 on April 7th, 2009
Thank you, Amy, neither of the terms "African American," nor "Taser" show in the tag lines that I see at this article. Are you certain that they were added? If so, why do they not show? I was just stuck again and had to abort adding tag lines when I wanted to add "GuatemalaBayPrison." This censorship is outrageous. Everyone knows about that already!
at 15:28 on April 7th, 2009
I can see them
at 16:07 on May 14th, 2009
The map showing U.S. prison rates per state was also used in this article: Judges Pled Guilty in “Jailing Children for Dollars” Scheme. It is an article about the shameful way some Pennsylvania judges were channeling children into private detention centers to earn an estimated $2.6 million in kickbacks. Now I understand why one person who signed our second petition begging the USDOJ to investigate Larry's death wrote these words, "You can have justice in America if you have enough money." Justice must not be for sale!
I apprecitate your help with the photographs.
HERE IS A DEMONSTRATION OF "FREE SPEECH" in America re: Justice:
Yahoo reports that it has BOUNCED around 1,400 messages of mine since I announced the Human Rights for Prisoners March in Atlanta on May 16, meaning that I did not get these emails. Also, I was unable to send emails, because Yahoo kept closing me out of my account for up to 48 hours "due to unusual activity." This happened six times within the last week. Notice the stark difference in bounces I experienced after publishing this article - 1 to 3 bounces a week prior to announcing the march. After announcing the march, the number jumped to nearly 500 in one week! Free press = keep your printing presses and copier machines. The Internet is sewed up.
Bounced Messages
May 9, 2009
296
Bounce History for mneal000@yahoo.com
Bounces: 619
Reactivation Requests Sent: 1
Last Request Sent: Sat May 02, 2009 08:45 AM
Weekly Bounce Summary
Week of Bounced Messages
Apr 25, 2009: 309
Apr 18, 2009: 179
Mar 28, 2009: 1
Mar 21, 2009: 3
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FAKE EMAIL BOX ISSUED BY NING. Because of my ongoing problems communicating through Yahoo, I joined Alarms for Justice on Ning and sent the Invitations to the Human Rights for Priosoners March from NING. The email box at NING is supposed to send the invitations to my entire Yahoo email list, which it could not have done because of of 2,000 addresses. However, only the people that those who monitor my mail know I communicate with on a personal basis got my invitations.
People need to know that Internet mail sites have control over their ability to communicate. The censorship could be coming from some entitty that has dominion over the individual sites. My NING email box was also supposed to take the RSVPs for the march: I was issued this email box and have sent emails to that box mail, yet no mail was received: MaryNeal577@alarmsforjustice.Ning.com
I tried today sending mail from the NING email box to my Yahoo. It arrived at my Yahoo email box as coming from mail@alarmsforjustice.ning.com
This prevents people from knowing who sent them mail. Some people have accounts that send all such generic mail as that to their spam folders automatically. I selected "reply all" to see if I could reply to the message and it get back to my NING email box. This address in my Yahoo address field came up: do_not_reply@AlarmsForJustice.Ning.com
So naturally, that makes it impossible for anyone to be able to respond to my emails if any were sent. All of this is done to contain information about the Human Rights for Prisoners March to keep our numbers low. Censorship is especially practiced whenever I try to contact predominantly African American groups.
When browsing the web this week, I found my first email to the Justice4Oscar_Grant group at Yahoo.com. I had supplied the group with a link to my article here at NowPublic about Oscar Grant's shooting. When I found the email on the web, the link that should be there was gone. That group never received my link - it had been LIFTED FROM THE EMAIL MESSAGE before it arrived at the Yahoo group. I wrote about it here:
http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/1131568
Unless the powers that be changed it back since I wrote that blog about the censorship, the email with the missing link is here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Justice4Oscar_GRANT/message/108
Despite the censorship, my Oscar Grant article got nearly 8,000 views at NP and many more, because poeple copied it to their own websites. Maybe you read it:
Oscar Grant: First Unarmed Black Man Killed by Police in 2009, Next?
http://my.nowpublic.com/world/oscar-grant-1st-unarmed-black-man-police-killed-2009-next
THIS IS THE TRUE STATE OF "FREE PRESS" IN AMERICA, PEOPLE. EXERCISING THE RIGHT TO FREE PRESS AND FREE SPEECH DEPENDS ENTIRELY ON WHAT ONE HAS TO SAY.
at 22:44 on May 5th, 2009
This has got to be the most hidden article I have written. Even the LINKS to it that I post cannot stay in place. Why is there such censorship around a march intended to request more humane treatment for prisoners, psychiatric care rather than prison for sick people, an end to police brutality, and seeking alternatives to the death penalty? Why is that a problem?
If possible, I would hire a blimp to advertise and have a long trailer made to fly behind it. One side would say:
"WHAT HAPPENED TO LARRY NEAL?"
and the other,
"AMERICA USES MENTAL PATIENTS AND PLENTY OF OTHERS TO GENERATE PROFIT AS PRISONERS, AND MANY ARE ABUSED. PLEASE STOP.."
The blimp should fly low and slow all over major cities at lunchtime on a summer day. Tens of thousands of folks already know. But with a blimp, we could be done with the censorship quicker. Instead, we have to wait until May 16. See you soon, CNN.
at 14:51 on April 20th, 2009
As you know from the above post, I worked from another URL to see what my Censorship Force does to help contain my messages and articles. They have been doing this for years, and I like to be aware of their level of desperation.
Question: Have you ever seen an email message screen that measures 1" length by 1/3" width? That is the size of my Yahoo screen for writing messages which was available to me at the computer store WHERE WE ARE ORDERING FLYERS FOR THE HUMAN RIGHTS FOR PRISONERS MARCH. In other words, the Yahoo screen that I had available was smaller than most people's baby finger, about that long and wide!
The people in the computer store were amazed. I was not. (1) The desperation to hide the secret arrest and wrongful death of Larry Neal and the subsequent cover-up by higher-ups probably keeps some folks awake at night; and (2) the potential loss to prison profiteers to enact any or all of the 25 concerns list above would be great.
So, the Censorship Force needs to get busy closing down the printshops in Atlanta before any of them can print the flyers for the march. Cyberstalkers are not useful in stopping the dissemination of printed data - that is the only reason I hate to see newspapers go out of business. One day, they will shut the Internet down, or they will use their power to impede everyone's freedom of press online, just as they have done this writer for four years. Here are some more ways to try to prevent this news:
Close the t-shirt shops where the t-shirts will be readied.
Close BlogTalk Radio, while you are at it. Simply blocking me from opening my mail from people who want to interview me won't work.
Close the Internet video outlets, to prevent the video announcements for the Human Rights for Prisoners March.
Hurry and get Sen. Rockefeller's bills through Congress to give President Obama executive power to close down the whole Internet, then use it quick, although you may have trouble getting President Obama to agree to use that power, because he believes in open government.
Cybersecurity Bill Gives Obama Dictatorial Power Over Internet www.nowpublic.com/tech-biz/cybersecurity-bill-gives-obama-dictatorial-power-over-internetMary Neal
http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com
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at 19:33 on April 23rd, 2009
ATTENTION: NP, my cyberstalkers won't let "Human Rights for Prisoners March" yield results in NP's search field. A search for that title or tag line continually returns a "not found" response from NP. Is there any acceptable reason for this, or what?
at 20:08 on April 23rd, 2009
No luck for me either....
Search StoriesMembersPhotosVideoAudioNewsroom Search StoriesMembersPhotosVideoAudioAll mediaAudio & VideoNewsroom Full Text Search Tag Search
Your search for "Human Rights for Prisoners March" returned no results
Get Published! I want to write somethingI've got photos and videohow do I get published?
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at 21:01 on April 23rd, 2009
People, it does not appear that they want you to read about the seven Pennsylvania prisoners' sworn testimony alleging that they are being tortured - probably right now. When I checked the link that is to MY OWN BLOG where I placed the email from the prisoner group that is carrying their sworn statements to the world for HELP, it came up with the word "whereas" added, and did not go to my Care2 blog where the email is. What would you call that? TRY to get to the prisoners' statements about their torture by going to my blog: http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/sharebook/513396753
When I went to the link in the first paragraph in the article above (which should take you directly to the prisoner's desperate plea for help), the link mysteriously CHANGED - the world "Whereas" was added to the end of the link so it would not take you to the prisoner's sworn statements of being tortured. Makes me think nobody intends to fix this broken system, or why keep hiding and censoring Mary Neal -- and chasing me, too?
I call it more censorship to hide the prison torture going on inside American jails and prisons. My own brother died under YET UNDISCLOSED CIRCUMSTANCES, despite his family asking for 5.6 years, "What happened to Larry Neal?" http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com
We really expected the calvary to come out and help us when Shelby Co. Jail in Memphis denied for weeks having my chronically mentally ill brother in custody, knowing that he desperately needed his heart drugs for survival. I call that murder, but perhaps even more was done. No explanation was given for his head wound on his body when his corpse was released on August 1, 2003, either! Then we discovered that Larry was not treated much different from other prisoners inside American correctional facilities, except for the fact that his arrest was SECRET.
Lots of U.S. prisoners are killed regularly, so it was no big deal to all the authorities we wrote and called and asked for accountability and records, which we have been denied for over five years! I was shocked to learn that prison torture inside America directed at U.S. citizens is usual and ordinary - even for Americans with disabilities. So the "War on Terror" prisoners in overseas detainment camps are actually being treated equally compared with U.S. inmates within our own borders when they are tortured and murdered. Happens all the time within the USA to citizens! I was real surprised to lean this. Are you?
But SHHHHHH! That is a big secret. The inmates and prisoner activists and authorities know it, but the general public was never intended to know it. That is why I am chased by up to four vehicles and a USDOT truck when I go to my neighborhood stores. I did not know this was some secret, because so many people already know. Now you know, too. So be careful!
at 20:26 on April 23rd, 2009
Below is the result from My Own Blog at Care2 when I clicked on the link for the seven Pennsylvania prisoner's plea for help that they asked the world to know about and rescue them from torture. A period and a word were added at the end so you could not see their desperate cries! -- .Whereas --
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Sorry!
The page you have requested,
www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/1124844.Whereas,
is not available. That doesn't mean you won't find what you're looking for at Care2.
Here are some handy links to help you on your way:
Thank you for making a difference at Care2.
Sincerely,
The Care2 Team
at 20:36 on April 23rd, 2009
Superior financial resources for a better Search Engine ?
at 21:14 on April 23rd, 2009
what i meant is Google is way bigger than NP, what with their superior finances and search algorithms. Try the exact, entire title of your story.
at 22:20 on April 23rd, 2009
Fred, that is what I do. Even when I am already working or reading posts in NP, if I need to go to this article, I have to use the Google browser. ALL of my other articles come up if I enter their titles into the NP search field under "subject" except for this one and a couple of others. I was hoping someone would be able to explain why I get the misleading report at NP:
"Human Rights for Prisoners" not found
I probably should be used to strange things like this. It has been over five years now, but whatever. Thanks for responding, although you were unable to tell me what is exceptional about this story. I guess I know.
at 15:05 on April 26th, 2009
Sen. Webb is advocating for change against much resistance among some who are prison profiteers. He needs our help. The public should show as much concern for American prisoners here as we do for the War on Terror camp detainees. Folks are suffering and dying right here. Furthermore, the emerging police state threatens to render us all as prisoners, I BELIEVE.
Thanks for your comments and recommendation!
Mary
at 13:00 on April 30th, 2009
CYBERSTALKERS ISSUING DEATH THREATS AGAIN AT CARE2
Mary Neal
I just finished my sharebook invitation for the HUMAN RIGHTS FOR PRISONERS MARCH in Atlanta on May 16. at Care2. I made group announcements in the tag line, which means that the announcement would be carried on the home page for each of the groups I input. WHEN I HIT SUBMIT, ALL GROUP ANNOUNCEMENTS WERE REPLACED WITH A SINGLE DEATH THREAT, because the Cyberstalkers do not want me to advertise the Human Rights for Prisoners March. Here are the tags I put in my share at http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/1131095:
Tags: *group:duo*, *group:peoplehelpingotherpeople*, *group:towncrier*, *group:inmates*, *group:humanrights*, MaryNeal, DeathPenalty,
Here is what showed in the tag line: comments (0) | discussion () | permalink | edit | delete Visibility: Everyone Tags: deathpenalty, maryneal Posted: Apr 30, 2009 11:53am
At times, I open various pages at Care2, and what they have waiting for me is this:
NOW HEAR THIS, CYBERSTALKERS AND THOSE WHO HIRE YOU, IF ANYONE WANTS TO KILL MARY NEAL BECAUSE I REFUSE TO BE YOUR SLAVE AND WATCH YOU KILL MY FAMILY MEMBERS UNDER SECRET ARREST AND WATCH THE WAY YOU ABUSE OTHER DEFENSELESS PEOPLE BEHIND BARS THE WAY YOU DID MY BROTHER, SAVE YOUR KEYSTROKES WITH THE DEATH THREATS AND USE YOUR FINGER POWER ON THE TRIGGER, BECAUSE I WILL CONTINUE TO ADVOCATE FOR JUSTICE UNTIL JUSTICE COMES.
IF PEOPLE WERE SO CONCERNED ABOUT CONTAINING THE INFORMATION ABOUT THE COCHRAN FIRM BEING A GOVERNMENT AGENT NOW AND ABOUT THE SAD SHAPE JUSTICE IS IN IN AMERICA, YOU SHOULD HAVE HAD REAL JUSITCE IN COURT INSTEAD OF THE KANGAROO COURTS MY FAMILY WAS SUBJECTED TO AND MANY OTHER PEOPLE FACE AS THIS SYSTEM RAILROADS PEOPLE INTO PRISON TO BENEFIT PRISON PROFITEERS.
STOP PAYING COMPUTER STALKERS TO IMPEDE MY MESSAGE AND SEND ME DEATH THREATS. IT IS NOT WORKING. IT ONLY MAKES IT MORE OBVIOUS WHAT TYPE OF SOCIOPATHS ARE IN CHARGE OF OUR TRULY "CRIMINAL" JUSTICE SYSTEM!
Mary Neal
at 09:35 on May 5th, 2009
A “SINGLE VOICE PROJECT” is the official name of the petition sponsored by: The National Public Service Council To Abolish Private Prisons (NPSCTAPP)
THIS PETITION SEEKS TO ABOLISH ALL PRIVATE PRISONS IN THE UNITED STATES, (or any place subject to its jurisdiction)
The National Public Service Council To Abolish Private Prisons (NPSCTAPP) is a grass roots organization driven by a single objective. We want the United States government to reclaim sole authority for state and federal prisons on US soil.
We want the United States Congress to immediately rescind all state and federal contracts that permit private prisons “for profit” to exist in the United States, or any place subject to its jurisdiction. We understand that the problems that currently plague our government, its criminal justice system and in particular, the state & federal bureau of prisons (and most correctional and rehabilitation facilities) are massive. However, it is our solemn belief that the solutions for prison reform will remain unattainable and virtually impossible as long as private prisons for profit are permitted to operate in America.
Prior to the past month, and the fiasco of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, Lehman Brothers, and now the “Big Three” American Automobile manufacturers, the NPSCTAPP has always felt compelled to highlight the “moral Bottom line” when it comes to corrections and privatization. Although, we remain confounded by the reality that our government has allowed our justice system to be operated by private interests. The NPSCTAPP philosophy has always been “justice” should not be for sale at any price. It is our belief that the inherent and most fundamental responsibility of the criminal justice system should not be shirked, or “jobbed-out.” This is not the same as privatizing the post office or some trash pick up service in the community. There has to be a loss of meaning and purpose when an inmate looks at a guard’s uniform and instead of seeing an emblem that reads State Department of Corrections or Federal Bureau of Prisons, he sees one that says: “Atlas Prison Corporation.”
Let’s assume that the real danger of privatization is not some innate inhumanity on the part of its practitioners but rather the added financial incentives that reward inhumanity. The same logic that motivates companies to operate prisons more efficiently also encourages them to cut corners at the expense of workers, prisoners and the public. Every penny they do not spend on food, medical care or training for guards is a dime they can pocket. What happens when the pennies pocketed are not enough for the shareholders? Who will bailout the private prison industry when they hold the government and the American people hostage with the threat of financial failure…“bankruptcy?” What was unimaginable a month ago merits serious consideration today. State and Federal prison programs originate from government design, and therefore, need to be maintained by the government. It’s time to restore the principles and the vacated promise of our judicial system.
John F. Kennedy said, “The time to repair the roof is while the sun is shinning”. Well the sun may not be shinning but, it’s not a bad time to begin repair on a dangerous roof that is certain to fall…. because, “Incarcerating people for profit is, in a word WRONG”
There is an urgent need for the good people of this country to emerge from the shadows of cynicism, indifference, apathy and those other dark places that we migrate to when we are overwhelmed by frustration and the loss of hope.
It is our hope that you will support the NPSCTAPP with a show of solidarity by signing our petition. We intend to assemble a collection of one million signatures, which will subsequently be attached to a proposition for consideration. This proposition will be presented to both, the Speaker Of The House Of Representatives (Nancy Pelosi) and the United States Congress.
Please Help Us. We Need Your Support. Help Us Spread The Word About This Monumental And Courageous Challenge To Create Positive Change. Place The Link To The Petition On Your Website! Pass It On!
The SINGLE VOICE PETITION and the effort to abolish private “for profit” prisons is the sole intent of NPSCTAPP. Our project does not contain any additional agendas. We have no solutions or suggestions regarding prison reform. However, we are unyielding in our belief that the answers to the many problems which currently plague this nation’s criminal justice system and its penal system in particular, cannot and will not be found within or assisted by the private “for profit” prison business. The private “for profit” prison business has a stranglehold on our criminal justice system. Its vice-like grip continues to choke the possibility of justice, fairness, and responsibility from both state and federal systems.
These new slave plantations are not the answer!
For more information please visit: http://www.npsctapp.blogsppot.com or email: williamthomas@exconciliation.com
To sign the petition please visit: http://www.petitiononline.com/gufree2/petition.html
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
William Thomas
National Community Outreach Facilitator
The National Public Service Council To Abolish Private Prisons
P.O. Box 156423
San Francisco, California 94115
at 11:00 on May 5th, 2009
Thank you, Mr. Thomas, for stopping by this article to place the link to the petition to end private prisons. Your references did not link, so I will TRY to post them here in my reply. Please help tell other prisoner rights activists and the general public about the March for Human Rights for Prisoners in Atlanta on May 16. Now we have to pay for an eblast service. A shame!
For more information, please visit: http://www.npsctapp.blogsppot.com
or email: williamthomas@exconciliation.com
To sign the petition please visit: http://www.petitiononline.com/gufree2/petition.html
You cannot imagine the censorship that goes into containing the message about this march! I found that huge gaps like after your article may make readers think they are at the end of a page. You would think plans for a simple walk down the street is a Martian invasion. They shut me out of Yahoo so I could not communicate with my Yahoo group members, bounced around 2,000 of my emails, and gave me a FAKE Ning email address from which I sent the invitations to the march - MaryNeal577@alarmsforjustice.Ning.com . That email address cannot actually receive the RSVPs or requests for information, and it sends out emails (I tested it) that arrived to my other email boxes as mail@alarmsforjustice.Ning.com - which would send them directly to most folks' spam folders! Not only that, but when one tries to reply to that email "mail@," this comes up in the addressee field: do_not_reply@AlarmsforJustice.Ning.com. How is that for holding it down? Silly people act like every month does not have a 16th!
Interested persons, please grab this link and post it with your email messages over the next couple of weeks:
ANNOUNCEMENT: PLEASE COME to the HUMAN RIGHTS FOR PRISONERS MARCH IN ATLANTA, GA ON MAY 16!
http://my.nowpublic.com/world/human-rights-prisoners-march-planned-mid-may-atlanta
Conditions in American prisons inside the U.S.A. are nearly as bad as those in the War on Terror determent camps.
Mr. Thomas, if you had time to read the article about the Human Rights for Prisoners March, you will note that the likely reason why so much of our budget is going to prisons and there are all of these private prisons is because some of our esteemed decision makers are owners and major investors of the prison enterprises. I BELIEVE it is time for all representatives, judges, and D.A.s (the public defenders who cannot seem to win cases, too) to show their investment portfolios, if they don't already do so, before starting or continuing their public service positions. I don't mean just show them to each other, either! Post them on the Internet so we can all see them. Money is such a powerful motivator around here. My goodness!
at 22:58 on May 7th, 2009
Goodness! Now it appears that the site on Ning where I placed the invitation to the HUMAN RIGHTS FOR PRISONERS MARCH IN ATLANTA ON MAY 16 is down for maintenance. Judging by the way Ning issued me a fake email address there, probably only sent out a handful of our invitations to the march, and my links I place there mysteriously get deactivated, I think it needs LOTS of work - or something.
I suppose knowing things like this would happen is why God put a middle week in every single month He made. Every thought about that, people? Every single one has a pay-week when people have their house notes out of the way. Consider that before spending much effort and money interfering with my Yahoo account and other places I write. Patience is a virtue human rights activists must cultivate - that and perseverence. I don't even curse any more when I type a post and it disappears! I just film it for the disc in the book jacket and keep typing.
Maintenance
We apologize for the inconvenience, but Alarms for Justice is currently undergoing maintenance.
Human rights advancements always experienced opposition. Consider labor laws, women's suffrage, abolition of slavery and the civil rights movement, just to name a few. Yet they won! That is because when people fight for what is right, they don't fight alone. God is!
Some folks might need to save their energy for packing moving boxes. That's what I think about all of this cyberstalking. You might wish you had that money one day - SOON.
If you can accept losing, you can't win. ~ Vince Lombardi
at 08:31 on May 8th, 2009
Prison profiteers must be scared to death about this march. I have been locked out of my Yahoo email for most of the time since announcing this march. Thousands of messages were bounced. First, Yahoo sent me a notice of how many were bounced for my own good for "security." The number must have gotten so large it was embarrassing to report (BECAUSE I DO TELL). The answer the higher-ups came up with is to just turn off the emails from groups so there would be no data on returned messages. They are so obvious, right?
YAHOO TURNED OFF MY EMAIL DELIVERY TO AND FROM GROUPS
Dear Yahoo! Groups member,
You belong to one or more email groups provided by Yahoo! Groups
(groups.yahoo.com).
Recently, messages sent to you from Yahoo! Groups have been
returned to us as undeliverable. As a result, we have temporarily
turned off message delivery to this email address.
There is definitely room for an Internet group sponsor that believes in First Amendment free speech and free press rights. Someone should start one.
What good is the Internet when the only way to get a message to people that the power structure does not want distributed is to print flyers and buy a zillion postage stamps?
This is PROOF that people should support newspapers. Please don't let all the newspapers close, especially the few independent newspapers that are left. When you see my films, you will know how controlled the Internet is.
-You will know that your emails can be changed after you hit "submit" before they reach the addressees. This includes the names in your address line.
-You will see that people who have important information that the power structure does not want dispensed will be kept away from your Internet groups and news sits by the scrambled code. No matter how many times the code is descrambled properly, the people being censored will get the message to try again.
- If a particular website is being censored, the link to it will not be allowed to open. This happens with some of the sties I tried to open when I was researching data to write my concentration camp article. Many sites that deal with that subject matter simply will not open.
-Another tactic to control traffic to a given website that the censorship force uses is this: When someone elects to go to that website, they will be re-directed to a screen telling them the site they selected is dangerous to their computer! That is the kind of message I got when I went to IndyMedia - one of the largest Internet news sites. The problem is that IndyMedia does not filter its news (maybe). http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml
-On my video, you will see that the censorship force has the capacity to show false information to a given URL. Those being censored will see their information posted, but it is visible only to them and is not actually live on the Internet.
- Print media is available indefinitely after printing. Contrarily, when information is published on the Internet that the censorship force does not want people to have, the links carrying same are often deactivated after initial distribution of the information. This happens frequently. Here is a link that was unavailable (at least from my URL) for months after I published it in an article:
See FBI Deputizes Businesses - http://www.progressive.org/mag_rothschild0308.
I used it in this article:
CAN LAW FIRMS BE GOVERNMENT AGENCIES? THE COCHRAN FIRM FRAUD W/ VIDEOS http://my.nowpublic.com/health/can-law-firms-be-government-agencies-cochran-firm-fraud-w-videos
Therefore, support print media. NEVER leave the flow of information in America up to whoever can afford a good computer tech. With the Internet, that is all it takes to shut down free press.
It just occurred to me that this could be a whole documentary! I have been censored for so long, I believe I can show the world most of the tricks of the trade of impeding the free flow of information on the Internet.
at 11:59 on May 8th, 2009
At OpEdNews, many people write articles regarding the prison torture in the offshore War on Terror camps. I decided to test OpEdNews' dedication to free press (although I already know, but wanted to film it for the DVD). Many people are displeased that those who tortured people in the War on Terror camps are not being prosecuted, records are held secret, and some are eligible for destruction without publication.
An OpEdNews writer wrote an article and ended with this line: "The people who engaged in torture should be indicted and sentenced. End of story." I replied with this comment, which never posted after four tries! I continue to get more data proving censorship protecting America's prison industry - big business! - for the DVD as I have time. Atlanta's FBI office told me to bring proof, which is quite easy. All I have to do is write these words: Human Rights for Prisoners March in Atlanta, May 16. Then the censorship force goes into high gear. Try it if you believe you have free press! Here is my censored comment:
Prison Torture Happens INSIDE America, too, and is also protected
Obviously, you are unaware that in the USA, who gets indicted for crimes and goes to jail depends largely on race and socio-economic class distinctions. Therefore, these steps will not be taken to prosecute those found to be complicit in prisoner torture, either in the War on Terror camps or here within American prisons and jails.
Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally IllCondoleezza Rice said that ordering torture of detainees was not illegal on her part because the president ("massa") told her to do it. The USDOJ under the Bush administration promised military personnel and doctors who participated in torturing detainees that they would not be prosecuted for obeying orders in that regard.
People who await justice in this matter will be as disappointed as my family is for awaiting justice regarding the secret arrest and wrongful death of Larry Neal, a private American citizen who was arrested by Shelby County Jail and murdered by withholding his heart medications through falsely claiming to his family and social worker that the was not incarcerated.
Of course the records mentioned in the article concerning prison torture will be destroyed! When the higher-ups do wrong, cover-up is the name of the game. So is censorship of information that does escape their clutches. For instance, I experience much censorship publishing the fact that prison torture is not limited to the overseas camps in the War on Terror. It is very alive and well within America! Inmates in America's correctional facilities are regularly beaten, verbally abused, gassed, some claim to be electrocuted, and those exhibiting mental illness are frequently placed in often deadly restraint chairs to control them, and like Sean LeVert, some die.
Question: What is worse - waterboarding that leaves the victims alive, or secret deaths of American citizens that are prevented from investigation and records are denied? See http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com
Read the comments at the much censored article at the link below to see how hard it is to publicize news about the prison torture that goes on within America. If what you will read in this article is done to American citizens under arrest, even handicapped people arrested for mental illness (1.25 million people), what chance have foreigners got when arrested for suspected terrorism? None.
Human Rights for Prisoners March in Atlanta, May 16
http://my.nowpublic.com/world/human-rights-prisoners-march-planned-may-16-atlanta
Every trick in the book - by the state bars, the courts, the USDOJ, cyberstalkers, etc., is used to prevent open disclosure about the secret arrest and murder of Larry Neal and the power structure's illegal cover-up and protection given to The Cochran Firm for its role in the cover-up conspiracy. That law firm signed contract with my family to prevent Shelby County Jail from having to give account of what happened to the lifelong mental patient Memphis police secretly arrested and killed.
Many other inmates within U.S. borders - citizens, family members of taxpayers and former taxpayers themselves - are tortured and some are killed with disgusting regularity. But reports of inmate abuse are censored from mainstream news and on the Internet.
The Bush administration torturers can just relax. The higher-ups will be protected from prosecution for prisoner abuse no matter how many citizens cry foul!
Mary Neal
http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com
http://Care2.com/c2c/groups/AIMI
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Regarding "independent news," did you really BELIEVE? Take it from me, NowPublic.com, IndyMedia, and Care2 News Network are the closest you will ever come to free press, but not without "glitches." I have been censored so long and tenaciously that I could probably teach a college course: Censorship 101 - with slide shows and videos. I will travel to more "independent news" sites throughout the week for fun and enlightenment from my URL and others (just to ensure no one can say my computer is at fault). Stay tuned!
Human rights groups and organizations, please keep your printing presses. Never leave dissemination of your important data up to the Internet. It will not work in your favor, promise.
at 16:17 on May 8th, 2009
Higher-ups, I thought I would publish the FOI Request regarding the secret arrest and wrongful death of Larry Neal in Shelby County Jail in 2003. The FOI Request was sent to the USDOJ yesterday and the Atlanta FBI. It was copied to quite a few others. Thank God for U.S. Mail! If we actually had to count on the Internet to send that FOI Request, that would be a mess! Your copy should be coming up on NP soon.
The last time we requested information from the USDOJ, Senator Chambliss had to intervene on my family's behalf and influence that esteemed body to respond 18 months after having received the request. See the USDOJ response at this link:
http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com/docs/Ex14_USJDReport8-15-07.pdf
Despite the fact that the Shelby County Jail was sued by the USA for violating inmates' civil rights and the jail was MANDATED under the terms of the jail's Agreement with the USA to make reports that covered every month and especially to report any inmate injuries and deaths, the USDOJ reported in 2005 that it had received no reports on Larry's death. Shelby County Government Attorney wrote me that the reports had been made. SOMEBODY IS LYING. They are all higher-ups, so the easiest thing to do in 2007 (instead of releasing reports wherein Shelby County officials left Larry's death out, which would be fraud) was to disclaim that the USDOJ received any reports from Shelby County whatsoever for July and August 2003. So that was the USDOJ's story in 2007. Let's see if they come up with a reason why the USDOJ allowed Shelby Co. Jail to skip months reporting. Hmmm.
I tell you what! If they come up with a reports now after nearly six years of dipping and dodging, they can just forget it. These higher-ups have tried our patience enough with their schemes. They should just admit their wrong. The Cochran Firm was supposed to take care of deflecting the Neal's lawsuit against the jail - which the law firm did do. But those lawyers did not count on substituting themselves for our defendants, apparently. A big mess.
The higher-ups' answer after our suit against The Cochran Firm was filed was apparently to harass and intimidate and actually plan harm against Larry's survivors! See Cochran Firm Fraud on YouTube. Only in America.
That is why my family is not allowed to get our fraud case against The Cochran Firm before a jury to sue the law firm for its fraud against us as Larry's wrongful death attorneys. Too many higher-ups are involved in the conspiracy to keep Larry's murder quiet and prevent investigation, you see. More higher-ups join the crowd all the time. The list is now nearly six years long. If YOU are a higher-up, your phone might ring about this any second now. Jump right in - the water is warm, and getting hotter all the time. It is like the War on Terror prison torture records. Too many higher-ups were involved for all of those records to ever be published in full, and people should not expect indictments and trials regarding that mess.
Question: Are you a higher-up? Your cell phone is ringing.
P.S. - Some of you lawyers that NY Lawyer writes about who are getting laid off really ought to give us a call. Boy! Have we got a list for you. Full evidence and documentation, of course. I am a legal secretary of 17 years. Keeping legal records is the name of my game. The higher-ups may not let you win, but you might get famous like Johnnie Cochran, then you can take it from there. (On second thought, no need to try to call. Our phone is on lockdown. Just write. Frankly, it may be best to drop by - who knows? These folks are serious and connected so tight that I call them the New World Order gang. I just may be right about that, so bring body armor.)
I ALMOST FORGOT TO TELL YOU GUYS THE MAIN POINT - There were federal hearings in Memphis in 2006 to release Shelby County Jail from overview since they had been such good girls and boys during federal overview. AGAIN Larry's death was covered-up, although the USDOJ knew all about his secret death in custody from our correspondence in 2005. That means to me that the USDOJ permitted Shelby Co. to enter fraudulent testimony and records in federal proceedings. Otherwise, the USDOJ could not write to me in 2007 and again say Larry's death was not in their records after "thorough search." Can you get over it? We have awesome higher-ups in the U.S.A., especially in the "justice" system. They don't mind doing wrong, but exposure bothers them; thus, the censorship and stalking! Don't forget the stalking. It still makes me tremble to think about September 27 when I was waylaid at the Chevron station by four cars of men and a US DOT truck - and with my little grandson in tow! No 911 response for Mary Neal. These are some meanies. I think the country is/was run by sociopaths. Really.
And please don't forget Duanna Johnson, who also planned to sue Shelby County Jail, in case you choose to think I exaggerate about how mean folks are. Just three months before her attorneys either had to pi**s or get off the pot, as my grandma used to say, and file her lawsuit for her beating that happened in the jail in February, Duanna Johnson was executed. This was a few weeks after my Chevron experience. Ex-Cochran Firm managing partner, Julian Bolton, former Shelby County commissioner (prior chairman and treasurer), just HAPPENED to work in the law firm poor Duanna counted on to file her lawsuit, which was also never filed.
So you see, higher-ups, I really don't mind your keeping my articles from wider readership. I have an awesome manuscript for publication and do not want folks to read too much before the release of the book anyway. We only publish enough steak to hopefully keep the dogs tame. There is LOTS more.
Mainstream media, I hear your silence. America does, too. All who do not now soon will.
Y'ALL OUGHT TO STOP TORTURING AND KILLING PRISONERS, ESPECIALLY MENTAL PATIENTS. GOD DOES NOT LIKE UGLY.
You know what they say about families with mentally ill people. Where there is one, there may be others. I suppose I must be a little compulsive. Sometimes I spend all day writing about your hypocrisy - TREATING INMATES LIKE DOGS! Worse than dogs actually, because Michael Vick is in prison and YOU are not. You have little kids like I was all over America putting their little hands over their hearts and saying the Pledge of Allegiance - declaring the USA as being a land of "liberty and justice for ALL," even Larry's nieces and nephews. Unlike many African Americans, I thought equal justice was at least a goal. It's not even that! Some of my nephews are right now in Afganistan and Iraq. Amazing hypocrisy, in my opinion. Mess with me, and you will meet some more of our "compulsive" relatives and friends and group members. Pharaohs!
at 17:25 on May 8th, 2009
When the Pharaohs arrested Michael Vick and had him on trial, I wrote to the NFL. I told them they should let the man play ball and everyone should just leave Michael alone after his punishment. These hypocrits don't really care about those pit bulls. It's all a show and an opportunity to ROB Michael Vick. Any justice system that participates in wrongful death cover-ups of American citizens certainly is SICK to spend so much money and investigative effort on dogs. That is why dogs are our symbol. The higher-ups have much more respect for canine beasts than for human beings in custody. That may be because many of them are related to the canine family.
Werewolves are half human dog beasts that await the opportunity to destroy human beings for their own survival and prosperity, such as PRISON PROFITEERS.
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I'm going to ask Michael Vick to give a book review. The book will be all about hypocrisy, so Vick ought to have a thing or two to say about that. Michael killed dogs, and Sara kills bears. He went to prison, and she's a governor who ran for vice president. ET, phone home! Who did you kill lately? Inmates, probably.
I can hear some of you think: "But she had a license to kill." Her and the police. Y'all are something - a piece of work, as they say.
My page is about the hypocrisy in our justice system, also. That is why the cyberstalkers keep my Care2 page on lockdown sometimes. Many people tell me the link will not open for them: http://www.care2.com/c2c/people/profile.html?pid=513396753. So much for "equal justice" and "free press." What's next? Oh, I forgot - the prison trains and concentration camps. Oh, well.
In case y'all did not know it, God does not like hypocrisy any better than I do, so just climb down off your high horse criticizing the Obama administration about not doing more to celebrate the National Day of Prayer. GOD IS NOT IMPRESSED.
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! ~ Matthew 23:13
And I will soon tell you what kind of DOJ we have now. Like God, I can be no respecter of persons. Unlike those Penn. guards who are torturing black inmates according to reports, I am not prejudice. I will tell you all about Holder's DOJ very soon, because doing right is a "goose and gander" thang.