A Public Missive
January 2009
Greetings from the pen of Moshe I. Stein. Now, as everybody well knows, it is supposedly a very expensive exercise to imprison people in any form of durance vile. The government of California (and numerous other entities), will tell you that it costs a veritable fortune! Further, they will also tell you that they are lily-white and pure. . .unblemished as the driven snow. Unfortunately for that particular fable, there are those of us who have to have been exposed to a severe winter blizzard. . .and isn’t a winter blizzard nothing but gentle driven snow??? To prove their total honesty (or abject lack thereof), the CDCR (that stands for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation— —NOT the Criminal Department of Corruption and Rapine as some harsh souls would have us believe!), has recently promulgated a “NOTICE OF CHANGE TO REGULATIONS. Number 9/02, Publication Date: January 16, 2009. Effective Date: To be announced. This informative missive expounds the latest machinations of the CDCR. In brief, it describes how the CDCR is planning to grant a Halel Diet to the Muslim Inmate Population of California Prisons. Of course, this move has absolutely no basis in humanity, decency, ethics of the like, but, as a brief perusal of ‘Change to Regulations’ Number 09/02 will show, it is precipitated by impending litigation. A further examination of the notice will show that (according to CDCR there will be no change of expenditure, and no effect at all on anything caused by the implementation of the Halal diet. If one were to review the history of the CDCR one will find that when CDCR implemented the Jewish Kosher diet, they also stated that there would be no changes or additional costs/charges or any effect of ‘Fiscal Impact.’ As a practicing Jew (Orthodox) your correspondent has participated in the Jewish Kosher Diet since it’s implementation. Around the middle of last year (June 2008), I was informed that the Jewish Kosher Diet was too expensive [By a Lieutenant whose name I forget], as it was costing the CDCR $12.50 per day/per inmate, and that moves were afoot then to end the diet plan. However, I digress. Let us return to those figures shall we? If the standard inmate diet costs CDCR $3.25 per inmate per day, and the implementation of the Halal diet will not change the costing structure in any way, there is at the very least a major mathematical error in the bookkeeping of the CDCR (or maybe some Corruption and Reprehensibility?). Since there will be no change to the amount removed from the accounts of the State of California coffers, then quite obviously the CDCR is taking at the least $12.50 per man per day from State Coffers. With the meals costing a mere $3.25 per inmate per day. . .which works out to $1,618,750.00 per day for the one hundred and seventy-five thousand inmates of the CDCR institutions (including the youth prisons, etc.). That sum extrapolates to the grand total of SIX HUNDRED AND TEN MILLION, EIGHT HUNDRED AND THIRTY-THREE THOUSAND, SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS PER YEAR!!! Now, if that amount of money has gone astray for a number of years, and there must be other grievous cases of fraud and misappropriations, to say nothing of mismanagement and misprision. Surely, the budget of the CDCR is one of the major slush funds (Err should we say “Costs” to placate the bureaucratic ostriches?) In the State budget, but if a mere prisoner can discover the absence of over half a Billion dollars from the coffers, then one must assume that a thorough audit would discover numerous other discrepancies. Additionally, there should be some totally neutral entity used to conduct such an audit. However, as long as corrupt persons manage the purse strings there will never be an accounting. Your author/correspondent from the belly of the corrupted beast shall
continue to delve and seek here.
An addition: In a recent (Friday, January 16, 2009), issue of The Sacramento Bee, on page A14, there was an article concerning the damaging effect of the State of California Prisons, are having on the budget of California, and the part being played (or should one say Orchestrated??), by the CCPOA (or California Correctional Peace Officers’ Association). As pointed out earlier, the author has discovered an amazing discrepancy in the apparent figures and costs of that CCPOA, and passively ignored by the California Legislature. The legislature of California will have the public believe that there is some kind of great crime wave occurring, necessitating the imprisonment of more and more people in the prison system of the state. So much so that the simple question of guilt/innocense has been discarded to expedite the quick incarceration of any that can be entrapped. Your author’s case being an example, (in my case I was denied a constitutionally correct trial by being denied the RIGHT to self-representation, and the right to a jury, and the right to a speedy trial. The case of the author aside, the alleged justice department of the State of California, is bound and determined to avoid legitimate trials at almost any cost. The result is that only approximately 3% of all the cases supposedly heard in the State Courts have any pretense of a trial. The other (more than) NINETY-SEVEN PERCENT are determined by a “DEAL” system, wherein the accused is coerced into either abandoning his or her rights to a fair and correct trial, or the courts simply deny the accused justice. I could go on ad nauseam on that subject, but the facts speak for themselves. The (supposed) Justice system in California is geared more to making, and/or hiding and laundering moneys rather than any pursuit of JUSTICE. There are more than ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-THREE persons incarcerated in the State of California, which is more than half the total incarcerated population of the Peoples Republic of China, (which has approximately fifty times as many people as California). Now, repeated governments in the United States have disclaimed the regime of The Peoples Republic as barbaric and uncivilized! What does that make the Government of California? Doubly or triply barbaric and uncivilized?? As stated earlier, the CDCR (and the CCPOA), stated in their rule change notifications, that the costs of food for inmates would not differ with the introduction of first the Kosher Diet, and now the Halel Diet. They stated that there would be no change, even though the heart-healthy Kosher diet costs something like $12.50 per day per inmate, and the unhealthy carbohydrate rich diet regular diet, costs in the vicinity of $3.25 per inmate, per day. The author has been informed that there is a budgetary allowance of approximately $14.00 per inmate, per day for food. If any of these figures are even the slightest bit accurate (and not a pack of lies, mis-truths, and outright MALE BOVINE EXCREMENT, then there is most definitely something rather radically wrong. The author is forced to rely on statements made by members of the CCPOA, and those members are not the brightest sometimes. After all, didn’t Mr. Samuel Longhorn Clemens say that, “If you want to see the dregs of society, and the trash of humanity, then you should go to your local prison or jail at shift change time to see them coming and going!” Certainly there are many good and honest officers amongst them, but the senior policy makers must be either grossly and abysmally stupid, or egregiously evil to allow as much mismanagement as is evident. The author believes that it is to hide this mismanagement, that the CCPOA is fighting as hard as it is to avoid a Federal takeover. If there is ever to be any accountability, there must be a major and thorough inquiry into the management and finances of the California Government (with emphasis on the CDCR), and the very legitimacy and legality of the entire Justice System of the State. Please try to promulgate this as much as possible. After all, once the cat is out of the bag, it is terribly difficult and quite painful to put it back, and once the mud is thrown they will look rather bad if anything at all happens to yours truly.
Meanwhile, with truly Machiavellian timing the 'heavies' of the (alleged) government of California, have started attempting to frighten nice little (slightly) older lady's into paying money that they (The California Storm-Troopers of Fuhrer Arnold the first], are not entitled to collect . . . Grrrrrrr. . .and like expletives!!! As the reader will---well know by now, the coffers of California are empty. . .And things are looking rather grim for the dread Austrian and his henchmen. . .It IS rather telling what happens when any organization runs out of money, isn't it???? In the case of the (alleged) Government of California, they have mobilized their collectors and stand-over merchants and sent them out hunting for funds (and terrorizing little old ladies). . . In one quite egregious case that has come to the attention of your author the collective have attempted to intimidate a lady of advanced years (she is almost SEVENTY YEARS OLD!) The background of her case is rather sad--her brother became ill, and ended up under surgery to have a hip replaced. . .(which procedure went well and with no adverse complications. He was transferred to a convalescent establishment, where it was noted that he had an ingrown toenail. They wheeled him into surgery, and removed the offending toenail. Unfortunately, due to inadequate supervision by State of California health and safety overseers, THAT convalescent unit was a breeding place for "Golden Staphylococcus" and other like nastiness! The older gentleman subsequently died as a result of a "Staph" infection (or, to use the clinical terminology. . .complications), that there was any form of Staphylococcus' lurking anywhere in a supposedly governmentally inspected health facility, tells of not only poor and inadequate cleaning and cleanliness, but also of an abysmal lack of oversight by both County and State HEALTH INSPECTORS! Any and all (alleged) hospitals and medical facilities are supposedly licensed and regularly inspected by governmental health inspectors (who get paid quite handsomely for the task). They are supposedly legally required to maintain a safe and healthy environment within what are supposedly healing facilities! If a person happens to be looking over his or her shoulder, whilst driving an automobile and the vehicle kills a small child that happened into its path, the driver in charge of the vehicle will be charged with, at the very lest "VEHICULAR MANSLAUGHTER," or, if the local DA is in a bad frame of mind, with First or Second degree murder. Why then, if the health inspector is negligent and someone is killed does that inspector not get charged with at the very least, negligent homicide? And the staff responsible for maintaining the facility in a clean and germ-free state not also charged?? Isn't a killing a killing? Perhaps when the victim is over Seventy years of age, the inspector is an employee of the State, then it is not a killing, but perhaps a "complication:? What if it had been the Fuhrer's wife who happened to die?? Or the children of the Attorney General?? Of course, the old and the infirm must be considered to be lesser things than human. . .and didn't that other Australian instigate a system of Governmental EUTHANSIA to rid Nazi Germany of the frail, the deformed, the old, the sick, and the useless?? Come to think of it wasn't the father of the Austrian Fuhrer of California an officer in the Waffen SS? But enough with the ponderings? The surviving sister of the older gentleman was severely traumatized by having to listen to her older brother and mentor, scream in agony as nursing staff blithely disregarded his torment, putting it down to a COMPLAINING OLD MAN!!!! It goes without saying that the lady suffered traumatic stress, and now suffers from POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER. To exacerbate her suffering the State Government of the Austrian attempted to extort payment from her for the killing of her brother. Despite the fact that the statute of limitations on recovering moneys for the atrocious medical care meted to the gentleman has expired, the State of California (Money-grabbing division), has tormented the lady (HER NAME IS KNOWN TO OUR WEB-MISTRESS, BUT WITHHELD TO PROTECT HER FROM THE POSSIBLE RETALIATION OF THE STATE STORM TROOPERS) for four years now. The latest attack occurred per her telephone on JANUARY 28, 2009. If the Storm Troopers of our Fuhrer have to resort to extortion from little old ladies, to replenish the state coffers after the depredations of the Austrian Fuhrer, (used to fund junkets to China where the wife of the Fuhrer posed with unhappy and sad Chinese orphan in publicity shots, (which would have caused the child extreme disquiet at the least), and shopping trips to Paris France,) then there is little hope for California. The meager moneys that might be extorted from various little old lady's!
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