Subject: More Prison Info From: *sdjjfff

A popular misconception floated by the liberal media is that once convicted of CP you will be incarcerated in some sort of "special unit" where you will be protected from threats and violence. This is, of course, untrue. You also won't be going to some sort of minimum security country club prison.

Once convicted you will be dumped into a maximum security prison like every other convicted felon. You will be housed with the "regular" inmate population. There won't be any special provisions for your safety. The only obligation they have is to provide you with clothing, food and a cell to sleep in.

You will have plenty of time alone with inmates who hate you. All it takes is about 15-30 seconds for another inmate to kill you by stabbing (its amazing how many objects can be sharpened if you work at it a little) or strangling. Another way it may happen is that a small piece of plastic can be sharpened to cut your throat on a chow line, shower,etc.

At the very least you will live your life like a hunted animal with its back to the wall every waking minute. You won't even sleep for fear of what your cellmates will do. If they don't kill you outright you will at the very least become a human punching bag for everyone on a daily basis.

A good example is the priest in Massachusetts who was convicted and incarcerated for child molestation. He was killed the 2nd week in prison. Another inmate wedged the door open at lock-up, walked in, and strangled him with a sock. This was a very high profile case and nobody gave a damn.

I know none of yall watch the O'Reilly factor on Fox News

Yes TL is running extremely slow for me too. Especially for commenting, the last one took over five minutes to load.

Americans clung to the Nixon presidency, never willing to say that this man had done anything wrong, down to -- it gets to about 23% to this day thinks he did no wrong. He said, "John, that's a very typical pattern in the demographics in the United States of the hardcore authoritarian followers, that their leaders can do -- or their authority figures can do no wrong. They won't question them. They will hang with them forever. They're like lemmings.

al Reuters provided the world 100s of faked photos

' Despite vehement official assertions to the contrary, indications are increasing every day that the Bush Administration has already decided that conventional diplomacy will fail as a way to manage its confrontation with Iran, and that military action against the Teheran regime has therefore already reached the point of final countdown.

This bombastic and posturing style of "diplomacy" is going to lead inescapably to one or the other of the following results: 1. War with Iran (with negative consequences beyond anyone's ability to imagine); or 2. Another humiliating demonstration of impotence. '

Strictly from a humanitarian point of view, it's both grotesque and repulsive to have to listen to Ehud Olmert, Sheikh Nasrallah and the Boy King all proclaiming victory in their nasty little war -- even as the bodies are still literally being pulled out of the rubble. It brings to mind Victor Hugo's description of Napoleon as a rooster crowing on top of dung heap, until God grew bored with him. (Except in this case it's pretty clear who the smallest cock is.) This is the kind of simian hooting and chest beating that makes me wish I'd been born into a more respectable species -- like the hyenas or the slime eels or the dung beetles. Still, since it was a political war (much to the genocidal dismay of Right Blogistan) it's inevitable everybody involved would end up spinning like dervishes to make the senseless slaughter of human beings look like "victory." But the fact that Shrub felt compelled to turn himself into one of the spinners -- like one of the candidate touts who work the political press after the New Hampshire primary -- is fairly conclusive evidence of who really won and who lost.

Despite vehement official assertions to the contrary, indications are increasing every day that the Bush Administration has already decided that conventional diplomacy will fail

The George W Bush administration failed to enter into negotiations with Iran on its nuclear program in May 2003 because neo-conservatives who advocated destabilization and regime change were able to block any serious diplomatic engagement with Tehran, according to former administration officials.

"The secret cabal got what it wanted: no negotiations with Tehran," Wilkerson wrote in an e-mail to Inter Press Service (IPS). The Iranian negotiating offer, transmitted to the State Department in early May 2003 by the Swiss ambassador in Tehran, acknowledged that Iran would have to address US concerns about its nuclear program, although it made no specific concession in advance of the talks, according to Flynt Leverett, then the National Security Council's senior director for Middle East Affairs.

I hope this guy is right, because diplomacy isn't going to work...