June 29, 2023

After submitting some requests I have legal access every week day for about 50 minutes. I cannot look up any of my own court appointments whatsoever. I have court on next Wednesday, after the holiday and cannot communicate with wherever I have court. Is it really legal access if I don't know who to address or the details in or of the issues to be discussed? Maybe this system was minimally adequate some time ago but when the pride is set on being an inconvenience and obstructionist, then it seems to me that reasonable accommodations are quickly dismissed or neglected for any convenient excuse. If authorities take away your ability to protect and defend your rights they have no compulsion to continue them. The first thing any people should obligate of its government is the requirement to protect the rights of citizens. I would suppose that is theoretically in place with an oath, but from what I have experienced oath takers only use oaths to give their lies greater influence. It doesn't appear to make people any more or less honest. Well, maybe it makes some people more inclined to lie because their lies then benefit them. 

I had read many old books that were freely available on the tablet service while in jail. One book, if I remember right, was about injustices perpetrated in the late 1800s or early 1900s. Many of the books available were printed in the early 1900s so the license was free for the books to be redistributed. In the book there was a story about a black man who was wrongfully accused of raping a woman. Many people from the town set out to find the man. Although the man was found and exonerated, a faction of the mob that had formed had taken to attacking any black man they could find. Most of the story I remember vaguely, and perhaps inaccurately, but the part that struck me was that the mob had beat an innocent man almost to death, and while he lay in the street, helpless to defend himself, a guy walks up to him and stands over the guy and shoots him dead. Then he turns to the crowd and says something like "I shot the n*****! I got him!" And this all gets reported in the newspaper. And the man who was actually accused, I think he was cleared of the allegation. When I read things now, certain things jump out at me and I will write down quotes and wisdoms I call "gems." Other themes and situations seem to habitate my mind now too. In whatever vagueness that story stuck with me, whenever people's very unjustifiable behavior is exhibited to their own malice or negligence, I often think "You got him." Whether its guards mistreating inmates or inmates mistreating inmates, or inmates mistreating guards. Whether its investigators doctoring reports or district attorneys office members framing trials? "You got him." When any person "weaponizes law enforcement" by making a false claim by which they eagerly and with obvious prejudice then take action against another person? "You got him."

Someone told me a long time ago that there was a study done that indicated 70% of all domestic violence reports were made by the abuser in some extended effort to control their current or previous partner. If the odds are that a person reporting domestic violence is doing it to manipulate authorities to satisfy their own controlling interest then do the authorities have any obligation to validate a claim before taking action? Otherwise they just become a (negligent) unknowing participant in harming or increasing the harm perpetrated on a victim. What happens when victims are forced to take domestic violence class when it was not them that perpetrated any violence? Well, I will probably just learn the appropriate terminology. Patterns of behavior? How about when a woman is attempting to "recruit" a man willing to harm her ex-relationship and when he does not accomplish the task to her satisfaction then finds a way to recruit the authorities? Wait! I am reporting a horrible crime, but now I need to leave because some reason I will completely contradict by my observable actions. Law enforcement responds: "Whatever you say must be the truth and whatever you do must be innocent." If something like that were to ever really happen then I hope a group of people with some objective sensibility would come together and help undo the mess that foolishness like that would cause. Okay, okay. I will stop... for now.