The Noble Lie

The process of turning a man back into an animal is simpler than you think. Just treat him like one.

Prisoners know well the destructive effects of "becoming institutionalized." Prisons are workshops of dehumanization, and very few have any hope of coming out of the system "rehabilitated" because their lives have become living in cages, being told when to eat, sleep and piss, fending off attacks from other caged people (much as animals crowded into small spaces turn aggressive on each other), subjected to torture and abuse by their "owners" whom they learn to obey. Much like a soldier who spent the last few years shooting and being shot at, it's hard for somebody to walk out of that system and become a functional human being in a "civil society."

Words dehumanize us, too. Our children are kids (baby goats), and man and woman are becoming male and female, also the way we describe animals. Even the term "husband" has become insulting to both men and women, because husbanding now refers to the science of livestock animals. Words are slippery like that. Have you also noticed that men are dogs and women are bitches, in the parlance of our times? The gender war has given lots of fuel to this fire.

Speaking of the gender war, and tying that back into the prison industry, states that use the Duluth model can make men criminals based on no evidence whatsoever, not even needing the word of the woman who was supposedly abused, even against her wishes. Is there a feminist naive enough to think this was done for the benefit of women?

We scoff at factory farms but we increasingly spend more and more of our tax money on human factory farms, to hold people who have for the most part committed (or didn't even commit) minor offenses like getting high. We would never dream of subjecting human beings to such conditions, but subjecting convicts and criminals to those kind of conditions, well, no big deal.

People really need to examine the emotional content of words. It is how they are manipulated. Everybody hates a criminal. But what is a criminal? A criminal is somebody who has been convicted of committing a crime. What is a crime? Well, it's whatever a small handful of men decide it will be. A small group of people have the power to turn everybody into non-human "criminals" with a few strokes of the pen. Before and after a law is passed, the "human" status of the person who acts contrary to the law is stripped away from them.

The definition of "terrorist" is being expanded to include anybody who criticizes the government in any way. Are you a terrorist? You might not even know you are one. You might need your children to report on you before you realize it.

If that's not bad enough, prisons are increasingly run by publicly traded corporations like the Corrections Corp of America, who lobby extensively to create new, even more draconian laws, in order to create more "customers."

Links

• Dillon Reed and the Aristocracy of (Prison) Stock Profits by Catherine Austin Fitts, which is also an interesting case study of how Rothschild's men moved in on one of the big American investment houses
  
• Corrections Corp of America's profits over last 5 years

Though Barack Obama and many of his supporters were quick to disown this passionate, fiery-tempered preacher, in many ways this man is more charismatic and more correct than the presidential candidate. I thought his statements were inspiring and was disappointed to see Obama disown them so quickly, especially since they are true.

Here are the books he mentioned; I haven't read them yet but they're on my list. I know the gist of the topics both cover.

• Emerging Viruses: AIDS and Ebola: Nature, Accident or Intentional? by Leonard Horowitz
• Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans by Harriet Washington

I would add one more to this list:

• Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison by Allen Hornblum