Hello and welcome to the blog. I'd this site to be different than others. Obviously the goal here to is to provide truth and change opinions. I want the people who believe in the myths and lies I feature here to have to face up to the truth. By this I mean that, one of the most common things that occur with Conspiracy Theorist's is, in the face of facts or proof that goes against their beliefs, they tend to reply with something completely unrelated to the proof that they have just been shown, be it other facts or unrelated documents. They just avoid the topic and move on to some other claim. So, any time someone has contradictory ideas or wants to debate something on this blog, it must be in direct response to what I have discussed. You're free to use other documents/facts/etc etc. to argue your case as long as it is directly pertaining to the at hand topic. Everyone is welcome to this blog and to debating the ideas, I encourage it, but this way I hope to change more minds by making people face the proof that this idea is flawed and in most cases...tin hat crazy.
There will be a wide range of theories and topics covered in this blog. Alex Jones's world of crazy will be a major theme, but anything is up for skepticism. So, now that this is over lets get to the point! Thank you for the visit!
J.S.
Friday, September 07, 2012
Saturday, October 02, 2010
H1N1 And The Great Coverup (Minus the coverup)
Now, I myself have mixed views on natural medicine and homeopathy. I was raised in an environment where vaccines = bad and dangerous, natural = the only way to go. That said, it's slightly odd for me to be defending a vaccine. At this point in my life I think that, for the most part, natural remedies are relatively safe and can be helpful, but by no means should they replace traditional medicine. This post isn't on any of that though. This is strictly referring to this article on NaturalNews.com. Natural News will be the subject of a future post. The site has taken a strong "anything traditional medicine is evil and corrupt, take vitamins and herbs and you'll be fine." stance. They have a extremist view on the matter and hardly ever have sources for their claims, any link leads to an article on the website itself. The article is very long so I'm only going to cover a few points.
Claim: There was never an independent, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study proving either the safety or effectiveness of the H1N1 swine flu vaccine.
Hm. I wasn't aware that's how we're doing things now. As with all drugs, vaccines must go through a long and arduous approval process before they get anywhere near the market. As stated here, Phase 1, are safety and immunogenicity studies performed in a small number of closely monitored subjects. Phase 2 studies are dose-ranging studies and may enroll hundreds of subjects. Finally, Phase 3 trials typically enroll thousands of individuals and provide the critical documentation of effectiveness and important additional safety data required for licensing. At any stage of the clinical or animal studies, if data raise significant concerns about either safety or effectiveness, FDA may request additional information or studies, or may halt ongoing clinical studies.
As far as the H1N1 vaccine itself, yes, it did receive at least 3 controlled studies. This information comes directly from the CSL Influenza A vaccine package insert itself. This is, for the most part, all you need to read to refute any of the Natural News claims. The first study, was a US randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled, multicenter study with a total of 1,357 healthy subjects ranging from ages 18 to 65 years old. The second, was a UK study with 275 healthy subjects age 65 and older. Study 3, also in the UK, involved 406 healthy subjects 18 to 60+ in age. This study compared the vaccine with a European-licensed trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine as an active control. This information on it's own should be enough to render this article false, but then they go on to rant about some vaccine god who they think people believe in to make the vaccines work...alright then. So lets go down the list of ingredients of the H1N1 vaccine and see just how dangerous it's claimed to be.
May as well get this out of the way first. Thiomersal - Used as a preservative. Thiomersal is only present in the multi-dose presentations, not the single dose. I really don't want to get into this but, the controversy over Thiomersal in vaccines was based off of people thinking that there was a link between it, and the rising cases of autism. You can read about the whole controversy and how the scientific opinion is based directly against this in the Wikipedia article on it.
The Influenza Virus - Obviously. This is how vaccines work, the virus is weakened so greatly that it's harmless, but your body recognizes it. Sends out anti bodies and ta da.
Sodium Chloride - SC is simply table salt...that's it. Your salt shaker must be plotting the downfall of America as I type.
Monosodium phosphate - Is a chemical compound of sodium and it's used as a laxative and can be used with other compounds as a pH buffer to balance the pH content for numerous applications, which is it's use here.
Claim: There was never an independent, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study proving either the safety or effectiveness of the H1N1 swine flu vaccine.
Hm. I wasn't aware that's how we're doing things now. As with all drugs, vaccines must go through a long and arduous approval process before they get anywhere near the market. As stated here, Phase 1, are safety and immunogenicity studies performed in a small number of closely monitored subjects. Phase 2 studies are dose-ranging studies and may enroll hundreds of subjects. Finally, Phase 3 trials typically enroll thousands of individuals and provide the critical documentation of effectiveness and important additional safety data required for licensing. At any stage of the clinical or animal studies, if data raise significant concerns about either safety or effectiveness, FDA may request additional information or studies, or may halt ongoing clinical studies.
As far as the H1N1 vaccine itself, yes, it did receive at least 3 controlled studies. This information comes directly from the CSL Influenza A vaccine package insert itself. This is, for the most part, all you need to read to refute any of the Natural News claims. The first study, was a US randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled, multicenter study with a total of 1,357 healthy subjects ranging from ages 18 to 65 years old. The second, was a UK study with 275 healthy subjects age 65 and older. Study 3, also in the UK, involved 406 healthy subjects 18 to 60+ in age. This study compared the vaccine with a European-licensed trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine as an active control. This information on it's own should be enough to render this article false, but then they go on to rant about some vaccine god who they think people believe in to make the vaccines work...alright then. So lets go down the list of ingredients of the H1N1 vaccine and see just how dangerous it's claimed to be.
May as well get this out of the way first. Thiomersal - Used as a preservative. Thiomersal is only present in the multi-dose presentations, not the single dose. I really don't want to get into this but, the controversy over Thiomersal in vaccines was based off of people thinking that there was a link between it, and the rising cases of autism. You can read about the whole controversy and how the scientific opinion is based directly against this in the Wikipedia article on it.
The Influenza Virus - Obviously. This is how vaccines work, the virus is weakened so greatly that it's harmless, but your body recognizes it. Sends out anti bodies and ta da.
Sodium Chloride - SC is simply table salt...that's it. Your salt shaker must be plotting the downfall of America as I type.
Monosodium phosphate - Is a chemical compound of sodium and it's used as a laxative and can be used with other compounds as a pH buffer to balance the pH content for numerous applications, which is it's use here.
Disodium Phosphate - is a sodium salt of phosphoric acid. It's used commercially as an anti-caking agent and can also be used as a laxative.
Potassium Chloride - Potassium is vital to the human body and it's functions, especially in the beating of your heart...you know..kinda important. Potassium chloride is usually how it's replenished.
Monobasic potassium phosphate - Is used as a food additive and is also used in pH buffering, which is it's use here, as well as many other chemical applications.
Calcium Chloride - Is a natural electrolyte in the body and can be used as a firming agent in foods as well as many other commercial applications.
So there you go, the ingredients speak for themselves. The other main thing I wanted to mention was, later on in the article the author says, quote "I have absolutely no doubt that healthy-dose vitamin D supplementation (4000 IUs a day) would prove to be significantly more effective than influenza vaccines at preventing flu infections" Far from being healthy, studies show it is of no effect and can even be dangerous to take doses that large. Vitamin mega-dosing is a popular idea in the natural medicine field, but it's one that can be dangerous and should be regarded with extreme caution.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
This Is War.
The Rothschild family is known world wide as one of the richest families...well.. ever. Public records have never been available but their fortune is estimated to be in the billions back in the 19th century and is said to be the largest fortune in modern history. Nathan Rothschild was born September 1777, the fourth child of Mayer Amschel, founder of the banking dynasty. In 1809 Nathan began to in deal in gold bullion and from 1811 on transferred money to pay the 1st Duke of Wellington's troops, who fought Napoleon in the Battle of Waterloo.
The Battle of Waterloo occurred on June 18th 1815. The battle ended with the defeat of Napoleon, which effectively ended his reign. He spent the last six years of his life in confinement by the British. Nathan Rothschild and his four brothers set up a network of shippers, agents and couriers to transport both gold and vital information across Europe.
The myth here is quite popular, you can find more on the myth itself it seems than on what actually happened. It's said that Rothchild's agents got the news of Napoleon's defeat before the newspapers. The London Gazette reported the defeat on June 22nd 1815.
This part of the story is true. Nathan did indeed receive the news before the media. Here's where fact dissolves into myth. Alex Jones is found of this one, it's featured in his conspiracy-fest film Endgame where he states it as fact. Supposedly once Nathan received the news he "took up his usual position beside the famous 'Rothschild Pillar.'" and with some secretive gestures his agents began to dump consuls onto the British stock market. The following paragraph is sourced here.
"Nathan continued to lean against 'his' pillar, emotionless, expressionless. He continued to sell, and sell and sell. Consuls kept on falling. Word began to sweep through the Stock Exchange: "Rothschild knows." "Rothschild knows." "Wellington has lost at Waterloo."
The selling turned into a panic as people rushed to unload their 'worthless' consuls or paper money for gold and silver in the hope of retaining at least part of their wealth. Consuls continued their nosedive towards oblivion. After several hours of feverish trading the consul lay in ruins. It was selling for about five cents on the dollar.
Nathan Rothschild, emotionless as ever, still leaned against his pillar. He continued to give subtle signals. But these signals were different. They were so bubtly different that only the highly trained Rothschild agents could detect the change. On the cue from their boss, dozens of Rothschild agents made their way to the order desks around the Exchange and bought every consul in sight for just a 'song'!
A short time later the 'official' news arrived in the British capital. England was now the master of the European scene.
Within seconds the consul skyrocketed to above its original value. As the significance of the British victory began to sink into the public consciousness, the value of consuls rose even higher.
Napoleon had 'met his Waterloo.' Nathan had bought control of the British economy. Overnight, his already vast fortune was multiplied twenty times over"
This is basically the course of events that people believe, but did it actually happen? What do you think? According to an actual expert, (something CT's aren't fond of) Niall Ferguson, no. Later research by the Rothschild family themselves and others traced the myth to an anti-Semitic French pamphlet in 1846. It got popular and spread from there. Now what really happened?
Since Nathan now had a large pile of money that no one needed, for a war that was now over, there were no more soldiers wages and no more subsides to Britain's war time allies. Now the price of gold, which had skyrocketed during the war, was going to fall. This was a disaster for Rothschild. The family had been banking on a protracted military campaign, so the losses of this turn of events far offset what had been made during the war. It has been shown that the size of the market in government bonds at the time would not have enabled a scenario producing a profit of anything near £1 million. Ferguson, in his 2008 book, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, goes on to show, starting on page 84, how Nathan's huge stock market risk with great purchases of British government bonds, was how he was able to turn around the loss into such a gigantic wealth.
There's really not much more to say about this one.
The Battle of Waterloo occurred on June 18th 1815. The battle ended with the defeat of Napoleon, which effectively ended his reign. He spent the last six years of his life in confinement by the British. Nathan Rothschild and his four brothers set up a network of shippers, agents and couriers to transport both gold and vital information across Europe.
The myth here is quite popular, you can find more on the myth itself it seems than on what actually happened. It's said that Rothchild's agents got the news of Napoleon's defeat before the newspapers. The London Gazette reported the defeat on June 22nd 1815.
This part of the story is true. Nathan did indeed receive the news before the media. Here's where fact dissolves into myth. Alex Jones is found of this one, it's featured in his conspiracy-fest film Endgame where he states it as fact. Supposedly once Nathan received the news he "took up his usual position beside the famous 'Rothschild Pillar.'" and with some secretive gestures his agents began to dump consuls onto the British stock market. The following paragraph is sourced here.
"Nathan continued to lean against 'his' pillar, emotionless, expressionless. He continued to sell, and sell and sell. Consuls kept on falling. Word began to sweep through the Stock Exchange: "Rothschild knows." "Rothschild knows." "Wellington has lost at Waterloo."
The selling turned into a panic as people rushed to unload their 'worthless' consuls or paper money for gold and silver in the hope of retaining at least part of their wealth. Consuls continued their nosedive towards oblivion. After several hours of feverish trading the consul lay in ruins. It was selling for about five cents on the dollar.
Nathan Rothschild, emotionless as ever, still leaned against his pillar. He continued to give subtle signals. But these signals were different. They were so bubtly different that only the highly trained Rothschild agents could detect the change. On the cue from their boss, dozens of Rothschild agents made their way to the order desks around the Exchange and bought every consul in sight for just a 'song'!
A short time later the 'official' news arrived in the British capital. England was now the master of the European scene.
Within seconds the consul skyrocketed to above its original value. As the significance of the British victory began to sink into the public consciousness, the value of consuls rose even higher.
Napoleon had 'met his Waterloo.' Nathan had bought control of the British economy. Overnight, his already vast fortune was multiplied twenty times over"
This is basically the course of events that people believe, but did it actually happen? What do you think? According to an actual expert, (something CT's aren't fond of) Niall Ferguson, no. Later research by the Rothschild family themselves and others traced the myth to an anti-Semitic French pamphlet in 1846. It got popular and spread from there. Now what really happened?
Since Nathan now had a large pile of money that no one needed, for a war that was now over, there were no more soldiers wages and no more subsides to Britain's war time allies. Now the price of gold, which had skyrocketed during the war, was going to fall. This was a disaster for Rothschild. The family had been banking on a protracted military campaign, so the losses of this turn of events far offset what had been made during the war. It has been shown that the size of the market in government bonds at the time would not have enabled a scenario producing a profit of anything near £1 million. Ferguson, in his 2008 book, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, goes on to show, starting on page 84, how Nathan's huge stock market risk with great purchases of British government bonds, was how he was able to turn around the loss into such a gigantic wealth.
There's really not much more to say about this one.
Global what now?
In an article on Infowars yesterday, Jurriaan Maessen points out that global cooling was a topic discussed at the latest Builderburg meeting.... back in June, way to be on the ball there. They then go on to say how incredibly odd this is, saying quote:
"It would appear the mention of “global cooling” is some sort of sick joke by the elite, who have succeeded in fooling a large portion of the world population in believing that human-produced carbon-dioxide is a poisonous substance, responsible for not only global warming on earth but also of that on Mars and the outer planets. You gotta love it.
....Well alright. Infowars is obviously having to scrape for big news here, this was in their "Featured Stories" list.
First off, Infowars says how global cooling was a "hot topic" at the meeting..yes, it was one of the topics, but they're acting like it was some main focus. They conveniently forget to point out the ten other topics that were discussed at the meeting, which is showed right in the screen shot. Also one would assume it wasn't super important considering its near the end of the list.
Infowars is correct in pointing out that global cooling was a big deal for awhile in the 70's. If they had done a little research (but who needs that when you have Jones heading everything right?), they would see that in the 70's the cooling trend,global world climate, and the cause of ice ages was not very well understood.
Paul Erlich said in the 1968 book The Population Bomb that "The greenhouse effect is being enhanced now by the greatly increased level of carbon dioxide.. this is being countered by low-level clouds generated by contrails, dust, and other contaminants... At the moment we cannot predict what the overall climatic results will be of our using the atmosphere as a garbage dump." Now days many scientists think that temperature drop in the 70's was cause by an abrupt cooling event in the North Atlantic. Finally, there's no way that I know of, of knowing if the topic was discussed in a 1970's Builderburg meeting. (If I'm mistaken here please let me know and I'll be sure to fix it.)
Most likely the reason global cooling was on the list of topics was because of claims made by Dr. Don Easterbrook in regards to global cooling. There are debate on these claims with others saying that because earth has been hotter in past years with the first four months of 2010 being hottest on record, global cooling isn't an issue. Either way, it's obvious that land/ocean temperatures along with global cooling/warming is a subject of concern for our planet. Could that be why it was on the list of topics?
As for some "sick joke by the elite"? Uh..good one? I fail to see how this would have any sort of sinister effect on..anything. I suppose they're saying it's to get people scared and "have them swallow all kinds of draconian measures in the name of the earth." which is apparently what happened with global warming...according to Infowars anyway.
Global warming is one of those huge conspiracy topics that no one will agree on, with Jones's crew obviously on the "THEY FAKED IT TO MAKE US MORE OBEDIENT TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER!!" side of things. Which is their stance on pretty much everything.
"It would appear the mention of “global cooling” is some sort of sick joke by the elite, who have succeeded in fooling a large portion of the world population in believing that human-produced carbon-dioxide is a poisonous substance, responsible for not only global warming on earth but also of that on Mars and the outer planets. You gotta love it.
....Well alright. Infowars is obviously having to scrape for big news here, this was in their "Featured Stories" list.
First off, Infowars says how global cooling was a "hot topic" at the meeting..yes, it was one of the topics, but they're acting like it was some main focus. They conveniently forget to point out the ten other topics that were discussed at the meeting, which is showed right in the screen shot. Also one would assume it wasn't super important considering its near the end of the list.
Infowars is correct in pointing out that global cooling was a big deal for awhile in the 70's. If they had done a little research (but who needs that when you have Jones heading everything right?), they would see that in the 70's the cooling trend,global world climate, and the cause of ice ages was not very well understood.
Paul Erlich said in the 1968 book The Population Bomb that "The greenhouse effect is being enhanced now by the greatly increased level of carbon dioxide.. this is being countered by low-level clouds generated by contrails, dust, and other contaminants... At the moment we cannot predict what the overall climatic results will be of our using the atmosphere as a garbage dump." Now days many scientists think that temperature drop in the 70's was cause by an abrupt cooling event in the North Atlantic. Finally, there's no way that I know of, of knowing if the topic was discussed in a 1970's Builderburg meeting. (If I'm mistaken here please let me know and I'll be sure to fix it.)
Most likely the reason global cooling was on the list of topics was because of claims made by Dr. Don Easterbrook in regards to global cooling. There are debate on these claims with others saying that because earth has been hotter in past years with the first four months of 2010 being hottest on record, global cooling isn't an issue. Either way, it's obvious that land/ocean temperatures along with global cooling/warming is a subject of concern for our planet. Could that be why it was on the list of topics?
As for some "sick joke by the elite"? Uh..good one? I fail to see how this would have any sort of sinister effect on..anything. I suppose they're saying it's to get people scared and "have them swallow all kinds of draconian measures in the name of the earth." which is apparently what happened with global warming...according to Infowars anyway.
Global warming is one of those huge conspiracy topics that no one will agree on, with Jones's crew obviously on the "THEY FAKED IT TO MAKE US MORE OBEDIENT TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER!!" side of things. Which is their stance on pretty much everything.
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Civilian Inmate Labor Program.
Civilian Labor? What? ITS A CONSPIRACY!! The title is about as far as people get into this document before declaring it's something evil. I don't think many of them have actually read it. If you do, I'm not sure how you can rationally see a conspiracy here..but then again CT's forgot the word rational long ago. Alex Jones and others claim that Army Regulation 210-35 do a few things, none of which really make any sense. I'll provide a link for the full document at the bottom of this post.
First Claim: The program allows the government to grab civilians off the street and throw them into force labor camps. False...incredibly false.
First thing you need to understand with this is that by "civilian" they don't mean regular people off the street, they mean the prisoners in the program as opposed to the soldiers on the army bases the program is involved with. This document has no involvement what so ever of persons not in prison. Here's what happens.
From the document itself, the emphasis is mine.
A lot of CT's jump on "off-post Federal corrections". I take this to mean where prisoners are residing, on the base or off.
All that's going on here is that certain prisoners who have been convicted of NON VIOLENT crimes, are selected for consideration, and if approved, are transported to Army bases that participate in the CILP. The bases lease out land to public or private prison and the PO's set up prison housing on the base. From there they basically become handymen. They are trained and perform tasks such as custodial tasks, building demolition, debris removal, mowing, landscaping, painting, carpentry, trash pickup, transporting debris to and from recycling centers, and other similar activities. Since it's illegal for the inmates to preform these tasks for free compensation is in the form of housing for them. Excerpt from the official document:
I dunno about you but, that sounds pretty good to me. It'd get me out of my cell, give me something to do, give me exercise, time outside and time away from the yard, which can be and is a very dangerous place. The soldiers on base have very little contact and no control over the inmates except in the case of a persons life being in danger. All of those things are delegated to prison officials.
Second Claim: The CILP violates the Posse Comitatus Act.
Again...so off the mark. It's actually the opposite.
Right in the program it states that Army personnel will have no direct involvement with the program (except in the case of a life in immediate danger, or detaining quote "They may detain and restrain walkaways,
escapees, and persons who commit a felony or breach of peace in their presence.").
Third claim: This is slave labor!!
That's an extreme view of this. If you wanna look at it that way, fine, but, it dosen't matter because of one thing.
But wait, the 13th amendment prohibits slave labor!! Yes, it does, except as punishment for a crime.
Some people claim this document shows how our government can do whatever they want, how they can toss you in jail weather you did anything wrong or not and then use programs like this to force you into labor. They then usually follow with some story of how they were convicted of crime they didn't commit or some other story, as seen in this thread about the program on prisonplanet. Ironically the thread is an Alex Jones follower saying the same things I am, showing that at least some Jones fans have a bit of brains.
The thing is, this has nothing to do with it. The fairness of our legal system is an entirely separate issue. If you're in jail, it's not because of the Civilian Inmate Labor Program.
Now, obviously I can't go over every word of the document or every claim about this, but I think I've made a good case against any kind of conspiracy going on here. Of course there are people who still have things to say about it, and to those people, I welcome your comments as long as your argument is directly related to this and not how it's just another thing for The Man to gain control over us.
J.S
First Claim: The program allows the government to grab civilians off the street and throw them into force labor camps. False...incredibly false.
First thing you need to understand with this is that by "civilian" they don't mean regular people off the street, they mean the prisoners in the program as opposed to the soldiers on the army bases the program is involved with. This document has no involvement what so ever of persons not in prison. Here's what happens.
From the document itself, the emphasis is mine.
1–1. Purpose
This regulation provides Army policy and guidance for establishing civilian inmate labor programs and civilian prison
camps on Army installations. Sources of civilian inmate labor are limited to on– and off–post Federal corrections
facilities, State and/or local corrections facilities operating from on–post prison camps pursuant to leases under Section
2667, Title 10, United States Code (10 USC 2667), and off–post State corrections facilities participating in the
demonstration project authorized under Section 1065, Public Law (PL) 103–337. Otherwise, State and/or local inmate
labor from off–post corrections facilities is currently excluded from this program.
A lot of CT's jump on "off-post Federal corrections". I take this to mean where prisoners are residing, on the base or off.
All that's going on here is that certain prisoners who have been convicted of NON VIOLENT crimes, are selected for consideration, and if approved, are transported to Army bases that participate in the CILP. The bases lease out land to public or private prison and the PO's set up prison housing on the base. From there they basically become handymen. They are trained and perform tasks such as custodial tasks, building demolition, debris removal, mowing, landscaping, painting, carpentry, trash pickup, transporting debris to and from recycling centers, and other similar activities. Since it's illegal for the inmates to preform these tasks for free compensation is in the form of housing for them. Excerpt from the official document:
a. Civilian inmate labor programs benefit both the Army and corrections systems by—
(1) Providing a source of labor at no direct labor cost to Army installations to accomplish tasks that would not be
possible otherwise due to the manning and funding constraints under which the Army operates.
(2) Providing meaningful work for inmates and, in some cases, additional space to alleviate overcrowding in nearby
corrections facilities.
(3) Making cost–effective use of buildings and land not otherwise being used.
I dunno about you but, that sounds pretty good to me. It'd get me out of my cell, give me something to do, give me exercise, time outside and time away from the yard, which can be and is a very dangerous place. The soldiers on base have very little contact and no control over the inmates except in the case of a persons life being in danger. All of those things are delegated to prison officials.
Second Claim: The CILP violates the Posse Comitatus Act.
Again...so off the mark. It's actually the opposite.
with the intention (in concert with the Insurrection Act of 1807) of substantially limiting the powers of the federal government to use the military for law enforcement. The Act prohibits most members of the federal uniformed services (today the Army, Navy, Air Force, and State National Guard forces when such are called into federal service) from exercising nominally state law enforcement, police, or peace officer powers that maintain "law and order" on non-federal property (states and their counties and municipal divisions) within the United States.
Right in the program it states that Army personnel will have no direct involvement with the program (except in the case of a life in immediate danger, or detaining quote "They may detain and restrain walkaways,
escapees, and persons who commit a felony or breach of peace in their presence.").
Third claim: This is slave labor!!
That's an extreme view of this. If you wanna look at it that way, fine, but, it dosen't matter because of one thing.
But wait, the 13th amendment prohibits slave labor!! Yes, it does, except as punishment for a crime.
13th AmendmentEmphasis mine. Anyone housed in a federal facility serving a term has been duly convicted of a crime, weather or not they truly are guilty or not. This brings me to my final point.
Amendment XIII
Section 1.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Some people claim this document shows how our government can do whatever they want, how they can toss you in jail weather you did anything wrong or not and then use programs like this to force you into labor. They then usually follow with some story of how they were convicted of crime they didn't commit or some other story, as seen in this thread about the program on prisonplanet. Ironically the thread is an Alex Jones follower saying the same things I am, showing that at least some Jones fans have a bit of brains.
The thing is, this has nothing to do with it. The fairness of our legal system is an entirely separate issue. If you're in jail, it's not because of the Civilian Inmate Labor Program.
Now, obviously I can't go over every word of the document or every claim about this, but I think I've made a good case against any kind of conspiracy going on here. Of course there are people who still have things to say about it, and to those people, I welcome your comments as long as your argument is directly related to this and not how it's just another thing for The Man to gain control over us.
J.S
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