The Cons Who Scammed The Cons

Fed time is known for being relatively laid back and low key. Club Fed isn't always that way however especially while waiting in the various holding dens before the actual sentence. Many of the county jails are filled up with federal inmates that are just waiting for their day of reckoning. This means when the judge slams down his/her gavel to tell the inmate what their fate is. Many times the lawyers have a pretty good idea of what their client is going to end up with but it is mostly up to the judge. That is why its important to pray for a judge who isn't having a bad day. The DA's are definitely part of the process as well, usually their aren't too many surprises. A few cons from Texas decided to con some federal inmates families out of some cash. They set up a faux firm under the phony guise of being real and made it appear that they were able to get some inmates out with a "rule 35 sentence reduction." The only problem is that this is usually a motion that one could file on their own and it doesn't cost any money unless one pays a lawyer but in many cases inmates only have a public pretender. I am surprised that they were able to pull off this con because inmates have a lot of jailbird lawyers around them at all times and are usually wise to the ways of the world. All together they stole 4.4 million dollars from 22 victims. It was set up like an extortion ring, Mail and Wire fraud charges were filed. One con received 19 years and the other con received 8 years for the scam. I was grateful for the advise that I received from my jailbird lawyer friends. The advise was sincere,  I am a drug addict but I am not naïve to how people act when their motives appear to be genuine. That is why many of the people that are locked up aren't hard core criminals and predators and many have a chance of being rehabilitated. They need to be in a program on the inside, either AA, something vocational or Smart recovery otherwise their chances are much less then average. The system sets people up for failure on the inside and also when they get out, it appears that society doesn't want them to succeed. Jobs need to be lined up for these people and they need to waive felon record laws for people that have demonstrated their ability to change while they were incarcerated. The system is making a fortune because people cant find a decent job as a convicted felon so this becomes an exercise in futility, so many  have no choice but to go back to their old ways. Cold Calling in boiler rooms is not my idea of decent jobs. That's almost on the same level as these cons from Texas who conned the inmates families out of cash. 

State Of War

State Of War- James Risen- It was an ok book, I want to read something that cuts to the truth more like American War Machine, I will do this soon. (The Secret History Of The CIA And The Bush Administration) State Of War was a decent book  but Risen made it sound like there was a chance that we took over Afghanistan for reasons that didn't 100% have to do with Opium proceeds. Its a Narco state, it had nothing to do with protecting America from the Bin Ladens of this world. Infact Bin Laden was on the cias payroll, there is a lot of dope coming in and that is why we went in. I am convinced that many of these authors have cover from the cia and that they get the green light to write books that are critical but not overly so. In other words this book talked about the non existent WMD's, Curve Ball, domestic spying programs, non legit intel and Slam Dunk but it doesn't cut all the way to the chase the way that Michael Levine does. Their is a lot of money being made with this opiate crisis so the higher ups had many valid reasons to invade Afghanistan. So basically they claimed incompetence in Iraq and used that as a valid excuse to state why Afghanistan was never kept under control and that is why they need to continue to have the longest war in history. Does anybody really believe that we invaded Iraq and Afghanistan to make America safe from bad guys or that we had  to give these countries a dose of our freedom and democracy? We got a dose all right of some pure high grade heroin and its killing a lot of our people so these criminals have blood on their hands. Someday in the not too distant future these people are going to be held accountable for their actions and this list includes all of the top military officers who green light what is going on with their huge kickbacks. In the interim we need more realistic books, ones that don't have cia cover that make these people look like just incompetent liars not the hard core predators and capitalists because that is who they really and truly are. They knew exactly what they were doing, the plan all along was chaos and destabilization, so when reading this book I was somewhat amused by how they made it sound like the higher ups wanted to stabilize certain regions and were very perplexed by how things seemingly got out of control. When you start out with lies then it becomes  just a snowball effect, it will never end up well. So in our world of chaos and destabilization if you fabricate intel and guarantee that wmds will be found with Slam Dunk but then fall very short of this then what happens? You end up getting a Presidential Medal Of Freedom- Only In America

Deep Cover Program Op Gone Bad

The Big Book has a story about an American Indian woman who got sober, she worked as a prostitute undercover for a while. Her bf didn't know about her other life. Indian people are very spiritual, I did a sweat lodge in rehab, it was somewhat transformative. This made me think about Ken B's story, he was a corporate attorney in the Silicon Valley section of town. Life wasn't that great for him, his dreams of becoming a real trial criminal attorney seemed to vanish along with his stacks of billable hours over the years. He was a binge alcoholic during his frat boy days as well as during Law School. The stress and anxiety of having 2.2 kids and high leverage, being mortgaged to the hilt along with the private schools for junior stretched his family out quite thin. Xanax seemed to take the edge off as well as shots of vodka on what turned out to be a daily basis. His wife did an intervention because she was sick of his shit as well and this included receipts from the various strip clubs in town. In rehab they made it clear to him how important getting a sponsor or spiritual advisor was after his 28 days. He didn't want to let the firm know of his problems, as far as they knew he was on an extended vacation on the bedside of his sick aunt. In his world it was very important to keep up appearances and what other people thought of him was always a big deal. That is why he chose a group outside of his home town, he wanted to keep everything discreet, low profile and way under the radar. Ken developed an instant affinity toward a man named Barrett, he was confident, affable and seemed to be more then willing to help. He asked him to be his sponsor and was intrigued by his insight as well as his many admirers. Barrett had a fb following dedicated to recovery and explained to Ken how his advise varies depending on who his client or sponsee is. In other words sometimes he recommends marijuana maintenance and other times he found it  plausible to become a spiritual mentor to the vulnerable female newcomers and sex always seemed to be part of the equation. They had a bond that developed into a deep friendship, Barrett was over his house all of the time and the sky seemed to be the limit for Ken and his new found freedom and sobriety. Things seemed to pick up at the firm as well and this included a bonus check and talks about becoming a partner. Life seemed to be turning out fairly well in the Silicone Valley section of town. The only problem was  that it didn't take long before Ken noticed that his wife may be having an affair with his new sponsor. As an attorney he wasn't unwise to the ways of certain behavior patterns that would seem to indicate certain actions. He didn't want to believe it and in his mind at that moment denial sometimes was the best strategy. The truth might have been too much for him to bear and deal with and he knew this. Things took a turn for the worse when intimate details of his 5th step, specifically his sexual life got back to him. Apparently the word behind closed doors was that that  Barrett was a lowlife and a weasel that had a track record because he  broke every cardinal rule in the book. Ken knew that it must have been his sponsor that leaked this information because nobody else knew about this including his wife. That was another dagger in the heart of Ken, at this point he stopped going to meetings completely. He then proceeded to purchase a spy cam to see what his wife was really doing. Its one thing to have suspicions but to actually see it, that took Ken to a different level of misery. Ken was able to witness his wife having sex in his own bed that he usually only shared with his her. It was infact true, Barrett was a real piece of work. He had nobody to tell him that his new sponsor was a lowlife and a weasel, he also had nothing to compare him to. Ken doesn't remember much except buying Vodka and he also seemed to remember that he went against the rehabs advise by not throwing out all emergency stashes of meds and this list included his Xanax. He woke up what he was told was 2 days later, he apparently went for a drive with a 2.8 bal and ran into a station wagon that killed a mother and her 2 children. The third child was in critical condition, the husband walked away without a scratch. The Xanax that he took seemed to influence this blackout as well. Suicide was the best option for Ken, at least this is how he felt. While incarcerated his wife filed for divorce after she told him that her lover Barrett embezzled close to 275k from their joint account. That was everything they had, no mutual funds just savings, the crash of  08 had them learn this lesson the hard way. She did tell him that her affair was over at least, and criminal action would soon be taken against her former lover and his former spiritual advisor. Since Ken  never officially fired him he was still his spiritual advisor. The criminal proceedings were a nightmare for everybody involved. The husband wanted Ken to go to the electric chair or better yet the firing squad, whatever would inflict more pain so a firing squad meant that it would probably be over too soon. While incarcerated Ken had a white light experience. It came through him like a ton of bricks. The voice said "no human power can relieve our alcoholism but god could and would if he were sought- we cant always rely on other people for spiritual guidance." His obsession for booze and pills vanished immediately, he was sober from that day forward. As a lawyer why wasn't Ken smart enough to do due diligence on his spiritual advisor? He tried, things looked good on line, he was also told to get a sponsor right away as well. He trusted the people in rehab as well as the process but  nobody ever pulled him aside to warn him of this moral reprobate who had a strong influence in sending him over the edge. Ken was doing this undercover in a different section of town as well, nobody knew him well enough to take him under their wing to warn him of a predator like Barrett. In the end Ken stayed sober by learning that people don't get us sober only god does. Sometimes god doesn't always work effectively through others, unfortunately Ken found this out the hard way.  

Marchman Act

Rising Star- Obama's new 1,400 page book that is way over the top. 1,400 pages, that is the longest and most prodigious book that I have ever seen. I don't know how many pages is War And Peace or the Bible?  I don't think they exceeded 500 to 600 pages so what is this all about? Seriously that is narcissism 101 but I know that he didn't write it. Its like in the rooms when you share anything over 3 to 5 minutes is usually ego and bs. Or when you are asked to speak one should keep it to under 30 minutes because lets face it nobody is that important. My first sponsor cut me off in meetings when I started going off on irrelevant tangents. The writing was on the wall relapse was right around the corner. The only time we should go into our war stories is when we are first asked to speak in early sobriety because we have no extensive recovery to share. Its like the fourth and fifth step it all needs to come out on paper and everybody needs to have a starting point. After that it should be about living in the solution. Its important to share not what others should do or to criticize what others aren't doing because that is self absorbed, pride and ego as well. I now share my experience and what I did to get sober and that's it. No dogmatic spiritual pedestals or wanna be grand poobahs because not only is that the antithesis of the programs principles its also a big turn off for the beginner. I had all of the answers when I came into the rooms and even when I relapsed I was still so full of pride that I hid behind the fact that I had over 20 years at one point. That meant nothing because obviously I did something wrong, 12 years and 3 rehabs, jail and 1 detox not so great. So when I came down to Fla to get sober from jail I didn't jump into the program so I just stayed dry therefore I still had untreated alcoholism. When I did go to meetings I would share about being co-dependent, anything to take the focus off of me getting better or starting all over from ground zero. After I left the sober house I stopped going to meetings all together so I more or less was a loaded weapon just waiting to use again. I believe that the recovery world is doing many things to do what is right. Sober World had some good articles, one was about the Marchman Act. It stated that extensive research has shown that involuntary court mandated treatment as being more effective then voluntary treatment. This is because the disease of denial is so strong  that most people are not going to willingly seek out help, even during an intervention. The article goes on to state that the Marchman Act is still underutilized and not widely understood by families and many treatment professionals. The criminal justice system does their best to sentence people to state mandated treatment facilities as opposed to staying in jail. Most of the probation officers are willing to go to any length to keep you out of jail if they know for sure that your primary issue is alcoholism or substance use disorder. The Marchaman Act makes a lot of sense because people don't have to get arrested to get court mandated, this should potentially save many lives. The only way one will go to jail is if they don't comply with the court order which is mandatory treatment so families combined with the courts are doing their best to give somebody the chance to develop a foundation. My feeling is that if somebody is shooting dope the chances are fairly high that they have the disease of addiction otherwise they wouldn't be sticking needles in their arm.  That's why they should go to treatment after their first od. If they somehow slipped through the cracks and don't really have the disease of addiction but were still shooting or sniffing dope the power to kill themselves still should be taken away from them in the beginning. People usually don't end up as  junkies if their life has always been peaches and cream and for that reason alone they would be able to benefit from a mandatory treatment program.. 

Heroin Crisis

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/06/28/a-council-members-solution-to-his-ohio-towns-overdose-problem-let-addicts-die/?utm_term=.fd2f7d138d5e This guy is a total idiot and a moron. He is a typical no nothing politician who  should read a few books about the disease of addiction. His quote- "An addict obviously doesn't care about his life" So the solution to his financially drained city is to possibly not respond to od's and let the patient die? He should get together with Bill Gates and work on a business proposal on how to implement death panels effectively. Seriously what does this man really know about how much an addict cares about their own life and one of the four agreements is to never make assumptions. Typical apathetic bureaucrat and that is why he is in that position to begin with. Its either kickbacks or collusion, self aggrandizement or ignorant comments, these people are mostly all cut from the same cloth. Its a financial drain on the city as well as the country but there are much better solutions to this opiate epidemic. There is a fine line between decriminalizing drugs and harsh penalties, drugs should be decriminalized but there should also be consequences as far as mandatory treatment. An od should be treated as a potential crime scene but only to punish the dealer not the user. The chronic recidivist od patient should get a Marchman Act, that is why interventions need to be done and records should be kept. Actually after the first od people should get a Marchman Act. If you almost die and in many cases actually do then that should be enough to green light a treatment program. This is also why more publically funded facilities need to be opened. Not everybody has insurance or money for expensive rehabs however people can get sober by other means. The ems units and er rooms seem to be inundated with ods, these people shouldn't be left back out on the streets left to their own devices. That is why family members need to get involved to sign off on these Marchman Acts. Treatment is a place of discovery, recovery can happen once they leave but everybody deserves that chance to get better. This is not a joke, so this councilman just wants to not send an ems unit for another od to let the patient die? Consequences in the form of treatment not community service and then these people can see that they have a reason to live with positive support groups after treatment. This kind of paperwork should already be initiated in the system so why this new health care act is going to cut funding for publically funded treatment facilities is beyond me. Detox's and psych wards are basically the same thing, these od patients need more then a 3 day hiatus from their addiction. Actually many of these people are left out of the er room right away after they od and after many were actually resurrected from the dead by Narcan. If somebody ods then they are a threat to themselves and others because lets face it if somebody ods and dies right in front of you then this is going to cause emotional distress. 3 to 4 day detoxes are not enough, people need to decompress in a either a facility or a strict sober home with 24/7 techs or sober companions to make sure that they don't get any more dope. The power to kill oneself has to be taken away from these people for a while and this should be implemented after their first od, this way they can clear up enough to decide if they want to live and get and stay sober. This isn't like the olden days of alcoholism where people had to come to that realization themselves outside of the rooms. This heroin epidemic is taking the disease of addiction to an entirely different level. A lot of the fentanyl and carfentanil is coming in from the Dark Web. Cities that are going into the red like the one in Ohio need more funding for treatment and for ems calls and they also need smarter councilman for starters.

Training School For The New Politician

 A council woman was arrested for allegedly stealing 23k from Boca Raton High School's safe where she worked as a treasurer in 2015. As an aspiring politician she stated that she needed to learn how to communicate with politicians and bragged about the no nonsense way that she solved problems as the school treasurer. She is known for her brash demeanor and was quoted in 2015 "in her world their is no red tape" In her world she tackled issues head on. Everybody deserves their day in court and lets face it 23k is a pittance compared to how much other politicians steal on a routine basis but its the thought that counts. It doesn't matter if it is 2 dollars or 23k life is harsh and cruel, that is why many  people feel the need to fill in the void or gaps. Her husband is a Palm Beach County Sheriff so this doesn't look very good for the new brash aspiring politician on the block who clashed repeatedly with the mayor and called him "old fashioned." She also thought that it was "sad" when he made an inference that she was inexperienced. I have high hopes for the new council woman because she is getting indoctrinated into the dirty world of politics where the more money that one steal's and spends the more money that you make. Nobody makes it in this day and age without being a ruthless criminal so this is like trying out for Skull And Bones or hanging out at Bohemian Grove. Its all a vetting process and absolutely nobody will ever respect you if your hands have always been clean. Its like in American Gangster Det. Richie Roberts played by Russell Crowe, his fellow NYPD cops looked down on him in derision when he didn't steal on a routine basis. Its like reverse peer pressure, Serpico found that out the hard way. That is why Gov Rick Scott hangs out with Marco Rubio. Mr healthcare brainchild of a criminal enterprise combined with a politician who used to associate with the Bush cronies. When I saw major holes in that Pulse shooting in Orlando as far as the veracity of it even being a real event and then saw how he was requesting blood donations this made me feel sick. All of these politicians make me sick including our Potus because he says that things are "sad" on a regular basis as well. I just dont see that any of these people are really out for the greater good and that is why they got into politics to begin with. Self Serving agendas where they aren't considered part of the in crowd until they rob cheat and steal. That is the only way to get things done around here, the secret handshakes. This Health Care Bill being proposed by the Republicans seems to be worse then ObamaCare. People should get Universal Health Care without paying egregious amounts for insurance premiums. The only thing insurance companies do is find reasons why they don't have to pay once a claim is submitted, they are all lawyered up so why not get rid of all of the politicians and complicated Health Care Care scams. The lobbyists have Suboxone agendas and every other kickback scheme one can imagine all under the phony guise of serving our greater good- "sad"

Very Well Written Review

 Collin Odonnell- Amazon Book Review- This articulate review of The New Pearl Harbor is quite revealing and very well worded, concise and very accurate-

The New Pearl Harbor, or Everything You Always Wanted to Know about 9/11 (But Were Afraid to Ask)

As a result of careful media spinning, the bizarre and unfounded notion of American exceptionalism, and overwhelming ignorance to any contradicting facts (be it self-willed or not), the majority of Americans still believe Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda were responsible for the 9/11 attacks. The people who still believe the ‘official story’ generally fall into three categories: 1) Patriots who still believe that America is ‘the land of the free and the home of the brave.' 2) Those who accept what their leaders tell them without a thought given to their various agendas and biases. 3) Those who react violently (emotionally) to any sort of ‘conspiracy theory’ in fear that what they’re spouting might actually be true. These three groups are in no way mutually exclusive. In fact, overlap is pretty much guaranteed. The main advantage that these people have over the ‘Truthers’ (a term that should not be a pejorative, but for some reason is) is that they don’t have to argue with facts. They can simply call the opponent a delusional nut-job and end things at that. It’s the burden of Truthers to lay down a compelling argument contrary to the ‘official story,’ and retired professor David Ray Griffin presents in two carefully researched volumes a wealth of damning evidence supporting not only American complicity of the September 11th attacks, but overall orchestration.

Griffin is an academic above all and is in no way a representation of the stereotypical conspiracy theorist whose dimly-lit basement walls are collaged with newspaper articles and yarn. He’s simply an educated man in search of the objective truth, as every American should be. Taking a level-headed and emotionally-detached look at the massive and varied array of evidence disproving the ‘official story,’ Griffin systematically shreds every single strand of the government’s poorly spun web of lies. He dissects the impossibility of the attacks themselves, rightfully concluding that all signs point to false-flag instead of the purported ‘massive communication breakdown’ as a result of incompetence (although incompetence was certainly in the cards when it came to the sloppy conception of the ‘official story.’) Beyond the highly incriminating and contradictory evidence presented by the government and media about the events of 9/11, Griffin culls both pre and post-9/11 history and collects the undeniable motives of perpetrating such a heinous crime and contrasts them with the results of Bush’s ‘War on Terror.’ He sheds light on the fact that the 9/11 commission investigating the attacks was 100% bias and government orchestrated. Along with this, Griffin presents a cast of tragic heroes, government workers who were bullied and silenced in their attempts to take an objective look at 9/11. Furthermore, he uses historical precedent (the thankfully abandoned Operation Northwoods, the sinking of the USS Maine) as a device to help the reader understand that the government is not above harming innocent civilians as a pretext for military action. All of these points and more are the building blocks of Griffin’s book, yet he doesn’t stop at these broad highlights. His in-depth and tireless research can be clearly seen in the 1000+ citations used in the book’s creation. Reading The New Pearl Harbor volumes and The 9/11 Commission Report back-to-back, it’s obvious Griffin’s research and objective standpoint make a far more compelling argument than the heavily-biased, narrow-minded, and government-backed Commission Report.

The New Pearl Harbor is probably the most important work of modern non-fiction not to be recognized by the general public. Why, one might ask, is this so? Simply put, Griffin doesn’t dance around the obvious like many political writers tend to do. Many commercially successful books have been written about the corrupt Bush administration and the oil agenda of the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, but while these writers seem very open to the widely publicized corruption and greed of the American Government in the Middle East, they neglect crucial facts about the event that kicked it all off. Why don’t they challenge the 9/11 ‘official story’ of the government they openly criticize as corrupt? Because they would be challenging the beliefs of over half of our nation, and that kind of reporting doesn’t sell books on a mass scale. Of course All the President’s Men was a huge hit, but Watergate was a kind of scandal that people could believe the government was capable of having perpetrated. 9/11, on the other hand, is a comparatively enormous scandal that blocks the common sense of Americans due to its sheer magnitude. We don’t want to believe it’s true, so we ignore any evidence that it might be. That’s why The New Pearl Harbor isn’t a bestseller, and that’s why wholly honest reporting is doomed unless reporters and writers can put ego, popularity, and financial gain on the back burner and focus on the unadulterated truth.