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Essay: "Nothing to Lose"

Nothing to Lose?

The cops can always find something to take from us. First they take our money, as if they should get a payday when we park illegally. The next thing the cops like to take is property, such as a big fraction of your mom's equity in her home for the bondsman. This is a big source of income for elite criminals: property is shared between jackals whose titles are bondsman, judge, prosecutor, and attorney.

Next they take your freedom by putting you in a cage: They let you out a little each week so you can work for them. If you protest this enslavement, they'll take your clothes & refrigerate you on lockup. If you try to get back at them, say, by trying to throw piss on them between the tiny holes they've left between you and them, they'll take from you the use of your arms & legs. They seem to enjoy using their "5-point restraints" on you. This is where they tie you, naked, to a horizontal metal rack in the very back of, or underneath of their dungeon. The public never sees how they've even tied your head down "for your own safety..." the cops like to say.

The cops also like to take away your ability to move by strapping you to a specially-made chair. )see "Heroes of Abu Ghraib" on www.jamesbauhaus.org) cops especially like to use their chair on you. It has no seat, plus your legs are pulled open, giving the kops easy access to your colon and genitalia. The chair comes with powerful lights, a jack and tongs to assist the cops in their search for outlawed substances such as tobacco. Using the chair makes the cops get a little turned on. In Arizona a few years back 8 cops got caught on tape working on a sick heroin user for 30 minutes. He was dead 10 minutes before their frenzy of law enforcement cooled.

A lot of times the cops need to take away your sight. You're lucky if they only use a blindfold. Mostly the cops will empty a can of mace in your eyes. There are a lot of things the cops need to keep you from seeing.

Many times, usually in courtrooms, the judges and prosecutors need for you to lose your ability to speak and be heard. Often its essential for justice that you be gagged, especially if you're one of the people who have experienced justice before and thus already know something of what it is all about. This is the primary reason that TV cameras are outlawed in courtrooms: Too many defendants are beginning to get wise to the lawyer's system. TV cameras focused on the courtroom antics of the judge/prosecutor/public defender team would cause the citizens to learn too much about matters best left in the dark.

It's routine that they take your hearing along with your voice. They cut you off from the outside. It costs too much to get information in; it costs too much to get information out. What you don't know, you can't protest or try to change. So most people just lay down and play dead. They give up, and this makes them dead. Only when you are dead do you have nothing to lose.

- James Bauhaus