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This website is to allow me to present intelligibly my thoughts and insights on various social, political, historical and even scientific issues I've been studying in the past two years. 

Some of which I have background knowledge of due to having been involved with and interested in various political movements many years ago. 

My political viewpoint leans towards libertarian, except that I am not completely happy with the way some of them think. Libertarians want limited government and civil liberties. As a matter of principle, that is excellent. But then libertarians seem to suffer from this ingrained bias of Western Culture that you can somehow intellectually decide that government "should be" a certain way and then the perfect society can then be achieved by some legislative body sitting down and crafting some written rule decreeing that that is how society is to be from now on.

 

Actually, I think government and the larger society it is embedded in is more like some kind of living beast that you can train or that can morph in one direction or another, but it can't be so easily manipulated or changed as we think. Written rules don't have the exact effect they literally intend, but instead enforcement of the rules and all sorts of other considerations regarding government bureaucracies results in all sorts of ripple effects or unintended consequences. As a result, the most free society does not necessarily result from the one with the nicest and most free sounding written constitution or constitutional rights guaranteeing liberty. A very good example of this issue is the liberal Warren Court expanding all sorts of fifth amendment procedural and technical criminal protections for defendants. Liberals saying they want to do this might be arguing this is to help the poor. The opposite is the truth. This is to help defense attorneys, and why is that a bad thing? Because criminal procedures and technicalities of the liberal Warren Court only resulted in defendants having protection IF they could hire an expensive enough attorney to do a good enough job PRESSING them. Public defenders are part of the corrupt court system, they deliberately do a bad job so as to make sure well heeled defendants find it worth their while to pay extra. Huge sentences ALSO give well heeled defendants more incentive to pay extra. Thus, defense attorneys representing rich criminal defendants have a vested interest in maintaining the strict sentencing policies responsible for Mass Incarceration. Furthermore, there was a law school bubble which burst, and now law schools are doing poorly because lawyers are not finding it worth their while to spend so much money on a law degree. Fact of the matter is, those liberal Warren Court protections indirectly increased legal fees for defense attorneys, thereby contributing to the upward pressure on college tuition and law school tuition, simply because the amount of money attorneys could make from a law degree made it more worthwhile. 

It also is true that the regulatory state increased in many other ways, increasing demand for attorneys in other spheres besides the criminal justice system. But I am going to talk about the criminal justice system here for now to use it as an example.

This is just one example showing how a policy that, examined in the most superficial way you think it's designed to help criminal defendants overall in the long run has the exact opposite effect. Because these protections are ones that only can be accessed by those with the money to pay for top dollar attorneys. And, it isn't always necessarily related to the facts of the case. The attorney usually has an incestuous relationship with everyone else in the court system, so much so that basically if you pay the right attorney enough money, you will get off because he is friends with all the judges and prosecutors, and parole officers, etc.

And for me to say that could lead to others thinking it is rather awful to have a court system so incestuously corrupt. Except, these are all nice people who know each other and court systems have ALWAYS been like this, more or less. And they always will be this way. Government is incapable of being perfect. Understanding its inherent imperfections such as this are necessary when it comes to avoiding passing laws which interact with such a culture in a way to produce very bad outcomes.

 

After all, we have always had government and, for some reason, it would appear if we always have had it, that is because we need it. The inner workings of government are so awful, you discover after you observe it, it can easily lead many to think we should just abolish it. But, given that that is impossible, the best alternative is to understand it as inherently flawed, and realistically think of how to make things "the least bad."

This is what I have thought for a long time, yet only recently have I stumbled across some law professors who subscribe to a movement called "legal realism." It turns out they think exactly the way I do, and see the same flaws in our society (or in the thinking of popular culture which leads to wrong-headed policies in our legal system) that I see.

Oddly enough, they seem to describe themselves as leftists yet they are not the kind of ordinary mainstream leftist most people would understand to be "of the left." Which is strange because I never would have thought of myself as a liberal -- but not a conservative either. But maybe this is because of certain strands of liberalism I have been exposed to which are quite awful. 

In any case, why categorize oneself? As I study and learn more about society, I like to share various insights and not limit myself to any one "box" or "category" that I pigeonhole myself into.

March 08, 2015  /  Damian Schloming

To be honest, I'll think it's interesting to try out the theory that they may have framed him. And then compare his story with that of Michael Brown of Ferguson, who lots of people argue was set up. And I ought to explain, you know some of my experiences, I haven't gone and said everything, but there was a time when people were manipulating me and telling me. Well, never mind. I'm embarrassed to disclose certain details. I mean, I played along but I knew they were full of it. They had no intentions of turning me into a porn star. Like I knew they were just trying to set me up, but I played along so I could go document what they were doing -- and I did document it. And yeah, sure enough, at some point they want me to do X, Y, and Z -- which wasn't exactly what Michael Brown did right before he was killed, but was sort of similar. And, let me put it this way, I got a good amount of really valuable proof so it was worth it for me to play gullible for awhile. But, still, there were some real life porn stars who chatted me up and went all out trying to be so friendly to me, and then someone poses as some kind of porn exec, and ..... really, I don't want to talk about it. 

Look. Michael Brown was about to embark on an illustrious career in the music industry, where I presume he thought he was going to be making music videos or something. Then he is seen going and robbing a store. However, he didn't try to rob them for any significant amount of money. He just robbed them for cigars. Then afterwards he gets into some altercation with cops and is killed by a cop. And then all the weird sorts of irregular things the police did afterwards -- I don't remember them but a ton of news outlets reported that police handled the aftermath in some very odd ways that tends to put them under a cloud of suspicion. 

Let me put it this way. I sort of wonder if some of Michael Brown's alleged "music industry" friends all interested in helping him might not have been the ones to put him up to that store robbery -- telling him that everyone who is to have a career in the music industry needs to go through an initiation rite, or they could have even said it was some kind of audition. And then he goes and does all that because they manipulated him to -- and it's all a trap. Let me put it this way. That is EXACTLY what some people tried to do to me -- and it didn't work. 

There is actually a whole set of documentation I was able to capture -- including some which shows them sending me emails on this hook up site, emails where they were trying to prompt me into saying things that could make me look like I was either trying to buy or sell drugs. Oh and this was a hook up site that was commonly known to be monitored by the FBI -- aka, if emails went back and forth between you and someone else which made it look like you were a drug dealer, or drug user, that could later on be used as "proof" in some set up against you. And, what did I do? I'd start to let myself go along with the way they were prompting me, and then I would start having second thoughts and start sending emails where I said "hold on, you are trying to make me say things that make me sound like I am a drug dealer, and I don't feel comfortable doing it." And, after I sent such emails, I can prove a computer hacker went and would seconds later delete them from a sent mail folder which, at the time, emails could never be deleted from. They'd stay there for fifteen days and then delete automatically, but no one could delete them like that. I started hitting "print screen" and saved them to microsoft word, so when they were deleted from that folder anyway, I could prove they had originally existed.

And, suppose Elliot Rodgers were framed -- it would be done by people somehow attempting to convince him, I dunno, there are all sorts of ways you can convince someone to do a tape like that and say it is some kind of audition. Let me put it this way. It is a tactic that is used. And it’s one I am very familiar with. And, there are articles out there that talk about FBI abuse and unethical behavior that is nearly this bad.

But this is all very complicated and dense. I could go do a complicated presentation, that is good and explains it coherently and in a well organized, easy-to-understand way. But it would be long and involved, and I have PTSD and hate thinking about it. I am not going to do it by myself.

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