Should Federal prisons ban religious books from library jails?

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by American Citizen

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There are specific rights of people that Congress is expressly forbidden from infringing upon. Amendment V protects accused persons. Criminals' right to life, liberty and property are subject to reduction explicitly and exclusively by due process of law. The process of law begins with law enforcement action (surveillance) and ends in a determination by a judge. In other words, no one can lose ANYTHING until the process of law comes to a conclusion, because we are all innocent until proven guilty.

However, the First Amendment is unambiguous in restricting Congress from infringing upon the right of people's and the press's free speech, the right of religious choice, and the people's right to petition the government for redress of grievance. As well, Congress is absolutely restricted from establishing a national religion.

While incarcerated, a prisoner is still a human being. Certain rights of Citizenship may be ceded, like voting, walking around among the general public, and waking up at leisure. But the rights of Citizens and rights of People that are specifically immune from governmental encroachment are laid out in the Bill of Rights. This is federal level. For State crimes, the State's Constitutional Bill of Rights would apply (and each State's Bill of Rights may vary).

Reading is an expression of free speech. People have argued this with me to no avail. Reading is the equivalent of listening to a speaker, but in a different form. That's why music, literature, Fine Arts, and the press are included under the protections of the First Amendment. As with an orator or opera, if the listener (reader) doesn't care to continue listening, he has a right to stop.

The choice of religion is the same. So prisoners should receive double indemnity for reading religious texts.

The bottom line is that our country is under assault from very powerful sources. Our food, crops, land, property, water, privacy, thoughts, liberties, children, our very persons, income, energy, transportation, commerce, etc.

Consider the following:

1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.

2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.

4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.

5. Centralization of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.

6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the state.

7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state; the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.

8. Equal obligation of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.

9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.

10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc.

If you find that this fairly describes U.S. domestic policy, you'd be quite correct. This should also scare the living wits out of you. The above 10 points are the pillars of creating a purist Communist society, taken from none other than Karl Marx's "Communist Manifesto".

1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes. (current foreclosure mess with $trillions more in Adjustable Rate Mortgages expected to reset in May. Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, FHA, Low-income Housing, Section 8 Housing)

2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. (HELLO!)

3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance. (Inheritances are taxed as though the bureaucrats earned the estate)

4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels. (this is in place, particularly in Florida. Dept of Justice and US Marshalls, FBI, IRS)

5. Centralization of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly. (Federal Reserve System, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank, Bank of Japan, Bank of China, etc)

6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the state. (Department of Transportation, Federal Communications Commission, Transportation Safety Authority, unsecure Internet, Federal Trade Commission, Department of Homeland Security. Incidentally, the Emergency Broadcast Signal now falls under the domain of DHS and FEMA).

7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state; the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan. (nationalization of the automakers, US Department of Agriculture, Food and Drug Administration, Department of the Interior, land zoning, building departments, etc)

8. Equal obligation of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture. (Most wars in which the US has participated involved natural resources. Pres. Eisenhower warned of the development of a military industrial complex. Monsanto, Cargill, Con Agra, Archer Daniels Midland, Smithfield Foods, Hormel, Purdue. They slaughter hundreds of thousands per day. They are not nice, pleasant people.)

9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country. (same as parenthetical note to #8, plus Nestle, Suez, Coca-Cola, Pepsi Co. Read your water bottle labels and see which global corporation is bottling your water without any regulation whatsoever. National Emergency Camps are being legislated now to shift the population. These are detainment camps for American Civilians.)

10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc. (Department of Education. We should be thankful it's the smallest department in the executive branch of government).

We are all under assault. Censorship in prisons doesn't surpise me. It outrages me, but I'm not surprised.

The assault on our food - http://www.nicfa.com / http://www.acresusa. com/magazines/magazi ne.htm - pay attention to all mentions of NAIS (this is the deadliest legislation possible, allowing factory farms to process unknowable meat to the public and forcing independent farmers to embed tracking chips in their animals http://animalid.aphi s.usda.gov/nais/)

The assault on fresh potable water - http://www.flowthefi lm.com/

The detainment camps - www.prisonplanet.com and http://www.govtrack. us/congress/bill.xpd ?bill=h111-645

I can only recommend www.freestateproject .org and www.lp.org for now. I STRONGLY URGE EVERYONE TO READ THE AMERICAN DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, THE US CONSTITUTION, AND STAY ON TOP OF YOUR STATE LEGISLATORS AND GOVERNORS LIKE WHITE ON RICE. AMERICA, PLEASE WAKE UP. We are NOT a Socialist nation! We are a democratic Republic!

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