not just in the u. s, but pretty much anywhere in the world. because i'm constantly going to be in fair because i cannot see actually how much debt in real terms is out there in the market. which could complete enough to lead tank. well, my investment, i would go as far to say that this is fraud. i would just put this into the, into a real terms example for you. so let's say you and i set up a company. now when we went to investors and raised money and we did not disclose those investors, how much money or how much debt was on our balance sheet on our books? well, if our investors found out and they report to, that's the please you and i would go quite brightly, going to present the defrauding that. however, in this case, it looks like, you know, we, we talk a lot on the prob, about the difference between the u. s. is so called rules based order in international law. it appears that the us have absolutely no respect for international law. and now even very basic tenants of rule such as fraud. so yeah, i think this is a highly legal act on the international state. well, that's all for me that i am next to the laval is on for so i want more of them. i wish you all a terrific juice. ah. with in elementary school, the teachers called me that problem kids and so i was labeled early. i ended up getting kicked out of school. i was 1617 and 18 though. she's been my graduation high school years. but at stan, i'm on the streets selling crack, gang bang and bacon that i was going to make to see 21. i would get dressed in all rare b. ride the bus to the healed just to walk around and wait for a group of blues to approach me 1st, i would try to fight it tagged eisen. i'd walk in the middle and then i'd pull out that day and, and watch up scatter. when i oh, you know, watch a wound like roaches. then i got addicted to be in fear. my mom was here trying to be the disciplinarian and the bread winner. but she didn't have no help. i rebelled against her. what it wasn't her fault. we were in this together and that's what i should have known then i. my mom was my 1st love up until the mid eighty's when cracked became the reason to be for her. it was okay, but she had an addiction and it grew monstrous. her addiction to crap. so proceeded everything, her dignity, her ability to reason her desire to be a mother. it was one of the things that broke me. i didn't like the life that i was living, but somehow i felt helpless to change it. i felt like i was just being carried on this wave of circumstance, not being able to have a job not being able to be the person that i thought that i could be. i just couldn't seem to get to her. i remember a few days before being incarcerated, crying out to god and knowing how trapped i fell, knowing how limited my options were. and i just wanted out of that life. i didn't stay on the corner. i didn't do drive by, but i had a boyfriend. i did and i had fooled myself in the thinking that if i just stayed on the fringes of that lifestyle, that i couldn't get caught up. it wasn't true when we started rhonda, nothing unusual suspects. and i was on my boyfriend, was all my protestations of innocence. this fell on deaf ears. there must be no doubt about who side were on. people who commit crimes should be caught convicted and punished. their savings will be used to put a 100000 police officers on the street a 20 percent increase. it will be used to bill prisoners to keep a $100000.00 violent criminals off the street. you will be put away and put away for good 3 strikes and you are 993. washington state was the 1st state in the nation to implement the 3 strikes policy and make it ok to put people in prison. throw away the key. there are many people who have rehabilitated their lives, who could be contributing to our young people, to our families, and that door has been slammed shut in washington state. we are still one of only 15 states that does not have the payroll system. the. what's interesting about washington state is really reflective. i was interested about the whole country. this country is based on fear. when you have a country that is based on or that has grown out of colonization and slavery, people don't rest easy. that's why everyone needs to be armed in this country to protect what they have. because what they have was stolen may not talk about it may not admit it, but it's there. whether you are on the red or on the blue. whatever side it is, no one fleece easily in this country there was a drama georgia mister speaker. i simply want to say legislators have an inherent conflict of interest. the number one object of the legislatures to get reelected. i do get reelected, truly easy ponder, podium and sam tough on crime of the children who have been kale with victims of bile. the public is fed up and that means more prison time. we have a greater percentage of our population in prison right now than any society in the history of western civilization. and we have this high and mighty attitude about ourselves. i want you to imagine that as much as $60.00 to $0.70 out of every tax dollar in my county goes toward criminal justice. it is a horrendous waste of resources. if you don't care about people, it's a horrendous waste of resources on the profit washing. it's very, very easy to instigate fear. that's what happened with 3 strikes because the face of the threat then became young, black and brown. men. we need to take these people on. they are often connected to big drug cartels. they are not just gangs of kids anymore. they are often the kinds of kids that are called super predatory is no conscience, no empathy. we can talk about why they ended up that way, but 1st we have to bring them to heal. and the president is asked the f b i to launch a very concerted effort against gangs everywhere. john and i were to go to the f. b i task force ever forming a task force or gangs. we met with the drugs are privately, as you go around the country, you see communities everywhere, people who are no longer going to hide in their houses. this is our here. all we wanted to know is don't buy your jacks. if you all up or lake, we don't come here, you've got to take a stand, but are willing with leadership and with involvement, police and directions. least are willing to take to the streets. you want to know while we're having success with our federal task force. because it set him up all over the country and not all of them were kicking like we were. and he wanted to know why john and i knew the gang members from work on the street. and so we kind of knew who they should be targeting hulu, the police started doing more sweeps, they would just get the kids and round him up for whatever little reason they could if they could get him on a sentence and get them alone. so keep them from ever coming, that is to plant no police, keith plague guns on these gifts, kicking doors and they get the search one later. i got you when i got you down in a damn bay annotate, they got you one them, rules all by yourself in it because you by yourself. you want to jail, may not have them even been a criminal activity. they just because they were out there, they get them just unloading. if i was walking to the corner store and i saw a house lo further up and i thought looked nice. so i wanted to walk by in the police saw me, they would say to me, what you do on here. you live around here on the narrative that we keep hearing is that they are people entitled to be here. even though folks know that this is not anybody's, it's not their land. so that narrative of being entitled and really protecting that is really what drives a lot. but we as a country, don't want to uncover that too painful. given a race based country such as we are, the people that really are impacted are the poorest and the black is looking back now, i'm able to see everything that happened. i wasn't able to see it. so i wasn't able to avoid the traps that were sent from me. a lot of was weren't, i don't want to excuse any of the crimes that were community because there were crimes committee, but some people didn't commit crimes and were just caught up in difference that they chose. and it was even the prince that they chose. the prince would, they grew up with this is benevolence they need. these kids went to school with these people whose house, with the sunday dinner and most of them didn't just wake up and say, i want to be a gang member. this is what i'm going to be in life. we just grew into that because this exposed to whenever last part of my career, i had the best job and i had ultimate freedom to set my own targets and my own investigation. as long as i was producing, they left me alone, so i didn't have a lot of supervision. me by the late ninety's. the hilltop area was pretty much cleaned up. i can aggravate murder. i a drama. aggravated martyr is the highest crime in washington. they change some law in a hard time for our crime in 1094 that says if a murder occurred during the discharge of a firearm from a motor vehicle, then you can be subject to the death penalty or life in prison. if i would have got senses to 1st to be murder, i probably would have had 27 years since the murder occurred during the discharge of a file from a motor vehicle. i got 7, he said, he said he's no reason that a judge did not have the ability given the sentence of less than life without parole. is that the legislature made it an ab voting circumstance to do a drive by shooting because he shot impulsively without knowing who was in the other car, but out of a car, only one punishment was appropriate. that law was passed because mostly white legislators viewed it as worse for gang members to shoot from a car. it was a clear reaction to the fear of black and hispanic individuals, a weapon in the commission of a crime. the promise of the criminal justice system is that it rises above race will be the title of the when i work in washington state, it's a state that is overwhelmingly quite true when i go into a prism criminal justice system remains broken by the influence of race ah ah, according to french president you menu wilma chrome. the company must decide whether wants to be free or a vassal of china or the united states. but chrome has never been known to be an original thinker. however, on this point he is obviously right. the real question is whether it's europe still has the power to decide its fate at all. ah, with your said had humanity. you said to privacy you're surrounded by middle and human eye. you feel like cattle, you feel like something that's not real. they shoot down. searching it's a roller coaster on your emotional well being put in a shell, a by pin cell with people that you don't know you never, you don't know what they're there for. what their balance is, a deprivation to your sanchez, hard to explain. you're away from everything that you know, i could not conceive of my life taking place within the walls that i saw around me . we're going to give you 3 meals a day. we don't give you a cement slab less to go slab sleep on. and that's basically it, there is no rehabilitation, there's no repair present as a socializing force, a total institution. does it work? by and large, now people learn to become antisocial. it's not designed to help anybody. well, officers make sure that you understand that you are a prisoner. when you find yourself in contact with them, they tend to look down as a way of not giving you eye contact for a lot of prisoners. it kind of makes them internalize that here. nobody i don't think that as prisoners were treated as people ah, now i'm able them handles on use all over the light martin book slavery. normally when you get out of there. yeah, it's just so new, i used to be a young new sitting in his room and i used to be talking about stuff that i didn't have no clue about. you know, i'm saying politics, policies, legislators. i used to hear people speak about these different. i've been saying that i use a hate not knowing institutional racism. i you said, hate watching cnn and see these guys talking about politics and have no clue about what they was talking about. but knowing that these decisions were affecting my life somehow. and i will say that that is kind of one of the things that she sent me. oh my quest i wanted to learn. i think that the opportunities with the black prisoners caucus, with my interaction with free people, i'm able to really internalize and i'm not an offender. i'm not a prisoner. i'm just a man who happens to be in prison. one of things at the black prison is caucus says is that they may be absent from community, but they're still a part of community in people constantly outside every single week who cared about us. and on santa let us know that we were still part of the community. i always remember, mary, she said, if we planned on returning back to the community, how we came in here, then we might as well stay in here. mm. mm hm. i was the president of the black was caucus at monro, i went to the hall for a class and fraction possession of a cell phone. because i was like, what else? it didn't grant me the opportunity to stay on. i got ship the column by me. i had one of the black person scottish was essentially a large part of everything that was going on. but when i got here that was enough, i basically just reached out to administration. and i was kind of hesitant on allowing us to be able to have the name like prisoners caucus. it was too radical for them like david for something to have black. ah, i just reinforced the black person that has a loan for duck. this history within the department of corrections. ah, so eventually it was like business process because she's never been able to really be going. and so, you know, as we started to have some of our 1st meetings, the idea was now what is it that we want to see, right? what are the opportunities that we need in order for us to really stay committed on improving self? you'll begin to meet people who've been down longer than you've been alive. people want them to 7. and so you'll realize that know what, they're really not letting people got 7 years or more more kids searching for 11 or 4. the does a lot of stuff, a love love, all there's all been gone. does a lot of this, that's a lot of this. not only do you have to make a commitment, but you have to make a choice. if i still want to continue live in the life that got me here or i want to try and live in a better life, right? we can never become somebody different, but we can become a better version of who we are. almost immediately upon antrim, or cloud bay. i found out that a few guys had just started a program and they call cheats. and it's for taken as occasion and create and help me and come on and call it. i've been honest with kids in the same place. he was on the side, i was on the heels. so we was really rivals back. and when he came, when he came here, i seen him, he with any of the all the b p. c. and he went to start a teen program. it came up with the idea. we was like, ok, let's do it. there were several of us were a column bay who had a lot of time doing present and we weren't being allowed to attend education class . the priority for our education department is those individuals with 7 years are lot on their sense. so if you have more than 7 years, which a lot of people do, you don't get a chance to get an education. we wanted to get professors to be able to come out here, but we was too far. so the next thing was do either let this program go to waste or do we figure out a way to make it flow? so later we came up, we would just teach the class work backwards from here, and then we're gonna move on. we know that we get teach math where we could teach writing. and so it was more about the skill sets that we already had and being able to just really nurture those and provide those in a classroom setting. and so why equals negative and a negative is positive, we reached out to a lot of prisoners, right guys, we had degrees, an autopsy. but then we also st quickly came to the realization just because you have a degree doesn't mean that you can teach. eventually we begin to fine guys who teach him was something that was a natural talent for them. he said about creating all the syllabus isn't all curriculum and teaching on classes. mambo is started changing his shaping people's thinking. and from near the worst spray, when i got here and was working on the school floor, i blew by the teach classroom. and it was the 1st time i ever seen a classroom being taught without an officer and it was prisoners, lived enough prisoners. and so when i seen these guys doing that stuff, i had to be part of the work, the money to keep 40 a half, 2 hours. within the day we decided to diversify our board. this way we can attract more students, but also we can understand each other more. so is reaching all corners. it presently with part of me coming on board with this was seeing what you guys were doing and, and wanting to get behind that. i was like, yes, finally, an opportunity for me to go and do something productive that was provided before that inmates created. we've created a support group for positivity in the most unlikely of environment with we've been kidded against one another for so long. it literally allows a prison to run itself. is long a day stay separated. we got to worry about them coming together, becoming knowledgeable to fixing the social issue that end up landing them in prison in the 1st place. ah, the more that we begin to educate our sales, the more empowered we become, the less manipulated we can be. the less oppressed we can be. now while we're begin, it's realize that we can get more accomplished together than we can't upon booking . okay, i think and especially at 1st i really didn't want to leave column by because it had things that we were doing. i dared i were so powerful in the relationship that we have with administration. i didn't think that we're gonna be able to duplicate some of those things. so i thought to stay there in my comfort zone. i continue to bill. ready no more was coming up for his time to leave also. ready the more set his mind on shone and i went to my review after that, where i spoke to my counselor and he asked me when i went to go, when it came time, he transferred a told me shout. so i was happy i sent word to do more than i was coming, and he sent word to say good, i'm glad because i mean having some problems with trying to get to pbc started here . most of the people that live in this county worked at this point. this is not a diverse community. the most diversity they have is behind these barbed wire fences. some days they have a challenge accepting me. so i can only imagine what the challenges would be around black christmas caucus. the fear that i hear is that all you know, the name as to black prisoners carcases. it's a black gang. we should be fearful of that. people who form ignorant shore sighted opinions about things like that, haven't taken the opportunity to participate and learn really what is going on there. welcom, do a washing correction center. thank you for being here today. i attended that you saw man and i was speechless. i listen to the stories that were being told, the things they had to say really resonated was me and drew me in the, the things that we have been through the things that we have been around. i would worry what others would think it would. i think i go and saw that was my concern. i used to think that not the gang bang was assigned a week. i only intended to be there for a few minutes to kind of check in and do an introduction. see what it was about, and when i sat down, i did want to get back up. we hope to help young people who make some of the same bad decisions that we may also, we hope to be able to reach young people themselves. we believe in them and expect them to influence and add to the world must we solidify the b p. c. here we wanted to move on to the next thing. a start to teach program because this prison as forest prison is, is, is canada mac of prisons. in our state, this is where every person 1st comes to an issue. every person, if you're transferred from one prison to another prison, you have to come to here. so as we in mit who's gonna be here for a while, we see everybody in the state. they have to cross our past assay, young guys, all the time, come to here whose life i've influenced negatively. that's something that i've had to live with, working towards having a positive influence on those generations. now, it gives me a way to undo some of the wrongs that i've done in the past. ah, ah, children at st. andrew's intro school suffered nightmarish levels of abuse, torture and child, rape. any of the office of the attorney general suppressed thousands of page. the police of evidence that identified the perpetrators in the school. i was electrocuted twice. 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