Aswad
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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic
Hi, Aswad. After reading your post about recidivism, and watching this Youtube video, I now have a new "Plan C" for retirement. It involves being convicted of some nasty muggings in Oslo.
If you're in the American middle class, plan C will probably raise your living standards. 
Better hurry, though, before we're done building seperate prisons for non-citizens. Turns out a lot of people are spreading the word about plan C, so the populist Progressive Party put forth a plan for that, which the Labor Party rejected out of hand and criticized in the media. Then they gave it a little while for the dust to clear, approved the plan and started rolling it out discreetly. Until they got caught with their hands in the cookie jar, anyway. Fortunately, the shooting in Finland and the one in Houla both arrived just in time to bury the story. The bottom line being you'll probably not have a plan C very long without getting to work on either the plan or the citizenship.
The prisons cover basic living costs, such as healthcare, dental, psych, etc., plus a monthly allowance of about $300 or so.
Some of the facilities are obviously shared, such as the library, gym and TV.
Does its job, and doesn't cost a dime on the balance.
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It's not just our prisons here, but the subcultures of casual crime and violence that feed them, and the impact of our stupid damn drug laws on the judicial system.
Yeah, that's covered in school here.
The system in the USA being broken, I mean.
What we sadly don't cover, is how ours is. For instance, while the prison system is overall good, it has some really dark sides. Like, picture spending 2 years in complete isolation, not so much as a letter, except to speak to an interrogator for as long as your health can support, and then back to the tiny cell. No tape recordings of the interrogation. Psychological torture as the norm. Confessing is your way out.
Or how about we switch up the details of a young woman's experience being "interviewed" about a consensual activity with her new domly bf. A neighbour sees stuff through a partially drawn curtain. Calls police. Woman denies being raped. Neighbour files charges on her behalf (that's legal here). Police pick her up for an interview. Not taped. Paraphrasing the off the record interview: «Are you really so worthless that you wanted him to piss on you? What will your friends and family think when we tell them what he's done? And what will they think of you if you won't admit it was rape?»
Sound like a perfect way to end an otherwise excellent night of exploring your kinks with budding confidence and a trusted partner, right?
I very recently learned some things I do want to know, but still feel the desire to unknow. That this isn't just one incident was one of those things. Sheesh. I wonder how many have caved after a few hours of those kind of "interviews" and how many have been remanded to the psych ward to treat their "denial of the facts" (i.e. the unsubstantiated hypothesis of the officer in question, who may be as open-minded as Fred Phelps). It sheds a whole new light on some really suspect cases I've seen popping up occasionally.
Ironically enough, such details have been essentially closed to the public until the 7/22 trial. Never has so much dirty laundry been aired in public here, and never has it been so conveniently easy to bury it again afterwards. I mean, compared to the mix of suffering, heroics and tragedy that transpired, it is easy to forget that there's more. I pay close attention to the trial precisely due to the fact that people are testifying under oath as to the actual practices of our various systems, and to what people mention when they write their opinion pieces and feature stories, and what transpires in the public debate.
When the limelight is on, the audience is naked. So I watch the audience. I don't much pay attention to the stage itself. The actor is boring and well within the normal variation range of the population on all counts, except for having the will and discipline to turn his ideas into harebrained schemes that he put into practice instead of acquiescing with occasional complaints in less polite company, and the altruism (perverse, isn't it?) to sacrifice himself in the process. Tragic that the only good qualities he had were the ones that originated his horrific crimes.
In the broader perspective, I'm left with a sinking feeling that there are a lot of easily avoidable and painfully silent tragedies. Those don't get the media fanfare and memorials and statues. People's lives are being destroyed by those charged with protecting them. Which is pretty much the thing that causes some of the more grievous of chronic mental health issues. Granted, it's not the same thing as incestuous abuse, but we're still talking about people faced with a disporportionately powerful and authoritative protector figure attacking them and the people they care about with no discernable rhyme or reason from the victim's perspective. There are more problems of this sort here than I had thought, and after a while in the field of spotting system level defects and pointing them out, I'm pretty jaded about how much crap a system can have. It may a professional skill, but I don't leave my eyes shut on my spare time. We're all professionals as citizens, and that job doesn't have anyone picking up the slack if we don't. Now if only I could tell this "customer" that a replacement will be less painful.
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Do you recall how they were defining "rape," for that study? By force, or does it include drunk girls who felt bad in the morning?
Sexual remorse wasn't yet legally considered rape at the time of the study, as I recall, but it wasn't limited to stranger rape (very rare here).
IWYW,
— Aswad.
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"If God saw what any of us did that night, he didn't seem to mind.
From then on I knew: God doesn't make the world this way.
We do." -- Rorschack, Watchmen.
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