To President Obama

America, we have a problem.  Over 3,000,000 innocent people are in prison.

Why are they there? 

1.     The justice system is unjust. 

2.     The poor and minorities can not afford competent defense attorneys.

3.     Many public defenders are incompetent.

4.     Many public defenders work for the government and help the prosecution.

5.     Many prosecutors don’t seek justice but seek guilty verdicts even when they know the defendant is innocent.

6.     Many police plant evidence.

7.     Many police, prosecutors and/or child protective agencies convince, coach or threaten witnesses to lie.

8.     Many judges are corrupt or incompetent.

9.     Jail house snitches lie to get out so they can go back to their life of crime.

10. Evidence is lost or not mentioned in the trial.

11. The guilty person testifies to convict the innocent person.

There are many other problems with our system and most people either don’t care or don’t know.

What can be done?

1.     A special prosecutor is needed to head an investigation of the system.

2.     Those who plant evidence must be prosecuted and imprisoned.

3.     Prosecutors, police and judges must be prosecuted and imprisoned when they knowingly cause the conviction of innocent people.

4.     Incompetent attorneys must be disbarred.

5.     Attorneys who work with the prosecutors to convict the defendants must be prosecuted and imprisoned.

6.     A separate court system should be set up for the innocent.

7.     An independent investigation and defence system should be set up.

8.     New DNA testing should be done for all prisoners who may be innocent at no cost.  (It now cost $600.00)

A few years ago the Innocent Protection Act was passed.  It was a start and many on death row were proven innocent.  It should apply to all inmates.

The amount of corruption in our system is staggering and something has to be done.  Our system of justice needs a complete overhaul.  Innocent prisoner must be freed.  If you are poor and/or a minority you may be wrongfully imprisoned.  If you make a policeman, prosecutor or judge unhappy you may be convicted of a crime you did not commit.

Mr. President, you are our only hope.

Please write your federal and state representatives and ask them to do something.

 
Please sign the petition

To President Obama:

The Death penalty is a disgrace.  The United States is one of few countries that have the death penalty.  It is supposed to be a civilized country but civilized countries do not murder people.  Execution is murder by the Government.  I have not seen anything in the Ten Commandments that says thou shalt not kill unless you are a Government.

Yes murder is one of the worst crimes that are committed and those who commit murder must go to prison for as long as they are a threat to society.  How do you send the government to prison?

Here are some reasons to abolish the death penalty.

1. Many innocent people are executed.
2. By the time a prisoner is executed he or she is not the same person who committed murder. 
3. “Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord.”
4. It cost more than life in prison.
5. It does not lower the murder rate.  The person who kills does not think about the death penalty when they kill for the first time.  After the first time they feel they have nothing to lose so it is easier for them to kill in order not to be caught. 
6. Many of the serial killers probably want the death penalty.  The feel that they will be remembered. 
7. In some cases life in prison is worse than death.
8. The death penalty does not bring the victim back.
9. The death penalty is a sentence for the poor and minorities.
10. Our legal system is too unjust to allow the death penalty.

President Obama, please commute the sentences of all people on death row to life in prison.  Please ask Congress to abolish the Death Penalty not only on the federal level but on the state level also.  Please contact the Governors of the states with the death penalty and ask them to abolish it.

Please sign this petition and write you congressmen and women asking them to abolish the death penalty.


 

 

I have a dream.  I want to start a rehab program called The Castle of Hope for Lost Souls.

Why?  Most of my friends are drug addicts and/or alcoholics.  Some were killed by the drugs, many have lost limbs because of shooting heroin, some were murdered and others went to prison.  I have friends who were beautiful woman who now look twenty years older than they are.  I have an ex-girlfriend who had a stroke just before her fortieth birthday (we called it instant rehab.)

Who are the lost souls?  They are the people that society have forgotten or chooses to ignore.  Many had good jobs but made the mistake of trying drugs.  Most started with Marijuana or alcohol.  Many are prostitutes.  Many are mentally ill.  Many are homeless.  Many are petty thieves. Many of my favorite people are lost souls and some others were lost souls who found themselves.

What Do I need to see my dream come true?  I need recovering addicts who want to help others to find the road to recovery.  I need a building.  I need a benefactor. I need a Lawyer.  I need furniture.  I need professionals.  I need everything.

What do I have?  My soul mate and myself.

How am I going to get what I need?  That is why I am here.  I need help from anyone who can help me.

There is a building a couple of blocks from me that looks like a castle. I want that building and I want to buy it and turn it into a rehab center called the Castle of Hope of Hope for Lost Souls.

I know a lot of addicts that are lost souls. Many are intelligent and could have bright futures if they could kick the habit.

I am someone these people can come to for help. Not for money but as a friend who cares.

I was a drunk and now I am a reformed drunk. I am not a recovering alcoholic. I can go into a bar and order a coke. I tended bar (I lived in a bar too.) and was not even be tempted by the bottle. I quit because I wanted too. I have had 2 beers and 2 cold ducks in the last 17+ years and did not have the urge to have more.

Because of AA and NA philosophy that once a alcoholic or addict always an alcoholic or addict there are a lot of people like me that don't even try to quit. Why quit if it is a life long worry about one more drink? They are important and they do a lot of good but they are not for everyone.

I do not have that worry. I had an attitude change. I changed my outlook on life. I get high on life.

What I do is to try to show the way to that attitude change to those I know. I do promote the rehab but also self help.

AA and NA are like religions. What I did is not possible to them. When they heard I went to bars they said it is not possible. They remind me of what I was like and why I quit.

I was tending bar and a customer asked, “How can you tend bar and not go back to drinking?”

“That’s easy.” I answered, “I take one look at you and the others when the get drunk and I know I do not want to drink again.”