Sesame Street says "P is for Prison" HELL YEAH! PRISON!

[The2ndAmendment]

A new series of videos created by the folks on Sesame Street is a propaganda program designed to help children accept the fact that daddy is in jail. It’s OK kiddies, it’s almost inevitable given that 3 percent of the American population is currently under some type of correctional supervision. Just write him a letter and you’ll feel fine.

In the first video, “What is Incarceration,” young Alex, whose father has been incarcerated, is told that laws are “grown-up rules” and if someone breaks the rules they have to go to prison or jail.

In the second video, “Alex’s Big Feelings,” Alex explains that sometimes he’s OK, but other times he gets angry. “I get really upset but I just miss him so much. I just hurts inside. Sometimes I feel like I just want to pound on a pillow and scream as loud as I can.”

Sophia, the adult human who’s schooling Alex on the acceptability of having a father who’s broken the ‘grown-up’ rules and been incarcerated, explains to Alex that it’s OK to feel angry or confused because that’s exactly how she felt when her father was incarcerated.

“When my dad was incarcerated I was really confused about all the different feelings I was having. So I talked to my mom about it. She let me know that it was OK to have lots of big feelings, and that I could always talk to her and talking made me feel better.”

According to Sophia, all you have to do is talk about your feelings, draw a few pictures, write letters to your dad, and toddle off to visit him in jail every now and then and everything will be all rainbows and lollipops.

“I like to draw so sometimes I drew pictures of the way I was feeling. That helped, too. It also helped to keep in touch with my dad. My mom would help me write letters to him. We’d send him photos and we’d visit him whenever we could. And sometimes we even got a letter back from my dad. It made me feel good to know that he was OK and that he was thinking of me, and even though we had to be apart I knew mom was here for me to help me feel better.”

In October 2012, Mitt Romney made headlines during the first presidential debate when he said one of the things he’d do to bring down the deficit was cut funding for PBS. Millions of Americans took to Twitter and thrashed Romney for threatening to kill Big Bird, but they didn’t listen to the whole statement. What Romney really said was:

“I will eliminate all programs by this test: Is the program so critical it’s worth borrowing money from China to finance it? …I’m gonna stop the subsidy to PBS, I’m gonna stop the subsidy to other things. I Like PBS, I love Big Bird… but I’m not going to keep spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for it.”

After Romney’s “Death to Big Bird” speech, American Thinker asked why, Elmo, Bert & Ernie, and Big Bird should continue to receive more than $7 million annually in federal subsidies when, according to the tax forms, Sesame Street was paved in gold.

“[T]he President of Sesame Workshop, Gary Knell, received in 2008 a salary of $956,513. In that sense, Big Bird and Sen. Harry Reid embody the same mystifying phenomenon: they’ve been in “public service” their entire lives and have somehow wound up as multimillionaires.”

“[T]he 990 also revealed that Sesame Workshop received $44,984,003 in royalties last year, which includes sales of Sesame Street brand merchandise like “Tickle Me Elmo” dolls. That means Big Bird made five times in merchandise sales than what he received in government grants.”

So why the need for a government subsidy for a street full of already uber-rich puppets? Because the creators of Sesame Street are doing the government’s work so they deserve a piece of the government pie.

The Sesame Street incarceration videos are designed to desensitize Americans of all ages and help us to feel comfortable with the idea that prison is an inevitability for most. But the fact is, prison is Big Business these days and we need to keep the machine well-oiled.

The daily news is splattered with reports of serial killers, child molesters, and random atrocities but in reality most of the “criminals” locked up in our jails and prisons are poor people who’ve committed small, nonviolent crimes in order to put food on the table. According to Global Research, “Violence occurs in less than 14% of all reported crime, and injuries occur in just 3%.”

Using those big crimes to create an atmosphere of fear allows lawmakers to implement legislation for tougher penalties and to criminalize even more mundane acts, like the 14-year-old who’s facing jail time for wearing a pro-NRA t-shirt.

But what it really does is allow them to push through funding for more and more prisons so they can house more and more prisoners and use them as free labor.

According to Global Research:

For private business, prison labor is like a pot of gold. No strikes. No union organizing. No unemployment insurance or workers’ compensation to pay. No language problem, as in a foreign country. New leviathan prisons are being built with thousands of eerie acres of factories inside the walls. Prisoners do data entry for Chevron, make telephone reservations for TWA, raise hogs, shovel manure, make circuit boards, limousines, waterbeds, and lingerie for Victoria’s Secret. All at a fraction of the cost of “free labor.”

Prisoners can be forced to work for pennies because they have no rights. Even the 14th Amendment to the Constitution which abolished slavery, excludes prisoners from its protections.

http://www.infowars.com/

 

[DarkLion]

Wonderful. Prisons and jails are becoming such an accepted part of society, now we're indoctrinating kids to say "hey, it's ok my daddy is in jail"

Bullshit. What a nice, revolting little police state we have.

 

[The2ndAmendment]

Wonderful. Prisons and jails are becoming such an accepted part of society, now we're indoctrinating kids to say "hey, it's ok my daddy is in jail"

Bullshit. What a nice, revolting little police state we have.

ALL ABOARD THE PRISON BUS!

 

[The2ndAmendment]

Come on Lakhota, get on the P-Party Bus!

 

[ScienceRocks]

THIS IS aimed AT THE FUCKING BLACK DAD that isn't their 72% of the time and has 10% of their population in prison!

 

[The2ndAmendment]

THIS IS aimed AT THE FUCKING BLACK DAD that isn't their 72% of the time and has 10% of their population in prison!

Because they are convicted 6 times more as whites for the same or lesser crimes, and are 4x more often arrested than whites for the same or lesser crimes. This results in 24x increased chance of going to jail as a black man for the same or lesser crime.

This is done by both parties. For Republicans, it removes their ability to vote, allowing the Shadow government to control who wins elections. If they want Dems to win, they'll ensure more blacks can/will vote, if they want Republicans to win, they'll make sure blacks cannot vote.

This is done by Democrats, to ensure blacks must remain on the government, and thus on the Democratic Party. This is how the shadow government ensures that practically all blacks, who can still vote, will vote Democrat, because not to do so would cause great injury to their disenfranchised brethren. Thus, the shadow government only needs to control how MANY blacks vote in order to control the outcome of the election.

The peaceful restoration of the Constitution is solely dependent on a MLK/Fredrick Douglass Libertarian Revolution. If this doesn't happen, eventually whites will have to pick up guns and use the Second Amendment to restore the Constitution by force, and Loyalists will HAVE to be killed, regardless of race, just like the Jews had to kill Nazi supporters while hiding in the forests, otherwise they'll kill us.

 

[ScienceRocks]

THIS IS aimed AT THE FUCKING BLACK DAD that isn't their 72% of the time and has 10% of their population in prison!

Because they are convicted 6 times more as whites for the same or lesser crimes, and are 4x more often arrested than whites for the same or lesser crimes. This results in 24x increased chance of going to jail as a black man for the same or lesser crime.

When you do a crime you spend the time. I'm sick of hearing people saying killing or raping someone is acceptable.

 

[The2ndAmendment]

THIS IS aimed AT THE FUCKING BLACK DAD that isn't their 72% of the time and has 10% of their population in prison!

Because they are convicted 6 times more as whites for the same or lesser crimes, and are 4x more often arrested than whites for the same or lesser crimes. This results in 24x increased chance of going to jail as a black man for the same or lesser crime.

When you do a crime you spend the time. I'm sick of hearing people saying killing or raping someone is acceptable.

Whites are equally (proportionally) arrested for killing and raping, and equally convicted thereof.

However, those are not the only crimes that exist.

The majority of prisoners are there for NON-VIOLENT crimes, which happen to be enforced 24x more often on blacks, and these laws under which they are prosecuted are usually unconstitutional.

Here's an excerpt from something that every Libertarian should read:

One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that "an unjust law is no law at all."

Now, what is the difference between the two? How does one determine whether a law is just or unjust? A just law is a man made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality. It gives the segregator a false sense of superiority and the segregated a false sense of inferiority. Segregation, to use the terminology of the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber, substitutes an "I it" relationship for an "I thou" relationship and ends up relegating persons to the status of things. Hence segregation is not only politically, economically and sociologically unsound, it is morally wrong and sinful. Paul Tillich has said that sin is separation. Is not segregation an existential expression of man's tragic separation, his awful estrangement, his terrible sinfulness? Thus it is that I can urge men to obey the 1954 decision of the Supreme Court, for it is morally right; and I can urge them to disobey segregation ordinances, for they are morally wrong.

Let us consider a more concrete example of just and unjust laws. An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself. This is difference made legal. By the same token, a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow and that it is willing to follow itself. This is sameness made legal. Let me give another explanation. A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law. Who can say that the legislature of Alabama which set up that state's segregation laws was democratically elected? Throughout Alabama all sorts of devious methods are used to prevent Negroes from becoming registered voters, and there are some counties in which, even though Negroes constitute a majority of the population, not a single Negro is registered. Can any law enacted under such circumstances be considered democratically structured?

Sometimes a law is just on its face and unjust in its application. For instance, I have been arrested on a charge of parading without a permit. Now, there is nothing wrong in having an ordinance which requires a permit for a parade. But such an ordinance becomes unjust when it is used to maintain segregation and to deny citizens the First-Amendment privilege of peaceful assembly and protest.

I hope you are able to see the distinction I am trying to point out. In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law, as would the rabid segregationist. That would lead to anarchy. One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was evidenced sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego to obey the laws of Nebuchadnezzar, on the ground that a higher moral law was at stake. It was practiced superbly by the early Christians, who were willing to face hungry lions and the excruciating pain of chopping blocks rather than submit to certain unjust laws of the Roman Empire. To a degree, academic freedom is a reality today because Socrates practiced civil disobedience. In our own nation, the Boston Tea Party represented a massive act of civil disobedience.

We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal." It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany. Even so, I am sure that, had I lived in Germany at the time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers. If today I lived in a Communist country where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I would openly advocate disobeying that country's antireligious laws.

http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html

 

[The2ndAmendment]

ALL ABOARD!

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[The2ndAmendment]

Come on now, who doesn't want to go to prison?

 

[The2ndAmendment]

ALL ABOARD THE PARTY PRISON TRAIN!

 

[The2ndAmendment]

Hell, we will take you kids and your little dog too!

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[ClosedCaption]

Man am I glad you posted that for Matthew. He clearly sees that blacks are a Larger group in prison but he believe that blacks are just worse. Any evidence to the contrary will be ignored by Ppl like Matthew because any new info that challenges his bullshit preconceived ideas pollute his bubble.

 

[ClosedCaption]

Second point, yeah so many Americans are locked up or have been that Sesame street had to address it

 

[The2ndAmendment]

 

[The2ndAmendment]

ALL ABOARD THE HOMO BUS

 

[Katzndogz]

What a shame, for 2% of the population to exert this kind of power over the 98% that's the majority.