The Stupidity of Californian (and American) Taxpayers

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Since I was released from prison, I’ve been telling people I want to leave America. I love a lot of things about this country, and I wish I could stay, but for me to ever feel safe or comfortable here again, there would be changes that would have to occur that I do not foresee as possible on a practical level. I have this feeling/hope/dream that I actually have silent advocates out there, but I can’t rely on them until they make themselves visible, if they exist, so I have to make other plans...

I made the decision that I would try to advocate for myself by refusing to comply with parole or registration. I did not expect this to work in terms of winning my freedom, but I am simply leaving behind a tool that people after me might be able to use to fight a corrupt system. 

I mentioned in another post an estimate of what my time in the legal system has cost society—its already in the MILLIONS. America is truly a noble country. There is no price on justice for a woman who has used five names and has a criminal record. America has truly proved in my case that justice is blind to class. 

But I served five years incarcerated. I spent two years on parole. Should I be able to leave now?  Well, America is showing more of its nobility. Apparently, I still represent so much of a danger to the public, they don’t want the women and children of the developing world to have to face the danger of me. 

When I got out of prison, I started doing research to try to find a country I could move to. What I found was surprising. Even the poorest countries in the world, the types of places in Africa, Latin America and Asia that Trump called “shitholes” have sex offender registries and immigration policies that deny residency to people with criminal records. A lot of these countries can’t even provide food and clean water to their citizens, and in many of them, the standards for treatment of women are so low that what I was accused of doing would be a pretty good day for a girl if that was all that happened. But they are spending resources complying with legal standards set by rich Western nations that do not benefit their country at all. 

This is an issue that Americans never talk about. We here in this country fear “one-world government” so much, but we don’t realize that we already have it, and it’s our fault. America has done such an awesome and frightening job exporting its legal standards to the world that the legal codes everywhere look like ours. Even if you look at Russia and China, their laws look a lot more like American laws today than they did thirty-five years ago. 

What really struck me was this global net that exists to make people who have been convicted of crimes prisoners in their own countries. Everybody, Americans and the world, know that the American court system is a joke filled with so many systemic biases and such an absurd lust for locking people up that we’ve probably set records in human history for it. But yet, other countries assume convictions in American courts to be valid unless you are a multimillionaire, a political figure or a public cause celebre. 

I’m not suggesting other countries blindly accept American criminals as ex-patriots. DON’T DO THAT!  There are a lot of truly dysfunctional people caught in the American justice system. But what other countries should be willing to do, given that just about every day in America someone is being exonerated after years in prison, or a corrupt cop is being exposed, is look critically at individual cases and offer the option to leave America to those who deserve it. Hell, many Americans are incarcerated for things that aren’t illegal in other countries. Would Jamaica accept all the Americans incarcerated for smoking pot? Would the Netherlands accept all the Americans incarcerated for prostitution or soliciting?

I thought it was a great thing French president Emmanuel Macron did a while back when he invited disgruntled Americans to move to France. But if you read between the lines, he was basically only inviting privileged Americans.  If my case was presented to him directly, would he want me?  They took Roman Polanski. 

Random tangent (you know I love those): As I’m writing this there is an Asian girl here in Balboa Park playing the guitar and singing that Taylor Swift “James Dean” song and her version sounds WAY better than Taylor. I’ve heard her sing like five songs now. This girl has professional talent. Eight years ago, maybe I could have done something for her...

So it is very possible, if I don’t get some kind of miracle, I will be going back to jail today, and the taxpayers of the City of San Diego, the State of California and the United States of America will spend yet more money on me. These last several weeks, I’ve actually committed a new crime—failure to register as a sex offender. This can be charged as a misdemeanor or a felony. Either way, I’m going to demand a jury trial. I’m going to cost the taxpayers as much money as I can if America won’t give me my freedom back or let me leave. Under California law, all sex crimes essentially carry a life sentence if you refuse to comply with parole and sex offender registration. I don’t know how much longer I will live, but my dad lived to 80 and my mom is 82 and still kicking. If I live forty more years, at current cost-of-incarceration estimates, that’s about $3,200,000. But I have health problems so its going to be more than that. And I’m going to do everything I can to make the courts work as much as I possibly can. But America doesn’t mind. No price is too high to pay for justice!

Why do I call the taxpayers stupid, though?  While a few of them surely know, most are unaware of me. American taxpayers are stupid because they all invest so much energy and attention in the presidential election reality show (is there any doubt that’s what it is—a reality TV star won!), but Americans aren’t paying any attention to the activities of their state and local governments that really matter. This is why I’ve been saying lately that America has an authoritarian mentality. We have such a profound distrust of politicians as individuals and government as a general concept, but yet most Americans have an appalling degree of blind faith in what have become two of the largest and most powerful government institutions in this country: the military and the court/police complex. It’s funny, we have so much talk about the mass incarceration problem, but yet most Americans distrust the presidential candidates more than they distrust district attorneys, sheriffs and the police. 

I wonder, if America agreed to let me go and I put myself in the global market, would any nation take me?  I attended one of America’s best colleges, I worked in patent law for some of America’s largest corporations, and I’m connected to a host of powerful Americans. Nah, no use for that guy!

It has occurred to me that there might be people with power in America that don’t want me to leave for precisely those reasons. But if that’s the case, they need to give me my freedom and a job worthy of my talents. 

Remember when Trump invited Russia to hack Hillary Clinton?  Well, I’m inviting the intelligence services of the world to kidnap me if America won’t let me go. I’d most like to be kidnapped by Mossad or the French intelligence service whatever they are called. I wouldn’t mind if MI6 came to get me. I like the Windsors. They are good family. I’m not all that on fire about British food or British girls. But then again, there’s Kate Beckinsale and Elizabeth Hurley. And Earl of Sandwich is a pretty good restaurant...

But I’ll go anywhere as long as I’m free. I’ll go live in Africa. Surely, America wouldn’t mind that?!? You’d think these White Supremacists working in our legal system would be excited to take me up on that!  I’ve got friends in Burkina Faso, and it’s really not that bad there in the big cities. They have a nice sports bar in Ouagadougou and the steak frites at that one hotel I stayed at in Bobo-Dioulasso? Really good. 

But, unless a miracle happens, I guess I’ll be going back to jail today and back to court again, and costing America more thousands and maybe eventually millions of dollars. Americans are so stupid. 

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