On Jul 28, 11:24*am, Kevin Alfred Strom kevin.st...@revilo-
oliver.com wrote:

They lied about me -- and they'd lie about you in a millisecond if
their masters ordered them to do so.

Read the links. They lied in a hundred different ways. I pled to
something I did not do so I could be a dad to my kids again, instead
of never seeing them again before I die.

This is an excellent example of state terrorism. So many people are
rotting in American gulags because they were coerced into pleading
guilty. "Would you rather plead guilty and do five years or fifty?
It's your choice." Such a cruel gambit.

Leon Trotsky provided many great insights into the use of terrorism
in his treatise "Terrorism and Communism", a few examples:

"But terror can be very efficient against a reactionary class which
does not want to leave the scene of operations. Intimidation is a
powerful weapon of policy, both internationally and internally. War,
like revolution, is founded upon intimidation. A victorious war,
generally speaking, destroys only an insignificant part of the
conquered army, intimidating the remainder and breaking their will.
The revolution works in the same way: it kills individuals, and
intimidates thousands. In this sense, the Red Terror is not
distinguishable from the armed insurrection, the direct continuation
of which it represents. The State terror of a revolutionary class can
be condemned “morally” only by a man who, as a principle, rejects (in
words) every form of violence whatsoever – consequently, every war and
every rising."

"The problem of revolution, as of war, consists in breaking the will
of the foe, forcing him to capitulate and to accept the conditions of
the conqueror. The will, of course, is a fact of the physical world,
but in contradistinction to a meeting, a dispute, or a congress, the
revolution carries out its object by means of the employment of
material resources – though to a less degree than war. The bourgeoisie
itself conquered power by means of revolts, and consolidated it by the
civil war. In the peaceful period, it retains power by means of a
system of repression. As long as class society, founded on the most
deep-rooted antagonisms, continues to exist, repression remains a
necessary means of breaking the will of the opposing side."

"Even if, in one country or another, the dictatorship of the
proletariat grew up within the external framework of democracy, this
would by no means avert the civil war. The question as to who is to
rule the country, i.e., of the life or death of the bourgeoisie, will
be decided on either side, not by references to the paragraphs of the
constitution, but by the employment of all forms of violence. However
deeply Kautsky goes into the question of the food of the
anthropopithecus (see page 122 et seq. of his book) and other
immediate and remote conditions which determine the cause of human
cruelty, he will find in history no other way of breaking the class
will of the enemy except the systematic and energetic use of
violence."

"The degree of ferocity of the struggle depends on a series of
internal and international circumstances. The more ferocious and
dangerous is the resistance of the class enemy who have been
overthrown, the more inevitably does the system of repression take the
form of a system of terror."

The complete treatise can be read online at
http://www.marxists.org/archive/trot...comm/index.htm
Chapter Four: Terrorism is quite insightful and applicable to current
circumatances. The title could quite aptly be "Terrorism and
Capitalism".

Lastly, don't let the loud mouth moron in the peanut gallery get you
down. As you stated, the intelligent folks here understand that you
were railroaded. I thought we established that fact a long time ago.
Keep posting, your insights are among the few worthy of reading in
this withering newsgroup.