(Live) NH officers raise concerns over Laconia jail shutdown

[bullmooserugby]

Marijuana cures cancer? Are you one of the inmates they are going to release?

[bullmooserugby]

Dan is an outstanding Officer and a great civilian. He received a Medal because he pulled a guy out of a burning car and administered CPR as a civilian. This is the thanks he gets for serving his community. You live in communities that are protected by these officers and criticize them without facts. Shame on all of you. He's trying to save jobs while making sure your safety is intact. If one of these felons became your neighbor would you feel the same? Work in a Prison for one day.

[DaProlifik1reaLyrics]

Marijuana is good for you. Research it, hemp oil cures cancer and alot of other things, real talk. Look it up. Pharmacuticals are the real poison, the government and drug coorperations don't want you to know the real cures because there's no money in that. Plus population control, can't be running around giving people cures when the worlds already overpopulated. They know if THEY get cancer or AIDS there's already a cure waiting, ask Magic Johnson.

[DaProlifik1reaLyrics]

PS: Incarceration is not rehabilitation, its dehabilitation, so fuck this cop and the justice system. Unless you're a serial killer or rapist or something like that, you don't need to sit in prison. Only a very small part of the prison population is there because of crimes that actually make them a menace to society. Selling marijuana is evil, but the pharmacy selling morphine is not? Explain that one to me, from a moral and not legal standpoint. 1

[kaiser0soze]

The cure for AIDS is U.S. Patent# 5676977

[DaProlifik1reaLyrics]

are you being serious or sarcastic? cus I don't feel like wasting my time looking it up if you're just trying to be funny.

[kaiser0soze]

I'm not being funny. Go to the website for the U.S. Patent and Trademark office and look it up yourself. Do a search on Dr. Boyd E. Graves too.

[DaProlifik1reaLyrics]

alright, cool, I'll look into that, thanks

[kaiser0soze]

You're welcome. Google seems to be the best search engine to find this information. Try ask(dot)com too, there doesn't seem to be alot of info on Yahoo about this.

[TEBON]

"an economy that doesn't exist right now" I hope they make the non-violent offenders into Prison guards

[FlyLikeAnEagle2012]

Local police throughout the U.S know they are outnumbered by the amount of criminals on these streets. Wanna know why they're closing down prisons in New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Guantanamo (Cuba), Kansas, Illinois and other states? Because our military is being trained to guard American streets. I wouldn't be surprised if Blackwater guards ended up patrolling the streets too.

[PizzaGod]

Good interview showing his stance without attacking him.

Bring us more interviews like this Ridley

[P3rf3ctStorm]

Then there are a lot of prisoners in jail that shouldn't be imprisoned (like we didn't already know that, eh?). But I don't have a Black's Law Dictionary available to me. So if it's at all possible, can you look up 'crime" and "corpus delicti" and post the definitions here? I'd be interested to learn more of what it says. Thanks mircow1985.

[stammeringlips]

I don't know why my comment was erased. But this guy is just trying to add to the fear. They want to fill the streets with chaos, so they can come in a nd look like heros.

[Tressco]

He who pays the piper...

[Taors]

I've got news for you buddy - it's already affected your kids. In more ways than your little brain could conceive.

[rayme4raw]

I glad the Ridley didn't necessarily agree with him, but he did show the other side of the arguement which is good, we need to listen to both sides in order to make informed decisions instead of closing our minds to other options.

[AzOutLawz9]

People need to expect many more of these shut downs as 2012 is coming and not many will live..Its time Now more than ever to Look at life and other welfare to be more important than material objects.

[AzOutLawz9]

well for this..i can honestly say alot of people in prison are not a danger to society..the courts have jailed wrong people and that has eaten up all the recourses that should house the ones that are criminals

[ThrasherHunter]

california is considering releasing 80- 000 and also they are firing 3000 sheriffs,so that math is pretty scary,

[AzOutLawz9]

well the reason they are dong this is because they have trainded over a million military troops to do the job..and if they are short handed at the local law then they have no choice but to call in the Feds..and with that will follow Martial law etc..the prophecies are real and we are the ones to go down in history of the end of what used to be and the Start of new.People need to make peace with God More than ever right about now.

[Verlch]

That's great, close the prisons, and take our guns! What is next DC?

[LostFREEDOM]

This guy is FULL of SHIT..look at his eyes , he has learned well to lie...

[cdnore11]

You are so ignorant. You know the Lt is trying to protect. YOU! I work at that prison and let me tell you something, his job is not even in jeopardy, there are only a few of us losing jobs out of this. And another thing, if one of these guys robs your house or hurts your kids, you're view will change. It ain't just pot dealers and DUI's in there pal.

[LostFREEDOM]

Cant disclose its a national security, what a buncha crap...marijuana a serious crime? DC crooks banking crooks BIG problem rofl what a joke

[rumpelstillskin65]

this school zone crap is a joke the school my kids go to there are more drugs in the school building its self this school zone law was just another law to charge you with a more serious crime its a joke

[rumpelstillskin65]

what a surprise a jailer is there to save his job and thats it there are alot of people in jail that dont need to be there just a money machine for the state and county if you ask me just like putting young kids in juvie its just for money

[mrethrift]

It's sad that the guy thinks he's some kind of saint.

[exacerbatedtaboo]

Most people are in prison for drug related non violent individuals who's only crime was either dealing or consuming. The prison system is just like anything else. It's designed to make money and take away your rights. I'm not saying that everybody in prison doesn't need to be there but if we can reserve the prisons for there intended purpose then we can save the states tons of money.

[P3rf3ctStorm]

Prison Stats 101;

Total US population 1960: 180 million

Total US population 2009: 305 million

170% increase

Prison population 1960: 212,000

Prison population 2009: 2,400,000

1130% increase

So, there are approximately 7 TIMES as many people being incarcerated than there were in 1960!

Why is this? Well, nonviolent offenders incarcerated for victimless crimes (like marijuana possession/use, etc). are being much more readily incarcerated now.

[P3rf3ctStorm]

Also, there is a great profit-motive since the vast majority of jails/prisons are now privatized. There are a host of parasitic private entities that feed off the prison system. Think of all the drug counselors, psychologists, "professional" guards, probation officers - not to mention the private, for-profit corporations that run these hell holes like Federal Prison Industries, Inc (FPI) on the Federal level that utilizes slave labor to make a profit for the Fed, & state corps like Cheney's GEO.

[fczwartek]

Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! reported earlier this week on a corruption scandal involving for-profit juvenile prisons in Pennsylvania.

Apparently two judges plead guilt to corruption charges for taking $2.6 million from PA Child Care...a for-profit juvenile detention company, in return for a steady flow of juvenile "criminals."

[P3rf3ctStorm]

That's interesting...and very disturbing. Here's another kind of prison: "Tranquility Bay" in Jamaica [shut down just last month]. They used Behavioral-Modification and reprogramming (brainwashing)techniques on adolescents incarcerated there by there parents (no due process at all - they were simply kidnapped and flown to the "re-education camp" to be "fixed"). The price tag was very high and there was an indeterminate length of stay - demonstrating the profit-motive involved.

[P3rf3ctStorm]

Here's a description from a blog site regarding Tranquility Bay:

h t t p://iriejamaica.blogspot.c o m/2008/01/eyes-mind-heart-tran quility-bay-jamaica.h t m l

Here's a link to an article about it:

w w w.guardian.c o.u k/education/2003/jun/29/school­s.u k1

And last, but not least, here's part 1 of a 6 part series of one of the "inmates" describing what went on in a like facility in Utah:

w w w.youtube.c o m/watch?v=fkTAReSOvQs

[remove the spaces from the links]

[P3rf3ctStorm]

"The World Wide Association of Specialty Programs (WWASP) is the leading provider of behavior modification programs for American teens. At the helm of a company which earns $95 million per year is Robert Browning Lichfield, a Utah resident and MORMON, who has built his fortune through the numerous WWASP programs that are located throughout the world. He is in charge of a virtual empire of schools where complaints of physical and sexual abuse are allegedly ignored by American authorities."

[P3rf3ctStorm]

That's an excerpt from one of the links above. It's interesting to note that it's run entirely by MORMONS, and that Jay Kay, the head of Tranquility Bay was also a MORMON. LDS = Latter Day Saints = Mormons.

I think you get the picture. Utah is overwhelmingly a Mormon state, and the LDSs are known for using reprogramming techniques (exactly like cults). The profit-motive, as you also might discern is very high. What a business! This what I mean by "parasitic" exploitation of human beings.

[fczwartek]

The prison industrial complex is a major roadblock for the de-criminalization of marijuana.

There is just too much money to be made from arresting and jailing people for non-violent drug offenses.

Where there's money there are lobbyists. Like the prison population has grown exponentially in the last 50 years, so too has the lobbyist population.

[fczwartek]

Dismantling the prison industrial complex will ultimately be a good thing. The Lewtennant might lose his job. I honestly do empathize with him on that.

Too many people are in prison in this country. More than China, or Russia, or Saudi Arabia, more than any other country in the world.

That's wrong. It is not a symptom of a healthy democracy, or a healthy society.

Dismantle the prisons, dismantle the military, dissolve the American empire.

It would be a good start.

[RidleyReport]

we need transparency at all forms of communications

#

ramu

glad to bring publicity on the police

#

ramu

Thank you for this"

[RidleyReport]

"ramu

we should also notify all the folks who are interested

#

ramu

you should use wifi

#

ramu

[RidleyReport]

Ok this is ultra cool: WHILE I was interviewing this Lt., the following messages appeared ON MY PHONE, from a guy watching the interview live on my qik*com channel:

[RidleyReport]

I believe some free staters are prison guards btw.

[OnGuard4Liberty]

You are correct sir.

[RidleyReport]

One thing I asked him after the video , which i had forgotten to ask during it, was what percentage of the inmates are charged with crimes that don't involve harming or threatening others. He estimated 10 percent. He was pretty cool, a government worker can only be so bad and also be willing to go on the Ridley Report right? :)

[fczwartek]

He did turn your question about non-violent offenders into a statement about the evils of selling drugs in a school zone.

No one should sell illegal drugs to kids just as no one should sell alcohol to them. I don't disagree with that.

Realistically though, how many people in that jail who are non-violent offenders actually got locked up for selling drugs in a school zone?

I can't image it is more than a few, if any.

red herring?

[P3rf3ctStorm]

Yes, it's all to save the children! I noticed the same thing. They're only looking out for their own job security and self-interest - which is very threatened right now. The rationalization that he gave is just plain uttter horseshit.

[AngelWithGuns42]

Dave, thanks for shining the Freedom and Liberty Spotlight on yet another willing member of the Mobocracy Looter Minions. It sure sounds like he would be in favor of actually EXTENDING the political imprisonment of the current captives since he's made the determination that they won't be able to find gainful employment. Perhaps the unemployed, hungry, and homeless should all just go to Laconia and line up at the prison gates. Job security for the comrades, just doing their jobs after all!?!

[bugsbugmenot]

creeeeeeeeeeeeeeepy

[LumpyRevolution]

Pride??? For what? Sickening guy. Growing his evil empire like a good hangman. How many people has he beaten into a corner in the prison? I ask because with that kind of attitude, it's certainly not a question of "if"... he really thinks he's better than the people... sickening guy.

[BagOfEyebrows]

I bet the mission statement they sign is in direct conflict with at least 1/3 of the articles in the Bill of Rights in the NH Constitution. Our safety comes directly from the protection of those rights, and our use of those rights. I wish there was an easy way to explain this to police and prison guards. He was being honest about things from his perspective, kudos to that, anyways - and good interview, Mr. Ridley.

[BloodTar]

At 0:40 the guard says "for the safety of the civillians". Uhhhh, does he not realize that he too is a civillian? Just another example of our police and apparently our prison guards too believing themselves to be military and not the civillian force that they actually are.

[CurtHowland]

The attitude of "civilians", being people who aren't police or politicians, in other words the people who pay his salary, is endemic to police.

Civilians: Just criminals who haven't been caught yet.

[P3rf3ctStorm]

a.k.a. perps

civilians = all potential perps / usually immoral/unethical

police/politicians = can't be perps - no way, no how / always moral/always ethical

[sirinferno]

Don't worry, it's not just your guys. English police have been referring to members of the public as civilians for a long time.