Busted Martial Artists

[Syn7]

Because of the private prisons for profit system that goes on in the states, people lose sight of what they are doing in favour of getting some for themselves. Prison management wants to turn a profit. Who are the commodities to do this with? the prisoners.

The American prison system is in some respects a weakly veiled system of indentured slavery with prisoners being stick and carrotted to do piece work for major corps that use the prisons for cheap labour.

Not unique to the US anymore, David. Private prisons and private administrators are officially running strong in Canada. They have a huge lobby and a lot of friends. It starts with privates administrating public works and end with the outright sale of the service. It's not long before we have 100% private prisons from the ground up.

And I agree, it's wrong. I have no problem with my tax dollars going to prisons to create a functioning environment.
Maybe we can stop giving subsidies to everyone with a grip of money in order to pay for a better system.

[Syn7]

Many American prisons are private businesses.

In Canada, where we have a Queen and speak French, we have provincial prisons for 2 years less one day sentences and federal prisons for anything over 2 years.

the federal and provincial prisons are run by government workers and guards etc all are employees of either the provincial or federal government.

No company anywhere is allowed to employ prisoners, but they may be used to carry out public works from time to time.

there isn't the opportunity given to profit.

You may wanna google that, David. You had one in your backyard recently.

http://www.straight.com/news/stephen...-privatization

[Kellen Bassette]

The very idea of private, for profit prisons is abominable. It's a glaring testament to the fact that business always takes precedent over people, in the USA at least. It's a wonderful example of the worst and darkest sides of capitalism.

[Syn7]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012...anada-lawsuits

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/07...n_1670755.html



This one is interesting because the US lobbied to have us crackdown on asylum then private US prisons just happened to be right behind them with all sorts of solutions. I'm not saying it's some crazy conspiracy, just opportunistic jerkoffs who may have very well influenced policy south of the border with intentions of international expansion.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012...ison-companies

http://www.dominionpaper.ca/canadian...riminolog.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-0...gets-fall.html

[Syn7]

The very idea of private, for profit prisons is abominable. It's a glaring testament to the fact that business always takes precedent over people, in the USA at least. It's a wonderful example of the worst and darkest sides of capitalism.

Your free market is not very free. That's like saying a rigged boxing match was fair because it had a rule set. Bullshit!

Not that Canada is much better. And US policy is spilling over into Canada by the trainload! Legal, Political, Economical, all of it.

[Kellen Bassette]

Your free market is not very free. That's like saying a rigged boxing match was fair because it had a rule set. Bullshit!

Exactly, the market is never free when the lines are constantly blurred between what industries are public and which are private, or when congress writes laws to benefit their own, manipulate currency, or inflate/deflate certain markets. There's very little true free market in existence. This, however, is a natural byproduct of "capitalism."

[Syn7]

Maybe, but it doesn't have to be. Capitalism is a very diverse theory.

[Kellen Bassette]

Maybe, but it doesn't have to be. Capitalism is a very diverse theory.

Of course. There's capitalism as a true, free market, state capitalism, as in the current Chinese model, there's what is "described" as capitalism by western countries, actually being a mix of heavily regulated capitalism and socialism...and there's the train wreck we have here.

[MightyB]

http://www.wjla.com/articles/2013/01...ape-83850.html

Two men are in police custody following accusations they committed a vicious crime.


Matthew Maldanado, 26, and Nicholas Schultz, 21, are accused of repeatedly raping a 20-year-old Fairfax woman as she fell in and out of consciousness in the parking garage of St. Matthews Cathedral on New Year's Eve.

According to court documents, the young woman, Maldanado and Schultz all know each other from the Lloyd Irvin Martial Arts School in Camps Springs where they trained.

Police said the woman bumped in the two men at a club in D.C. They offered to escort her to an instructor's home, because she was too drunk to drive.

But the men took her to the St. Matthew's Center parking garage instead, police explained, where surveillance cameras captured Maldanado raping the woman and Shultz joining.

After Maldanado left, police said, the tape shows Schultz raping her repeatedly. She told police he said at one point, "I am sorry. I am a sick *******."

A roommate in the Clinton home where both men live said he was out of town when the alleged rape occurred.

"I have no idea. I know nothing," he added

Schultz told the court after he was arrested that he lives in a Jiu Jitsu fighter house.

"What I know is they have always been real nice to me, really good friend. I like them a lot," the roommate said.

Neighbors said police had the area blocked off the night Maldanado and Schultz were arrested.

"Swat team, riot van, one man in riot gear...," one neighbor said. "Well, I'm glad they caught then...," another neighbor added.

Detectives said the woman claimed she had been raped, but it wasn't until they saw the tape, that the extent of the allegations emerged.

They wrote of the alleged attack "She fell backwards...striking her head against the wall...later struck her head again...and noted she collapsed to the ground...several times...he head again hitting the ground."

At the end of the report, the police said the two suspects left the victim on the concrete. A passerby later heard her cries for help.

Maldanado and Schultz will appear in court Thursday.

[ngokfei]

interesting video on the statistics of how many crimes are committed by martial artists.

Martial Arts Dirty Secret

[TaichiMantis]

Prison time for martial arts teacher who solicited sex from student
Kankakee County: 03/14/2013 10:13 AM

A 38-year-old former martial arts instructor — who was out on bond and awaiting sentencing on federal drug charges when he committed a new crime in Kankakee County — was sentenced to three years in state prison Monday after pleading guilty to attempting to solicit sex from one of his students.

According to Kankakee County prosecutors, Leon Battiste asked the student, who was under the age of 17 at the time of the June 2011 offense, to stay after class and then solicited her during a telephone conversation later that day.

Battiste also will serve a year in federal prison after being convicted for growing 100 pot plants on his rural Colfax home in McLean County sometime before February 2010.

He was out on bond when he committed the other offense in Kankakee County while working at a martial arts studio here.

The victim said the incident left her shaken and distrustful of men, according to her victim impact statement prosecutors read in court Monday.

Battiste will be required to register as a sex offender and will serve his two sentences back-to-back and in separate prisons. He also will receive credit for the 13 months he's already served in the county jail and will be released from state prison within five months.

[pazman]

interesting video on the statistics of how many crimes are committed by martial artists.

Martial Arts Dirty Secret

That video was very poorly done, with very few useful statistics. A cursory glance over the user's other videos and it's clear he's a crackpot.

[rett]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...93Q07420130427

A former martial arts instructor has been charged on suspicion of sending the ricin-laced letter to president Obama and possibly having tried to frame the previous person of interest in the case. He denies involvement.

What style did he teach? Anyone know more about the martial arts side of the story?

[TaichiMantis]

We live in a world where "Taekwondo instructor arrested in ricin case after Elvis impersonator released" is a real thing.

[rett]

We live in a world where "Taekwondo instructor arrested in ricin case after Elvis impersonator released" is a real thing.

Thanks. Yeah, you couldn't make this stuff up.

It appears the suspect’s strip-mall martial arts school closed after allegations that he fondled young female students. Again, he contests the charges.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...sippi/2117451/