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Title
Auto-Da-Fe
Author
Outman, Robert
Date
2015-07-01
Pages
1 page
State
California
Text (O)
Auto-Da-Fe Translates to; "act of faith", in Portuguese, however, in history it assumes a much more sinister significance. Auto-da-fe was the ceremony of the Inquisition's judgement, and order for punishment to be executed by the government. This perverse marriage of state and church, ushered in the perfection of punishment, torture, sorted means of death, and "creative cruelty" designed to break the will of those deemed; not in moral conformity. In 1483, Tomas de Tor...
PID
apw:12345005
Date Uploaded
2016-10-22T13:04:38.315Z
Title
Civilized paradox, or hypocrisy
Author
Outman, Robert
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Civilized Paradox, or Hypocrisy The sight of a bully, or bullies, continuing to beat a person already down is intolerable, cause for outrage, and social indignation. Schools take bullying serious. Children are taught and disciplined not to bully others: "It's wrong to over-power another and force them to say uncle." Domineering, browbeating, and subjugating, is what tyrants do; definitely not what we want our children to do, or to become. Such behavior is not acceptable in a ci...
PID
apw:12361228
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:57:03.731Z
Title
Civilized society?
Author
Outman, Robert
Date
2015-04-15
Pages
1 page
State
California
Text (O)
CIVILIZED SOCIETY ? The federal court ruled on elderly in prison: “A civilized society locks up such people until age makes them harmless, but it does not keep them in until they die"; 835 F2d 1195, US v. E. Jackson. Yet, old and sick prisoners continue to die in California's prison system. The U.S. Supreme Court had to rule in 2011, California was conducting cruel and unusual punishment by overcrowding prisons, before the state begrudgingly began to reduce the population of its 34 ...
PID
apw:12345003
Date Uploaded
2016-10-22T13:04:37.906Z
Title
Evil, in thy service
Author
Outman, Robert
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
Evil, in thy service Shakespeana,wrote, "True love is like ghosts, everyone talks about it, but few witness it." Everyone recognizes the ugly manifestation of Evil, but few realize they are witness to Evil taking its insidious form. We all hear "dancing with the Devil," but few know they are witness to the dance card being filled. Evil, is a provocative subject. Psychologists, philosphers, and theologians offer publications on the pragmatic aspects of Evil. The public&apos...
PID
apw:12352647
Date Uploaded
2018-06-15T21:38:10.029Z
Title
Fog of justice
Author
Outman, Robert
Date
2015-05-11
Pages
1 page
State
California
Text (O)
FOG OF JUSTICE Fair is foul, and foul is fair, Hover through the fog and filthy air, "Macbeth" -Shakespeare Everyone readily recognizes the "fog of war"; which conveniently excused the multi-trillion dollar mistake of the Qteatest minds in government, absolutely convinced, Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mess destruction. However, in society's rush to judgement, no one recognizes the fog of justice, which also leaves a path of destruction. The United States’ war o...
PID
apw:12345001
Date Uploaded
2016-10-22T13:04:37.347Z
Title
Gorilla in the prison mental health closet
Author
Outman, Robert
Date
2014-06-23
Pages
4 pages
State
California
Text (O)
Gorilla in the Prison Mental Health Closet The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) reports there is increasing understanding of how psychological trauma causes an ever more familiar anxiety disorder called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). First recognized and referred to as “shell shock” and “battle fatigue”, now assuming the proper clinical definition of PTSD in our veterans who have been exposed to physical abuses of war, in close proximity to traumatic events, and or, experien...
PID
apw:12345011
Date Uploaded
2016-10-22T13:06:50.083Z
Title
Judicial Antiques
Author
Outman, Robert
Date
2015-12-15
Pages
2 pages
State
California
Text (O)
JUDICIAL ANTIQUES Criminals and miscreants of all sorts, were once subjected to torture and execution, attended by the public, with all the grandeur of a ceremonial spectacle. In some cases, public attendance was mandatory. In 1790, over two hundred years ago, punishment was modernized by establishing prison models that institutionalized the power to punish, moving it out of public view. Along with English and Flemish models, the new up-start country of the United States, introduced Philadelp...
PID
apw:12345032
Date Uploaded
2016-10-22T14:32:42.452Z
Title
Just a little pregnant
Author
Outman, Robert
Date
2016-01-03
Pages
2 pages
State
California
Text (O)
JUST A LITTLE PREGNANT The "Non-violent” mantra has become 51 politically correct position for politicians and misguided prison reformers. These people believe, if the so called “Non-violent” are removed from prisons, the problem of dysfunctional prisons will be solved. In other words, the system is just a little pregnant. Associate Professor Andrea Roth, U.C. Berkeley School of Law (1), has taken a more realistic bite out of the reality apple, when she says ”Obama's focus on crimin...
PID
apw:12345029
Date Uploaded
2016-10-22T14:32:41.729Z
Title
Ma$tering word$, not deed$
Author
Outman, Robert
Date
2015-08-20
Pages
2 pages
State
California
Text (O)
MA$TERING NORD$, NOT DEED$ Semantics; a noun, the study of meanings in language. In California‘s penal system, there seems to be little conformity in semantics. Words, terms and definitions are used as a means to an end, political correctness, and political machinations, for example: the Penal Code Part 1. reads "Of Crimes and Punishments”. Prison officials call their system "California Department of Correction and Rehabilitation” (CDCR), promoting and emphasizing “REHABILITATION”. ...
PID
apw:12345016
Date Uploaded
2016-10-22T13:06:51.178Z
Title
Mocking birds are endangered
Author
Outman, Robert
Pages
2 pages
Text (O)
MOCKING BIRDS ARE ENDANGERED In an effort to awaken our social conscience to the evils of injustice, intolerance, discrimination, vengeance, and hate, author, Harper Lee, wrote, "TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD", a classic novel, set in the 1930's, published in 1960, and a Oscar movie in 1962. Lee, chronicled the confluence of innocence, and evil, in the human condition. She illustrates how evil flourishes, blooms, and dominates, when innocence is indifferent. Mocking Bird's 1930&a...
PID
apw:12349125
Date Uploaded
2017-11-03T14:15:33.962Z
Title
Reform by a thousand psychological cuts
Author
Outman, Robert
Date
2015-09-28
Pages
3 pages
State
California
Text (O)
REFORM BY A THOUSAND PSYCHOLOGICAL CUTS The psychological term for breaking a man, or animal, to total submission, or passive resignation, is "learned helplessness”(1). Exposure to recurring negative, unpleasant, noxious, and or, painful situations, in which there is no possibility of escape, or avoidance, produces: passive resignation, depression, and a host of other psychological disorders. Any competent psychologist would define intentional conditioning to “learned helplessness”, as c...
PID
apw:12345007
Date Uploaded
2016-10-22T13:06:49.418Z
Title
Society we have a problem
Author
Outman, Robert
Date
2014-03-03
Pages
2 pages
State
California
Text (O)
SOCIETY WE HAVE A PROBLEM In the areospace industry excellence is expected, because it is responsible for billions of tax dollars, public safety and people's lives. Therefore, standards are set high with quality control maintained ‘through vigorous checks, counter checks, evaluations, analysis, transparency and progressive insight that prevents problems before they occur. An industry that minimizes the need for the call “Houston we have a problem”, however when a call comes a logical and...
PID
apw:12345026
Date Uploaded
2016-10-22T13:06:59.699Z
Title
The fox has assured us all chickens are dangerous
Author
Outman, Robert
Date
2013-10-14
Pages
2 pages
State
California
Text (O)
THE FOX HAS ASSURED US ALL CHICKENS ARE DANGEROUS O Judgement! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason. -Shakespeare The United States Federal Court, confirmed by the United States Supreme Court, has ruled California's prison system has become cruel and unusual by overcrowding. California has become obsessed with draconian long sentences packing in prisoners like livestock in feed lots. The subsequent effect was/is causing prisoners needless injuries, illness and ...
PID
apw:12345019
Date Uploaded
2016-10-22T13:06:58.424Z
Title
Treasure and trash
Author
Outman, Robert
Date
2013-12-30
Pages
3 pages
State
California
Text (O)
TREASURE_AND TRASH when I was a little boy I used to love to help my Dad load the trunk of our 51 Chevy for a trip to the trash dump, or to be politically correct “the landfill“. No matter what its called it's a place where people dump stuff they don't want. My father was a master at spotting perfectly good treasures other people threw out as trash, some of it was of questionable value like vacuum tube stabilizer racks, headless mannequins and blast doodles with copper fringes, but ...
PID
apw:12345022
Date Uploaded
2016-10-22T13:06:58.87Z
Title
Vengeance is mine. Stay out of this, God!
Author
Outman, Robert
Date
2016-08-01
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
"Vengeance is mine." "Stay out of this, God!" Over 150 years ago, literary and philosophical icon, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, wrote: "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." However, today, few know what happens within the confines of the high walls, or lethal electric fences surrounding modern prisons. So, those maintaining prisons rely on well groomed masters in public relations, who are careful not to affront society's exp...
PID
apw:12346594
Date Uploaded
2017-08-16T00:32:30.851Z
Title
What waste and withers there
Author
Outman, Robert
Date
2013-08-28
Pages
3 pages
State
California
Text (O)
What Waste and Withers There 
 The vilest deeds like poison-weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in Man That wastes and withers there: Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate And the warden is Despair. -Oscar Wilde 
 Metaphors abound describing the prison experience, as nineteenth-century English prisoner Oscar Wilde compares vile deeds with poison-weeds. Twenty-first century prison has evolved to a more "humane" system where fewer bones are broken with an emphasis on b...
PID
apw:12344997
Date Uploaded
2016-10-22T13:04:36.718Z