Steven Slevin, a mentally ill New Mexico man arrested in 2005 for allegedly driving drunk in a stolen car, was held in solitary confinement for two years without a hearing or trial, and without any medical or dental care. He had to pull his own tooth out at one point, he got bedsores and fungal infections, and his nails and hair grew very long. Eventually, he got lung cancer as well.
Slevin was never charged with a crime, and never tried. But he still lingered in solitary confinement for years, ignored. Perhaps his jailers were merely waiting for him to die, so they could cremate him and dump his ashes in a pauper’s grave. That way he would be far cheaper to the county, after all. No defense attorney, no welfare, no housing and no medical treatment — just lock him up and shove prison food through a hole every day. Probably saved the county a couple hundred thousand dollars or so.
Slevin’s settlement – 15 million dollars – was huge, but I still think the county got a break, and he’ll be dead soon from his terminal cancer anyway. I’ll bet if someone dug into this case, they’d find others just like it. It wouldn’t surprise me at all to see that this was policy.
By paying off Mr. Slevin, probably largely with insurance, real criminals who denied a man liberty and due process are getting off the hook. The settlement itself is a travesty of justice. I cannot believe that this was a mere “oversight” — someone was deliberately doing this to men.
Look at the county’s position:
The county had recently offered to settle the case for $2million, according to CNN, despite previously denying there was a lack of medical care and that, as government employees, county officials deserved immunity from liability.
So now government employees and county officials should have “immunity” when they capriciously destroy men’s lives? What kind of country are we living in? One set of rules for us, and another for our masters…
Sickening.
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I wonder how Manboobz will try to spin this travesty.
Oh, by the way, commenter Bradely, if you post here, please tell us how Steven Slevin had so much power (Bradely claims that men in the West have a lot of power) and given that he was male, tell us how that fact meant that he gave women a lot of crap (Bradely claims that men, mentally ill or not give women in the West a lot of crap).
But guess whom are the stooges what are really paying for these travesties with sweat, blood, tears and real cash money Welmer ?
‘Cause it ain’t the nebulous State.
Yes, both Slevin and taxpaying dupes get screwed, and the “government employees” get a fat, guaranteed pension when they retire. How awesome it must be to be a government “official.” No accountability whatsoever.
Well, here’s the situation: Constitutional rights matter, but only if they are funded (or if you have the money to enforce them). If one looks at how disfunctional most of the public funded defenders are in the U.S., I believe there are more cases like this one.
The bottom line is that if the 6th Amendment right to counsel is to mean anything, it has to be funded- not by private individuals, but by the state. Consistently trying to “starve” the state, particularly when it comes to services to the poor, is the new “budget cutting” mantra.
Just think about it, if this guy had been appointed a public defender- and allowed to see a judge immediately- this would have never happened. To say that the county officials were negligent is an understatement, they all should be fired and criminally charged.
Here’s the proof of Bradely’s assertions if you don’t believe me (scroll down to comments 41-46):
http://www.the-spearhead.com/2013/03/07/dont-worry-too-much-about-politics-in-your-personal-life/
This is a group of men doing it to other men. It could be the industrial complex prison system doing it to save money and make shares holder more money. It could be the government to save more money .
Once in while a purge in the ruling class is needed. I mean that once in a while revolution and blood are needed to restore justice for the common men. There is a class of men, or ruling elite that is doing that to other men.
I dream every night for anarchy and social chaos. I dream to see corrupt politician hang by their neck or their head on a spike.
In Greece justice is starting to appear.
Ex-Mayor in Greece Gets Life in Prison for Embezzlement
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/28/world/europe/greek-ex-mayor-gets-life-in-prison-for-embezzlement.html?_r=0
If justice is not delivered to common man, the common men should make justice appear with blood and violence.
When men have nothing to lose, they lose it!
A nasty piece of business which illustrates that the state will always grow to abuse it’s monopoly on violence. Bureaucracy creates its own special class of elites who are above both law and morality.
Will it stop, or will it get worse? We all know the answer.
While violent fantasy is an understandable response to extreme injustice, engaging in violent fantasy here doesn’t help us.
” How awesome it must be to be a government “official.” No accountability whatsoever.”
Now you know why feminists are so enamored with big government.
So now government employees and county officials should have “immunity” when they capriciously destroy men’s lives?
No. That’s what they were claiming when they offered the $2m settlement. He got $15m and I believe that it is a settlement and not a judgement which can be appealed. So this guy now has money and he can go after people and demand that the DA prosecute them. There’s no immunity for what may constitute a criminal act, that only applies sometimes in civil torts against people like judges, DA’s etc and even there is not absolute.He can also go after the prison doctor and have his license revoked.
@just
‘Once in while a purge in the ruling class is needed’
These are not the elite but just politicians and bureaucrats.And they were elected and put into office by the “common man” that you seem to admire so much. Who do you think keeps electing that moron sheriff, Arpaio?
“I dream every night for anarchy and social chaos”
You can dream and if it happens it will be accomplished by rival Alpha men who perhaps may run things better. But you won’t be in any better position than you are now, maybe worse. The top people always rise to the top regardless of the government in power or what’s going on in society.
“If justice is not delivered to common man………….”
You show me one instance where the common man has ever done anything in history. In fact, they are generally the problem.
Jefferson believed in this common man nonsense but Adams who really was a common man born on a farm and later became a sucessful lawyer and then President would tell Jefferson that he was from that background and knew them and that his faith in the common man was misplaced.
Welmer:
If you can post up this million woman protest/march nonsenese, it will be helpfull for all men to see what these bottom feeding amoeba and parasitic scum are planning.
INTERNATIONAL FEMALE PARASITISM AT STATE GUNPOINT ON MEN:
http://www.millionwomenrise.com
JOIN US FOR THE BIGGEST WOMEN’S MARCH IN EUROPE AGAINST MALE VIOLENCE IN ALL ITS FORMS
SATURDAY 9TH MARCH 2013
Meet: 12pm Oxford Street (Outside Selfridges)
Set off: 1pm
RALLY: 3pm TRAFALGAR SQUARE
This year the whole of Oxford Street will be closed to traffic from 12pm.
Making way for Million Women Rise to reclaim Oxford Street, it will be pedestrian-only from noon.
Click here for information about coaches from your area coming to London for the rising on Saturday 9th March 2013
Holding up a mirror to the world about the truth of male violence against women in all its forms
We encourage women to WEAR RED…
For MWR it symbolizes the colour of Woman and her blood, the blood of our sisters who have been murdered and raped , our blood which contains life, courage, respect, dignity and protection.
Million Women Rise call all women to join together in a critical mass to say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! MILLION WOMEN RISE :
Holding up a mirror to the world about the truth of male violence against women in all its forms and “Celebrating Our Re-Sis-Stance”
This year we have already seen the rape of millions of women throughout the world and we are only in February. We have heard the German authorities apologies to a teenage girl for sending her to a brothel to get work:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21374268
America has no shame.
” How awesome it must be to be a government “official.” No accountability whatsoever.”
Now you know why feminists are so enamored with big government.”
This here
Works out great for everyone except your average man.
“Just another scumbag”
Does anyone really think this would happen to a woman?
And if so,produce one single example!
Women=protected class civilians
Men=no protection combatants
Officers=troops
The economy in one easy to understand picture. Lotsa patriarchal privilege here.
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mav51upJxS1qz6f9yo1_500.jpg
Million Women Rise call all women to join together in a critical mass to say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! MILLION WOMEN RISE :
And yet millions of women enact violence against millions of potential men AND women each year when they choose to terminate pregnancy.
How is this not the pot calling the kettle black?
A cluster of human cells, DNA, a beating heart, months from being brought forth a human infant – a life cut short at it’s most fragile state. SHE is the arbiter of life and death; who she’ll gift with life or not. She is not the one in need of rights and protection.
Remember, these are the folk left/liberals would trust with “assault weapons” because, unlike those nasty military people who’re sworn to upohold that outdated (eww) “Constitution” and aren’t unionized, they’re beholden to left-leaning public service unions and democrat bureaucrats for their fat pensions and job security.
@Diprotodon: I wonder if those million women are willing to say boo to their Muslim fundamentalist neighbors?
“Yes, both Slevin and taxpaying dupes get screwed, and the “government employees” get a fat, guaranteed pension when they retire. How awesome it must be to be a government “official.” No accountability whatsoever.”
A better distinction than government official and non-government official (or employee) would be psychopath and non-psychopath. As a government official myself, I have two PhD’s, a MS and a BS. Those degrees cost a lot in time and money. With little or no return on the investment. I pay almost $30,000 in taxes and almost $30,000 in child support annually. I take home approximately $15,000 annually and still accumulate about $1,200 in arrears annually. I have been in my field for twenty-eight years. I will never retire or collect a government pension.
But even if I did, a review of pensions for government officials (at least my Department with the federal government) would reveal that government pensions are actually pretty bad compared to private industry or self-employment. So bad in fact that my ex-wife didn’t even want to waste the time and money to pursue part of mine.
Because pensions in the federal gov’t are so bad, in part, I will never retire. This is not uncommon. Many of my colleages expect to be working well into their seventies before they retire (if they live that long). And on top of that, many agencies now preclude those in arrears for child support from even applying for jobs.
A government job is not cracked up to what many think it is. For a long time, it was the only opportunity for anyone to get a job commensurate with an education (particulalry in the Natural Sciences). University Professorships suck. They didn”t used to but they do now. Hours are terrible, benefits are horrible and probability of staying on long enough to get an Associate Professorship let alone tenure is slim to none anymore.
If you even try to exercise any independent thought or intelligence during employment with the federal gov’t, you will be beat down hard over and over again. I actually work with some remarkable and conscientious people in the federal government. The problem is all the unconscionable and irresponsible ones with whom we have to work who advance faster and further because they are psychopaths. The distinction you’re looking for is not government employee and non-government employee but psychopath and non-psychopath.
The government, like any other venue or place of employment, is populated by all kinds of different people. Some good and some bad. The problem with the federal government, like all other venues in the US, is that it started allowing women to work which was a terrible mistake as most of the psychopaths I’ve encountered, grossly unqualified, inexperienced and uneducated for their jobs, are women. These women have advanced through the ranks as pawns to be manipulated by higher ranks. That’s all they are. They don’t do anything else. They manipulate the higher ranks with the public spectacle of their chronic victimhood and the higher ranks acquiesce to that manipulation. And they both profit by making innocent men the unwilling dupes.
The solution to the problem is repeal of the Nineteenth Amendment. Shrinking the size of government may help too, but only if you get rid of the women to do it. As long as women are in our government, no matter how small it is, it will impose itself upon the freedoms of real men. You may not appreciate it, but every day men like me are constantly trying to keep the power of and its abuses by our government in check. It’s not the hardest job in the world. But one of the hardest. And there is no reward for it and considerable punishment. The stories I could tell you from the inside about our government would make your skin crawl. You should be afraid. VERY afraid.
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We have 19,000 municipal governments throughout the US, but as many as 30,000 incorporated cities.
We only have 3033 County’s .
17,985 state and local law enforcement agencies employing at least one full-time officer or the equivalent in part-time officers.[2]
Lets look at Cleveland for a overview , The city is 72 square miles and 1600 police are employed . 600 of these Police are to protect the Government from the People , Government buildings ,IRS,We are not even talking about TSA yet .
Over 3,000 county sheriff’s departments in the U.S.
England with one-fourth size of the U.S. has 43 police departments
all agencies administered by the Home Secretary
b. central authority
2. Japan: National Police Agency-coordinates operations of 47 prefectural police
If we did a total overview of the Cuyahoga County Ill bet we have as many police dept , In Cleveland as all of Japan
Over stressed tax payers ,Ticket traps and waste. Is eating are Country alive . While 15 near by Mayors courts service 300,000 tickets a month . Robin hood road taxes .
With all this some fat ass bitch can’t get the paper work right for a Honest American .
Its time to scream . Load
Kyster I feel you 54,559,615 abortions since the Supreme Court handed down its 1973 Roe vs. Wade .
If you think about it like in the Way women don’t using that tricky thing called math .
It s like 1 out of 3 women . Maybe more .
Maybe 1/2 the population of women are murders . 1 out of every 4 are on drugs . 80% will get divorced,
Pussy hounds and white knights make this free of charge . No concision ,no morals , no marriage and No God seen among them . Civil religion has replaced logic and decency .
Sometimes I sit and think . With a bottle of Jamisons and shame not for me but, For the nation of mindless garbage that can’t see the Evil that is so self evident It takes my breath away.
actually, Joeb, it is less. A woman is far more likely to get multiple abortions than multiple women are to get single abortions. The number of women who actually get abortions are closer to like 1 in 8, but of those number, many have had multiple, sometimes even dozens, of abortions.
I would like to see if there is a tie-in between women who have had abortions and female child abusers. My own, paltry researches have uncovered a strong link between women who have abortions, women that have high numbers of sexual partners, Women who abuse their domestic partners, and female child physical and sexual abusers (As well as an alarming side-trend of permanent addiction to antidepressants). The problem is, I haven’t the money to conduct a full-scale investigation to determine the validity of these links, conduct blind studies (and not self-selected ones) to rule out cultural and local phenomena, or to otherwise build a peer-reviewable factsheet on these correlating factors.
But, based upon what I have been able to uncover, women who have had large numbers of sexual partners and those who have had abortions APPEAR to be… well… permanently psychologically damaged. More so if they have done both, and the two factors appear to go hand-in-hand. This often causes late-life permanent depression, an inability to maintain relationships, and abusive, violent, and antisocial behavior.
While not enough to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that such women are irretrievably damaged, I still cannot help but wonder why both attempted suicides and depression are far more common among ex-woo girls with dozens of notches and convenience murders under their belt than even among porn stars and ex prostitutes.
One of my sources is at http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/199/3/180.abstract?sid=f3a640ac-1664-489e-9f34-2ecc688a6d52
This really should be used as an example of why liability protection is a bad idea period. If cop’s, prosecutors, Judges and government workers didn’t have liability protection, they would feel so free to commit so many horrible abuses.