72Born in 1954. Spent 17 years in prison for committing sexual assault against my ex-wife.
I feel that it is important to be brutally honest. The hardest lesson in my life was learning to be brutally honest with myself. This situation with my ex-wife came about because of a deeply distorted and deeply rooted sense of self-hatred. I was a victim of circumstances beyond my control and chose to be a victimizer to compensate.
"To love your neighbor as you love yourself starts with learning how to love yourself. Which means learning what it means to be honest with yourself. Learning how to trust yourself. Learning how to empathize with yourself. Learning to believe in yourself. Then learning why, it is important to incorporate all of that into how you perceive and deal others."
Before going to prison I worked as a laborer, driver, waiter, cook, and salesman. I had no real sense of what I wanted to do. I had no real direction I wanted to pursue. In prison I developed computer skill, janitorial skill and an understanding of legal research. I am not a paralegal.
In prison I made a point of enhancing my reading skill. I started with classics & developed a taste for history. I learned to understand the law as it applied to my case. First, to try to get out from under my conviction. Then to enhance my understanding of my circumstances & legally to accept the reality I had created for myself.
Bundy v. Stommel, 168 Fed.Appx. 870 (10th Cir. 2006). I attempted to hold the Colorado Department of Corrections accountable for forcing me to change my antidepressant medication as a condition of my release. I won. I focus on constitutional issues.
Today I have physical disability that makes physical work impossible. I am focused on constitutional issues. I am focused on Lincoln’s concerns about the consequences of a “house divided against itself”. I see the United States as a house divided by design. The only solution I can come up with is a constitutional amendment to “separate corporate and state”!
There were 13 US billionaires and a National Debt just shy of a trillion dollars in 1980. Now there are over 700 US billionaires and a 28 trillion dollar National Debt. Corporations control everything at the people’s expense.
Corporations have purchased control over legislative and political process. They don’t care about the “consent of the governed”, they care about their profits regardless of the cost to people and planet.
I want to figure out how to bring the people together before our Democracy is destroyed.
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An Amendment to Separate Corporate and State
2 years ago
Corporations are not human beings and shall not have the same equal protection rights under the law as individuals.