OF A FEDERAL JUDGE AND HER INVOLVEMENT OF A MASSIVE
ICE RELATED RAID THAT TOOK PLACE AND I WAS SEVERAL YEARS AGO.
THE FEDERAL JUDGE IS LINDA R.
READE AND MOTHER JONES DID A GREAT JOB LOOKING INTO THE
PIECE LOOKING AT HER FINANCIAL DISCLOSURES AND REALIZING
HER HUSBAND WAS INVESTED IN STOCKS THAT WERE TIED TO
PRIVATE PRISONS SO GEO GROUP AND CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF
AMERICA WHICH IS NOW CHANGED ITS NAME TO CORE CIVIC TO TRY
TO REBRAND ITSELF, BUT I AM ON TO YOU.
I KNOW THAT YOU ARE A TERRIBLE CORPORATION.
ANYWAY, I'M ON TO YOU.
YOU'LL NOTICE THAT A CORPORATION HAS ISSUES WHEN IT STARTS
TO REBRAND OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
ALL THE CIGARETTE COMPANIES ALIKE OH, WE'RE NOT PHILIP
MORRIS ANYMORE.
THOSE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO CAUSED CANCER WITH CIGARETTES.
WHERE NEW.
I FORGET WHICH ONE IS WHICH.
BLACKWATER?
DID RECALL IT THAT?
KNOW, WE'RE PUPPY CLOUD NOW.
THEY RENAMED THEMSELVES THREE TIMES.
SAME ROWS AND NOT MUCH OF ONE.
EXACTLY.
UNDERSTAND THAT PRIVATE PRISON COMPANIES MAKE THE MOST
AMOUNT OF MONEY OFF OF DETAINING UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS AND
ALSO IMPRISONING PEOPLE WHO ARE NONVIOLENT DRUG OFFENDERS AND
SO WHEN DONALD TRUMP GOT ELECTED STOCK VALUES FOR GEO GROUP FOR
INSTANCE WENT UP CONSIDERABLY BECAUSE THEY KNEW THAT
TRUMP WAS GOING TO SPECIFICALLY TARGET UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS.
THAT MEANS THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE MORE PRISONERS AND
MAKE MORE MONEY.
GOING BACK SEVERAL YEARS AGO THERE WAS A HUGE RATE THAT
TOOK PLACE IN IOWA.
IT WAS KNOWN AS THE POSTVILLE RAID THAT HAPPENED AT A
SLAUGHTERHOUSE AND SO NEARLY 400
WORKERS WERE ARRESTED IN THE BUST WHICH COST $5 MILLION AND
WAS THEN THE BIGGEST WORKPLACE IMMIGRATION RAID
IN US HISTORY.
SO ALL OF YOU PEOPLE GET ARRESTED.
THEY GET PROCESSED IN A VERY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.
A LITTLE OVER A WEEK, AND MANY OF THEM TESTIFIED THAT THEY
WERE FORCED TO PLEAD GUILTY.
THEY WERE COERCED INTO PLEADING GUILTY AND SO OF COURSE, IF
YOU PLEAD GUILTY, YOU'RE GOING TO BE FOUND GUILTY AND YOU
ARE GOING TO SPEND SOME TIME BEHIND BARS.
HERE IS THE IMPORTANT PART.
MEANING THAT SHE HAD A VESTED INTEREST IN GOING THROUGH
WITH THIS GIANT ICE RAID.
THERE'S A HUGE DISPARITY THERE BUT THAT'S ACCORDING TO HER
OWN FINANCIAL DISCLOSURES.
THEY LET YOU PUT IN A RANGE.
EXACTLY.
THERE ARE A GREAT NUMBER OF
ISSUES HERE.
1ST OFF, ISSUE NUMBER ONE IS THEY ASKED HER CAN WE DO
THIS REQUEST AS SHE WAS PART OF THE PROCESS TO AUTHORIZE IT.
SHE KNOWS THAT HER HUSBAND OWNS STOCK IN PRIVATE PRISONS AND IN
FACT, THEY ASKED FOR THE AUTHORIZATION IN MARCH.
5 DAYS BEFORE THEY DO THE RAID HE BUYS MORE SHARES OF THE STOCK.
DEFENSE LAWYERS ARE PROBABLY COMPLAINING, WAIT, THEY WENT
THERE SOME MOCK TRIALS LIKE HOW QUICKLY CAN WE CONVICT ALL OF
THESE PEOPLE.
IT'S DEEPLY PROBLEMATIC BECAUSE IT ASSUMES
CONVICTIONS, WHATEVER THAT YOU CAN DEBATE THAN SAY THEY DIDN'T
ASSUME CONVICTIONS, THEY WERE JUST GETTING READY BECAUSE
THEY HAD A PROCESS FOR HUNDRED PEOPLE IN A HURRY AND YOU
NEED TO GIVE THEM SPEEDY TRIALS.
THAT IS DEBATABLE.
THE SECOND PORTION IS, SHOULD A JUDGE BE ALLOWED, HER
FAMILY ALLOWED TO OWN STOCK IN A PRIVATE PRISON WHEN SHE IS
IMPRISONING PEOPLE?
SHE HAS AN INCENTIVE TO PRINT PRISON MORE PEOPLE AND FOR
LONGER OF TIME.
THAT IS NOT REMOTELY DEBATABLE.
EXACTLY DUCK
JUST BROKE WITH, THE THIRD ISSUE IS IF YOU TAKE
ADVANTAGE OF INFORMATION THAT IS NOT PUBLIC.
AND YOU ARE A GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL ESPECIALLY IF YOU
ARE A JUDGE AND USE THAT TO MAKE TRADES, THAT IS ALSO DEEPLY
UNETHICAL.
YOU WERE TELLING ME IT IS A COINCIDENCE THAT HE BOUGHT
STOCK FIVE DAYS BEFORE THE BIGGEST RAID THAT HAD EVER
HAPPENED LIKE THIS BEFORE?
KNOW.
IN JUDICIAL CIRCLES THE APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY
IS ALMOST AS IMPORTANT AS IMPROPRIETY ITSELF BECAUSE
THEN PEOPLE START TO QUESTION THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM AND
WHETHER IT IS FAIR.
DID SHE TAKE ENOUGH CARE TO MAKE SURE THE PEOPLE DIDN'T
QUESTION THE IMPROPRIETY OF HER ACTIONS?
HELL NO.
THIS IS DEEPLY PROBLEMATIC.
THAT IS THE REASON WHY JUDGES ARE SUPPOSED TO DISCLOSE
THEIR FINANCIAL SITUATION, TO SEE IF THERE'S ANY TYPE OF
UNETHICAL ISSUE THERE.
IF THE JUDGE IS SUPPOSED TO RECUSE HERSELF OR HIS SELF IN A
CASE IF THERE IS A VESTED INTEREST TO RULE A CERTAIN WAY
AND SO THAT IS THE ISSUE IS AND ALSO KEEP IN MIND THAT SIMPLY
BEING HERE AS AN UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT, IF IT IS THE FIRST
TIME THAT YOU HAVE GOTTEN CAUGHT BEING HERE, THAT IS NOT A
FELONY.
IT IS NOT A CRIMINAL OFFENSE.
THEY WILL SUPPORT YOU, BUT IT IS NOT CONSIDERED A CRIMINAL
OFFENSE.
THE WAY THAT THEY HANDLED THESE WORKERS WAS DIFFERENT FROM
HOW THINGS WERE DONE PREVIOUSLY.
THEY TREATED THEM AS CRIMINALS BECAUSE THEY SAID, WELL,
THEY ARE WORKING AT THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE AND THEY ARE
USING EMPLOYER ID NUMBERS OR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS
THAT DO NOT BELONG TO THEM SO AS A RESULT, WE ARE GOING TO
TREAT THEM AS CRIMINALS.
WHAT YOU THINK THEY DID THAT?
THEY DID THAT BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO IMPRISON THEM.
THAT IS THE REASON WHY DUCK
YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND SOMETHING.
IN THE
REGULAR WAY OF DOING THINGS, IT IS NOT LIKE THEY'RE SOFT ON
THEM.
ITíS A CIVIL VIOLATION BUT THEY DEPORT THEM IMMEDIATELY.
IN THIS CASE, THEY DIDN'T DEPORT THEM.
THEY DECIDED TO HAVE MORE COST ON THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER.
EXACTLY.
PUT THEM IN PRISON FOR FIVE MONTHS THAT GENERALLY
SPEAKING ROUGHLY AND AFTER WE PAY ALL OF THAT COST, THEY
DEPORT THEM ANYWAY.
WHY NOT JUST A PORT THEM?
THAT IS THE WHOLE POINT OF BUSTING THEM FOR BEING
UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS.
THAT IS EXACTLY IT.
IF YOU ARE AGAINST UNDOCKING MINUTE IMMIGRANTS AND YOU
ARE LIKE THEY SHOULD BE HERE, WE SHOULD GET RID OF THEM,
THEY ARE TRAINING OUR RESOURCES, OKAY.
DON'T YOU THINK IT'S A LITTLE STRANGE THAT PRIVATE PRISONS
ARE PROFITING OFF OF IMPRISONING THEM BEFORE WE DEPORT THEM?
NOT ONLY DID IT COST US A TON OF MONEY TO IMPRISON ALL OF
THOSE GUYS FOR THAT TIME.
THE MECHANICS OF THE BUST COST $5 MILLION.
IT IS MONEY ON TOP OF MONEY AND THEN A VERY IMPORTANT POINT.
ANA POINTED OUT THAT READS HUSBAND BOUGHT THE STOCK
AND BY THE WAY, WHEN YOUR HUSBAND BUYS IT, YOU ARE
FAMILY AND IT IS CONSIDERED THE SAME AS YOU BUYING IT.
HE BOUGHT IT BETWEEN 30
AND HUNDRED THOUSAND ANY THEN SOLD IT FIVE MONTHS LATER.
HE BUYS IT FIVE DAYS FOR THE RATE, SELLS IT FIVE MONTHS
AFTER.
IT WENT FROM 30 200,000.
THE NEW RANGE WITH 65,000 250,000.
WENT UP ANYWHERE BETWEEN 50 TO 100% IN VALUE.
THEY ARE GOING TO TELL US IT IS A WILD COINCIDENCE.
NO, AS A JUDGE YOU DON'T GET THAT COINCIDENCES LIKE THAT
AND SO THIS IS AN OPEN AND SHUT CASE.
THEY SHOULD TAKE EVERY KIND OF ETHICAL ACTION AGAINST HER
BECAUSE LOOK, THIS IS BAD ON 18 DIFFERENT LEVELS AS WE JUST
EXPLAINED TO YOU BUT IT WOULD BE ENOUGH IF ALL YOU DID WAS BY
PRISON, PRIVATE PRISON COMPANY STOCK AND YOU ARE A JUDGE.
THAT IS INSANE.
YOU HAVE A PROFIT MOTIVE TO PUT PEOPLE IN PRISON WHETHER
THEY ARE GUILTY OR NOT TO GIVE THEM LONGER SENTENCES
WHETHER THEY DESERVE IT OR NOT.
NO JUDGE IN AMERICA SHOULD BE ABLE TO BUY PRIVATE PRISON
STOCK.
THAT IS INSANITY.
THAT IS NOT CAPITALISM, THAT IS USING THE SYSTEM TO
IMPRISON AND ENSLAVE POTENTIALLY INNOCENT AMERICANS.
BY THE WAY, NOW, I THINK THE PRISON SYSTEM ESPECIALLY
BECAUSE OF THE WAR ON DRUGS HAS AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF
RACIAL ISSUES, BUT THIS IS NOT RACIAL.
SHE DOES NOT CARE IF YOU'RE WHITE, BLACK, LATINO, OR
ASIAN, SHE IS MAKING CASH OFF OF IMPRISONING YOU.
YOU THINK SHE IS GOING TO CARE?
KNOW.
IF YOU ALLOW IT FOR OTHER JUDGES, YOU THINK THEY ARE
GOING TO CARE?
SOME OF THEM ARE GOING TO BE GOOD GUYS AND NOT CARE BUT
A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE INFLUENCED BY THE MONEY.
IT WOULD BE INSANE NOT TO REALIZE THAT.
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