Bars, bricks, locks....
Having the recent experience of being ripped from my car, also my current home, and being suddenly behind bars for being "Poor and trusting."
Separation of economic status is another way in which we hurt and harm our fellow residents on this slanted and sick playing field.
WE think we are better off but it can be a slippery slide as I had my house squatted, all my possession lest a few clothes, gone, stolen.
Recently, The police informed me I was not allowed to ask for help after my car was sabotaged. Revived today. They said the panhandling laws were in effect and you can only ask for help based on you knowing the person you are asking.
But then who do we really know.
Good question, but my car window was broken out as a so-called friend of mine was supposedly trying to help me. I had put in $30 worth of gas and the car would not get the red light to go off. The tank had been tampered, vacuum lines were removed, several things dismantled.
The police nor my friend listened to my plea for help with the car that was stuck at the pump at Sierra Gateway market in South Lake California.
Next an officer and a can of mace burst, broke my window, my car, me and I'm sure the officer were inundated in this hot fluid. I still taste it weeks later. It's hard to breathe, but you learn. I burned and would never think this is a good idea to do to anybody.
Then I'm blinded as the tears from the flames keep reactivating with each tear drop. I learned to cry dry tears to avoid the blinding pain.
I was taken to jail, where I was treated to some initial brutality which lead to getting some stitches on the face. But no one was bothered by the fact that they were bullying a 50 year old woman.
NO PHONE CALL
We Americans have been conditioned to believe we have this famous phone call as we call a lawyer or bondsman. Not.
The only phone calls that can go out must be collect and anyone knows the charges that are upgraded for poor people or young people to have to handle finding themselves charged with a crime. There are a lot of younger kids in this situation, striving to meet the system which does not want to lose control.
NO way, Kern County jail out of control?
Head games, no mercy, and judgments full of monies no one could possibly pay therefore keeping this social strata in debt. Then crime revolves again as they commit more crimes to fulfill financial obligations that are always kept out of their reach.
I got my phone call via the public defender the day I was in court. MARCH 7th.
No one knew where I was at, neither did I some of the time, lol, but that is nothing compared to the locks and bars, the loud sounds they use as a way to degrade all who enter. Guards have their agenda, there are those in the system bringing drugs, foods, and other infos into these cell blocks.
Can't hardly hear anything until the screaming at night, while mice hunger for leftovers that most are not eating. No food is better than these bags of no food values. But it depends who you are and who you know. They want their jails-- what better way than to rig a game.
Make a law, say something like "Laura's mental health laws" where one diagnosed must adhere to medications. I never saw my medications for either my thyroid which keeps me alive or for my mental health concoction I had been prescribed.
They were breaking the law every day they kept me.
Who held them accountable?
I do, but enforcement is tough.
I saw a lot of odd things as a pregnancy test. I was told this included all women up to 100 years old. I had a hysterectomy, and I got one.
ISOLATE
At some point they had me in a suicide watch, yet I had not said I was suicidal. This was demeaning, cold, and difficult to endure.
But we make it thru everything.
Hold on to that, but make sure to help yours stuck in jail, as it does not take much to be suddenly imprisoned, taken from your family, and spit back out with a record. Borrowing a pain pill from a friend can lead to $10,000 bail in Kern County courts.
I'm off to my probation officer to find out where all these fines I incurred are actually going, and how in the world as a currently homeless, broke person, am going to pay.
If there is a delay in my posting, you reader, should know I maybe out there in jail again, enduring the seedy nature on both sides of the bars. Many young women sell out to get to their kids. Mother's love is strong. Male inmates are always on their toes it's tough in there, however, we akCt, it's painful.
Birds dogs, me, kids, should never be held in cages. It's mind bending pain, emotional chaos. It's a sad point that our dog pounds and cat shelters got less money to euthanize, and they stay in small cages. Try it sometime, if you know space, and find yourself feeling that of those lonesome pups at the local Jerry Brown austerity project.
Budget cuts.
It's a sick society, and it's tool is separation.
TAke care and bail out all who will go.....Laura Hart The Bi-polar American
www.thebipolaramerican.blogspot.com
