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Topic: keanu reeves, spy for the justice dept?
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katatonic
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posted September 15, 2009 02:58 PM
 
a possible new role for actors in this time of corruption and obstruction?Keanu Reeves tours NY jails that are barred from feds
Sept. 15, 2009, 8:30 AM EST
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- Actor Keanu Reeves had no problem getting inside Buffalo-area jails. The feds haven't been so lucky. The star of the "Matrix" film trilogy spent last weekend scouting locations for a new film. His visit included tours of two jail facilities that are the target of a U.S. Justice Department lawsuit accusing the Erie County Sheriff's Department of civil rights violations. County officials have barred federal investigators from the jails, but Reeves was given tours of the facilities on Sunday. Afterward, county officials said Reeves shouldn't have been allowed inside the jails. Bing: Where was your favorite film shot? Reeves was checking out possible film locations for "Henry's Crime," which casts him as tollbooth worker wrongly accused of robbing a Buffalo bank. IP: Logged |
cpn_edgar_winner
Knowflake Posts: 1305
From: Toledo, OH
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted September 15, 2009 03:11 PM
i love him.i always knew he was different than all the rest. IP: Logged |
Node
Knowflake Posts: 242
From: Nov. 11 2005
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted September 15, 2009 03:38 PM
 the corrections business has become a hot new growth industry.
http://public.findlaw.com/civil-rights/more-civil-rights-topics/institutionalized-persons-discrimination-more/private-jails.html
also California and this->No government program has slowed prison growth faster than Prop. 36. Since its inception, there has been a 32 percent drop in individuals incarcerated for drug possession in California.
That makes the Prison Industrial Complex, or as I call it, “the PIC,” very nervous. The PIC needs prisoners to justify its existence. It is the PIC’s economic food. Any reduction in prisoner intake threatens to shrink prison budgets, slow prison-guard salary increases and halt prison-staff job expansion. It’s like the military budget to the Pentagon. Without war, it is threatened. The so-called War On Drugs must continue if the PIC is to flourish. Ultimately, Prop. 5 threatens that. The PIC has done everything within its media reach to smear and defeat Prop. 5. They have called it a Drug Dealers Bill of Rights, a get-out-of-jail-free card, an abuse of big government and a secret attempt by George Soros to legalize drugs. In the end, it is simply about drug treatment instead of incarceration. *rumor alert*
I have tried in the past to find out which politicians own stock, either it is buried deeply, or I never used the right search terms.
I heard that Elected officials are in the for profit prison game. Again it is a rumor only, I have never found anything to back it up. IP: Logged |
katatonic
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posted September 15, 2009 04:05 PM
even now, with the fed refusing to legalize marijuana, california medical marijuana stores are paying HUGE taxes to both state AND FEDERAL govs...on a recent doc about the subject (66% of mendocino cty's economy is weed-related!) one store owner declined to state his gross income because, even though they could bust him any day, the feds are getting about a half million yearly in taxes from his enterprise. ONE store!for every prisoner the yearly cost is about $30K according to the last info i saw. these people could be growing tax-producing crops and paying their own way! not to mention all the "drug war soldiers" who would not have to be paid...quite a lot of money to cover other more essential expenses, and create more spaces in rehab for those who actually need it...some are taking up spaces there just to avoid imprisonment... IP: Logged |
katatonic
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posted September 15, 2009 04:06 PM
as to the original topic, this opportunity may not come again, but since the prison seems willing to rent out to filmmakers people in the film industry might actually get a chance to find out what the government employee-spies are not given a chance to...IP: Logged |
cpn_edgar_winner
Knowflake Posts: 1305
From: Toledo, OH
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted September 15, 2009 04:31 PM
my postgot lost in cyber space...but i was going to say, theyjust don't listent ot he people. the people have clearly stated they want legalized weed. also, stiffer penalties for crimes of violence. they don't have enough money to check on some perv who brutally raped a woman and then had the audacity to hold captive a woman in his yard for 18 years andf ather 2 children with her, which he paraded around the city?
no time to check on this perv?
no money in the budget? meanwhile joe pothead spends 20 years behind bars for manufacturing weed?its all about money.
thats allit ever was about. IP: Logged |
Node
Knowflake Posts: 242
From: Nov. 11 2005
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted September 15, 2009 06:49 PM
I was not aware that they could keep the Feds out. So this is an education.I am assuming Hollywood would pay a facility for it's use. Who knows maybe he will be "debriefed" sorry couldn't help that one...
And as to Mr. Virgo
I have always liked him. even when it was unpopular *pre-matrix*
Coincidentally the Kathryn Bigelow directed movie Point Break is on tonight w/ Keanu and Pat Swayzy...some of their best work. IP: Logged |
katatonic
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posted September 15, 2009 07:21 PM
yes i wonder how they get away with that (refusing entry to fed inspection). i agree with you both, something likeable about the guy, though onscreen i don't respond to him at all. maybe it is that virgo rationality that gets in his way,, not sure.not that they would show him anything the feds would be looking for, all a big joke really! IP: Logged |
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