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Willie Geist
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For the love of God.
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Man who wore horns in US Capitol riot moved to Virginia jail that serves organic food after nine days without eating. https://nbcnews.to/2O5cfxX
roamer65
(36,745 posts)Eat what everyone else eats or starve.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)SlogginThroughIt
(1,977 posts)targetpractice
(4,919 posts)Prisons serve vegan, halal, and kosher foods... So, serving organic food to a Pagan seems humane to me.
That said... I'm rolling my eyes at this, as well... I am not religious at all, but respect that our justice system is accommodating... even for stupid idiots.
notinkansas
(1,096 posts)than what is served to our children for school lunches. Hmmmmm.
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)Children should get decent food as well, of course.
targetpractice
(4,919 posts)handmade34
(22,756 posts)and besides, we may need him for info? hate to have him starve to death
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)He's just another Q/MAGA dipshit who bit off more than he could chew. Or less, I guess.
turtleblossom
(504 posts)There are prisoners who can't get basic medical care.
llashram
(6,265 posts)America is showing the world again, who the entitled/privileged are in this country. Greene can literally say she stands for violence against her House colleagues. Especially the women of color who are her colleagues. It is this type of support of violent delusional conspiracies that garnered her a standing ovation from 199 republikkkans in that caucus. What is this adulation concerning? Her non-apology for being another of many racists in the GQP prty.
The horned jerk? A RW Q 'shaman' who better speak up soon if he knows anything about the coordination and planning of the Jan 6 Insurrection/Sedition attempt at a coup d'tat. He is just a symbol of the RW racist extremists who are the RepubliKKKQan party 2021. Don't care if he's ever fed. His food needs mean nothing to me. Now the research begins into how many POCs get this type of attention over a fucking diet.
Skin color is still an important indicator of class and privilege in this country. Always will be. Generationally set in stone and followed as an underground/above ground edict by, at a last count, at least 70 million Americans.
With all that has transpired since the election it is those racists who believe the republiKKKQan party should rule forever. The 70 million RW supporters of d. trump had shock troops to prove that fact on 1/6 during the seditious rampage in the Capitol.
eShirl
(18,494 posts)Did I take a wrong turn or something?
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Smh.
Some of the replies in this thread disgust me
dalton99a
(81,526 posts)Celerity
(43,422 posts)not only not get the organic food, but would be brutally beaten by either the guards or by other inmates whom the guards designated to enforce the white power schema.
Chainfire
(17,553 posts)He is in jail for Christ's sakes, eat what it on the menu or starve, your freaking choice.
Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)I would never want a prisoner to starve. Or be tortured. Or be abused. Or to be murdered while in custody.
But I must recognize the inequities of treatment for prisoners, as well as the overall abuses found in America's prisons - which does include rotten, maggot infested food.
I know he is in being held in a jail and not a prison. Some jails are quite large and hold both those awaiting trial and those convicted of minor offenses.
Still applies.
I don't for a second believe a black or brown detainee would have been afforded the same treatment.
While true the answer is not to abuse everyone for the sake of equality of treatment, which is the default counter-argument a lot of people present when anyone mentions the inequities of treatment - instead of recognizing that the treatment some inmates get can only be categorized as special treatment.
Feed him his organic food - but also stop abusing inmates held in jail - and prison.
Take into consideration the health concerns of the black community. High blood pressure and diabetes require a proper diet, for two examples.
Since we're talking healthy food for healthy inmates.