“Murderobelia” James Bauhaus 2011

This is a media-created word used to sell a backstory that outrages the ignorant, the gullible, the too trusting and the inexperienced. Editors play a high stakes game of creating "controversy" (outrage) so that they may collect responses from their audience to show to advertisers. They tell them, "Look at this mountain of mail we got: This is why our rates went up; more people watch our "news" shows:" When it is a slow crime day, and no politician is performing or getting caught, editors cycle through their "Topics o' Interest". A few days ago, (5-20-2011) CNN came up with Murderobelia. It ran a crawl under its tornado footage that said, "Nevada serial killer sells paintings:" A day later, they gave a couple of precious news-minutes to the FBI selling their Unbomber's crap and their efforts to steal his DNA in hopes of pinning the tylenol poisonings on him. Prior to this, the TV pawnshop guys were selling a show featuring a cop's murderobelia on the Lindberg baby kidnaping. The "customer" and head pawn-star guy together put out the most wrong account of the case in recent years. (Bruno Hauptman was sloppily framed in lieu of the real killer-kidnapper by a parade of crooked cops, corrupt prosecutors, lying witnesses and hysterical media offal before being executed and shoved into a grave in record setting time. This despite the Governor's opinion that he was innocent. "Miscarriages of Justice..." by Hugo Bedau and Michael Radelet, in Stanford Law Review, vol. 40:21, 1987, p. 129.)(insert hyperlink)

When our media pals sell us these stories, their aim is usually to convince us that some low-life criminal psychopath is somehow raking in the dough past helpless prison guards. They also try to make us believe that this phantom gold mine is provided courtesy of his victims. One minute of critical thinking, however, causes the tale to collapse for lack of logic or substance. No one wants John Wayne Gacy's paintings except perhaps his mother. Guards get jealous when they see captives mailing out too much hobbycraft nonsense to try and pay back sisters, mothers, brothers, kids or other family or friends for sending them dollars to buy the warden's heavily price-gouged junk food, etc. (Outrageous markups of from 300 to 6800 percent are common.) These jealous guards get on television by simply saying obvious nonsense for eager "news" reporters, such as, "Charles Manson gets stacks of love letters every day:" The cops and the prosecutor who made his career off convicting Manson play along when the docu-tainment guys bring their cameras. Despite this concentration of mythology and snakeoil, no one wants to buy O.J. Simpson's paintings either, (if he is the unnamed "serial killer" on CNN's crawl). If anyone does, it will be because he is a famous ballplayer or movie star, not for being branded a criminal. Someone may buy his crap as an investment, but no normal person will invest in his infamy. The TV pawn guy already turned up his nose at buying-to-sell Hitler/Nazi murderobelia. He knows he can not sell it. It was only okay to buy Lindberg murderobelia because a cop's kid was selling it. Maybe cops buy it because cops sell it. Trafficking in murderobelia by govcrats among themselves seems to clean some of the blood off of it, if media attitudes can be accepted. Anonymous FBI crats excuse their sale of Unbomber murderobelia by having some media personalities proclaim that some of the money collected will be given to his victims. CNN reporters claim that some anonymous person offered $30,000 for something of his.

The only ones with fond memories of the cops' Unbomber are the cops themselves, so, perhaps they are actually buying crap that belonged to the guy who had them flying all over the country interrogating people for what, seventeen years? Maybe the $30,000 offer really is true. Maybe Mr. $30,000 is paying with money that FBI agents collected in Iraq while they were stealing those $7 million in bogus overtime hours. Hell, If one of those FBI criminals ever saw the inside of a jail cage for that megatheft of taxpayer cash, I might want to buy some of their 'Obelia: But, actually, I would not give a nickle for all the trenchcoats and mirror sunglasses they have. They can be proud that they finally got their police Unbomber, and want a trinket of his to remind them of these good old days, but only a cop with million$ to flush would waste $30,000 on it, whatever it is. He would also have to have a scew loose. If any not-a-cop bought it, his name, picture, prints, DNA and identification numbers would immediately be added to the cops' massive terrorist-pick lists. Obviously no rational person with two brain cells would even bid on the crap for this reason alone:

Most people don't realize that so-called murderobelia has long been outlawed. Decades ago, politicians noticed that there was a minuscule possibility that a Hollywood producer may buy rights to a crime story instead of simply taking it for nothing by making slight changes. Also, some criminal may have actually written a book that disparages their lawyers' system.

The lawyers and politicians quickly worked together to snatch up the money from this remote possibility. They enacted crap legislation that they call "Son o' Sam" laws, which siphon off all possible revenue from books, etc, from the convictee's pocket into their own. A Portion of any such thefts is said to go to the crime victim, through the usual overbloated lawyer bureaucracy that manages to eat most of it to support itself, (They are never audited.) Almost none of the money comes from an y book or film sales. Most all of it comes from forced labor, targeted taxes upon the convictee, theft of his wages, and fees for release from prison. Many greedy, malicious, glory-grabbing, predatory politicians even managed to pass illegal laws that stole a large percentage of money sent to captives from their mothers, sisters, and other family and friends. (See: "Dear Editor" Tulsa world, 9-29-2006; Okie Legislator Kenneth Korn's attempt to copy Utah and Nevada laws stealing 20% of all captive's money sent to the prison for purchase of prison junk food, electronics, etc.) These taxes on families and friends of captives last years. Like octopus suckers, they are easy to attach and difficult to peel off. Their Son o' Sam laws were eventually kicked off as illegal laws, but slippery politicians merely made semantic changes to the wording and swiftly sneaked them back into law. (See: "Can't You Read:?", "Neverending Screwjob", "On the Extreme Flexibility of Law", "Secret Cop Lobby Antics", Stealth Rights Thefts", "Stealth Rights Robbery", "War on (govt) Corruption", "How Politicians Juke Justice" et al) Because law is deliberately made to look complex, and because citizens are kept too busy trying to make a living, few realize the hordes of govt parasites that we support so grandly are not needed. They are actually very harmful to our standard of living. They and their media enablers keep us distracted and stampeding in circles with nonsense like murderobelia to prevent us from noticing that they are on permanent, luxurious vacation on our credit card.

The first part of a citizens' civic duty to his govt is to always apply critical analysis to everything any politician or his media chatterers are trying to sell you. American citizens are the hardest working, most heavily taxed citizens on this planet. Our blood, sweat and tears fatten the largest, richest pack of politicians that Earth has ever seen. Since we can't fire any of these parasites, or punish any of them for their multitude of crimes against the common good of all, we should at least try to minimize their harm and obtain more service for the excess they cost us. If you do not think we should, maybe you'd like to buy some of MY "murderobelia". It is from the longest imprisoned, proven innocent person known. Thirty-nine years paid for a killer that govt refuses to convict and insists on letting run loose.