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Prison Proxies

reverendhornibastard
Depraved Deacon of Degeneracy
Benito Ramirez will soon begin serving time in prison for a crime he did not commit. The district attorney and the judge are fully aware that Mr. Ramirez committed no crime. His family members are pleases to see him go to prison. Even Mr. Ramirez is cheerful as be boards the bus that will take him to prison.

Benito Ramirez is just one of a rapidly growing number of “prison proxies,” people who are paid to do time in prison on behalf of clients. Benito will earn approximately $150,000 over the next three years while serving prison time on behalf of a client who paid the prison proxy agency a fee of $200,000 to arrange for someone else to serve out a sentence for a narcotics conviction.

For Mr. Ramirez, $150,000 is a sizable fortune and a vast improvement over what he could have earned over the next three years in his native country of Guatemala.

“Can jew focking beleef it?” Benito told reporters as he boarded the prison bus. “$50,00 a jeer for tres jeers! Dot eez amazing! And I no haff to paying no rent and my food eez all free! ¡Dios mio! I love America!”

Prison proxies are the third fastest growing service industry in America (after tattoo artists and desploogination services). Agencies are springing up all across the fruited plains. Prison proxies can now even be arranged for sentences of 12 months or less using smart phone apps.

Not everyone approves of prison proxies. Those liberal, vegan, pansy-asses of indeterminate gender who litter the west coast bitterly complain that prison proxy services are just another way the wealthy in America take advantage of minorities, immigrants and the less fortunate.

In a new trend that is sure to elicit further criticism, some prison proxy agencies have commenced offering proxies in death penalty cases. But having some one else executed in your place doesn’t come cheap! A stand-in for your execution can run as high as $5 million for an imminent execution or as low as $200,000 if the arrangements are made in advance (as a form of pre-paid death penalty insurance).

Ron Battaglia, proprietor of Death Penalty Understudies of Hollywood explains, “Death penalty proxies usually involve the elderly or terminally ill who are short-timers anyway. They see this as a way to pay their medical expenses and still leave a tidy sum behind for their surviving family members.”

Howls of outrage against death penalty proxies are increasingly widespread. Opponents claim that death penalty proxies are nothing more than a modern day form of human sacrifice and urge lawmakers to outlaw the practice.

David Goldstein, owner of the Angels of Redemption (a death penalty proxy agency in Brooklyn) cavalierly brushes aside all the criticisms asking, “A proxy is executed on the gurney for your crime and Jesus died on the cross for your sins, so you tell me, what’s the big fucking difference?”

10 comments

  • Icey
    5 years ago
    As disturbing as it sounds....I wouldn't put it past being real in the future. I'm banking on India, where selling your organs or children is an acceptable way to handle debt....
  • reverendhornibastard
    5 years ago
    Even though most Christians are too blind to see it, human sacrifice as a proxy punishment is the central underlying premise of Christianity.
  • gSteph
    5 years ago
    Me thinks this post is 41 days late.....
  • Icey
    5 years ago
    Its the Abrahamic faiths in general.

    In Judaism, sacrifice is commanded by God in the Torah... you have 3 kinds, sacrificing animals for God, as peace offerings and the notion of God enabling surprise mass killings to show his strength and power(ie the plagues he sent to Egypt during Passover)...its called olah and basically amounts to holocaust. That coupled with the covenant of Abraham, form the basis of sacrifice in Christianity and Islam... The Arabic term for ritual sacrifice, Qurban is essentially the same as the Hebrew Korban and stems from it.
  • reverendhornibastard
    5 years ago
    The constant warfare between the adherents of the different branches of the Abrahamic faiths always struck me as the equivalent of sibling rivalry, but much more deadly.

    But of the three, Christianity gets the medal for emphasizing substitute punishment through the human sacrifice of Jesus as the path for redemption.

    I find it mind boggling that anyone with any education can believe such rubbish. On the other hand, that so many intelligent, well educated people are hoodwinked by such nonsense demonstrates the power and danger of religions.

    Religious people possessing nuclear weapons are damned scary. America has to be the among the scariest with its deep reservoir of evangelical zealots, its vast nuclear arsenal and phenomenal delivery capacities.
  • Icey
    5 years ago
    Its never about "religion" per se. Every conflict has an ideological rallying cry and religion has been used as such.... But with the Middle East, its pretty much just been about access to limited arable land and resources. Even the Crusades were about controlling trade routes.

    Religion is an effective method of social control though.... Create a society where people's needs aren't being met and teach them its okay coz they'll be better off in heaven, and they better not act up against the status quo coz this is the society god wants, and if they act up they'll go to hell.

    The thing is, a good person by religious standards isn't an ethical or moral person, its a person who adheres to dogma and does what those perceived to hold the tenets of the faith tell them to do.
  • Icey
    5 years ago
    Its never about "religion" per se. Every conflict has an ideological rallying cry and religion has been used as such.... But with the Middle East, its pretty much just been about access to limited arable land and resources. Even the Crusades were about controlling trade routes.

    Religion is an effective method of social control though.... Create a society where people's needs aren't being met and teach them its okay coz they'll be better off in heaven, and they better not act up against the status quo coz this is the society god wants, and if they act up they'll go to hell.

    The thing is, a good person by religious standards isn't an ethical or moral person, its a person who adheres to dogma and does what those perceived to hold the tenets of the faith tell them to do.
  • Icey
    5 years ago
    Its never about "religion" per se. Every conflict has an ideological rallying cry and religion has been used as such.... But with the Middle East, its pretty much just been about access to limited arable land and resources. Even the Crusades were about controlling trade routes.

    Religion is an effective method of social control though.... Create a society where people's needs aren't being met and teach them its okay coz they'll be better off in heaven, and they better not act up against the status quo coz this is the society god wants, and if they act up they'll go to hell.

    The thing is, a good person by religious standards isn't an ethical or moral person, its a person who adheres to dogma and does what those perceived to hold the tenets of the faith tell them to do.
  • reverendhornibastard
    5 years ago
    By the standards of some, people who:

    * donned white robes and terrorized black communities ...

    * engaged in the genocide of the Jews ...

    * hijacked airplane and flew them into tall buildings full of people ...

    * root the Rohingya from their homelands forcing them to flee to Bangladesh ...

    ... are doing the work of God.
  • Icey
    5 years ago
    In your examples, religion was just used as a rallying call for people to engage in politically motivated acts.

    On the flip side we have liberation theology.
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