By Nicholas Stix
(Thanks to Unz Reader reader, "eah.")
The Bronx Freedom Fund/the Bail Project is a non-profit agency which identifies, aids, and abets violent, colored felons, in order to spring them from jail on bail, so that they may re-offend as soon and as violently as possible.
According to its advertisement in Pretend, "it provides bail assistance to indigent defendants facing pretrial detention for low-level and misdemeanor charges.[3]"
Here's the reality:
"In April of 2018 the Bronx Freedom Fund posted bail for Lynneke Burris, One week later he raped a 23-year-old high school English teacher [12]
"In April of 2019 The Bail Project posted bail for Samuel Lee Scott, after he was jailed for domestic violence against his wife Marcia Johnson. Samuel Lee Scott was arrested again soon after, once again for savagely beating his wife. She died from her injuries 5 days later.[13]
"In August of 2019 the Bronx Freedom Fund posted bail for Randy Santos. [14] A few months later, that man murdered four homeless men and critically injured a fifth. [15]"
However, if you go to the Bronx Freedom Fund/Bail Project's Pretend entry, you will find only unicorns and rainbows. Every time someone has sought to inject a little reality, and make the entry, you know, "encyclopedic," the Wikithugs have moved in and "corrected" him.
The following version is an older one, with the truth included.
The Bronx Freedom Fund
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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Magnolia677 (talk | contribs) at 11:58, 13 December 2019 (Reverted 1 edit by 99.35.25.53 (talk) to last revision by Materialscientist (TW)). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.
| The Bronx Freedom Fund | |
| Established | March 2009; 10 years ago |
| Founders | |
| Type | charitable bail organization |
| Legal status | |
| Purpose | humanitarian |
| Headquarters | 360 East 161st Street, Bronx, NY 10451 |
| Location | |
| Services | |
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| Website | |
The Bronx Freedom Fund is a nonprofit bail fund located in the South Bronx.[1] The first charitable bail organization in New York State,[2] it provides bail assistance to indigent defendants facing pretrial detention for low-level and misdemeanor charges.[3] It was founded by David Feige, a producer, writer, and law professor, and Robin Steinberg, the founder and chief executive of The Bronx Defenders.[2] Its first grant came from the CEO of Lava Records, Jason Flom, and the Flom Family Foundation.[4]
The Bronx Freedom Fund bailed out nearly 200 people from 2007 to 2009. It closed in 2009 after Judge Ralph Fabrizio ruled that it was an uninsured bail-bond business.[5] Its co-founders, along with state senator Gustavo Rivera and then-assemblymen Phil Boyle, drafted a set of amendments allowing for a charitable exemption to the bail and insurance laws.[6] The bill, sponsored by Senator Rivera, passed unanimously through both chambers of the state legislature in 2011. It was vetoed by Governor Andrew Cuomo, and a revised bill passed in 2012.[7] The Bronx Freedom Fund reopened its doors and began to post bail, freeing hundreds of people between 2013 and 2015.[8]
In 2015, The Bronx Freedom Fund began a substantial expansion, raising additional funds, hiring new bail associates and significantly increasing its capacity, including expanding operations into other boroughs. Currently, the Freedom Fund is on track to bail out over 1,000 people per year. Also in 2015, the organization was awarded the National Criminal Justice Association's Outstanding Criminal Justice Program Award for the Northeast Region.[9]
In October of 2017, the Bronx Freedom Fund teamed up with The New Inquiry's project, Bail Bloc, which was a distributed cryptocurrency mining software that mined Monero and used the proceeds to bail people out of jail.[10]
In November of 2017, the Bronx Freedom Fund expanded again, re-launching as The Bail Project with the aim of establishing 40 bail funds across the nation to free over 150,000 people. [11]
In April of 2018 the Bronx Freedom Fund posted bail for Lynneke Burris, One week later he raped a 23-year-old high school English teacher [12]
In April of 2019 The Bail Project posted bail for Samuel Lee Scott, after he was jailed for domestic violence against his wife Marcia Johnson. Samuel Lee Scott was arrested again soon after, once again for savagely beating his wife. She died from her injuries 5 days later.[13]
In August of 2019 the Bronx Freedom Fund posted bail for Randy Santos. [14] A few months later, that man murdered four homeless men and critically injured a fifth. [15]
N.S.: I had never heard of "the Bronx Freedom Fund" before.
I googled part of the quotation from the twit eah linked to, and landed on the BFF's Pretend entry:
But it wasn't the current version, which has repeatedly been scrubbed, so as to function as an advertisement for BFF:
People have sought to make the entry encyclopedic, but the wikithugs have always censored the one editor, and double-censored the other, while terrorizing the latter. Double-censoring entails not only deleting the version someone posted, but making it impossible to ever read it by permanently removing it from the archives.
"You cannot view this diff because one or both of the revisions have been removed from the public archives. Details can be found in the deletion log for this page."
The censor lied, saying "(The references just lead to 404s.)." The links work just fine.
"(Remove unnecessarily lurid descriptions of violence for more measured statement.)"
There was nothing "unnecessarily lurid" about the descriptions. The censor simply didn't want people to know about the violence committed by clients of the BFF while out on bail.
These Bail Project folks need to be sued in civil court for helping to establish a climate that lead to the crimes being committed.
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