Want CCA's Playbook?

HOA presidents and others that attend these so called Advisory Meetings, here's food for thought.

Picture you are in the Superbowl and somebody hands you the opposing team's playbook.  Would you use it to defeat your opponent, or would you ignore it?

Football Playbook.  Your insight to victory.

In this battle, we are fortunate to have the ICE/CCA/SWR playbook.  It's called -An Information Brief- Issues in Citing Correctional Facilities.



Sam Poole of Berger-Singerman complained to me a few weeks ago that we made false claims about the impact property values of a Goodyear Arizona correctional facility.  During this conversation, to the best of my recollection, he mentioned that this NIC brief was an independent brief and written by the authors of the source document.  This isn't true. The NIC brief clearly states that the brief was "Adapted by Cindie Unger from Impact of Correctional Facilities on Land Values and Public Safety."

It does not say it was written nor endorsed by any of the authors even though Sam specifically said that Abrams and Lyons were party to writing the brief. The devil is in the details.

Who exactly is Cindie Unger? Her LinkedIn profile reveals one of her prior employment positions.

Co-Owner Corrections Partners

1990 – 1995 (5 years)

CPI developed and managed private prisons. We sold this company in August 1995 to Corrections Corporation of America

She is currently headquartered in... you guessed it... Nashville, TN.  That's the corporate home of CCA.  Her current employer is another one of these spooky security companies, http://www.criterionsecurity.com/.

It is important to know this because any of the factual conclusions in this brief are not independent and are biased.; The brief was published in 1992, midway between her business endeavor which led to a sale of her company to CCA. The source paper is the only place where factual information is found given the outrageous bias of Ms. Unger.

The brief is a playbook for all the talking heads like Sam Poole and Lucibeth Mayberry to program us with and to spoon feed talking points to their hapless toadies on backwater town councils all over the country, from Pahrump, to Crete to Southwest Ranches.

Are you a rat in a maze or a human being?

Her LinkedIn profile also tells us that Ms. Unger has a degree in psychology, so, as we have claimed all along, we are being psychologically manipulated like rats in a maze to accept CCA in our backyard.  Here's the road map for overcoming YOU.

How can the public be made to feel a part of the decision making process?
The agency should consider adopting a formal siting program to promote public participation. Common elements of successful siting programs include:

• Forming, early in the planning process, a community advisory committee, with broadbased membership from influential segments of the community.
• Affording community leaders visits to or video tours of existing facilities comparable to the one proposed for their area.
• Providing opportunities for community and neighborhood leaders to meet with their counterparts from areas where public participation options have been used successfully to site facilities.
• Providing communities with funds for technical assistance to provide additional unbiased information.
• Limiting the time period for decision making.
• Disseminating information through brief, descriptive written materials, and informational meetings.
• Mitigating the perceived effects of the facility by offering a compensation package.

Advisory Committee:.  If you think this is not core to their playbook, ask yourself why Debbie Wasserman Schultz spearheaded Advisory Meetings and is hiding behind them.  These are not democratic and open meetings.  They are by invitation only.  Our members have been threatened with arrest or simply barred by BSO from entering.  The key word here is "broadbased."  Broadbased INCLUDES skeptics they think they can manage or use in their public relations game.  So, if you are a HOA president, a skeptic, and are attending, you are following script by act, scene and verse.  You are undermining your own resistance.

Visits or Tours: We all know how proudly Marygay Chaples proclaims that she's "gathering information" by going on these paid CCA junkets.  It's all part of the playbook, isn't it?  She and the others who go on these trips are all part of CCA's plans to overcome resistance and opposition.  It says so right here as written by a private prison owner who sold her company to CCA.

Limiting Time Period for Decision Making: Unfortunately for CCA and SWR, there is a third party involved in the decision making which moves at a glacier's pace.  That party is the Federal Government.  However, we know that Keith Poliakoff tells us every few weeks that the contracts are coming.  This, in my opinion, is an attempt to limit the time period for decision making even when there is no basis to do so.

Disseminating Information:  We know that CCA tried to use an Informational Meeting on November 5th and has used 4 concise mailings and 2 concise robocalls to disseminate "information."  All part of the playbook.

Offering a Compensation Package:  When all else fails, offer what amounts to a bribe.  Appeal to ignorance and greed as a last resort.  Southwest Ranches council claims they will only do it if the money is good enough.

So, now that you have seen the playbook "adapted" by somebody in the private prison industry who profited off CCA, do you really think that you are smarter than them and in control of the situation?

This is the opinion of some of the HOA presidents who are in opposition to the prison, yet who are playing their roles perfectly in the CCA script that has been exposed.

You aren't smarter than them.  You are part of their plans.  You must boycott these meetings.  You never negotiate with an invading enemy.  You fight them.  They want to put a prison in your back yard.  You don't want them to.  There's nothing left to negotiate or to understand.