Alabama Judge Offers Deal to Defendants: Give Blood or Go to JailBy Joshua Krause Aside from how incredibly awful it is to do this to people, it also apparently leads to some rather strange and creepy situations for Americas poorest citizens. For example, a judge in Alabama has been criticized recently for quite literally trying to draw blood from a stone. On September 17th, Judge Marvin Wiggins was faced with dozens of defendants who owed money for court fees and fines. So, he gave them an ultimatum. For your consideration, theres a blood drive outside, The Times quoted him as saying. If you dont have any money, go out there and give blood and bring in a receipt indicating you gave blood. For those who had no money or did not want to give blood, the judge concluded: The sheriff has enough handcuffs. In an audio recording obtained by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a worker at the blood drive tells one defendant he is doing the right thing by giving by blood. Well, and I normally do, he replies. But, I dont like being told I have to or Im going to jail. I thought everybody was joking when he said that, the woman working the drive then said. In another recording, a blood donation ends with the donor telling a staffer: Dont thank me, thank the judge. The Times reported Wiggins declined to comment. The SPLCfiled an ethics complaint against Wigginsfor an allegedviolation of bodily integrity, the report states. Under normal circumstances this wouldnt be unethical, just creepy. However, these arent normal circumstances. This is a state where you can be thrown in jail if youre too poor to pay your debts. So the judge used his states laws as leverage, to coerce destitute people into giving up their blood. How incredibly f***ed up is that? It gets even worse when you consider what this behavior could lead to. Throwing people in jail for their inability to pay a fine, already pushes them into a cycle of poverty. In many cases, the courts can increase the fine when the defendants dont pay on time. Obviously, if they couldnt pay before, theyll never be able to pay under those conditions, which means that theyll wind up in jail. Then they can expect to lose whatever job they may have had, or their car or their place of residence. Then when theyre released, they have nothing to their name but a criminal record that might prevent them from getting another job. Perhaps theyll be homeless for a while, which in some jurisdictions, means that theyll probably be fined again for some minor offense. And on and on it goes. Now, add coerced blood donations to the mix, and you have a system that is literally vampiric. The cycle of poverty suddenly turns into routine bloodlettings to preserve your freedom. Maybe in the future the pharmaceutical industry will get in on the action, and they can force debtors to undergo medical experiments. Or, hell, maybe we can copy the Chinese government and just start harvesting organs from these criminals. There will be no way to escape that one. When the cops pull you over, they see your drivers license. They know if youre an organ donor. Hopefully this judge wont get away with this. As you can see, it would set a horrifying precedent. Joshua Krause is a reporter, writer and researcher at The Daily Sheeple. He was born and raised in the Bay Area and is a freelance writer and author. You can follow Joshuas reports at Facebook or on his personal Twitter. Joshuas website is Strange Danger. Prisoners are already coerced into medical experiments; have been for decades. Since CDC does not care to test the US blood supply which has been privately tested to be rampant with zoonotic [from vaccines grown in animal blood vectors] drug resistant mycoplasma; I guess they wont have any qualms about selling us prisoner blood for transfusions. Yeah they test for HIV, Hep ABC; but there is so much more that resides there in the most intimate of fluids Most U.S. Courts are fraudulent anyway, using British Admiralty Law of the Sea instead of Natural or Common Laws. 