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Under Lock & Key is a news service written by and for prisoners with a focus on what is going on behind bars throughout the United States. Under Lock & Key is available to U.S. prisoners for free through MIM(Prisons)'s Free Political Literature to Prisoners Program, by writing:
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The British did it to the Native
Americans,
the Zionists are doing it the Palestinians
taking the people’s land.
No one wants to stop the genocide,
because its not their people being victimized,
but let it would have been the other way around,
they would be begging the world to sympathize.
To all “Bund” Jews, I love you,
if you’re a “Zionist”, fuck you,
for what you’re doing to the Palestinians,
the new Hitler is Netanyahu.
It ain’t Israel or the Jews, it’s the Zionist government,
doing Amerikkka’s bidding and devilishment,
manipulating the six point star, invaders being decadent.
To Israel, Amerikkka’s giving weapons of every kind,
while sending food and aid to Palestine,
what could be more hypocritical,
people, please read between the lines.
If you vote for any of these hypocrites,
you are worst than them in head and feet.
Before I vote for any plutocrat,
I’ll vote for a dog in the street.
This is no democracy, it is a plutocracy,
the Palestinians are dying by the thousands,
to uphold CIPWS Zionist supremacy.
Your time is coming NetanHITLER,
you will forever be guilty in the eyes of history.
Dear pro Palestinian student protesters,
please know that the world is with you,
you own the future.
You are being admired by all,
including prisoners,
but most of us don’t understand,
what’s really going on
because your picture,
is being painted by the CIPWS
(capitalist imperialist patriarchist white supremacist)
media.
Please understand
the masses only know of Israel, and Palestine,
from a biblical perspective and point of view.
Thus, it is easy for the CIPWS,
to turn the miseducated against you.
As was done against the Panthers,
and every other movement,
that came egalitarian and true.
So I request that you paint your own narrative,
tell the politically miseducated,
and myopic,
why you do what you do.
Explain to the miseducated,
that the Arabs are semitic too.
And the Zionists are racist Europeans,
manipulating the word “Jew.”
The first Zionist conference,
was held in 1897,
which made all else post-holocaust,
capable of coming back through.
Expatriation to Israel in 1947,
declared independence on land,
on which they were in 1948,
still foreigner new.
Expelling 700,000 Arabs from Israel,
no telling how many thousands they also slew.
Expelling 250,000 more Arabs from Israel,
in 1967,
giving birth to what is now called,
the West Bank and Gaza,
out of blood the invaded still spew.
Fast forward to the present,
after 70-plus years Israeli occupation,
and oppression,
with nothing but the US to thank.
Wombmen and children in Israeli prisons,
for offenses,
as simple as throwing rocks at tanks.
Amerikkklan drones, rockets, missiles,
lynching Palestinians,
with no regards for age, sex or rank.
Turning Gaza into one big prison with a flag,
surrounded by barbed wire, check points,
facial recognition cameras,
and sadist, racist, fascist,
antisemitic Israeli tyrants,
turning any hope for egalitarianism,
into a ship,
that in 1947 went rogue and sank.
Pro Palestinian student protesters,
everything I’m saying here,
you are all probably already well aware.
But these truths are all unknown,
to the world’s people,
especially here on Turtle Island,
Amerikkka.
So tell your own story,
because the CIPWS media,
is miseducating the people about ya,
using CIPWS propaganda.
Do not allow the CIPWS media,
to paint your narrative or speak for ya.
This is how they turned the people,
against every egalitarian movement,
threatening the rule, wealth and power.
I am in prison,
and the CIPWS media is the only means,
of knowing in real time what’s happening.
The CIPWS has oppressed prisoners,
identifying with the Israeli invaders,
who did the land grabbing.
Zionist settlers living on blood stolen land,
doing the real antisemitic crabbing.
Show the world the true colors of the Zionists,
their antisemitic parasitic back stabbing.
Apartheid genocide,
all with Amerikkklan economic backing,
and bureaucratic white supremacist trappings.
Can’t fight, kill and die,
for people who do know why,
or for whom you are snapping.
knowing the history of a situation,
is what makes it worth the sacrificing,
and strapping.
Lift your voice, shout it all out,
over-talk and out-talk,
the CIPWS media’s constant capping.
While you are organizing,
educate against the 400 years of lies,
keep the lies from escaping the mouths,
of those doing all the CIPWS rapping.
Make it known to the world,
that the Palestinians,
are the Shemitics(Semitics).
And the Zionists are the true antisemitics.
Living on stolen land, and being parasitic.
The CIPWS media,
is telling lies about you,
that you are being violent,
and antisemitic,
for defending the Ishmaelites,
the Palestinians, the first Semitics,
If they don’t believe you,
tell them,
“do research on the topic”.
“Google it”.
Heru: So why aren’t you fighting the real criminals?
Pig: Who are the real criminals?
Heru: The plutocrat politicians who create and perpetuate the policies
that create and perpetuate the poverty that give rise to crime.
Pig: Are you saying that crime comes from poverty?
Heru: Most crimes are miseducated and reactionary responses to poverty.
Even yours included.
Pig: Are you calling me a criminal?
Heru: Yes and of the worst kind, your fear of poverty made you a
criminal for the plutocrats and their CIPWS bosses.
Pig: Am I in the streets selling drugs and robbing people?
Heru: Worst, you are protecting and serving, only, the interest and
agendas of the upper class CIPWS. You’ve sold your soul to the
plutocrats, doing whatever they say, in order to feed your family. You
call it, “following orders”.
Pig: I’m just doing my job.
Heru: Yes, your job consists of racial profiling, stuck with the view
that the laws apply only to and against Black and poor people. Your job
consists of being a criminal.
Pig: I am not a criminal.
Heru: Without so-called crime, you wouldn’t have a job, your family
could not be fed, you would still be in the lower class. Thus, it’s in
your best interest to never arrest the real criminals, like the ones who
just drove by in that Bentley doing 92 in a 65.
Pig: I am only trying to make society safe.
Heru: If you was trying to make society safe, you would attack the
problem at the primary cause of crime, the plutocrats, not at the
effect, the reactionary responders to plutocrat crimes.
Pig: Anything else? Because you’re only shifting blame here.
Heru: If you wanted to be tough on crime, you would begin by being tough
on poverty and CIPWS systematic miseducation, but doing such means being
tough on your plutocrat bosses, and ending plutocracy would lead to an
end of capitalism, which feeds your family.
Pig: I’m not understanding anything you’re saying
Heru: Of course not, you’re too thoroughly CIPWS miseducated, myopic,
and stuck in your uniform privilege to see egalitarianism.
Pig: But how will I feed my family?
Heru: Being a slave patroller is not about feeding your family, it’s
about feeding your inculcated CIPWS narcissism and so-called
superiority.
Pig: What?
Heru: You get paid to harass, abuse, brutalize, lynch, oppress, and
occupy poor and Black people. If that’s how you feed your family, you
are no better than a street thug. You should begin by arresting
yourself.
Pig: For what…
Heru: For your crimes against the people in the name of capitalism. For
being a Plutocrat Imperialist Goon.
Prisoner(s) housed at FSP (Florida State Prison) on C.M.-I & II
(Close Management) status are being used by FDOC/FSP and JPay as means
of robbing our family(s) and friend(s), thus inflicting punishment
beyond court ordered separation from society as sole and significant
punishment for crime.
In 2021, the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) installed new
private contracted prison mail system services mandating that all
routine mail to prisoner(s) be addressed to Tampa, Florida office to be
processed, i.e., scanned for verbal contraband and forwarded via JPay
email system service to mail room of intended institution, to then be
printed out and delivered to intended prisoner(s). However, such service
is not being consistently and timely provided, except only when and
where convenient to and for FSP administration, STG (Security Threat
Group) personnel and mail room, all in punishment for prisoner(s) being
on C.M. status.
Inconsistency and untimeliness in mail delivery to prisoner(s)
Prisoner(s) are not receiving all incoming routing mail and email in
timely and consistent manner. Mail is being intentionally delayed,
withheld for weeks, in some cases, months after the post mark,
constituting violation of mail rule. CH. 33-210.101(6) F.A.C, which
clearly states, “Incoming and outgoing routine mail shall be processed
within 72 hours, except for inmates in certain housing assignments
identified in paragraph (7) below, which pertinently states:”(7)
inmates, that as of a result of housing designation or status are not
permitted to access kiosk, kiosk services, or tablet services as
provided for in Rule. 33-601.900 F.A.C, will have their scanned mail
printed and delivered at no cost to the inmate.”
Lack of notification
Prisoner(s) incoming routine mail is being sent back, withheld or
thrown away by Tampa private mail contractor office, without issuing
notice of any kind to prisoner(s) or sender(s).
Effect on prisoner(s)/loved-one(s) relationship structure and
rehabilitation process
Incoming mail being received by FSP mail room via JPay mail system
service is not being consistently and/or timely printed out and
delivered to intended prisoner(s).
Prisoner(s) have no way of knowing that mail had been sent to them
until informed by sender(s), either through argument or worrisome
inquiry as to why prisoner(s) are not responding to mail, causing
sender(s) to feel ignored.
Prisoner(s) are kept unaware of undelivered, deprived mail, while
sender(s) are unaware of fact that prisoner(s) are not responding, not
because they don’t want to, but because prisoner(s) are not receiving
all mail being sent to them, because;
FSP mail room, and administration are literally and intentionally
playing games (not printing and delivering all prisoner(s) incoming
mail) resulting in relationship structure conflicts, leading to
prisoner(s)/loved-one(s) alienation and isolation.
Objective investigation, review of kiosk of kiosk inbox
Objective review of each FSP, C.M.-I & II status prisoners’ Jpay
kiosk account inbox will clearly confirm the truth in this matter, by
revealing the scores of undelivered emails and photos, sent to
prisoner(s), but never printed out and delivered, as is prescribed by
Rule. 33-210.101 (7) F.A.C
Prisoner(s) or their family(s) and friend(s), due to being ignorant
of this denied service (robbery) are not realizing that prisoner(s) are
being held semi-incommunicado, as punishment for being on administrative
segregation (C.M.) status, which is not D.C. (Disciplinary Confinement)
status, in fact prisoner(s) on D.C. status, are allowed more privileges
than C.M., i.e., non-D.C. status prisoner(s), and this is all
intentional.
Conflict in FDOC/FSP Jpay Kios/Tablet Policy
Rule. CH. 33-602.900 (4)(C)3 F.A.C and CH.33-602.900(5)(d)3 F.A.C,
which governs Jpay kiosk and tablet clearly states that: “Prisoners on
C.M. status are allowed access to JPay kiosk, kiosk services, tablet and
tablet services,” stands in polar contrast with CH.33-601.800(11)(b)7
F.A.C and CH.33-601.800(11)8.(c)5. F.A.C, which governs C.M., clearly
states the opposite, that “C.M.-I & II status” prisoners
(respectively) are not allowed access to kiosk, kiosk services, tablet
and/or tablet services.” (to keep prisoners from becoming aware of the
scores of emails, letters, and photos listed in their (prisoner(s)
inbox, but are not being printed out and delivered to them) while;
C.M.-III status prisoners are allowed access to JPay kiosk, kiosk
services, tablets and tablet services, constituting not only
administrative disparity in treatment and discrimination against C.M.-I
& II status prisoners, but FSP administrative use of JPay email
system services as a means of or device of authoritarian intimidation,
punishment and control.
Robbery: Family(s)/Friend(s) of Prisoner(s) not receiving JPay
services they are paying for.
Family(s)/friend(s) of prisoner(s) purchase digital postage stamps
for a promise that their emails to loved-ones in prison will be
delivered without hindrance, a service paid for, which is not being
delivered/received, due to their sent emails not being printed out and
delivered consistently to their prisoner-loved-ones, being punished
solely for being on C.M. status.
Hundreds of FSP (all C.M.-I & II status) prisoners are not
receiving letters and/or photos sent to them via JPay email system
service. Thus, family(s)/friend(s) of prisoner(s) are being bilked,
literally robbed for their hard earned money by JPay and FDOC via FSP
mail room, STG and administration, constituting the bilking of unknown
amounts of money once all prisoners and undelivered emails are tallied
up and combined. The results is robbery and false advertising.
Nonexistent FDOC/FSP Grievance Process
Many grievances regarding all issues mentioned above have been
repeatedly submitted at every level in the grievance process and are
being biasedly rubber stamped “DENIED” or not returning or responded to,
or plain and simple being thrown in the trash. FDOC secretary office is
very well aware of this fact, but is refusing to intervene or rectify
the situation trashing of prisoner(s) grievances. See formal grievance,
log #22-6-27139.
Remedy
That FDOC Tampa private contracted mail service provide written
notice for impounded or withheld incoming routine mail being withheld
for STG surveillance or being returned to sender(s).
That FDOC/FSP kiosk and tablet policy be rectified to
uniformity.
That FSP mail room print out and deliver all digital mail,
letters/photos entering its system, to intended prisoner(s) in timely
and consistent manner, thereby ensuring;
That all Jpay email service and routine mail service paid for by
family(s) and friend(s) of prisoner(s) be received without hindrance,
i.e., end the bilking/robbery of prisoner(s) family(s) and friend(s) via
use of prisoner(s), resulting in incalculable amounts of money being
stolen.
That all money for all undelivered emails, letters and/or photos be
reimbursed, given back to family(s) and friend(s) if prisoner(s).
Respectfully submitted
P.S. Concerns regarding this issue can be addressed to the:
Better Business Bureau, JPay Company headquarters, FDOC,
Lauren.Sanchez@fdc.myflorida.com (830)717-3605
Stop The JPay Bilking
UPDATE:
A few weeks after MIM(Prisons) received a copy of the above complaint
we received an update:
“Florida Department of Cruelty has finally rectified ch.33-601.800
(dealing with JPay kiosk and tablets on C.M.: Close Management) to be in
uniformity with ch.33-602.900 (which deals with Jpay kiosk and tablet).
As of 6 October 2022, every prisoner is allowed access to kiosk and
tablets. This was not done out of altruism. However, I believe JPay
threw a rod regarding the amount of money their being denied via the
thousands of prisoners being denied their service or should I say
bilking. I won’t even front with a tablet, I won’t need anyone to
transcribe my thoughts and I can get my thoughts out to be published
allowing me to raise funds for appealing my criminal case while
enlightening others in the bigger cage.”
It remains to be seen how the resolution of this conflict will affect
all of the complaint outlined above. But we can say that Under Lock
& Key continues to be denied to the majority of prisoners in
the Florida DOC, as do publications like our Revolutionary 12 Step
Program, which are tools intended to help people rehabilitate and
reintegrate into society and to serve their community upon doing so. As
the comrade above notes, there is clear bias, both politically and
nationally, as far as what communications are allowed in Florida and in
most of the prisons across this country.
Crime is a child of poverty and miseducation, which are both created
and perpetuated by Plutocrat Policy(s).
The real criminals are too rich and too big for jail, while the poor
are incarcerated for simply living a survivalist existence, for
responding and/or reacting to poverty and miseducation in reactionary,
economically desperate and miseducated ways.
Prison is mainly based on inflicting punishment and resentment,
rather than cultivating genuine healing via essential self-criticism
that has historically proven to decrease recidivism. Prisoners’ growth
will defeat the purpose of spending or investing 20-plus million dollars
building each prison. Genuine rehabilitation is a bad investment to the
Plutocrats.
The entire so-called criminal justice system is nothing but a
replacement and extension of slavery. A job-generating industry for all
government branches and departments between the slave patrollers (street
PIGs; Plutocrat Imperialist Goons) and Overseers (D.O.C.; Department of
Cruelty) as was the case with post-Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676.
Crime, is all founded upon, and backed up by the exception clause of
the 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution: “Neither slavery
nor involuntary servitude except as a punishment for crime…”
Thus, to genuinely heal or rehabilitate prisoners is to end the new
slavery; meaning, leading to the shutting down of prison, and mass
lay-offs within the entire so-called criminal justice industry system,
made up of slave patrollers (street PIGs), judges, state and defense
attorneys, counselors, doctors, nurses, canteen vendors, civilian food
service and maintenance workers and county jail and prison overseers
(DOC). Millions of jobs when tallied up nationally, all off so-called
crime, the new cotton, tobacco and/or sugar.
Crime, as an industry, can only end by first and foremostly ending
poverty and miseducation. Even rape is a result of miseducation, or
psychological defects of miseducation by the system of patriarchy.
However, poverty and miseducation will not end without first and
foremostly ending and replacing the CIPWS (Capitalist Imperialist
Patriarchist White Supremacy) with a Proletarian Internationalist
Dictatorship.
Whenever and wherever there is poverty and miseducation, material
conditions are ripe for the warrant of crime or revolution. For neither
takes place without the desire for and/or the aspiration of better days,
or a higher standard of living.
History is proof, that revolutions do not automatically occur and
succeed with the collapse of the CIPWS elite and their Plutocrat’s
superstructure. Revolution can, and will only occur and succeed when and
where the revolt which leads to revolution is culture. When and where
the masses are revolutionary conscious and active in every aspect of
human life. When and where every human embraces the power to determine
the egalitarian destiny of his and/or her own community. Revolution is
when and where power changes hands, in our case, from CIPWS to PID
(Proletarian Internationalist Dictatorship) ensuring egalitarianism
meaning All Power To The People. Revolution begins with education like
crime ends with education.
In egalitarian solidarity and struggle.
MIM(Prisons) adds: This is great summary of the
connection between the system of mass incarceration in the U.$. and the
need to end imperialism. We agree that this criminal injustice system is
a replacement for slavery in relation to controlling New Afrikan
populations, and that it funds millions of jobs for Amerikans. However,
this system is very different from cotton or sugar in that no value is
being created, rather the potential value that the oppressed nations
could be producing to benefit their people is being squandered by
locking them up in unproductive conditions for years and decades.
When brother Malcolm X died,
I died inside,
When Fred Hampton died,
I became revived,
When George Jackson died,
I blooded in my eyes,
When Huey P. died,
I revolutionized
and realized,
I’m Toussaint, Garvey and Stokely,
Turner, Biko, Prosser and Vessey,
Fanon, Cabral, Lumumba, Sankara,
Ruchell, Jonathan, McClain and Christmas.
My godesses are: Truth Sojourner,
Harriett Tubman, Candos, Kween Nzinga,
Angela, Ericka, Afeni and Assata,
and all the MOVE comrades
Last name Afrika.
I’m MLM to the fullest,
Anti-CIWPS, Anti-misogynist
All the way feminist, egalitarianist,
Lumpen proletarian, street reactionary
Turned radical internationalist
Revolutionary intercommunalist,
My oath is with Mother Earth
Climate Justice.
A prisoner, yeah,
But I’m not the real criminal,
Not the one making the policies,
Which creates poverty for capital
Thus, creating crime and immorality,
which are mostly survivalist, reactionary,
miseducated responses and reactions
to CIPWS miseducation and poverty.
Till we, as a People
Start taking politics personal
We will keep being the victims
of the real criminals, the real parasiticals,
The plutocrats,
Republikkklans and Demoncrats,
Working only in the interest of the tall hats
while their Plutocrat Imperialist Goons
Keep lynching us.
Then they wonder why,
We’re getting politically conscious
Self-defensive and rebellious
Screaming,
All Power to the People, from the soul
Screaming, All Power to the Proles,
Black Power, Black August
Black essential self-determination,
Our number one goal,
Only us could free us,
Black Power as a whole.
Black Power, Black August,
Black essential self control.
Black Power, Black August,
Breaking the mental and physical holds.
Black Power Black August
Black Power Black August.
Abolish FSP (Florida State Prison) use of force (pepper spray and
cell-extraction beatings) on prisoners who are only voicing their
grievances, while in secured cells, not being violent or destructive,
just voicing grievances.
End FSP so-called “no talking” rule. Prisoners are being deprived
meals and/or pepper sprayed, and/or even beaten during cell extractions,
solely for speaking to each other, our stay on CM (Close Management)
being prolonged – yes, just for talking to each other.
Abolish mental health staff being in cahoots with and approving
of overseer abuse and brutality of innocent prisoners already suffering
from CTSD (Current Traumatic Stress Disorder), being misdiagnosed as
‘disruptive.’
End overseers withholding of prisoners meals as a disciplinary
sanction.
Abolish preparing meals with subliminal intent of feeding pigs at
neighboring swill farms rather than feeding human prisoners.
End FSP serving prisoners meals on mold, greasy and wet trays.
Health risk.
Abolish FSP serving meals cold, which are supposed to be served
hot. Another health risk.
End FSP serving of half cooked meals to prisoners. Yet another
health risk.
Abolish FSP serving of highly carcinogenic, GMO, processed, fake
meat.
End FSP’s blatant and rampant arbitrary deviation from FDOC
master menu, and serving meals in exiguous portions, denying prisoners
legally required nutritional value and calorie count.
Abolish FSP vertical use of black box on handcuffs and waist
chains. Black box and handcuffs are designed to be used horizontally,
not vertically. Even while having to carry personal property, placing
prisoners at great risk of breaking wrists and/or other life-threatening
injuries during falls.
End FSP use of exhaust fans and heaters as control and/or torture
devices as collective punishment of prisoners.
Abolish FSP’s blatant and rampant withholding and delaying of
prisoners incoming and outgoing mail as a censorship tactic.
End FSP’s blatant and rampant arbitrary and retaliatory
impounding and rejection of prisoners’ incoming publications, based
solely on prisoners political beliefs, expression, affiliation and
advocacy/activism.
Abolish FSP repression, re-education campaign and war on
prisoner’s aspiration of genuine essential self-rehabilitation via
political studies, application and practices of genuine essential
self-criticism and rectification.
End conducting of prisoners medical sick-call at cell doors,
depriving prisoners of confidentiality and privacy.
Abolish FSP pepper-spraying and/or beating of mentally ill
prisoners.
End CM (Close Management) solitary confinement of mentally ill
prisoners.
Abolish the blatant and rampant ignoring the audio/video of
prisoners PREA (Prison Rape Elimination Act) calls on overseers sexual
harassment, or declaring mental health (psych) emergencies.
End FSP overseers taking of prisoners personal property and
giving it to or leaving it accessible to friendly or favored
prisoners.
Abolish FSP discriminatory denying CM I & II prisoners their
JPAY purchased tablets and service, while allowing CM III prisoners
their JPAY tablets and services, denial of JPAY tablet is based solely
on punishment for being on CM I & II status.
End overseer training, indoctrination, instilling mindset that CM
is disciplinary confinement rather than administrative or segregated
housing. FSP staff and overseers literally believe that CM is for
torture of prisoners rather than correction and rehabilitation of
prisoners.
Abolish FSP’s blatant and rampant throwing away/trashing of
prisoners submitted informal and formal grievances.
End FSP fabrication of disciplinary reports, falsifying
documents, solely to prolong prisoners’ stay on CM.
Abolish FSP’s racist/KKK/good-ole-boy code of silence. Prisoners
are being beaten in the medical building, off camera, in blind spots –
being in blues is the new black.
If you are reading this, please understand that the above listed are
only a few of the many injustices occurring here at FSP (Florida State
Prison). Please understand that our backs are against the wall, we are
voiceless, disenfranchised, isolated, alienated and scared of
retaliation. Please understand that we are very well aware of the fact
that we are in prison, and many believe that we deserve to be tortured.
But what we and many others do not realize is the fact that though we
are in prison, technically, we are not the real criminals. The actions
that land us in prison are only reactions and responses to the
mis-education and poverty created and perpetuated by the real criminals,
the plutocrat politicians. Most of us are in prison only and mostly
because we are not corporation owners who are too big for jail, instead
we are the too poor and mis-educated to defend ourselves against the
state and the prosecutors who know full well who the real criminals are,
their bosses and friends, state and capital.
Please help us by spreading the word and emailing the above demands
to all your friends and family, ask them to email it to friends and
family, and post it on social media. The idea is to raise mass
awareness, and to also let the real criminals, the plutocrats, know that
we, the people, know that they are the real criminals, doing all in
their power to perpetuate crime, because crime creates and perpetuates
state jobs, nationwide.
and the Inspector General using the Complaint Form at
fdc.myflorida.com.
“Real change begins with real awareness.”
18 July 2021, approximate 6:22AM, a prisoner in #1217 cell just got
pulled out of his cell and jumped by overseers. Prisoner was already in
restraints, two cells away from his cell. He was slammed to the ground,
one overseer had his knee planted in the back of the prisoners neck
while the prisoner was face down and handcuffed with his hands behind
his back, while the other overseer punched him. I’m in the wing next
door (J-Wing). Prisoners on windows reported it as it happened.
Currently I’m in confinement in Florida, pending CM (Close
Management) waiting on state classification officer decision. PIGs
(Pro-Imperialist Goons) claim I was organizing or encouraging a riot or
disturbance. All a ploy to get me behind the door for pushing the pen
too effectively. I’ve just successfully appealed 4 disciplinary reports
(D.R.s) written against me, including a D.R. written by the Assistant
Warden.
In the mean time, I’m reading throw-back ULKs. Stuck in
No. 54, learning so much. MIM, you have been so much help in my gaining
political awareness, revolutionary transformation and personality. My
first ULK was in 2012. I haven’t looked back since. Thank you
so much.
I’m reading the article, “Coffee
house revolutionaries or real militants?” by an Ohio komrade, who
referred to MIM as coffee house revolutionaries, which I see as a
constructive complement rather than a dis. And as I expected, in
response MIM is not offended. I’m feeling this article because its
helping me realize that in the struggle, everybody can’t be infantry
guerrilla, the struggle need planners and other part players. The hand
is made of 5 fingers, and each finger plays an equally valuable role in
doing whatever the hand does.
If it wasn’t for the dialectics of coffee house revolutionaries like
MIM, I would not be as effective as I am today. I would still be
fighting these pigs with emotions rather than revolutionary
intelligence, discipline and creativity. In order for our struggle to be
effective, we need the historical analysis of coffee house
revolutionaries, just as we need solid boots on the ground. We are all
in the same struggle, against the very same enemy oppressor, and we are
effective and victorious as long as we never forget this one point in
unity for solidarity.
It’s only best that we learn from each other, constructive criticism
plays a major role in self-criticism. I did a drawing once of Obama,
with an obelisk in the background. MIM wrote back sending me a list of
historical reasons illustrating why Obama and obelisk should not be in
the same piece. The picture was contradicting itself more than doing
what it was intended to do; show Obama as a black face for capitalist
imperialist white supremacy. I missed my mark, and MIM made me see that
via the show of Obama’s repeated drone assassinations, mass
deportations, granting impunity to PIGs lynching us in the streets and
court rooms, he did nothing about mass incarceration, knowing that
Blacks and poors are being targeted. MIM showed me the truth, and being
a good revolutionary has a lot to do with gaining truth and putting that
truth into practice, and learning from the result of that practice.
MIM has been with me from my beginning stages, responding to all my
letters and requests for study materials, and guidance when no one else
cared or was able to care. I learned that i had to establish myself in
the struggle, and MIM made it easier for me to do so. The books, the
study materials, the jailhouse lawyer’s manuals and the plain old
camaraderie needed as a lone operative. MIM inspired a creativity in me
that the PIGs came to know and fear. PIGs are afraid of pen pushers, but
when you go to reaching out and over the heads of their impunity
granting bosses, they pay attention. There is nothing like a warden
receiving a phone call from someone, or several people on the outside
about some brutality that was not supposed to leak out from behind the
Amerikkkan iron curtain. I kept reporting to MIM and anyone I thought
cared, MIM would publish my reports, someone would read it and call the
institution. All it takes is one phone call. And you know when they get
phone calls, their body language tell it all, they speak without
words.
The bigger their show, the bigger their fear. One time in 2014 they
woke me up, sliding my cell door open with a bang at 1:00 in the
morning, cuffed me up and took me to the security building just to ask
me, “Who is MIM?” My only response was, “We want egalitarianism.” They
didn’t even know what egalitarianism was. These PIGs are terrified of
revolutionary civility. They expect us to behave like the animals
they’ve been conditioned to believe we are, and when we show the
opposite, we disarm them. They know we can go from zero to 100 in a
split second, but our self-control, organizing, discipline and
solidarity makes them unable to sleep at night.
Do your historic research, the revolutionary has never been the one
to initiate violence, violence has always been initiated by the
government. The revolutionary has only responded with self-defense.
Self-defense is a must. The first thing every revolutionary must learn
is that the capitalist-imperialist white supremacist is not just going
to peacefully pack up and go home. They’re not just gonna give up the
means of production and subsistence and power.
We need coffee house revolutionaries in the towers, at the computer
screens, in the libraries, etc etc. to let us know what we are dealing
with or what’s coming and the most effective scientific means of
engagement. Just as importantly, we need mechanics, technicians,
carpenters, plumbers, cooks, teachers. We all have to play our
individual part in this struggle as a collective, in theory and in
practice. MIM has taken on the practice of teaching theory and practice
and that’s what revolution is, theory in practice.
With MIM’s help, I have learned and I have grown to the point where I
am in solidarity with myself and others on the inside and outside, and I
am still learning and growing, making a difference by being different.
Sentenced to life for the gun, and being buried alive for the pent.
Thanks to MIM, who gave me precious time and undivided academic
attention, I’m giving these PIGs hell, with just an ink pen. Just
imagine me holding a gun again, this time genuinely rehabilitated. And I
am a state(enemy)-labelled sex offender. I believe in rehabilitation, I
don’t care who you are, you can be rehabilitated. You can be a
revolutionary, practice self-criticism, and let your action do the
talking. I’ve been in and out of prison more than half my life, and I
have never seen the state genuinely rehabilitate anyone. Genuine
rehabilitation is like freedom, you have to give it to yourself.
