tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43836003885239952642024-03-12T18:44:24.502-07:00Vanguards of JusticeRufus West was one of the first prisoners we wrote to and visited. He was battling the total deprivations in what the prison called "behavior management" , where, for a rule violation, they would throw him in a cell naked without possessions for days. Here we have his essays in reverse order, the newest first. he has become an effective voice for the underserved and underheard.FFUPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02860136791099005665noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383600388523995264.post-58112660321454757302019-02-18T04:03:00.000-08:002019-02-18T04:06:37.734-08:00Complaint Affirmed: guards cannot determine medical need<br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";">Bismilah ir Rahman ir Rahim. Al-Hamdulillah.</span><span style="font-family: "courier new";"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";">"SECURITY STAFF CANNOT DETERMINE AN INMATE’S MEDICAL NEED
OR EMERGENCY”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";">by Rufus West a/k/a Muslin Mans a. Lutalo lyapo. February 5,
2019.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The following is a
step by step complaint filing process that I took via the Inmate Complaint
Review System. (ICRS) to grieve about prison staff denying me access to medical
care,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><u>INMATE COMPLAINT<o:p></o:p></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On 7-13-18 after
Jumu'ah prayer, I messed up my back while trying to pick someone up off the
floor, which caused me some back pain. As the day progressed, my back pain was
getting worse and spreading down my leg. By 8:45 p.m., the pain was excruciating
and hurt even more when I attempted to bend at the waist, sit up straight, stand
UP, sit down, or put any kind of pressure on my left leg. The pain was so bad
and progressing that I had to do 1 prayer sitting down and the last one I was
unable to do because the pain distracted me from praying. A disturbance happened
that mandated that everyone lock in. So I submitted a DOC-3035 form (blue slip)
to be seen by the Health Services Unit (HSU)staff. By 11:55 p.m. I told C.O.
Larkin that l needed to see HSU because I have a medical emergency. He told me
that he can't stop right now and kept walking. At 12:07 a.m., I stopped C.O.
Kammer, told him about my back pain and that I needed to see HSU. He told me
that he believes noone is here from HSU. I told hi to call somebody. At
1:24a.m.,I stopped C.O. Kammer and asked him about me seeing HSU. He told me to
put in a blue slip. I told him that I had already done that. He said that I
Will have to wait until HSU responds. I then asked to speak to a Lt. or Capt., and
C.O. Kammer told me that-Capt. Elsinqer told him that my pain wasn't a medical
emergency and to go lock in. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><u>ICE
REPORT<o:p></o:p></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><u>COMPLAINT NUMBER
GBCI-2018-15174<o:p></o:p></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Summary of Facts:
Inmate West complains that he had back pain and staff denied him medical treatment.
He states that he was at Jumah and tried to pick an inmate off the floor which
caused him back pain. He states that later in the night the pain worsened and
he need(sic) to see HSU due to this medical emergency but staff didn't let him.
Officer Maher stated that when he was making rounds, Inmate West would come to
the door and complain that his back hurt. He contacted Capt. Elsinger and Capt.
Elsinger told him that back pain is not a medical emergency. Capt. Elsinger was
contacted and he stated that pack pain is not a medical emergency. RN Garland
stated Inmate West was seen on [sic] by HSU on Monday. Since Back pain is not a
medical emergency, the ICE. recommends dismissing this complaint. HSU treated
him on Monday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><u>INMATE COMPLAINT APPEAL<o:p></o:p></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their decision
failed to address my grievance that Sgt. Keller also denied my denial for
medical treatment for my pain when he responded to my need for him to contact HSU
that my pain was not a "medical" emergency, and then ordered me to go
lock myself in my cell. These security staff made a medical decision to deny me
medical treatment. In a previous complaint decision, MS Cynthia Thorne, in her
capacity as the final decision-maker in all medical complaints in the Inmate
Complaint Review System, "affirmed with modification" my Complaint
No.:CCI-2011-4950 wherein I alleged denial of medical care from a Sgt. who
refused to honor my request to contact HSU for<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";">my medical problem. In her decision, Ms. Thorpe stated in her Reason(s)for
Decision: "If inmate ask officers to contact HSU for medical condition and
fail to do so, the officer exceed [sic] his job description because he just
made medical decision which he is not required to do. The situation here could
appear to routine and non-emergent, however, the nurse should have followed up
with this patient to determine what signs and symptoms he had and triaged the
problem. Therefore this is affirmed with modification directing this to the
HSM." (See enclosed Reviewer's Decision for Complaint, No. CCI-2011-4950,)
Like in the CCI decision, none of the GBCI security staff are medical staff yet
they made a medical decision to deny me access to medical care by making a
medical judgment and refusing to contact HSU. See enclosed July 20, 2018 letter
to me from GBCI’s Health Services Manager, J Lutsey). Consequently, GPCI
security staff exceeded their job descriptions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><u>CCE
REPORT<o:p></o:p></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>CCE's Recommendation:
affirmed. Contact with the HSU Nursing coordinator indicated that security staff
cannot determine an inmate's medical need or emergency. Security staff does not
have the medical background to determine such. The instance outlined in this complaint
and appeal should have been handied in accordance to DAI Policy 500.00.04 in
7eporting Health Concerns to On-Call Nursing Staff, in which, at least, a phone
triage with the on call nursing staff could occur. As well, according to the DAI
Policy 500.10.08, Access to care requires an inmate to be seen (or evaluated)
in a timely manner, and provided a professional clinical judgment, along ,with
assessment by a qualified, health professional, and receive determined care accordingly.
Therefore it is recommended this appeal he affirmed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><u>OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY<o:p></o:p></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Decision Comments:
The following is the Secretary's decision<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";">on the Corrections Complaint Examiner's recommendation of
09/26/2010 in the above appeal: The attached Corrections Complaint Examiner's
recommendation to AFFIRM this appeal is accepted, as the decision of the Secretary.
11/05/2018.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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BRAVO LUTALO!!</div>
<br />FFUPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02860136791099005665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383600388523995264.post-71405480723926351952018-07-12T07:15:00.002-07:002018-07-12T07:15:37.152-07:00FIve Short Essays on DEALING WITH THE MURDER OF HIS SON<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1998, Scarface asked me, "A baby's born and
you hear mom's crying; is she crying because she's happy or the fact she know
she's born dying?" As a father I never forgot that question. Until the
murder of my son, Richard West Gray, on June 3, 2016, it really was just a statement
of reference. The term “born dying" takes on a deeper meaning when a parent's
child is murdered. Otherwise, it's like a heartbeat or breathing. How often do
we focus on our heartbeat or breathing? How long would we maintain that focus?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The truth that every person who is born will die
seems to be a reality that we have managed somewhat to repudiate until it
happens to one of our children. I say "somewhat" because there's
something in a parent's nature that feels the need to protect their child from
harm. I remember sending Richard an April 2, 2012 Time magazine article by a
columnist named Toure titled, "How to Stay Alive While Being Black: In the
wake of the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, some advice for young black
boys." The article stressed eight points on how that population should
handle themselves so that they don't end up like Trayvon Martin: the
17-year-old African American boy who was murdered by a White man. When I sent
it to Richard, my concern for Richard's safety was that he would be harmed by a
White person or the police. Even though Richard's murderer has yet to be caught,
it's safe to say that my son was not murdered under circumstances like Trayvon
Martin, Mike Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Emmett Till, etc As an African
American father, the incessant-murdering of young-African American males in
America is a constant reminder that my children will likely be victimized by
that reality, which unfortunately hit home with Richard being murdered.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Even though it's been a year since Richard was
murdered, today I was revisited by the shocking pain from having a huge chunk
of my heart being violently ripped out, leaving this gaping hole in my being.
My tears flow but fall short of filling this oceanic pain that has no shores.
After a year I thought that l would be past shedding tears, but my sister
warmly advised me, "Don't do that to yourself." Meaning, don't rush
the so-called healing process. After reflecting, if I were to gauge my
"healing" progress I would have to admit that I'm still in the ICU
holding on by a single thread, i.e., Islam.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">While I always knew that the price for life is
death, there's nothing in existence that could have possibly prepared me for
this experience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">THERE'S NOTHING IN EXISTENCE THAT COULD HAVE
POSSIBLY PREPARED ME FOR THIS EXPERIENCE!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Salaam!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rufus
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">a/k/a
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">P.
0. Box 19033 (GBCI)</span></div>
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Bismillah ir Rahman ir Rahim. Al-Hamduljllah.</div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">HAIL MARY </span>by Rufus West a/k/a Muslim
Mansa Lutalo Iyapo. June 8. 2018</span></u></div>
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'Take me with you! There, I said it and, quite frankly, it
felt liberating actually saying it. Take me with you! The only thing
inappropriate about me saying this to you now is that I(for some reason) didn’t
say it to you earlier. </div>
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You need to take me with you because you know in the core of
your heart that I don't belong here. You are my star witness to the impressive
tactics being used against me to keep me in prison which is <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>testing my Breaking Point. Because I have always
been myself, I have to say with confidence that you've never imagined (nor met)
someone like me. I know that I 've never met anyone like you.</div>
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You need to take me with you because I've never sang to
anyone let alone a rap song, but you. You are also the only person whose growling
stomach could lighten one of my dark moments.</div>
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You need to take me with you because had I known that it
would end like this I would have NEVER taken my Brother's advice and asked to
see you. While i admire you abiding by the Law of Self Preservation, I only ask
that you see that this is me aiding by that same Law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>envsion
you saying with smile "Well,. I can't take you with me," while wrestling
with something within you asking yourself,."Why not?"For every good
reason you come up with why you shouldn't, you know deep down that there's also
a BETTER reason for why you NEED to. I'm not some baton that can be passed on
to someone.' I'm the human being-on the operating table whose doctor is
preparing to abandon her patient on the operating table in the middle of an operation.
Everyone like you. Has abused and misused me for decades solely to justify
their existence.-Then you came along and over a period of years convinced me
that you're not like everyone else. and that it's safe:to trust being in your
hands because they were better than All State.</div>
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Take me with you because you fill a void in my existence
that I never knew existed until you filled it.</div>
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You’re the first person I ever trusted that didn't like or
dislike. What I mean by -that is that for some reason I'm unable to determine
e=whether I like you or not, yet I t rust you. To me, the emotion of liking you
is irrelevant as you are a possessor of a certain '8kill-set' that no one else
has that has contributed to my survival.</div>
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A while ago I attempted to sever my ties with you out of
concern that you would somehow hurt me. Well, that didn't work because the moment
you called for me it made me happy that someone made an effort to reach out to spend
time with me just<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to see how I was doing.
It was then that l asked you-to never hurt me ...and you agreed. Well, just the
thought of being forced to be alone in this regard is frightening, yet all of
my being supports you to do what's best for you and your loved ones. I would
never want you to do anything out of guilt because those decisions usually end
in regret. Just always fill your heart and let the words "1 love you"
be the last words your loved ones hear from you ESPECIALLY your kids because you'll
never know; .whether that last time 'will be THE last time.</div>
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Well,</div>
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it up in the air now and I have absolutely no idea where it
will land ... God willing in your hands. There's an old saying that gièS,
"A fair exchange ain’t never been no Robbery, ”as such if for no other
reason I ask you to take me <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with because
I’m forced to take you with me.</div>
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Bismillah ir Rahman it Rahim. Al-Hamdulillah.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>“SHERO" by Rufus West a/k/a Muslim Mansa Lutalo
lyapo 6/4/18</u></span></div>
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Just a silhouette. Sometimes an amorphous human glow in the
darkness of my mind. No face, no figure, but undeniably</div>
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female and wearing a cape.</div>
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A figment of my imagination? Perhaps. It's difficult to discern
between what's real and imagined when you show up to rescue me from under the
innumerable layers of trauma that endeavor to suffocate me.</div>
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Sometimes all you have to do is just make an appearance to jumpstart
my resolve.</div>
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The sunlight through the stained glass window now has a dark
silhouette bringing energy to whatever is lacking. In you do I realize my strength
realized which shouldn't come as no surprise as it is in the strength of your
womb where l materialized; wherein you carried me for months until you were
unable to carry me anymore, yet provided me with what you felt I needed to
carry on.</div>
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Your-cape-absorbs years of tears like a single drop.</div>
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Sometimes when I'm at my lowest I look up and wonder,
"How did you get way down here?" Present long enough only to jumpstart
my resolve and then you're gone again ... to save somebody else, maybe even
yourself.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>.</div>
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No, 1 don't believe in superheroes. I only believe that
you're my "shero."<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>.</div>
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Salaam!</div>
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Bismillah ir Rahman
ir Rahim. Al-Hamduljllah.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">W.O.M.B. : What Our Mothers <span> </span>Bear</span></div>
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by</div>
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Rufus West a/k/a Muslim</div>
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Mansa Lutalo lyapo</div>
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June 13, 2018</div>
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What Our Mothers Bear is the responsibility for the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>existence of humanity's past, present and future.
Every human being has spent months being shaped within their mother’s sweet suite
before being born into this world. Males will never be equipped with what our
mothers bear-equipped with What Our Mothers Bear –Only females.</div>
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What Our Mothers Bear is the incredulity of males
designating a single day for treating though mothers special,even though
mothers deserve to be treated special every day of the year.</div>
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What Our Mothers Bear is the replacement of names like "woman,"
"queen," "lady," "ma'am," "m her," etc.
with names like "bitch," "jumpdown," "ho,"
"slut," "tramp," "whore," etc. They went from
being worthy of protection to being targets of severe dejection.</div>
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What Our Mothers Bear is the acceptance that their bodies
will grow in order to accommodate the humanity growing within them. It doesn't
reject humanity because of skin complexion or gender.</div>
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What Our Mothers Bear is the full weight of carrying humanity
around-inside - of them not for just nine months but for the rest of their
lives. I recall a wife telling her complaining husband that her breasts sag
because they're "working breasts," meaning for breast-feeding their
children. She then looked him over and asked him "What's your
excuse?"</div>
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It is in His Perfect Universal Order lies the axiom that the
continuum of humanity's existence is contingent upon the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>beautiful Blessing of What Our Mothers bear.
Without the existence of YOU there is no legacy of humanity before me or future
ahead of me. It is within the beauty of YOU where my physical makeup and
intellect formed befor you pushed me into <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>this world.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
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What Our Mothers Bear is the luxurious freedom of unconditional LOVE
manifested in the incessant reproduction</div>
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of humanity who have repaid her with misogyny, disrespect, misuse and
abuse on a scale unimaginable. But imagine, if you will, what would happen if
What Our Mothers Bear stopped beariig. Until we are able to imagine this as a people
in pursuit of gender equality the results will always be unequal.</div>
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My name is Rufus West a/k/a Muslm Mansa Lutalo lyapo and I
approve this message.</div>
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Salaam!</div>
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Rufus west, #225213</div>
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Muslim Mansa Lutalo<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>iyapo</div>
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Bismillah ir Rahinan
ir Rahim. Al-Hamdulillah</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>SUICIDAL CHECKMATE </u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rufus West a/k/a/ Muslim Mansa Lutalo Iyapo 6/3/18</span></span></div>
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If anyone tells you they have experience in dying - they're
lying. The permanence associated with the physical death is an axiom that
leaves no room for dispute. When it's time to die, everyone who is living will
die. This physical human form that we've invested so much in will rot away and
be food for something. I believe that it's not when we die that's important,
but how we die.</div>
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I believe that I'm prohibited from committing suicide and
that a person who commits suicide will be committing the same suicidal act in
perpetuity in the next life after being-brought back to life over and over
again in a never-ending cycle as punishment.</div>
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<u>CHECKMATE!</u></div>
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I believe that I owe <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the very few people I love a sense of
responsibility that I will never do anything to hurt them. These are the people
who I would be devastated if they died - especially via suicide which would add
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responsibility to certain people with who I feel more than just a casual connection.</div>
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<u>CHECKMATE!!</u></div>
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.1 believe that as long as I utilize His Spiritual Laws to
enjoin the right and forbid the wrong<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in
my, heart that I will make the world a better place to live. However, the pain,
from the murder of my son., Richard West-Gray, makes it <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>unbearable to the point where I feel like the
only way out is to take myself out. The device around my throat clamps the air
completely off as I get dizzier and see black spots flashing before my eyes. I
begin to panic because I really can't breathe no matter how much I try. The
razor that disappears into my wrists causing blood to shoot everywhere causes
instant panic, fear, and then an eerie calmness as I realize that it will be
over soon. But time passes and I realize that I’vr gotten more uncomfortable as
the blood that I'm laying in slowly puddles around my body. This is taking too
long'! So, the razor' slices deep across the left side of my neck and then the
right side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can feel blood. A lot of
blood. My blood. My face drenched in tears as I get lightheaded thinking about
all of the people I love and the people who said that I would be okay after I
told them I wasn't feeling suicidal.. Inching closer to death is horrific. I
don't want to relive this forever in the Hereafter. Why is this takng so long?
If I had a gun it would have been over in an instant instead of dying out in a
prison cell. STOP!!! I don't want to die! I deserve to live because I believe
He created me not so that I will commit suicide, but to worship Him.</div>
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<u>CHECKMATE!!!</u></div>
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<u>Salaam!</u></div>
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Rufus West #225213</div>
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a/k/a</div>
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Muslim Mansa Lutalo lyapo</div>
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P.O. Box 19033 (GBCI)</div>
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Green Bay, WI 54307</div>
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T.R.U.S.T. (TO RELY UPON SOMEBODY TOTALLY) by Rufus West
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When a child is
conceived, the baby is unable to provide for itself. When the child is born it
has to rely on somebody else for its provisions. This total vulnerability is
the closest analogy that I could draw upon to articulate the sense of helplessness
that a person suffering from a mental illness feels when in need of
psychological help... especially in the penitentiary. </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The person who
is suffering from psychological trauma is unable to self-help him or herself
out of the "Danger Zone" of terror that is invisible to the naked
eye. Consequently, some ultimately commit suicide, self-mutilate, become
violent, or suffer in silence. I ruminate on the total reliability that one in
that situation is forced<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>to have on
the professional who is trained to treat such terrors.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The reality is
that because humans are fallible by nature there will be times when that total
trust is betrayed intentionally or unintentionally. The result is the survivor
suffering from an exacerbated psychological scar that causes indescribable
damage to the person.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those who are
set on keeping people who suffer from psychological illnesses in prison need to
provide the necessary number of clinical staff to balance out the
disproportionate ratio between the two. There's no valid excuse for a person's
pleas for psychological help to be unnecessarily delayed because that person is
being forced to rely upon somebody totally.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>-</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
-<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>-----<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Salaam</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Rufus West 225213; GBCI;PO Box 19033; Green Bay, WI 54307</div>
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Bismillah ir Rahman ir Rahim. Al-Hamdulillah.</div>
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AN ENDEAVOR TO END RECIDIVISM</div>
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by</div>
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Rufus West a/k/a Muslim Mansa Lutalo lyapo</div>
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November 9, 2017</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What can the justice
system do differently than it's doing now to reduce recidivism?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What programs, if any, should the judicial
system put in place to reduce recidivism? Although these are two separate
questions, my answers to them are the same.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First And foremost, I
feel that there needs a heavy emphasis on establishing a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>mentor department made up of mentors who are
dedicated to ending recidivism. The establishment of this program begins with
working with the community and the Department of Corrections to recruit people,
especially prisoners and ex-prisoners, to be a part of this effort. Those who
are prisoners will not be on a payroll, but will instead act as advisers until
their release, at which time they can apply to be employed in their official
capacity. The mentor mission statement has to include objectives that include a
mentor program inside the prisons. The idea is that a mentor program that
begins inside the prisons increases the chances of a successful transition back
into society with greater chances of avoiding returning to prison. It is
critical to introduce prisoners to this mentor program as early as possible so
that the prisoner is incessantly mentally engaged in preparing for success. The
idea of prisoners and ex-prisoners being a part of the staff is rooted in the
fact that their experience makes them more credible in knowing what works to
prevent them from returning to prison.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Secondly, there needs to
be more investments in alternative-to-prison programs, e.g., house arrest that
includes participating in the mentor initiative for a period of time, and/or
participation in the Restorative Justice Program.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe that there also
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treatment to ex-prisoners. </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The last question is, how
do I feel society looks at “offenders?” Majority of society looks at
"offenders" disdainfully as "them" and not "us."
The danger of this perception is that it allows for the psychological
indoctrination of dehumanizing people. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This progression is actually a regression
backwards to this country’s European Lifestyle when it openly held that
"Africans" and "Natives" were not considered humans, but
were named "slaves" and "savages," respectively.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
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Systematically dehumanizing people with brainwashing techniques begins
with labeling these people with derogatory names, e.g. "slave," then evolving
over the years to "prisoner," to "convict," to “inmate” and
finally "offender”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I began with
"slave" because the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States
Constitution legalizes slavery:</div>
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(Emphasis added, underlined.) </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we are going to be
honest, we have to come to grips with the fact that a legal marriage exists
between slavery and the criminal justice system. Its current relationship exists
in a more sophisticated and subtle manner that famed author Michelle Alexander
calls, "The New Jim Crow." It is through this institutionalization
that society bets against the "offender' by making a "felony"
conviction a legitimate reason to deny the "offender" employment,
housing, financial support, and equal opportunities for obtaining a college
education, intimate relationships with a significant other who fears
discrimination or being ostracized because of their relationship, and
opportunities to shape their future via the political arena. This is clearly a
recipe for ostracizing a people. It's akin to inviting a group of people to
dine with you but you're the only one who gets to eat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only one dining is you.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fyodor Dostoyevsky
once stated, "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by
entering its prisons." <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I submit to
you that with all of the institutionalized obstacles in an
"offender's" path, the prison for that person exists regardless of
what side of the prison wall he or she is on. The bad attitude that society has
towards "offenders" is like a flat tire, until it is changed, as a
country, we cannot go anywhere.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Salaam!</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Rufus West, #225213 </div>
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a/k/a</div>
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Muslim Mansa Lutalo lyapo</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P.O. Box 19033 (GBCI)</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Green Bay, WI 54307</div>
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<br /></div>
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Bismillah ir Rahman ir Rahim.Al-Hamdulillah<br />
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STAYING IN TOUCH WITH <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ISLAM by Rufus West a/k/a' Muslim Mansa Lutalo
lyapo</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Date: October 25,
2017</div>
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From September 6, 2001 to July 3, 2007, I was entombed at
the Superrnax Correctional Institution. Prior to that experience I never felt
comfortable with physical contact with other people, especially strangers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In certain social circles, however, I was
required to at least participate in a certain handshake or it could be
perceived- by the other person as a sign of disrespect. When I was at Supermax
the only physical contact allowed was when staff would hands –on escort me in chains<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to places within the prison, or via some
violent encounter. Under these limited circumstances I learned to hate.being touched
to the point, where it felt normal.<br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I was released
from Supermax, 1 experienced a sense of paranoia and extreme apprehension every
time someone would extend their hand for me to shake due to concerns that they
were, trying to get close to me in order to cause me physical harm, and also
because it just felt very abnormal. The person who initially helped me-begin-to
deal with this was Ms. Peggy Swan when she came to visit me at the Columbia Correctional
Institution, She just walked up to me and hugged me for what seemed like an hour.
My mind resisted but my body felt tense. It felt unreal because for years the
only time I've ever seen her was on a small monitor behind a glass window, and
hoisted about 8 feet in the air via something called a "televisit" at
Supermax. I still feel very uncomfortable about coming in physical contact with
other people but it's not as intense as it was when I first got out of Supermax.<br />
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If I had my way I
would live the rest of my life without having physical contact with anyone.<br />
However, according to the Sunna (Way of life) of Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon
Him), it is<br />
recommended for Muslims, myself included, to make
"musafaha" (shaking of hands) when they<br />
greet each other. According
to a Hadith (sayings by Prophet Muhammad) (PBUH), it was related that<br />
"Every time I met Rasulullah 'sall-Allahu 'alaihi Wa sallam,' he would
make musafaha with me."<br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Musafaha is
two people attaching the palms of their right hands to each other, in a manner<br />
wherein the sides of their thumbs contact each other. The handshake which is
done by holding the<br />
second person's fingers in your palm, and which is in fashion
today, is a Shiite manner of handshake.<br />
The sunnat fashion,' however, is ..when
you meet your Muslim Brother and as both of you utter the<br />
words 'of greeting,
to attach the inner parts of four of the fingers of your naked right hand
(without<br />
wearing gloves or any other kind of wrapper), to the outer part of his
right hand, towards his thumb.<br />
Affection spreads from the veins of the thumb. As
two Muslims make Musafaha, they exchange<br />
brotherly affection. This is another
example showing<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that Muslims should love
one another and<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>avoid separatism."
(Source: The Rising and the Hereafter by Imam Ghazali,)<br />
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It is because of this information I found myself forcing
myself to shake hands with people regardless of my personal feelings. And it's
worth it. I mean, before embracing Islam I felt compelled to shake hands with
people to stay in touch with a certain organizational code, whereas now I only shake
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Salaam,</div>
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Rufus West, #225213</div>
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Mus1rn Mansa Lutalo Iyapo</div>
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After much expectation and hope, another "overcooked" parole eligible prisoner is denied parole for no good reasons. Lutalo. (Rufus West), is a litigator and helper of any who come to him. Like many other litigator and advocates guilty of money crimes,he never gets out of Maximums. Here is his parole commission report: The supposed infraction for which he got the conduct report was because he led his religious group when asked by members to substitute for missing leader. Some crime- the wrong person was notified. And this guy may not even be released when his MR comes.<br />
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We are preparing a campaign that highlights the contradictions here and makes clear that the DOC neither rehabilitates prisoners nor make society safer. FFUP works with a lot of youngsters who are shoved willy-nilly out of prison after having no treatment of training and with no support on the outside, These are the "Truth in sentencing" prisoners and there are no resources to help these youngsters because of the overcrowding of the system caused by holding 2500plus older, ready -for -parole- prisoners like Lutalo. In the coming days we will make this clearer and will be linking Lutalo's and other parole blogs to information on just how corrupt the DOC really is-<br />
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now for the parole document, first , in jpeg and Below that, scanned to word:<br />
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<b>PAROLE COMMISSION ACTION</b><br />
OFFENDER NAME<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>IDOC #<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>FACILITY' NAME<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>AGENT #<br />
WEST, RUFUS P.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>225213<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Green Bay Correctional Institution<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>31003<br />
[3301]<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>TIS No<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>980 No<br />
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RECOMMENDED ACTION TAKEN:Defer to MR - PMR<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>NEW PED<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>MR/ES<br />
03/0512019<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>RECOMMENDED ELIGIBILITY<br />
DATE<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>DATE ACTION TAKEN:03/23/2017<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>HEARING TYPE<br />
Parole Review<br />
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If you are recommended for a parole grant release, the time frame within which you shall be released, as established by the Chairperson of the Parole Commission, shall be reflected in the grant order.<br />
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GENERAL REASONS FOR ACTION TAKEN<br />
1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>You have developed an adequate plan. but will need Agents verification.<br />
2.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Your institutional conduct has NOT been satisfactory.<br />
3.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Your program participation has NOT been satisfactory.<br />
4.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Release at this time would involve an unreasonable risk to the public.<br />
5.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>You have NOT served sufficient time for punishment.<br />
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COMMISSION COMMENTS<br />
This is your 2nd incarceration and at they age of 45, you've served approximately 22 years and 11 months of a 28 year sentence structure CS to your forfeited time. You served time for PTAC OVWOC and paroled in May 1993. The PTAC OVWOC entailed you using part of a scissors to start a vehicle and stealing it. You were in an accident with the car. In August 1994, while on parole, you concealed your identity and held a gun to a female's neck while demanding her purse. After she met your demands you told her to turn around and run. Today you denied robbing the female. You forfeited 1 year 9 months for the PTAC OVWOC and the new sentence of 28 years for Armed<br />
Robbery is CS to the forfeiture time. In addition you were sentenced to 6 years CC for FIPOF. You have a prior hx of Theft from Person and OVWOC.<br />
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Your poor adjustment so soon after release from prison and while on parole is concerning. More time should be served to address the seriousness of your actions. Your institution adjustment is not acceptable. In January 2017 you received a minor and a major CR. The major CR resulted from you indicating you were given permission to lead the religious service group which had not occurred. You received 120 days DS for Disobeying Orders and Lying. Prior to that your last CR occurred in 2015. You haven't been able to achieve reduced custody as a result of your difficulty adhering to rules and boundaries.<br />
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Today you indicated you deserve parole because of your growth and mentoring of others. You believe the DOC/Parole Commission focuses on your deficits and fails to recognize your attributes. As explained today, your conduct, both positive and negative, is weighed into a decision. You develop the materials in your file through your actions. You must demonstrate a consistent pattern of positive adjustment and cooperation to overcome your setbacks.<br />
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You're subject to PMR and running the risk of being held beyond MR if you don't meet the expectations of a PMR review. You're expected to complete all identified programming and transition successfully to minimum community custody with work release in order to mitigate your risk to the reasonable level required for a discretionary release. To your credit you've completed AODA and education. There are unmet tx needs of Anger Management and CGIP. You were enrolled in AM, however you were terminated due to lack of effort in 2014.<br />
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You propose living in Broadhead, WI with a friend which eventually requires agent approval. A release from maximum custody, without programming completed and without having prepared for a return to the community by demonstrating successful adjustment in minimum community custody with work release, would pose an unreasonable risk.<br />
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According to WICS, there are outstanding financial obligations of $309.50. The Parole Commission expects satisfaction of your financial obligations as it further speaks to your attitude toward the crime. To your credit you've saved $600+ which should aid your return to the community.<br />
**The length of this deferment requires Chairperson approval.<br />
Commissioner D.LaCost<br />
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 90%; mso-font-width: 105%;">"THE NEW NORMAL"<br />
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Maday<br />
by Rufus West, #225213<br />
November18, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Jr Rahman <span style="mso-font-width: 55%;">Jr </span>Rahim<br />
(In the name of God, the Most Gracious, Most Merciful)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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parable called "The Perfect Heart."</span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><em>One day a young man was standing in the middle of the town
proclaiming that he had the most beautiful heart in the whole valley. A large
crowd gathered and they all admired his heart, for it was perfect. There was
not a mark or flaw in it. Yes, they all agreed it truly was the most beautiful
heart they had ever seen. The young man was very proud and boasted more loudly
about his beautiful heart.<o:p></o:p></em></span></span></div>
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old man appeared at the front of the crowd and said, "Why, your heart is
not nearly as beautiful as mine." The crowd and the young man looked at
the old man's heart. It was beating <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>strongly; but full of scars; it had places
where pieces had been removed and other pieces put in, but they didn't fit
quite right, and there were several jagged edges. In fact, in some places there
were deep gouges where whole pieces were missing.<o:p></o:p></em></span></span></div>
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peopled stared—how can he say his heart is more beautiful?, they thought. The
young man looked at the old man's heart and saw its state and laughed.
"You must be joking," he said. "Compare your heart with mine;
mine is perfect and yours is a mess of scars and tears."<o:p></o:p></em></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 90%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><em>"Yes," said the old man, 'Yours is
perfect looking but I would never trade with you. You see, every scar
represents a person to whom I have given my love—I tear out a piece of my heart
and give it to them, and often they give me a piece of their heart which fits
into the empty place in my heart, but because the pieces aren't exact, I have
some rough edges, which I cherish, because they remind me of the love we
shared. Sometimes I have given pieces of my heart away and the other person
hasn't returned a piece of his heart to me. These are the empty gouges—giving
love is taking a chance.<o:p></o:p></em></span></span></div>
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these gouges are painful, they stay open, reminding me of the love I have for
those people too, and I hope someday they may return and fill the space I have
waiting. So now do you see what true beauty is?"<o:p></o:p></em></span></span></div>
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silently with his tears running down his cheeks. He walked up to the old man,
reached into his perfect young and beautiful heart, and ripped a piece out. He
offered it to the old man with trembling hands. The old man took his offering, placed
it in his heart and then took a piece from his old, scarred heart and placed it
in the wound in the young man's heart. It fit, but not perfectly, as there were
some jagged edges. The young man looked at his heart, not perfect anymore, but
more beautiful than ever, since love from the old man's heart flowed into his.<o:p></o:p></em></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> W</o:p></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">hen I did the Restorative Justice
program in 2008 at the Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, the
facilitators, Reverend Jerry Hancock and Judge Geske, had three survivors of crime
come in and share their experiences: Mr. Tim—who had been awakened to his home
being burglarized; Ms. Tanya—who was robbed and pistol-whipped at a drive
through A.T.M.; and Ms. Pat—whose son was murdered. Yesterday while listening
to Ms. Kim and Ms. Maday share their experiences with me on the second day of
the three-day Restorative Justice part of the Green Bay Correctional
Institution's Challenges and Possibilities program, I realized that all of the
aforementioned survivors share a common bond: being robbed of their 'normal'
forever. Consequently, they are compelled to live a new normal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> In 2008, when the survivors shared their
experiences with me I listened with my ears while shielding my heart. Many of
us who have been exposed to incessant crimes in the ghetto, learn from the cradle
that our environment is not abnormal—but normal. In fact, I was taught that any
period of days without crime was not normal. This psychological indoctrination
or brainwashing took root deep within me as a child easily, considering the
overwhelming exposure. Surely, children are like wet cement... whatever lands
on them makes an impression.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">The photos of my
son that you will soon hold in your hands will forever be my new normal. The challenge
for me is not to allow it to swallow me up, thereby resulting in my spiritual
demise. So, I hold on to the Rope of Allah, not with one hand—but with both
hands like the frog holding on to the neck of the bird trying to swallow it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With every fiber of my being, I
believe that everything ultimately happens by Allah's Will, and that Him
allowing me to meet Ms. Kim and Ms. Maday, and experience this three-day
Restorative Justice experience is a blessing and has been very therapeutic for
me because I don't know how to let someone know that I need to get something
off my chest. I know that listening to their heartfelt experiences has softened
my heart towards them more because the murder of my son has resurrected my
ability to empathize more from the heart—which still feels like it's laying at
my feet, shattered in a zillion pieces as I endeavor to pick up every piece.
Sharing your heartfelt experiences with me has helped mend my heart in ways
that I'm unable to articulate. For that, alone, I am grateful. Even if I never
see ya'll again I want ya'll to know that I extend apiece of my heart to ya'll
and pray that Allah will continue to allow you to not only share your
experiences—but also guide you in your <i>new normal.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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would like to share a piece with you that I wrote:</span></span></div>
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Take.":<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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here ruminating on the time span that it takes to create a baby. About nine
months is the expected time span from conception until the baby is actually
born. Within that period, however, the child's limbs, organs, fingerprints,
intellect, everything is being created. Meanwhile, the mother carries the child
inside of her cradle of humanity, which stretches dramatically to accommodate
the tiny person being created inside of her. Consequently, the mother
experiences physical and psychological changes that the father is unable to
imagine. Actually, the father is spared these changes that the mother endures!</span></span></div>
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of contractions, and pushing her child into this world through a hole in her
body about 10 centimeters round. Meanwhile, the father is awe-struck, yet duped
into believing that he is actually helping by repeatedly telling her to
"Push!" when she already knows to "Push!" (Bless his heart.)
Newborn babies are nurtured by their mother, while the father looks on in
amazement at the human beings that his drop of liquid helped create after nine
months.</span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 83%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While it takes nine months (i.e. <i><span style="mso-font-width: 95%;">275 </span></i>days, or 6,000 hours, or 396,000
minutes, or 23,760,000 seconds) to birth a child into this world, it only takes
one second to kill the child. The obvious disproportionate comparisons
associated in this context should appeal to the instinctive nature and sanity of
humanity and galvanize us as a human race to abstain from killing each other.
Self preservation is mankind's second Law of Nature.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 83%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">On June 3, 2016, my son, Richard West
Gray, was assassinated. I didn't find out about it until July 1, 2016. That
same bullet that killed him literally killed a part of me and his mother.
Having said that, it's impossible to ignore the myriad of unjustified deaths
that have resulted from mass shootings, cop killings, killings of cops, and the
fact that the number one cause of death for Black men between the ages of 18
and 35 is homicide. Likewise, it's also impossible to ignore the thousands of
unjustified deaths that have resulted from bombs, chemical warfare, stabbings,
etc. Every person killed adversely affects the person's parents. Every person
killed is somebody's child who took about nine months to birth. And while I'll
be the first one to point out that the Black man's death rate is
disproportionate in comparison to White men when it comes to homicide, I will
also be the first one to widen the lens in order to point out that senseless
killings are a human tragedy, not exclusively a Black one. The very word
"human' is all inclusive as 'hue' covers every shade of mankind's skin
complexion. Thus, as a human race, each person must shoulder his or her
individual responsibility of self-control in order to protect humanity from
one's insanity. To do otherwise would be irresponsible and uncivilized.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">My name is
Rufus West and I approve this message.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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FFUPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02860136791099005665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383600388523995264.post-33147295260267532782016-10-04T15:52:00.000-07:002016-10-04T13:52:32.067-07:00On The Death of His Son:Three Offerings<br />
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; line-height: 85%;">Bismillah ir Rahman
ir Rahim,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; line-height: 90%;">"SOMETHING" MORE THAN JUST PAIN<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; line-height: 90%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By Rufus West a/k/a Muslim Mansa
Lutalo Iyapo<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt;">August 10, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; line-height: 85%;">When a parent
loses their child they experience a "something" that </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; line-height: 85%;">is more than just pain. It's unparalleled to anything one can imagine. </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; line-height: 85%;">Actually there's no word for it. It's just the worst feeling ever that </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; line-height: 85%;">has been, and continues to be, my daily experience. The only feeling </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; line-height: 85%;">that I can compare it to is the feeling I have right before I wake up </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; line-height: 85%;">after being shot in the head, knowing I'm going to die if I don't wake </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; line-height: 85%;">up at that very moment. That feeling is so novel in a<sup> </sup>conscious
state </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; line-height: 85%;">and </span></i></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; line-height: 85%;">can only be compared to something that happens in a dream or a </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 85%;">subconscious state. It's so horrible that I do everything in my power </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; line-height: 85%;">to wake myself up. To be clear, it's not the physical pain of being </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.35pt; line-height: 85%;">shot, but some unexplainable bad feeling that's somehow associated with<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; line-height: 83%;">the cosmos of
one's very existence on the verge of becoming nonexistent. </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; line-height: 83%;">I think it's a combination of extreme fear mixed with
"something" that's </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; line-height: 83%;">more than just
pain. This is just a microscopic percentage of what I<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; line-height: 85%;">can compare to the feeling I experienced on July 1,
2016, upon receiving </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; line-height: 85%;">notice via "snail mail" that my beloved son,
Richard West Gray, was </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; line-height: 85%;">assassinated on June 3, 2016. Not even the death of my
mother 26 years </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; line-height: 85%;">ago to a seizure is equal in comparison to my reaction
to losing Richard, </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; line-height: 85%;">and I was extremely close to my mother. (Needless to say,
I have yet </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; line-height: 85%;">to find an experience parallel to the bad feelings 1 felt upon learning
</span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; line-height: 85%;">of
her death.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; line-height: 80%;">To this day I'm
still trying to fill some of the gaps in my memory </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; line-height: 80%;">for the first <i>72 </i>hours after receiving the news about Richard. </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 80%; mso-font-width: 80%;">What </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.65pt; line-height: 80%;">I am certain about is that I cried, no, I sobbed .<i> </i>When I was
able to </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.35pt; line-height: 80%;">calm
down from sobbing, a clinician would ask me to talk about him. </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; line-height: 80%;">My attempts to do thus would
result in me breaking down again. I sobbed </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; line-height: 80%;">so much that first day that an
inmate (who has never lost a child) </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; line-height: 80%;">commented that the reason that I cried so much is because
I haven't </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; line-height: 80%;">cried in years. Pretty presumptuous on his cart. He couldn't see that </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; line-height: 80%;">the reason why I cried so much
is because of the fact that my son was </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.35pt; line-height: 80%;">murdered. My tears for Richard
don't start with my eyes. The tear start </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.55pt; line-height: 80%;">from my chest and, rises up to
my eyes before pausing briefly at my neck' like someone's choking me so that I
can't breathe.. My body trembles,</span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; line-height: 80%;">and I'll make a noise to distract myself from that
"something" more </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; line-height: 80%;">than just pain. At first I cried so much that my whole
body ached, </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.35pt; line-height: 80%;">especially my eyes and head. As the days turned into weeks, however, I
cried less frequent to where now I find myself crying when I look at his photos
or when I ruminate on the fact that I will never be able </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; line-height: 80%;">to enjoy his physical presence
ever again. I'm doing my best to try<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; line-height: 85%;">to lock his death up deep within me somewhere because the
feeling that </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; line-height: 85%;">cones with it has no cure. It gets so bad sometimes that I often feel </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 85%;">like the only way to escape it
is suicide. As Muslim, I know that it's </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; line-height: 85%;">against Islam to commit suicide
and. that Allah's punishment will he </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; line-height: 85%;">severe. Yet, every so often I feel myself weighing its
pros and cons. </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.65pt; line-height: 85%;">There's no pill or cure for what I'm experiencing. I
just wish there were </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 85%;">words that could articulate what I'm experiencinq on a
daily basis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; line-height: 83%;">No, I'm not going to kill myself. People walk past my
cell every day, </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 83%;">while some stop at my cell for one reason or another and
they don<sup>'</sup>t </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.35pt; line-height: 83%;">have the slightest idea of what I'm going through. If
they were to ask </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; line-height: 83%;">me I would only tell them that I'm going through
"something" more than </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 83%;">just
pain.</span></span><br />
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by Rufus West a/k/a Muslim Mansa Lutalo lyapo 7/20/16<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -1.05pt; line-height: 75%;">The one thing
that parents need to realize about making plans, </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.85pt; line-height: 75%;">is that whether they happen or not is completely out of our </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; line-height: 75%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">hands.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.75pt; line-height: 75%;">Time is a gift often taken for granted by those of us who live, </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -1pt; line-height: 75%;">it's only after, they're murdered do we regret not spending more time </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.9pt; line-height: 75%;">with our kids. Or telling them that </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; line-height: 75%;">we </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.9pt; line-height: 75%;">love them at least once every </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -1pt; line-height: 75%;">day, because we don't expect Allah to come and take our children away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.75pt; line-height: 76%;">Presumptuously we believe that parents aren't supposed
to bury </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.85pt; line-height: 76%;">their
children, but statistically Black parents will more than likely </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -1pt; line-height: 76%;">bury their children.
Especially if that child is a Black male aged 18 to </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 76%;">35, because the number one </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.8pt; line-height: 76%;">cause
of death for him in </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 76%;">this country is </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -1.1pt; line-height: 76%;">homicide. - At <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>hand <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>another with <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>same <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>skin
color <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>who <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>doesn't <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.8pt; line-height: 76%;">believe t hat Black lives matter. Because if he did - my </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.2pt; line-height: 76%;">son </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.8pt; line-height: 76%;">wouldn't </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; line-height: 76%;">be dead.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.85pt; line-height: 75%;">I never thought that I would be among those who were </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; line-height: 75%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">notified<i>, </i></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -1.05pt; line-height: 75%;">that my beloved son named Richard West Gray had become a victim of </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; line-height: 75%;">homicide.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.9pt; line-height: 77%;">It never crossed my mind that I would be robbed of my
vision, of a healthy father and son relationship with my son when I got out of </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; line-height: 77%;">prison.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.9pt; line-height: 77%;">I told myself when I get out that I'm never coming back to the </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -1pt; line-height: 77%;">pen, my first order of business was visiting my kids and grandchildren.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.95pt; line-height: 77%;">But all the things I've dreamed of doing with <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>my son for the past </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.9pt; line-height: 77%;">22 years, will never happen and
that's clear.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -1pt; line-height: 76%;">Never! That's clear.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>NOW I KNOW <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">by
Rufus <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">West<i> </i></span>a/k/a Muslim
Mansa Lutalo lyapo 7/1/16<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 78%;">A wife who loses her husband is called
a "widow." A child who loses his parents is called an
"orphan." When a parent loses their child to gun violence they're
called ... there is no name for it.<sup> </sup>Of all the words in the history
of man, there is no word to label a parent who loses their child; who has to
bury their child.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 71%;">Writing this caption my pen ran out of
ink, unexpectedly <span style="mso-font-width: 120%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>like your life ran out of time.</span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 82%;">Pausing for extensive periods in the middle of praying to
break </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 77%;">down
in tears. The pain is too much! Why does this kind of torture exist? This pain
- just when I thought I could start praying again the pain breaks me down
again! Allah I'm holding on to Your Rope for dear life, because right now I'm
definitely considering ending my own life! I know Muslims aren't supposed to
kill themselves .... I feel like I'm already dead! I Feel Like I'm Already
Dead! I FEEL LIKE I'M ALREADY DEAD! My heart shattered, pieces everywhere.
Everywhere there are pieces - like glass. Bloody trails left by my hands trying
to collect all of the pieces. Trying to collect myself. Trying to get a hold of
myself. These photos of you in a casket don't even look like you! I don't
recognize </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 72%;">you at all! I need confirmation. Insha Allah I'll have
somebody make some calls.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 77%;">My body is weak. I'm a weak man trying
to be strong. When I lift myself up a couple inches I just collapse back into
the wall. I wish I could be this wall: hard, cold and just lifeless, As I write
this I'm thinking for the first time about the coward(s) <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">that killed you<i>. </i></span>Had to
"ambush" you, so that let me know that you had something about </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 75%;">you
that made this coward(s) know that he had no win without ambushing you. It's
still no consolation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 80%;">Every time I see parents on the news,
crying over their child being killed, I would try to empathize in order to
articulate to people why </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 75%;">we
need to stop killing each other, NOW' I KNOW!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 77%;">I wrestle with the contradiction of
not wanting anyone to ever experience this pain with wanting the coward(s) who
did this to you to experience this with every child they have! I know that's
not Islam.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 77%;">I remember when you and your brother
were just babies. Twins, not even a year old yet. I was wearing a red Adidas
hat. Your mommy handed you both to me one at a time, I didn't know how to hold
no baby. You </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 76%;">two
were my first born. She kept scolding me, "Watch their heads, Roofy!"
I didn't know what I was doing, Here I was trying to maintain a so-called gangster,
thug-type posture while trying to cuddle ya'll in my arms simultaneously. Both
of ya'll were clearly vocal in letting me know </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 77%;">that
this ain't no "Diamond in the back - sunroof top - diggin' the scene with a
gangster lean" situation. Like everyday – I had been in the streets all
night. The next thing I know is that I'm being awakened by your mommy lifting
one of you off of my chest, and then the other one. I hadn't realized that I
had dozed off. Ya'll had fallen asleep on my chest. I told your mommy I had to
leave. Before 1 left she told me that she took a picture of us sleeping and
that it was the only time that she saw me look peaceful. My mentality, however,
is <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I </span>need to get out in them
streets. When she let me see the photo, as much as I tried to play it off, I
knew that she would never get that photo back. And she didn't. I ended up
losing that photo a few years later, but it's permanent in my mind's eye as
lucid as if I can touch it with my hands.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 77%;">I remember when your mommy would take ya'll for a stroll in
the stroller while I would be in my element running the streets. I would see
ya'll during the daytime, or your mommy would hunt me down during </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 77%;">the daytime. She would
try to convince me to get off of the streets, to no avail.<i> </i></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 77%;">We'd depart. <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">And
then at </span>night she'd <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">come
looking for me </span>with ya'll. My homeboys in <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">the 'hood would tell me, "Man, you know your<i> </i></span>baby
momma is out here with kids looking for you?" I'd go looking for ya'll but
she'd always find me first. She'd tell me that she needed to make sure I was
o.k., and on many occasions she would bring me a styrofoam plate of home-cooked
food just to make sure I was eating "real food" and not junk food. I
would take turns holding you and your brother, and then <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I would send ya'll home so that I </span>could get back in them <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">streets.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 76%;">You was 4 years-old when I got locked up. Twenty-two
years of watching you grow from a distance through photos and letters. Twenty-two
years of telling you that<sub>?</sub> Insha Allah, I'll be home soon if I get my
case overturned or get paroled. You gave me a grandson. A grandson! A sign
indicative of the fact that not <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">only
am I getting old in years, </span>but also indicative of the fact that you're
no <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">longer </span>that baby who fell
asleep on my chest that day or the baby wheeled around in a stroller by his
mother looking for me. It seems like I just blinked and you went from a baby in
a stroller to giving me a grandson.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 75%;">At first I wanted you to be like me. But after I
embraced Islam and then matured into manhood I realized that I didn't want you
to be <span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">like the pre-Islamic me. I wanted you to be better than I was by avoiding negativity and </span></span></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">creating positive alternatives/opportunities for yourself. People who <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">don't grow<i> </i></span>with you are unable
to witness your growth in maturity. They only remember who you were and what
you were by their </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">last memory of
you. This is what I was up against. Parenting from prison is one of those
things that you'll, never know how well you did until it's all over and it's
the end. Well, I will never know how well I've <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">done </span>because some coward(s) robbed me of that opportunity.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 77%;">I
feel like I've failed you because I should have been there with you instead of
in here - in prison. As your father it was my obligation to support you by
making decisions that would allow me to maintain a consistent physical presence
in your life. I admit that I didn't do that and I am deeply sorry for fleeing
from my responsibilities as a father. Quite frankly, I didn't even know what my
responsibilities or priorities of a father were because it wasn't until years
after my imprisonment that I grew out of boyhood into manhood that I knew what </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">a man was.
Children must not have children; only men <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">and </span>women because the child is the one who suffers undeservedly.
You didn't ask to be born.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 75%;">Killing myself right now would be a selfish act
because my life never belonged to me once I had children. I have three kids
left. Furthermore, it's against Islam. I never want to go through this again, Insha
Allah I never will.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 76%;">I am literally stuck in
a physical void right now. I don't know what to do from moment to moment, so I
sit here on this floor writing you my thoughts as they come, frequently pausing
to wipe my tears off the pages or reflect on a memory.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 77%;">Insha
Allah I will have a future. I'm unable to clearly picture any future. All I
know is <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I </span>need to stay alive so
that I can get out of prison ASAP. I need to look after my grandchildren, my
remaining children, and people who love me. My inability to focus is preventing<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 75%;">my
ability to strategize right now. I need to get out of prison. (Allah help me
get out of prison!) One thing about asking, though, is there's a chance for
denial.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 78%;">There's
a hole in my heart. Damn it hurts!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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imprisonment. Your other siblings as well are experiencing a lotof pain as a
result of your death. Insha Allah I am going to find out who assassinated you.
Allah already <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">knows<i>.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></span></div>
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it's 9:00 a.m., July 2, 20161 I've been writing pretty much since last night. I
should probably try to get some sleep but my whole body hurts. Yawning every 30
seconds only exacerbates my headache and eye ache.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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sure is one Ramadhan I'll never forget. Insha Allah you are in a better place.
I ask<sup>-</sup>that<sup>-</sup>Allah will protect you and keep you safe. And
Insha Allah we will see each other in Paradise.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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FFUPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02860136791099005665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383600388523995264.post-28644534437205552122016-10-04T13:51:00.001-07:002016-10-04T13:51:09.857-07:00NO MORE CANCELLATION OF PRISONERS' RELIGIOUS SERVICES<br />
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">NO MORE CANCELLATION OF PRISONERS' RELIGIOUS SERVICES<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "courier new"; line-height: 87%;">In June of this year I settled out of court in a case I brought <span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">against prison officials asserting that my right to practice Islam was being infringed upon every time prison officials cancelled Jumu'ah and </span>Talim Services, and delayed the Eid al-Fitr prayer whenever they failed to provide an outside Islamic volunteer to lead them at the Columbia <span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">Correctional Institution (CCI). The district court dismissed it. I filed a reconsideration motion. While awaiting the decision on my motion,</span></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">CCI officials had me transferred to the Green Bay Correctional </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">Institution (GBCI), via an impromptu PRC process, despite my PRC results </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">several weeks prior stating that I was to remain at CCI for another year. After notifying the court of my transfer, the district court </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">denied my motion as moot being that I was no longer at CC!.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "courier new"; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; line-height: 88%;">I appealed the decision to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "courier new"; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; line-height: 88%;">which reversed the district court's decision and held that because the </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "courier new"; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; line-height: 88%;">DOC's actions were the result of a state-wide policy, my challenge was </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "courier new"; letter-spacing: 0.05pt; line-height: 88%;">not limited to CCI, but to every prison in the state of Wisconsin. I </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "courier new"; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 88%;">was subsequently appointed a Dream Team of attorneys out of the Axley </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "courier new"; line-height: 88%;">Brynelson, LLP Law Firm, headed by attorney Michael <i>J. </i>Modi. The end <span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">result is a settlement agreement that affects all Wisconsin prisoners </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">(not just Muslims) who have their religious services cancelled due to the DOC failing to provide that particular service with an outside </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">volunteer or a staff from that particular faith who's capable of leading </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">that service. <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The<i> </i></span>DOC agreed that no prisoner's religious service will </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">he cancelled for that reason. They also agreed to post a memo by no </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">later than September 25, 2016 stating this change, and also to make </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">sure that it stays posted for a period of 6 months thereafter. They </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt; line-height: 87%; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">also have until that date to be in full compliance of the settlement </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 87%; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">agreement throughout the state of Wisconsin. Their failure to comply </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt;">by that time will result in the DOC being in violation of the settlement. </span>It's every prisoner’s responsibility to make sure that they are in <span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">compliance therewith. If I learn that the DOC is not in compliance, </span>I will create a paper trail by filing a complaint via the ICRS. <span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">Afterwards, I will inform the court of this breach of contract and </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">produce the court with my ICRS documentation as evidence. (Insha Allah.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "courier new"; letter-spacing: -0.05pt; line-height: 87%;">Appended (below)are letters from my attorney and the settlement agreement.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 0.2pt; line-height: 167%;">FOR A WOMAN I
KNOW by </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.7pt; line-height: 167%;">-Rufus West a/k/a Mu</span></i></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><i><u><span style="font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 0.2pt; line-height: 167%; mso-font-width: 110%;">s</span></u></i></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.7pt; line-height: 167%;">lim Manse Lutalo lyapo 8/31 /16<br />
</span></i></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; line-height: 167%;">The following is an excerpt from my
letter to a family member.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.3pt; line-height: 80%;">1 am saddened to
hear that <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">you're </span>experiencing
abusive relationships </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.05pt; line-height: 80%;">Every woman
deserves a man, just like every man deserves a woman. When </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.4pt; line-height: 80%;">it comes to relationships, men
and women deserve the companions they </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; line-height: 80%;">settle for. It all starts with
what do we define a man <span style="mso-font-width: 110%;">or </span>woman as. </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.6pt; line-height: 80%;">Social norms have duped most of
us into believing that their definition </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.25pt; line-height: 80%;">of a man and a woman is
unquestionable. Consequently, we don't question </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.55pt; line-height: 80%;">it and suffer the consequences
So, I'm asking you,( ), are you a woman, </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.7pt; line-height: 80%;">if so, what &/or. How are you
a woman? If you have to think long and </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.25pt; line-height: 80%;">hard on these questions, then
maybe you need to proceed solo until you're </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; line-height: 80%;">ready for an intimate <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">companion<i> </i></span>to share your space
with. It always </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.55pt; line-height: 80%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">pains my heart<i> </i></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.55pt; line-height: 80%;">when people in relationships
abuse each other. Naturally, </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.4pt; line-height: 80%;">it is more painful when the abuse is my [family member].
Unfortunately, </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.35pt; line-height: 80%;">however, I am unable to make you change what is in your
heart until </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; line-height: 80%;">you not only decide to change -what is in your heart - but also act </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.75pt; line-height: 80%;">aggressively to make that
change a reality. I believe it all begins </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.3pt; line-height: 80%;">with Allah (God) and your
relationship with Him. [Name], His Love is </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.35pt; line-height: 80%;">Perfect. His Love for you
teaches<sup>-</sup>and shows you how to have love for </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.55pt; line-height: 80%;">yourself. How to love yourself. Consequently, that love will penetrate </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.85pt; line-height: 80%;">your heart and exterminate all of the toxins therein, which will in </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.7pt; line-height: 80%;">turn manifest itself in how you not only treat yourself but also how </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; line-height: 80%;">you allow others to treat
you.-Based on what you've told me, you haven't </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.55pt; line-height: 80%;">had any examples to guide you
to reaching an understanding of self love, </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; line-height: 80%;">at least not any healthy
examples. You don't need a companion at the </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.35pt; line-height: 80%;">expense of him abusing you.
You need to love yourself enough to be without </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.3pt; line-height: 80%;">a companion until you are
secure of what and who you are, which-will </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.05pt; line-height: 80%;">then enable you to be patient-
when it comes to <sup>-</sup>allowing a companion </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.4pt; line-height: 80%;">in your life.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.4pt; line-height: 87%;">My beloved
(family member), everythinq I'm telling you is from </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.45pt; line-height: 87%;">my life's experience. Hurt people hurt people. I was born male. For </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.3pt; line-height: 87%;">the next 30-something years I
stayed stuck in a boyhood mentality. Turning </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.1pt; line-height: 87%;">18 only introduced me to
adulthood - not manhood.. And even though I </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; line-height: 87%;">can say with confidence that
for some time now I’ve been stable in my </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.55pt; line-height: 87%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">manhood,<i>
</i>I<i> </i></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.55pt; line-height: 87%;">recognize that it's not something that is obtained and then </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 2.45pt; line-height: 87%;">one has <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">it for the rest of his lif<i>e. </i></span>No!
See, manhood is a state of </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.6pt; line-height: 87%;">being that is being challenged every single day in a
myriad of ways.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; line-height: 88%;">I can't emphasize enough the immense level of
responsibility that comes </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.25pt; line-height: 88%;">with being a man. Sometimes I still feel the urge to relapse
into boyhood </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.6pt; line-height: 88%;">and do something irresponsible. It's only by the Grace of Allah that I </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.4pt; line-height: 88%; mso-font-width: 115%;">don't </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.4pt; line-height: 88%;">act out my urges and get back
in my lane. And if I do happen </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.85pt; line-height: 88%;">to act on an urge, I repent and ask for Allah's
forgiveness. I'm a work </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.9pt; line-height: 88%;">in progress. Al-Hamdulillah (All Praise belongs to and is
due to Allah) </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.25pt; line-height: 88%;">for me being able to reach the state of manhood (albeit after
30-something </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.8pt; line-height: 88%;">years), because it’s like a whole new world just opened up to me. Not </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; line-height: 88%;">only did I learn how to love
myself as Allah wanted me to, it -also taught </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.35pt; line-height: 88%;">me how to love everyone else.
My love and appreciation for the woman </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.45pt; line-height: 90%;">in general rose to a level that's beyond words. The
woman is the womb </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 0.9pt; line-height: 90%;">of humanity. Without the woman --humanity could -not
exist-. If all of the </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.3pt; line-height: 90%;">women died today humanity would not be able to reproduce
or produce </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.7pt; line-height: 90%;">any further civilizations. Man is unable to do this.</span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.7pt; line-height: 90%;">Knowing this is a reality, not
a theory, it's man's responsibility to value the woman </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.75pt; line-height: 90%;">as worthy as his equal, worthy
of his love, protection and respect. </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.6pt; line-height: 90%;">This is the mindset of a man. He doesn't call her by
offensive names </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.15pt; line-height: 90%;">or bring harm to her. Knowing what 1 know, I have no
desire to be with anyone other than a female who has reached womanhood.
Otherwise, I’d rather be (and have been for about two decades now)without a
companion. Likewise, I would hope and pray that you’ll do the same thing, Insha
Allah, because I hate when you’re in pain. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.15pt; line-height: 90%;">Rufus West
225213a/k/a Muslim Mansa Lutalo Iyapo: GBCI PO Box 19033;Green Bay, WI 54307<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; letter-spacing: -.75pt; line-height: 115%;">Rufus West is a
Wisconsin inmate formerly incarcerated at Columbia Correctional </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; letter-spacing: -.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Institution, a maximum-security prison, and currently
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Department of Corrections, seeking damages and injunctive relief for </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; letter-spacing: -.55pt; line-height: 115%;">perceived violations of the First Amendment, <i>see </i>42
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retaliated by scheduling meal </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; letter-spacing: -.55pt; line-height: 115%;">delivery during
Ramadan at the latest possible hour. A magistrate judge, presiding by </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; letter-spacing: -.65pt; line-height: 115%;">consent, granted the defendants' motion for summary
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reasonably conclude from West's evidence that the defendants burdened his </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; letter-spacing: -.45pt; line-height: 115%;">religious exercise under the First Amendment or
retaliated against him because of protected speech, we affirm the dismissal of
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conclusion that West's transfer to Green Bay mooted his RLUIPA claim, and on
that claim we remand for further proceedings. To <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://ffupstuff.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/apr-22-court-of-appeals-disposition_0001-1.pdf">Continue click here…</a>….</span></span></div>
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<br />FFUPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02860136791099005665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383600388523995264.post-60404967932638511562014-12-23T04:07:00.000-08:002014-12-23T04:07:00.925-08:00Complaint affirmed, SIgnature not required
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 1.6pt; line-height: 87%;">SIGNATURE NOT
REQUIRED TO RECEIVE NEW RULES</span></b></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 1pt; line-height: 87%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 1.9pt;">by Muslim Mansa Lutalo 1yapo(12-10-14)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>On 11-8-14, 1 was
deprived of a copy of the </span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><i><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">new DOC 303<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt; line-height: 85%;">rules because
I refused to sign a receipt acknowledging that<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">I had
received them. Consequently, I</span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 6.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.05pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-font-width: 125%;"> </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">filed a complaint via ICRS </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;">stating:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.6pt;">RE: Illegal denial of </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">303 Ru1es (January 2015)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">On 11-3-1 at 7:40 p.m. this female CO</span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><i><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.2pt; line-height: 87%;"> </span></i><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">came around
to </span>collect the receipt of acknowledgement of DOC 303 January <span style="letter-spacing: 0.35pt;">2015 Rules. I asked her what </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 0.35pt; line-height: 87%;">if </span></b></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 0.35pt; line-height: 87%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-font-width: 115%;">I didn’t</span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><sup><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: 0.35pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-font-width: 115%;"> </span></sup></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.35pt; line-height: 87%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.35pt;">want
to sign it. </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">She told me that I would
have to return the receipt and </span>the DOC 303 Rules (January 2015) and
figure out what the <span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">rules are on my own. I
went to tell her that I didn't have </span>to sign it as a precondition to
receiving a copy of the <span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">rules, when she snapped,
"Let’s go Mr. West, I don't have </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">all
day!" Because I refused to sign the receipt, she </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">refused to let me keep the rules and ordered me
to give </span></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">her back the unsigned <i>receipt </i>and the 303 Rules,
instead </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">of writing that I refused to
sign it and letting me keep </span>the rules.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 86%;">The lCE
returned my complaint to me instructing me to contact Capt. Pusich in an
attempt to resolve the issue <span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">informally. In
response to my inquiry, however, Capt Pusich</span></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 86%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">. </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; line-height: 86%;">stated, "You need to acknowledge receipt of the rules." As a </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 86%;">result, I re-submitted my complaint which was designated
Complaint file GBCI -2014_-22694 by the ICE.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.35pt;">On 11-20-14, the ICR</span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.35pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.35pt;">affirmed my complaint in my favor </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;">stating:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 88%;">Inmate West
complains that he refused to sign a receipt </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; line-height: 88%;">for the new 303 so staff didn't give him a
copy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.5pt;">If an inmate refuses to sign the receipt, <i>it
should have </i></span>been noted on the receipt and a copy still given to the<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 88%;">inmate. An
inmate is still <i>required to follow </i>the 703 </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; line-height: 88%;">regardless if he signs the receipt or not.
The receipt </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; line-height: 88%;">is just
for proof a copy was given to the inmate.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">The lCE <i>affirms the </i>complaint and a copy
will he provided </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">to Inmate west. If
he refuses to sign the <i>receipt, it will </i>be noted on the receipt.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">On 11-24-14, the warden affirmed the IC's
decision.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
FFUPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02860136791099005665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383600388523995264.post-39369564406944438812014-05-29T13:30:00.004-07:002014-05-29T13:30:46.661-07:00 "warmth of Other Suns and Poem "when You're Me"<a href="https://ffupstuff.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/thoughts-on-isabel-wilkerson-book-warmth-of-other-suns_.pdf">thoughts on isabel wilkerson book warmth of other suns</a><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">When You’re Me</span></b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">By Muslim Mansa Lutalo Iyapo</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">It makes me wanna holler at the
top of my lungs,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">but I’m guilty as charged
therefore the holler never comes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">“Helping the brother-man
against the other man” is a response I often use,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">when a brother asks “what’s
happening?” or “what you been up to?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Words followed by action even
if the action is limited to words that dare<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">to speak truth to power and
knock the brains out of falsehood.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">It’s not and never will be all
good…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Not as long as I know my
rights,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Not as long as I’m able to give
people trapped in the dark some light,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Not as long as I’m able to hear
for those who can’t hear,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">because you refuse to send new
hearing aid batteries for what he calls his “other ears.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Not as long as I’m able to stay
focused without snapping,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Not as long as I can make it
happen through action.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Not as long as racial
disparities exist,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Not as long as… well, you
already know what’s on my list.</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">Now here I sit, as a
consequence of my conduct, in an empty cell,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">all property boxed up in a
warehouse…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">waiting for tomorrow, when I’ll
be shipped hours up north<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">to a different slave
plantation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">When
you’re me, </span></b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">you
simply acknowledge that it comes with the territory,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">and shake that dirt off your
back and take a step up, just like that “donkey” story.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">When
you’re me, </span></b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">you
pause to reflect on the few good<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>people
you’ve met,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">and come to the realization
that these people you will never forget.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">When
you’re me, </span></b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">you
understand that it’s divide and conquer,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">and yet spend more than half of
20 years in segregation and still prosper.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">When
you’re me,</span></b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"> you
don’t have time to lick your wounds because the blows are steady coming,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">you train yourself to lock your
pain away deep down in your emotional dungeon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">When
you’re me,</span></b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"> you
get down on your knees in prayer and ask for strength and wisdom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">If you have strength the size
of a mustard seed you will get all that you asked for<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">and then some.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">When
you’re me,</span></b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"> you
will be able to read this and say to yourself<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">you feel just like me,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">and if you do, you’ll know that
it never was about me,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">but about we.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">When
you’re me.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div>
FFUPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02860136791099005665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383600388523995264.post-77499228892589863312014-04-09T13:43:00.000-07:002014-04-09T13:43:11.300-07:00Politics of Fear and others on PDF<a href="http://ffupstuff.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/the-politics-of-fear.pdf">POLITICS OF FEAR</a>FFUPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02860136791099005665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383600388523995264.post-38731253811404758582014-03-14T08:22:00.001-07:002014-04-09T13:41:51.247-07:00Take A Look at Ourselves by Curtis Walker<span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; line-height: 80%;">A LOOK AT OURSELVES<o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; line-height: 85%;">We should ask ourselves this before we go
on to ask anything </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; line-height: 85%;">else: How is it that we have come to be in
such a pitiful state of </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; line-height: 85%;">being? Are we not, as Black men, of equal
value to all other </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; line-height: 85%;">people? If we are of equal value how is it
that, as human beings, </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; line-height: 85%;">we have degenerated to such conditions
(mental and physical)? How </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; line-height: 85%;">is it that our very definition of manhood
has become so entangled </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; line-height: 85%;">with physical expression? Are we really as
we present ourselves to </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; line-height: 85%;">be: enemies of progress and productivity,
enemies of our own selves </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.35pt; line-height: 85%;">and a burden on our families, where we
should stand tall and proud </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; line-height: 85%;">as pillars and providers of
those families and teachers of our </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.6pt; line-height: 85%;">children? What is our
potential? Can we evolve to a higher level of </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.35pt; line-height: 85%;">consciousness, communication, and interaction? Can we save our</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; line-height: 85%;">selves?<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.6pt;"> How we've come to be
in this condition is clear enough, as our </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.35pt;">devolution is part and parcel of American history itself. We must </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">first be aware of the systematic emasculation of
the Black male </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.45pt;">from the days of
slavery, when he was denied his humanity in total, </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">to the era of Jim Crow where he was being
conditioned to accept </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.35pt;">that though he
was indeed a man, he simply was not and never would be one of equal value with
his white brethren. To subjugate a man, </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.5pt;">a man of any ethnicity, for such an extended period of time, is to </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.45pt;">plant the seed for that man's failure to reach
his full potential.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.6pt;">The emasculation of
the Black male by white society is not the </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt;">cause of our current condition. We are. All of the tools necessary </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.6pt;">for us to raise ourselves above our current
station, are now at our </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.45pt;">disposal.
The main thing that we need to address is consciousness-</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">raising: understanding our true worth, our true
potential and our </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt;">true purpose.
Bringing ourselves to recognize that our fate is our </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.5pt;">own to command, that we must dictate it and that
responsibility for our condition belongs to us alone. This would be a sign of
our </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt;">psychological and social maturity.
Seeing that we can be an asset </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.5pt;">to our
community would be a sign that we have really awaken to what </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.35pt;">our purpose </span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle1"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; line-height: 83%;">is. </span></b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.35pt;">It is too easy for us to look at the
"man" and all </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt;">of the things
that he brings down upon us, as the actual cause for </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.35pt;">our woes. It is much harder for us to look at
ourselves and see </span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; line-height: 82%;">our own defects.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 83%;">Responsibility:
</span></b></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; line-height: 83%;">We must accept responsibility for our fate,
</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; line-height: 83%;">collectively and individually. No one can
provide for our needs<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.6pt; line-height: 85%;">and security but us. We will have to acknowledge this and commit to </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; line-height: 85%;">improving ourselves to ensure our survival and the survival of the </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.35pt; line-height: 85%;">young bloods coming up after us, attempting to follow in our footsteps
and longing for guidance. No generation simply fails itself. </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; line-height: 85%;">It fails the next generation also. The failure of one makes it </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.55pt; line-height: 85%;">certain that the next one will stumble blindly and unprepared into a </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.35pt; line-height: 85%;">world that cannot understand them and is often hostile to the </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; line-height: 85%;">misguided aspirations of the young Black male.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">Liberal laws will not
keep us out of the prisons. Only our desire to survive in the form of true free
men can keep us out of </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt;">the many
prisons and jails that have been prepared for us. Manhood </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.45pt;">is limited in prison by the tact that you cannot
act freely and must </span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; line-height: 85%;">submit in one way or another to the whims of an indifferent </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.6pt; line-height: 85%;">authority. By becoming incarcerated we surrender our primary </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; line-height: 85%;">responsibility to care for ourselves, our families and our </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; line-height: 85%;">community.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.5pt;">Freedom: "Free
your mind" is a phrase that has become cliched to a </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.6pt;">degree that has stripped it of its meaning. Still,
when considering </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.35pt;">freedom we must
consider the condition of our minds. Freedom exist </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt;">in many stages. Free in mind is the basic stage,
without which </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">regardless of whether
we are physically free, we are bound. Being </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.5pt;">free in mind helps us put into context and deal with whatever comes </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.35pt;">our way, fortune or misfortune. Making ourselves
mentally free </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt;">requires us to put
aside our hang-ups and fears, while embracing </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">unrestrained imagination and possibility, along with brutally </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.5pt;">honest self-examination.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; line-height: 85%;">Freedom itself is not a luxury that is simply given to us. It </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; line-height: 85%;">is an ever-present possibility which we must seize by the force of </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; line-height: 85%;">our will and maintain with our actions. Not only is it the ability </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.35pt; line-height: 85%;">to come and go, speak or remain silent, but also the ability to<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">chart out your life's
path on your own terms and pursue that path.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt;">Love: Do we really
lack the capacity to appreciate Love in its purest form: the love of a son for
his parents, the love of a </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">brother
for his sisters and brothers, the love of a man for a </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.45pt;">woman? One of the greatest obstacles to the
growth and development </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.5pt;">of our youth
is the ability to give and receive love. The problems </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt;">that this creates damages a young man's
relationships with other </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">people so
much that it damages the essence of the present person </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.45pt;">and defines who he becomes, the type of man he
becomes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.55pt; line-height: 83%;">Love has many attributes but is itself an
indefinable quality. </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; line-height: 83%;">Our attempts to describe it are often as
unsuccessful as our </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.35pt; line-height: 83%;">attempts to find it. It is a large part of
who we are, what we do </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; line-height: 83%;">and what we seek in life. It is that human
desire to feel a part<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.5pt;">of something, to feel
needed, wanted and relevant. That need to be </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt;">significant in the life of another so that your very existence is </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.5pt;">validated by someone else's placing of great value
on your feelings </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt;">and companionship.
Without this we can lose that sense of our<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">worth and begin to
devalue ourselves and others. This can define </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.45pt;">how we think and why we think what we think; our ability to relate </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">to others; to empathize and sympathize, and limit
our ability to feel and express our humanity. Love is also an essential part of
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt;">our psychological health. It shapes
and dictates our conscience.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 85%;">So damaged are so many of us from youth,
that seeking love </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; line-height: 85%;">and grasping for love becomes a dangerous
endeavor. We seek it in the most harmful places, grasp for the most painful
relationships<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.5pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and embrace our harsh
experiences as a true reflection of what love </span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle1"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; line-height: 83%;">is. </span></b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt;">The result of it all are very emotionally immature
and stunted </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">men who communicate their
feelings in the language that they have </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.5pt;">been taught: </span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle1"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 83%;">pain.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 86%;">WEAKNESS OF
CHARACTER & VULNERABILITY OF PERSON<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; line-height: 85%;">We often confuse these two, usually to our
detriment. This </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; line-height: 85%;">weakness and vulnerability are sometimes
used synonymously without </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; line-height: 85%;">an appreciation for what either really mean
or what they represent </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; line-height: 85%;">in people, especially men. Both are naturally
occurring attributes and can be an asset or liability, depending on how we
address them </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; line-height: 85%;">and ultimately control them - or are
controlled by them<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.35pt;">Vulnerability of
person is that which allows us to make real </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.55pt;">and honest contact with people, contact that reveals who we are to </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt;">someone else (who we are being not only what the
casual observer </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.65pt;">can see, but also
what only can be seen by someone invited into our </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt;">unspoken thoughts, our repressed emotions and our
most profound passions). Vulnerability of person is also when we do not shield </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.45pt;">ourselves from ourselves, denying how we feel
deep inside and what </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">our minds
explore subconsciously. It is the free shedding of </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt;">hang-ups concerning race, gender and class, as
opposed to an </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.5pt;">environmental shedding
- that is to say that many of us play along </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt;">with whatever environment we happen to be in by acting as others </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">act without ridding ourselves of the thing that
we feel is </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.5pt;">necessary to hide.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.45pt;">Weakness of character
speaks more toward the defects in our character such as: the inability to face
things as they are with</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.6pt;">out
retreating into a fantasized version of reality; the coward's </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.5pt;">refuge - wrapping ourselves in the comfort of timidity
when bold</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.45pt;">ness is required in order
to exist(live) as we truly would like; </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt;">lying
to ourselves and others in order to be viewed in a light </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.6pt;">that does not reflect who we really are, but
rather what we think </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt;">others would
like to see and what might cause them to accept us.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">Our task then is to
become fully self-aware individuals, </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.35pt;">aware
of our place in relation to others and society while recognizing our
responsibilities and potential. Another great </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt;">obstacle that we must face is learning to act consciously - </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.45pt;">directing our thoughts and actions toward the
results that we seek </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">so that we are
not just victims of circumstance and environment, </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">but are masters of them. This requires us to
always grow, even </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.45pt;">under extremely
adverse conditions and learn the lessons from our </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.5pt;">experiences, good and bad.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; line-height: 76%;">Curtis Walker-El<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: _GoBack;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; line-height: 86%;">#231105</span></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; line-height: 86%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
FFUPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02860136791099005665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383600388523995264.post-60325910813279711142014-03-14T08:13:00.001-07:002014-03-14T08:13:15.821-07:00Don't Just Take My Word For It/ Cell Searches
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">DON'T JUST TAKE MY WORD </span></span></b></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">FOR IT (CELL </span></b></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">SEARCHES), </span></span></b></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">by Muslim Mansa Lutalo lyapo<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 90%;">September 1, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; line-height: 133%;">Sometimes when we hear things that we are ignorant of we tend to reject
</span></b></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 133%;">it solely because it came from a
prisorer. So, this section I've coined, "Don't Just Take My Word For
It," which will be preserved for topics that <span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">have a paper trail. The subject that I want to break ground with is an
issue </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">that affects all DOC prisoners:
Cell searches.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; line-height: 133%;">The primary Department of Corrections rule that governs all searches </span></b></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; line-height: 133%;">of cells is "DOC 306.16
Search of inmate living quarters," which states:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><strong><span style="font-family: Courier New;">(1)</span></strong><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span class="CharacterStyle1"><strong><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">Staff may conduct a search of the living quarters
of any inmate </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">at any time. Entry into
the living quarters of an inmate by a staff </span>member to retrieve state property
does not constitute a search of <span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">the living
quarters of an inmate.<o:p></o:p></span></span></strong></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><strong><span style="font-family: Courier New;">(2)</span></strong><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span class="CharacterStyle1"><strong><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.35pt;">The institution shall maintain a written record
of all searches </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">conducted under sub,
(1), which shall include:<o:p></o:p></span></span></strong></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.35pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><strong><span style="font-family: Courier New;">(a)</span></strong><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.35pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: Courier New;">The identity of the staff member who conducted the
search;<o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.35pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><strong><span style="font-family: Courier New;">(b)</span></strong><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.7pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: Courier New;">The date and time of the search;<o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 7.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; line-height: 88%;">(C) </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">The identity
of the inmate whose living quarters were searched;<o:p></o:p></span></span></strong></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><strong><span style="font-family: Courier New;">(d)</span></strong><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span class="CharacterStyle1"><strong><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt;">The reason for
conducting the search. If the search was a random </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">one, the report shall so state;<o:p></o:p></span></span></strong></span></div>
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</span></span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.4pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: Courier New;">Any objects which were seized pursuant to the
search; and<o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span class="CharacterStyle1"><strong><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt;">Whether any damage was done to the premises
during the search. </span>(3)4f staff seize any property or damage any property
pursuant to <span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">the search of an inmate's living
quarters, staff shall identify the </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">property
to the inmate in writing. The institution shall reimburse </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">the inmate for damage to any property that is not
contraband. The institution shall value any property which is damaged at its
fair </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">market value, not replacement
cost.<o:p></o:p></span></span></strong></span></div>
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</span></span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span class="CharacterStyle1"><strong><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">In conducting searches under this section, staff
shall disturb </span>the effects of the inmate as little as possible,
consistent with thoroughness.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></div>
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</span></span></span></b></span><!--[endif]--><span class="CharacterStyle2"><b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 87%;">Staff shall read only that part of the inmate's legal material as
necessary to determine that the item is legal material and does </span></b></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; line-height: 87%;">not contain contraband.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
FFUPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02860136791099005665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383600388523995264.post-38600141499105667342014-03-11T12:39:00.001-07:002014-03-14T08:10:18.356-07:00Standing My GroundSTANDING MY GROUND by Muslim Mansa Lutalo Iyapo a/k/a Rufus West #225213 – <br />
January 14, 2014<br />
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I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees. No longer brainwashed, I’ve washed my brain of all those submissive decrees. You know, the ones like, “Turn the other cheek” and “Never disobey your [slave] master,” Knowing you are headed for disaster, They still give you wheels to get there faster. On the shoulders of giants defiantly is where I stand, with the Law of God as my foundation—not the law of man. In my hands are skittles and iced tea—my black hoodie covers my head; racial profiling is the only reason why Trayvon Benjamin Martin is dead. <br />
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That’s right, you heard what I said: I said racial profiling is the only reason why Trayvon Benjamin Martin is dead. And while you’re standing your ground, I will be standing my ground too, and since convicted felons can’t carry a gun then I guess I’ll carry two, three, four, or more on my person and be the first to let one burst when you get to looking upside my dome. Because my wise dome relies on the laws of self preservation, even if that means being sentenced to life in penitentiary slave plantations where administrations advocate for the proliferation of supermaxes for the isolation of convicts who dare to speak Truth to power with no reservations. And with no public support it’s clear society doesn’t care.<br />
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I feel like that Chinese man standing in front of four tanks in Tiananmen Square. But I didn’t come to jail to be scared even though I’ve seen a lot unfold, you may have killed Kelvin Jackson but you’ll never kill his soul. I don’t expect to be paroled because I know that whole process is kangaroo after 20 years with 8 more to go, you telling me “no” ain’t nothing new. One thing I do know is whether I’m alone or standing in a crowd, You’ll know me when you see me because I’ll be that one— Standing my ground.<br />
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Muslim Mansa Lutalo Iyapo a/k/a Mr. Rufus West #225213, Columbia Correctional Institution, P O Box 950, Portage WI 53901-0950 http://vanguardsofjustice.blogspot.com/ <br />
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FFUPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02860136791099005665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383600388523995264.post-57556717562947808792014-01-08T13:19:00.001-08:002014-01-08T13:19:10.158-08:00from Kahil Gribran on Crime and Punishment
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CRIME AND PUNISHMENT,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>56-57<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt;">Then
one of the judges of the city stood forth and said, Speak </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt;">to us of Crime and Punishment.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt;">And he
answered saying:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt;">It is when your
spirit goes wandering upon the </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 90%;">wind, That you,<b> </b></span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt;">alone and unguarded, commit a wrong unto others
and therefore unto </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.65pt;">yourself. And for
that wrong committed must you knock and wait a while </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.5pt;">unheeded at the gate of the blessed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; letter-spacing: 1.2pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Like the ocean is your
god-self; It </span><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.7pt;">remains for ever
undefiled. </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.5pt;">And like the ether </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 90%;">it lifts<b> </b></span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.5pt;">but the winged. Even like the sun is your </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.45pt;">god-self; It knows </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 90%;">not the<b> </b></span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.45pt;">ways of the mole nor seeks </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 90%;">it
the<b> </b></span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.45pt;">holes of </span></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; letter-spacing: 0.9pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">the serpent. But your </span><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">god-self dwells not alone in your being. Much </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 90%;">in<b> </b></span></span></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 1.3pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">YOU </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; letter-spacing: 0.8pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Is </span></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 1.3pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Still </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; letter-spacing: 0.8pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">man,, and much in you is </span><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">not yet man,But a shapeless </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.45pt;">pigmy that walks asleep in the mist searching for
</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 90%;">its<b> </b></span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.45pt;">own awakening.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">And </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.6pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">of the man in you, would I<i> </i></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">now speak. For it is he and </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><i><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 13pt; letter-spacing: 0.6pt;">not </span></i></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">your
god-</span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt;">self nor the pigmy </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 90%;">in<b> </b></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt;">the mist that knows crime and the punishment of </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt;">crime.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.25pt;">Oftentimes
have I heard you speak of one who commits a wrong as </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">though he were not one of you, but a stranger unto you
and an intruder </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt;">upon
your world. But I say that even </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">as<i> </i></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt;">the holy and the righteous cannot </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.45pt;">rise beyond the highest which is in </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.95pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">each one of you. so the </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.45pt;">wicked </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 13pt; letter-spacing: 0.95pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">and </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.35pt;">the
weak cannot fall lower than the </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 90%;">lowest </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.35pt;">which </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 90%;">is in </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.35pt;">you </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 90%;">also<b>. </b></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.35pt;">And<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.6pt;">as a
single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt;">whole tree, So the wrong-doer cannot do wrong without the
hidden will </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt;">of you all. Like a
procession you walk together towards your god-self. </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt;">You are the way and the wayfarers. And when one of you
falls down he </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.6pt;">falls for those behind
him, a caution against the stumbling stone. Ay, </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt;">and he falls for those ahead of him, who, though faster
and surer of </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt;">foot, yet removed not
the stumblinq stone.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt;">And this also, though the word lie heavy upon your
hearts: The </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">murdered is not
unaccountable for his own murder; And the robbed is </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">not blameless in being robbed. The righteous is
not innocent of the deeds of the wicked, and the white-handed is not clean in
the doings </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.5pt;">of the felon. Yea, the
guilty is oftentimes the victim of the injured.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt;">And
still more often the condemned is the burden bearer for the guiltless </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt;">and unharmed. You cannot separate the just from the
unjust and the good<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.85pt; line-height: 121%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">from the wicked; For they stand </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; line-height: 121%;">together before the face of the sun </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.75pt; line-height: 121%;">even as the black thread and the white are woven
together. And when </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.95pt; line-height: 121%;">the black thread
breaks, the weaver shall look into the who1</span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; line-height: 121%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">e </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.95pt; line-height: 121%;">cloth, </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.7pt; line-height: 121%;">and he shall
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 2pt; line-height: 122%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">If any of you would bring to judgment the <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">unfaithful wife, let </span></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.8pt; line-height: 122%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">him also weight </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 122%;">the heart of her
husband in scales, and measure his </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.75pt; line-height: 122%;">soul with
measurements. And let him </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; line-height: 122%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">who would lash the offender look </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 2.05pt; line-height: 122%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">unto the spirit of the
offended. And if any of you would punish in the </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.8pt; line-height: 122%;">name of righteousness and lay the axe <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>unto the </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; line-height: 122%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">evil tree, let him see </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -1.1pt; line-height: 122%;">to its roots; And </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.6pt; line-height: 122%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">verily he will find the roots
of the good </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -1.1pt; line-height: 122%;">and the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.4pt; line-height: 122%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">bad</span></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.4pt; line-height: 122%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">, </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.6pt; line-height: 122%;">the fruitful and the fruitless, all </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.6pt; line-height: 122%;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">entwined </span></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.8pt; line-height: 122%;">together in the </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; line-height: 122%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">silent<br />
</span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; line-height: 122%;">h</span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; line-height: 122%;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">e</span></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; line-height: 122%;">art of the earth.'</span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; line-height: 122%;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;"> </span></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; line-height: 122%;">And </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.05pt; line-height: 122%;">you </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; line-height: 122%;">judges who would be just. What judgment</span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; line-height: 122%;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;"> pr</span></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.75pt; line-height: 122%;">onounce you
upon him who though honest in the flesh yet is a thief </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; line-height: 122%;">in spirit? What penalty lay you upon him who slays in the
flesh yet is himself</span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.55pt; line-height: 122%;"> slain in the spirit? And how prosecute you </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.55pt; line-height: 122%;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">hm</span></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.55pt; line-height: 122%;"> who in action </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; line-height: 122%;">is a deceiver and
an </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.6pt; line-height: 122%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">oppressor, y</span></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.6pt; line-height: 122%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">et </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; line-height: 122%;">who also is aggrieved and outraged?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the faller are but one man standing </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">in </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.6pt; line-height: 120%;">twilight between </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.75pt; line-height: 120%;">the night of his pigmy-self and the day of his god-self,
And that the </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; line-height: 120%;">cornerstone of the temple is not </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">higher </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; line-height: 120%;">than the </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.5pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">lowest </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; line-height: 120%;">stone in its foundation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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FFUPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02860136791099005665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383600388523995264.post-17301370895124006082014-01-08T13:17:00.002-08:002014-01-08T13:17:32.159-08:00The Visit
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt;">THE VISIT by Muslim Mansa Lutalo lyapo a/k/a Rufus West,
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.35pt; line-height: 85%;">He had a law library pass at 2:30 p.m., so when his cell door was
buzzed </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.65pt; line-height: 85%;">open at 2:10
p.m., he immediately thought something was wrong until the officer </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; line-height: 85%;">announced that he had a visit. The smile
that appeared on his face was wide<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; line-height: 86%;">but not as wide
as the smile in his heart. This was an unexpected visit as </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.65pt; line-height: 86%;">he wasn't expecting her to come until the
next day. He drops everything and </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; line-height: 86%;">rushes to the visiting room.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.55pt; line-height: 85%;">Upon arriving at the visiting room area,
his shoes and socks are searched, </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; line-height: 85%;">whereafter he enters the visiting room and has a stimulating four-hour
dialogue. It was a great visit! Her good-bye-hug was longer and tighter than
her greeting </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; line-height: 85%;">hug. It
felt so good that he didn't want to let her go.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">After she left he was escorted back into the
search room where he was </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.35pt;">strip
searched. "Open your mouth. Lift your arms. Let me see both 'sides of </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt;">your hands. Let me see behind your ears. Lift your
sack. Turn around and let me see the bottoms of your feet. Now bend over and
spread your cheeks. Okay, </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.55pt;">now get
dressed." He could never get used to the humiliation of 'being strip </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt;">searched. His thoughts overwhelm him to the point
where he has forgotten all </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.65pt;">the visit
he just had, albeit briefly. He quickly dresses and leaves the area </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt;">barely aware of the staff's, "Have a good
day" comment.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.65pt;">Once back in his cell, he washes up and says his
prayer thanking God for </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.45pt;">allowing him
to have a visit and prays for her to have a safe ride home. He </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">meditates on his visit. The one thing that stands
out the most is when she </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt;">told him,
"You don't belong in prison." Sure, other people may have made
similar comments over the years. Yet, this time it was different. Not only </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.35pt;">did she say it verbally; she also said it with
her eyes. His meditationis, </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt;">occasionally
interrupted by Brothers asking him, "How was your </span></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; line-height: 82%; mso-font-width: 90%;">visit?" </span></b><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; line-height: 82%;">He tells them,
"Great!" With that said, he picks up where he left off at prior </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; line-height: 82%;">to his visit, i.e. working on his criminal
case as he tells himself, "You </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; line-height: 82%;">don't belong in prison."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
FFUPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02860136791099005665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383600388523995264.post-36940065220550264192014-01-08T13:16:00.001-08:002014-01-17T13:33:03.965-08:00excerpt from "Catching Pigs" by unknown<br />
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: 0.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Bookman Old Style';"><span style="font-size: x-small;">EXCERPT FROM "CATCHING PIGS" </span></span></b></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">by Unknown<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt;">You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.25pt;">begin to come every day to eat the free corn.When they are </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt;">used to coming every day, you put a fence down on one side of </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.25pt;">the place where they are used to coming. When they get used </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.6pt;">to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt;">another side of the fence. They get used to that and start to </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt;">eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.45pt;">fence up with a gate on the last side. The pigs which are used </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.35pt;">to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat that </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.5pt;">free corn again. You then slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd. Suddenly, the wild pigs have lost their 'freedom.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.6pt;">They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt;">Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">ç</span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: .4pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">EXCERPT
FROM A BOOK BY FRANTZ FANON</span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.55pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
habit of considering racism as a mental quirk, as a psychological </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.3pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">flaw, must be abandoned. One must consider the
behavior, the defense </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.4pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">mechanisms
of the men who are a prey to racism.</span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.25pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In an
initial phase we have seen the occupying power legitimizing </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.45pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">its domination by scientific arguments, the
"inferior race" being denied </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">on the basis of race. Because no other solution is
left, the racialized </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.4pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">social
group tries to imitate the oppressor and thereby to deracialize </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.55pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">itself. The "inferior race" denies itself
as a different race. It shares </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.6pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">with
the "superior race" the convictions, doctrines, and other attitudes </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">concerning it.</span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Having
witnessed the liquidation of its systems of reference, the </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.3pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">collapse of its cultural patterns, the native can
only recognize with </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">the
occupant that "God is not on his side." The oppressor, through the </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.45pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">inclusive and frightening character of his
authority, manages to impose</span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.55pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">on the
native new ways of seeing, and in particular a pejorative judgment </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.3pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">with respect to his original forms of existing. This
event, which is commonly designated as alienation is very important, and found
in the </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.4pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">official texts under the name
of assimilation.</span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.45pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Now
this alienation is never wholly successful. Whether or not </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">it is because the oppressor quantitatively and
qualitatively limits </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.4pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">the
evolution, unforeseen, disparate phenomena manifest themselves.</span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
inferiorized group had admitted, since the force of reasoning was implacable,
that its misfortunes resulted directly from its racial </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.4pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">and cultural characteristics.</span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Guilt
and inferiority are the usual consequences of this dialectic. The oppressed
then tries to escape these, on the one hand by proclaiming </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.35pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">his total and unconditional adoption of the new
cultural models, and</span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.6pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">on the
other, by pronouncing an irreversible condemnation of his own </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.4pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">cultural style.</span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.45pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Yet
the necessity that the oppressor encounters at a given point </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">to
dissimulate the forms of exploitation does not lead to the <span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;">disappearance of this exploitation. The more
elaborate, less crude </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.5pt;">economic
relations require daily coating, but the alienation at this </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.4pt;">level remains frightful.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Having
judged, condemned, abandoned his cultural forms, his language, </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.45pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">his food habits, his sexual behavior, his way of
sitting down, of resting, </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.35pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">of
laughing, of enjoying himself, the oppressed flings himself upon</span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.35pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">the
imposed culture with the desperation of a drowning man.</span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Developing
his technical knowledge in contact with more perfected </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.4pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">machines, entering into the dynamic circuit of
industrial production, </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.25pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">meeting
men from remote regions in the framework of the concentration </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.4pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">of capital, that is to say, on the job, discovering
the assembly line, </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">the
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: .1pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>LETTER BY JAMES BALDWIN </span></b></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: .1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">TO HIS YOUNG
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This
is the crime of<b> </b></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -.5pt;">which I
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for which neither I nor time nor history will ever forgive them, </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -.4pt;">that they have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of
thousands of </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -.45pt;">lives and do not know
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country set </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -.4pt;">you down in a ghetto in
which, in fact, it intended that you should perish. The limits of your ambition
were, thus, expected to be set forever. You were born into a society which
spelled out with brutal </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -.3pt;">clarity,
and in as many ways as possible, that you were a worthless </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -.4pt;">human being. You were not expected to aspire to
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have, and many of us have, defeated this intention; and by a terrible law, a
terrible </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -.5pt;">paradox, those innocents who
believed that your imprisonment made them</span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -.5pt;">safe are losing their grasp on reality. But those men are
your Brothers-</span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -.55pt;">your lost, younger
Brothers. And if the word integration means anything, </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -.4pt;">this is what it means; that we, with love, shall force
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="letter-spacing: -.5pt;">to
see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.45pt;">to change it. For this is your home, my friend,
do not be driven from </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.35pt;">it; great men
and women have done great things here, and will again, </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.45pt;">and we can make America what it must become. It
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terrifying odds, achieved an unassailable and monumental dignity; you come from
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.35pt;">There's a chorus to this song called, "He Saw The Best In
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else around could only see the worst in me." That "best" in me
will </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.4pt;">always conquer that
part in me that wants to give up and be swallowed by life's </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.2pt;">struggles by grabbing them by the throat with both hands.
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throughout the endeavor. It's easy to give in to the systematic, psychological
traps that are designed to control via self-defeatism. If a person can control
you mentally by defining who you are, that person has nothing to fear from you
no matter how much </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.3pt;">you exercise or how many weapons you have because encoded within that
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.4pt;">Jackson's book, "Soledad
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to control his physical response to his oppressors' tactics. To him, </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.45pt;">this
meant emotionally detaching himself from everything tangible inside his cell </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.25pt;">so
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give in to allowing his oppressive environment define who he was. His </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.45pt;">letters
share an insight into how he had to find a way to shake off the dirt of </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.15pt;">oppression
that was thrown on him and utilize the experience to strengthen </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.5pt;">himself
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.65pt;">When we give in to the dirt of negative stereotypes
associated with racism, </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.4pt;">penitentiary politics, religion,
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="letter-spacing: -.5pt;">SHAKE
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="letter-spacing: -.5pt;">One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well.
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do. </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.4pt;">Finally he decided the animal was
old and the well needed to be </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.5pt;">covered
up anyway, it just wasn't worth it to retrieve the donkey. </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.4pt;">So he invited all his neighbors to come over and
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;">At first, the donkey realized what was happening
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everyone's amazement, he quieted down. A few </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.35pt;">shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked down into the well </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;">and was• astonished at what he saw. With every
shovel of dirt that </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.35pt;">hit his back,
the donkey was doing something amazing, lie would </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;">shake it off and take a step up. As the farmer's
neighbors </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.35pt;">continued to shovel dirt
on top of the animal, he would shake it </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.4pt;">off and take a step up. Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="letter-spacing: -.45pt;">Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of
dirt. The trick </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.5pt;">to getting out of the
well is to shake it off and take a step up. </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.4pt;">Each of our troubles is a stepping stone. We can get out of the </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.5pt;">deepest wells just by not giving up! Shake it off
and take a step up!</span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: .8pt;">BEFORE </span></b></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; letter-spacing: .8pt;">YOU
PICK UP THAT GUN...</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -.6pt;">In a
culture of pistol-packing, over-arming, shot 'em up </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -.45pt;">bang-bang, I can't live without my pistol, the United
States </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -.35pt;">Supreme Court decided a case
that addresses something called </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -.3pt;">the
Armed Career Criminal Act. In Descamps v United States, </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -.5pt;">2013 U.S. LEXIS 4698 (June 20, 2013), the Supreme Court
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -.45pt;">Petitioner
Michael Descamps was convicted of being a felon </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -.4pt;">in possession of a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C.</span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="letter-spacing: -.45pt;">§922(g). That
unadorned offense carries a maximum penalty </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.35pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">of 10 years in prison. The Government,
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="letter-spacing: -.35pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">an enhanced sentence under </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.85pt;">ACCA,
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serious potential risk of physical </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">injury to another." </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.5pt;">§924(e)(2)(B). ( ... </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><sub><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Console";">J</span></sub><span style="letter-spacing: -.5pt;"> Applying the requisite penalty </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.35pt;">enhancement,
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -.25pt;">Even
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burglary conviction in search of record evidence to qualify it as meeting the </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">criteria<b> </b></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -.5pt;">under the ACCA. Basically what this means is that if you
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type of firearm, and you are a convicted felon whose</span></span></div>
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sheet contains 3 or more violent felonies, the feds can </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -.6pt;">charge you with federal crimes and sentence you to the
federal </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -.5pt;">penitentiary system.</span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -.4pt;">Just
something to consider before you pick up that gun.</span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -.5pt;">Dated this 9th day of December, 2013.<br />
Salaam!</span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -.4pt;">Muslim Mansa Lutalo lyapo<br />
</span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -.5pt;">aka<br />
Mr. Rufus West, #225213<br />
P.O. Box 900 (CCI)<br />
Portage, WI 53901</span></span></div>
FFUPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02860136791099005665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383600388523995264.post-39462519508786266892013-08-20T12:49:00.004-07:002013-08-20T12:54:24.674-07:00Point of No Return<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Narrow";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 2.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">POINT OF NO.RETURN</span></span></span><br />
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</span></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">by Muslim Mansa Lutalo lyapo
-aka- Rufus. West, #225213<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt;">July
12, 2013<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt;">There comes a point and </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt;">time
in every person's life where something </span>will happen that will change
their life forever. Twelve years ago today <span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt;">I
experienced one of these life-changing moments that happened to a </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt;">young Brother who called himself "Wolverine" but </span></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Narrow";">his </span></span><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt;">real name</span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><sup><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt;">-</span></sup></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> was Kelvin </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.5pt; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Jackson<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="letter-spacing: -2.8pt; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt;">.</span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.5pt; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">By July 12,2001, I had
been imprisoned inside the Green Bay </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">Correctional
Institution's (GBCI.) punitive segregation unit (the-hole) </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">for about 8 months. Each wing has about 12
prisoner, Approximately </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">2 weeks
before that the staff moved Wolverine to my wing, a few cells </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">down from mine. </span></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: 1.25pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">All </span><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">of the cells are single-celled. Wolverine was kind
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">of s1ow and anyone could observe that
he had some kind of mental issues.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I opened up dialog with Wolverine after
seeing him </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">and </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt;">the staff bumping </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt;">heads a lot. Ultimately,
Wolverine was placed on some type of punitive </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt;">restriction called "Seg Loaf," which is basically some type of
food </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt;">particles baked into solid brick form. It's very
nasty, and most </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.5pt; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt;">prisoners won't even
touch it. Wolverine was no exception, which caused </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt;">him to go hungry. Seeing what the Brother was going through, I would </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt;">"fish" (i.e.Wrap up in paper and slide-to his cell) him some
of my </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt;">food so that he would have something to eat. On
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would be sending him some food after the staff </span>retrieved our food trays.
He didn't respond, which-instinctively caused <span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt;">me
to be a little concerned simply because he usually responded to that.. Then
again, I thought, maybe he didn't want to respond or maybe he didn't </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.5pt;">hear me for whatever, reason.<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>-<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">During
the: meal tray pickup, I heard the staff-order Wolverine<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt;">to do
something repeatedly, but he was non-responsive. After the staff </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.35pt;">had left, I' yelled down on Wolverine a few tines
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt;">I eventually got staff's attention and asked them
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seizure and a fake one. Their response </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">was
to simply exclaim, "He's faking!" and then walked away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img align="left" alt="Text Box: " border="0" height="10" src="file:///C:/Users/peggy/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image001.gif" style="cursor: move;" unselectable="on" v:shapes="_x0000_s1026" width="751" /></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" unselectable="on"></a><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; line-height: 106%;">For about the next 2 hours
myself and other prisoners banged on </span></span><span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style;"><span class="CharacterStyle3"><span style="font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.8pt; line-height: 106%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">our doors to get the staff's attention to go and check up
</span></span><span class="CharacterStyle3"><span style="font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.6pt; line-height: 106%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">on
Wolverine. 'Their checks', however, were cursory and dismissive. At </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle3"><span style="font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.2pt; line-height: 106%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">one
point..Wolverine must have stopped moving because during one of those </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle3"><span style="font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.65pt; line-height: 106%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">checks I heard
the staff<sup> </sup>outside of his. Door whispering,. "See? He
moved!" </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle3"><span style="font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.35pt; line-height: 106%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">to prove to themselves that Wolverine. was faking. When I asked them </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle3"><span style="font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.45pt; line-height: 106%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">what was going
on, they claimed that he was faking because they saw </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle3"><span style="font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.6pt; line-height: 106%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">him move. This
didn't make any sense to me, so I inquired into how could </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle3"><span style="font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.85pt; line-height: 106%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">they make such
a determination from outside of his cell. They repudiated </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle3"><span style="font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.6pt; line-height: 106%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">my inquiry. My
concern then grew to despair and then anger as' continued </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle3"><span style="font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 1.2pt; line-height: 106%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">to bang on my
door for Wolverine.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle3"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 106%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="letter-spacing: 2pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Eventually, staff half-suited up with.the stun shield,
etc. and </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="letter-spacing: 1.8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">ran into
Wolverine’s cell the way they would run in on a so-called </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="letter-spacing: 1.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">dangerous prisoner.. At first the
only noise coming from his cell was </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="letter-spacing: 1.55pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">a short physical commotion accompanied by an incessant
yelling chorus </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="letter-spacing: 1.7pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">of "Stop resisting!" .A few moments later all
was completely silent.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle3"><span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style;"><span style="letter-spacing: 1.8pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of a sudden the staff who ran into his
cell were running out of </span><span style="letter-spacing: 1.95pt;">his cell
to-get first aid kits etc. The next thing I know, the staff </span><span style="letter-spacing: 1.65pt;">were closing all of the shutters on our door's
windows to block our </span><span style="letter-spacing: 1.55pt;">view of the hal1way.Fortunately,
I was able to see down the ha1l towards </span></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle3"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 13pt; letter-spacing: 0.9pt;">Wolverine's cell through </span><span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.9pt;">the side of my door. I heard the staff make </span><span style="letter-spacing: 1.85pt;">comments like, "Is he breathing? Is there a
pulse?" Shortly thereafter </span><span style="letter-spacing: 1.1pt;">I saw
prison medical staff enter </span></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle3"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 13pt; letter-spacing: 1.1pt;">his
cell. A</span><span style="letter-spacing: 1.1pt;"><span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style;">while later I could </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style;"><span class="CharacterStyle3"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; letter-spacing: 1.1pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-font-width: 110%;">see<i> </i></span><span style="letter-spacing: 1.85pt;">uniforms consistent with non-prison medical staff
enter his' cell. </span><span style="letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">They subsequently
removed Wolverine's lifeless body from the cell on </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 1.35pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">a stretcher </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="letter-spacing: 1.4pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Never in my life had 1 been in a situation<sup>-</sup>where
I was completely </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="letter-spacing: 2pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">helpless in trying to save a person’s life who was only
several yards </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="letter-spacing: 1.8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">away from
me. Wolverine was not in a street shoot out or street fight </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="letter-spacing: 1.7pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">that ended with his life. He was a
young Brother who woke up that day </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="letter-spacing: 1.75pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">and had no idea that-his<sup>-</sup>life was going to
end that day, let alone end </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="letter-spacing: 1.3pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">the way that it did. My reaction was to lash out against
those who were </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="letter-spacing: 1.6pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">responsible for Wolverine's death -the death where ayoung
man laying </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="letter-spacing: 1.55pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">the ground
dying and the staff refused to help him because they claimed </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="letter-spacing: 2pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">he was faking. Further details were
reported by Rob Goloub in-the </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="letter-spacing: 1.3pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">July 25, 2001 issue of The Journal Times:</span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="letter-spacing: 13.1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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</v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><!--[endif]--><em><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.6pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">Epileptic inmate denied life-saying
help, mother alleges. </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">Prison guards ignored the tortured seizures of a mentally </span></span><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">retarded Racine man for days, until he finally died,
according to both his attorney and his mother. A fellow prisoner sent </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.55pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">a panicked note to 21-year </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-font-width: 160%;">old </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.55pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">Kelvin Jackson's mother. Days </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">before Jackson's death, the letter pleaded for help
against </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">the uncaring guards, Brooks [his
mother] said. That letter, </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.6pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">and four or five other notes, were apparently sent to the
outside </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.35pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">world by
sympathetic prisoners who served with Jackson in Green </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">Bay Correctional Institution. A
family lawyer, Willie Nunnery </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">of Madison,
has turned the letters over to the FBI; they are initiating an investigation he
said. The Journal Times has </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.35pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">obtained one
of the jailhouse letters, apparently written by </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">a prisoner who was held in a nearby cell. The note was
sent </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">to an area pastor. It says Jackson
suffered three seizures in the 24 hours before his death, and that guards
refused to let </span></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">him </span></span><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">see a nurse
or doctor. Guards told Kelvin Jackson, who had </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">brain damage, to "Stop playing </span></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.95pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond;">games," according to
the note.</span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">“ they let
the 21 year old boy die in his cell like an animal without me</span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">dical help," the note says. “All
I want is for people </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">to know what is happening behind these walls." <o:p></o:p></span></span></em></div>
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<em><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">Bill Clausius, </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">spokesman for the department of corrections, said the
department</span></b></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; mso-font-width: 105%;"> </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">is conducting an internal
investigation. The department is also turning the matter over to its Committee
on Inmate/Youth Deaths.</span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.55pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">The committee was formed in 1999 after a death in a state
prison. </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">The group
includes medical professionals who are not affiliated </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.55pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">with the prison. Brooks says her son
had epilepsy with recurring </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">seizures, depression, and mild retardation. He was on
medication </span></span><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">for his epilepsy and to
control his temper. It was his temper. </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">She also said Kelvin Jackson didn't like his seizures. </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">"You've just got to pray about it," his mother
told him. "Maybe </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.8pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">God will take
them away from you." "They killed my child," </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">says his mother. "He should have never been in prison
in the </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.55pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">first place. The should have put him
in treatment. They didn't </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">care about
my child. He wasn't their </span></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-font-width: 160%;">child."
</span></span><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">It was on July </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">12 that Jackson entered a two-hour
seizure which ended with </span></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.6pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">his death, Brown County Medical Examiner Joe Grantham
said. </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">Brown
County Sheriff's Capt. Craig Kohlbeck said guards<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.6pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">discovered
Jackson was having a seizure at about 4:20 p.m. They </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.45pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">didn't call an ambulance
until 6:06 p.m. Jackson was held in a segregation unit, where guards were
supposed to check on him </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.7pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">every 10 minutes, Kohlbeck said. Jackson had a history of faking </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.55pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">seizures and refusing to take
his medicine, according to prison </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">officials. His mother says he sometimes thought God had
healed him, and he would stop taking his medicine. Jackson who grew </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.55pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">up in Racine and in public
institutions, was sentenced in April </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.5pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">2000 to five years in prison for battery by a prisoner as
a </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.6pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">habitual
offender. [ ... ] But Jackson will never complete his </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.55pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">sentence. His mother says,
through tears, she knows he'll never </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.5pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">come home. She says: "He didn't kill anybody. He
didn't rob </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.45pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">anybody.
They just didn't have to let him die like that."<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; line-height: 106%; mso-font-width: 105%;">Every year at this time I am reminded of Wolverine's death. In </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; line-height: 106%; mso-font-width: 105%;">fact, it
seems like every time there's a prisoner-related medical issue </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.35pt; line-height: 106%; mso-font-width: 105%;">I think of
his death. I'm unable to ignore that experience and return </span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; line-height: 106%; mso-font-width: 105%;">to be that
person I was simply because ... there is no return</span></span><span class="CharacterStyle2"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; line-height: 106%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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