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il ragno [OP]

2003-04-20 04:07 | User Profile

[url=http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20020906-70623422.htm]http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20020906-70623422.htm[/url]

Prison rape — it's no joke

Pat Nolan

 "The opposite of compassion is not hatred, it's indifference." These words were written by a prisoner who was severely beaten after refusing demands for sex from another inmate.

 While often the subject of jokes on late-night TV, prison rape is no laughing matter. It has terrible consequences, not just for the inmates who are brutalized, but for our communities as well. The rate of HIV in prisons today is 10 times higher than in the general population. Every rape in prison can turn a sentence for a nonviolent crime into a death sentence.

  Prison rape leads to other types of death, also. Rodney Hulin set a dumpster on fire in his neighborhood. Despite being only 16 years old, he was sentenced to eight years in an adult prison, where he was repeatedly beaten and raped. Despite his pleas for help, no one in authority intervened to help him. He was told to fend for himself. Depressed and unwilling to face the remainder of his sentence at the mercy of sexual predators, Rodney Hulin committed suicide. Similar suicides have occurred in jails and prisons across the United States.

  Experts estimate that at least one in 10 inmates is raped in prison. Because 95 percent of prisoners will eventually be released back into our communities, the horrors that occur inside prison have consequences for the rest of us, too.

  Some who suffer through brutal rapes become predators themselves, both in prison and after their release, subjecting other innocent victims to the same degradation that they experienced. Or they vent their rage in other acts of violence, often racially motivated. <b>One example is the tragic story of James Byrd, the black man who was picked up by three white supremacists, beaten, chained to the back of their pickup truck and dragged for three miles to his death. One of his assailants was John William King, a burglar who had recently been released after serving a three-year sentence in one of Texas&#39; toughest prisons.

  When King arrived at the prison, a group of white supremacists reportedly conspired with the guards to place King in the "black" section of the prison. At just 140 pounds, King was unable to defend himself against a group of black prisoners who repeatedly gang-raped him. This was exactly what the white power gang wanted. Filled with hatred, King was easily recruited into their group for protection. Over the remainder of his sentence, they filled King&#39;s head full of hatred for blacks. </b>When he was released, John King unleashed that pent-up hatred on James Byrd. The gang-rapes he endured in prison are no excuse for his murder of James Byrd, but they certainly help us understand what could lead him to hate so much.

  As troubling as the incidence of rape is, equally disturbing is the attitude of many government officials who are indifferent to it. <b>When asked about prison rape, Massachusetts Department of Correction spokesman Anthony Carnevales said, "Well, that&#39;s prison . . . I don&#39;t know what to tell you." </b>In that offhand remark, he was expressing what many feel in their hearts but are loathe to admit — "they deserve it."

  But they don&#39;t deserve it. Regardless of the crimes they have committed, no offender&#39;s sentence includes being raped while in the custody of the government. By its very nature, imprisonment means a loss of control over the circumstances in which inmates live. They cannot choose their neighbors ( i.e., their cellmates), nor arm themselves, nor take other steps to protect themselves. Because the government has total control over where and how inmates live, it is the government&#39;s responsibility to make sure they aren&#39;t harmed while in custody.

  Sens. Kennedy and Sessions and Reps. Wolf and Scott have teamed up to sponsor the "Prison Rape Reduction Act of 2002," S. 2619 and H.R. 4943, which would establish standards for investigating and eliminating rape, and hold the states accountable if they fail to do so.

  Winston Churchill said that the manner in which a society treats criminals "is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilization of any country." As Congress rushes to complete its work before the election recess, it is important that they take the time to deal with the scandal of prison rape, and, in doing so, meet Churchill&#39;s test of a civilized society.
 *
 Pat Nolan is president of the Justice Fellowship, a non-profit group based in Reston, Va.*

Nolan reads - to me - like a perfect example of the go-slow, talk-in-code, don't-frighten-the-livestock approach being discussed here in the Francis threads. In order to safely register his outrage at the black-on-white charnel houses that are our prisons, Nolan has to bend reality like a pretzel to conform to Jew code. Thus, WHITE RACISTS arranged for John King to be gang-raped by jungle beasts...and this is wrong because - once released, King visited harm upon one of our precious Free Range Negroes....and that is a price too high for any civilized society to pay!

I beg to differ. I look around and see, every day, the sad results of our relentlessly declining educational and cultural and semantic standards and I say that not even an OSS staffed by psychics could break Pat Nolan's "code" here. I'll go further - the only way measures will ever be taken to curtail prison gang-rape will be if its sponsors get to publicly proclaim they're doing it to protect our subhumans from the evils of white racism. Maybe there are those who'd see such a scenario as a victory -"who cares how it's worded so long as something is done about it." I don't.

Sisyfos

2003-04-20 05:35 | User Profile

When King arrived at the prison, a group of white supremacists reportedly conspired with the guards to place King in the "black" section of the prison.

Obviously this statement reeks. I think many here know a few racists, i.e., people who have no difficulty admitting as much outside of private settings (though the vast majority would stop short of ascribing to the “white supremacist” label) and no one, not one would wish such punishment on another white, no matter the extent of the wrongdoing. There isn’t a crime to fit the punishment.

I forget who it was but I recall someone on this board mentioning that they had experience working for a federal correctional institution, either as a guard or in an administrative capacity. Just out of curiosity, is it customary to consult “white supremacists” regarding placement of new inmates? If not, what is the likelihood of such a group having sufficient incentive and leverage to arrange the same?

I'll go further - the only way measures will ever be taken to curtail prison gang-rape will be if its sponsors get to publicly proclaim they're doing it to protect our subhumans from the evils of white racism.

We’re there. Taking this article as an indication, it’s apparent that some whites have surmised that that is what it will take to effect segregation in prisons and put and end to this cruel and unusual punishment. Realistically, if a friend were on his way to prison and if I knew that the only chance for sub-human free placement depended on some correctional board’s assessment of the dangers of white racism in prison, I’d encourage nothing less. Who knows what motivates some of these writers.

W.R.I.T.O.S

2003-04-22 03:53 | User Profile

thus, WHITE RACISTS arranged for John King to be gang-raped by jungle beasts...

This is not particularly probable although it should be remembered that most of the "white racists" in prison are not ideological. They are just white criminals who "hate negroes." A lot of them have mestiza girlfriends on the outside, most of them are drug addicts, morons, whiggers etc... you get the idea.

Ragnar

2003-04-22 07:40 | User Profile

Originally posted by il ragno@Apr 20 2003, 04:07 **"That's fine! Talking in code is the mark of an advanced society! Besides, everybody knows when you're winking at the readers....even in an op-ed where they can't see your face! Hey, if you're not willing to compromise your message to get it heard, you're part of the problem - not the solution!" 

I beg to differ... **

VNN answered your complaint with a pertinent question:

"Why is it easier for a white man to blow up a building (or rob a quarter million bucks from a dozen banks) than it is for a white man to publish a book honestly explaining why some white men might be compelled to do such things?"

The answer:

While we were building a country, others built a media monopoly and learned how to use it. So we have to build a media monopoly of our own.

But things have not stood still. Time and the laws seem to be on Mr. Murdoch's side. My God, it's getting late! We have to get people on our side, lots of them, pronto! How?

One at a time with leaflets? A dozen at a time with websites?

Or potentially millions with the mass media -- if we talk in code.

It sounds chicken to some of you but it works... I've seen it close-up since 9-11. People get the hang of it fast. People use it.

It sounds like we're breaking ranks with the more explicitly racial nationalist, but that's false also. We break 'em in and pass 'em on. No problem. They're even ready for the Great Linder before you know it.

It's like:

STALAG 911

*There are two types of prisoner-of-war in Stalag 911. The hotheads want to rush the guards, grab a few guns maybe, and go out in a blaze of glory.

Another bunch of prisoners, not hotheads, wants to burrow silently and discretely. Smile at the screws while biding their time...*

Questions for the class:

Are these two sets of prisoners enemies? Must they be?