his conversation with them but she said that
he seemed shaken. She didn't mention if the visitors were wearing
black suits. Whoa! Maybe not MIB but at least MIS!
After
I made the editorial reply about the FEMA camps (May
issue, page 3), I saw an episode
of America's Book of Secrets, about prisons. The documentary
included a segment about FEMA camps. The segment noted that the fences
around the FEMA camps all have razor wire or barbed wire at their tops
and that the wire slants in, not out. Thus, the narrator commented,
the fences are intended to keep people in the camps, not out of them.
No comment was made and no explanation was given as to why a FEMA camp
should have a fence at all. A more important point, utterly unmentioned
in the documentary, was why FEMA camps were included AT ALL in a documentary
about prisons. I smell a rat.
I
don't have any information about military field manuals. Maybe somebody
else who reads this can help.
—editor
Hi
Sam - Just a quick note congratulating you on the latest Frontiersman.
At first, I thought YOU had used the name "Sticky" to write the cover story
(The
Pursuit of Happiness), because it opened with your style. Upon
reading further, I realized that it was a real article from a real inmate.
It opened my eyes to life in prison.
The
humor forwarded by Sir Donald was funny, and I was intrigued by your fiction
on pages 2 and 3. So much to think about! Thanks a lot — Am
looking forward to a sequel to "Bygones".
—Tom, of Redwood City, California
I
have other stories available on my personal website. Look under the
heading "Stories"
at http://sam-aurelius-milam-iii.org.uk/.
—editor
Sam
What
is it about religion that you don't like? I suspect that it is religious
institutions that turn you off. It is true that human institutions
usually take on a life of their own and become instruments for the insiders
to control and exploit others. To wit, divine right of kings supports
your government and religion assertions. But religion as a belief
held by people must be respected and the real objective is the search for
truth. That is why I am enclosing my Bob Link essay on science vs
religion. I believe we should always keep an open mind about the
ultimate truth. No human has all the answers.
You
and a few others do mankind a great service by challenging conventional
ideas and forcing people to think. Keep up the good work.
—Bob Link
I
oppose any institution whose members use force to impose their beliefs
onto other people and to punish people who don't cooperate. Christians
have allowed their religion to be dominated by just such institutions,
suggesting that they're not any more Christlike than the members of any
other religion. Today, in America at least, the institutional Christian
agenda is "dressed up" in a showy veneer of "due process" that gives it
the illusion of legitimacy. It's only an illusion. The agenda
hasn't changed for centuries. That agenda is to root out and destroy
heresy, at any cost, regardless of the effect on nonbelievers, and with
a complete disregard for courtesy, humility, or integrity.
The
freedom of religion isn't just the freedom to have a religion, to have
a religion that's different from the majority, or to not have any religion
at all. It's also the freedom to be LEFT ALONE, to not be harassed,
coerced, evangelized, proselytized, imprisoned or otherwise punished, by
zealots or evangelists who want to control behavior or save souls, because
of somebody else's beliefs or lack of them.
My
view of institutional religion, including Christianity, is that it doesn't
have much to do with a belief in God. It seems to be mostly about
obeying the clergy, with God as the clergy's badge of office and "big stick".
The consequences of disobedience appear to be, variously, criminal prosecution
and punishment, defamation and slander, shunning, excommunication, exile,
torture, death, or whatever other punishments the particular clergy have
the power to impose. As an alternative, I suggest that God intends
for us to think for ourselves. It's the institutions, even the Christian
institutions, not God, that try to control us.
—editor
Sam Milam III....
I
just read Frontiersman June '14, thanks — Bygones was almost too haunting
to read, tho the haunt didn't materialize fully till the end. When
I watched the movie "1984" — I couldn't even finish it, it was so dreary
— only movie in my life impacted me that way. Similar here.
—a prisoner
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