the shit out of me in cuffs, in a blind spot
no other prisoners could see. Then pepper gassed me with some new
super hot pepper spray. And did not let me wash it off for about
1 hour so I burned for days. I was in the hospital for a month.
Now I'm in a long term mental health program. A few days after my
beating while I was in the hospital [name withheld] was stabbed
to death by neo-nazi skinhead prisoners. You can look it up on the
computer. Rest in peace old timer, I wish I was there for you!
(Sorry about crayon, only thing here to write with.) In solidarity.
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On Hope and Futility
Sam Aurelius Milam III
Ultimately
it was hoped to make articulate speech issue from the larynx without involving
the higher brain centers at all....
from 1984,
Appendix
by George Orwell
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A
while back, I mentioned to an acquaintance of mine that I always unplug
my computers when I'm not using them, to protect them from lightening strikes.
He said that I should just get surge protectors [sic]1.
I told him that I have surge suppressers but that I don't consider them
to be adequate protection against lightening strikes. He said that
I should just get the kind that have a guarantee. The supplier, he
said, will replace a computer that's damaged while connected to one of
its surge protectors [sic], or write me a check.
What
good is a guarantee to me? They'd demand information that I didn't
want to provide. When I told them that the computer was an old Mac,
they'd tell me that they couldn't replace it with an equivalent computer.
If they gave me a new computer, then it wouldn't run my old operating system.
If they offered me a check, then I couldn't cash it. I don't have
government ID or bank accounts. However, none of that was going to
satisfy my acquaintance. No matter what I said, he'd make yet another
lame suggestion. He'd have an endless supply of them. He wouldn't
understand anything that I told him. The very assumptions on which
my beliefs are based would be foreign to him. So, I just said that
a guarantee is a pain in the ass and that it's easier to unplug the computers.
He didn't say anything more. Maybe he decided that further conversation
with me was futile. On that point, at least, we were in agreement.
It's
interesting to consider his attitude, and our conversation, in terms of
Orwellian conditioning. I don't know for sure that people are conditioned,
but they certainly base their attitudes and expectations on something that
doesn't have much resemblance to thinking. They'll clamber for rights
without the slightest notion that there aren't any rights, only privileges.
They'll demand that the government solve their problems for them without
coming even close to understanding that, if the government solves a problem
at all, then the solution is always to replace the problem with a different
one, to make the government stronger, and to increase their dependence
on it. They'll ask why the government doesn't do things more efficiently
or more effectively, without ever wondering why the government should be
doing the things at all. They'll prefer to let a computer get fried
by lightening, and wait for a government corporation to replace it for
them, than to just protect it by simply unplugging the cord. Something's
wrong somewhere and it seems a lot like Orwellian conditioning to me, or
maybe just inherent stupidity.
As
I've been working on this article, I've been trying to think of some positive
way to end the thing. That's tough. I'm trying to face the
truth, however great the cost, but the truth seems to be kind of discouraging.
Sometime back during the 1980s, I began a calculated effort to restore
liberty on this continent. Eventually, I realized that there never
had been any liberty, only the illusion imagined by the people and the
lie promoted by the government. Since then, I've been trying not
to restore liberty, but to establish it. After all of my efforts,
things are immeasurably worse than they were when I started. The
old cliché "resistance is futile" comes to mind. Such things
considered, it's difficult for me to end this article on a positive note.
I hope that liberty isn't a lost cause and that people are not inherently
stupid, but those do seem to be possibilities. I'm afraid that, for
now, viewing them as possibilities, rather than as certainties, is about
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