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Louisiana State Penitentiary

Teaching prisoners the meaning of forgiveness

Personally I think the USA would make a good start by teaching society the meaning of forgivesness and stop the idiocy of death panalty and the second kind of death penalty: life without parole. Sincerely, Anja, coordinator Free Zulu movement. (Sep 24, 2009 | post #1)

Angola, LA

Are prisons in the USA used as slavery intsitutions??

Listen to Robert Hillary King's radion interview at: http://kboo.fm/nod e/16369 (Sep 21, 2009 | post #1)

Angola, LA

Robert Hillary King about 'prsion as slavery" radio inter...

Radio interview with Rober Hilary King, one of my best friends, about priosn as slavery instiitution at: http://kboo.fm/nod e/16369 (Sep 21, 2009 | post #1)

Rdio interview with Robert Hillary King http://kboo.fm/nod e/16369 (Sep 21, 2009 | post #1)

Angola, LA

keep president obama out of the disputed iranian election

KEEP PRESIDENT OBAMA OUT OF THE DISPUTED IRANIAN ELECTION By Kenny ‘Zulu’ Whitmore For the last three weeks, key Republicans, and a few conservatives within the Democratic Party in the United States, have orchestrated a huge media-blitz, criticizing President Obama for not speaking out against the Iranian government for its crackdown on Iranians who have protested the outcome of their June 2009 presidential election. President Obama has agreed that people around the world have the right to peacefully assemble. The Republicans say stronger criticism is needed. Why? And how would it benefit Iran to have President Obama interject in the Iranian political dispute? Would we be appreciative if the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khomenei and the Iranian people had extensive media coverage urging American citizens to take to the streets and protest against the disputed US Presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore in 2000? No doubt there would have been cries of meddling and requests to bomb Iran. The Republicans should instead ask the President to speak out against what’s going on at home, for example America’s police force; its preoccupation with African-American and Latino communities and excitable appetite to randomly murder women and men, often excused with claims that the victim appeared to be brandishing a gun. In recent years, numerous people of ethnic minority have been killed by the country’s police though they weren’t carrying a weapon: 22-year-old Oscar Grant, murdered in California on New Year’s Day this year; Sean Bell, gunned down by New York police on his wedding day less than three years ago; 20-year-old Terrance Mearis, killed by Oakland police in 2003; and Amadou Diallo, a Guinean immigrant shot by New York police in 1999. These conservatives could point President Obama towards mass imprisonment in the United States, a country that holds 25% of the world’s prisoners, of which almost half are African-American and Latino. Or encourage him to decry America’s failing education system, severely lacking in funding, which is instead being allocated to incarceration; the huge and ever-growing homeless population in this land of milk and honey; and health care reform, which is so vital to millions of Americans who currently cannot afford to get sick. Rather than having him meddle in the Iranian system, let him fix his own house first! (Sep 14, 2009 | post #1)

Angola, LA

racial profiling briefly acknowledged - now what?

RACIAL PROFILING BRIEFLY ACKNOWLEDGED…NOW WHAT? By Kenny Zulu Whitmore Blacks and Latinos in the United States have long complained of police harassment and racial profiling, but no-one paid much attention until 16 July this year, when the Cambridge, Massachusetts police arrested Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates at his home on a “disorderly conduct” charge (read for being an uppity Negro or forgetting his place). Thanks to his friendship with President Obama, Mr. Gates’ experience received recognition. Harold Phillips didn't have such powerful friends. The 54-year-old black man from Colfax, Louisiana, was horse-playing with his sister eight days after the Gates incident. A young, white cop thought it was a fight, and stopped to question Mr. Phillips. According to other witnesses, the officer slipped and fell and was laughed at. He subsequently shot the unarmed Mr. Phillips five times in the back in front of family and friends. While the shooting is under investigation, the officer is on leave with taxpayers’ money. In the 1960s, white police officers were engaged in racial profiling as part of the now-disgraced FBI’s covert counter-intelligen ce programme, known as Cointelpro, pulling over African-Americans and searching their cars for no other reason than a broken tail-light (after the cops had broken it before planting evidence on their target). Though that programme was disbanded, the abuse has continued. In the last 16 months, four unarmed black men have been murdered in North Louisiana. All the cops have to say is “I thought he had a gun”, and the shooting is justified. Meanwhile, torture tactics that have come to light in Guantanamo Bay have been used against us to garnish information and false confessions, including near asphyxiation with plastic bags; slamming into walls; and sleep deprivation. I know first-hand what that is like, because most of those tactics were used on me in 1975 to force a confession regarding a political robbery/murder I had nothing to do with, and for which I remain in prison. Sergeant James Crowley – the police officer who arrested Professor Gates – may have redeemed himself, but I wonder has he ever been honoured for reporting another cop shooting of an unarmed suspect, or ever stopped his partners from zapping a suspect with their 50,000-volt taser for nothing? At least, for a short while, we had the face of a renowned Harvard University professor to illustrate the ills inflicted on us by police officers here in the United States; those who see black and Latino people as a little less human than themselves. So beers have been drunk at the Big House; now what? (Sep 14, 2009 | post #1)