There are four major factions involved in this protest.
1) The Aryan Brotherhood
2) The Mexican Mafia
3) Nuestra Familia
4) The Black Guerrilla Family
Apparently the guests leading the hunger strike are following orders that are coming from the leaders of each of these groups......both inside the prisons and outside. Outside is where the rest of us live and eat and sleep and poop. I brought up the pooping thing because I've never been able to understand how that act actually works within a prison system. Just the thought of group pooping makes me slightly ill and of course I'm sorry to have brought it up but I wanted you to see the benefits of a hunger strike. No food means no poop....and in that regard I salute hunger strikes everywhere that groups of people gather against their wishes.
By all accounts there are a few hundred inmates involved in the strike and from what I've been able to determine their main complaint is that certain prisoners are not allowed to mingle in the general population....better known as the prison yard. They are confined to units called SHU's which stands for Security Housing Units. In each of these units is a radio and a color TV. SHU confined inmates receive the same food as the general population. They are allowed visitors every weekend just like the regular guests and they have weekly access to the library and daily exercise time.
Actually......this sounds a lot like my dwelling.....except I try to get to the library at least twice a week.
Each inmate has either a cat or a dog.
NOW that's just ridiculous and you know it's not true....but I am wondering why they get TV's....and of course the questions remains......do they have remote controls?
Next I'm going read where they each get an I PAD donated by the estate of Steve Jobs.
Let's get back to the fellows housed in these special units. Imagine a member of the Aryan Brotherhood being confined to his own small quarters. Now pause for a sec and think what he might have done to enter the prison and then pause one more sec and think what he might have done inside the prison to warrant such special treatment.
I'm pretty sure that I can conclude one fact......THESE GUYS ARE SERIOUS DICKHEADS.
I don't think a guy who wrote some bad checks at Wal-Mart gets to spend time in a SHU.
On Thursday August 8 there will be a court hearing to determine whether these SHU inmates can file a class action suit against the state of California Correctional System.
Todd Ashker, a leader of the hunger strike, who has been in a SHU for 24 years, has issued the following statement......
"There's a core group of us who are committed to taking this all the way to the death, if necessary," Ashker said in a video posted by the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition. "None of us want to do this, but we feel like we have no other option."
Mr. Ashker, 50, who earned a paralegal degree while in prison, has been one of the most vocal inmates in the fight against the state's security housing units (SHUs), where more than 3,000 California inmates are housed, according to the Prison Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition, a group of grassroots organizations and community activists dedicated to making sure inmates' voices are heard during the protest.
I guess I see an answer here. I'm not an advocate of capital punishment but I am an advocate of allowing individuals to make their own decisions.
If Mr. Ashker, a convicted murderer, chooses to refuse food then so be it. It looks like a double win win situation. He goes and we lose a convicted murderer and a paralegal. (That's wasn't nice)
Of course if the penal system would adopt my 25 year old idea then we wouldn't be facing this type of situation.
IDEA.....take every convict who is in prison for physically harming another person or using a weapon during a crime and have them work on the MMGC in the state of North Dakota
MMGC......Man Made Grand Canyon
Simply use bulldozers to crave out the first hundred feet of the 25 mile stretch of land in the middle of absolutely freakin nowhere in South Dakota and then issue every violent offender a shovel and a back pack with a small tent and a sleeping bag....and tell them to start digging. Each prisoner would have a small implanted locating device.
Each week there would be a supply and mail drop every mile. Supplies would include packs of food like the Astronauts use, paper cups and bathroom supplies. Water would be supplied by various apparatus so that drinking water and showers would be available.
Medical attention is one of the things you forfeit when you physically harm another human being.
Guard stations would be approximately every 500 yards. on either side of the MMGC being dug.
It's one of the projects that 2500 years from now people would say.....how the hell did they do that?
BECAUSE I CAN GUARANTEE ONE ONE THING......WITHIN A FEW HUNDRED YEARS THERE WOULD BE VERY FEW PEOPLE LEFT IN THE MMGC.
Imagine a guy in East LA walks into a liquor store with a gun and the owner simply says...."hey dude do you really want to get put into the MMGC project?" Just a small reminder will probably end that robbery attempt. Anybody who'd rather rob then have a job sure doesn't want to being digging a hole every single day of his or her life. I do understand that there would have to be gender separation in the MMGC project but details can be worked out later.
Now I realize that some people are in prison because they got wrongly convicted (facts state that it's a very small percentage) but with DNA testing I'm pretty certain that the mistake ratio will drop dramatically over the next 25 years.
BACK TO REALITY and the truth of the matter..............
The hunger strike in our prison system doesn't seem to concern very many people on the outside.
The fact that they get color TVs with ESPN really bothers me. My last remaining uncle is in an up scale assisted living complex outside of St. Louis and they don't get ESPN.
I think we should put every prisoner on Del Taco morning noon and night and see how long they last.
I'm also a bit concerned that the Muslim groups aren't involved in the hunger strike
I just finished a novel where the basic premise is......Islamic radicals were breaking the law in America so that they could get sent to prison in order to convert the convicts to their core belief system......that basically says to kill all the infidels living in the United States.
I think that includes you and me.
I think this is one hunger strike that Johnny Cash would simply say......"let it happin Captain."
Meanwhile back on the farm.....what's for supper?
Michael Timothy McAlevey
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