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Contents
“Rebel with a cause”-Coyote

“Ten Words of Nahuatl”
Sean Swain on non-violence.

“Fragments of a cultivated mind”-Coyote

2010 Georgia Prisoner Strike- written and
compiled by Chicago ABC

ZRebel With A Cause”

Aflower cannot be a flower if the sun, wind and rain choose to
neglect, and power cannot be pawer if the people subversivaly reject.
No cause for all these laws, no need for applause, just think for a 2
minute and stop the pause, ponder and reflect,

1f you want to be rebel my friend, then educate yourself and
give your life to lend, if you want to be rebel my pal, then educate
others,assist, teach and show them how. This is a system that
deprives us of truth and education, keeping us wary and dull so we
don't take it upon ourselves to reach for liberation.

Be a flower in the sun, fuck the power, be the barrel of the
gun, aim your bullets, giving death to ignorant obedience, and birth to
radical ingenious...be a rebel with a cause, be a rebel for the cause.
Upiift yourself, apply yourself love yourself, educate yourselr,free
Yourself, and allthat you do for yourself,strive to do it for others too.

Be ablessing, nota burden, be the change you want to see, be the
reason, be the cause, the effect and the purpose, give your lif
purpose, bring purpose to life and give life to others. Exist in this
‘world, know the truth, be the truth, Be a rebel with a cause, know your
cause, learn your cause, and teach your cause because the cause
cannot be until you cause it to be. Be real, be true, be thoughtful, be
alive, and be good. Let the sun shine in your life. Pull back the curtains,
‘open the windows of your mind and let the breeze in. be like the

“Ten Words of Nahuatl”
Pani- On top 1
Neltiliztli- Truth
Maquiza-To escape
Coyoctic- Hole
Tzintli- Base
Poctli- Smoke
Nehcaliliztli-Battle
Tlazohcamati- Thank you
Pohuilia- Count, to count something
10. Quiza- To come out

LNV A WD

Ryan and everyboay-

Got your last letter, and wére all caught up. The mailing with
“last act” was supposed to be from another source but it
apparently didn't happen. Il ook into it.

So, check it out. You said in your last letter that you think
probably the point where we might diverge is on the question of
violence and you wanted me to expound my views a bit more.
And that's cool, but before | do, | think I'd better give some
background and give you my views on nonviolence.

First, some background. Before | became an Anarchist and
befora | was a revolutionary, | started off as a suburban mall rat.
| accepted what | was spoon-fed. | was the product of public
schaols and cub scouts and the local Methadist church and even
two year stiat in the army. | was a typical American idiot. | was

probably a typical cheerleader for the fascist order of things-until
the Nazis came and took me away.
I —p—
democracy equals freedom and blah blah blah, My real political
education came after my appeals were exhausted and | was here
and met another prisaner, former sixties radical, a socialist, who
made it clear | was part of the problem if | was not dedicating
myself to the cause. We formed a reformist group-a successful

one that successfuly lobbied for legislative reforms of the parole
board and | served on the advisory board of CURE- Ohio (Citizens

United for the Rehabilitation of Errants). | believed the svstem
could be fixed, it was only a matter of the squeaky whee! getting
greased, a question of mass participation. Is
The key senator who sponsred parole reform legislation
resigned in scandal for campaign fraud. The bil got twisted into
something useless. Despite a membership drive for CURE
(between 3 other prisoners and myself, we managed to foster
the largest single political membership drive that ever haopened
in the Ohio prison system, and at the peak of it one in every 5
prisoners was a member of CURE) everything died. Nothing
‘substantive changed.

Up until 2004, 1 was an avid pacifist. | was a member of Pax

Christi, a catholic peace group. | believed in the superior morality
of the Gandhian method of social change. To this day, ! still have
2 dog-eared copy of Gene Sharps “politics of Nonviolent acti
vol. HII,” a nonviolence movement starter-kit.

1o longer hold the view that strictly nonviolent methods are the
only legitimate means for achieving social change. And what has
persuaded me away from that is an understanding that life and
s.rvival involve violence. Lok, | alive today because | ate. We
need fuel to stay alive and that fuel s organic. What you eat
used to be alive. So, for you to survive, something else must die.
Everything in the worid that lives is food for something sise.
Including us. Survival is a matter of eating food instead of
becoming food. That is the basis of survival.

Now, were in a situation where a small group of bastards have
hijacked the world and subjected us allto slavery. It's a world

‘where our basic human needs are not met. That's why we get
distorted by this pathological order. That's why the population s

depressed, stressed, lonely, distracted, flipped-out with road
rage, taking pill 10 get up, taking pills to go to bed, self
meaication with alcohol, resorting to the distractions and
escapes of drugs and porn and adrenalin and shopping and
Pawer-tripping. We live in an order where our social and human
needs are unmet because we are units, slaves, subjects whose
purpase in being alive is to drag stones up the side of fucking
pyramid.

3 million years of human survival in sustainable communities
that did not lead to ecological destruction and genocide and
mass murder and poverty and starvation is a good indication that
this way of life imposed on us is nat right. It serves the needs of a
small group who run everything. It fucks the rest of us. Al o us.
It fucks some of us a greater degree than others.

Now, | don't know how you feel about that. Being that your part
of the Burning River Anarchist Black Cross, that gives me an
indication that you're not too cool with that. Me, | cal this
situation violence. Capitalism is violence, subjecting millions to
poverty and hunger and exploitation, to the sweatshop
foreman's whip. Laws impased by a govermment that has troops
with guns, a government with prisons and enforcers to impose
THEIR way of life on everyone else whether they like it o not-
that's violence.

The US i a system run by the wealthy elite who own parties who
own candidates who take power and serve the wealthy while
indoctrination us in public schools to believe were free and
there’s nothing better than lugging stanes up the side of the rich
bastards pyramid, so get with program.. or else.

Anytime somebody adds, “or else®, that’s violence. You are
forced to go along by force, by threat. The fascist order is the
bully taking our lunch money. If 1 give i to him without getting
punched in the nose and | don't punch him in the nose, don't get
confused and think that this situation is peaceful. It isn't. Just
because there was no overt violence, it is an atmosphere of
violence because there is oppression. My reaction in not
punching the bully in the nase is not necessarily anymore more
or less moral than if | would have punched him in the nose. In
fact, by paying him without resistance, | may be embolde; ing
him to victimize more poor kids.

It might even be safe to say | have a moral duty to punch him in
the nose, to resist, and to hinder his will to oppress. It may be
that violence is the more moral response. 7
The system of capital, the covertly-fascist system of rule is the IS
and, by extension, the world, is oppressive and it is violent, It is
not socially healthy. It is not ecologically sustainable. It is violent.
Its laws, its hierarchy, its imposition is what creates the social ill
we see today.
1 want to live another way. | want to live without hierarchy or
exploitation of human by human. | want to live in peace and
want others to have the same freedom as | have, so they can five

the way they want to live too. They don't have to live like me.
When others ask me what anarchy looks like, | can’t really
answer them because | have to ask them how they want to live.
Generally, anarchy allows for what they want and need. So, they
‘may not live in the same tribe as me or in the same gang o the
‘same cult or the same commune or the same collective or the
same village or the same enclave or the same monastery, or
whatever. | won't impose my way of living on them. My tribe will
live over here the way we live. But, don't try to impose your
hierarchy and Puritanism and prohibition upon me. That's
violence. Imposing is violence. Its force. You can have capitalism
and empire and all that pathology, but keep it in your own yard.
You bring it into my yard, and it will come up stinking. Somebody
willfind your capitalism and empire wrapped in a rug on the side
©of a country road.

So, | want to live another way. A way without material obsession,
without capitalism, a way that meets peoples human needs. |
don’t want to make product and buy product, | want to give the
‘human support and receive support. | want to collect others who
have been broken by this awful system and we can run away and
join the same circus. Or we can build our own right wi
are. One where the people have value for what they are instead
of what they own or who they play golf with,

And at the basis of this is 3 rejection of the pathological culture

bombarding us with nonsense. It s an embrace of another way.
An alternative. And that isn't violent. It isn't violent at all. And if
it was that simple, I'd be down for that. I'd be down for forging
new social relations, new ways of structuring small, human ~*
communities in sustainable and meaningful ways. The problem
is, it would be an alternative way of life. An alternative. And that
brings us a problem.
For the last 10,000 years,this way ofIfe,this pathological &
culture, has developed as the result of imposing. From its
inception with the agricultural revolution, this has been an
expansionist system and it wages genocide against any other
way of life that gets in the way. Look at the American Indian.
They didn't live the one right way. They were in the way.
Genocide. There’s no talking, no live and let live. Its, “get with
the program or you will be assimilated”. You willlive this way.
You will lug stones for haurs a day. You will make product and
buy product. You will know your place. You will follow the rules
pushed down on you by the rich fucks who own the pyramid.
You will go along even if you don't ke it and it distorts you. We
don't care if you're happy. We just care if you're producing.
Besides, everybody knows this is the one right way to live, your
social studies teacher told you. So did Ranald Regan. Case closed.
Those rampant suicide rates don't mean anything. The only
reason'is this system maintains itself, keeps the people lugging
stones, keeps them duped into thinking there’s nothing better, is
that this fascist system silences all alternatives. If you set
Yourself up as an alternative, another way to live, one outside
the system of capital and hierarchy, one outside their contro,
then you shatter the lie. There is another way to live... and it
don't look half bad. You might start getting converts. People will
“jump the wall", 50 to speak, will abandon the pyramid
construction crew and will come live with you.
S0, Ryan- what do you think the owners of the pyramid are going
to think about that> when you forge new social relationships
that pull their slaves into a new way of living? You think they will
1055 their accumulated wealth into the fireplace and join you? |
think nor. | think they will react the same way the Chicago
police reacted to Fred Hampton. | think they will react the same
way the Philadelphia police reacted to MOVE. 1 think they will try
to destroy you the same way they destroyed the Black Panther
Party Free Breakfast Program in the bay area. | think they will
round you up the way they rounded up runaway slaves. | think
they'll scalp you the way they scalped Native Americans. | think
they'll burn you out and gun you down like they did at Waco and
ruby Ridge. .

Fascists have a history of being just a hint intolerant. They will not
et you disrupt the pyramid construction with naive and lofty
ideals of freedom and mutual aid and collective cooperation.
And you'll know just as soon as you become 3 blip on their radar.
You'll know because they'll crack your skull. They'll impose
themselves with violence and they will outlaw you. If no law
exists to outlaw you, they'll make one. They can't afford to have
an alterative. Their fascist, pathological system continues onlv
because there is no other alternative, nothing anyone else can
see.

So, don't get me wrong. 'm down with community-building, the
bottom up self organization of people, with the whole
©empowerment thing. I'm down with creating an alternative to
this twisted, pathological disorder of exploitation and suffering
and violence. But I'm not down for a course of action that leaves
me lying on the curb where the dogs and birds can eat me. |
dor't want to be food for something else. | want to survive. And |
want my way of iving; they say that develops as an alternative,
10 keep going. | don't want to be Fred Hampton.

¥'m a revolutionary. | befieve in revolution. I don't think anything
short of that can “fix” things. | used to think that, but experie
has shown me differently. | don’t believe the world will be right if
we just implement this program or that one, if we just save the
whales or give inner-city kids a decent breakfast or get a city
council to fund some program or get computer in the schools.

All of that is rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic. And those
in power won't let you do it unless it benefits them in some way.
So, being a revolutionary, I've come to the conclusion that power
must switch hands. It must be taken from the fascists, who own

tne pyramia, and the pyramid must be torn down and all social
relationships from that point forward, at least in my corner of
the world, will all be horizontal.

| can'tlive in some compromise situation. | can't live under
fascist pathology, lugging stones up the side of the pyramid,
flipping burgers and making the enemy of all humankind wealthy
off my labor and exploitation. | can't give the bully my lunch
money and pretend tha's peaceful coexistence with him,
submitting like a fuckin coward because I'm afraid the buly wil
punch me in the nose if | offer resistance.

!can'®. | have to live in an alternative to that. An alternative to
the pyramid scheme. My eyes are open and | see the sickness of
capitalism and bourgeois demacracy for what it is and | can't live

in it | have to find anather way and | have to find others who
want to live the same way.

But. The fascists won't let us bail out. They will impose
themselves on us, they will respond with violence. So, again,
were back to that. If we're an alternative, we end up like Fred
Hampton.

S0, came 10 a conclusion. A thoughtful one. Not one out of
some romantic notion of a violent revolutionary. I've come to
the conclusion that | have a duty to myselfand a duty to
everyone else to resist this fascist system effectively. | have ta
et the bully 10 5top taking my lunch money

efiectively. | have to open up freé space where they can't come
fucking with me, where people are free. And | know of only one
way t0 open up free space and take that space away from the
fascists. It's called guerrilla warfare.

There's only one way to get the bully to stop taking your lunch
money. You have to hurt him. You have to hurt him so fuckin bad
that he won't come looking for you again. You have to make it a
loose-situation for him. Make it not worth his time and effort and
oss of blood from his nose. You have to kick a dent in him.

¥'m no socialist, but look at the example of Cuba. They engaged
in guerrilla warfare. Started with 12 people. In 18 months, they
defeated an armed, technologically advanced military of 80,000
troops and collapsed the ruling regime. They opened up free
space (how *free” is debatable, buts it’s free of direct American
interference). Cuba said, “you can have your system. You can
have it in your yard. But if you bring it here, you'llfind your
capitalism and your empire wrapped in a rug on the side of a
country road”...

Look at the example of the Zapatistas. They have their own free
space. The Mexican government doesn't venture in there. Not
without taking losses. In order to establish a lasting, enduring
way of life that is an altemative to capitalism and bourgeois
demacracy, you must first establish a free zone of operations.
One argument you raised i the conditions argument, That
conditions are not ight for revolution. By that, I'm guessing that
You mean the subjective conditions- that there isn't the
consciousness for revolution, that people aren't at the point
Where they are screaming, “I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna
take it anymore.”

These conditions are never going to be present. Never. The
fascists know just how much shit most people will take. George
Jackson said that it will never happen unless those in control
have an uncharacteristic bout of insanity and let the conditions.
arise, and he didn't see that happening. | don't either. For
subjective conditions to be present, the enemy must “drop the
ball*.

In the history of revolutions, in most instances, subjective

conditions were greatly lacking when the revolutions took place.
‘The revolutions in Great Britain, France, Russia, the US, in Cuba,
Nicaragua, in southern Mexico. | read somewhere that the
percentage of population that fought in the American Revolution
-on both sides- was about 5% that means 95% of the people at
the time didn’t pick up a rifle. They were not movedto 17
participate. In the Cuban Revolution, the Guerrilla forces never
numbered more than 3,000 at any time and the enemy was
80,000 strong on an istand of millions. What was it-4 million? 5?
f revolutionaries wait for the subjective conditions to be right,
‘we would still be in the rule of Britain, and it would be a
monarch, as would all of Europe- an every place else in the world
would be colonized. If subjective conditions were necessary,
George Washington would be a traitor, Benedict Amold a hero of
the British Crown, and Fidel Castro would be 3 minor footnote in
English fanguage history classes in Cuba.

In terms of objective conditions, things are good. Empire so over
expanded. Repression has gotten many to question the ruling
regime. The vast majority of Americans are unhappy. Those in
power are unpopular and the people are suspicious. The
economy Is not good. The war has jaded public opinion.

The lessons of Cuba, Nicaragua, Southern Mexico. In all 3
instances, everyone said, “the conditions are not right.
Revolution cannot happen here”. Insurgente Marcos of the
Zapatistas has recounted many times how everyone said it could
happen somewhere else, but “not here". Always, “not here”
wherever “here” is. That's what they said in Cuba until Castro
made it happen. It's what they said in Nicaragua until Carlos
Fonseca and Daniel Ortega and others made it happen. It's what
they said in Grenada until Maurice Bishop. It's what they said in
Mexico until the Zapatistas. Now, the country just south of the
Empires border is quickly spiraling toward civil war.

Again, | want to do what effective. History shows again and again
that guerilla warfare is the method for successfully and quickly
bringing political and social change. In place like Cuba and
Nicaragua and Mexico, where the conditions for revolution were
not present at the start of hostilities, guerrilla warfare

manufactured the conditions. Before long, the guerilla wins
sympathy and emboldens the populace to resist until that
resistance reaches a kind of critical mass that brings about the
end of the political system. )3
And, ultimately, that’s what we want right? That's what we.
need/ don't we need the bully to stop taking our lunch money?
Don't we want free space to live as we want to live, with no
hierarchy, no imposition of will, no exploitative system of
capital? And don't we want a revolution?

! do. | want a revolution. And revolutions involve violence,
violence in defense of people and lfe and freedom. That's what |
see asa final goal: freedom. And | only see one way to get that,
iven that the ruling eite won't put down the shotgun peacefully
and walk away. It isn't the liberation forces that initiate the
violence. It isn't the kid who refuses to give up his lunch money
who initiates violence. It's the bully.

Were na situation of violence now. It's impased upon us and
we're accepting it passively. So, for me, it doesn't seem
irresponsible to talk to prisaners about violence. It seems
irresponsible to me if | don't. It would seem irrespansible to me
if| would pretend they would get out of prison and lug stones for
the fascists and accept butchered half-lives. it seems
irrespansible to not devise an alterative. It seems iresponsible
if1 don't try and persuade everybody to take action now that |
believe can change things. Change it now.

V'm not proposing violence for the sake of violence. 'm not
proposing irresponsible violence. I'm not proposing violence
against ordinary people. 'm not proposing violence of suicidal
missions like that of Jonathan Jackson and his compatriots,
however nable that was. And aready know not everybod is
cut out for it nor should they be. “Guerilla” is not the only role in
any revolution. But itis a necessary ane, | think.

've come ta the conclusion that 'm a revalutionary.
Revolutionaries want revolutions. Revolutions are violent. It
would seem irresponsible to me to relate to people on any level
and nat be honest about that, to portray a happy world of
Anarchy falling from the sky lie manna from heaven, or to
can handle.

I share your fear that released prisoners won't be able to
function normally and relate to friends and family who have not
experienced the brutality of this state-sponsored mind-warp. |
too believe prisoners come out filled with rage after being /Y
subjected to this. They should feel rage. Simply think there's a
responsible way to channel that rage ‘toward the power-brokers
who distorted him for the maintenance of their own status quo.
It sure beats leaving them to flounder around until they beat up
thelr girfriend, or pistol-whip 3 store clerk, or get drunk and
crashinto a family of six.

I would prefer seeing them knocking fences off of prisons. or
‘blowing up the enemy’s infrastructure. Or taking political
hostages and demanding millions in food to be delivered to the
inner cities of Ohio. Something that wakes people up, wins them
over, exposes the powerlessness of the fascists, and creates a
new political dynamic, generating the subjective conditions for
revolution like nothing else can.

Well, this is getting heavy (heavy in terms of gravity pulling onit,
ot heavy in terms of depth) so | better get this in the mail. in
terms of Conditions Factory distribution, sharing a P.0. boxis
cool. At some point, I'd like to be able to fund our own and fund
copies and mailing. At least subsidize it. In terms of mail, |
wouldn't expect a lot but you never know. Forwarding it once 3
month would work. Ultimately, anybody who' would get into
what we've got going would end up writing one of us here
directly anyway.

1l write more shortly to answer your other questions about
organization, etc. and projects we've got in mind. One of them
we need re-mailed o it can have the Conditions Factory return
address on t. Anything | do like that, f you're cool with t, 1l
<end the envelope for remaining and leave it open 50 you can
readit.

Gotta roll.

Stay dangerous.

Freedom,
Sean Swain.
“Fragments of a cultivated mind”
The creations of the mind never cease to existfor those would
know the suffer and agony of loneliness. The creations of the
‘mind never cease to exist for those who dwindle and dwell in the
dark comers of salitude. 5

Itis in these places and situations that we tend to tur inwards
and get in touch with the depths of our inner thoughts, believe
me, it can get scary at times, but it's worth the exploration, it's
warth the torment, it's worth the suffer. To tap into the depths
of your own mind and let the creations of your inner thoughts
come out into the open s a powerful,spiritual experiencel Do it!
These are the shattered fragments, not of my imagination but of
my minds inner creation, you see? These are bomb fragments for
the mind, bomb fragments for the heart, bomb fragments for the
soul. What we imagine, we create. What we create goes far and
wide, past the prison bars, past the cancrete walls, past the
razor-wire. What we create goes beyond what the mind
imagines. The creations of the mind are never to be
underestimated. What starts right here in a small, bathroom
sized cellin a maximum security prison in the middle of rural
nowhere, Nevada, goes long distances. If | can do i, you can do
it. Tap into your mind, my friend, you'l be surprised with what
you'llfind.

Write me:

Coyote Sheff # 55671
P.0. Bax 1989

Ely, Nevada
89301-1989

ife is beautiful and these are the fragments of a cultivated mind,
Coyote.

June 19", 2008

Ely State Prison
‘The 2010 Georgia prisoner general strike.

On December 3, 2010 thousands of prisoners in various prisons across
the state of Georgia went on strike uniting beyond racial divides and
refusing to leave their cells and refusing to go to work. This protest
was anything but spontaneous; It was carefully planned outand )/
‘coordinated in advance by prisoners from many different prisons.
Prisoners fed up with the current conditions of prisons in the state of
Geargia decided to organize a planned peaceful protest in hopes to
have the list of demands met. They are as follows:

- ALIVING WAGE FOR WORK

- EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

+ DECENT HEALTH CARE

- AN END TO CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENTS

- DECENT LIVING CONDITIONS

- NUTRITIONAL MEALS

- VOCATIONAL AND SELF-IMPROVEMENT OPPORTUNITIES
- ACCESS TO FAMILIES

- JUST PAROLE DECISIONS

Organization of the strike was planned out with the use of
contraband cell phones, and was intentionally scheduled to take
place during the winter months where with cooler temperatures,
would make it easier for all prisoners to keep tempers in check.
Unfortunately (with no surprise) the reaction to this peaceful
protest by the state was anything but peaceful, as was statedina
news release:

[Despite that the prisoners’ protest remained non-violent, the
Department of Carrections (DOC) violently attempted to force the men
back to work—claiming it was “lawful”to order prisoners to work
‘without pay, in defiance of the 13th Amendment's abolition of stavery.
In Augusta State Prison, six or seven inmates were brutally ripped from
their cells by CERT Team guards and beaten, resuting in broken ribs for
several men, one man beaten beyond recognition. This brutality
continues there. At Telfair, the Tactical Squad trashed all the property
ininmate cells. At Macon State, the Tactical Squad has menaced the
men for two days, removing some to the "hole,” and the warden
ordered the heat and hot water turned off. Still, today, men at Macon,
Smith, Augusta, Hays and Telfair State Prisons say they are commitied
to continuing the strike. Inmate leaders, representing blacks,
Hispanics, whites, Muslims, Rastafarians, Christians, have stated the
men will tay down until their demands are addressed. One issuing this
statement:

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“.Brothers, we have accomplished a major step in our struggle...We
must continue what we have started...The only way to achieve our
goals s to continue with our peaceful sit-down... ask each and every
one of my Brothers in this struggle to continue the fight. ON MONDAY
MORNING, WHEN THE DOORS OPEN, CLOSE THEM.DO NOT GO TO
WORK. They cannot do anything to us that they haven't already done
atone time or another. Brothers, DON'T-GIVE UP NOW. Make them
‘come to the table. Be strong. DO NOT MAKE MONEY FOR THE STATE
‘THAT THEY IN TURN USE TO KEEP US AS SLAVES..."

When the srike began, prisoner leaders issued the following call: ‘No
more slavery. Injustice in ane place is injustice to all. Inform your
family to support our cause. Lock down for liberty!”]

After roughly a week the strike was called off by the inmates and they
‘agreed to return to wark. This was not done as an act of surrender but
s realization that their demands would never be met with the
‘warden worrying about the prison on lockdown. The agreement to
return to work was on the grounds that the demands made by the
prisoners would be addressed.

["We've ended the protest,” said Mike, a convicted armed
robber who was ene of the inmates who planned and
coordinated the work stoppage. “We needed to come off lock
down 50 we can go to the law library and start... the paperwork
for a [prison conditions] lawsuit.]

[Mike said some inmates talked with the warden as he walked
the institution Tuesday.

“He [the warden] said they were in the process of getting to the
requests,” said Mike, an inmate at Smith State Prison near
Savannah. “We let them know if they didn't meet the requests,
A (AL LI 1L WOUIG DR PrEELLY UG 81 1L Was N0t GOING (O 0
inmate on inmate; it would be inmate on administration.”

The prison system, which holds almost 53,000 inmates, declined
to comment on the threat. I

“We did it peacefully and tried to o it the right way. But these
guys are to the point that if this [the protest] don't work, they're
g0ing to go about it the way they know best [with violence],”
Mike said. “They wanted to go about it that way the first time,
but we let them know that was not the way to go.”

“Wardens and administrators [will be] the ones they [inmates]
will be trying to get a hold of if it does go violent,” Mike said.”
They feel like f they go past the guards and to the warden they
will be taken more seriously... These guys have nothing to lose.
They're going to spend their lives in prison.

“We know the tactical squad [riot team] cannot be at more than
ane prison Mike said. “If you have five prisons popping off, you
can't send the tactical squad to all prisons. You'll have to send in
the National Guard and by then it'll be too late.”]

With no surprise the mainstream media did not widely publish
this even. Word has been spread through online websites and
smaleg news groups. It is up to us to make sure that thisstory
reachés around every inch on this planet. 'm sure we all know by
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unnoticed, that the administration and the state realize how
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made public. Let's be that threat!

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