Another important consideration was the season. It was Christmas; merry for the guards, but bitter for the prisoners. Like other lonely people, prisoners are especially depressed during the holidays. In their misery, prisoners were vulnerable. Public servants like prison Superintendent Frederick K. Frank (about whom we will shortly publish a scathing expose), knew that if things could be made just a little bit worse for them, some prisoners might snap, go nuts or even kill themselves.

For the extremist prison administrators it sounded like great sport. For the DOC it was an opportunity that was too good to pass up.

From across the state Himmler called out the CERTs.CERT is the acronym for "Cowardly Excessive Reaction Thugs." DOC pretends that the acronym has another, less accurate meaning.

One way to make priosners even more miserable and hopeless would be to harass and punish them during Christmas week. One way to funnel a couple of million dollars in to the fists of the most ruthless of the guards would be to pay them to do the harassing and punishment. It's their fravorite avocation.

Never at a loss for ways to cause harm, DOC administrators agreed to "shakedown" Freddy Frank's grim prison.

A prison "shakedown"is a tormenting procedure used to punish and humiliate prisoners. Guards storm into the prisoners' tiny cells. The guards steal the prisoners' property. They wreak and break what they don't actually take. Their intention is to cause disturbance, stress, anger and deprivation. It's the way prison officials think. They are real garbage!

About 75 CERTs gleefully swarmed down on the state prison at Huntingdon, a decaying 110-year old Bastille in the part of Pennsyvlania where inbreeding has had profound effects. Everybody is related to everybody's else's father and, often, to his hound, too.

In turn, gangs of the thugs, each dressed like a Nazi SS Trooper, ransacked each cell. Remember that like all bullies, the CERT's were scared. They knew what kind of shit they were/are. They knew that they deserved not just contempt, but a good spanking.

To compensate for their insecurities, the pathetic CERTs overdid it. They dressed-up and carried clubs. To assure their annonimity, they wore no name tags. They didn't address one another by name for fear a prisoner would be able to file a legal complaint about the rampant abuse.

Each inmate was stripped naked. His hands were cuffed behind his back and he was compelled to face a wall. He wasn't allowed to see what the guards were doing to his property, what they were planting, breaking or stealing. His few meager belongings were simply trashed.

While a billy-club wielding CERT intimidated the prisoners, the gleeful prison superintendnet stalked the tiers of cells. He delighted over the misery of the convicts. Freddy Frank looked like an aspiring insurance salesman. He acted like a dullard highschool vo-tec teacher. He started out his "corrections career" as a lowly guard at the state prison at Rockview, Pennsylvania. It would've been a blessing if he hadn't slithered his way into authority.

When one thinks of Frank, one thinks of terms like lazy, bumbling, inept, ineffectual, emasculated and egocentric. It goes without saying that his name instantly evokes the term megalomaniac. One source observed that he was like the reincarination of an old-time slave-trader.

Like a boot-licking puppy, an obease deputy warden named Myers stomped along behind Frank doing his Yeti act. He's so evil-spirited that in spite of its best efforts cancer hasn't yet been able to end Myers' miserable extremist reign. His own men detest him even more than the prisoners do.

We have information about Myers. We are trying to check it. It suggests that this official and a former employee named Brown may have been involved in some questionable activity. If you have any information, let us know. He boasts about supposed military service, but that, too may not be exactly what it's cracked up to be.

We are preparing a detailed piece about Myers and several other people at the Huntingdon prison including a guard lieutenant named Raymond Krider. Stay tuned! As they say, now it can be told!

Several of the CERT guards "dumping" the cells were women. There is something especially distressing about a woman stooping to such conduct. The two near-men who wrecked number 53 cell laughed and joked as they did their merry work. They quipped about giving the old men a Christmas present.

Prison is the laboratory where the totalitarian government tries out its schemes. It amuses us that most citizens don't realize that THEY, the citizens, will be the next targets. The infection will creep up through the floor of the culture. Your home and your possessions are not safe. Soon enough, the CERTs will have your handcuffed facing the wall.