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They had a shakedown at Pennsylvania's Frackvi11e prison. It
happens periodically at all prisons. They have a lot more of
them at Frackville. They're a lot more frightened. When you
treat people like that, maybe you have reason to be.
Hand-selected guards came to my cell. Like boy scouts, they were on a mission. I'll call the one guy Curr (you know, like a stray mongrel). His partner I'll call Barney. He looked a little like a Barney. He belonged to a more civilized class than Curr. First thing, Mr. Curr wanted me to get bare-naked! Well, whatever lights your rocket! He didn't look particularly swishy, but with that, you can never tell. If the Curr wanted to look at a naked man, who was I to deprive him? Regrettably, I wasn't feeling too well that day. I couldn't enjoy the performance, but as I satisfied Mr. Curr's ardent voyeurism, I wondered why he wasn't in Iraq where he could do some real punishment. Of course, the Iraqi patriots shoot back. These were only some of Brucie's buddies, tremblers. The Curr and Fife weren't really there to search. They weren't that professional. They were there to punish me. Curr wanted to retaliate against me for the success of this website. He doesn't like criticism. Guards hate it when the myth of their virtue is shattered. It's easy to criticize many (but not all) on the Frackville staff; just expose the facts! This website has become very successful. Almost 4,000 times a day someone downloads one of our files, over a million a year! legislators, officials, citizens, students, cops, community leaders, and yes, ever some guards (the ones who can read). Prison officials in China know about Frackville! Success like that has a cost and the Curr with sidekick Barney were part of the cost. They would punish me for the website's success. Oddly enough Carr hadn't communicated with the website. The guards don't deny the things it publishes. They don't ask for corrections or clarifications. Bullies only know bullying. So Carr and Barney tossed my property into a heap. It wasn't so bad. I've been in prison a l-o-n-g time and this pair were pure amateurs. If I'd felt better, I would have been amused by their pettiness; I mean, they stole a marker out of a book. The only thing that bothered me was that they lost or stole some of my heart medication. A few days later a white-headed lieutenant, I'll call him Gee!, harangued me. Gee! brought along a bodyguard who carefully stayed between us. (Fear is endemic at Frackville.) The lieutenant thought it was "hypocritical" for the www.prisoners.com website to criticize "Frackville" where it was impermissible for the guards to retaliate against me personally. Gee! couldn't grasp the difference. If he or his bodyguard wants to see what the website has to say, they have to go look for it; they have to ask to see the opinions. Nothing is imposed upon them. Having thug mentalities, the guards like to retaliate personally. Gee! thought that "man-to-man" bulling was better. I tried to explain to Lieutenant Gee! that I hadn't started it; let me alone, I let you alone. I simply interpret what I see. What the guards elect to do really expresses their own personalities or lack of them. Curr snatched up some carbon copies of website articles. Since they were only carbons one wonders what he was thinking. I suppose that he wanted to make sure that I knew that my punishment was retaliation for the website. My reaction, however was that the website must be doing something right. The roaches run from the light. Barney contented himself with stealing shoelaces and a peanutbutter jar. That'll teach me! "It's a newspaper's duty to print
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