War ad Racism in the New Millennium (a sentencing statement!)
(see previous post for background)

Foremost, i ask the court to overlook my being seated as i address you! It seems i am chained to this chair as i have been since day one of these proceedings. Actually, that's part of what precipitates today's sentencing and plea agreement, and is the basis for this statement.

It is painfully obvious to me, that in a day and age where i am chained to a chair much like the suspects chained to benches then interrogated with rubber hoses in the "war on terrors'" secret prisons, my chances for equity are slim to none. Pre-ordaining that i am to be treated as an "enemy combatant" found guilty without hearing or trial of harboring an uncontrollable potential to do harm to anyone in this courtroom. While five guards lurk over my shoulder and five pounds of chains and locks render my arms, wrists, and legs immobile is to say in no uncertain terms; "although you've shown absolutely no desire for such acts, although we have no record of your being deranged, violent, or even unpleasant in the least. You are the latest Frankensteinesque monster in a long line of monsters we've paraded into this...our sacred club house.

Experience has taught us to chain, to shackle, to lock up the monsters. Your honor, i am without doubt this spirit of "better safe than sorry" would have infected any jury sitting daily in its mist. While wrestling to extricate the truth form sensationalized arguments about my guilt under the burden of subconscious alarm bells ringing reminders of being programmed with the state's propaganda about pelican bay prison - security housing units, worst of the worst, tv shows like Prison Break and other such nonsense, resulting in another wrongful conviction.

I ask the court to take into consideration that such treatment combined with the two degrading strip-searches one is put through before arriving to the court, spending up to four hours in a dehumanizingly filthy holding cell here in the court, while shackles swell one's wrists and ankles, having your legal property, property which could have proven your case, thrown away by pbsp staff, as mine has been. Creates a psychological strain, reinforcing the state's already overwhelming advantage. Tipping the scales of justice in their favor to the point of breaking the blindfolded lady's deformed arm.

Your honor, the offense to which i have plead guilty, and the original charging offense "possession of a weapon" are not evidence of a desire on my part or the part of any Black captive to coalesce with criminality but stand to strengthen and protect the vanguard trails blazed by Blacks since our captivity and colonization on this continent began. It is no more coincidence that today the 9th day of Black history month 2007, i stand (or rather sit) before you charged as the result of an officer's bruised ego, for the offense of arming oneself against the same vile spirit of greed, animosity, incompetence, racist hate, terrorism, and skin privilege, which have always been, and continue to be, leveled against Blacks throughout amerikan settler society, whether in its prison plantations or ghettos.

Attested to with murderous attacks condoned through inaction by the administrators of amerikan jurisprudence and the enforcers of law and order. To be Black in amerika is to be hunted into near extinction like the grey wolf or silver fox, for the preciousness of our labor, intellect and culture. Blacks represent 35% of arrests, 55% of convictions, and 74% of prison sentences. Where the hunt is intensified to the point of life and death.

Point in fact:
November 16 2005, Chadwick Cochran murdered by racist in LA county jail.
September 6 2005. Lloyd Avery murdered i prison cell, pelican bay state prison.
January 13 2006. Outnumbered Black captives attacked in San Quentin reception center.
February 4 2006. Outnumbered Black captives attacked in Castaic County Jail, Los Angeles. Another Black is murdered.
February 15 2006. Pitchess Detention Center, LA County, 35 Black captives forced to defend themselves against 170 armed attackers.
February 8, 2006. More attacks on outnumbered Blacks in CTF Soledad's B-Yard.
February 10, 2006. Outnumbered and shackled Blacks attacked with weapons by racists on a bus en route to court.
February 14 2006. Two more such attacks, where the attackers are armed ad unfettered while the outnumbered Blacks are shackled.
February 10, 2006. More racist attacks on Black captives.
February 12 2006. Anthony Thompson murdered while defending another Black under attack by racists at odds of 4 to 1. The same day, still more attacks on Black captives.
February 13, 2006. Outnumbered Blacks attacked by racists at Sierra Conservation Center State Prison.
From February 17, up to the present day, we can list more of the same types of racist violence against Black captives.

However, it's best we look at the Black community at large: 2005, 13 year old Devin Brown was murdered for joy-riding by Los Angeles police, who are not charged after an internal investigation rules the murder unjust.
October 31, 2006. Ten Black children ages 12 to 17 are rounded up like escaped slaves for defending themselves against racist threats, in Long Beach California. Alla re now incarcerated in a case eerily similar to the 1931 Scottsboro Nine case.
November 26, 2006. Sean Bell murdered by NYPD in a hail of 50 bullets the morning he was to marry the mother of his child.
November 2006. Atlanta police raid the home of 92 year old Kathryn Johnson, murdering her in cold blood.
December 30, 2006. Westlake Louisiana's first Black Mayor Gerald Washington murdered after receiving racist death threats.
December 15, 2006. 14 year old Cheryl Green murdered by racists for allegedly violating racist no Blacks allowed prohibition in the Harbor Gateway area of LA.

Throughout Los Angeles county, Black children already oppressed by insignificant educations are right now being terrorized with death threats if they attend school on certain white and non-white settler holidays. This your honor is War and Racism in the New Millennium.

Allow me to offer a quote: "when people walk on each other, when disharmony is the norm, when the structure which mediates relations between the races has fallen apart, it is the fault of those in charge. Where such conditions exist, a wise man generally adapts to prevail." George Lester Jackson.

In closing, suffice it to say, under such conditions as i've outlined to the court herein, it seems the truly wise would find it criminal not to take advantage of their right as stated in the u.s. constitutions' second amendment. "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bare arms shall not be infringed."

Free all PP/POWs and PPOCs.
Shut down the SHUs
Haroun Akili Mungu Mtumishi