Prisons within prisons

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Thursday March 20, 2003 20:00

by Karen Fallon

Limerick Prison

The reaffirmation process

By locking up your body they think to lock up your mind - but they are in a prison of their own making while we are truly free.

Limerick Prison, Mulgrave St., Limerick. 12th March.

Prisons within prisons – Karen Fallon
The reaffirmation process: conscience clarification.

By locking up your body they think to lock up your mind and dampen that “passion”” which so offended by having the audacity to take a stand and say “NO” to their lies.
Well the de-humanising process does not work. The same people who make the law, break the law and lie. They are also the people who believe that locking people up 22 hours a day and allowing them to be treated as “illiterate dregs” of society will rehabilitate them to the “program”.
It does not work.
The process of my incarceration reaffirms my beliefs and justifies my struggle for a more peaceful world and an end to war.
To be held as a “criminal” by a Neutral Government which knowingly opted to be complicit in an illegal war whilst breaking its own laws/Constitution should cause more damage and embarrassment to them than I ever could.

Watching the farcical war on Iraq unfold from a prison cell whilst being held by such a government does not deny yur freedom, it intensifies it. Blessed are the Peacemakers – for we shall lock them up!
The care support and solidarity that we receive in prison, compassion from complete strangers who also wish for peace, frees our spirits and our conscience. Can the Government say the same? I think not.
Any democratic power which goes to war or is complicit in the preparation or support to a war against the will of its people creates its own prison. A prison of lies, deceit, hypocrisy and associated murder, a prison without walls, a prison of its honesty. As impotent as I feel against the impending war I know within myself that I am not alone. There are thousands of us the world over in jail and on the streets doing everything for peace.
My liberty was given up in protest against war in a fight for peace. Although my body is in prison my conscience is clear and my mind is free!
Can the US British and Irish Governments say the same in all honesty? I think not. The International Court against War Crimes has just been established in the Hague. The US Government refuses to acknowledge it as do many others. The US and UK are still accountable for their actions in this war and may find themselves appearing before this court in due course along with all collaborators. Think on it! Karen

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by Cliona Towne

Thu Mar 20, 2003 20:59

'stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage'. But you've been in there long enough. At this point you would be more valuable outside.

Right place, right time!

by Ciaron O'Reilly - Pit Stop Ploughshares/DCW

Thu Mar 20, 2003 23:08

www.geocities.com/pwdyson/pitstop.html

You're in the right place at the right time Karen ....we had to police ourselves at the Dail today (bevcause of the bail conditions we signed on to), as these bureaucrats sold out the children of Iraq.

Even had a Green Party cop/bureaucrat trying to break up the nvda...one thing not to have the guts to resist this war...another to sabotage the folks who are trying.

One Love Karen along with Kathy, Charlie, Jo, Michael in Baghdad you have invested in the reality of this war...the rest of us have been pretty much reduced to voirism.
solidarity
Ciaron

Come back

by Drbinoche

Thu Mar 20, 2003 23:50

Well, when you have paid off the damage you have done to the US navy and by virtue to the Irish People, you can come back. Personally I wish you were suck there for a few more months. Keep you outta my face!

solidarity greetings

by Josephine

Fri Mar 21, 2003 00:39

Solidarity greetings to you and your comrades.

To Ciaran O'Reilly

by Simon

Fri Mar 21, 2003 20:33

Co. Clare

To Ciaron O'Reilly,

Could you clarify your remark about the Green Party cop/beaurocrat trying to break up your march. As a Green Party member I would like to know exactly what happened.

Simon

by Melvyn Lloyd - druid

Mon Mar 31, 2003 20:40

melvyn1 at iolfree dot ie

rosenallis , Co Laois

0502 - 028528

Better to protest and be in prison than to sit at home drinking tea and dreaming of Bertie!!!

burn en, shoot em, etc, etc.

by tad kepley - none, thank god

Tue Apr 01, 2003 04:06

tad.kepley at washburn dot edu

pob 2400 lawrence, ks 66044 us fuckin a

HELL no, MF

Great attitude, but it still sucks in there, doesn't it? I just did a seven month stint in 23 hr a day lockdown, one man cells, 24 hour lights, irregular mealtimes to keep you off balance- and this is the new norm in american corrections. you're allowed three books a week (better pick thick ones!), & two outgoing pieces of mail a week, legal or no. And this was in a fuckin county jail, not the state pen- the penitentiary would've been easier time. I did a lot of push ups and a lot of jackin off to catch that extra second of sleep.

Bottom line- anyone who creates instiutions that treat humans like this- the sick fucks in corrections tech who sit around all day and dream up ways to make inmates miserable- not to mention the scumfux who pay their salaries and bureaucratize/trade in human suffering- all deserve to be unceremoniously shot in the fucking face... summarily. Sorry, but no matter how you rationalize it/sugar coat your time, Karen. we'd rather have you out, about, and running around.

Oh- and who are you, anyway?

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