Revolutionary Clenched-fist salute,
I've won battles against censorship of MIM Theory 9, 11, 12 and 13. The victory was on August 21, 2002 -- 31 years from the date of Comrade George Jackson's assassination. The only exception was they took two pages out of the MT11 about a prison work strike, but still provided me with the detached pages. So please let the prisoners in the IDOC know that they can use Schneider v. Menard Correctional Center Publication Review Committee via the Administrative Review Board to receive MTs 9, 11, 12 and 13.
The Administrative Review Board has not rendered a decision regarding a grievance I filed concerning the Central Publications Review Committee of the IDOC denying me MIM Theory 2/3, 8 and 10, and I am pressing for those things. The funds I have spent for copies and postage fighting the censorship of these MTs are well worth it. The fascist pigs label me Communist, Subversive, anti-Amerikkka, etc., because of how hard I fight and have fought the censorship of Communist material, but fuck 'em.
I stayed in general population for nine months after doing three years in segregation. Now I'm back in segregation. It's political. They are intentionally filing false charges and segregating revolutionary, politically active and conscious prisoners. They were especially anxious to segregate us when they anticipated that Governor Ryan would commute the sentences of prisoners on Death Row, because they do not want revolutionary elements to mix with each other. So they have some former Death Row prisoners surrounded by agents and passive prisoners. Some former Death Row prisoners are also being segregated on false charges. Also, the u.s. government is ordering the prisons/captors to identify and segregate/isolate dissident prisoners, but I have the Maoist ideology when it comes to being attacked by the enemy.
In struggle,
-- an Illinois prisoner 28 February, 2003
MIM adds: Mao wrote "I hold that it is bad as far as we are concerned if a person, a political party, an army or a school is not attacked by the enemy, for in that case it would definitely mean that we have sunk to the level of the enemy. It is good if we are attacked by the enemy, since it proves that we have drawn a clear line of demarcation between the enemy and ourselves. It is still better if the enemy attacks us wildly and paints us as utterly black and without a single virtue; it demonstrates that we have not only drawn a clear line of demarcation between the enemy and ourselves but achieved a great deal in our work." ("On the Third Anniversary of the Founding of the Chinese People's Anti-Japanese Military and Political College," May 26, 1939)