I just got done reading ULK 61 and I got to say it opened my eyes
to a lot of stuff that I did as a gang member of Aryan Brotherhood in
Texas to sex offenders coming into the system. When they came in, me and
several other dudes would beat them up to “break them” and then would
sell them to the butty bandits due to their crime of being labeled a sex
offender.
The system would not attempt to protect them either, due to the label
they had on them as a sex offender. So we had free reign to punish them
as we seen fit. But nowadays I look back on the stuff that I did and can
see the big errors of my ways.
I ran into a dude down in the state hospital that was just about dead of
AIDS that he got due to the actions of me and some other dudes breaking
him. I was going for breaking my hand in a fight and saw the death wagon
pull up and unload two AIDS patients, and one dude seen me and called
out my name and asked me if I was still breaking in sex offenders and if
so to look at him and see what it causes.
I was like “Dude I do not know you or want to know you either.” He told
me where I beat him up and sold him, and it blew my mind. I had a lot of
hate towards sex offenders when I came into this place and it has
mellowed out over the last 34 years that I have been in prison. My baby
sister was assaulted by her friend’s father, so the issue of sex
offenders is personal to me.
When I started in the County Jail beating up sex offenders for something
to do, the Sheriff would tell the jailers to put anyone that came into
the jail on my tan and tell me in front of the dude what he was in the
jail for. I look back on it now and I am coming to the realization that
they were using me to punish the dudes that were charged with sexual
assault.
One dude, I broke his jaw in two places due to his granddaughter saying
he touched her in a private spot. Come to find out it was a lie because
she was mad at him for grounding her for the weekend.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not attempting to brag about it, just am showing
the length of time and intensity that I have been blinded by the system
to do their work, and now I’m starting to understand the system. What
made me wake up is one of my brothers got charged with sexual
assault/harassment for grabbing his croch and telling a chick to suck is
dic- as he left school. Since he made a crude gesture towards her she
said she felt violated. He was on a ten-year probation so he got
violated for the gesture and came to prison for it. And yes he has to
register as a level 1 tier offender due to him being mad about getting
kicked out of school for a 3-day period.
Each case is different so you got to look at all of the facts. If you go
blindly as I did for years upon years you are no better than the ones
you are jumping on, due to the fact that you are siding with the
oppressors and are holding down your own people. Yes I am fully aware
that there are some sexual offenses that are true crimes and they need
all that they get and ten fold more heaped on top of it if they are
truly guilty of the crime of sexual assault on a woman or child.
But before you lace up the steeltoe boots and put your pistols on gloves
to beat up a sex offender, make sure it’s a true crime and one that
deserve the punishment that you are fixin to hand out. If not you’re
just working for the system that you are claiming to work against. You
cannot pull both ways at once or you go no place at all.
I used to beat up the dudes, now I try to help them with their cases due
to the fact that a lot of them are not able to get help in the law
library because they have ask a law clerk to help get a case cite and
his first question is “what you charged with?” And he will go to the law
books and look up your case, and if you do not pass his smell test he
will not help you, or he will tell you the case cite you’re asking about
is not in the law library, or throw your request slip away and say he
never got it at all.
Look at it like this, what if you’re with a girl and you’re going at it
and she says “stop”? If you move forward one more time you have just
committed sexual assault.
So before you say it will not happen to you, you got to look at it with
your eyes open and see the whole picture and not just what the state
wants to show you. So think about all the forms that you may have been
labeled a sex offender in the past and then you can get over the stink
of the name and start to see the person and not the label that the state
has put on a person. Most I can work around because I was a dirty dog in
the world and could have been charged a few times too. But the main
issue is we need to stop letting the state do our thinking for us and
take back our minds from the system. You can handcuff my body but I
refuse to let you handcuff my mind any longer.
MIM(Prisons) responds: This writer has learned through practice
pretty much everything we’ve been saying about sex crimes. This is an
impressive transformation, and we hope ey has also transformed eir
thinking about oppressed nations over many years behind bars.
It’s true that a lot of people have committed sex crimes but not been
caught. Men are taught to be “dirty dogs” as this writer says. That’s
why the revolutionary movement will need to do a lot of work reforming
thinking and rehabilitating. Not just those with sex charges, but
everyone raised in this messed up system. As we discuss in the
“Punishment vs. Rehabilitation” article, we can do some of this
rehabilitating now, but we will focus our energy and time on those who
recognize their mistakes and crimes and want to make a change and
committ to serving the people.