So the other day all World War II and Holocaust videos disappeared from the library. A friend here says he saw them being shredded -- yes, shredded -- in an industrial strength shredder. After verifying that yes they were destroyed, the rumor spread that a staff member had it done, because he's a Holocaust denier. When pushed on this issue, staff admitted that yes, that's exactly what happened. But it gets weirder. Turns out there was one guy -- now in the hole -- who had been enjoying himself farrrrr (sic) too much while watching a Nazi Concentration Camp clip. I'm at a loss what to make of this. He was punished, so why then destroy all the videos?
Meanwhile, there's this new guy on the yard who has proclaimed himself an "Aryan." He's wearing all the appropriate ink, knows a secret handshake of some kind, and he's all about hate speech, which he transparently masks under the umbrella of "White Pride." He wanders about trying to recruit other like-minded fine Aryan specimens. Here's one of his history lessons: Did you know that the Aryan race (whatever that is) sprang up in the Caucasus Mountains, a mighty race of white, blue-eyed, super-intelligent men, who then spread in all directions, bringing civilization and enlightenment to the world? All of history's great achievements, whether in ancient Greece, China, India, Africa, wherever, were the work of Aryans. Unfortunately, some of these godlike humans mixed with other mongrel races (his words - not mine, please!) and civilization fell into decay. Oh, but wait, a miracle! Some pure-blooded Aryans survived, righteous and strong, in...where? You guessed it: Germany, the land of Teutonic perfection. Blah blah blah, he rattled on about Nazi's, Jews, etc., you can imagine the rest.
But these knuckleheads he was ranting to, they were eating it up, just loved it! He then charged them with never, under any circumstances, associating with prisoners who might be Jews, gays, or mixed-breeds. He allowed that at times one might be forced to interact with such filth, but one must never, ever allow oneself to befriend a mongrel. By the looks of this assembled rabble, I wanted to add that apparently you can't talk to anyone with more than three teeth and ten functioning brain cells either. I'm telling you, this was the biggest collection of Hollywood-quality extras for a redneck horror film that you could find. Like the zombies from The Walking Dead had stumbled onto the set of The Beverly Hillbillies.
Frankly, no one is particularly worried about this new guy and his recruits. The most they can do here at Prison-Lite is stir up rumors and provide droll entertainment with their ridiculous hate speech. They occupy their time listing all the people they hate and why, but they never do anything about it. Sad, really, but it has given me an insight into how cult leaders do their work. You get some losers to buy into this image of being downtrodden but superior beings with a holy mission of some sort, in this case to cleanse all America of those of us they call mongrels. Not all that different from some of the nuttiness we read about happening outside of these walls, actually.
But up close, a few of us with discerning minds have noticed a few things:
(1) Not a one of these self-professed Aryans is blond-haired or blue-eyed.
(2) Their complete and utter obsession with "hating" gay people makes one wonder, do they perhaps protest too much?
(3) They seem to hate each other, too. In fact, the only thing they ever do together is rant about all the people they hate, just one big HateFest.
I'll leave you with this anecdote. King Aryan, with his prominent swastika tattoos, approached an older Jewish prisoner on the Yard. They spoke for a couple minutes before Hater-Boy slunk away. Turns out the little Nazi needed a lawyer, so he went to the Jewish guy, who in fact was a lawyer on the outside and has helped many of us with writs and other legal proceedings over the years. The lawyer asked, "If you hate Jews so much, why would you come to me for help?" To which he replied "Well, I know Jews are good for something." He was all puffed up, trying to bully the older man. But then the lawyer told him this: "You think I don't know you? You think I'm scared of you? Go get one of your Aryan buddies to write this thing! Get out of my face!" Told good and well and with tail between his legs, King Aryan shuffled off not just red-necked, but also now red-faced.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news. Not sure if your access to news is truly free. The big old fart who occupies a big White House in Washington DC has on numerous occasions spoke in favor of the White Supremists. These groups are stronger then they were in 1963. In two short years he has done more to create an unequal USA. It is very sad. It is just a matter of time before they go back to two water fountains in the public schools like the had in the 1950's. Actually they are still there in the older schools in NORFOLK. You know someone who taught in one of those schools but being from the north did not know why there were side by side water fountains and side by side boys bathrooms.
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