Here in the solitary confinement "Intensive Management
Unit" (IMU) at Washington State Penitentiary (WSP) at Walla Walla,
Washington, we who are devotees and practitioners of the religion called
Asatru are being deprived of our religious medallions ("Thor's
Hammers"). These medallions are as sacred to most Asatru
practitioners as are the medicine bag for some Native
American religions or the crucifix for some Christians, and so
on. Native American, Christian and other religions are allowed to
have their sacred objects -- but we are not.
Nor can we have access -- as others can -- to catalogs from which to buy
books on our religion. Why? Because WSP, for its own devious
reasons, falsely classifies our Asatru religion -- as a gang! WSP
employees CUS Chris Bowman and CPM Ron Knight are the two main state
employees that are denying Asatru members our religious
medallions. Also, Chaplain Ron Willhite, who has catalogs with Asatru
books, will not loan them to us, nor will he make photocopies and
distribute them to members of Asatru so we can study our
religion. There is plenty of money in our Inmate Betterment Fund, and
about once a month he buys religious supplies for the Christian groups,
but Chaplain Willhite will not take even a few dollars from the fund in
order to get a few books for IMU Asatru believers to study. Even
worse, Chaplain Willhite recklessly stigmatizes and slanders our Asatru
religion as "devil worship," etc. (Unlike Christianity,
Asatru does not even have a "devil" concept in its cosmology!)
THE TRUTH ABOUT ASATRU
Please visit the "Ghetto of The Spirit" http://www.webspawner.com/users/wellofremembrance
in order to get the fascinating and inspiring TRUE story of Asatru. There
are several web pages there devoted to scholarly descriptions and
explanations of our Asatru beliefs and history -- as well as of other
religions.
TERRORISTS WITHOUT A CAUSE
As explained above, these three -- Bowman, Knight and Willhite -- are
violating our freedom of religion and practice. Also, Asatru
believers are being written up for using such words as "Aryan"
in letters, and are being falsely stigmatized as racists! Asatru is a
modern version of a widespread
religion practiced for millennia in much of Europe before the coming of
Christianity, and is now having a worldwide renascence. It has been,
and is presently being twisted and exploited by fascists, just like
virtually every other faith is, and has been, throughout history:
gruesomely distorted and used by demagogues and demagogic governments for
their own non-spiritual, political machinations. The Crusades and the
Inquisitions are but two of the better known examples of
this. Present day acts of
terrorism are being perpetrated by groups and governments who claim to be
doing it in the name of their religion: whether Christian, Jewish, Hindu,
Muslim, Sikh, Buddhist -- you name it.
WASHINGTON STATE SPONSORED TERRORISM
Similar terrorist tactics are widely utilized right
here in the USA: nearly every state's DOC (Department of
Corrections) as well as the USBOP (US Bureau of Prisons) are pitting races
and religions against one another in their totally misguided and
disastrous -- not to mention immoral
and illegal -- "management" practices: DIVISA ET EMPERA (divide
and rule.) Instead of the civilized and effective management of
prisons found in most other industrialized countries, these highly paid
"professional" DOC officials not only condone, but often mandate
these bestial "management" techniques -- summed up centuries ago
by Machiavellian: A ruler need not fear that his subjects hate him, so
long as they also hate each other.
Add to the above the ever-present threats, and actuality, of guard
cliques' (such as Bowman and Knight & company) brutal beatings,
poisoning and adulteration of food with saliva, feces, metal filings and
other things, life-threatening manipulations of temperature,
indiscriminate life-threatening use of gas and chemicals, and so on ad
infinitum -- and the DOC reveals itself to be a murderous TERRORIST STATE
WITHIN A STATE, lavishly supported by Washington's unsuspecting taxpayers.
Along with manipulating inmate on inmate extortion, assault rape and
murder, and the manipulation of gangs -- this pretty much describes the
ACTUAL (as opposed to the stated) "penological objectives" at
WSP -- and at the hundreds of other "WSPs" all across the land.
(Last year the government of Norway discontinued extraditions to the US,
citing such barbaric conditions condoned in US prisons.
Please consider sending this plea for freedom of religion and freedom from
terrorism to your Washington state senator and representative and
governor, and to any other person who might be helpful in remedying this
horrific state of affairs. ADMISSIBILITY OF RELIGIOUS LITERATURE AND
PARPHERNALIA MUST BE DETERMINED ON A CASE BY CASE BASIS ACCORDING TO
REGULATIONS: NOT ARBITRARILY BY ILL INFORMED AND/OR BIGOTED EMPLOYEES!
CONTACT:
Gina Alvarez
Christmas Town Communications
215 B Arcadia Ave
Shelton, WA 98584-1603
Justjames@ourchurch.com |
