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Title: A Letter
Author: Boots
Date: 08/06/2015
Language: en
Topics: anarchist prisoner, abolition, individualism
Source: Retrieved on 3/16/2022 from https://wildfire.noblogs.org/files/2015/08/wildfire-2.pdf

Boots

A Letter

“They’re tryen 2 build a prison, they’re tryen 2 build a prison, they’re

tryen 2 build a prison, 4 you and me”

The prison system is a giant oubliette and its inhabitants mere

phantoms. There exists a delusion among the inmates that the cops

somehow have our best interest at heart. It is quite unnerving. I’ve

been incarcerated in the Utah State Prison for 8 years, and I have seven

still to go. I was charged with kidnapping, for taking my daughter out

of state after a separation from her father resulted in his parents

trying to hide my child from me. Yes, I took her. Yes, I will do it

again.

I am an individualist anarchist and I never fathomed how thorough the

rot inside of this place. There exists no camaraderie, not one solitary

individual of like mind or morale. There is a very bureaucratic program

here called Excell. The premise is that you fill your quota of snitching

on other inmates 3 times a month and you operate under the manufacture

of consent in steady admissions of guilt and culpability, even if no

guilt or culpability exists. How very Christian. In almost a decade of

incarceration here I am the sole individual to oppose. I cannot

understand why this is? Everyone looks up 4 validation to one another –

the chain of command. I look down, exalted in my own right. I do not

find it healthy to incorporate such

treachery into a prison environment under the guise of treatment.

Treatment implies helping one fix oneself not to lose one’s morality by

telling on one another. The rewards given – pallets of eye shadow, smell

good lotion. A soft tyranny by the system. A prostitution by the

inmates. I’ve been locked down for my entire stay here for refusal to

comply – yet I sleep easy at night.

I try to bring education to the women here yet sadly I see no ambition.

They are happy to chew cud like the motley bovine. Education and passion

can create the alchemy of change, yet I am at a loss as to what to do.

We need to be free thinkers and free doers as well. And not be content 2

be the minions of the swine. I wonder if women’s prisons all over face

the same obstacles or is this unique to the State of Utah having been so

thoroughly indoctrinated by the fundamentalist Latter Day Saint Mormon

pig fux? It concerns me that such mass brainwashing occurs. People stand

around in circles and chant 5 times a day about how they are the robot

drones of the system.

Many women coming into prison are broken creatures having experienced

much abuse throughout their lives. I believe that we need to work on

ourselves and the issues that are uniquely ours. A system designed to

assign blame elsewhere when in trouble breeds a nation of rats. We

should not focus on such madness but on education. The prison here likes

to hand out re-hearings rather than hard dates which ensures that you

are not eligible for the measly two classes offered –

culinary arts or business tech. We must utilize the library and outside

programs which donate books and anarchist periodicals.

Sadly the uneducated rabble believe anarchism and white supremacy to be

synonymous. Anarchism is such a beautiful premise and philosophy for

life. I do believe that wrapped up under a different packaging people

would purchase it. The title frightens people away, instead. Against

their better judgment they continue on in their ignorance of hero

mentality. I fight the good fight and although it can be quite lonely

and taxing, it is the greatest of beasts who plays host to the most

parasites ergo... I can take it.

Revolutionary love,

Boots

WRITE TO JULIA

Julia Wheelwright #135746

Utah State Prison

PO Box 250

Draper, UT 84020