UNITED STATES: PRISON PLANTATION
The Angola Three: Torture in Our Own Backyard
11 May 2009 10:55 GMTTogether, Herman Wallace, Robert King and Albert Woodfox have spent more than 100 years in solitary confinement (pictured, left to right).
They are known as the "Angola Three," a trio of political prisoners whose supporters include Amnesty International, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Congressman John Conyers, and the ACLU. Kgalema Mothlante, the President of South Africa says their case "has the potential of laying bare, exposing the shortcomings, in the entire U.S. system."
“My soul cries from all that I witnessed and endured. It does more than cry, it mourns continuously,” said Black Panther Robert Hillary King, following his release from the infamous Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola in 2001, after serving his last 29 years in continuous solitary confinement. King argues that slavery persists in Angola and other US prisons, citing the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution, which legalizes slavery in prisons as “a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted." King says: “You can be legally incarcerated but morally innocent.” READ MORE with VIDEO & PICS
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they are released!
asdgf 11.May.2009 23:56
be it redemption , forgiveness,speak no ill for your thrill of release ,,,,disempower the fleece of innocence when regurgitating spews never renewnothhing but continued hate ...ingrate progresslate stop the political incarcerate that was not racial hate...for he is alive and work is not cruel punishments but sadistic crimes incarcerated are .....so find a path of peaceful movement,, help sovle the repressive conditions of the cars and trucks and loud commercial airm=lines that deny paec and quiet for a 24 hour period 365 and the leap year day that ( should be rescheduled to provide a reprieve for a peaceful day where its safe to be financially poor and forced to be a whore or constantly in the discounted stores becuz you think your accoplishing a rude perception of importance and smarts that still chump chabnges your diet with a try of gold that should never b sold....
save your self from heart disease ( sodium in a can) eat raw onions never funions.....sa
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Give me a freaking break.
Ish Ka-Bibble 18.Jun.2009 13:07
You mean to tell me you're losing sleep over these three chumps? Where's your outrage over Bobby Mugabe?
Screw you.