With regard to the message below Re: Bush (aka shrub) the mass murderer.
It is always spooky that the 'Christians' haul water for the state
murderers (Baptists being prominent in the reputedly Christian ranks).
wcm
>
> 'Put to Death' is the pretty euphemism that the local paper used for the
> word...... murder.       It's also the description most people use for
> killing animals.      'Airman's Killer is Put to Death' was the headline
> for yesterday in the local paper.
>
> One can hardly begin to imagine the hysteria of our local First World
> society,  if a headline were to read..... 'Man Who Put to Death Killer
> Pilot Killed'.     Apparently, even the headline......'State of Texas
> Executes Retarded Man'.... was not deemed proper, either.
>
> The first thing that struck me as I got off the bus in Huntsville at the
> state prison, was how neatly manicured they keep the lawns cropped
> outside the administrative offices.      It's a very orderly look, and
> one I've seen many a time before, at State mental institutions.
> Somehow it impresses people that what goes on inside must be itself well
> justified.
>
> Huntsville has now rightfully gained an image as a center of evil in the
> industrialized countries, because it is here where the State of Texas
> murders about one prisoner a week.     This was the day, for the first 2
> of 6 men to be murdered in this month.
>
> There were about a hundred protesters.     And now that the murder
> factory-line is rolling well along, there were no cheering supporters of
> the death penalty to heckle the mainly religious opponents.
> Boredom has set in.
>
> The only bus that came in protest was from San Antonio.      And almost
> all were nuns, priests, and those very closely influenced by them in the
> church.      At our one rest stop, I almost couldn't get off from the
> back of the bus due to a sister leading a non-stop chanted prayer that
> seemed more important to the other passengers, than a leg stretch seemed
> to me.
>
> So once we had arrived, we all walked over the short distance to the
> designated protest and prayer area.      A set of 6-7 guards stared
> facing us from behind the yellow taped restraining lines.    On their
> faces, and during their conversations, a stop and go barrage of derisive
> smirks would blink on and off.     Us protestors seemed so incongruous,
> and well... funny... to them.      When you draw this guard duty once a
> week, week after week, one probably begins to drop the somber face that
> might once have been maintained.      Oh, here we go again.
>
> Under the hot 95 degree sun, most of us drew off into the shade.
> Some had brought umbrellas and chairs.     Two male protesters sat
> dressed in Eastern Orthodox clerical garb as they prayed.
>
> The 6 or 7 guards, contrasted sharply with the protesters as we stared
> at each other.     What was it exactly that made us so different from
> them, I thought?     And then it hit me.    The colors of the others
> facing us.      Or RATHER, the lack of color in their dress.
>
> The state of Texas dresses it's prisoners up in white.       Since so
> many of the prisoners are Black, the black and white effect actually
> seems to brightly shine almost with color.
>
> But what was the color of the mostly White guards?      I looked and
> looked, and began to see.     They all were dressed in brown and gray.
> If they had been about 12 to 17 years old, they would have clearly been
> marked as scouts.     But since they were older, they looked just
> exactly like Nazi Brownshirts.      And they were behaving as such, too.
>
> In the background, the building they were guarding was an older, large
> innocuous looking, red bricked warehouse.     There was a guard tower
> and some barbed wire, but it actually looked much less menacing than
> many another barbed-wire rolled concentration camp, like the so many
> that dot the Texas countryside.
>
> I contemplated with the others, on both sides of the line, the wierdness
> and surrealness of it all, for about 2 hours.     Inside, an even
> greater wierdness and surrealness was in march.     But outside, there
> were no bells or announcements to announce the inside work of the brown
> and gray.     And finally, we began to roll things up, and move back to
> our respective vehicles.
>
> Horrible emotions had popped throughout our minds during those 2 hours,
> and some few had broken down in explosive waves of despair.     One of
> the relatives of one of the condemned, Oliver Cruz, had dressed in
> black, with a white skull-like facial mask.
>
> Just like the prisoners inside, he too seemed to have more color than
> the brown and gray as they worked.     And as they got payed.        It
> was all in a day's work, as the State of Texas murdered Oliver Cruz and
> Brian Roberson.
>
> I wished  I had taken a snapshot of the brown and gray.     It would
> make an accurate post card of the Huntsvile, Texas area.
>
> Tony Abdo
>