Things are changing in this prison situation. I am not going into detail in this letter. I was told some time ago by Ms. Dianna Hiller that the objective of all of this method of handling prisoners is "behavior modification." Well, "behavior modification" is an "interesting" concept, especially when it is practiced without regard for those who are financing the operation [the American taxpayer?]

I don't think that the people in this institution really understand how they are being used as expendable by the corporate structure of America. It is like the situation at Auschwitz Germany during WW2. The German government couldn't spare any people that they could use in the army, so they used the Jews to do the dirty work against the other Jews. They were called Sonder Commandos.

There is an old paperback in my collection by the title Auschwitz.  It is an amazing story. After so many months of working a Sonder Commando, the German guards exterminated the Sonder Commando.

The people running this institution do not understand that they are like Sonder Commandos, and when they have served their purpose then they will have to become prisoners also, because they will eventually have to rebel.

The more I witness in this institution, the more I appreciate my own book Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars (SWFQW).  SWFQW is prophetic. I see parts of that book fulfilled every day that I am in this place.  I am amazed that I wrote it so many years ago, and it is all coming true, happening. But it is about human nature, which never changes.

SWFQW was all about Economically Programmed Behavior Modification.  Because of that, it's a textbook on how to scientifically change things. Every problem contains its own solution. That is the first lesson in mathematics.

Well, we have come full circle.  So reread this letter.

The full bottle has 100 gel caps. I asked for it last Thursday and I didn't get it until Sunday. The head jailer of the week dug through my property bag to get it for me. (a new bottle of it).  I appreciated that and told him so.

My back has had a rash, burning and itching, from the drugs in the food. I was doing all right for quite a while because I stayed away from the foods that I knew were continuously a problem, but I got hungry and strayed off the straight and narrow path of good food, and suffered the consequences of it.

My whole back, shoulders and arms were involved, and part of my chest, and the rash started progressing to my face. The lower half of my back was like a scaly dry leather before I got the vitamin E.  I had either a blister, pimple, scab, or red spot (about 1/16 of an inch) in any and every direction on my back.

I am down to 127 pounds weight and a 27-inch waist perimeter. Almost no body fat -- skin and bones.  The cell is cold at night. I asked for more blankets. I have two; I needed at least two more, but the people say the FBOP [Federal Bureau of Prisons] policies only allow an inmate to have two blankets, regardless of the circumstances. [Note: this is winter in Minnesota]

The Constitution of the United States (Amendment 8 Re: Cruel Punishment) overrules the FBOP policy, but the people that run this place range between those who get their jollies out of injuring or punishing the inmates, to those who are local people trying to earn a living to feed their families, and they know the consequences to their employment if they deviate from the FBOP policies. Some are genuinely caring people.

To stay warm I have had to wad up toilet paper and put it between the top sheet and the first blanket. It works quite well as an insulation, but when they move me from one cell to another, I sometimes lose the paper because the guard that moves me makes a decision to take it from me.  Then I have to get more toilet paper.

It is hard to believe that America has come to this end or point of evolution.