Florida Department of Corrections intercepts all mail to George D. Loeb Jr. [#292124 Martin Correctional Institution 1150 SW Allapattah Road Indiantown Florida 34956 U S A].
They return all they consider to be from a 'Security Threat Group'. How do they discern an STG? In the case of Steve Godfrey [PO Box 635 Strathpine PS 4500 Australia], a member of Australian National Action, FDOC say:
The category of 'STG' applies to actual threats. E.g. if someone sends material to GDL Jr that is likely to incitement violence etc then it should be stopped. But to label a group or organisation an 'STG' simply because you don't agree with their politics is wrong.
What did we send to GDL Jr? An Aussie Calendar. Pictures of local flora and fauna. Duh! A threat to FDOC security? No. Likely to incite a riot? No. Maybe the inmates would fight it out for photos of Skippy. We doubt it, though. So what is FDOC really up to?
They have GDL Jr in a vulnerable position and like any thuggish bully or oppressor they revel in their pure power. Nothing more, nothing less. They deny material to GDL Jr, and no doubt countless others held captive by them, purely on a whim, not on content.
If anything is likely to incite violence at a FDOC facility it is not anything Steve Godfrey may send but FDOC's own, oppressive, heavy-handedness. The sole logic behind refusing entry to a calendar is spite, pure and simple.
While we're on it, why doesn't the Florida's governor change their title? Far from being a department of 'correction' they are a Gulag, not unlike the former Soviet system from a dark and best forgotten era. Santayana said: 'those who forget their history are bound to repeat it'. Florida, and the US in general, seems destined to become the new Soviet Union.
It is not too late to change course. Lift the oppressive hand from off GDL Jr and others. Free yourselves from tyranny. America might just survive.
They return all they consider to be from a 'Security Threat Group'. How do they discern an STG? In the case of Steve Godfrey [PO Box 635 Strathpine PS 4500 Australia], a member of Australian National Action, FDOC say:
'ANA leader James Satcum was a member of the ANSP in the 1970's'. Therefore everyone in ANA is a threat to FDOC security.ANA was founded in 1982 by Jim Saleam not James Satcum. Saleam denied ever being an ANSP member. He left ANA in 2003. What has the past record of a former member got to do with mail to GDL Jr today?
The category of 'STG' applies to actual threats. E.g. if someone sends material to GDL Jr that is likely to incitement violence etc then it should be stopped. But to label a group or organisation an 'STG' simply because you don't agree with their politics is wrong.
What did we send to GDL Jr? An Aussie Calendar. Pictures of local flora and fauna. Duh! A threat to FDOC security? No. Likely to incite a riot? No. Maybe the inmates would fight it out for photos of Skippy. We doubt it, though. So what is FDOC really up to?
They have GDL Jr in a vulnerable position and like any thuggish bully or oppressor they revel in their pure power. Nothing more, nothing less. They deny material to GDL Jr, and no doubt countless others held captive by them, purely on a whim, not on content.
If anything is likely to incite violence at a FDOC facility it is not anything Steve Godfrey may send but FDOC's own, oppressive, heavy-handedness. The sole logic behind refusing entry to a calendar is spite, pure and simple.
While we're on it, why doesn't the Florida's governor change their title? Far from being a department of 'correction' they are a Gulag, not unlike the former Soviet system from a dark and best forgotten era. Santayana said: 'those who forget their history are bound to repeat it'. Florida, and the US in general, seems destined to become the new Soviet Union.
It is not too late to change course. Lift the oppressive hand from off GDL Jr and others. Free yourselves from tyranny. America might just survive.
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