Hubert As a regular reader, I’ve been reading William Goehlers blogs for years. I’ve never commented on any of them, or contacted him. But I’ve read them all. From the beginning of his time in jail. Through his struggles, anger, trying to come to terms with the time he had been given his frustrations. Then as he allowed himself to explore new avenues, new ideas, theories, religions, and even tread in areas he would never have explored in the outside he began his evolution. Evolution is a frightening prospect for people who don’t trust other people. He trusted only himself. And in jail, he found out who he was. He posted many photos of himself and his children and loved ones. He was a handsome man, had some lovely kids. And he worshipped them. Spoke of them often. Must have thought about them endlessly. Jails one gift to a person, the ability to spend time alone in one’s own mind. A blessing and a curse. Then came the replies to his blogs, lots of comments. His old friends found him through this incredible space, BTB. This conduit that allows people to reconnect without having to search through the prison maze to find old friends and family members. Maybe even making what would be an uncomfortable situation easier, anonymous sometimes, as people attempt to reconnect. It was incredible to read of his reconnecting with his children over a period of almost 13 years via this blog. Sometimes I found myself having to stop reading them, I felt like I was intruding on his privacy. BTB What an incredible gift to these children and this man. He posted up all the courses he took, the meetings he attended and participated in.The changes he made Not the usual hoops inmates jump through to convince the parole board. He really applied himself to the notion of change, and more importantly trust, trust in other people. Then there was a sea change. And in the recent year and a half it began to look like he was actually going to be paroled prior to his release date. This was a REAL possibility. Things were actually actively moving positively in that direction. As optimistically as two years. And for William Goehler, he could see the finishing line in sight. He literally posted a few weeks ago. And today I learned he had taken his life. I learned it from you. In your ‘epitaph’. Hung himself from a balcony you said, after learning of the death of his son.
He couldn’t take another lungful of breath in a world that his son no longer inhabited. As a parent I understand that FULLY. I understand that soul destroying grief.
In the epitaph you cruelly and inappropriately included this barb directed at me. (“I wouldn’t be surprised if he and Tenzin were buddies here, as they certainly shared some troll tendencies.”) Is this because I haven’t responded to your posts to me? If I write you now, I will write something impulsive and mean, and I will regret it.
RIP William Goehler. To his family and loved ones. I wish you peace and much much love
Hi James, I read your post on the therapy that sex offenders should have in order to improve and overcome their sexual aggression towards others. The government should do everything so that these people can be recovered and no longer hurt anyone. Unfortunately, few people seem to be interested in the recovery of these people. It would be better for everyone if they were less victims of sexual offenses. I am writing you this short message from Italy. I wish yu all the best. Regards Alberto Italy
My name is Sunny, and I wanted to let you know that I read your post. After doing so, I emailed BtB and urged them to give bloggers control over their own posts/their comments. Hopefully, things will change- you deserve to have control over your online presence.
I'd argue that the Reagan presidency was the worst for North American modern history. Simply because we're still paying for their legacy to this day.
That includes many of your arguments about what sucks about the North American government and the media. Guess who popularized the image of mythmaking a Great Christian America? Who popularized the glamorization of politics in the media? The Reagans. Guess who played copycat to revive that image to an obscene degree? The Trumps. As long as the president and his family appear to be squeaky clean, attractive, and popular, they can get away with anything during their term.
Reaganomics is something we're still paying for. Its marketed ideal was to provide for North Americans, but really all it did was punish the working class. It was also under his presidency that unions were crushed, meaning even less power for the working man to speak out and against corporations. Under Trump, corporations suddenly became individuals in the eyes of the law. Which means even less accountability for inhumane work conditions, low pay, and so on.
And there were their tax cuts that were purported to help the middle class. All they did was benefit the rich. Before the Reagans, the rich were taxed 70-80% of their income. After? 20%. And that became even less with Trump's "tremendous" tax cut.
That's not even getting into how much the Reagans defunded anything positive for social change, criminal reformation, and civil rights. We all know by now how much the War on Drugs was a farce. Did that stop Reagan? We all know what little Trump's presidency did for those, we lived it.
I'm not the biggest fan of Biden or Obama either. I'm saying that there's been worse presidents and presidencies than them.
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As a regular reader, I’ve been reading William Goehlers blogs for years. I’ve never commented on any of them, or contacted him. But I’ve read them all. From the beginning of his time in jail. Through his struggles, anger, trying to come to terms with the time he had been given his frustrations. Then as he allowed himself to explore new avenues, new ideas, theories, religions, and even tread in areas he would never have explored in the outside he began his evolution. Evolution is a frightening prospect for people who don’t trust other people. He trusted only himself. And in jail, he found out who he was.
He posted many photos of himself and his children and loved ones. He was a handsome man, had some lovely kids. And he worshipped them. Spoke of them often. Must have thought about them endlessly. Jails one gift to a person, the ability to spend time alone in one’s own mind. A blessing and a curse.
Then came the replies to his blogs, lots of comments. His old friends found him through this incredible space, BTB. This conduit that allows people to reconnect without having to search through the prison maze to find old friends and family members. Maybe even making what would be an uncomfortable situation easier, anonymous sometimes, as people attempt to reconnect.
It was incredible to read of his reconnecting with his children over a period of almost 13 years via this blog. Sometimes I found myself having to stop reading them, I felt like I was intruding on his privacy.
BTB What an incredible gift to these children and this man.
He posted up all the courses he took, the meetings he attended and participated in.The changes he made Not the usual hoops inmates jump through to convince the parole board. He really applied himself to the notion of change, and more importantly trust, trust in other people.
Then there was a sea change.
And in the recent year and a half it began to look like he was actually going to be paroled prior to his release date. This was a REAL possibility.
Things were actually actively moving positively in that direction. As optimistically as two years.
And for William Goehler, he could see the finishing line in sight.
He literally posted a few weeks ago.
And today I learned he had taken his life. I learned it from you. In your ‘epitaph’. Hung himself from a balcony you said, after learning of the death of his son.
He couldn’t take another lungful of breath in a world that his son no longer inhabited. As a parent I understand that FULLY. I understand that soul destroying grief.
In the epitaph you cruelly and inappropriately included this barb directed at me. (“I wouldn’t be surprised if he and Tenzin were buddies here, as they certainly shared some troll tendencies.”)
Is this because I haven’t responded to your posts to me?
If I write you now, I will write something impulsive and mean, and I will regret it.
RIP William Goehler.
To his family and loved ones.
I wish you peace and much much love
I read your post on the therapy that sex offenders should have in order to improve and overcome their sexual aggression towards others.
The government should do everything so that these people can be recovered and no longer hurt anyone. Unfortunately, few people seem to be interested in the recovery of these people. It would be better for everyone if they were less victims of sexual offenses.
I am writing you this short message from Italy.
I wish yu all the best.
Regards
Alberto
Italy
My name is Sunny, and I wanted to let you know that I read your post. After doing so, I emailed BtB and urged them to give bloggers control over their own posts/their comments. Hopefully, things will change- you deserve to have control over your online presence.
All the best,
Sunny
That includes many of your arguments about what sucks about the North American government and the media. Guess who popularized the image of mythmaking a Great Christian America? Who popularized the glamorization of politics in the media? The Reagans. Guess who played copycat to revive that image to an obscene degree? The Trumps. As long as the president and his family appear to be squeaky clean, attractive, and popular, they can get away with anything during their term.
Reaganomics is something we're still paying for. Its marketed ideal was to provide for North Americans, but really all it did was punish the working class. It was also under his presidency that unions were crushed, meaning even less power for the working man to speak out and against corporations. Under Trump, corporations suddenly became individuals in the eyes of the law. Which means even less accountability for inhumane work conditions, low pay, and so on.
And there were their tax cuts that were purported to help the middle class. All they did was benefit the rich. Before the Reagans, the rich were taxed 70-80% of their income. After? 20%. And that became even less with Trump's "tremendous" tax cut.
That's not even getting into how much the Reagans defunded anything positive for social change, criminal reformation, and civil rights. We all know by now how much the War on Drugs was a farce. Did that stop Reagan? We all know what little Trump's presidency did for those, we lived it.
I'm not the biggest fan of Biden or Obama either. I'm saying that there's been worse presidents and presidencies than them.