Six, This is quite a surprise. Thank you so much for sending this in. I really appreciate all the writings you add here. Your thoughts and the way you express them is incredible. I am looking forward to seeing you but it wont be until the week after fathers day. I am really really looking forward to those lips of yours touching mine and your arms around me. I want to feel you close to me so much.
I will always be in love with you, HMBS&S Your Zahra
There is a convention on the Between the Bars website that Blog Entries are transcribed but personally addressed Comment Responses are not. Our interactions therefore appear on the website but are differentiated and seperated by the lack of transcription. I therefore feel that although our correspondence is very public, it is also very personal.
I'm terribly saddened by the bleak tone of your note regarding your unwillingness to keep blogging. It sounds as though you are in complete despair about your situation and my heart goes out to you. It would be quite wrong of me to ask you to continue with a fight if it becomes too much for you to bear and I cannot pretend to know how much courage, faith and conviction it has taken you to come this far. All I know is that you have put your information 'out there' in the world in the hope that someone will step forward and take up your case. I hope I have helped a little, but I know that I cannot make what you need to happen actually happen.
You are not forgotten and for as long as the website is available, your information is available to the world.
When you sent the 'Comment Response' on May 15th that I am replying to, you had clearly not received the pages I had printed of your series about eyewitnesses and mailed to you on 12 May. I have a horrible feeling that these notes reach you a lot faster than snail mail. There is obviously a much longer delay between your writing of your blog entries, the postal system, the Between the Bars adminsitration scanning them on to the website than I had understood. It may be useful for you to know that your Comment Response dated 15 May appeared today, 11 June, on the website.
As far as I am concerned even if you do not post any further entries I will be thinking of you.
I've transcribed your five page blog entry posted today on the Between the Bars website titled Eyewitness Fallibility. I hope whatever information was lost in the slight muddle of the previous series about the eyewitness's reliability has been resolved. Your newer post certainly makes a great deal of sense and it should now be clear to anyone who reads your blog why you are so passionate about the injustice of your conviction.
I've also read your personal note to me and I'll reply to that seperately.
Grievance after grievance............about all you can do. That and moan about being locked up for your crimes. All it does is take up staff time and cost a lot of money.
You grieve about equality for all or shut down canteen.......BS. What about all those who cant draw or paint Those with only a few people to help them. You would rather they lost everything just for your selfish desire to con some people out of money for your 'art'. Man up and do your time. All you are doing is alienating staff and other inmates.
You are clearly part of the biggest at risk group of uneducated drop out kids in a single parent situation yet you do not accept that changing that situation will improve your chances. You seem to know all the causes but none of the remedies.
Quoting a 16 year old report to support your reasoning clearly shows that recent reports don't uphold your position.
Look at these statistics............Black men are 8 times more likely to be the victim of homicide in Philly than white men. 90% of the black men that die are going to be killed by other black men. White men are 50 times more likely to be attacked by black men than black men being attacked by whites. And don't even think of the statistics in Wilkes Barre. There needs to be drastic change and it most certainly begins at home.
It would have been interesting if we could engage in a discussion about this but unfortunately there seems no chance of anything I say being taken on board.
RSS
This is quite a surprise. Thank you so much for sending this in. I really appreciate all the writings you add here. Your thoughts and the way you express them is incredible.
I am looking forward to seeing you but it wont be until the week after fathers day. I am really really looking forward to those lips of yours touching mine and your arms around me. I want to feel you close to me so much.
I will always be in love with you, HMBS&S
Your Zahra
There is a convention on the Between the Bars website that Blog Entries are transcribed but personally addressed Comment Responses are not. Our interactions therefore appear on the website but are differentiated and seperated by the lack of transcription. I therefore feel that although our correspondence is very public, it is also very personal.
I'm terribly saddened by the bleak tone of your note regarding your unwillingness to keep blogging. It sounds as though you are in complete despair about your situation and my heart goes out to you. It would be quite wrong of me to ask you to continue with a fight if it becomes too much for you to bear and I cannot pretend to know how much courage, faith and conviction it has taken you to come this far. All I know is that you have put your information 'out there' in the world in the hope that someone will step forward and take up your case. I hope I have helped a little, but I know that I cannot make what you need to happen actually happen.
You are not forgotten and for as long as the website is available, your information is available to the world.
When you sent the 'Comment Response' on May 15th that I am replying to, you had clearly not received the pages I had printed of your series about eyewitnesses and mailed to you on 12 May. I have a horrible feeling that these notes reach you a lot faster than snail mail. There is obviously a much longer delay between your writing of your blog entries, the postal system, the Between the Bars adminsitration scanning them on to the website than I had understood. It may be useful for you to know that your Comment Response dated 15 May appeared today, 11 June, on the website.
As far as I am concerned even if you do not post any further entries I will be thinking of you.
With kind regards
Lavender
I've transcribed your five page blog entry posted today on the Between the Bars website titled Eyewitness Fallibility. I hope whatever information was lost in the slight muddle of the previous series about the eyewitness's reliability has been resolved. Your newer post certainly makes a great deal of sense and it should now be clear to anyone who reads your blog why you are so passionate about the injustice of your conviction.
I've also read your personal note to me and I'll reply to that seperately.
With kind regards
Lavender
You grieve about equality for all or shut down canteen.......BS. What about all those who cant draw or paint Those with only a few people to help them. You would rather they lost everything just for your selfish desire to con some people out of money for your 'art'. Man up and do your time. All you are doing is alienating staff and other inmates.
Quoting a 16 year old report to support your reasoning clearly shows that recent reports don't uphold your position.
Look at these statistics............Black men are 8 times more likely to be the victim of homicide in Philly than white men. 90% of the black men that die are going to be killed by other black men. White men are 50 times more likely to be attacked by black men than black men being attacked by whites. And don't even think of the statistics in Wilkes Barre. There needs to be drastic change and it most certainly begins at home.
It would have been interesting if we could engage in a discussion about this but unfortunately there seems no chance of anything I say being taken on board.
Take care of yourself Daniel
Paul