March 6, 2013

Dear Friends,

Greetings, I hope and pray that this letter finds all of you in the best of health and strong spirits.

I am surviving here, still struggling for the religious diet that the PA.DOC is still denying me, denial of a religious diet is a senseless act which in and of itself reveals how the decision makers have allowed their personal opinions of me to override their common sense resulting in their discriminating against me, discrimination that establishes an ongoing pattern of harassment.

I would write in more detail but BTB guidelines caution me not to make allegations, mention names or jeopardize parole even though I seriously doubt that I'll be paroled in 14 years or ever for that matter, because I maintain my innocence and in Pennsylvania before being paroled you have to admit guilt and accept responsibility for whatever you have been convicted of allegedly doing, and I am not going to compromise my principles for freedom, if I die in prison because I refuse to validate the corruption of the police, District Attorneys and Courts of the land, so be it, but I am not going to admit to doing acts that I didn't commit.

Anyone interested in knowing more detailed information about my struggle for a religious diet is welcome to write me through the use of snail mail and I will answer as promptly as I am able.

Got some comments from BTB and rather than answer to the comments separately and use up 4 sheets of paper I'll answer in this blog. I don't mind being called by my first name, I've read that it has 2 meanings in the Scandinavian language, Chieftain and God on Earth. I assume that in ancient times, a chieftain of a group of people, then and there, was considered God. I get a silent laugh in my mind when others I know to be poser friends or enemies think to belittle me by calling me Eric rather than Wildcat. God, what are you doing, God, what is your opinion, Hello, God. Yeah, I'm a little crazy, but hey after 25 years in prison suffering its deprivations, do you expect anyone to be totally normal by any standard of measurement?

Got the radio on, blasting, WERGFM, GANNON UNIVERSITY STATION, anyone ever hear of it, it's on the internet, give it a listen, lot of new stuff which I like, got to keep the mind stimulated, which is why I haven't bought tobacco since Jan. 3, signed up for cable to connect to my analog television $16.50 a month, but it keeps me up to date on world events.

Recently heard on the news that for a healthy economic future, the U.S. birth rate needs to increase. I guess there is some basis in fact behind this, youthful people enroll in college taking on consumer and student debt, other youthful people are more impulsive consumers don't have a consequential understanding of debt, etc., still it would seem more logical to find ways to employ the unemployed and create jobs that take into account the abilities of the current unemployable population of America, then again it requires little involvement of corporate America or government to encourage a higher birth rate, tax credits, pregnancy leave, job site daycare, etc. all of which is quietly encouraging a certain class of society to increase the birth rate within their class, the poor and under-employed and unemployable don't pay taxes comparable to those who can really afford to have children. Plus there is the fact that a consumerist economy is percentagedly dependent on a degree of property crime, social engineers-economists know crime is committed by a certain class of citizen predominantly against people who have property, that can be quickly replaced with the swipe of a credit card. Why find solutions to problems when it is so much easier to rake in the profits generated from the problems that plague the United States. Yes, cable is more expensive than tobacco, and cuts deeper into my food budget, but cable news is more stimulative and worth it if just one person out there in position to do something does something towards finding a solution to some problem within our society.

The PA.DOC claims that Native American spiritual-cultural traditions don't mandate or prescribe a diet free of animal products or tainted cookware-utensils basically and I believe they do when animal products as food are produced in a manner contrary to traditional Native American spiritual-cultural beliefs.

The PA.DOC does offer an alternate protein diet, what they purport to be protein supplement food diet, but to my thinking 2 pieces of white bread doesn't offer the protein that 2 pancakes, 3 waffles or 2 pieces of french toast offer, and the soy, bean and tofu are prepared in the same cookware as animal products and served with the same utensils used to serve animal products. So my friends have a fuller understanding of my theological position I am attaching for for posting on this blog a piece I wrote titled, Selective Vegetarianism: a Native American Spiritual-Cultural Perspective.

The PA.DOC will eventually have to provide me with a religious diet that is untainted, but between now and then they are going to make me suffer, risk health and make me spend money of which I have little on the costs of communicating with the outside world, postage paper, pens, typewriter ribbon, xerox copies and food, it's their nature rather than exposing the injustice of my convictions for crimes I didn't commit advancing my struggle for freedom, but for now advancing my freedom is less of a priority than this struggle for religious expression and freedom to eat a religious diet.

I could write more, but do not want to write too much at a time plus I been up since 6:00 AM and it is now 11:30 PM and I am getting tired so am going to sleep, everyone take care and stay strong.

Blessings,

Wildcat

In the spirit of resistance.