Fall 1998-- NCX


COLLECTING MINDS AS TROPHIES

by James Joseph Owens

Sophisticated murder is what the American taxpayer is paying for in the proliferation of control units. Indeed, all of the racial, class, and cultural prejudices that we recognize in the public are magnified 100 times in the operations of the control units. If, for instance, I wish to be a Black Gestapo, a White Klansman, a uniformed psychopathic murderer, a man-hater, a royal blue blood, all I have to do to fulfill my fantasies is to enlist as an officer of any variety into the control unit system, go to work, be paid by you taxpayers, and be heralded as a good man doing a good job for the gullible and naive public.

Yes, I tell you, the control units are the places where all illusions vanish. Here, even among inmates, we recognize that our wrongful role-playing in here could constitute becoming an agent of the cruel and oppressive regime. Whatever any one of us may wrongfully say, even in the guise of a joke, can be easily transformed into an item that can be used by guards to harm another inmate. The police of the control units monitor us for all of our prejudices, especially if we become angry at a fellow inmate. If we allow them to, the government in all control units will use me to kill you and later use you to kill me. Not that all inmates are to be readily accepted as good guys. Many choose to become adjunct agents of the government and utilize the sanctuary of the government in order to propagate the operations of the staff in the control units.

The cruelest of all cruelties in operating the control unit is the collection of minds as trophies. The doctors of this profession seek this precious item. Doctors are the nerve centers of the control unit, the only persons who can countermand an order of the Attorney General and prevent an inmate's entry into a control unit.


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