[Pnews] On Solitary Confinement Torture and Call To Action
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Treatise on Solitary Confinement Torture and Call To Action, Todd
Ashker, March 30, 2015
Posted on April 30, 2015
<https://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/2015/04/30/treatise-on-solitary-confinement-torture-and-call-to-action-todd-ashker-march-30-2015/>by
prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity
<https://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/author/prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity/>
*https://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/2015/04/30/treatise-on-solitary-confinement-torture-and-call-to-action-todd-ashker-march-30-2015/*
*Brilliant treatise on solitary confinement- compelling legal, moral,
ethical and political argument/s./ *
Treatise on Solitary Confinement Torture and Call To Action, 3/30/15
<https://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/todd-ashker-3-30-15-treatise-on-shu-torture-and-call-to-action.pdf>
by Todd Ashker, CA hunger strike rep, lead plaintiff in Ashker v Brown
<http://ccrjustice.org/pelican-bay>, human rights activist, imprisoned
in Pelican Bay SHU for over two decades /(Excerpts of Treatise below)/
“Moving Forward: With Our Fight To End Solitary Confinement
[SHU/Ad.-Seg.]
*….* I personally believe the prisoncrats’ efforts to turn the global
support we have gained for our cause, against us, will fail. An example
is, CDCr Secretary Beards’s reliance on 20-40 year old prison history,
much of it taken out of context, and/or, telling only one [biased] side
of the story, which was transparently weak— for the purpose of
dehumanizing the prisoner class- in response to our global exposure of
CDCr’s decades long state-sanctioned “policy” of torturing thousands of
prisoners in SHU/Ad.-Seg. cells *….*
California prisoncrats’ have little-to-no credibility regarding most of
their policies and practices, in what is a failed, multi-billion dollar-
fraudulent system. *….*
The imperialistic, fascist police state elitists abusive exploitation of
the working class poor is out of control, and the only way for people to
bring about meaningful change is to come together collectively! This
includes the prisoner class, which is a microcosm of the working class
poor; with most prisoners being casualties of the class war. *….*
…[I]ntentionality of CDCr prisoncrats continual dehumanization of the
prisoner-class is supported by more than 100 years of scientific study
and experimentation … From Stanford Professor Philip Zimbardo’s book,
“The Lucifer Effect- Understanding How Good People Turn Evil.”
…/Dehumanization occurs whenever some human beings consider other human
beings to be excluded from the moral order of being a human person…. By
identifying certain individuals or groups as being outside the sphere of
humanity, dehumanizing agents suspend the morality that might typically
govern reasoned actions toward their fellows. …Under such conditions, it
becomes possible for moral, morally upright and even idealistic people
to perform acts of destructive cruelty. /*….*
In response to those who pose the question: “Why should we care about
what’s going on in prisons?” … We, as a people, do not condone the
torture or other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment of
our fellow human beings—under any circumstances! Such practices are not
in keeping with our nation’s international-public stance of being a
protector of human rights; nor is it in keeping with our society’s
“evolving standards of decency.” *“*
*/Read ENTIRE TREATI/SE * *HERE
<https://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/todd-ashker-3-30-15-treatise-on-shu-torture-and-call-to-action.pdf>*
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