Stop The Madness

I cannot believe the behavior that is taking place within the UCI administration.  It is just absolutely inconceivable.  The mind games….coming by my cell to smirk at me, making sly comments and threats.  It blows my mind!  What are they thinking?  I guess that is the whole problem; they are not thinking.  If they were, they would stop the madness and and act like the professionals they are paid to be.  However, I don’t look for this to happen without court intervention.  This is why I plan to file a Civil Rights complaint for violations of the 1st, 8th and 14th amendment.  My mail - legal, media and regular mail - is being tampered with.  My outgoing mail is not reaching its intended recipients. I suspect this is an attempt to shut down my blog.  There are all types of 8th amendment violations from the torturous acts in June to fraudulent Disciplinary Reports (DR's) that have kept me tethered to the harsh conditions of Disciplinary Confinement (DC) since May 20, 2011.  All this is being done because I stood my ground with the administration.

Although it is very difficult to get my blog posts out right now, I will continue to write.  You will, at some point in time, read about what is happening here.  The madness needs to stop.

In peace and love
Ronnie

P.S.  I have been in this cell with nothing but scalding hot water for over a month now, but I stand firm in my conviction that change needs to happen.

The Retaliation Continues

Today, Thursday, September 1, 2011, while I was on the recreation yard my cell was once again shook down.  That is twice this week alone.  This is getting ridiculous.  I don’t have a thing to hide but I do worry about them planting something in my cell.  I had that happen to me before in 2000 at Florida State Prison where an officer planted a lighter in my cell and said he found it.  I also saw them plant a knife in a guy’s cell that they didn’t like.  Since I have seen this first hand where officers have set me up and set up other inmates, my fear of being set up is completely valid.   That is why I am worried about all these shake downs resulting in me being set up with another bogus, fraudulent, retaliatory Disciplinary Report (DR) like I received on August 1, 2011.  When a staff walks by, I’m wondering if they’ve sent them here to set me up and lie in another DR.  This has been causing me a great deal of stress and messing with my sleep.  I am fixing to get my Prozac raised up to 60 mg a day because of all that’s been taking place here.

The retaliation is not coming from correctional officers (CO’s) but rather being ordered by people of power in this Administration who told me “Boy you better remember where you are.”  Well I know where I am and I know how dangerous these people are.  They just promoted one of the Lieutenants to Captain.  He is the one who tortured me from June 8 through June 13th.  Those 5 days in that cold cell without a mattress or blanket and left in my underwear.  This same Lt. who is now a captain told me several years ago, “You can F---, fight or hit the fence”.  I was simply trying to move to avoid an altercation and yet the Lt. clearly wanted this altercation.  Luckily for me, they moved him out of P-Dorm.  Now however I have to deal with him once again as a captain.  Why they promote the most vindictive among them is beyond my comprehension.

We need some serious changes here and I’m hoping that my efforts using this blog will bring positive changes.  Until them I must suffer and endure the madness.  Please take care.

Peace and Love, 

Ronnie

September Update

Admin Note:  Thanks to everyone for visiting Ronnie's blog and for your support. It means everything to Ronnie and his family.  I have not been able to post recent updates because I have not been receiving mail from Ronnie.  He has been on DC since July, and was denied a visit with his mother this week.  So we have had no word from him in weeks.  As soon as there is any news, a new update will be posted.  Again, many thanks for your support.

Formal Complaint

The following is a link to a copy of a complaint filed by Ronnie on August 8, 2011:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11054215/SCN_0004.pdf

Oppressive Tyranny

I fight against the oppressive rules of the Florida Dept. of Corrections (FDOC) and yes, I often stand to face retaliatory actions by tyrants within the FDOC and their tyranny that rains down upon me.  You ask, why fight?  That is the question people often ask.  But my question is “Why not fight for change?”  Why not stand up and let your opinions and voice be heard?  Say what you mean, mean what you say.   Think for yourself, believe in yourself and stand for something!  Yes, I’ve failed miserably in this life and I’m going to continue to fail.  However, I’m going to at least try because if I don’t try then I will never know if I could have had success.

We must always stand up for what we think and believe in, no matter the consequences we may suffer.  Yes, I stand alone in my battles and I often face the retaliatory behavior of the administration’s tyranny.  So if I don’t stand up, I don’t say anything, then who does?  The oppression continues because there is silence as no one will stand up and say what is on their mind.  Do you not see the problem with that?  I see that as a bigger problem.  Silence does NOT bring change!  It breeds tyrants and tyranny.
In life…we stand for something or fall for anything.  I’ve been on that side.  I stood for nothing and fell for everything and when I looked in the mirror I didn’t like what I saw.  I decided it was time to change.  Now I’ll give you this—I need to pick and choose my battles a lot more carefully.  I need to lean when to walk away, when to regroup and recognize a losing battle.  I have problems with that.  I’m head strong, hard headed and those are not good qualities in this environment that I’m in now.
I loath the oppression of these prison administrators who pick and choose what rules they like to follow.
They only follow the ones that most benefit them at the time.  This is the case with my contact visits right now.  They are misapplying 33-106.735FAC, non-contact visits using it in a way that it is not designed for.  It seems to be like that with all the rules.  They make them, break them and manipulate them into fitting their agenda and I am supposed to say nothing?  The way I see it is if I say nothing, then it’s “My Fault!”  for I have allowed them to oppress me, violating their own rules and regulations.  I have now become part of the problem instead of part of the solution.

It’s the same with this 33-210.101 (9) Routine mail rule that is making my life oppressively miserable.  Not allowing me to run pen pal ads seeking pen pal correspondence.  This is just another oppressive rule that has no penal logical justification.  I can show you numerous other rules that boarder on the edge of stupidity and are designed to oppress the prisoners, making our already difficult lives that much more difficult.  Yes, I will always stand up and fight for what I believe in and if for some reason it costs me my life, so be it.  If there is nothing in life worth fighting and dying for, then there surely cannot be a thing worth living for.  Fight the good fight.  Fight for what you believe in.

In Peace and Love,
Ronnie

Help Needed!

If you’ve been following my blog then you know about the torture I endured for five days.  Well, I just received one of the grievances back and as you can see, the administration is doing everything they can not to investigate this.  Please click here to see Exhibit A retaliation/torture grievance.  I have appealed this to Tallassee and called for the Inspector general to investigate.  This grievance was and is in compliance with Chapter 33-F.A.C.  This administration knows that it violated my constitutional rights when they retaliated and tortured me into submission by housing me for 5 days in an ice cold cell with no blanket, mattress, toilet paper soap or anything except my underwear.  Please feel free to download this grievance and send it to Amnesty International, as well as the as office of the Inspector General at 501 South Calhoun Street, Tallassee, FL 32399-2500.

Thank your for your time and hopefully your help in bringing attention to this issue.

In peace and love,

Ronnie

Expectations

Expectations….It’s a good thing when you place them upon yourself.    Your expecting yourself to improve…to be better…to do, or accomplish something.  In those terms expectations are great.  But when you start placing expectations upon others…you are setting them up for failure, at least in your eyes.  People very seldom, if ever, live up to the expectations that we put upon them.  We in return are angry or disappointed in that person who has failed to live up to our expectations, “demands” that we have place on them!  That we have expected them to live up to!  By doing this, we have caused ourselves “disappointment” and set that person up to fail in our eyes.  We forget that we are all fallible human beings.  We neglect to think back on our own mistakes that may be locked in our dark closets before we start judging others for failing to be who or who we expect them to be.  I…myself have been guilty of this.  I try to catch myself when I find myself placing expectations upon someone.  I expect myself to accept you for who and what you are.  Your good and your bad.  I expect myself not to judge you on anything other than how you treat me.  Even if a mistake is made there, I expect myself to forgive you.   I try to remember that we are not always going to see eye to eye.  There are times it’s best to agree to disagree and respect you even if I don’t like your views or your opinions.  I don’t expect anything of anyone other than to be who and what we are, fallible human beings.  Think about this the next time you are angry or disappointed in someone who failed to live up to your expectations.

In Peace and Love,
Ronnie