The narration of a day in his life was spontaneous, apparently sparked by Solzhenitsyn’s book, and well written. I did not request it, but I was impressed by how thoroughly he documented it, and, contrary to his apologizing, the spelling/grammatical errors were minimal. With his subsequent permission, I decided to submit it for publication, partly in order that men like him are not forgotten.
Monday, March 25, 2024
A Day in the Life
The following is a letter from a January 6 political prisoner. I have recently been corresponding with several with varying degrees of success since a lot of their mail gets returned, particularly envelopes containing newspaper and magazine clippings as well as Xeroxed articles. This, incidentally, is highly illegal in so far as there is solid, extensive legal precedent that inmates in both state and federal prisons may receive mail. Unlike some of the Jan 6 prisoners, such as Ryan Samsel, it appears that he has not been subjected to brutality by the staff and he acknowledges that he has it better than many others.
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"There is a Russian author whose name I have a hard time saying and would be hopeless in an attempt to spell it. He wrote a book called A Day in the Life of a prisoner. I was reading that book when I was told to report to this prison and so I did not get to finish it. It is a book written about the day in the life of a Soviet prisoner."
ReplyDeleteI'll finish it for you -
“Shukhov went to sleep fully content. He'd had many strokes of luck that day: they hadn't put him in the cells; they hadn't sent his squad to the settlement; he'd swiped a bowl of kasha at dinner; the squad leader had fixed the rates well; he'd built a wall and enjoyed doing it; he'd smuggled that bit of hacksaw blade through; he'd earned a favor from Tsezar that evening; he'd bought that tobacco. And he hadn't fallen ill. He'd got over it.
A day without a dark cloud. Almost a happy day.
There were three thousand six hundred and fifty three days like that in his stretch.
From the first clang of the rail to the last clang of the rail.
Three thousand six hundred and fifty-three days.
The three extra days were for leap years.”
― Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Trump has said that if re-elected he would pardon the J6 people.
ReplyDeleteFrom January 6, 2021 till he left office on January 20, 2021 was fourteen days.
FOURTEEN. FUCKIN. DAYS.
Trump pardoned 74 people and commuted the sentences of 70 others.
None of them were J6.
And I cannot for the LIFE of me understand why.
DeleteDon't ever count on this carnival barker doing the "right" anything. Controlled opposition, foil to the uniparty.
DeleteJan6ers weren't charged until after Jan20. That's why.
DeleteSort of hard to pardon someone who hadn’t been arrested and/or convicted, then again I don’t know if he was able to do a blanket pardon with blanks for the names.
DeleteMadMarlin
Thank you, I've been watching this thread wondering if somebody was going to point out the fact that he can't pardon without convictions.
DeleteI could write a book about a day in the life of me, it would be short and boring, just saying
ReplyDeleteMy version would be illustrated with stick figures colored with crayons.
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