If "they" do something and I react to it, I'm told to be responsible for my reaction.
If I do something and they react to it, I'm held responsible for their reactions.
Get out of that one!
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Ben
Lecturing
About Me
- prisonerben
- United Kingdom
- Previously known as "one of Britain's best known prisoners...he constantly questions authority and exposes the futility of the system" The Times, Ben was finally released from prison after 32 years in August 2012. Pleading guilty to the murder of a friend when he was 14 years old, he renounced violence and fought for the recognition of the inherent dignity of all human beings. As a result of speaking truth to power, he served far longer than the recommended 10 years, leading Education Secretary Michael Gove to argue that he had "been punished excessively for a crime committed as a child". One of the more intellectual of prisoner-campaigners, Ben chose to educate himself from schoolboy level to having both undergraduate and post graduate degrees. He is currently one of very few prisoners in Britain ever to attempt a Doctorate. Ben's speciality is non-violent action and the Human Needs Theory. Now on Life Licence, He is forging a career as a CJ policy consultant, writer and - as ever - campaigner.
Hmmm indeed Ben, sounds like you have to be rather like Houdini to get out of those knots they are trying to tie you up in.
ReplyDeleteIt is very similar for those under psychiatric supervision, not as harsh a regime as prison, but mind f*ckery nonetheless.
Stupid and callous is the way I would describe 'them'. It can be out of their own fear that some attempt to elevate themselves above the people in their care as some sort of warped justification for their existence in the jobs they do.
There are also some awful crooked directives coming from management and the government about how we should be treated.
Sometimes you feel like giving up, but then there are also the times that you are able to point out such stupidity and it can leave them dumbfounded, and therefore with some possibility of coming round.
And so it goes on ...
Glad to see you have dropped the issue of being released, we know deep down you like it in prison, its the best place for you.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous at 10.16 - please get lost!
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