NEW HELL HOLE NEWS
JANUARY 28, 2009
NEW HELL HOLE NEWS - #7 January 28th, 2009 Everybody keeps saying: “I can’t believe a black man is president! Or I can’t believe a black man finally got elected president!” Uh-huh. Well, I can’t believe it, either. The reason I can’t believe it is simply because it’s not true. He’s not black. He’s a mixed race American, what they used to call “bi-racial” – I’m not sure what the “politically correct” term is these days, but I know it ain’t “black man”. Barack Obama’s mama was white as mine is. The grandparents who raised him were both white as I am and the people who introduced him to the political arena were white. His mentor, Bill Ayers, is white. So my question is, how has this suddenly become so one-sidedly “ a great moment in black history?” I think instead it’s be more accurately described as a defining moment in democratic history and just leave the race out of it altogether. Time, People and US magazines have so overdone it, it appears they’re slobbering on the man. If he doesn’t live up to their expectations they’ll be the first to trash and ridicule him, watch. His wife’s attire is chic, hip, sensible and 50 other pseudo – butt- kissing – descriptive terms I don’t care to go through. His kids are cute, the dog is lovable, and smartly expertly chosen and hypoallergenic. Lovely. Quit fawning over the man and his family and kids, and dog and clothes and on and on and just let the man do his job! The way the media is acting, you’d think he’s the second coming of Jesus instead of just the lowly and newly elected 44th president. What about Joe Biden? What’s his wife wearing? Where are their kids? What kind of dog do they have? In all these photos I’ve not seen Joe Biden one time. About a week after we got off lockdown, maybe two, end of November, after we’d been fed Peanut Butter consistently for almost two (2) solid months, the medical department passed out a hyperlipidemia fact sheet with a list of “bad food” you should not eat. Guess what was on that list? Well it was in Spanish of course but I was able to consult with some of the eses to be sure I was correctly interpreting “la pasta de cacahuete” (la pas-ta de ka-ka-wat-eh) Peanut Butter! See? I told you! Outside of lethal injection they’re still trying every way to quietly kill us that they can think of. Two (2) months of Cacahuete to stop-up your heart; mixed–up razors on the infamous razor board to give you Hepatitis C, Aids, Sepsis, etc; levels of stress that would kill a bull elephant; loneliness en extremis, - etc. and that’s if the taste alone of the food itself doesn’t kill you first! Fecal contamination everywhere, over chlorinated water, etc. etc. You see why the suicide rate here, both attempts and completions, is off the scale for a population this small. Right. I know: who cares? Give some redneck inbred bubbas a new “toy” and watch what they do: They got a “Rapidscan” airport style x-ray scanner up there at 12 control now. I intentionally wrote in a New Hell Hole News a little while back that there were all kinds of ways for something to come in here without a human carrying it. I’m sure some of you out there, with just a modicum of thought, can easily understand what I was saying. Well, here’s the geniuses response here, for Lester et al: quit passing out necessities at night. It must be coming in that way, in a laundry cart, that must be what he meant. Nope. Start x-raying everything coming in the building that a human ain’t carrying – the mail, commissary, our food, mattresses, bedding, clothes, toilet paper, etc. etc. etc. No, I’m not kidding. I’m surprised we’re not all glowing in the dark. The “Rapidscan” is a big rectangular boxlike contraption with a conveyor belt running thru it. The operator stands up on a platform at the exit end viewing a TV screen that shows the items on the conveyor belt as they come through it. It highlights in colors anything of interest. I think the thing uses hard x-rays but, hard or soft, the level of radiation is sufficient to damage biological tissue of any kind because I know someone who accidently stuck their hand in it and said it hurt to the bone, left a tingling sensation and turned an angry red for 2 days afterward like a bad sunburn then the skin died and peeled. 1
Our food comes in here in stainless steel steam cart instert trays and pans with stainless lids. What do you reckon is the result of x-raying that? I had someone tell me that, at the airport they tell you that if you have any food in your luggage to take it out before it’s run through the machine and that you should not eat anything that’s been through the machine. I’ve asked someone to look into this “Rapidscan”. Seal up the doors! Then it don’t matter if a human’s carrying it or not! Well, I wasn’t talking about getting’ some’ in a cell but coming onto the unit period. These people are so stupid, it’s pathetic, and……………….. Yes, these people are friggin’ muy loco en la cabeza! The circus is back in town! The “regional strike force team” a. k. a. clusterfxxk clowns are in town again! January 12th they hit us again. Only the prisoners they previously allege were caught with or had phones. It’s not a shakedown, folks, it’s a hatedown. Gestapo Nazi style destruction and hate. It took me 7½ hours to put my legal files back together. Not that I’ve got a lot. I don’t. It was just so disordered and thrown all around the cell that I had to put back together page-by-page. We don’t mind a search. It’s the wanton hate and disrespect for our property, the sheer destruction we object to. Anybody that’s got just a limited amount of intelligence could come in here, do one storage bin a time, take the stuff out one envelope at a time and put it back in there in the reverse order you took it out. Duh! So simple. If it’s done right, I could tell you’d been in here but it wouldn’t be any major issue. When I came back in this cell it looked worse than if a hurricane had hit. They walked all over my stuff in the floor and just ground it underfoot, left boot prints on my photos, envelopes, tablets, clothes etc. I mean, it was bad. I heard one guy sounding so depressed he was heartbroke, saying “Well, at least they didn’t take my food this time”. I know he felt lucky. Tabler tried to kill himself, again. Bad as I hate to say it, by this point everyone here is only asking “Why did they not help him, or allow him to succeed?” Reading the interactive comments posted by people in response to the faux stories written about me back in November I was really shocked and amazed at the pure sick hatred and depravity of the comments posted by people out there. For example, this one by Valorie Carlson of Pampa, TX (where I’m from, by the way) posted to the Channel 7 KVII website: “That is just sick. They should go ahead and put him to death. He is crazed and disgusting”. You’d be surprised how many people voiced that sort of opinion. You should be murdered by the state on a baseless accusation of possession of a phone, regardless of where or even how or whether it’s true? Now that is disgusting. The other comments were just superficial blather, people trying to make stupid jokes or sound cool: “was it set to vibrate?” or “I bet it got crappy reception” etc. I think it’s sad that people are so depthless and out of touch with reality and, that such a great forum which could be used for meaningful discussion of social conditions subjects is merely going to waste as a toy for clowns who only want to play games and post stupid jokes. Or hate and incite death. To you, Valorie Carlson of Pampa, Texas, a hypothetical question: suppose you were on death row in Gatesville for a crime you did not commit, you had DNA evidence and other proofs in your favor but nobody was listening, nobody cared, your case was in the U. S. Supreme Court on certiorari, the most conservative court in the nation which hears less than 1/10th of 1% of the cases submitted to it per term. So, you’re likely dead. But you have a sexual relationship with an assistant warden and he gives you a cell phone. The most precious gift, so you can talk to your aunts, uncles, grandma and grandpa and dad and brother until you die. Would you hide it in your kitty? In your bunda? Let’s further suppose another warden knew you had it and he was mad at you because you wouldn’t 2
provide him with the same intimate relationship you gave the other warden. He shook you down 10 times all summer long but couldn’t find the phone he thought you had so he set you up and created a false story to shame and implicate you. Then someone made the public comment that you should die because you are “crazed and disgusting and sick”. This person who doesn’t even know you, doesn’t know a damned thing about you except what they’ve read in some hyped up news story. How would you feel about that and, more importantly, Valorie Carlson, how would you respond to it? Don’t bother telling me you would never do any of these things or, this would never happen to you because that’s a non-answer and evasive. Just assume the hypothetical facts as supposed and answer truthfully. Be big enough to do that, please. Lastly on this subject, my dear, I assure you I am perfectly lucid and sane, not in the least “crazed”, whatever that equated to in your mind. Go to www.hankskinner.org and read my death row news section posts from October 27 – November 10th. That’s the reason TDCJ would put out stories about me like they did. Back to a story I posted in New Hell Hole News #5, December 17th, 2008, about Andre Thomas, a.k.a. “Squirrel”. After I reported this story Mike Graczyk of the Associated Press “re-did” it on January 09th, 2009, to say some anonymous officer “found” Thomas in his cell with blood on his face and had him taken to unit infirmary where they ‘discovered’ his eye was missing and “he said he pulled it out and subsequently ingested it” according to agency spokesperson Jason Clark. This is simply not true and obviously it’s nothing but more of the ‘spin’ the PIO office is so infamous for, this time probably designed to absolve TDCJ of any civil liability. Thomas was in a suicide watch cell in the Psych Department at 10 building, not in his cell beside me on death row. The officer in question was returning from commissary and was going to pick Thomas up on the way back if he was ready to be released, they told me. Through the observation window they saw him pull out his eye and he ate it right in front of them. There was nothing that could be done to stop him. He just popped it out and ate it. What he later told them about it was that it tasted like fish. The moral of the story, don’t believe anything put out by PIO; with even a simple story they’ve got to inject lies and denials. This eye was not ‘subsequently’ ‘found’ in his cell, ergo he must’ve ate it. Huh. One thing nobody disputes, I think, is that the man was already mentally deranged to start with, he’d been pleading for help for years and got none, which led to him killing his ex-wife and son, then his stepdaughter, sent to death row to be subjected to these conditions where he had no business being to start with, he went crazier and plucked out his one remaining eye. Just another example of, these conditions drive men mad. Mad enough to pluck out their only remaining eyeball and blind themselves for life. Think about it. That’s pretty bad. Here’s a sad requiem for the dead: Frank “Cash” Moore was executed Wednesday, 01-21-09. It is undisputed that the man was in a life or death situation and was only defending himself against Samuel Boyd, 23 and Patrick Clark, 15 who were going to launch a “hostile takeover” of the club Cash was managing, by luring Cash outside and trying to run over him with a car and killing him. Instead Cash dodged them and when they turned to bear down on him again, someone tossed Cash a rifle and he shot them both dead. Those facts are undisputed. My only question is why is Frank “Cash” Moore dead by execution” All I can think of is, it must have had something to do with the social status of his “victims” They must’ve been somebody. I mean, the fact that Cash may or may not have been an East Terrace G, a Crip, A Black Panther, in general a xXx thug, a bad actor or had any other number of labels, titles, epithets, etc., is not sufficient in this country to kill a man. So, why? Even a thug has the right in this country to defend himself against illegal, unwarranted, lethal force, doesn’t he? Apparently not, in Texas. R.I.P. Cash. You will be missed by many regardless of the negative thoughts of a few. Here’s the story of the day! I’ve known Charles Raby ever since I went to J-21 in 1996 at Ellis. We’ve had our moments, but he’d always told me the law put the screw to him and that he was 3
innocent. He almost died a few years back, then was granted DNA testing after the Court of Criminal Appeals recognized the importance of probative evidence he wanted to test. The blood and skin caked under the fingernails of victim Edna Franklin yields DNA that is not from Raby. So obviously someone else committed the crime. I wonder if the sample has been tested against other known occupants of the residence, like maybe the grandson who so vociferously blames Raby. What’s sad on this is that it’s taken so long to get this testing while an obviously innocent man languishes on death row. What’s sickening is the comments and response from Assistant D. A. Lynn Hardaway “ the mere absence of DNA doesn’t mean he didn’t do it”. Hardaway told state district judge Joan Campbell that “a lack of DNA, like a lack of fingerprints, doesn’t equal innocence”. That might be true, considering other evidence, depending on the case. However, in this case, Mr. Raby’s case, that statement is insidiously deceptive and intentionally misleading. It’s simply sleight of hand misdirection. There is not any “lack” of DNA. There certainly is DNA, from an area of the crime scene the Court of Criminal Appeals has already identified as probative of guilt and it’s not Mr. Raby’s DNA! District attorneys are not elected to win at any cost, they’re mandated to see, to the best of their ability, that justice is done. That means exonerating the innocent as well as convicting the guilty. Mr. Raby is obviously innocent and Lynn Hardaway has a duty to join the defense in seeking Raby’s release. Furthermore, as an attorney and officer of the court, Lynn Hardaway has an ethical obligation to be candid with the court and should be cited for this obvious deception and prevarication, then sanctioned. Mr. Raby should be released from death row forthwith. Quick update on the Rapidscan: “No food substance passed through this device should be subsequently used for human consumption as x-rays tend to damage and alter any biological cellular maters or tissue they come into contact with”. Right. Figured as much……………..with that, I bid you all adieu until next time. To anyone who wishes to challenge my credibility, I’ll take a polygraph on anything I say and where possible, I’ll provide documentation to back it up. My respects and best regard to all, Hank Skinner
h.w.skinner@gmail.com http://www.hankskinner.org 999143 Polunsky Unit H W Hank Skinner 3872 FM 350 South Livingston TX 77351-8580
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