Comments on: Don’t Help Spammers, Even if You Love Them http://www.joemanna.com/blog/dont-help-spammers-even-if-you-love-them/ Tech News, Social Media & Politics From a Geek Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:00:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Junkyard Willie http://www.joemanna.com/blog/dont-help-spammers-even-if-you-love-them/#comment-47698 Junkyard Willie Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:11:01 +0000 http://www.joemanna.com/blog/?p=688#comment-47698 The most senseless part about the whole thing is that the federal Level One work camp he was in barely qualifies as a prison in the first place (which is why only nonviolent rich white people get sent there). It's like a summer camp that you can't leave- in fact most high schools have a more secure fenceline and stiffer security. He wouldn't really have had that bad of a time in there anyway. It wouldn't be like "Oz" or anything like that. He escaped like most people do at those places, he simply walked away and called someone to pick him up. Interestingly the same Colorado town is also home to the most secure and brutal federal supermax prison ever built (ADX Florence- home of the Unabomber, Timmy McVeigh, and Zacarias Moussoui). I've spent nearly my entire adult life either as an inmate, interacting/working with correctional staff, or doing outreach/volunteer work with inmates; and sometimes I catch myself thinking if I had the chance to voluntarily do a "sentence" at a place like that I just might take them up on it for a few months to get away from it all. He must have already been mentally unbalanced, there's no way even an IT geek would go to those lengths when facing a short sentence in an easy joint like that. The most senseless part about the whole thing is that the federal Level One work camp he was in barely qualifies as a prison in the first place (which is why only nonviolent rich white people get sent there). It’s like a summer camp that you can’t leave- in fact most high schools have a more secure fenceline and stiffer security. He wouldn’t really have had that bad of a time in there anyway. It wouldn’t be like “Oz” or anything like that. He escaped like most people do at those places, he simply walked away and called someone to pick him up. Interestingly the same Colorado town is also home to the most secure and brutal federal supermax prison ever built (ADX Florence- home of the Unabomber, Timmy McVeigh, and Zacarias Moussoui).

I’ve spent nearly my entire adult life either as an inmate, interacting/working with correctional staff, or doing outreach/volunteer work with inmates; and sometimes I catch myself thinking if I had the chance to voluntarily do a “sentence” at a place like that I just might take them up on it for a few months to get away from it all. He must have already been mentally unbalanced, there’s no way even an IT geek would go to those lengths when facing a short sentence in an easy joint like that.

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