I myself am going to be doing prisoner support a bit differently. I encourage others to continue doing what works best for them.

Up until now I have focussed on one prisoner at a time, and being quite generous (if I do say so). That worked well when there was only one or two prisoners, but the five we have now, sure to soon be more, makes that impossible.

It's not just the cost but the cognitive load of constantly considering that someone might have been overlooked. If a prisoner has been forgotten then we (I) have failed.

My job as coordinator includes not leaving anyone behind.

But I also need to keep everyone as safe as possible, which means not asking who is doing what, so I usually have no way of knowing if a particular prisoner has been left out.

By personally sending each prisoner a little bit - a small donation, a book, a card and either a letter or an e-mail - at regular intervals - I know everyone has been covered.

I have therefore drawn a grid and stuck it on the wall, with prisoners on one axis and items such as listed above on the other axis. The grid has to be filled with ticks each month and a fresh sheet goes up at the end of the month.

It sounds mechanical but it takes the load out of my head and guarantees that it gets done.

Longer term the project as a whole needs a system to receive donations.

I had a brief telephone conversation with Tyrone this evening.

I have reason to believe that bureaucratic snafus and moves were the cause of most of his difficulties. Time will tell.

I shall send him a book straight away from Blackwell's and see how that goes.

Please, everyone, drop Tyrone a postcard at least.

I have received the following update about Kris:

Legal counsel said today that "everything is in place it’s just a matter of waiting now."

All the courts in Spain close in August, so nothing will happen until September/October.

A screw has taken a dislike to Kris recently and has put a few complaints in about him so maybe that might delay any emails,

^^^ Therefore, please drop a postcard, at least, to Kris.

GRID GAMES

I find that the use of a grid, as described above (I've already started August) turns what might otherwise be an easily forgotten activity into a kind of game, where it offends me that there are so many blank squares and I can hardly wait to get them filled.

I have enough of each design of card that I can send the same one to all the prisoners this month, and a different one next month, thus relieving me of having to select a card and avoid sending duplicates to the same prisoner two months in a row.

Same with books: It takes mental effort and time to browse and select just the right book, pertinent but without censor-offending text on the cover. If two or three prisoners are interested in say philosophy, history or politics then send the same perfect book in a given month. Mental clock cycles saved.

Book parcels don't say who purchased the book, just the online vendor.

Donations via the gov site do identify who the sender is.

So on my anonymous card to James (remember I'm on the blacklist) I mention the donation and the book, thus tying them together. We'll see if the knuckle-dragging censors are going to do a big cross-check.

Please give your recommendations here of non-pozzed, non-fiction books, particularly on the following topics:

history
politics
religion
philosophy

The books would need to pass superficial scrutiny by the censors at our prisoners' prisons.

Start brainstorming for Christmas.

Books again:

Like postcards, which are either regional or themed, non-fiction books (for our purposes) come in two types:

1. Books that develop the reader's intellectual framework, and that attempt to answer the question, "what is going on!?" I mention this type in a previous message.

2. Books that are about healthy recreation. These books not only allow your time inside to be more bearable, but they make you stronger; you emerge better than you went in. This type might include:

* puzzle books such as crosswords and brain-teasers.
* almanacs/books on current events.
* collections of traditional children's stories.
* physical and mental culture.

The four sub-types listed above are not all equally appropriate for everyone:

For example, a book of children's stories might be appropriate for a prisoner who you know has small children and is expected to be released within a year or two.

Books of brain-teasers might not appeal to everyone (I love them) but crossword puzzles are more likely to suit almost anyone.

Books on physical and mental culture are for people who you already know are interested in a particular area of physical or mental culture, such as stretching for martial arts, different types of meditation, etc

I have only scratched the surface of this subject.

Books again:

Ask the prisoner to be as specific as possible in telling you what books he would like. That's why sending books to Vincent was a breeze: he actually had a list of titles he wanted, so all I had to do was look them up on the vendor's site. Also, by asking you will avoid sending something he has already read.

Books again:

To the list of healthy recreation you can add artistic development - how-to books on various genres.

I did some ringing around and the advice I received is that either soft or hard cover books are accepted.

Welcome, newcomers, wherever you heard about us!

I decided against a website for now because it is unnecessary and it would be an additional point of failure.

Instead I shall post a text file here, to be updated from time to time. That should eliminate clutter in the channel!

The prisoners are listed in alphabetic order by surname.

Please let me know of necessary corrections and suggested additions.

Shouldn't be online as I have documents that need to be filed for somebody by today and its a whole new area of complex what I call anti-white law to get to grips with.

I have been doing alot of legal research into the progression of "Terrorism" legislation, the content, its interpretation, its selective implementation, the disparities in portrayal of Defendants and conduct of Trail Judges, the case law developed under these selectively applied Acts ect. Its been most interesting.

I think I will produce a few articles or videos on these matters, like how to file Appeals against conviction as a Defendant in Person and other bits knowledge that could come in quite useful should you find yourself a target of persecution by the state.

SCOPING THE WAY AHEAD AND PACING ONESELF

My main reference here is the Searchlight article posted a week ago - scroll up to read it.

It is a derivative article, simply abstracting other sources that they mention. That's good enough, and I see no reason to dig out those other sources.

Here's why:

The question I want to answer is: What are the absolute limits of the problem under consideration and what are the limits of our means to solve that problem? The answer will tell us whether our current plan is do-able.

The number of "right-wing extremist terrorist" prisoners has grown from 4 to 65 over a few years. You just have to look at the little "bios" that the article gives for a dozen cases to see that the increase is due more to absurd stretching of the definition of terrorism than any increase in activity by the people under consideration. Some of the descriptions read like a Monty Python courtroom sketch:

"He was also in possession of a crossbow with bolts, a replica assault rifle and a booklet called How to Become an Assassin"

Come on. if you don't get a chuckle from that then there's no hope for you!

We know from the familiar cases they list such as Sharp and Kearney that the accusations are likely to be extreme stretches based on a file found on a computer - a manufactured, faux "crime" that would have gone unremarked in saner times.

Returning to my original point: I not only doubt that I could find names for the 65 prisoners, but I would not want to, because we cannot process that many new prisoners all at once.

We will eventually be able to support that many, after a few more doublings of our subscribers.

I have come to believe that we won't need much promotion of the channel: If we do a good job of supporting our prisoners then word will get out and people will find us.

Therefore I have added ten names - from the article's gallery - to the next update of prisoners we need to get the contact details for.

Longer term it seems to me that the number of such prisoners in the Home Office statistics will level off, while our potential supporter base will continue to grow. So we need only do a good job of supporting the ones we have and the others will be eventually be brought to our attention.

The Christmas gift drive organized by Evergreen for poor white families is a proven formula - we tweak that to be for our prisoners' families. It is simple: We create an Amazon wish-list for each family, of gifts that they would like to receive. Then we solicit our supporters to pay for them. What is paid for by the specified date will be shipped in time to arrive by Christmas. Donors are only dealing with the merchant (Amazon).