It is likely that most prospective supporters don't understand how powerful this project is. I am utterly convinced of its importance and so it is not going away. Eventually we will have a team and then it will continue regardless of whether I am taken out of the picture.

There seems to be a deliberate policy of mistreatment of prisoners like ours and such a policy might be intended to increase the chance of suicide, Every other day I tell myself that, nah, it's just incompetence and spite on the part of officials. I'm still not sure, but the net effect is that it might as well be a deliberate policy. Neglect and harassment can kill people, captives, unless they have a will of steel or a vicious streak - or a community of supporters.

The cultivation of a community with them stops that attack, if it is indeed a plan.

If you are here for amusement then you are in the wrong place, but if you are here to create a better world for our people then you are in the right place (not the only right place, but one of a small number).

I would like to remind people to have a look at the text file and could you please let us know of any leads you might know of to get the contact details of the people mentioned in the appendix.

I have written a stern lette, recorded mail, to a prison governor demanding the release of books I sent to a prisoner. If it works then I'll put it up as a template. If it doesn't work I'll try something else. In general. I would like to see a repository of such proven templates. Has anyone managed to pry co-operation from unwilling officials, that you might share with us?

Invoking the law seems to be key. In my letter I mention that the courts have established that receiving books is a right of prisoners and not a "privilege." No need to cite the actual decisions: the governor surely knows that what you're saying is correct. You just have to let him know that you know.

Every prison has a webpage, and the governor is mentioned by name. Addressing the letter to the guy in charge makes more sense to me than addressing it "To Whom It May Concern."

^^^ The "something else" that comes to mind is either writing to the Prisons Ombudsman, or getting one's solicitor to write a stern letter. That latter approach worked for me a couple of times when chasing debts; then again, it didn't work a couple of times and I had to go to small claims court. Getting one's solicitor to write a letter might cost, at a guess, £50 nowadays.

An e-mail I've sent to the four prisoners other than Vincent (who has his own blog):

Hi [name]!

I hope you're doing well.

I'd like to ask a quick yes/no question if that's OK:

Would you like us to create and manage a blog for you on Telegram?

We have a volunteer to type and put up anything that you ask to be published. the blog would have an associated chat group where readers might comment and ask questions. It could be printed out after, say, a week, and mailed to you.

When new material is added to your blog, a link would be posted in our main channel to draw attention to it.

The chat would be moderated to follow the obvious rules of not asking about other specific prisoners (we know that's not allowed), avoiding "racist" language, and saying anything that could be construed as incitement, given that it would be read by prison censors.

Alternatively, instead of a blog, we could simply publish what you ask to be published in the main prisoners penpals channel. Not everyone would want to have a blog!

My ideas for UK versions of Operation White Christmas (i.e., a Christmas gift drive for prisoners', and more generally, indigenous, families), and the Justice Report (online newspaper) are excellent.. except for one missing pre-requisite: both of the US examples are closely associated with a large organization, the NJP, so they have a pre-existing pool of supporters. Talking about UK versions of such things puts the cart before the horse, to be blunt about it. No such group exists.

^^^ If you don;t believe me, just do the thought experiment, of the town council rant above, the Christmas drive, or the scandal sheet, with your putative group, and see if it seems plausible.

Vincent recently received three books, only two of which were sent by me. Neither of us knows who sent the third book (in French). He says thank you. If you would like to confirm it was from you then you can let us know here.

"Justice delayed is justice denied" would be a great chorus line in a song.

A song can be engineered to be addictive.

A crowd can be enchanted (a process also called rapport) with an addictive song.

Examples of crowd rapport:

Google "Coldplay Fix You"

Google "Bareilles Yellow Brick Road"

A song can be played and sung outside a prison.

An even more pertinent example of audience rapport - note the synchronous clapping. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSQKdpDnX2w

What would be the POINT of doing such a thing, you might ask. Do you REALLY expect one protest outside Belmarsh dungeon to make a difference, they will say.

No, one protest won't spring anyone from Gulag UK. However, there are strategic advantages to the choice of subject:

1. Not imprisoned for UK-style thought crimes but rather for leaking ZOG USA's war crimes. Well, f*k those people, right?

2. Very famous. Swedish groupies go to amazing lengths to allegedly get raped by him. LOL! Tabloids would go nuts over it.

3. A worthy case, anyway, It offends me that the enemy are starving and torturing a man to death just to prevent him having his day in court. It is valorous in the extreme, to speak clearly and eloquently on the matter.

4, Last but not least, many thousands of people would learn of this channel.

My understanding is that, in countries whose legal system is based on the English model, the legal maxim "what is not forbidden is permitted" applies. In other words, you can do anything that is not expressly forbidden by law. That is in contrast to some other countries, based on Napoleonic (?) and German law code, where you are only allowed to do what is expressly permitted, and every aspect of human action is nailed down. Great legal minds feel free to correct me on this.

So on that basis, I don't believe that a prisoner having a blog comes within the purview of prison authorities at all, since a blog is nothing more than publishing one's messages on a publicly accessible website.

I keep meeting the objection that it might not be permitted.

Vincent confirmed again that he does not need money, and that we should give our money donations to the other prisoners.

He does appreciate books, though - but not by Krishnamurti, who ever sent that.

Vincent says that his next hearing is on 21 September. That is a "preliminary hearing."

His "final" hearing is then on 19 October.

These international legal things do tend to drag on. Which reminds me: The Spanish court will soon be back from its August recess, and so we might hear of Kris being released.

They want to kill Assange for the same reason that they killed Rudolf Hess: they fear what he would tell when given a free platform.

To do: Find out what public ordinances apply to street demo/concert in places such as outside a prison.