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Sad situation … Every time I saw Christopher Brooks, I offered him words of encouragement. For what it was worth.

The last morning I saw him, I had got word a short time before that he was crying …

This was on January 19^th, 2016, the day in which he was transferred from his cell on the tier in which he lived on for years, to ‘death cell’ where he would live out his last days, leading up to his execution … Christopher was a silly guy, he joked a lot. Whatever man that the state arrested … - was surely not the man that the state killed.

However, society is not told of the changes in the Christopher Brooks that was executed. The man who would give you the shirt off his back if you were in need.

Christopher’s situation is also a testament to other guys on death row. 

Randy Lewis
Z741 O 19

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This life is filled with tragedy,

So emotions keep grabbing me,

I care for my brother, but

In my back he keep stabbing me.

Wombs are now polluted,

Leaving children endangered,

Divided households,

Now our homes are conquered by strangers,

Miseducation of this nation,

Fulfill the government’s purpose,

Turn us on each other,

So it’s ourselves we hurting.

Took the chains off our body, just to capture our brain,

So, our struggle just lead us back to being bodied in chains,

Label us felons,

I thought slavery was over,

Shackles on our feet leaves us calling on Jehovah,

Burning churches, shootings at churches, who can be so cruel,

No one is innocent on death row until death row happens to you.

Stand tall, stay strong, be proud of your pigment.

A moment of silence, stand silent, please stop the killing

Randy Lewis
Z741-O-19

T.V.O.A.I.M

My Struggle

Hard times, lessons learned.

Stories told, memories burned.

Life and freedom is yearned.

Legs tired, knees kneeling out the alter.

Begging for directions while fiends searching for more.

Families rebuking poverty while struggle is still standing at their door.

The government is inconsistent, but consistent with trying to break me down.

Taking money from the educational funds to fund a system that constantly let me down.

Suicide for the ones that can’t take it, I can’t take it, so I take it and store it in the section of motivation.

I refuse to allow my foundation to be shaken …

The structure that’s built on my foundation is heaven sent …

So next time you say a prayer

Remember me and mention this …

My Struggle

Randy Lewis
Z-741-O-27
T.V.O.A.I.M

Deeper Than Glossip

The Glossip

Congratulations to the State of Arkansas for having the courage to do away with their death penalty. The writing is on the wall, which speaks against the continuation of the death penalty in America.

Case after case where it has been a botched execution. Arizona, Oklahoma, Florida, Missouri, etc. But many states continue to choose to turn a blind eye to what’s really going on. Stop the shed of the blood seeking revenge in the name of justice!

Mr. Lockett was tortured, then killed. The State of Oklahoma has consistently fought to cover-up his murder. However, for those of us who oppose the death penalty, we will not allow his death, nor the rest, to be in vain.

The United States continue to murder the mentally ill in the name of procedurally barred clauses or in the name of the statutes that states  have drafted up that goes outside of the range of what determines a person to be mentally ill.

The only new way is to do away with this killing machine!

Randy Lewis
Z-741-O-27
T.V.O.A.I.M

Change In View

Anthony Ray Hinton has been freed from Alabama’s death row … Congratulations … 30 years wasted for a crime that he did not commit … That’s a major move for our movement against the death penalty!

Alabama has stated through former attorney general Troy King that, “Everyone on death row was guilty …” Well, that has been proven to be a lie! Thanks to God! But it was proven before … Wesley Quick, Daniel Moore, Gary Drinkard, Randall Padgett, and now Anthony Ray Hinton …

The change has come and now as a people we must continue to rise!

Randy Lewis
Z-741-O-27
T.V.O.A.I.M

Raindrops and Puddles

As the waters flow, I watch how the current(s) flow, in a reversed direction … My vision is in slow mo…tion.

Down by the river is where I mainly be … In the rain, the river banks over flow … I listen to the birds sing, my memories play slow as I watch the rainbow …

A sign of an unbroken promise … somehow mankind still stumbling;

And here I am still running …

Now, the waters recede back to the places they rather be … After their job is complete that is …

Randy Lewis

Z-741-O-27

T.V.O.A.I.M.

The World in My Rear View …

Life for many is a failure, but that’s because it has been orchestrated. Seeds that have been planted from passed time produced a generation filled with hatred. Condemning the individuals in their ignorance!

So, it has been stated, the cards that their lives been dealt are so underestimated. Life in a nation where the tension is racist troubled situations send members of my community on vacation … My neighborhood is raining ballets, lost in hell fire leave members of my governing body shaken …

Hop in the ‘71’, and smash out … the new Klan gaining come as a surprise, because they’re no longer masked out … Then again, it’s my own people that are now becoming more masked out.

To be continued …

Randy Lewis
Z-741-I-23
T.V.O.A.I.M.

“Dedicated to Women, Domestic Violence Victims”

When is it right to kill a woman who acts in self-defense, after being perceived as defenseless. “Does one not see” Or does one see, but not care?” How can a woman be concluded as being a disgrace when she’s unwillingly taken advantage of by those not of her choice? Not of choice is, spoken of in the sense of one she chooses not to be with. However, I do acknowledge that there are women in relationships who are being ‘sexually’ taken advantage of, which is also not right.

Women are deserving of more respect. Women deserve to be thought of as being more than sex objects.

However, many forget that, “A woman is the reason for a man’s being … As it is that, a woman came from a man ...” Where would the nations be without the reproductivity of a woman? I’ll tell you where … We’ll be extinct with only the animals, and trees being existence.

We as a nation need to do more to protect the sacrecy of our women. Our nation as a government needs to do more to protect and preserve women of other nations. We as men have to do more to protect, serve and preserve our women while giving them more than reasons to have confidence in us as their man …

Women please know and understand
that you are worthy and the
finest of God’s creation.

“Without a woman, a man is nothing.”

Randy Lewis
Z-741-I-6
T.V.O.A.I.M.

“As you see, as it is”

In the event when your circumstances becomes more important than your vision, you yourself have come to doom … For a person in such a state becomes of no benefit to others and destructive to themselves. Such a person lacks the intelligence to discern reality from falsehood. Giving in to an illusion, the mind gives way to recklessness causing separation among their closes peers and division amongst the grounds in which their feet tread. Only a snare awaits such a person which will overtake them in a sudden swift of the wind … Troublesome Is the right thing seemed to be, so in order to maintain the status in which they think they incurred, they go along with the crowd becoming a yes-man, even behind the back in which it’s given …

Moral: “With foreknowledge of such a person, keep a distance less you become at odds with your emotions deriving from the falsehood of a benefit while overlooking assured destruction.”

Randy Lewis
Z-741-I-6
T.V.O.A.I.M.

Tune in to:

Interview with an Alabama Klan Wizard

At the request of the interviewee, his name will be kept anonymous. Also there will be graphic language throughout interview. Please know and understand that “OTDP News does not agree with no part of the opinion of the interviewee”. We felt that it was important for us to conduct this interview so that you (the viewers) and the citizens of Alabama may know and understand what’s lerking amongst them … CORRUPTION

Interviewer:     Hello Sir, how are you on this warm (June 9^th, 2014) day?

Interviewee:    Well, I tell ya, I feeling dam good sittin here in this here warm Bama weather … Have some lemonade?

Interviewer:     Why yes.

Interviewee:    Aight … Lymskon and Sonny!! Y’all go an get grand daddy a batch of dat lemonade out da kitchen and brang it here!!

Kids:                O.k. Paw.

Interviewee:    Those dhere are my grandbabies … dhere parents are good military folk.

Interviewer:     O, are they?

Interviewee:    Yeah, dats right.

Kids:                Here ya go Paw Paw.

Interviewee:    Thank ya boys.

Kids:                Paw who you got here talking to ya?

Interviewee:    She’s a reporter for OTDP news …

Kids:                Reporter?? What’s she’s a talkin to you bout?

Interviewee:    Well, boys, Paw Paw can’t tell ya dat right ni … y’all just go on and play along …

Kids:                O.k. Paw … Bye reporter lady

Interviewer:     Bye bye beautiful kids. How old are they?

Interviewee:    dhey … hmmm. Nine and ‘leven … I lovin both …

Interviewer:     I bet you do … Okay, do you mind if we get along with the interview, because I have a flight scheduled to go out at 1:30 pm?

Interviewee:    Why, no … I’on mind one bit as long as I’m not censored.

Interviewer:     No censor. And I’m going to report it just how you say it to me …

Interviewee:    Okay den. What I like to hear.

Interviewer:     When did you become a member of the Klan?

Interviewee:    Well, since I was a baby. Paw and Paw Paw were some nigger hanging sum a … well, you know. They’ll call on as a child and teach me how to tie a noose; sometimes they’d let me rap one clean round a nigger’s neck, right before they hang em …

Interviewer:     Why call the African American niggers?

Interviewee:    ‘Cause dat’s just what they are … Niggers … Good for othing, space occupying niggers.

Interviewer:     Where did the hanging take place?

Interviewee:    Well, wherever there was a tree … See dis tree here?

Interviewer:     Yeah

Interviewer:     Dis here tree is one of ‘em … After we’d hang ‘em we’d beat’em to make show they dead.

Interviewer:     Why do or did the Klan hate African Americans so much?

Interviewee:    Because dis here is a world for white people and by white people … And those ape descended niggers, wherever they came from, were and are to be the burden bearers of this nation and of this world , white power …

Interviewer:     Was there any other forms of killing that the Klan inflicted?

Interviewee:    Dam right it was. Sometimes Paw and Paw Paw would crack out the whip and skin the flesh off dem sum a bitches … Maken ‘em suffer right before they die. Sometimes the eye would pop clean out that motherfucker. They’d put quite a few of dem niggers to the blade … Especially those who had the tendency to try and escape off the plantation here… It served ‘em well, they had not gotdam reason to try and escape form us good white folks.

Interviewer:     You said, “This here plantation …” What plantation are you referring to? And why you feel that the African American had no reason to turn?

Interviewee:    Well, this here piece of land we’re sitting on use to be a plantation. My great and great great grandpaw’s use to won this land. After they died, it was past on us kids. Now, those niggers had no reason to run because they were well feed, had a roof over there head, and they didn’t have no bills to pay …

Interviewer:     Okay. How did your grandfather’s handle such rebellious African Americans?

Interviewee:    They were big on torturing them … often times torture led to their deaths. One from they had were cutting a hole through the nigger’s rib and sticking a hook clean through ‘em and hang ‘em by a chain with their hands bond until they died.

Interviewer:     How long did it usually take for them to die?

Interviewee:    Anywhere from three to eight days.

Interviewer:     Well, how did the Klan feel about the civil rights movement?

Interviewee:    Than dam king was the problem. He shoulda been killed when he was born … he motivated them niggers to break the law. We the Klan we’re against it and still are … However, though, when we saw we were losing leverage in the fight we had to reinvent ourselves and that we did … We came up with a new system.

Interviewer:     And that was?

Interviewee:    Politics … Plain ole politics. We drafted up laws that continue to carry out our goals … Our goals to exterminate niggers. Divide them, break up their homes. Don’t cha see it?

Interviewer:     (no response)

Interviewee:    Hell … We were the political platform that put most the politicians here in Alabama in office … Many of them are still there, holding down the fort. Ensuring our view are being carried out ….

Interviewer:     What is your thoughts on the death penalty and how it’s applied?

Interviewee:    Kill them all! They don’t deserve to live. All them niggers, kill ‘em!!!

Interviewer:     Wow, strong feelings … Well, what about the white people that are on death row?

Interviewee:    Kill them nigger lovers ... That’s what they get for following the path of them niggers … As far as how it’s being applied, hell, it’s alright by me!

Interviewer:     Well, Sir … Thank you for your time and straight-forwardness during this interview. That’s all that I have. Have a wonderful remainder of the day …

Interviewee:    No, thank you for doing the interview …

                        Interview Ends

To my followers … I had more questions to ask but the more and more we talked, he became more and more aggressive in his speech as it related to African Americans. I thought I could sit through the interview unaffected, but I was wrong …

The Fight Is Not Over!

As I look around, out on this city, I see where we have come from, but just when we thought we made it … That’s when we stared breaking, then the past struggles became faded. Somewhere, someone must have forgotten to mentor the next boy or girl, man or woman to become the leader of the coming generation. Veils have been placed over the eyes of this present generation, in which has caused them to be misled. Their right to be free is being challenged with the passing of laws, which is directly aimed at keeping the revolving door to poverty, incarceration and self-destruction open for business on the communities of America.

When the so called leaders are faced with irrefutable evidence of a broken system that is screaming out to be fixed, they turn a blind eye and justify their wrongs until it’s them on the wrong side of the broken system.
(1) William Ziegler was released from death row in Alabama on August 15, 2014. Instead of the State of Alabama apologizing for the injustice which happened to him, they came to him with an offer of 18 yrs. just to keep a conviction in place for the sake of politics.
(2) Now, in the news headlines, Governor Rick Perry of Texas has been indicted on multiple federal charges. This is the same man who has issued death warrants for more people than any other governor in America, and the same man who has stated, “If other states can’t execute inmates, bring them to Texas.” Now, this same man, is claiming that an injustice is being done to him. What about the condemned inmates who has raised such claims of injustice???
(3) A young man in Missouri was gunned down by a police officer a couple weeks ago … something has yet to be done. The killing of this young man has been said to be justified. The young man posed no threat to the officer … he was unarmed, but yet he was shot in the face with his hands up. This killer is still roaming the streets of America as a free man …

Where do we go from here? Where do we go from here as a people? Where do we go from here as a nation?

I can’t answer such questions … However though, I do know that when we stand together as a people, as a community, and as a nation we will get to where we need to be …

To be continued …

Randy Lewis
Z-741-I-6
T.V.O.A.I.M.

Continuation of The Fight …

Back during the Civil Rights Movement a nation of people were educated about what was due them. Educated about what they deserved, what their rights were, and how to fight. Leaders rose up and took the initiative to leas this nation of people to where they needed to be … They took this nation of people to a whole new platform. Those leaders laid down their lives for the people of this nation to have freedom and respect, for the people of this nation to have equal opportunity, to have a voice of their own … All of those leaders died violent deaths. Now, today we see so called leaders standing by, in high places, watching as the sacrifices of the past are being disrespected … until a camera pops up. Of course, however, though, we as a community should not lay and wait for them to stand up for us when we have the ability to stand up for ourselves. The Civil Rights Movement was successful, because they were hands-on with the community. So, to all the people in California, Ohio, Missouri, Florida, New York, Arkansas, overseas and else where who are standing up and standing out as protesters against the injustice that’s being done to the citizens, I salute you all, I stand and protest with y’all in spirit. Continue to fight … continue to be stronger … Don’t ever get tired of fighting.

With Love
To All the Riders
Randy Lewis
Z-741-I-6
T.V.O.A.I.M.

Caged Ghetto Bird

We are more than what you see … We are more than what you’ve heard. We deserve more than what has been given. Correction is due, I thought, amongst the living. That lamb is innocent, don’t kill it. About us, many don’t care, but the Klan was forgiven. Blood is still on their hands from their many killings. Tear drops stains the sheets of the victim’s family while wondering … Have they got away? Has justice been served? Or is justice being served when they cage my ghetto birds?

They dangerous, he dangerous … That way of life is strange for us … confine ‘em, segregation, so that they’ll be kept away from us.

We are more than what you see…

We are more than what you’ve heard.

We deserve more than what has been given …

Partial plea from the cages ghetto birds

Randy Lewis
Z-741-I-6
T.V.O.A.I.M.

“Unspoken Words”

Unspoken words, may the silence speak. My pain is concealed, however, my expressions are emotional and something the world can feel. Instructions are taught, but a demonstration is seldom showed. As the world goes round, the world grows cold --- The story of a lost soul. The earth is shaking and I need solid grounds beneath my feet. Hat low, as though, I’m unseen. No one to give correction, so I watch quietly as the storm leave. Shackles and chains, I see that it’s mind is misleading. Temporary satisfaction, but it ain’t pleasing … Now, I’m believing that if the nugget is dropped it won’t get caught, so lost in thoughts the brain isoperating without no reason. Conscious of nothing now it lay. A ship at sea is a ship in damage so to play safe I’m at bay. A fool learn from experience, but rather wisdom comes from what others have experienced.
So, pay attention to the unspoken words that fills the atmosphere. Lean not to your own understanding, but God’s – then to you the water will remain clear …
Stop to listen to the unspoken words …

Randy Lewis
Z-741-I-6
T.V.O.A.I.M.

 GHETTO LIVING

O.G.:      What’s handing wit chu lil one? 

Lil one:  Nothin much, jus posted up n chillin. 

O.G.:      What chu doin out here dis late anyway? 

Lil one:  What chu mean what my bizness is out here dis late? Da same reason u up out here dis late. 

O.G.:      Really??? Ha ole u is anyway? 

Lil one:  Shit’d I’m ‘leven … 

O.G.:      ‘leven … u need 2 b n da house get’n sum sleep so u’ll be ready 2 go to school 2morrow. 

Lil one:  Man, dam school … For me, dat’s 4 my young sista n brutha … School don’t pay da bills round my way. 

O.G.:      Lil one, dat’s what cha momma n daddy go da work 4. 

Lil one:  What momma? What daddy? Man, my daddy n jail n my momma on dope. All my lil sista n brutha got is me, n all I got is this way of life so I can keep a roof ova dey heads. 

O.G.:      Dam lil one … Dat’s fuck’d up. I ain’t kno it wuz like dat. I ain’t got no helleva lot, bu I’mma lay these xoule hundred and spot sum food 2 sto up n da crib 4 u n you youngin’s, dig it? 

Lil one:  Home’s I good, it’s all G … But what u can do is help me out on dis refill .. 

O.G.:      Str8 like dat? 

Lil one:  Like dat. 

O.G.:      Got cha den.

This is how it began for many in the ‘hood’ areas of ‘Ghetto America’. Children facing such adversity in their local life, the streets and those in them … Is this wrong? No. I say that because the way that is taught is the only way they know … They too, like the ones being taught, came from broken homes, up in rough environments, and with no guidance. So, all they come to know is the course in which they take. 
HAVE MERCY!

Randy Lewis
Z-741-I-6
T.V.O. A.I.M

 Friend And Therapist

Him:       I know you’re frustrated, but don’t always allow your frustration to control you; in fact never. Instead control your frustration so that you may act responsibly. 

Her:        I know, but it’s hard. I can’t help it. 

Him:       It is and I know, but that’s because you’re looking for an outside source to remedy your frustration when all along the answer is within you … You possess what is needed to get through, you just have to tap into it. 

Her:        That’s easier said than done. 

Him:       Look at it this way … How much do you play in inviting this error in your life? 

Her:        I know what you’re saying and I understand but I can’t help it, that’s just the kind of person I am. I’m friendly. 

Him:       That’s understandable, but you’re too friendly. You allow people to abuse your kindness and you’re blind to that happening until it’s too late. 

Her:        Yeah, so what is your suggestion? 

Him:       Are you going to apply what I suggest? 

Her:        Ima try. 

Him:       Well, you just have to cut your losses and move on. Do better, not make the same mistakes. 

Her:        That’s all? 

Him:       Yup … That’s it. 

Her:        Well, thank you for your time and service. I see you later. Good bye … 

Him:       Hold on, wait a minute … I meant to tell you this before … 

Her:        What’s that? 

Him:       Well, we’ve been talking for around 45 minutes … 

Her:        Yeah 

Him:       That’s going to run you about $ 1,800 for my service. 

Her:        What??? $ 1,800 … $ 1,800 my … 

Him:       Hold on, hold on, hold on … There you go getting frustrated again. 

Her:        You my friend, how you gone charge me for a simple conversation!!! You got to be out of yo MF mind if you think I’m gone give you $ 1,800! 

Him:       Calm down … You ain’t got to do nothing but … Well, pay me my money of course, and just don’t seek my service anymore. 

Her:        I tell you what … I know what I’m bout to do, I’m bout to kick yo …!!! 

Him:       Ooo, security, security … I need your assistance in here!!! Hurry up! 

Her:        Yeah, now you need some service, don’t you!!! 

Him:       Y’all get outa here!!! 

Her:        Yeah, dey betta get me somewhere!!! 

Security:We got her, Sir. 

--- to be continued …

Randy Lewis
Z-741-I-6
T.V.O A.I.M

 Prayer In Weakness

JEHOVAH, I need … I have seen the danger of frustration, deliver me?

My judgment became cloudy and my thinking was disturb. Help me Lord, I need you, I’m nothing without. I need you to move on my behalf, quick fast, and in a hurry … Right now!!!

Thank you heavenly Father for hearing my cries for help, for moving out before me and paving the way for which I shall travel; for blessing this day and all that it produces; for blessing me with victory over my enemies and adversaries; for reuniting me and my family together; and keeping your shield and protection around us …

God is full of compassion and mercy, love and undeserved kindness.

 This prayer derived from an altercation that occurred on 6/20/2014.

Randy Lewis
Z-741-I-6
T.V.O .A.I.M

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Institutionalize genocide, committed by politicians, the extermination of a group of people could be their only mission. Protection of their own, while destroying our home. Unconstitutionally committing us to prison while exposing our bones, “RAWANDA”.

Closing down schools while leading us astray … we yearn for guidance, but they refuse to give us direction.

Instead, they flood our communities with drugs and automatic weapons. A calculated road map, as in their eyes the death penalty is justified at the expense of the innocent. At the top of the mountain, I’m ever vigilant as I wait for the paradox times to be over. Vivid pictures of victim’s corpses trampled on and ran over. Due to different views they put forth more effort to terminate us, Holocaust.

Never despise the ‘valley’, less you forsake the ‘hills’ …

Randy Lewis
Z-741-I-6
T.V.O. A.I.M

Give Me Back My Son

‚Give me my son back ...‘ ‚Why should I give him back? Why don’t you just join us and share in all that we’ve built from the ground up while you were away?’ ‘Nawl, I’m good. I can do without your pleasures, I just want my son.’ ‘What has gotten into you … I remember when we started this organization. I remember the work you put in, we put in while laying the foundation of this operation …’ ‘I remember too … I remember the fool I was, the fool we all were, the lack of guidance we had, the ignorance we prouded ourselves over. I remember all of that; I don’t need no reminder. I don’t identify myself with that way of thinking anymore. However, I  do identify myself with the son that was born to me in the midst of my troubles, which is why I’m here to claim what’s rightfully mine.’ ‘You just think after 10 years, you can just walk up in my establishment and make these crazy demands!!! Well, I got news for you … This here life is blood in blood up … your son is the son of this here establishment, and I say he ain’t going nowhere with you!!! Big Hurt, lock the door!!’ ‘Man look, it doesn’t have to be like this … I’m just trying to be to him, my son, what we always wanted. We turned to the streets as a default to fill the void in our lives. He no longer has that void. I’m no longer absent. I’m no longer ignorant. I’m here now. You have what you want, so please let me walk away with what I need. I don’t want him to hurt no more than he already has been by m absence. I made a vow to God that with the ability that He has bestowed upon me, entrusted me with to be a better man.’ ‘Well, That was a good speech, but if you think for one second that you walking outa here with this boy, you’re just a lie. Hurt, roll out the plastic!!!’ ‘Well, if this is what it hat to come to then, prepared I am … God knows an now my son, that I put forth the effort –‘

‘No!!! Please don’t hurt my dad … I want to leave with him …’

And I just want to be a father to him

Randy Lewis
T.V.O.A.I.M
Z-741-F-7

The I’m Feeling 

Woke up this morning feeling negative … How can this be reversed into a positive? Don’t know, but by sun down I will have found out.

What will come forth I’ll view from a spiritual perspective so that I may understand the why of it all.

Looking out the bars of this cell I have been reduced to, I see nothing more than the small minds bickering over small things.

How can one give up on himself, when himself is all himself has? You don’t know? Well, me either … I see no unity. I see no hope, I see suppressed frustration. I see depression. All of this, when I look into guy’s faces.

So, my negative awakening comes from wanting these guys to have same focus I have. The same hope I have. The same joy, and peace I have. Now, don’t mistake the two negatives to be the same … Because I still feel ‘some type of way’. However, I know the positive is in view, and understanding is on the way …

A riddle for you to unfold. 

Randy Lewis
Z-741-F-7
 T.V.O.A.I.M.

Fair Trial 

Allegedly a defendant is “innocent until proven guilty” … Really? Anyone who has had an encounter with the criminal justice system knows the truth … A defendant is “guilty until proven innocent”. If the first was the truth, then Ray Hinton wouldn’t have had to spend 25 years on death row, Gary Drinkard would not have had to spend years on death row, Daniel Moore would have never been arrested …Jimmy Dill would have never been executed.

Some system, huh? The United States Supreme Court has actually said, “A defendant is entitled to a fair trial, but not a perfect one.” How can a trial be deemed fair, when imperfection is ever present? The prosecution continues to withhold evidence, introduce perjured testimony, and present inadmissible evidence … in every (almost every) trial.

The United States Supreme Court went on to say, “for there are no perfect trials”. How can a reasonable person (judge, prosecutor, police, etc.) continue to allow trials to be tainted by the intentional imperfection caused by individuals who suppose to ensure that a trial is fair?

I think, a good solution would be to, start charging prosecutors with attempted murder, when they falsely accuse, wrongfully convict and wrongfully sentence to death, an innocent man (person) …And, charge them with murder when one is executed!

Read Brown v. United States, 411 U.S. 223, 231-32, 93 S.Ct. 1565, 36 L.Ed.2d. 208 (1973) at NexislLexis

Randy Lewis
Z-741-F-7
 T.V.O.A.I.M.

BACKGROUND

Life is given, then immediately taken … How so? Many may ask, well through poverty, drug and gang activity. Dysfunctional household forces kids to grow more toward the streets, embracing them, then being overtaken by them.

Communities were erected to further impoverish a selected group of people. The goal of this project was to keep the puppet masters’ control over the people who were considered (to them) puppets. The puppets from what they considered to be treasure, they could control their mindset “… Their way of thinking”. Instead, the puppets exhibited unity. Coining the philosophy “It takes a village to raise a child.” At the sight of this, the puppet master responded by “Allowing narcotics to flood the communities of the puppets”. So, the puppets coined another philosophy “each one, teach one”. At this, the puppet master responded by “Turning the puppets way of thinking against each other”. Since then, the puppets have been “crabs in a bucket” … 

Setting death traps for one another … They became “territorial”, destroying the gold mine of themselves. 

Give you a brief background on the type of environment a child is expected to grow and develop in … 

“Collegeville is a virtual island of poverty”. Collegeville was intentionally created to be isolated from the rest of Birmingham, Alabama. “In 1926, a zoning overlay was done up … to, in essence, really lock in industrial uses and housing for Negros”. See, Kevin Garrison and Allison Stagy, Trained in, YouTube, (spring 2007), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hka1JmicdGc . Approximately twenty rail road crossings separate Collegeville from the rest of Birmingham. 

Collegeville is also the subject of an ongoing environmental investigation. Recent tests conducted by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) revealed soil and air contamination above levels of concern. U.S. Environment Protection Agency, Information Sheet: Riggins School, Birmingham, Alabama (May 2011). The chemicals of concern are arsenic and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). The soil was collected from the school yard of Riggins School. Riggins was selected, because it is located very close to Walter Coke’s coal raw material piles and coke ovens. Children must be kept away from contaminated areas. 

Genocide … is what it sounds like to me … 

Uplift the People, Instead of Bringing Them Down.

 Randy Lewis
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Turning of Tables

Stop … Do not pass go … you shamed the people. Your pride has been profaned, your honor is humiliated. Ray Hinton shall not die, but live. The state courts have denied this man 25 years of his life, 25 years they can’t give back to him. Ineffective assistance of counsel is what he received before, and during his trial. The state courts saw this years ago … But failed time and time again to correct it. Let them tell it though, they reviewed his case for “plain error”, but there wasn’t any ... really!!! Now, the United States Supreme Court has concluded that, Anthony Ray Hinton’s trial counsel was deficient in failing to investigate (research) state law to determine how much he could receive from court (trial court), in the amount of funds, to obtain a competent expert in “toolmarks and ballistics”, instead of calling as a witness an incompetent and unqualified retired civil engineer who specialized in heavy artillery during his time spent in the military around World War II. Society prides itself on doing the right thing; well, the right thing supposed to be done years ago. Now, the Court of Criminal Appeals must determine whether or not Anthony Hinton was prejudiced by his trial lawyer’s deficient performance. How was he not prejudiced by his trial lawyer’s mistake/failure? The state theory was that the weapon taken out of Anthony Hinton’s mother’s residence was a match to the bullets that were recovered from the two deceased victims that were killed during a similar robbery. The third (3^rd) victim was shot, but not killed … The third (3^rd) victim allegedly identified Anthony Hinton as the assailant who attempted to kill him when he was robbed … However, Anthony Ray Hinton was never charged nor tried for the crime in which the third (3^rd) victim allegedly identified him. But, the state used the above to convict Anthony Ray Hinton.

Funny, huh?

This is justice in America.

But now, the tables have turned!!!

T.V.O.A.I.M.

Randy Lewis
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LORD LORD

Yahuwshuwa, my savior, my salvation, my strength, my helper, my deliverer, my health, my doctor, my lawyer, my judge, my jury, my God …

I’ve come a long way in my spiritual walk, and still I have a long way to go. The intentions of my heart is pure, my actions are contrary to those who don’t understand me, to those who don’t know you.

2 Corinthians 12:7-13

“To keep me from becoming overly exalted, I was given a thorn in the flesh, an angel of Satan, to keep slapping me, so that I might not be overly exalted. Three times I begged the Lord about this, that it would depart from me. But he said to me: ‘My underserved kindness is sufficient for you, for my power is being made perfect in weakness.’ Most gladly, then, I will boast about my weaknesses, in order that the power of Christ may remain over me like a tent. So, I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in times of need, in persecution and difficulties, for Christ. For when I’m weak, then I am powerful.”

Paul is a powerful speaker … And I relate.

Jehovah, I’m too close to the mirror to know my every weakness. The one’s you have revealed to me, I by your grace and mercy through your son Jesus and my Lord and savior, work toward bettering. Therefore, I walk with my head down, not because of depression … But, because I choose to remain humble before you.

Though innocent, I thank you for allowing me to discover the jewels in my affliction. As I look and see those who don’t believe, don’t trust, don’t depend in/on you, and don’t apply themselves I respond with compassion. My response is with selflessness.

However, though in my walk I still fall … But, I don’t stay down, I get back up ask for forgiveness, work toward repentance …

Sometimes my shortcomings are intentional, sometimes my shortcomings are unintentional.

For I was born in error, I was conceived in sin.

“LORD LORD”

Psalm 51:11 – Don’t cast me out of your presence and do not take your spirit away from me.

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Randy Lewis
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“Untitled”

Over the years God has been cultivating me… The seed that was planted in me back in 1992, has now sprung forth. However, that seed dwelled within me for years; as its roots had to first grow downward into the depths of my soul so that the seed may be firmly established.

As the years progressed, the more trouble my eyes came to see. Though I felt alone; God was there, cultivating and watering that seed. In the midst of the storm, I contemplated (…????). The stem of that seed stared to sprout up, as soon as I saw it, “I cut it down”. However, the stem from that seed never failed to sprout … In fact, it did so so much, ‘til I just stopped cutting it down … I allowed that seed to grow, and as it did, I no longer was shaped by life’s circumstances. That seed began to produce fruit(s) … Among them were: compassion, knowledge, understanding, wisdom, accurate loyalty, accurate love, accurate dedication, accurate respect, accurate unity, accurate honor of God. Through it all, a MAN was GROWING and DEVELOPING. A DESIRE was being stirred up. The growth of that seed has allowed me to see thing from a new perspective. The chains that once kept me mentally incarcerated have been broken. The chains that once had my spirit impoverished have been released. “God has humbled the MAN so that he may become a MAN.” A fool says that, he or she will learn from experience. The wise say that, he/she will profit from other’s experiences.

Foolish:           Hey wisdom, what cha think ‘bout being her at this cross-road?

Wisdom:         Well foolish, I don’t … I’m just going to turn onto the intersection.

Foolish represents the one who operates through worldly wisdom … Wisdom represents the one who operates through the spirit …

Remember,

When it looks like a crossroad, know that it’s only an intersection.

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Randy Lewis
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“Growth that’s Developed, But Became Lost.”

See,

Growth and development is for everybody, but not everyone makes that decision to grow. The saying of one with wisdom goes “You peep a fool by letting them show their hand(s) …” You have to be from the old school to grasp the riddle or from the new school with old school values to understand it.

Thanks be to God, the sharpness of my growth and development derives from the poverty in which I lived, which taught me how to be and remain humble. The sharpness of my growth and development was molded by those who were older than me. I hung around with guys who were older than me (women too), who taught me how to survive the struggles and strains of life and how “I would only be unsuccessful only if I thought and believed that I would not succeed.”

The new generation, I see, only grow with their growth being negative. Not all but most … The mentality that they have is unrelatible. Their thought process of oneself is of disrespect, not only of themselves, but other as well. I’m oppressed, I’m poor, I’m going to take from others because I’ve without, I’m going to bully someone so that I may feel good, I don’t have no one to help me. This is their way of thinking. This is what their environment teaches them.

Guess what though? The very entity that professes their goal to reduce crime knows of the new generation’s shortcomings. However, instead of working toward bettering this new generation, they eagerly strive toward creating new laws to ensnare them, keeping them trapped in a devastating way of thinking, acting and living … The do this because they know that without crime it’s hard to politic …

Criminal acts are not racist nor prejudice: Just the way the consequences are applied to who commits the act …

Get it???

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Randy Lewis
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“Cheers“

Raise your glass and toast to the success of the row. Though, the state is pressing to pass the “Un-Fair Justice Act”, God continues to show the nation that “eye for an eye” is not the answer to the problem. Mr. Anthony Ray Hinton is on the brink of a new trial and exoneration … On top of that, the state has recently admitted that they have no drugs to carry out an execution.

How can people be so blinded? How can they not see that “homicide for homicide” is an act of revenge and not justice? When Don Singleman found himself on the other side of the law, quickly realized the unfairness of what they call justice in Alabama. Hs family too … I guess, it takes for one to experience it first, before they can see it.

Now, if Alabama pass this “Un-Fair Justice Act”, which is highly likely, what will they do next when guys get just as much relief under the new system?

Raise your glasses, have a toast with me, because the end is in view.

Keep opposing, and keep fighting! 

Randy Lewis
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Life And Lesson

Life is a beautiful thing. You live, and you learn. Helping those who help themselves is a pleasure. Just as, when you cut loose those who are not trying to help themselves. “The only way to peep a fool is to let him show his hand.” Once you begin to play our hand close to your heart, your eyes begin to open and see who are your friends or foe.

Alabama has acted foolish with the presentation of these new bills concerning “capital offense” collateral appeal process. They’re only doing this in an effort to prevent further shame from being brought upon the state. It’s easy to see, every time Alabama highlight these bills in the media, they attach them to the 5 cases that have been reversed in collateral appeal (rule 32) in the past 3 or 4 years… Despite of the unfairness and wrongness of the death penalty system in Alabama they work hard to make it more defective at the expense of victim’s families emotions.

Even further more Anthony Hinton just got a remand from the U.S. Supreme Court, (in laymen terms) instructing the Alabama courts to do the “Right Thing”. We all know though, that Alabama would rather have another court to correct their wrong, because Alabama prefers to put INJUSTICE and POLITICS first …

T.V.O.I.A.M. 

Randy Lewis
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3.7.14

Fallen Angel, violent nights, constant danger.

Young man, Abuse, Misconstrued, now stands with Anger.

No hope, More dope, now selling drugs.

No friends, just homie’s, Running with thugs.

Success, brought stress, They want to see ‘em fall.

Bright Lights, stunning nights, straight shinin.

Late nights, flight night, new grindin.

They hate, he straight, They fell they get ‘em

1 block, 1 shot, 1 Lie, 2 families cry’in

They wrong, he right, now standin is a Innocent Man. 

Part 2:

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Part 3:

(Interview continued)

Prison guard radio’s escort of Randy Lewis:

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Progress At The Expense of Your Sacrifice

More that I find myself helping someone at the bottom rise to the top, the closer I find myself to the bottom of the pile … This revelation is interesting, don’t you think? It is interesting because one would think that, a reasonable person who is given a hand up from the bottom would throw what to do once they reach the top, even more interesting is this: “When a person is given a hand up from the bottom, but jumpship quarter ways (thinking quarter way in the top) and expect to receive the same reward as the person who endured to the end.” With this (help others), I felt that I was making progress … But came to find out, I wasn’t. Now, parallel this to what the state of Alabama is now doing: “Cutting the appeal process of collateral appeal in death penalty cases”. Alabama claims this is the “Fair Justice Act”. How far is it though? Truth be told, Alabama just want the advantage of control and guarantee what the end should be “Death without Due Process”. In the last 3 years, 5 death row cases have been reversed. 2 involve cases in which the trial judges said, “The defendant was innocent.” The judge found that, “The prosecutor withheld exculpatory evidence from the defense.” The judge found that, “A juror was untruthful in the jury selection process.” The last one involved, “ineffective assistance of trial counsel.” This is the truth … This is what Alabama wants to prevent from happening.

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D.O.C.

The Department of Corrections is presumed to rehabilitate a person. However, that’s not what it does … What it does is, set a person up for re-entry into a world that was “erected” to right the wrong of a person. To teach the person a skill to survive. To help the person discovery the talent, in which they possess, to help them make it. To educate the person, which will better them for re-entry into the world they long to return to and remain in … The Department of Corrections has become a waste fill, in which they cast the lost souls of humanity with no hope of survival. How can D.O.C. reasonably expect for a child to know what’s right when all the child is taught is wrong? How can you expect for a man to contribute to a society that he’s been totally locked out of? When released from prison a person is not only labeled a convicted felony … But that person becomes homeless, jobless and to say the lease … POOR! He or she become these things because of the laws that the government has passed, which makes it extremely difficult for the person to rise above their circumstances alone …

Give People A Hand Up instead of A Hand Down …

Randy Lewis
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