Art update 1/13/10

New art for the New Year.

I have decided to begin illustrating the injustice of the Ramsey County courts relative to the handling of my case. The use of color is fairly new to me, however my love of the 1950’s pre-code comic book graphics has drawn me to the strength of this style.

After a pencil layout, I ink with a pilot G-2 pen, then lay the heavy black areas with black gouache paint and a #1 brush. The color is added with Prismacolor pencils. The case particular to this illustration I have written about previously but allowed me to review; Whitney Kizart had an affair with a married man, she gave him an S.T.D. Whitney found out that the couple were coming over to confront her about the dirty business, she waited and as the wife of her lover got out of the car she stabbed her to death. The dead woman has 2 kids. Judge Clark and the Ramsey County D.A. gave Whitney 1/3 of the time that I was sentenced to. Why?

The Valley Fair Six

The Valley Fair Six. Andrew Shannon, Terry Arnold, D. Evans Lewis, Derry Evans, A. Gildersleeve, Darris Evans. One afternoon at ValleyFair Amusment Park one of these creeps made lewd sexual advances on a 12 year old girl then grabbed her butt. Her father attempted t protect his daughter, he was violently beaten by these 6 thugs. His skull was broken and one optic nerve severed.

For their crime These men recieved between 3 to 7 months in prison. This is how the system keeps your town dangerous, they allow creeps like this to run rampant, but a husband and father like me gets deemed too dangerous to be free.

“Because they make the crooked path seem straight.” -Dante.

Robed Oligarchy

There are two inmates at my prison job who are making my days more un-enjoyable than needed. Roberson and Moose keep stealing things and nearly get fired. But it makes me look bad just because we work in the same department and things are missing.

Relevance to Dicken’s “David Copperfield”

My latest interest in in reading has brought me to Dickens’ “David Copperfield”. I thought there might be some points of relevant intellectual interest to me and I was right. Dickens attacks societies’ hypocrisy through his portrayal of accepted servitude and prisons. As I have found through my own experience; there is a sick symbiotic relationship between the courts, prisons and criminals and the irony is that this “corrections” system does nothing to truly change or improve the penitents, it merely reinforces their characters, methods and foul street language.

Society works through a series of institutional frameworks; the prison system being one of them-becomes a mirror of society as a whole.

Mass media is another institution, hmm, let’s see….

Just Read: Fahrenheit 451 (for the 5th time)

I have just finished reading Ray Bradbury’s ‘Fahrenheit 451′ for the fifth time in my life.  So many great lines…

Montag: ” I’ve been thinking. About the fire last week, about the man

Comparisons

I recently saw a newspaper article about a man who had just gotten out of prison. He was captured after robbing a 94 year old woman, he took her purse. She had just cashed her social security check for $1200, he got it all. Then I saw the creeps picture and name – Corey Fogg.

I knew him as a co-worker in the metal machine shop at a stillwater prison. He was a real sloth of a man. It turns out he had been in and out of prison many

Move to Medium Security

December has brought us much sadness. The D.O.C. moved me to the medium custody facility in Faribault Minnesota. Many miles now separate me from my wife and son.

I was moved here because my custody points dropped from 19 to 15 and I have less than 10 years left to serve.

The bus that brought me here had to make a stop at the Oak Park Heights Maximum Security facility. The bus stopped on a little ramp outside the transfer door and as I looked to my right I could see the higher ground across the St. Croix river that is the state of Wisconsin, my home, for the last time…I don’t know when I’ll lay eyes on that place again.

* Ahmed Mohamed – murdered a 23 month old girl.
He beat her so violently that her internal organs were torn apart. Convicted of 2nd degree murder. Sentence – 11 years 8 months.
And I got 20 years for roughing up a mobster in self-defense. (That’s a “reasonable sentence” right, Judge Ross?)

Covering Evidence and Telling Lies

I know that if my case does get any attention in the media there will be accusations thrown back at me and my family. Things having to do with artwork, drawings that I would not put on this blogs because of the adult themes. Yes, I used to do merchandising for adult stores and bookstores, but I have never been to a strip club, cheated on my wife or ever had a “one night stand”, EVER. And remember the county prosecutor has been caught covering evidence and telling lies to judge and jury (so take their accusations and know where they come from.)

My Judge – the People’s Judge

The judge in my case has been called a “peoples judge”. Now I know why. In “People vs. Dave Johnson” He was on the “people” side from the first instant.  This judge is a prosecutors wet dream, as he was described by my first attorney, Mr. P.

He said that no defense attorney wanted a case to go to Clark’s courtroom, yet when my case was moved from Judge Rosas to Clark, Mr. P. refused to put in for a change, while my family and I all told him to. I should have fired him.

A Ramsey County judge just refused to sanction two prosecutors for withholding exculpatory evidence leading to a new trial in a murder case. Another example of why prosecutors feel so comfortable in their lies, Mike Nifong in the Duke Lacrosse rape case almost got away with it. However, he was not used to dealing with defendants with millions of dollars at their disposal, otherwise the Nancy Graces’ of the world would be feeling all rosy in the belief that 3 rapists were behind bars.

There is Something Terribly Wrong in This Country

Fear has turned you to the police state to protect you from what you don’t understand, what you refuse to deal with…

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This is why I had to move my family out of Minneapolis. I walked the streets of my Logan Park neighborhood with my dog every day and late into the evening. I was willing to meet challenges of encroaching crime while my neighbors hid behind their drapes, peeking out from time to time. One man cannot do it alone.