Are we the states baby teeth?
Yanked and picked
from societies expanding mouth
Store for safe keeping
in tight little boxes
Have we outgrown our storage?
Maybe we are the cavities
rotting out the core
And when we are gone, the dentist
will cease hostilities
Even when we are uprooted
there’ll never be an end
to all the nerve damage
How long until its illegal
to just not want to be long
they’ll sizzle our brains
til we’re just mush in a shell
then put us to work in
factories to waste
Our horrific rap sheet will read
‘Wanted nothing to do with society’
Treason for not partaking
in the commercialization of our identities
Crime of the century being
Not wanting to make or spend
any fucking money.
Am I allowed to breathe?
Is that a punishable offense
Am I allowed to feel
is that a shot?
Are my thoughts read
like my letters
scanned and stored
to be used against me later
My dreams disected and distorted
Tearing apart the meanings
Digging for something
anything
Does my every firing neuron
Have sinister intentions
Yes..
I’ll know I am free
when I am stretching out
feeling the wind on my face
doing all sorts of weird yoga poses
and when I turn my head
to the left or the right
I wont see
a single god damn fence
with a single god damn piece
of razor wire that a worker in some factory
helped make to keep other people
locked in cages
Stop making the fucking tools
to oppress other people
Remember what color shirt you’re wearing
I’ll know I’m free
when the color of shirt someone is wearing
will mean less to me
than the color of their shoe laces
It has been almost a month since Eric arrived at FCI Englewood, a low security federal prison in Littleton, CO. In that time Eric has begun to adjust to the facility where he could potentially be held for the remainder of his sentence. He has been making friends and finding his niche.
In order to help ensure that he will stay at FCI Englewood and not be transferred, We are requesting that supporters take great caution in what they write and send to him—avoiding inflammatory rhetoric that could potentially have consequences. Here’s why:
FCI Englewood is only 30 minutes from where Eric’s partner lives and an even shorter drive from several solid friends and comrades in Denver. Being in such close proximity to his friends will undoubtedly help him through these next 6 years. It is also a low-security prison, meaning that the conditions of his confinement are generally better than they would be if he were transferred to other federal prisons.
But Eric’s position there may be somewhat precarious, currently he is very close to the maximum level of points for a low security prison. He could easily be transferred to a higher security prison (even a Communications Management Unit) or he could be transferred far from his friends and his partner, making visits difficult and less frequent.
We ask that you help keep Eric safe and not send him mail or reading material that may draw undue attention to him. If you are writing to Eric for the first time, please keep his current situation in mind and avoid topics or news that relate to his current charges or political actions surrounding prisons. We are also asking anyone who is a part of a radical publication, no matter how mild or extreme it may be, to please get in touch with his support crew at erickingsupportcrew (at) riseup.net before sending anything to Eric.
As always, please continue to organize letter writing nights and fundraisers for EK. We want to proceed with caution, but we will not relent. We hope you’ll do the same.
Thank you so much!
EK support crew
We have received the transcript from Eric’s sentencing. We want to share both Eric’s statement to the court and the transcript in entirety.
“THE DEFENDANT: First I’d like to congratulate the Court on such a stellar job. Another graffiti homeless person is off the street. So I’m sure the FBI and Patrick are very proud of themselves. This is a good picture for the United States and they needed this. This is a solid win. You do an amazing job up there
This is supposed to be a chance for me to speak. I didn’t speak this entire time. You’ve held sentencing and punishment over me, and even now no matter what I say you can still hold that against me, not let me do things, not recommend things. That’s such a farce. This whole court’s a farce.
I stated what I did. I’m happy I did it. The government in this country is disgusting. The way they treat poor people, the way they treat brown people, the way they treat everyone that’s not in the class of white and male is disgusting, patriarchal, filthy racist.
You’re all a part of this. From the man over there who works the same corporation company that ran Prime Health Pro (ph) to you that takes away freedom and tears apart the community. You do that thinking that this is justice. This is no justice in ripping people from their homes. For what? Breaking a window? Ten years for breaking a window? And the cop that killed Freddie Gray got zero? The people that killed Trayvon Martin got zero? It’s so horrendous.
And I’m not sorry for what I did. I’m sorry that I got caught before I could do more things. I would have loved to attack more government buildings and make sure that bubble of safety that prosecutors and FBI agents and judges feel got shattered so that they stay in their safe pockets knowing they can’t touch me even though there are consequences to my actions. Same way we have consequences for our actions. If I throw a hammer out a window, I get ten years in jail. If you sentence a first-time offender to life in prison if he sold meth, you get a clap on the back from the President and a job for life. And if that’s justice, then you’re use of justice is so skewed and just horrendously immoral.
Further, this isn’t a victory for the State. This isn’t a win for any of you, any of you on this other side of the table. It’s done nothing but affirm my views, affirm my beliefs that the government is just disgusting. Even when I walk in I can’t tell my wife I love her. I can’t look at her and smile because, what, I broke a window? That’s justice? That’s fair? That’s not justice. There’s no rehabilitation in that. There’s no freedom in that. There’s no constitutional rights in that. It’s just bullying. It’s just the upper class saying we’re going to keep people who did not agree to our rules and then decide not to live by them, we’re going to keep those people shackled up so we can live comfortably in our own little bubbles and we never have to look outside of those bubbles to realize what’s really happening, which this class is set up to keep people down, and when people step out of that class system, they get punished horrendously, more than any other country, any other country on earth, the land of the free. It’s despicable.
This sentence has brought me closer to the community I really serve. That’s the radical view, the poor community. It’s shown me what solidarity means. It’s shown me what friendship means. It’s shown me what love means. It’s shown me what being a real human means, not standing by people when they’re knocked down, not further knocking them down, not going after poor people if they want to provide for their families and not do it the way that the white society thinks is appropriate. You’re disgusting.”
below is the transcript in entirety
I think you’re fucking lame as hell
and Thor is a childs game
I dont have time for petty race pride
plus I feel its all a sham
You’re cops, or you would be if you could
and Im not interested in your Nordic theory
Thor is just as bogus to me as the white Christian god
So i’ll take Loki and Jesus Christ
and tie them all up with Christmas lights
and we can pretend that you arent just pathetic
We can imagine a world where you arent insecure
Because hiding behind heritage to coverup your shame
seems pretty childish to me
So fuck thor, I’ll use his hammer to nail him to the cross
Now will you please get lost..
I dont have the time
for your white pride
It all means garbage to me.
| There’s a cross across the road
To me it looks more like an X to mark the fucking spot where they dump those who are forgot It doesn’t give hope or inspire faith It’s a tragedy and a human waste those were people, with love and fear and now their dust on the mountains Which isn’t where I’d want to be to get as fucking far away from here They didn’t get released, no compassionate freedom They will forever overlook the last place they ever existed in human form the fences can’t hold energy and dust can fly fucking free but it’s a reminder, that they’d rather burn your dead body Than set you free… |
I need a shovel I need a shovel to dig up the corpses those who never got to choose those who were burnt to a crisp those who can’t and never could say get me from this place I want to take a baseball bat and smash that cross that mocks the dead and pretends that forgiveness is something they’ve obtained People die every day still wrapped in society’s chains It haunts me every night that I sit in front of this fucking window Its the give and take cause if you want the moon then you have to deal with hell also… ”White crosses on Mountain tops, I wana smash them all”… |
Eric was picked up from Grady County Jail in Oklahoma at midnight last night and taken on a plane to the prison he was designated. We just received a phone call and he has been placed at FCI Englewood! Over the past two years pre-trial, all of the fights and horrible experiences, seeing the Rocky Mountains was a moment in which he knew he could finally breathe. Tonight he looked out his window and watched the sunset over those mountains just 30 minutes away from his partner and many friends. In all of this shittiness this is one thing that we can be thankful that for tonight. While there is a long road ahead, tonight we know that Eric can find some peace as he closes his eyes.
Send Eric some love!!
Eric King 27090045
FCI ENGLEWOOD
FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION
9595 WEST QUINCY AVENUE
LITTLETON, CO 80123
We will update all of the page info and re-activate his book list soon!
The support flyer needed to be updated, so please go ahead and download the updatedflyer , print them out, and help us distribute current information about Eric’s case , imprisonment , and struggle.
Thank you so much for all your support! Let’s keep EK in our hearts , and on our minds as we move forward and prepare to provide him the type of support he deserves over the coming months and years!
yours,
The EK Support Crew
