Glenn Langohr's Blog, page 23
April 2, 2012
Update: Radio interview with Sista Soul at KHSU starts at 3 PM Easter Sunday!
Sista Soul at KHSU checked out my blog and corrected me that the actual intervew is at 3 PM. Feel free to check out her entire show that starts at 2 PM. Her show is about current events to reach out and help people in Northern California. She also has news about the Pelican Bay Prison and solitary confinement with a redemptive theme.PR Newswire articles
April 1, 2012
Radio Interview with Sista Soul at KHSU set for this Sunday at 2 PM
God has blessed me with a radio interview with Sista Soul at KHSU at 2 PM this coming Sunday. She wants to talk about what led me to prison (Drug dealing), what it was like, is it a place for drug addicts and dealers, what it is like to parole and start over, about my writing and how my books are doing and whatever else. I'm excited that it is NPR and want to get as much mileage as possible. If anyone knows how to do this, please let me know at rollcallthebook@gmail.com 949-354-7176PR Newswire articles
March 30, 2012
Glenn Langohr: In Prison on Drug Charges for 10 Years, Now Author Of 5 Books, Roll Call, Upon Release and the Series, A California Pelican Bay Prison Story
In his drug war novel Roll Call, Glenn Langohr illustrates how the U.S. has made drugs more desirable by making them taboo, which has increased the demand for them, throwing gasoline on Mexican cartel wars, along with breeding gangs in California's prisons.
Glenn Langohr-Portrayed as B.J in Roll Call
"Those without sin cast the first stone." A released Pelican Bay inmate sends video evidence of a District Attorney's son selling drugs in Roll Call
"For the last 6 years of my incarceration I woke up at 4 AM every morning to write, before the on-rush of prison life took over, to finish my drug war novel Roll Call." States Langohr, "I felt compelled to write, to open the eyes of the community, that the drug war is a spiritual war."
Roll Call, available in print and e-book retailers, follows Glenn Langohr's path portrayed as B.J.; from being raised by the Angelic mother he is torn from, to becoming a drug dealer, always trying to find a way out of the dark life of an addict.
In another thread the path of three large Mexican cartel members have a hungry quest to obtain U.S. money and delves into how the Sinaloa and Michoacán cartels commit thousands of murders and deceptions for control of the drug trade.
The cartel paths inevitably meet B.J. in Orange County, California leading to a roller coaster ride of excitement through drug smuggling cartels, to street gangs, to outlaw bikers, all trying to get their piece of the action. Add a good detective squeezed out of the loop by an overzealous narcotic detective; a robust prison union trying to call the shots; and a handful of other drug criminals trying to hold on to their conscience; and, you have the perfect recipe for a revolutionary uprising, bound by blood; all leaving the reader wondering, who are the real criminals?
Kirkus Discoveries Nielson Media Review "A Harrowing down-and-dirty depiction of the U.S. War on Drugs, sometimes reminiscent of Soderbergh's Traffic, by former dealer, California artist Langohr."
Upon Release from prison, Glenn Langohr finished the sequel to Roll Call, Upon Release, along with A California Pelican Bay Prison Story, Lock Up Diaries and Gladiator. He started Lockdownpublishing to help other prisoners turn their lives around through writing and art. See his u-tube video.
Roll Call is available in print for 19.99 and .99 cents in e-book at all retailers.
The sequel to Roll Call, Upon Release , A California Pelican Bay Prison Story-Race Riot, Lock Up Diaries and Gladiator is available for .99 cents in e-book.
Available for interviews and speaking engagements.
###PR Newswire articles
Glenn Langohr-Portrayed as B.J in Roll Call
"Those without sin cast the first stone." A released Pelican Bay inmate sends video evidence of a District Attorney's son selling drugs in Roll Call
"For the last 6 years of my incarceration I woke up at 4 AM every morning to write, before the on-rush of prison life took over, to finish my drug war novel Roll Call." States Langohr, "I felt compelled to write, to open the eyes of the community, that the drug war is a spiritual war."
Roll Call, available in print and e-book retailers, follows Glenn Langohr's path portrayed as B.J.; from being raised by the Angelic mother he is torn from, to becoming a drug dealer, always trying to find a way out of the dark life of an addict.
In another thread the path of three large Mexican cartel members have a hungry quest to obtain U.S. money and delves into how the Sinaloa and Michoacán cartels commit thousands of murders and deceptions for control of the drug trade.
The cartel paths inevitably meet B.J. in Orange County, California leading to a roller coaster ride of excitement through drug smuggling cartels, to street gangs, to outlaw bikers, all trying to get their piece of the action. Add a good detective squeezed out of the loop by an overzealous narcotic detective; a robust prison union trying to call the shots; and a handful of other drug criminals trying to hold on to their conscience; and, you have the perfect recipe for a revolutionary uprising, bound by blood; all leaving the reader wondering, who are the real criminals?
Kirkus Discoveries Nielson Media Review "A Harrowing down-and-dirty depiction of the U.S. War on Drugs, sometimes reminiscent of Soderbergh's Traffic, by former dealer, California artist Langohr."
Upon Release from prison, Glenn Langohr finished the sequel to Roll Call, Upon Release, along with A California Pelican Bay Prison Story, Lock Up Diaries and Gladiator. He started Lockdownpublishing to help other prisoners turn their lives around through writing and art. See his u-tube video.
Roll Call is available in print for 19.99 and .99 cents in e-book at all retailers.
The sequel to Roll Call, Upon Release , A California Pelican Bay Prison Story-Race Riot, Lock Up Diaries and Gladiator is available for .99 cents in e-book.
Available for interviews and speaking engagements.
###PR Newswire articles
March 28, 2012
Glenn Langohr's New Book: Underdog, The Pelican Bay Hunger Strike, Reveals the Story Behind the Story of the Recent Inmate Death at Corcoran State Prison
In Langohr's new book Underdog, he strives to shine a spotlight on some of the injust ways California prison's deem inmates incorrigible and house them in solitary.PR Newswire articles
March 23, 2012
Glenn Langohr: In Prison on Drug Charges for 10 Years, Now Author Of 5 Books, Roll Call, Upon Release and the Series, A California Pelican Bay Prison Story
In his drug war novel Roll Call, Glenn Langohr illustrates how the U.S. has made drugs more desirable by making them taboo, which has increased the demand for them, throwing gasoline on Mexican cartel wars, along with breeding gangs in California's prisons.
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Glenn Langohr-Portrayed as B.J in Roll Call
"Those without sin cast the first stone." A released Pelican Bay inmate sends video evidence of a District Attorney's son selling drugs in Roll Call
"For the last 6 years of my incarceration I woke up at 4 AM every morning to write, before the on-rush of prison life took over, to finish my drug war novel Roll Call." States Langohr, "I felt compelled to write, to open the eyes of the community, that the drug war is a spiritual war."
Roll Call, available in print and e-book retailers, follows Glenn Langohr's path portrayed as B.J.; from being raised by the Angelic mother he is torn from, to becoming a drug dealer, always trying to find a way out of the dark life of an addict.
In another thread the path of three large Mexican cartel members have a hungry quest to obtain U.S. money and delves into how the Sinaloa and Michoacán cartels commit thousands of murders and deceptions for control of the drug trade.
The cartel paths inevitably meet B.J. in Orange County, California leading to a roller coaster ride of excitement through drug smuggling cartels, to street gangs, to outlaw bikers, all trying to get their piece of the action. Add a good detective squeezed out of the loop by an overzealous narcotic detective; a robust prison union trying to call the shots; and a handful of other drug criminals trying to hold on to their conscience; and, you have the perfect recipe for a revolutionary uprising, bound by blood; all leaving the reader wondering, who are the real criminals?
Kirkus Discoveries Nielson Media Review "A Harrowing down-and-dirty depiction of the U.S. War on Drugs, sometimes reminiscent of Soderbergh's Traffic, by former dealer, California artist Langohr."
Upon Release from prison, Glenn Langohr finished the sequel to Roll Call, Upon Release, along with A California Pelican Bay Prison Story, Lock Up Diaries and Gladiator. He started Lockdownpublishing to help other prisoners turn their lives around through writing and art. See his u-tube video.PR Newswire articles
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Glenn Langohr-Portrayed as B.J in Roll Call
"Those without sin cast the first stone." A released Pelican Bay inmate sends video evidence of a District Attorney's son selling drugs in Roll Call
"For the last 6 years of my incarceration I woke up at 4 AM every morning to write, before the on-rush of prison life took over, to finish my drug war novel Roll Call." States Langohr, "I felt compelled to write, to open the eyes of the community, that the drug war is a spiritual war."
Roll Call, available in print and e-book retailers, follows Glenn Langohr's path portrayed as B.J.; from being raised by the Angelic mother he is torn from, to becoming a drug dealer, always trying to find a way out of the dark life of an addict.
In another thread the path of three large Mexican cartel members have a hungry quest to obtain U.S. money and delves into how the Sinaloa and Michoacán cartels commit thousands of murders and deceptions for control of the drug trade.
The cartel paths inevitably meet B.J. in Orange County, California leading to a roller coaster ride of excitement through drug smuggling cartels, to street gangs, to outlaw bikers, all trying to get their piece of the action. Add a good detective squeezed out of the loop by an overzealous narcotic detective; a robust prison union trying to call the shots; and a handful of other drug criminals trying to hold on to their conscience; and, you have the perfect recipe for a revolutionary uprising, bound by blood; all leaving the reader wondering, who are the real criminals?
Kirkus Discoveries Nielson Media Review "A Harrowing down-and-dirty depiction of the U.S. War on Drugs, sometimes reminiscent of Soderbergh's Traffic, by former dealer, California artist Langohr."
Upon Release from prison, Glenn Langohr finished the sequel to Roll Call, Upon Release, along with A California Pelican Bay Prison Story, Lock Up Diaries and Gladiator. He started Lockdownpublishing to help other prisoners turn their lives around through writing and art. See his u-tube video.PR Newswire articles
March 22, 2012
Hi Friends
I'm not sure about this blog thing selling books or getting great exposure by just pumping out press releases and articles I've written so today I ask any who come by a question- What makes you write, or what makes you decide to read a certain book? For me, I write about stuff I've lived through to help process a deeper explanation. I love getting in the zone where the magic happens and it is all free flow. Hours and days evaporate as it comes together. As for reading, with attention issues always a problem for me, I have to read a book that keeps me locked in to the story. Short chapters that keep the pace going always works. James Patterson is really good at it because I really don't love all his books, but if I start one, those short chapters make it easy to finish. One last thing to think about, my writing content- Do you think we were better off just putting serious criminals, the rapist, robbers, killers and such in prison like we did in the 1980's, rather then now, where we have so many laws created and everything is a crime?PR Newswire articles
March 21, 2012
Glenn Langohr, Ex-Prisoner, Releases the Books "Roll Call" and "A California Pelican Bay Prison Story" Series to Shine a Spotlight on the Prisoner Hunger Strike Crises
Author of Roll Call and A California Pelican Bay Prison Story, Glenn Langohr, drawing on his own experiences as an inmate, takes you into the story behind the story of the on-going Prison Hunger Strike. Don't just read the headlines, live the horror of what being locked up means for thousands of prisoners being abused by sadistic deputies in his new books: Roll Call and A California Pelican Bay Prison Story series.
Glenn Langohr-Portrayed as B.J in Roll Call
"Those without sin cast the first stone" An excerpt from Roll Call where a district attorney's son is dealing drugs
Having served 10 years in California's most violent jails and prisons for drug charges, Langohr's Drug War and Prison books, Roll Call & A California Pelican Bay Prison Story, shed light on flaws within the criminal justice and prison system in regards to labeling defendants over hearsay from other criminals, relating to the 5 core demands the prisoner's are striking over.
In one of Glenn Langohr's new books, Roll Call, he penetrates from an insider's view, the practice of law enforcement utilizing informants who are also criminals to garner information, and then using that information to label defendants while setting the other criminal informant free. "This practice creates an injustice in many cases."
In Glenn Langohr's other new book, A California Pelican Bay Prison Story, Langohr illustrates life in California's prisons where low level drug addicts are bred into bigger criminals and an addiction is bred into an affliction much harder to escape where races are segregated and gangs and violence become the solution, spitting out displaced humans without any job placement.
Glenn Langohr's books are available on Amazon.
$4.99 on Kindle and $19.99 in paperback.
"A harrowing-down-and-dirty depiction of the U.S. War on Drugs, sometimes reminiscent of Solderburgh's movie Traffic, by former dealer, California artist Langohr. Locked up for a decade on drug charges and immersed in both philosophical tomes and modern pulp thrillers, Langohr penned Roll Call. A vivid, clamorous account of the war on drugs."
-Kirkus Discoveries, Nielson Business Media
Glenn Langohr started lockdownpublishing.com to help other prisoners turn their life around through writing and art. He uses prison art for book covers for his e-books.
Available for Interviews and ReviewPR Newswire articles
Glenn Langohr-Portrayed as B.J in Roll Call
"Those without sin cast the first stone" An excerpt from Roll Call where a district attorney's son is dealing drugs
Having served 10 years in California's most violent jails and prisons for drug charges, Langohr's Drug War and Prison books, Roll Call & A California Pelican Bay Prison Story, shed light on flaws within the criminal justice and prison system in regards to labeling defendants over hearsay from other criminals, relating to the 5 core demands the prisoner's are striking over.
In one of Glenn Langohr's new books, Roll Call, he penetrates from an insider's view, the practice of law enforcement utilizing informants who are also criminals to garner information, and then using that information to label defendants while setting the other criminal informant free. "This practice creates an injustice in many cases."
In Glenn Langohr's other new book, A California Pelican Bay Prison Story, Langohr illustrates life in California's prisons where low level drug addicts are bred into bigger criminals and an addiction is bred into an affliction much harder to escape where races are segregated and gangs and violence become the solution, spitting out displaced humans without any job placement.
Glenn Langohr's books are available on Amazon.
$4.99 on Kindle and $19.99 in paperback.
"A harrowing-down-and-dirty depiction of the U.S. War on Drugs, sometimes reminiscent of Solderburgh's movie Traffic, by former dealer, California artist Langohr. Locked up for a decade on drug charges and immersed in both philosophical tomes and modern pulp thrillers, Langohr penned Roll Call. A vivid, clamorous account of the war on drugs."
-Kirkus Discoveries, Nielson Business Media
Glenn Langohr started lockdownpublishing.com to help other prisoners turn their life around through writing and art. He uses prison art for book covers for his e-books.
Available for Interviews and ReviewPR Newswire articles
March 20, 2012
Glenn Langohr's New Books-'"Roll Call" & "Lock Up Diaries," Expose the True Story of How the Son of a Sheriff and His Buddies Videoed the Gang Raping of an Underage Girl
Roll Call by Glenn Langohr takes the reader into the story behind the story of the Haidl rape case. In prison on drug charges during the writing of "Roll Call", Glenn Langohr felt the rape victim's pain and further embarrassment of being labeled, "a promiscuous girl who aspired to be a porn star", by private investigators and attorneys intent to clear the son of the sheriff of rape charges.
"I was sick of the hypocrisy of our criminal justice system," Glenn stated.
Though "Roll Call" is a drug war novel with the intent to bring compassion and smart on crime back to the Justice System, the thread with the Haidl rape case is one of many twist and turns of corruption uncovered for social justice in his books. $19.99 paperback or .99 cents in kindle on Amazon
Kirkus Discoveries- "A Master Director of modern pulp thrillers and a harrowing down-and-dirty depiction of the War on Drugs, sometimes reminiscent of Solderburgh's Traffic, by former dealer, California artist Langohr."
Also by Glenn Langohr- "Lock Up Diaries- A California Pelican Bay Prison Story Series"
A depiction of life inside of prison and a look at the political landscape between races, segregated by cell after being released from the Pelican Bay SHU in California. The amazing details of prison life - code words that prisoners use, explanations of how they communicate from cell to cell - really make you feel you have entered a different world, or like you are watching a movie. .99 cents with kindle on Amazon
"A raw, breathless descent through the inner circle of the California Penal Hell. Fraught with detail that only someone who's been there could know." Review by Phillip Doran, author of A Reluctant Tuscan
After a decade in prison on drug charges, Glenn Langohr's vision is to help other drug addicted and lost prisoners find their voice through writing and art. He uses prison art for some of his book covers and started a publishing company, lockdownpublishing.com to open a new avenue for prison authors. Past radio interviews include KSBR 88.5 in Orange County and Buy Back America in Utah
Interviews and review copies available upon requestPR Newswire articles
"I was sick of the hypocrisy of our criminal justice system," Glenn stated.
Though "Roll Call" is a drug war novel with the intent to bring compassion and smart on crime back to the Justice System, the thread with the Haidl rape case is one of many twist and turns of corruption uncovered for social justice in his books. $19.99 paperback or .99 cents in kindle on Amazon
Kirkus Discoveries- "A Master Director of modern pulp thrillers and a harrowing down-and-dirty depiction of the War on Drugs, sometimes reminiscent of Solderburgh's Traffic, by former dealer, California artist Langohr."
Also by Glenn Langohr- "Lock Up Diaries- A California Pelican Bay Prison Story Series"
A depiction of life inside of prison and a look at the political landscape between races, segregated by cell after being released from the Pelican Bay SHU in California. The amazing details of prison life - code words that prisoners use, explanations of how they communicate from cell to cell - really make you feel you have entered a different world, or like you are watching a movie. .99 cents with kindle on Amazon
"A raw, breathless descent through the inner circle of the California Penal Hell. Fraught with detail that only someone who's been there could know." Review by Phillip Doran, author of A Reluctant Tuscan
After a decade in prison on drug charges, Glenn Langohr's vision is to help other drug addicted and lost prisoners find their voice through writing and art. He uses prison art for some of his book covers and started a publishing company, lockdownpublishing.com to open a new avenue for prison authors. Past radio interviews include KSBR 88.5 in Orange County and Buy Back America in Utah
Interviews and review copies available upon requestPR Newswire articles
March 19, 2012
Effects of the Illegal Drug Trade on Societies
Can you imagine being the wife, the daughter, the son, the mother or father of a law enforcement officer slain by a drug cartel along the border and finding out later our highest up levels of law enforcement here in the U.S. supplied the machine guns to the killers? The media was quick to question how high up the law enforcement ladder knowledge of an operation dubbed, Fast and Furious went, all the way to the Attorney General of the U.S?
The feedback we got from the talking puppets who represent the federal agencies, ATF, FBI and DEA was feeble. The ATF blamed the FBI and DEA for not sharing secrets or knowledge relating to drug dealing informants and that is the reason for the mix up. It is understandable that in the world of cartels and drug smugglers and drug dealers the law has to find ways to garner information to delve deeper into the larger components of the organization. The major flaw in this style of law enforcement is in the very essence of siding up with one illegal party to bust another illegal party. A drug dealer of any level has a mission to sell the most product for the most money possible and to take the heat of themself any way possible.
So essentially when law enforcement works with a drug dealer the law is actually selling the drugs also, as proven with the ATF's operation, Fast and Furious where the same machine guns the law gave the cartel drug dealers were used to kill by the same criminals they trusted! Another problem with working with drug criminals as snitches at a high level, such as the ATF, FBI or DEA is that the undercover agents have to use drugs, sell drugs, sometimes use weapons to plant themselves deeper into the organizations they are fighting against and that is where intoxicated sworn officers fall victim to the drugs themselves. Greed, power and control can take down the integrity of the law enforcement officer.
How many times do we have to find out the hard way that this Drug War is a joke? When are we going to realize this Drug War is a war on people who are in poverty or in the disease of drug addiction? I wish the answer was as simple as legalizing drugs, but it isn't. It is deeper than that. We have to decriminalize the War on Drugs and treat it as a disease. Then we can start to bring about change. If we can help those with drug problems with treatment that involves preparation for life after drug using or drug dealing the change will start. How about attacking the problem in our overcrowded jails and prisons. What if we started programs that teach inmates how to write scripts such as novels, screen plays, song lyrics, or programs that teach inmates how to get a job once released? In jails and prisons inmates are bred into gang members and are released displaced from society and only know how to live in a way that landed them behind bars in the first place.
I wrote the drug war novel "Roll Call" by Glenn Langohr on Amazon from prison on drug charges. I started http://www.lockdownpublishing.com to help prisoners see they can turn what they have been through into a blessing through writing and art like I am doing.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Glen...PR Newswire articles
The feedback we got from the talking puppets who represent the federal agencies, ATF, FBI and DEA was feeble. The ATF blamed the FBI and DEA for not sharing secrets or knowledge relating to drug dealing informants and that is the reason for the mix up. It is understandable that in the world of cartels and drug smugglers and drug dealers the law has to find ways to garner information to delve deeper into the larger components of the organization. The major flaw in this style of law enforcement is in the very essence of siding up with one illegal party to bust another illegal party. A drug dealer of any level has a mission to sell the most product for the most money possible and to take the heat of themself any way possible.
So essentially when law enforcement works with a drug dealer the law is actually selling the drugs also, as proven with the ATF's operation, Fast and Furious where the same machine guns the law gave the cartel drug dealers were used to kill by the same criminals they trusted! Another problem with working with drug criminals as snitches at a high level, such as the ATF, FBI or DEA is that the undercover agents have to use drugs, sell drugs, sometimes use weapons to plant themselves deeper into the organizations they are fighting against and that is where intoxicated sworn officers fall victim to the drugs themselves. Greed, power and control can take down the integrity of the law enforcement officer.
How many times do we have to find out the hard way that this Drug War is a joke? When are we going to realize this Drug War is a war on people who are in poverty or in the disease of drug addiction? I wish the answer was as simple as legalizing drugs, but it isn't. It is deeper than that. We have to decriminalize the War on Drugs and treat it as a disease. Then we can start to bring about change. If we can help those with drug problems with treatment that involves preparation for life after drug using or drug dealing the change will start. How about attacking the problem in our overcrowded jails and prisons. What if we started programs that teach inmates how to write scripts such as novels, screen plays, song lyrics, or programs that teach inmates how to get a job once released? In jails and prisons inmates are bred into gang members and are released displaced from society and only know how to live in a way that landed them behind bars in the first place.
I wrote the drug war novel "Roll Call" by Glenn Langohr on Amazon from prison on drug charges. I started http://www.lockdownpublishing.com to help prisoners see they can turn what they have been through into a blessing through writing and art like I am doing.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Glen...PR Newswire articles
March 18, 2012
Should the Drug Cartels Be Considered Terrorists?
Recently we have been getting reports that terrorist organizations like Hezbollah are working with Mexican drug cartels close to the border. When, then President Bush, responded to the 9-11 tragedy with his broad branding of evil, terrorist, and drug dealer approach to drawing a line in the sand he reached to far. In his defense, he has part of it right. Drug proceeds fuel terror plots. But, doesn't that approach only force more terrorism? What are we going to do, label everyone that gets involved in drug use a future terrorist?
In California there are 33 state prisons. More than 70% are there for drug crimes. Soccor moms are watching their kids get caught up in this culture of using drugs, getting put on probation, then going to prison. In prison that addiction is bred into an affliction much harder to escape where races are segregated and violence and tattoos are the only solution. With this approach the prisons are spitting out displaced aliens unable to adapt back into society. In California recidivism is the worst in the nation. Released prisoners are back in prison within three years over 70 percent of the time. Studies show that prisoners who continue to go back to prison again and again, become gang members. Soccor mom's blond headed little boy is now a skin head.
So back to the original question, what is terrorism and who is qualified to decide? As 9/11 as an example, the U.S. spoke terror over and over on the news, "That we must eradicate terror and go after evil for the free world." The actions after 9/11 by our government at many levels are in direct conflict with that statement. We are the leaders of the incarcerated world with approximately seven million people either in prison or have served time there. The rest of the world combined doesn't reach those numbers.
Also post 9/11 our military went into Afghanistan and incorporated a working relationship with The Northern Alliance. The Northern Alliance earn their income in the Poppy fields and sell heroin but because they were the chief competition to the Taliban, our military figured we could expect to attain a working relationship and obtain information that would lead to the enemy, those evil forces referred to earlier. The information didn't pay off in a significant way.
The War on Terror is similar to the War on Drugs and the root of both problems are found in poverty. Desperate people do desperate things to survive. If we look at it from a spiritual perspective we can learn more about the problem, rather than create a bigger problem.
I started writing drug war novels from prison while serving time for drug charges. My novel Roll Call by Glenn Langohr is on Amazon. http://www.lockdownpublishing.com
Kirkus Discoveries, Nielsen Business Media
discoveries@kirkusreviews.com
A harrowing, down-and-dirty depiction-sometimes reminiscent of Steven Soderbergh's Traffic-of America's war on drugs, by former dealer and California artist Langohr.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Glen...
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In California there are 33 state prisons. More than 70% are there for drug crimes. Soccor moms are watching their kids get caught up in this culture of using drugs, getting put on probation, then going to prison. In prison that addiction is bred into an affliction much harder to escape where races are segregated and violence and tattoos are the only solution. With this approach the prisons are spitting out displaced aliens unable to adapt back into society. In California recidivism is the worst in the nation. Released prisoners are back in prison within three years over 70 percent of the time. Studies show that prisoners who continue to go back to prison again and again, become gang members. Soccor mom's blond headed little boy is now a skin head.
So back to the original question, what is terrorism and who is qualified to decide? As 9/11 as an example, the U.S. spoke terror over and over on the news, "That we must eradicate terror and go after evil for the free world." The actions after 9/11 by our government at many levels are in direct conflict with that statement. We are the leaders of the incarcerated world with approximately seven million people either in prison or have served time there. The rest of the world combined doesn't reach those numbers.
Also post 9/11 our military went into Afghanistan and incorporated a working relationship with The Northern Alliance. The Northern Alliance earn their income in the Poppy fields and sell heroin but because they were the chief competition to the Taliban, our military figured we could expect to attain a working relationship and obtain information that would lead to the enemy, those evil forces referred to earlier. The information didn't pay off in a significant way.
The War on Terror is similar to the War on Drugs and the root of both problems are found in poverty. Desperate people do desperate things to survive. If we look at it from a spiritual perspective we can learn more about the problem, rather than create a bigger problem.
I started writing drug war novels from prison while serving time for drug charges. My novel Roll Call by Glenn Langohr is on Amazon. http://www.lockdownpublishing.com
Kirkus Discoveries, Nielsen Business Media
discoveries@kirkusreviews.com
A harrowing, down-and-dirty depiction-sometimes reminiscent of Steven Soderbergh's Traffic-of America's war on drugs, by former dealer and California artist Langohr.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Glen...
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/6425676PR Newswire articles
