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Topic History of: Just had a lovely e-m from a prison visitor...
Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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veritas |
I can believe that you were a great help to others in jail and I must tell you the reason I was drawn to your website after seeing the link in Madame Arcati.
I've never met you-but about 25 (?) years ago I was in New York with a young musician friend and trying to help him kick start his career.
I had a few contacts-some pretty big names in the music business and the media. I got through a few doors but most were slammed shut.
However I had your telephone number ( from where I can't remember)-phoned you up and you immediately agreed to see my friend..I think you lived on 57th Street !
You saw him for an hour and the advice you gave him was invaluable and his self esteem was so boosted by being seen by an artist with such a great track record.
he's gone onto to be one a hugely successful session musician-played backing on some of the world's biggest hits and never forgotten your kindness. Either have I. |
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JC |
I don't think it will bring about the end of the human species, JK. Corruption on this scale has been known for centuries, and it reflects the darker side of human nature. It will certainly bring about change - for better or worse. Maybe the end of civilisation as we know it. |
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JK2006 |
My experiences in prison - as well as during the false allegations investigation and court trials - were absolutely fascinating, eye opening and beneficial.
That's why I've said they were the best three and a half years.
Looking back, perhaps not the best but certainly the most educational.
Everything I learned at school and university, and in the strange but wonderful world of music and entertainment, paled into insignificance when I experienced just how incompetent and corrupt the legal system is.
I really could not believe it when I found out that the police, often decent men and women trying hard to do an honest job, are pushed into simply getting convictions and deliberately, intentionally ignoring the truth.
As I say in Vile Pervert: The Musical, as I left the station after my initial arrest, two policemen were having a smoke outside and said quietly to me "We hate what's going on JK but we have to obey orders".
That was one of the most distressing moments.
Many more in court (the "ushers" were incredibly sympathetic and kept saying "the system is broken").
And in the prison estate, the officers and governors were overwhelmingly on my side and urged me, encouraged me to help the innocent men inside.
Free use (illegal) of photo copiers, my cell opened when it should have been locked, discreet use of untapped phones... all in order to help the innocent inmates. Once, when police came to visit me (they turned out to be the excellent and decent sex offenders team with whom I still, of course, have regular contact) one prison officer said "if they try anything on JK, just call for us and we'll get you out of there".
One particular innocent rape false accuser victim - he made big coverage in the local papers so I can name him, Dave - was so grateful that he went on at length in the paper about what a decent guy I was (it happened to be my secretary's local rag; she was most impressed!).
I think all the truly decent people in the system (the vast majority) were delighted that someone of my intelligence and education had been sucked into this appalling world - sorry for me, obviously, but pleased that someone could expose the corruption and provoke some change.
The awful thing I've discovered since release (and I did suspect it) has been the absolute, total cowardice of the media to investigate and publish.
Editors, proprietors and executives are overwhelmingly against rocking the boat.
Even the Barry George, Sally Clark, Birmingham and Guildford victims, Sion Jenkins and so on - where the appeal courts have eventually provoked release - only get token coverage and are dropped as soon as possible.
And smeared in the coverage by the police friendly papers.
The media likes the simple black and white, innocent and guilty, good boys and bad boys caricatures. They hate the grey areas.
But it's that blurring of the lines, bending of the evidence, corrupting of the facts that destroys our world.
Weapons of mass destruction - that, for me, along with the Sally Clark situation, was the pointing of what is going so badly wrong.
It will bring about the end of the human species, believe me - sooner rather than later. |
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veritas |
that is amazing !
I hope you are writing a book some day about all this.
I know Vile Pervert tells the story but a serious book (tinged with your humour) can be more powerful.
Imagine if it got on the required reading list for students ! |
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JK2006 |
Spot on He Knows - 12 innocent men released because I insisted they fought and found flaws in their "deps" (the papers about their cases).
That was just the tip of the iceberg during three and a half years in three different prisons. |
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