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Freedom Downtime Page #6
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just to see what the hell they were talking about.
There's something about Pennsylvania.
l call it the Prison State.
That's because they seem to have prisons
everywhere you look.
And almost everyone l know who's gone
to prison seems to wind up in Pennsylvania.
Weird.
Besides, every time l get pulled over
by a cop...
l seem to find myself in the Prison State.
l knew l'd better be careful.
Let's not get off on the wrong foot,
Pennsylvania's great.
Home of such landmarks as the Liberty Bell,
lndependence Hall...
that little surveillance camera
above lndependence Hall...
and the house where Thomas Jefferson
signed the Declaration of lndependence...
just down the block from theAfro-American
Museum and its new neighbor.
A maximum-security federal prison
right in the middle of Philadelphia.
Howtimes change.
They say it's illegal to take pictures
of any prison...
even those under construction,
even those right in the middle of a city
We couldn't find a law anywhere
that backed this up...
but try taking a picture of a prison...
without getting threatened
Here, look at this part.
Maybe there are subtle details
that will lead to a prison uprising some day
l think fully half of the people
in federal prison, if not more...
shouldn't be there.
lt's notviolent criminals.
Drug crimes. Somebody gets
a mandatory 10 years...
for selling $800 worth of LSD.
That's not right either.
That's the way the federal system works.
lt's just not right.
has more prisoners than SouthAfrica.
lncarceration is a big business.
l think that's part of the reason.
There is less and less tolerance
on the part of the public...
for people who have transgressed the rules.
We have a huge prison population.
This gets into other questions.
with sex offenders and murderers...
you can possibly do...
to somebody who has...
not murdered, is not a violent criminal!
Somebody who's a technological....
Who's gone over the edge.
Then, again,
we have to define what we mean.
We need a new classification system
for technological law.
ln one of my books
l talked about setting up a court system...
especially for technology
where the people that were prosecuting...
and the judges
and the people involved in the cases...
would have some technological basis...
to evaluate and try the case
in a reasonable manner...
and to come up with
an alternative sentencing system...
that reflected more the nature of the crime.
lf you're exposed to people like that
for too long, you change with them.
You become one of them.
Next thing you know you'll be locked away
again for doing what they do.
One night...
...l was in my cell in a minimum-security
facility, Bucks County Prison.
and flipped my bed upside down...
and locked me in handcufs and started
rummaging through my storage locker..
demanding to know
where my computer was.
l'm like, ''l don't have a computer here.
What are you talking about?''
They were squeezing the toothpaste
out of my tube...
ostensibly looking for a computer
or whatever they were looking for.
lt was bizarre!
But Pennsylvania was more than prisons,
it was a place of learning.
And theAge Expo was where
thousands of senior citizens learned...
that corporateAmerica
The guy representing BellAtlantic
was the most sincere of all.
How could you not trust a fox?
Freddie the Phone-Fraud Fox was passing
corporate numbers to the seniors:
Over $4 billion in phone fraud every year.
Freddie said most of that was
because of evil computer hackers.
And l met him.
Freddie knew words like ''digit''
would only confuse older people.
lt made more sense to say things like
''ten-number number.''
lt means they will have to dial
the area code...
along with their seven-digit number
each time they place a call...
within and between 215, 610...
and the new 267 for 215...
and the 484 for 610 area code.
You give them out in blocks of 10,000 and people
that get these blocks of 10,000...
end up using 300 numbers
and all the others are tied up wasted.
Easy listening
Never mind the world outside
Easy listening
Famine, war, and genocide
Easy listening
Forget the loony on the loose
Easy listening
lgnore the poisoned atmosphere
Open up another beer
what to think and say
We went back...
...to a familiar place.
Everything was just as we left it...
only it was about 90 degrees warmer.
But you could still feel the chill
after four-and-a-half years.
lt was surprising
how nobody tried to stop us from filming.
So we filmed everything.
The medium-security facility...
the minimum-security prison camp...
the sign that lets minimum-security
prisoners know when they've escaped...
and Unicor, the slave-labor office...
where prisoners make furniture
for the government for pennies a day.
We almost made it out.
lt was the first time we had ever gotten
pulled over by prison cops.
How could we not drop in
on our friends at CERT...
the Computer Emergency Response Team?
They tell the world
when there's a threat to computer networks.
They'd back us up and tell the world...
that Kevin Mitnick
posed no threat at all to NORAD...
Kristy McNichol, or theAmerican way of life.
worked odd hours...
but these guys
apparently took Saturdays off.
We asked the security guard to come down
and let us leave a pamphlet or two.
Something must get triggered
whenever you say Mitnick's name.
We were meeting far too many cops
But at least Pennsylvania
was living up to its name.
We explained why we were there
but got the message we expected.
You're not welcome.
We're used to that.
ln the event that you should
maybe happen to come again...
if you are not welcome...
and l find out that you are not welcome...
you will be exactly where Kevin is...
and then you'd be defeating your purpose.
l'm here to do the job
and my job right now is...
-to get you out of here.
-l understand that.
l know a lot of people who are in prison
who probably shouldn't be there.
But that's our judicial system.
You know what l mean?
Sometimes it works and sometimes it don't.
Believe me, l've seen it not work
in the favor of my people many times.
l'm gonna parlay the rest of this...
my tedious job is to run you for wants
and warrants and all that kind of stuff...
if you would expedite your leaving.
We'll get out of here,
we'll head for the border right away
The gentleman has been given
a standard warning.
l'll give you his name and stuf.
Before we left,
we decided to check the mood of the street.
He told me not to mess with her.
She did everybody she could in the weeds...
and then she moved to the projects.
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