In your October column, Ethics: We Need to Talk…, you implicitly suggested that I should be protected from having to testify and provide my unpublished material, if and only if, I am a “professional journalist”. While I certainly understand your argument that a reporter’s privilege “must be very narrowly applied or the justice system would [...]
On October 16th, Demian Bulwa at the San Francisco Chronicle published an article about my case. He wrote to me in prison and asked me what my impressions of his article were. What follows is the letter I sent him. Dear Demian, Thank you for sending me the article clipping and requesting my feedback. My [...]
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A few weeks ago, just before I returned to FDC Dublin, I took a trip to New York and had the opportunity to witness the new airport security measures in action. In what could be the most idiotic government policy yet, I was reprimanded as I stepped onto the plane for carrying the large soda [...]
Upon my return to Dublin I began talking to a guy named Jerry Robisson. He grew up in the Fillmore and is currently serving a two year sentence for a parole violation. Jerry approaches me wanting to discuss the rate of recidivism, or what is more commonly referred to as the revolving door in which [...]
Josh is well. He would like people to write to him, sohe wants to thank those who have been writing and he hopes that more of you will want to correspond with him. Those letters are a vital link to the outside world. Thank you also to those of you who have been using the [...]
The news that the U.S. Attorney’s office was seeking to revoke my bail began circulating on September 11th, 2006: five years after you-know-what, a date that, according to a friend, is also known as “Patriot Day”. If there’s one thing the right and the left can agree upon, it’s that 9/11 changed the face of [...]
Hi everyone. I got to see Josh yesterday and today. He’s doing OK, waiting for the prison system to get his phone PIN to him from their central headquarters. I guess it’s like losing your ATM card, look how long the bank takes to get you another one. He wanted everyone to know that if [...]
