Knights
in Dirty Armour II
Chapter
I
TODAY’S LESSON IN
PARENTING
When you suspect
one of your children of having done something wrong, for whatever
frivolous reason, or you feel the need to punish someone, here is what needs to be
done:
Take that
child to the closet.
Strip it to underwear.
Shove it in the closet with a small light and close the door
without explanation.
Take it small excuses of food and slip it through a small
hole in the door two or three times a day. Do not allow the child to
speak to any of its siblings.
Do not tell the child how long it must remain in this small
solitary confinement; other than maybe a month or two and do not
allow anyone to visit the child. Do not tell your other
children why you have done this and sometime in the future, after
you have leisurely “investigated” your suspicions and discovered you
were in error or when you feel like it, you may allow your child
back out with the other children.
Whatever you
do, do not apologize to the child for the cruel unwarranted
punishment.
This is the
proper correction method taught in Oklahoma
“Corrections.”
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About 1300
hours on the 14th of June 2005 the Oklahoma Department of
Corrections handcuffed my
100 lb. Marie and marched her to what is commonly called “Death Row”
and there did strip her of what dignity she had left and cast her
into a solitary cell for an indefinite period of time. With no communications, no
charge of any illegal activity, no allowance for “bail” and there
she is to remain caged for the duration of what they claim: “She is
under investigation.”
For what, I am not told.
When I learn
of this hours later I call the prison and a “Corrections” officer
tells me he can tell me nothing; I must come down to the prison in
the morning and talk with Marie’s Case Manager Cynthia
Anderson.
I arrive at
the Oklahoma House of Corrections at 0815 hours
and call from the parking lot to make sure she is available. She will be available around
0900 hours, I am told.
At 0830 two Corrections officers come to
my vehicle and calmly ask me, “What’s this all about?”
“That is what
I came to find out. I
was told to be here this morning to see Cynthia Anderson about Marie
and find out why she is in solitary.”
“Ms. Anderson
is unavailable and she (Marie) is under investigation and you will
have to leave the premises.”
“Is there
anyone else I can talk too?”
“No. You will have to leave the
premises.”
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“May I talk to
the warden?”
“No, you will
have to leave the premises now.”
I leave, call
back at 0900 and 1400 hours to get an answering machine on which I
announce myself and leave the message: “Marie is not violent and I
know she has not committed any crime. Will you tell me why she is
in solitary?” and I leave my number.
At 1555 hours
Cynthia Anderson does answer the phone and advised me she would not
call me as I am long distance and that she knows nothing of why
Marie is “under investigation.”
“Is there
anyone I can talk to to find out?”
“No, you will
have to write Marie.
She knows why she is there; she can tell you.” It did dawn on me how
Cynthia knew Marie knew but didn’t know what was known?
This sort of
activity is common among troublemakers and gang members but picking
on one who has maintained an excellent record of getting along with
the staff and promoting harmony to the best of her ability? I was warned it would happen
to me while I was in prison if it was found out some of the things I
had written. And will
soon publish.
“They will
find some excuse to put you in lockdown and probably give you
‘diesel therapy.’” That
is what the officers did to John Vernon DuBiel in Helena when a
drug ring among the officers was discovered…and yes, I remember the
names of the dealers in blue.
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My Marie may
very well be on “Death Row” simply because I am not afraid to
write. Most of the officers I have
met are quite normal and congenial. A few fit the category of
what someone called “Jack Booted Thugs” that burned alive some 80-90
adults and children of a diverse religious group in Waco Texas. That, by the way, is
weighing heavily on Janet Reno. It is obvious when she talks
about it.
I recently
wrote to an attorney of one of the sadistic guards at Mabel
Bassett. I did not
mention that she would slip her hands under the bras of visitors and
pull it out so that the visitor’s boobs would fall in her
hands. But I did write
how she demanded an overweight high medical risk 7-month pregnant
inmate to “squat and grunt” …which is a danger to the fetus; and
then to “bend over and spread ‘em” and the way overweight pregnant
woman could not do so without losing her balance and falling onto
the toilet…and the guard would not help her to her feet but let her
suffer. This particular
guard did this all the while using such vile language and I will
simply not stoop to write X rated vocabulary.
Marie could be
on “Death Row” with Brenda Andrew, awaiting execution, to punish
me. Brenda Andrew is
not allowed to make phone calls, have visitors…most Death Row
inmates have a TV.
Marie is denied one.
Brenda Andrew
is not allowed visitors to talk to. She is not allowed to talk
to the other inmates.
Who cares? They
are going to kill her, anyway with a lethal injection. So what harm does it do to
torment her? Just like
kicking and beating the drug dog. What difference does it
make? They are going to
die anyway. It goes
against the grain of human decency! That’s what difference it
makes.
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The Jews and
Buddhists had a rule…may still have…that when an animal is going to
die (for food) its life must be prolonged as long as possible and it
must be cared for properly during that time and its life terminated
as painlessly as possible.
Of course, a
difference here is that humans are not killed for food, they are
killed for punishment.
They were bad…well; according to Janet Reno about 95% of them
are guilty. Which means
that 5% are innocent.
Like Marie.
Still, their punishment is their death. Why is it necessary for
humans to abuse humans at all?
That makes those in blue no better than those in gray they
abuse. Worse. It is under the cloak of
Justice.
What harm
could there be in allowing condemned Brenda Andrew conversations
with someone? Why is it
necessary for anyone in blue to be cruel? To fellow humans or to
dogs.
I know
this: I have raised
German Shepherds from 1962 to 1982, since then Akitas. Presently a 7 month old 85
lb male Akita. I do not have to kick him or
choke him to make him mind.
If I must resort to cruelty then I am lacking in intelligence
necessary to train without cruelty. There is an old saying, “You
have to be smarter than a dog to teach it tricks.” You don’t have to be very
smart to beat it into submission! That applies to humans,
too.
What “good”
could come of conversing with Brenda Andrew? Maybe not a lot, but
some. And “some” is
better than “none.”
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What “good”
can come from denying Marie from
conversing?
Well, we’ve
come a long way from the thumb screw and rack. We may get John to stop
writing or we may get a confession from her. Lots of “witches” in
Salem confessed under duress. We may drive her ‘over the
edge’ and have another violent offender. Doing so would mean a pay
raise; it costs more for a guard to guard a violent offender than it
has docile old Marie.
At Hominy they had to keep G&J full. That is the ‘bad’ unit. But that is another
story.
Marie is
losing her ability to resist “breaking down” and becoming a mental
patient. She has been a
strong woman but there is only ‘so much’ that one can take before
they break. Perhaps
they think that when that happens John will give up and go
away. That will not
happen. The only thing
that will make John go away is that Justice is done and he takes
Marie away with him.
Or Klatt could
hire another Jeremy Jones.
So just what
has my innocent Marie who has never harmed anyone in all her 55
years “done” to deserve treatment equal to if not worse than one
awaiting execution? I
think nothing! It may be weeks before I find out but when I do I
will put it in print.
It will be here on this page.
How long must
an innocent woman be tormented in prison before someone in office
has the courage to step forward and say, “This isn’t right.”
?
I would
speculate that Marie is being punished because of my actions. My lack of fear to “tell it
like it is.”
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The following letter has been sent to Edward L. Evans, Deputy
Director of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections with copies to
the warden at Mabel Bassett prison…and a few others. We have
nothing to hide:
16 June, 2005
Edward L.
Evans, Deputy Director Oklahoma D.O.C.
cc: Millicent
Newton-Embry, Warden, Mabel Bassett
Dear Mr.
Evans:
At about 1300
hours June 14 my Marie was taken to a solitary cell. Had I not learned this by
accident, how long would it have been before I was
advised?
I called the
prison and was advised Marie was in isolation while “under
investigation” and was told to come down in the morning and speak
with Cynthia Anderson, Marie’s caseworker. I arrived at the prison at
0815 and called from my cell phone to verify that Cynthia Anderson
was available. I was
told she would be at around 0900. At 0830, two officers came
to my vehicle and one, Captain Roman, asked, “What’s this all
about?” to which I replied “That’s what I came here to find
out.” I volunteered
that I knew Marie was in solitary and told him I came to see her
case manager.
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Mr. Roman said Marie is
“under investigation” and that was all he would tell me. He was polite, told me Ms.
Anderson was not available and asked me to “leave the premises.”
I asked if I
could speak to the warden and he reiterated his “leave the premises”
and I left; drove to the cemetery a mile east and called the prison
three more times during the day; always getting an answering
machine.
At 1555 hours
I got through to Cynthia Anderson who said all that she knew was
that Marie was “under investigation,” did not know why, I
could write Marie and ask her and she could tell me, and that I
would not be allowed to visit Marie any time soon.
I know that
Marie is not violent, has not committed any crimes of any kind and
is, in fact, totally innocent of the crime for which she is
caged.
I also know
that DOC has a habit of reaping vengeance upon an inmate for the
actions of another; in this case, most likely me.
To start with,
DOC held me in confinement long after the sentence was
completed…after the Court of Criminal Appeals stated “Schoonover
could not be charged with…etc.” I will not go into details
about that here, but it is no secret that I have a lawsuit pending
in the Northern District concerning this. I brought out of prison
knowledge of criminal activities of officers involving drugs as well
as “cruelty to animals” and even a couple perverse activities
including one called by the inmates “Miss Pettyfeel.” DOC has reason to “shut me
up.”
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Most recently
I reported to an attorney a cruel and vulgar infliction of
pain/danger to the life of a fetus in a “high risk medical
pregnancy” in her 7th month. As a fetus is a child, that
constitutes the felony of “Child Endangerment” by a DOC officer.
That would be a cause
for vindictiveness…and Marie is certainly available to abuse under
the cloak of “Corrections.”
Marie is being
treated equally with Oklahoma’s only female “Death Row”
inmate in that same unit.
Why?
I have asked
if Marie needs an attorney; I will hire one if that is necessary to
conclude this charade.
Marie has not committed any wrong in any of her 55 years of
life. She does have a
slight disability in her speech pattern that causes antonymic
responses and declarations on occasion and one trained could easily
extract statements from Marie that, due to the loss of her eye
teeth, she would not see exactly what she was saying. Then, to, under the
exacerbation of cruelty and duress presently being inflicted, she is
in the position of the Salem Witches which confessed to
anything.
If I must
“shut up” concerning DOC to protect my Marie I will do so. What I will NOT do is “shut
up” concerning her total innocence. The whole world has access
to proof of that!
Marie will NOT
wind up like Sacco or Vanzetti with an apology from a future
governor 50 years after her death.
We tried in
the beginning to converse with Charles Ramsey before any charges
were filed. He had too
much wax in his ears to listen to any truth; plus he had an
investigator to protect.
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I tried
yesterday to learn of the immediate problem and seek a quick
solution to whatever it is.
I ran into more earwax.
I know of your
“investigations” and how long they can drag out when the solution is
at hand. I also know it
is not necessary to cage within a cage one being
“investigated.” Our
Constitution does not stop at your prison walls…the Justice that
said that may have recently died; his rule did not. If Marie needs an attorney
now, I will hire one now.
Lets get this concluded expeditiously and Marie restored to
the Level IV she has earned.
Please do not
give me the opportunity to write of “Cruel and Unusual Punishment”
inflicted upon a docile proven innocent forty five kg.
quinquagenarian woman.
Respectfully,
(signed)
John
Schoonover
Knightsindirtyarmour.com
RR
1 Box
67 Cleveland, Oklahoma
74020
cc: Maggie_gage@judiciary~dem.senate.gov
Gilda Marie Schoonover
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21 June, 2005
Millicent
Newton-Embry, Warden, Mabel Basset:
It has been
five working days and you have failed to allow my Gilda Marie
Schoonover to contact an attorney. You have failed to allow her
to mail me any correspondence.
The first
thing in the morning, Tuesday, I will be contacting her appellate
attorney Kevin Adams to get to the crux of this enigma of your
necessity to hold Marie in solitary confinement incommunicado.
I have been
told your plan is to hold a hearing, an officer will find Marie
guilty, of what it has not been determined, your protocol seems to
be similar to our kangaroo trials, try on one charge, predetermine a
guilty decision on another.
Put her with hardened criminals where she will be subjected
to occasional beatings and maybe she can work her way
back to level IV in a year or so. If she survives.
I was a fly on
the wall in DOC prisons; I’ve seen how it
works!
I suspect the
problem is that I reported to attorney Shera Shirley in Enid
concerning the Child Endangerment with regard to Sheila Miller when
she was compelled into contortic positions that have been known to
precipitate abortion in similar high risk pregnancies by your
officer Garrett that resulted in her falling on the toilet and
risking the life of her seven month old fetus. I’ve seen inmates who
have been convicted of felony Child Endangerment of less gravity get
several years prison sentences.
As a fly on
the wall in DOC prisons; I’ve seen total disregard for life
attitudes in certain guards.
I’ve overheard guards “make deals” with inmates to “get at”
other inmates. Don’t
tell me it does not happen there. Unless you give me a
valid rational correction I will act on the premises that you are
protecting Ms. Garrett at the expense of my Marie, by someway using
Sheila Miller as a pawn to “get at” Marie to “shut me up” about this
felony misconduct of Ms. Garrett.
My cards are
on the table. What have
you got to hide?
If this
torment and charade must continue, when can we have our weekly hour
long non-contact visits with my innocent wife?
Cc: Edward L.
Evans, Deputy
Director, Oklahoma
D.O.C.
Gilda Marie Schoonover,
norastanart@hotmail.com | 
