A Review of Eric King’s A Clean Hell by Indigenous political prisoner Oso Blanco
by: Oso Blanco
This book Eric King has published will tell you many truths of what US colonialism has come to in the form of US federal prisons, especially the abuses of humans in the SHU and at the ADX Supermax in Florence, Colorado. The haves who seek to destroy and imprison the have-nots have advanced in their evil quest to protect themselves from those not uber-rich using their prison system, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP).
The rich have hired the most ruthless thinkers to create the FBOP, so as to mentally, spiritually, and physically harm or murder prisoners. Eric King went to the ADX, the “Alcatraz of the Rockies,” while I lived through 9 years at a Special Management Unit (SMU). These prisons and staff had and have a green light to commit any crime against prisoners, with the go-ahead from Central Office in Washington, DC. The SMU was shut down after staff murdered too many human beings, but the ADX Supermax continues endlessly, so far.
In A Clean Hell, Eric King goes into the deep inner thoughts of a person tormented by these hypocritical, criminal staff at the Bureau of Prisons. I’ve been in all these places except the ADX. I know these truths of racist hillbilly staff at USP Lee. I went through the same assaults as Eric at Lee and Hazelton USPs. Eric is telling the world 100 percent true facts of the abuses BOP staff commit every single day on the taxpayer’s dime. The creator and the universe will not let these hateful BOP monsters go unpunished for the evils Eric is precisely describing first hand in A Clean Hell, exposing the real true hell of the BOP reality.
I pray from 4am to 6am in Cherokee and I strongly agree with Eric King about how we need to find something positive to keep our mind strong while in prison, constantly surrounded by negativity. As Eric writes, we have to do 5 positive things a day for other people, not just to help people in need, but to maintain our own sanity and strength.
No fake American politician or official will tell the real truth that Eric has now exposed. The people that really, really belong in these hell holes of darkness are the people running them. They belong in here for life for their crimes against humanity. That would be real justice for humanity. Eric and I work tirelessly toward the revolution of love for all life. The Bureau of Prisons, on the other hand, works toward the security of hate and the destruction of people and their families, all while claiming to do the exact opposite. Everything they say and do is backwards, and the federal prisons are not about justice or stopping crime.
Obviously, US society is at a low point in its history right now. Let’s all stand against federal prisons and work to put an end to abuses by staff in these prisons. The Bureau of Prisons is a government corporation that facilitates the abuse and murder of the people who they actively profit off of in this industrial prison complex. A Clean Hell describes how the elite created this as a form of slavery for the have-nots who cannot defend themselves against the rich and their exploitations of all life.
In this new nonfiction gospel, Eric King pinpoints just what the BOP really does to humans and highlights the horrors people face behind these prison walls. It boils down to what America is really, really all about in its colonial quest. This book is a must-read.
Oso Blanco (Byron Shane Chubbuck) is an Indigenous rights activist and anarchist who is currently serving fifty-five years in federal prison for bank robbery (expropriations), aggravated assault on the FBI, escape, and firearms charges. Oso Blanco is a Wolf Clan Cherokee/ Choctaw raised in New Mexico whose Cherokee name is Yona Unega. He was known by the authorities as “Robin the Hood” after the FBI and local gang unit officers learned from a confidential informant that he was robbing banks in order to acquire funds to support the Zapatista rebellion in Chiapas, Mexico, throughout 1998–1999. While in prison, Oso Blanco founded the Children’s Art Project (CAP), which creates greeting cards with Indigenous prisoners’ artwork with all proceeds benefiting the Zapatistas. Oso Blanco has served time in over a dozen federal penitentiaries and supermax facilities across the US. He has published two books, Love Me Rebel Love Me (Xlibris, 2011), and The Blue Agave Revolution: Poetry of the Blind Rebel with Michael Novick (BookBaby, 2022).https://freeosoblanco.org/
