Uncensored 4/22/05

By Clinton Young, 999447

"Greetings to all! Well, today is April 22nd, 2005 and no one has killed themselves around me this month. So all is going as good as it can. Anyway, I just wanted to drop a few lines in concern of something that a pen-pal wrote to me. It goes as follows: 'When, I first started writing to you, I remember telling you I was against the death penalty, mainly because innocent lives are taken. However, since looking into life on death row and reading Uncensored, which Mr. Cartwright writes so very well! I have seen what REALLY goes on and it is just so terribly degrading and torturous, I wouldn't put anyone on death row. No person should be treated in such a manner. Not even a guilty one. I know it wasn't easy going in there, but sh*t, I am so disgusted! It's just so sad that some countries and states have yet to move into the 21st century.'

If anyone remembers my last article I wrote, I wrote about not giving up and I wrote a little story about a little girl saving the starfish. Suzanne is like the little girl saving the starfish!

Thanks to her help and Richard's full expression of thoughts and feelings, people are starting to see this Murder machine for what it is.

I did not even tell my pen-pal about Uncensored! She read and found it on her own, as I had no influence in it.

It made me smile when I read that part of her letter.

'Use the pain to fuel the fire!'

Suzanne, I greatly appreciate all that you are doing. You are making a difference.

I know you got the hardest job. Just keep doing all that you are. Use the pain to fuel the fire that burns inside of you.

A lot of people deal with pain in different ways. It makes some fight harder and others run.

'Nothing begins and nothing ends that is not paid with moan; for we are born in other's pain and perish in our own.'-Francis Thompson
It seems crazy to some that one would voluntarily put themselves in a position to go through mental, emotional, and even financial pain for the so called least of the earth, 'Condemned Prisoner!' Just as Suzanne has done.
Though as Martin Luther King, Jr. said, 'The true measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy.' In this case it applies to the true measure of a strong willed woman!

The question is where will those whom are undecided stand?

To sit by and do nothing is to assist and encourage the injustice to
continue, only to manifest itself into something worse.

Where will you, the undecided reader, stand in this battle to save a life and end the oppression?

Can you endure the fight in this seemingly never ending war against the Murder machine?

Yes you can!

As an individual you possess a greatness that is second to none. Many people in today's age and time never truly find this greatness that resides in each of us. Mainly due to us never fully opening our mind. We get pulled into the cultural wave of society and become dependant on others.

So I am asking you to detach from the ocean of life as a whole and to look at yourself as a single wave rolling along. As a single wave you help make up the ocean. Without you the ocean looses it's volume. So I need you to join the struggle so that you can stand beside us, fight beside us and help us to overcome the challenge. In order to save lives and end the psychological, emotional, mental, social and physical suffering caused by the conditions of Texas Death Row!

Without you, we can do nothing! Without you, our voice is mute! Without you, our hands are bound! Without you, the suffering will continue.

We need you with all your greatness to help make a difference! Let us be realist, let us insist on the impossible.

If you never cross the river, then how do you know what is on the other side? If you never climb the mountain, how do you know what paradise of wonders lay in the Valley below?

If you never join the struggle, then how do you know if you can make a difference?

There is only one way for you to make a difference. That is to face the odds and fight for what you feel is right and believe in!

If we do not have something we are willing to fight for, then what do we have to live for?

What better to fight for then life and humane treatment?

The Clock is Ticking!

Clinton L. Young #999447
Polunsky Unit-Death Row
3872 FM 350 S.
Livingston, TX 77351"

All contributions are most welcome! Thank you!