This is part one of the lecture “Division and Separation: Death of a Revolutionary” by General Divine Minister Sinque-El. Betrayal of one’s comrades, what in prison is known as snitching, is an aspect of capitalism. Capitalism creates the myth of an isolated individual. Snitches and informants are convinced that they are acting in their own best interest at the cost of breaking their ties and connections. Prison creates snitches, not only because they want information to use against others, but because it is a proven method of breaking people. Prisons found that snitches became a lot more violent, animalistic, and don’t care who they hurt just to survive for the moment.
Prisons had to create special snitch yards just for them, which, even according to their own data, were most violent, and where new PCR [Post Conviction Release] snitch gangs were created for them to join by the ISU [Investigative Services Unit] and IGI [Institutional Gang Investigators] prison guard squad so they could control them as a group and then turn them against each other, so they can fight one another like dogs, as the rats and snitches attempt to create some false semblance of self-respect.
The Pelican Bay hunger strikers overcame the idea that the system perpetuated to reestablish human solidarity across gang and racial lines, as opposed to the snitches that the prison system used to keep true soldiers in perpetual solitary confinement. Every sister and brother ain’t really a sister and brother because some who pose as your comrade are really undercover police. Loyalty is a lifestyle. Prisons have perfected their use of psychological warfare techniques by using divide and conquer. SNY [Sensitive Needs Yards] and PCRs serve as a mechanism for the entire prison system; a penal cesspool where other institutions discard their waste matter and pieces of manure. They work to remove the connection to the old lifestyle and activities by proving to them that those that they love and respect are not worthy of it and should be mistrusted and betrayed. Their tactics include the use of highly compromised and cooperative inmates as the gang leaders; the exploitation of rats, snitches, and paid informants; the treating of those inmates who are willing to collaborate and work with the police in far more lenient ways than those who are not; the rewarding of total submission and subserviency to the police.
The administration is known for collecting large amounts of information on prisoners, as the loud speakers, the tablets, and the cell phones are also receivers and pick up and record loose talk and conversations in the day rooms, hallways, and cells. Sometimes a prisoner is confronted with this information in order to create distrust about the people he has talked with. At other times, the information is kept secret among officials and traps are set. Most sacred of all is a man’s thoughts and ideas, and there’s a standing rule among convicts to never let your enemy know what you’re thinking. This concludes part one in the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places.
These commentaries are recorded by Prison Radio.
