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I posted this on Frank Report:

The legal argument is laser focused on the deficiency of the voluntary, knowing, and intelligent nature of the plea proceedings. There is a plethora of case law that says this was an illegal plea AND no caselaw that says the procedures Eric Nelson employed were legal and valid – from taking the plea via video without a waiver, to failing to return me to New York for the plea, to consulting with the disbarred Perry Reich during critical points in the proceedings as the advisor to “THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK” in violation of the law, RPC 3.8, and Appellate Division Orders and Rules. This case is not like others. The torture and rape are ADDITIONAL to the technical defects and show my inability to properly from a knowing, voluntary, and intelligent state of mind in combination with all the other factors.

Also, prosecutors can’t be in the business of committing felonies in order to secure indictments and convictions, and that’s just what Eric Nelson did.

The legal is only one part of it, though. As you recognize, there is a psychological aspect.

I have been reading Victor Frankl and other helpful books trying to process the PTSD. In prison, I had a list of nine people I resolved to end. One of them is dead already from a pill/drug overdose. I chose nine because that was the proper number the Vikings sacrificed when they did their thing – nine of every kind. There was no mental health services to speak of in prison, and they threw me to torture in the SHU, which only made things worse. You don’t think you can become more obsessive. But in the SHU – often solitary confinement – the limits of your crazy are the depths of your imagination and tortured mind.

Now that I’ve had some therapy and I am beginning to process things, I realize that my anger and desire to see the remaining eight die will probably never go away. It’s a natural human emotion, to want revenge. And mine is more than justified. But, using Frankl’s methodology, I cannot use overt physical violence and must use appropriate channels to achieve my vindication, like the courts and the media. I have to “exhaust all remedies” before any consideration is made on whether to unleash the inner Viking Berserker, my inner William Wallace.

So, as part of my therapy, I have come to see the value in using “their system,” where I expect corruption, before using another system. It’s also part of the New Testament. I have to reject their acts and give forgiveness, particularly if they recognize they have done wrong.

Nelson doesn’t think he’s done wrong, so I might be stuck in the Old Testament dealing with him. Ezekiel 10-11: “Then they shall know that I the LORD did not threaten in vain to inflict this evil on them. Thus says the Lord GOD: Clap your hands, stamp your feet, and cry “Alas!” for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! They shall fall by the sword, starvation, and disease.”

The hope is that the PTSD therapy will progress to the point where I can be ok with things. I can come to some sort of higher meaning, like Victor Frankl. But it’s a tough habit to break when for every day for four years a list of certain people were all you thought about from the time you woke up in the morning until the instant you fell asleep, and often times you dream about them. Sometimes, I still do. I’m not sure if that’s healthy, or part of processing, but it’s there.

My doctors tell me that the pain is healing is just as bad as the original trauma, sometimes worse. It’s like re-breaking and re-setting a bone that healed improperly.

But at this point I take solace in knowing I’ll outlive every one of these bastards, and they all know they’ve done wrong. It’s like in Braveheart, after they double-crossed William Wallace, none of them slept a good night’s sleep ever again. They knew a Scotsman mad with fury and fire was after them and their children, and their children’s children.

https://youtu.be/1KdjUNIcP8k

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