T-Bone is a massively-built spiritual ex-Marine, who uses fighting skills to stop prison rape. T-Bone’s latest letter from Arizona prison:
The other day, I was officiating a
basketball game and this youngster didn’t like a call I made, and I was really
disrespected on the extreme side by this young man. Believe me when
I say this: there was a voice inside my head telling me to knock that kid out,
to put him on a gurney and have them wheel him out of here! I had the choice at
that moment and I let him make a fool out of himself by laughing at him and
letting the CO III deal with him.
In other words, life is full of choices
that can cause sorrow and pain or joy and peace. For example, this kid last
year was horny and he wasn’t satisfied jacking off, so he went and had sexual
relations with a man. Now he is infected with HIV because of the choice he
made.
We all should look at how we set an
example to young people out there. People were looking at me to see what I was
going to do to the kid at the basketball game. I let go myself and let God
control my thinking and actions! Almost every day we all are able to make a difference
in someone else’s life and that call comes down to the choices we make! That
kid couldn’t deal with me on any level, but the choice I made to not harm him
kept me and him out of the role, and not harming oneself is always a good idea.
When I used drugs, I thought it was a
positive decision because of the way I was taught by people who were misguided
in my youth! This place is full of fear and hate, and I’ve been put in this place
to help lives.
A youngster came to me two days ago
extremely angry, telling me how the guards shook his cell down and took almost
all of his things.
He asked them, “Why did you do it?”
They said, “Another inmate told us you took
a box of hooch to your cell!”
He went ballistic, but we had been
talking for months and God gave me all the words to speak to him to calm him
down.
But the other guy who snitched him out didn’t
think at all in regards to his life in here and it could have cost that and so much
more! He made the wrong choice, like getting involved with people who want to
drink and drive (illegally) and then another bad choice when he told the guards.
Please share that with TBOS and let them
know that listening to The truth and living the truth and doing what is right
is the real way to be successful. There will be many challenges in life. Don’t allowing
yourself to be controlled by doubt, fear and hate, or to be led to make the wrong
choices.
Thing’s here are wild because of the
drugs and alcohol, but, thanks to God, I have the ability to overcome all those
things that have hindered my life. I am studying through Pima Community
College, doing Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC). I’ve completed
the course, and now I always have my nose in the second book and keeping notes.
It’s a lot of fun.
Be strong and of good courage and you
will see that drugs, gangs, evil thinking in general, aren’t what will make you
who you want to be: A Positive, Strong, Intelligent Person!
Stay at Peace. I’ll be out of here soon.
EACH ONE - TEACH ONE
STRENGTH & HONOR
STEEL EMBRACE!
T-BONE!
Shaun Attwood
