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To deny people their human rights is to challenge
their very humanity. Nelson Mandela
their very humanity. Nelson Mandela
Today March 8, 2016 marks the 15th year since my son was swallowed by the justice system. Fifteen years of fighting, lobbying, arguing, appealing and he is not home. He was not afforded the opportunity of a judicial hearing before transfer. No one took the time to investigate who this kid was, should he be held, should he be charged as an adult. No one took the time and there were no protections. So we wait and we pace and we fight and we pray that soon the tide will change. Soon he will be home. Here is the glimpse into the life Jonny was forced to live. I wake with alarms going off in my mind, something is not right! As the adrenaline brings me out of my slumber, I realize its too quiet...the constant humming of air being pumped into my 12 foot by 7 foot cage has stopped. I can relax, amazed at how in tune with my environment I have become, those four walls and the thoughts created within them are my constant companions. I can recall a time merely 7 years ago when I lived on a fairly busy street in Colorado Springs and not even the backfiring of a car could disturb my sleep. A time when my only concerns were what to wear to school and how soon summer would arrive. How much innocence has been lost and the reality of life thrust upon me. Not even 18, I was forced to face a judicial system that swallows up most adults, let alone a 17 year old kid. Forced to fight for my life against a beast I was not familiar with and could hardly understand. The biblical story of David and Goliath comes to mind but this tale was more Greek tragedy than a biblical story of the weak defeating overwhelming odds; I swing my sling only for the rock to miss and the giant foot of "Goliath" to smash down upon my body. Not killed, only caged for almost 4 times as long as I have already lived free (66 years) and all the pleas for help and proclamations of innocence ignored. The character 'Henry Rearden' in Ayn Rands "Atlas Shrugged" may explain my frustrations best. "Life" he thought, "had been defined as motion, mans life was purposeful motion. What was the state of a being to whom purpose and motion were denied, a being held in chains but left to breath and to see all the magnificence of the possibilities he could have reached, left to scream WHY and to be shown the muzzle of a gun as sole explanation?" A man without a purpose has no reason to exist but I have found my purpose, to share this life society forces me to live, with all who are interested and care. So return to share my story and struggles. Jonny
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