Arbeit macht frei: - Fredrick Töben

have their own cell. That was the original plan for Cadell, but the crowded
prison now means shared cells.
Monday, 7 September: While having coffee I am thinking about the ugly
minds of prime uglies such as Jones, Lewis, Wertheim, Rothman, Lander,
Spender, Branson, McEvoy et al. who defend lies and deception and
terrorism, and whose battle-of-the-wills are so puny that they cause me to be
here. That sounds as if they are becoming the new suppressive persons who
need to spend some reflective rehabilitation in this place. This makes me
think of a book title, By Proxy the Sequestration of Liberty. A good title for
my next book?
I now have work, which is a good start to the week. My job is to paint white
the oval posts – there are 112 sets of them. Initially I am with Cliff, but he
takes off and does other things, leaving me to be the post painter at Cadell.
Later, Juan, who has given prison matters some thought, offers me a read of
his ‘How can the prison system be improved’, where he postulates a better
approach than currently practised – the government’s ‘rack, stack and pack
’em’ policy!
Tuesday, 8 September: Up again early, watching TV without sound so that
Craig can continue snoring. A 7 a.m. cuppa and Happy Birthday to Corey
who turned 30.
I continue my painting. Shaun Edwards, the deputy manager, asked me if I
would be interested in doing community service work outside of the prison.
In principle, yes, but I would also like a single cell mostly because of Craig’s
snoring, which I know he cannot stop. This means that I have to pass clean
urine before anything happens, then I have to apply for transfer out of Cell
Block and into a cottage because community workers start at 7 a.m. Only
the dairy boys start earlier, around 4.30 a.m.
All this hustle and bustle reinforces my knowledge about the alleged gassing
story that is not possible for anything like that to occur when there is no
written order. Edwards has to obtain permission to have me reclassified
from L2 to L1 before I am allowed to leave the prison. That is done at the
head office.
Imagine millions of people murdered, gassed, without a single written
order? It’s all too far-fetched and fanciful, but there are gullible individuals
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