People have been killed and hundreds missing in wildfires in the u. S. State of california thousands of firefighters are battling twenty two places in the northern part of the state. What this is coming up next. News has never been more available but the message is simplistic and misinformation is rife listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging Mainstream Media narrative at this time on aljazeera. Why the real bad in life were real for. Me me. And me so well my way. That i had a clue what id go through out of never im a human again. He likes going and being with a guy. He just gets so excited about going but at the same time it brings up the old memories so hes pretty hard to live with before and after. More so after when he comes back because all these memories are back and its like hes living it all over again. Given the very me. Already. When we were younger it was like people make fun of us for because you like got a black that in a way mom and when my mom comes full of it look at me like. Like. Did you like what she did that white lady actually thats nice. And then how how he was like i mean i guess he knew he was in jail yeah but he didnt know it was like so serious he didnt talk about it i remember one night specifically i sat outside my dad like well you know im a mom im in prison and do you think it was yeah it was just me and him and i dont know what age or anything like the man president he was like bring me. The kids are the. Numbers just you know that you guys met in jail you were the nurse at the county jail. And he was there and so i dont remember the exact moment but i remember hearing about it was the most political person in the tyranny i was already selling his. You know the one thing that. I felt a pain in my heart for him. I had to question ever so much but yet sometimes you didnt want to talk about the past but there were so many questions. Oh how could you survive Something Like theyre. Not coming would you fix a broken. Wrong i tell people what to do ok. Yeah oh. For that picture it was actually in the living on the same couch but. I think it was grandma maybe grandpa i just thinks claimed it in very simple terms they said mommy cappy got beat up very badly and she died and people think that daddy greg did it and that hes in jail for that. Ok my name gregg well what now my nightmare started on may thirty first one thousand nine hundred five when my wife was found murdered brutally as anybody can imagine she granddaughter froman she didnt mean right you know the whole nine yards and on t. V. And in the movies you always see the jurys going to daven it not this but theres a happy group of people you ever saw they were high five and each other seven each other in the back you know it was ridiculous up scene but this is our home and the judge says to me he says mr well youve been found guilty by a jury of your peers could not do that then he said your senate to be executed by lethal injection all right i saw him come when he blindsided me caught me unawares when he said it for time reason we cannot legally inject you the electric you if the power goes out we will hang you and if the rope break by god son will take out on the trail shoes. For the few of the bands who jordan would stay here so he said in the chair would spare his family now we get the big one the stuff we come back was it said their stuff as it were we get to be here he didnt look over all right were back he still did. That when. Albert were here and he still didnt move i suppose. You would think all look at wooing. Her. Eyes looking outward looking outward from a look at oh my god what we got two people trying to elicit false as. It is all this is really easy just to drink out of this beer. I mean. You were sleeping really good. Memory everything. Is things i destroyed all my brain cells ended up. And most of them for the prison show on t. V. If he used a nine point one he reckoned i only nine point five and galveston i am pleased to announce here in the show is the witness to innocence the Texas Freedom to or weve got eight exonerate hes in town tonight who have all been wrongfully convicted sent to death row and then exonerated and ron you are from a see new mexico no i was on death row now makes you i just have to be passin through the state wrong place wrong time youre Just Cruising down on your motorcycle we never stopped in new mexico we cruise right through it to murder it happened a week before we even got there a cop had killed this guy and they theyve actually framed dust cover up for the cop who we let this innocence or all exonerated people from death row weve all been on the road we know what its like down there right but were the people that are true to our word were told were going to leave there were going to do something about this what were doing and the way we do this is we go all over and we try to end the Death Penalty. But when i went to death row i wasnt arrested i was rescued i would either died then tilled shot or i wouldve killed somebody because of biker wars back and forth back and forth people killing each other. I went to eleven funerals in the club killed by other other clubs. Then when i got out i didnt talk about it a lot of people go they go right to the press and they Start Talking the media all over stuff i did my head anyone anything to do it i got to get my life and tracked i have to work and i have to start my life over. Along without help. I worked eighteen hours a day i didnt want to talk to people i didnt like Everybody Knows my face so i hid at work i didnt ever give a thought to the other guys i thought i didnt know who is the other guys that were innocent on death row. Are. Ill practice my talking my speech in here are generally watching t. V. With nobody around. Like a politician much like speaking right now i dont. Ive never given the same speech twice never. Let you know. That youre a woman with a frown. Yet when i was a real little we learn how to do it to hear you have a sack on your back or were going to texas so with a minute. Before i was eighteen i was trying to get arrested over twenty five to thirty times and i want off for my man. And turn eighty. When i have him. Go to your room. And i had. A robbery case that i was probably guilty of but. I was conveyed to him and given a five day life. And thats when i began to work home i sat began to change him. And denounced my past and joined a Political Movement a Prison Movement and then in nineteen seventy three november twenty seventh i came as i was accused of leading up arriving for peoples guy murdered to kill the whatever and that for the next nine years i had to fight for my life. First of all let me. Say thank each and every one of you all for being here tonight to see im here tonight not because of the system but in spite of. Im here in the night because you were just like your sister. Got a call. That the time when i was convicted i wanted for trial in my second trial i was going to get it and since it died at center court will be somebody that they say we were here on campus there was a black mirror some of the evidence was have against me said it was going to cooking with his hair i would have to try with no more why should i have a loss i treated innocent. Ive heard you say that i mean curtain you ought to stand up against racism to stand up against social injustice to stand up against all forms of injustice and i dont know what all you all are going to school some of you are going to school to be law students but i just want to get one more recipe to your residence. Take up because you dont have to be difficult but take up a call for social justice and i can assure you my for when you take up the cause for social justice its call me if youre very normal. Better to. Get a better view of a problem with. My name is. My main reason. I didnt call me to mess with you i just come here to break witness to you. That i believe in the Death Penalty yes. In some cases you know i did but yes. I did it now because i admit to many people that were innocent and were on death row and almost died. An innocent person. And the reason the way we get the word out thats the way he is you got to teach her weve got to educate the public to change their mind get a change opinion we always had hope but you know its there i got a calendar on a wall im putting x. s in the squares i know when im going to die basically one time when their top come fast we walked into the church i was nine days from execution. We said that race or barbers are here to add our voice to you but your record remember is one day could be your brother your father your son or your daughter. If you say you cannot bring them back when. Youre. Just going to. Im so happy to be here im so honored to be able again to open this meeting and share this time with our family. This is the first time here. And you know the end is there when its already. That which you do with this one. Right on. Your. Death throws a spooky place here other people crying and i people killing themselves you want to kill yourself everyone sure that youre a monster everyones positive that youre a monster and you deserve to die. When you use the term. Not you know its different from your term in a sense but how if youre a good father you know i jury but you got your formula. And we survive you now but you survive thats right you survive thats it thats the way to look at it but we dont were very we were just. This special thing about what this innocence was it just being with someone else and been through this it was like the veterans painting meeting they get to talk to each other. Nobody else in the world belongs to this club like they do hundred fifty six of them. I said. One of the best part of the gatherings ok is after everythings done and we go up in and we pick some room usually is my room with party we bring cases of beer and liquor and we bring it into the room and were not on camera anymore and we could talk over just exonerates we get together and talk and everything like that were drinking have a good time people are passed out on the florida smoking dope i mean out the window and we have a good time. Yeah i am i looked out my yeah im a i. Looked up me down but im glad i think about that when we first come together i will see you in the. That. Album not everything i have got from one part. Of the outfit he wrote i know it out and you know why when our there have. Never been and there are. No good of us that we take a. Year to stay thirteen years before we realize that you this isnt just things youre going to leave on a date than three different times. I remember when i got out at that prison it took me i couldve walked out of the court room i do want to go. After eleven years i had to go back up to. I couldnt believe i have to leave here and. I have a feeling i can get from on it definitely will eventually but ill probably have to spend the rest of my life in prison because of where their scripts but im guessing. They could kill me that person if i had any type of coup or how i was going to be a tree to be treated in the view im going to go for i will make them kill. Whoever takes it very. He made wonderful friends and and actually did did well for several years and then. He suffered from from posttraumatic stress disorder. Really seriously dead and he just started have and he started having problems again and then he started on beer and he came here he drank it. One time he was here and first thing you do is get a mayor when he got up in the morning and i said greg you know it seems to me that you have. Youre never completely sober. And he said thats exactly the way i wanted to be. A lot of people when they leave prison they think theyre free theyre done they dont know something horrible followed them off to death row not supposed to manage stress disorder they dont know what it is theyve heard the term they i dont have that im fine i dont feel anything they dont understand all the symptoms at durham they dont understand that theyre having nightmares that theyre having flashbacks and standing anxiety attacks the depression is the worst depression is yours thats what basically what drives people to drugs and alcohol one thing and early on he said after he was down there he said now. I want you all to can can you your lives and dont worry about me so that carrots. Im here today to talk. Ive been known great over ten years every time we got together and witness innocent we was always happy to see each other. And greg was full of life greg was the greatest speaker in our nation often keys great after hearing him speak. As a great one of the greatest speaker now it is a shame you are the best you look at me to judge you not so bad to self. Only greg to respond like. In the last. I would like to say. To you all if by some unfortunate circumstances if you all of feeling sorry for people like me and greg hart. Go. Somewhere i read the most happy is a peoples dont necessarily have the best of things they just make the best of what comes their way happiness comes to go from struggle talking fight. To those who have sought the most brightest future what i will be based on a forgiven or forgotten. I am with you and you are with me we are deeply honored that you gave us an opportunity to come here and not to say goodbye but to say i see you later mr willard. I think. Is it a get out there you go be out thats what we do yeah weve been down. Thats out there. We know why but we human beings we black people born in america and we must oppose this and fight that. This is not a bad and right is not about food where note is about is about the world. We make america a better place we go make the world a better place. To know. Right. Where ever you. Like. It alison whether on line in hurricane winds for almost like thirty six hours these are the things that has to address or if you join us on set im a member of a complex one but. A relationship this is a dialogue tweet us with hostile stream and one of their pitches might make the next show join the global conversation at this time on aljazeera. Real understand the differences. And the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it aljazeera will bring you the news and Current Affairs that matter to. Aljazeera. In the heart of the amazon believe me in families but then law is imperiled to harvest brazil nuts. 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