one culture. nor one religion dominant over another. asatru believers believe that our religion is fine, your religion is fine. guy radcliffe who has been practicing asatru for several years here. said there s one group that is not welcome. if we found out someone in the community was a child molester, he would be banned from the community. he cannot participate. it s a bylaw, you cannot be a sex offender and be in asatru. radcliffe also defended the fact that some members have swastikas tattooed often their bodies. the swastika was around long before adolf hitler came along. okay? now, i don t have nothing against uncle adolf, but he took something from my religion,
go ahead and have a seat. following each visit he undergoes a review. let s talk about bradley crying. i think, you know, when he starts crying, i tell him, bradley get up, you re fine. he s raised by a whole bunch of women, and little boys raised by a whole bunch of women get babied and i don t want my son growing up being babied all the time. the world s tough, get up, you have to go on anyway. i understand where you re coming from. i want to give you a suggestion. it s okay for him to cry, it s okay for you to say he s okay, and then address the situation and move on. it kind of seemed that some of your patterns came from just, okay, quick fix, let s get him on to something else so he stops what he s doing. it s okay to acknowledge that he s crying, and find out why he s crying and move on from that. go understand? i understand.
take be? i would tell them to go back where they came, there s no reason to bring ill will into the hall, it s a sacred place, if one person is sick in the group, then we re all sick. if you re in the communities, you have a say so, and if something s kind of controversial it does get voted on. can you elaborate on that a little bit. let s say somebody had a new idea for how we salute each other, or something like that in. you say salute, you re talking about greeting someone? yeah, particular handshakes, like as a fraternity, people like to set themselves apart. you stated that you or your community have a greeting that you refer to as a salute. can you show me what that refers to? no, i i never said that. no? well, you mean like we say something. we say hail sa which means hello and good health. you weren t referring to a
he hopes asatru will help keep him from returning to prison. you re hanging out at the house, and you realize you have bills to pay or something like that, somebody comes over and offers you an opportunity for you to make a little bit of easy cash, go rob something. things go bad, things break bad, people that get involved, that weren t supposed to be there, get shotguns and you get killed. you end up being another justin. another heartbreak i have to deal with. i ve been through this before, i ve had friends of mine that i ve taken under my wing, youngsters that get out before i do, anyway, they get out there and they mess up. in fact, i lost a friend about six years ago, justin, he got shot by a police officer in indianapolis, i feel like i failed him.
asatru is the pre-christian religion of northern europeans. here me now your son it s popular among predominantly white inmates countrywide. he discovered it shortly after coming to wabash 11 years earlier. he s serving a sentence for beating another man to death. his hammer pendant and many prison tattoos are symbols of his faith. they re viking age is a large portion of asatru. the prison officials have begun to see asatru as something else, a front for white supremacist gangs. members have been allowed to