the inmates who are defending themselves in court are also located in 900 max. i m here in los angeles county, this particular facility, because i m in pro per and i m fighting my case and i m being held to answer for a 422 pc, which is alleged terrorist threat. terrorist threat is that, you know, a statement made that is verbal. and from what i understand, it must be received from the victim as a threat. with the odds against them, pro per inmates thomas gleason and ronnie senegal still feel that they can represent themselves better than a public defender. so it s just simply being out there on the streets. the odds are against me. when police officers come through like slave catchers, you know, and literally give you cases that you have not committed and they know you haven t committed.
verbal. and from what i understand, it must be received from the victim as a threat. with the odds against them, pro per inmates thomas gleason and ronnie senegal still feel that they can represent themselves better than a public defender. so it s just simply being out there on the streets. the odds are against me. when police officers come through like slave catchers, you know, and literally give you cases that you have not committed and they know you haven t committed. but to gain the conviction and the actions from some of the courts are atrocious. well, the representation that i had, i felt he was incompetent. you know, i m facing 42 years to life, and i just took it into my own hands. i felt i could represent me better because i was at the incident. you know what i mean? can t nobody represent me from just paper drawn up.
been a partisan issue and hasn t been id logically marketed. what do we learn from this history? history is long standing. it goes back far beyond the black panthers. during the fugitive slave law resistan resistance, frederick douglas resisted slave catchers. we see it moving up through the 1960s. your point about the black panthers is interesting. it s a stage where in my scholarship i have described at the dichotomy. the leadership and grass roots made a distinction. they thought it was a crucial resource for black folks. up to the point of the radical resistance of the black panthers, that dichotomy was