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- Title
- In 1974, when I was nine years old
- Author
- Barstad, James
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (FT)
- James Barstad [#759730] MONROE CORRECTIONAL COMPLEX P.O BOX 111; WSRU-B123 Monroe, Washington [98272] In 1974, when I was nine years old, I was molested at Camp Cowles, BSA, a Boy Scout camp at Diamond Lake, Washington. The offenders were members of the Spokane Sheriffs Department. It came to light that members of the Sheriffs and the clergy operating the Momingstar Boy's Ranch had been victimizing boys and young adults for many decades. The scandal included Jim West, who eventually rose...
- PID
- apw:12347498
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-16T15:18:13.706Z
- Title
- My justice experience, so far...
- Author
- Barstad, James
- Pages
- 5 pages
- Text (FT)
- My Justice Experience, So Far... Coming to prison actually saved my life. Due to sexual abuse as a child, I started to drink and abuse drugs very early in my life, at age nine. I don't remember any real childhood in which drugs and alcohols did not play a part. The road of my life was inevitably leading to one of two conclusions. One was prison, the other one death. It is quite possible that I actually did die in the five-car collision that was the beginning of my present ordeal. I rec...
- PID
- apw:12347492
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-16T15:18:13.27Z
- Title
- One
- Author
- Barstad, James
- Pages
- 3 pages
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- James Barstad ONE "Life sucksr That was the one thought going through my head, when I realized that I was in a mental institution. I had bounced off of a couple cars, cut myself a couple times, and my girlfriend's dad thought I was suicidal. Of course, I wasn't. I was just upset, and expressing myself in the only way I knew how. I wasn't crazy\ Regardless, I was tricked into going to the hospital with him. Once there, I was locked in a room. Then, since they didn't ha...
- PID
- apw:12347502
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-16T15:18:13.94Z
- Title
- Three
- Author
- Barstad, James
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (FT)
- James Barstad THREE Elephants are known for their long-term memory. When they are little baby elephants, what are they, cubs, kits, pups, oh yeah, calves, they are chained to a wooden post driven into the ground. They push, pull, and fight. Eventually they learn that they are not strong enough to pull out the post. When they grow to adulthood, they remember that they could not pull the post loose. Even though they are now strong enough to gain their freedom, they fail to test the post, becaus...
- PID
- apw:12347510
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-16T15:18:14.404Z
- Title
- Two
- Author
- Barstad, James
- Pages
- 3 pages
- Text (FT)
- Two James Barstad Although I never knew her name, I recall the face of the Romper Room lady. I distinctly remember her calling my name as she gazed through her magic looking glass. She said, "I see Jamie," along with an assortment of names of other children watching the show. While I watched her, she was watching me! Is she still watching? Is she employed by the NSA, scanning my thoughts? I don't have a cell phone, but I don't know that I have already been labeled as a ter...
- PID
- apw:12347506
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-16T15:18:14.142Z
- Title
- Who
- Author
- Barstad, James
- Pages
- 2 pages
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- Who Today, you are faceless, but still I know you! you have inhabited many forms, all with different monikers, but you are still the same WHO, We have met on this battlefield many time in the past . I am sure that we will meet again. I know you, your name is Abuse of Authority. You seek positions where you can have some sense of control over others. It eases your pain of having no control over yourself. We find you in the church, the government, in law enforcement, and in every place that inn...
- PID
- apw:12347513
- Date Uploaded
- 2017-08-16T15:18:14.65Z