Kurt wrote:Jumping Jesus Ronbo.
I just went to your site in the link above and all I have to say is:
Wow.
Yes, Kurt, I steal the best stuff from all over the web, you how us federal ex-cons are - "We only steal the best and the most, which is the reason we became federal prisoners"...Sorry I didn't see the Jack Idema stuff until this morning. I must say I'm shocked the old boy went queer (not that there is anything wrong with being queer!) but when I knew Jack at FCI Butner he gave no evidence of queerness. I mean in prison if you're gay, you get Bubba over to your cell to give you a wedding proposal. But nothing like that happened to Jack, nor did I hear any rumors of Idema being homosexual in those days. In fact, the only thing I heard about Jack from my fellow prisoners was that they thought he was Hitler reborn, and thus a person to be admired and followed; a righteous con. This made him very popular in the Aryan Nation community who helped him plan the Butner prison riot.
This was in the fall of 1994 at FCI Butner. Jack talked the Catholic priest into letting us use the prison chapel for a "prayer meeting" of poor fallen Catholic boys. This meant no guards and absolute privacy for an hour. All the righteous white nationalist cons (and myself since I was a friend of Jack) met to plot the overthrow of the Butner prison administration. Unfortunately the proposed coup never took place because a snitch ratted us out. The next day everyone at that meeting was thrown in the hole (solitary) which really wasn't that bad at Butner, and as an added benefit we could listen to Jack denounce the government, the guards, the president, Congress and snitches for hours on end without repeating himself and making some very valid points. Many of us took notes and started lawsuits against the government based on his polemics. On the third or fourth day Jack escaped from solitary (with a little help from his friends) and went to the Mess Hall at noon where the Warden was always to be found because he could eat free. I understand Jack's complaint to the Warden was that security at Butner really sucked and the Captain should be fired, as he had just escaped from "The Hole."
Kurt, I think you wrote the script to the ending of Jack's latest adventure...UNLESS, he really is all ate up with disease and decides to go out in a police assisted suicide. Even back in the Butner days he had a loyal fan club of scores who believe anything he says, so any ending to his life story he wants to author will be believed as the gospel truth and transmitted to the world. He may actually leave this planet as the result of a gunfight with the Mexicans who are hated by many in the Southwest. A sort of Alamo redux with himself cast in the role of Davey Crockett.