Eddie ‘ET’ Turner – LETTER TO THE EDITOR

“OGs must give back to those they broke away from”

I’ve come to realize, after serving 37 years in prison, that we, the OGs, are responsible for the current trend of self-destruction that’s affecting our youngsters.

OGs must first and foremost come to grips with the fact that many OGs have done a lot of stupid-dumb stuff. We must acknowledge this fact. It is only through serving long lengths of time and the struggle of dealing with life’s adversities, and the loss of loved ones that we now know what is real about life.

Life without freedom means the death of your mother and father while you remain behind bars. It is coping with the love from family and friends that has vanished over time. But, most importantly, it’s losing that life that God planned for you to live.

We, the OGs, took something very valuable from our young generation, ourselves. So don’t get it twisted, they didn’t leave us, we left them out there to fend for themselves.

Yep, we abandoned them when they needed us most. Now, like animals of the wild they prey on each other.

By any means necessary, we must get our young people back on track by putting our best foot for- ward and being the best examples we can be.

We must rethink this red and blue that destroyed you and me.

We’ve got to stop disrespecting our women, for you can’t treat someone badly and expect them to be good to you.

It is said when a demon gains possession of someone they cause much suffering. But being freed from a demon, returns the person to a normal state of mind and body.

So, all OGs must find that state of mind and body for our young generation again.

May God bless you with His light of under- standing as I greet you in peace.

Sincerely, Eddie ‘ET’ Turner

“No one – not even the government itself – has ever been able to specify with any certainty the precise number of federal crimes defined … in the 27,000 or so pages of the U.S. Code.” In the 1980s, lawyers at the Department of Justice estimated that the criminal code contained 3,000 crimes.  Today, the Heritage Foundation estimates the federal laws currently enumerate nearly 5,000 crimes, a number that grows every year.

Holly Harris, Executive Director of the U.S. Justice Action Network, told Foreign Affairs Magazine in “The Prisoner Dilemma”  March /April 2017 www.ForeignAffairs.com

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