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ROBERT CASTILLO TDCJ#02040455 & ROLAND RAMOS TDCJ#00894721|DA CREW PODCAST SEASON 1_FREE TEXAS CAMPAIGN; VOICE FROM BEYOND THE WALLS (2) · DA CREW Podcast

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I have been talking about corruption and the overly and wrongfully incarcerated for a
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over mine different things. I see that now. I have been really going
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y'all please do me a favor, share this out in your circle of influence.
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Again, I want to thank you guys for tuning in. For those
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that do not know who I am, I am affectionally known as the Queen
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Authors magazine as well as The Crew podcast. So I want to make sure
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that you all are sharing this out as my guests come on tind to get
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my guests to introduce his self. He is now in the building, live
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and direct, So I'm gonna turn it over to mister Robert if you would
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please introduce yourself, sir, Yes, ma'am, and I want to thank
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you for allow me to come on here. My name is because them.
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I'm over here, Jameson and be Texas and uh, I'm just to be
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on the platform. Thank you, awesome, awesome, awesome wealth. I
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utilize this platform to give those that are incarcerated within the td CJ an opportunity
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to share and reflect on their journey through the td c J and the things
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that they would like to share. Because from the outside of looking in,
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I see that there are a lot of things that need to be corrected,
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things that need to be brought to attention. So I am trying to be
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the outlet in that force to allow those things to come forth. So if
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you would tonight share from your perspective those things that you want to share on
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tonight, mister Roberts, all right, thank you. I've got a few
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things to touch on. Uh. First of all, I want to let
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the listeners love it. Uh. I'm related to to James Legate, which
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is a person that would I guess you had on your podcast October thirtieth,
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and uh, you know that's a whole story in itself, you know,
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kind of proof of how how things have for a reason. And I'll elaborate
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on that here in a second. But you got me. You gotta me
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cued in, uh, you know, because you need a very sensitive spot.
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You know, the thing's going on over here and just baby text and
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it's just frus Basically, it's couldn't drive conflict of interests, you know,
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basically how we're being exploited for our you know, free labor. They called
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out everything one. I like to call it what it is, uh modern
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day slavery. You know, it ain't sound shocking to a lot of people
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out there listening, especially if they don't live here. It's incruscerated in the
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TVCJ system. But just rest assure it's a living well. Okay. So
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one of the things that I wanted to hit on, I said, you
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know, I'm like going to sit here. First of all, I'm gonna
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be real with y'all. I wanna let y'all know that this is not my
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first time I crucerated. I am a criminal, which I wanted to be
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recondited, and I have changed my weights, but I do have a passion
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and the first time I come down, you know, I wanted to I
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wanted to change the world, you know, I wanted to feel myself up.
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I wanted to make a buzz and change. So I you know,
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I got enrolled in a quot a bunch of programs, and you know,
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I took every trade I could and at that time, I became a master
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mechanic, you know, through a lot of art work and you know,
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training and just getting myself ready to come home and be different. I'm from
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my family. Well that was my first experience with the reality and TVCJ and
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how exploit us. You know, they have these programs, you know they
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uh they call it the old JAP program and then they've got special projects still
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you know where they actually they paid for you to get certified and if they
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for you to get on the job training, but as soon as you complete
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the six month course or whatever it is they needed to me put you into
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the industry. You know, they got all kinds of stuff. Let me
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tell you, They've got every special trade, every skilled labor job that there
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is out there in the world to pay good money. Blue collar work says,
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good money, good benefits, all that. Okay. They have listen
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in here doing it for free. Okay, So that's cool, and it's
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you know, in the way I'm myself at the personal round, I'd always
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like, well, you know, I get to get my hands dirty,
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I get to get the hands on training that I need and I just had
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to book page. So it's a positive thing, right. Well, the
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first time I caught up the pro by why I had a six year sentence.
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The first time I come down, right, first time I see parole,
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I get a set which is a denial of prow right, Okay,
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no problem, She's give me more time to studying, making me you ain't
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going to the next level, you know. And I get doing my certifications
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and stuff, you know, over achieving. And so the next pro day
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comes, now I get a set off again. So my family is to
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her, like, what are you doing in there? I mean, are
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you are you getting trouble? I mean, what's going on with Why are
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you not making your corole? You know, because they automatically think that when
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your pro day comes up, you're being good, you go home, And
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that's just not the case. It's you know, especially if they if you
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become an accent to them, you know, So just see just too fast
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forward a live bit on that it was already four and a half years to
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buy a six year sentence, And I see paroles again, and they deny
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me. So it took my family having to contact the commissioner and all this,
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you know one and the know how was this man? How was my
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son a truth Steve with no disciplinary case oncesoever? Why is he getting set
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off after self? And this is his third one? Why is he that
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he's got all these it's why is he not going home? So you know,
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they acanded me that that. You know, I talked to the commissioner
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and he come out there and he told me, because thank you, you
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know what, off the record, mand you are an asset TC dame,
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and that is why you you have been getting me set off. He goes,
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now, I'm gonna change that. I'm gonna give you for all the
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day. But it's us the truth. You know, you you become an
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asset to the system. And for that reason, it's I think that's interesting
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to let you go. And I couldn't believe that. Yeah, I couldn't
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believe that team And unfortunately I got out, had my chance to be right
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out there and and and I'll just try a high percentage of people here,
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you know Texas, you know recidivism race, it's crazy. So I was
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a statistic I come back and go through the whole processes again. For the
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second time. I went to truck driving school and I got a CEL and
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I'm driving trucks, you know, for the state. I'm out here on
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the road every single day, driving the rounds in the pality, delivering,
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commissary delivering you know, just different goods going on a turnership factory, just
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all the different industries that GCJ has inmates going all the day, and I'm
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going and picking up all this product and taking it and delivering it, basically
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helping them generate millions and millions of dollars that they make every year. Right.
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Did I get any money out of it? No? Did they have
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to pay a farewell person to come transport their free No. So that's when
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I started paying attention to things a little bit more, and I said,
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you know what, what does this really cost to me to have this good
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job where I get to drive out on the road and be trusted and all
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that. How is that gonna wait for me going home? You know?
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Do I want to stay here and be a be ah, you know,
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be a good boy and get and have a good job and all that stuff,
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and spend way more time than I was supposed to or do I go
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ahead and just take the janitor job and go home. And that's what I
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had to do. That's exactly what I had to do. And as soon
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as I got that janitor job, I come home. I get for miraculously.
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So you're telling me that that you got to go out and drive a
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truck out on the pre world streets and deliver and the free world. Yes,
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and then you did not get paid, not a dime. I did
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not get paid. So if a person in the free world had have been
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driving that truck, they would have got paid, and then probably would have
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made some bonuses too, depending on how much, because man truck driving is
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something different. The pay is it's crazy, but you would have made some
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money. And I have an issue with that because a lot of people,
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they have child support, they have children on the outside world that they can
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be getting. They can pay for their own medical y'all could take care of
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a lot of things if they allowed y'all to make money, if they allowed
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y'all to act, And not only that, y'all could have better conditions,
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because I hear that the living conditions are horrible, Like you would be able
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to afford a pillow. You could buy a pillow, you could have you
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can have a blanket. You probably could get a blanket. But I understand
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that making it may not pay you what they would pay a freewell or person.
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But to pay you something for your for your services, that that it
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just it don't I don't get it, But then I do get it because
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somebody is getting kickbacks off of it because from my understanding, a lot of
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things that y'all do, y'all have to sign a little like it's like little
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timesheets or something to to document that y'all we were actually there. And then
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y'all have to put like work hours down Like I never got that, even
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going to the law library, I never got that. Why you have to
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put down work hours and if your work hours ain't correct, you can get
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disciplm their actions. I just never got that. But it's sad that they
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do that to y'all. Yeah, it is, and it's very frustrating because
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you know, you come in, we're coming in on the street and you
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know, a lot of us, a lot of us, you know,
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we recognize that we messed up a lot of way and all the wed minus
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to make it up. If you guys change ourselves and doing so, you
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want to be positive coming in right, That's that's that's what's so so bad
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about it because you strive to go learn, and you strive to go and
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do these things. And as soon as you will obtain that certification, whatever
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it is, whether it be well deed or pet drive, whatever it is,
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they automatically as soon as you graduate, the very next day you see
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classifications, you're going to be a side of a job and you're gonna be
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working that job. And if you don't go to that job, if you
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decide, hey, you know what, I don't want to work. I
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feel like you're exploiting me. Well, there's disciplinary action for you. They
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will lower your custody level. They will put a major case on you then
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which you're going to hinder your parole when you come up. Okay, you
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got this guy. You know, he doesn't have a good disciplinary record.
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All that, you know, take away your privileges to go buy a commissary,
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to go to recreation. Just they make your life a living hell.
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If you don't do it, we don't do what they want you to do.
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So, I mean, the prison system has been operating. I can
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spare you know, and as I got as I got an older, and
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I started learning more dangs and just talking to different people that have been locked
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up twenty thirty years, you know, hearn their stories. It just blows
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my mind that nothing has been done about it. You know, I stop.
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You know, I just barely started learning about the constitutional law and you
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know, the thirteenth Amendment and involuntary service to all those kinds of things.
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Right, and so that brings me to my next The next thing, you
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know is this about two about abut about three weeks ago, we started hearing
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this rumor about you know, about this power joint House joint resilation by resolution
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sixty three and fifty three. Right, Well, sixty three was dealing with
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you know, it was a proposition to abolish slavery and involuntary service. So
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you know, you hear all kinds of women when you're in prison. So
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the first thing I want to do is I want to verify. So I
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got on my tablet. We got next to selections on the law library.
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Yet, so I got out there, looted up man there is And then
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in the working of this resolution, it said that it's going to be giving
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up to the voter for November seventh of this year. So immediately got on
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the phone, I said, Mama, sister, I call my mom,
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my sister. They do everything for me, you know, I love them
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with it. So I'm like, look, I'm not coming with no little
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more. I've seen it on the tablet google it. So they google it.
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There there it is. It's it. So every voting started October twenty
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third, right, So my mom and my sister they put it on their
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schedule to go down the Middle Library and vote. Well, she goes down
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there and get the copy of the ballot and there's nothing on there but no
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House Resolution sixty three sixty three anything what TGD. So he does the little
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peaper, We does the little peoper. We found out that they got hung
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up in the State Affairs Committee and to judging by the track record or what
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all the other deals that they proposed, it's gonna die there. And that
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through my mind, how these people getting away. We're operating all these industries
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at this day and age making millions and millions of dollars from our vapor and
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we ain't getting the dime out of it, and we're a burden on our
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families and they're having, they raise the prices of the inflation that y'all have
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out there. We're on the Late Show, but it's trickling trickling down and
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we're feeling it over there. So not only does our family have the burden
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of inflection and all these things going on out there in the world, they
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are being you know, and put in a position to where they got to
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spend this commissary money to pay we don't have the ability to earn our own
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money and be productive. So it's just frustrating. And then I don't think
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it's fair. You know, Wow, that's sad. I mean, it
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really is. And we talk about them trying to give us Juneteenth to recognize
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the fact that celebrity ended, and it really didn't because it just went from
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a public form to them trying to hide it in the form of prisons.
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And people got to wake up and realize that. I mean, you look
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at the amount of prisons that's going up, the amount of incarceration, and
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then you look at the area instead of being incarcerated, you know, how
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they've done stuff and what is going on in the state of Texas, and
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this is not something that's just started happening, y'all. This has been going
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on for three to four decades, and they have purposely said that. You
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know, every time there's been a issue where there's been low levels of beds
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being filled, they you noticed the increase in crimes, and they falsify warrants,
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They falsified indictments. You heard if he was tuned in last night,
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you heard the case where they have charged this man with a body the whole
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time, and it was supposed to been with he was supposed to have been
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charged with something to do with some cocaine, but they charged him with his
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stuff. Read as if he killed somebody and was charged with the dead body.
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And it's sad because they contacted him and told them that they messed up
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his records and they were supposed to correct the records and they were supposed to
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correct his sentences and all that, and it's yet to happen. So just
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as ya all of the thousand of you guys, you know, I'm dealing
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with forty five of y'all that y'all stories are similar with how you was railroaded
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in the court by these these these underhanded lawyers. These these lawyers are taking
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brides that's what they're doing. They're taking bribes to get these cases. Because
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I hear cases where one lawyer have four or five capital murder cases. How
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can you properly defend for capital murder cases at one time? You can't.
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You can't in defend these people, and honestly, so it's all about the
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dollar for them. And this not just happening in the state of Texas.
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For those that are tuned in and those that will hear this as a replay,
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you know, it's very important that we are voting in these local elections
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so that we know who we have in office, so that we know who's
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gonna speak up, because there's a lot of people that are sitting in these
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positions and making these quarter billion dollar salaries a year and doing absolutely nothing,
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and they are elected. Every single time election come up, they get back
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in, They get back in, they get back in because nobody is talking.
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Y'all, we got to do better. When you know better, you
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do better. And this is a season where we got to do better because
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there's too many stories like this being told. You know, he began off
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talking about his uncle. This man is and we're not gonna get into his
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story. I want you tonight. I want you to tell the people what
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it is that they can do to assist you in what you are trying to
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do. So please tell us how can we help mister Robert Castido. Well,
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the first thing was is to bring awareness, you know, get out
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there and educate yourself and stuff and teaming about the bills. Like there's just
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one house builds and sixte were right. That was the one that was sponsored
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by Sherman. I don't know his full name of it, just as culture
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question exactly. Okay, this this this house build proposal was you know,
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it was for a good conduct time which is gonna affect us our duration and
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let us go home, you know, and let us get credit for all
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the work hours that we we'd accumulated were locked up. You know, there's
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bills like that. There's a like I said, the House Jowing Resolution sixty
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three. There's a whole list of them to come out every single year,
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you know, and both and the public never even get to see him.
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Because I guarantee you if the public looked up and seeing House Joint Resolution sixty
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three and all the title of it, I mean, it would be a
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no brainer. Who who who would not support a composition abolishing slavery and involuntary
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service. You, I mean, that's got and dry. I want to
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know, you know, I want to know who supports it. Why who's
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on this state affair a committee here in Texas. It's allowing this just to
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stay out of the public's eye so they can't vote Hunting. My family was
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very disappointed when they went down there and saw that they wasn't even on there.
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They flewd their mind, and I was the one that had to preak
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them of these guys in here and say, look, man, it's not
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even on the ballot. They couldn't do it? Yeah, is it?
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Says? I heard a tepid So what I'm asking everybody to do is educate
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yourself. Look at these bills, pay attention to them, Contact the sponsors
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of these bills and ask them, hey, why is this? How do
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we what do we gotta do to get it on the ballot because we want
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to vote it. We want it. Somebody proposed it, so they must
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want it. How do how can we help you out to get this task?
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Who do we need to do, who do we need to contact?
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And we need to go to the capital. What do we need to do.
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There's organizations out there doing that. You got TIFA and ain't know many
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other organization profits and stuff. Educate yourself, take action, especially if we
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have a loved one that's incarcelated. You know, we limited to what we
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can do and we need you out there. Thank you very much. Well,
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I definitely want to thank you for stopping by and shedding some lights on
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some of these things. I tell you, I have an issue right now
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with the parole Board. You mentioned the parole Board earlier, and I have
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a serious issue with them blocking out that number because it definitely speaks for the
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transparency. How do these people know what is going on if you're blocking out
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the number? And why is it not being public record when it should be
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public record. See, it's a lot of stuff that's being done behind closed
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doors and being kept in and silent and then moving in silence and then cover
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up. See what has happened over these last three to four decades is these
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district attorneys have done all of this fraudulent and all of this falsification. So
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every time you get a new district attorney, they got to come in and
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cover up. So it's it's just cover up out the cover up, out
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the cover up. And I'm gonna keep telling people that they need to call
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for the Department of Justice to come into the in Texas and do a clean
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suite. And they need to start with the governor because there's a lot of
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corruption. Anytime you can google corruption in the state and your governor pop up.
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See there's a joke going on in an app. It says the GOP.
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There's an app for that, and then the A stands for Abbott who
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is the governor? You got Patrick's and then you got the attorney general who's
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who is what his name? Patrick? Paxton? Paxton Patrick and and and
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an albat So, like I say, it's a lot going on. But
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the people of Texas, the citizens of Texas, I'm just calling for you
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to stand up. You know, this is your state, and what better
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voice to be heard than the voice of the people that live there, the
29:14
voice of the people that pay taxes, the voice of the people that vote.
29:18
If these people are not doing what need to be done to make sure
29:22
that the citizens are are okay, because just because someone is incarcerated does not
29:27
mean that they don't have rights. You know, they are constantly I mean
29:33
disregarding their rights the lot of A prime example was this latest lockdown. The
29:42
quality of food they are providing. I mean, you got grown men and
29:48
women and you're feeding them slop. You're feeding them like they're animals, and
29:55
it's sad, you know. I often time compare the jail system with the
30:00
school system. As far as food, USDA controls a lot of this stuff.
30:06
And if they can get food from the USDA, that they can get
30:08
the right foods, that's gonna be guideline that will provide the nutrition that is
30:15
needed. It's time for these people to be held accountable for all that they
30:21
have done over decade over decade over decade. Again, the Department of Justice
30:26
need to come in and do a clean sweet because these people have said that
30:30
they've done investigations. Yeah, how can you investigate yourself? You are the
30:36
problem, So how can you investigate yourself. There's no way that you can
30:40
investigate yourself. Time after time, you are constantly hearing these people telling these
30:48
people that they that they should be free, that this is what's wrong,
30:52
this was done wrong. So why won't you give them an F one immediate
30:56
release release these people? Carl Sherman he listens to he He listens and he
31:03
follows the Free Texas campaign, so he knows the concerns that we are making
31:11
aware. He's probably gonna hear this because he follows. I have a stream
31:17
shot of him sitting up there in the followers because they put pictures of your
31:23
followers on your page. So he's sitting up there. And I looked at
31:26
a comment that he and I screenshot it. If you can follow the page
31:30
and you can see what we're doing, then why can't you you take action
31:36
on some of these things that we are making public knowledge that is going on.
31:41
He's not the only one. You got Ron Reynolds, you got Monica
31:45
Delacruz, you got Sheila Jackson Lee. It's a whole slew of them,
31:49
Governor Abbot, all of them are on the Free Texas campaign page. So
31:55
it's not like they don't know, because they know. But I'm not going
31:59
anywhere. God God has commissioned me to this. It is a mandate,
32:05
and until until he tells me to stop, I'm not stopping. So it
32:09
is what it is. I definitely I thank you, I thank you for
32:14
coming on and being a voice tonight. We definitely will have to get you
32:17
back on again to share. But definitely please, I apply, I applore
32:24
you to get your family involved, because I'm telling you, I'm coming to
32:30
Texas in January. I'm coming to Texas. We're gonna be ralling down at
32:34
that state House. We're gonna be on that Capitol. We're gonna be knocking
32:37
on some doors. So we're gonna be getting some stuff together. We man,
32:39
I'm sick of these people and that's what it's gonna take. So I'm
32:45
telling you it's time for a change. And over here at the Crew Podcast,
32:50
we believe that in order for change to come, we have to be
32:53
the change that we desired to see in this world. We can't sit and
32:57
be quiet. God has given us a war us, He's given us an
33:00
outlet. He's given us the means. So we have to move. We
33:04
can't be still. We can't be still. This has been happening far too
33:07
long. See if if you are a believer, I'm a believer, and
33:12
I believe that the first should be last and the last should be first.
33:15
See they've been they've been leading up the front for a long time. And
33:20
they've been leading up the front and the wrong way that it's time for the
33:22
tail to come to the head and I ain't ain't. I ain't having it.
33:28
So again, thank you for stopping by. Is there something anything that
33:31
you want to say? I think we got by the minute. Anything you
33:36
want to say before we in? I want to thank you again, Angelus
33:43
and I want to ask courage her. Everybody out there, I hope you
33:46
got fired up by what you have to say. And uh, you're absolutely
33:51
right. And depending on y'all out there, we're not hitting, still gonna
33:53
be in the fight. We're gonna be doing everything that we need to do
33:57
to bring awareness to our love wants. And I want y'all know we got
34:01
a little slogan in here, and it's called free labor, equal slave labor.
34:07
Don't get it twisted. I thank y'all very much for for listening to
34:13
everything I had today and I'll be back on too much. Well, thank
34:16
you and enjoy what you can of your night. You all right, Well,
34:27
I definitely thank you, Thank you, Thank you, y'all. I
34:30
thank him for coming on and being a voice. We have another gentleman that's
34:37
going to be coming on and sharing, so I'm gonna give him a chance
34:42
to call in I tell y'all, I don't take this lightly. I don't
34:45
take the opportunity that God has given me because I just look back up with
34:50
my life and I could have went in so many other directions, and God
34:54
just so fit for this direction because a lot of us don't realize how blessed
34:58
we are that we don't have to endure these things. And then some of
35:02
us, you know, we have messed up and we could have been on
35:07
that end of the rope. But God saw fit, He saw fit that
35:13
we didn't have to go through that. But I think that those that have
35:16
to endure this, there are some special people, because I know that God
35:21
will never put more on us than we can bear. But the fact that
35:24
people play God and think that they have the power to do things, but
35:30
see, He knew who would be able to handle if they had to endure
35:36
it, that they would be the ones that could endure it. So I
35:39
don't think it's a mistake for those that are in there. And it's always
35:44
a learning experience. And through this, everything that is done in the dark,
35:49
it shall come to the light. It's not gonna go unvindicated. So
35:53
everything that people think that they're getting away with they're not getting away with it.
36:00
All this stuff that people do behind your back, and they think think
36:04
that, oh they got over on they got over on Angela, I got
36:07
over on Black Diamond, I got over on Keisha. No, they didn't
36:10
get over Because a lot of times we move into spirit and we move in
36:16
the things that God places in our heart. So when people think that they
36:21
are using us, they're not. They're not. But I tell you,
36:27
I'm thankful for being in a position to where I can use my voice because
36:31
there was a time when I didn't think I had a voice. There was
36:35
a time when I didn't think that I was capable of doing any of the
36:38
things that I'm doing. But God's sow fit. God's sow fit to allow
36:44
me to be able to influence others and to bring others together. Because whoever
36:51
spoke Queen of Collaboration over my life, they did me a favor. They
36:54
helped me to push me into that that God had already called and purposed me
37:00
to be. If they had not been obedient and speak that over my life,
37:04
I wouldn't be here today. I wouldn't be here doing a lot of
37:07
the collaboration projects and bringing people together. But because God sow fit to lay
37:13
that on somebody's heart that day. And they spoke that thing over my life,
37:16
and they kept speaking and they kept speaking in and it just began to
37:21
become life to me. Y'all. I would hear people say it, and
37:24
I was like, clean up class, I said, people who think.
37:28
And then it just became natural. It just I heard people say it so
37:31
long, I just began to say it, and y'all didn't. It became
37:35
It wasn't just something that I said. It became a business. Queen of
37:40
collaboration, life coaching and consultant. It became a business. In twenty twenty,
37:47
it came to life. God gave me an opportunity to allow my voice
37:53
to speak, gave me the opportunity to get artified as a life coach,
38:01
gave me an opportunity to learn how to publish books, and not only learn
38:08
how to to publish books, but to be able to help other people that
38:14
that needed to learn how to publish books. So I'm able to coach people
38:16
on this journey out. So y'all, I'm just you know, I get
38:22
excited because y'all, the enemy wanted to take me out. So my second
38:27
guess is in the building, y'all. He's in the building. He's in
38:29
the building. He's in the building. If you would, y'all, y'all,
38:32
And I tell you, I thank God for this platform. I thank
38:36
Him for every opportunity that I have. And y'all have to be sometimes ya.
38:42
I know I can go there, but I get passionate about those things
38:45
that God has called me to and doing just what I'm doing now. It's
38:49
one of those things that He's called me to is to be an outlet,
38:52
to be a platform that allow people to be able to to be able to
38:58
share. So we have another individual that is going to be sharing. I
39:04
want you to introduce yourself, if you would please. Yes, my name
39:08
is Rome Rummost and I want to thank you for anwing me this opportunity to
39:15
share my short version of the story of my story of what happened and uh,
39:22
well, so, uh what happened was is I was charged with aggravated
39:29
sectional assault. I was accused by my ex wife and uh I was charged
39:38
and with the trial and style guilty. Uh the charge Uh the district attorney
39:45
the days was uh trustcut in the cage will tell eating DNA evidence in which
39:54
I follow my chapter sixty four DNA motions, uh and June of twenty nineteen,
40:02
and I just got my reports back that clarity exonerate me. And yet
40:09
I'm still sitting in prison for a crime that I never committed. Okay,
40:16
And so I've been here for twenty four years and DNA evidence says this chapter
40:27
sixty four I followed has taken me a long time. The court have denied
40:35
my rids and everything that I have filed as the past, and the attorneys
40:40
that I've had were all, i mean, their quarter pointed attorney, so
40:45
pretty much their ineffectiveness. And yeah, i still have this exonerating DNA evidence
40:54
and I'm still sitting in prison, and the courts refused to do any thing
41:00
about it, or at least at this time, they haven't done anything yet.
41:05
And so that's where I'm sitting at right now. Wow. So there
41:14
was Okay, first of all, how did they convict you? They convicted
41:21
me on testalonial, So they convicted you pretty much heap hearsay because it was
41:27
her word against your word. That's right, that's that's that's true. So
41:34
they had no concrete evidence, so they had no I had no physical evidence
41:40
whatsoever. The expert out of there. There was nothing wrong with her all.
41:49
Everything was long and there was nothing there at all. That's uh,
41:54
I plan, but there was no DNA because they fails that evidence as the
42:00
file, but in the file because the future with hild it and he told
42:07
the jury said the reason why he did that was because the jury was sid
42:15
uhh. There's not a work side said that. They weren't stupid. They
42:21
take you my d they will keep out there because with my wife on the
42:27
same day and my kids cancer at all, and so we told the sy
42:35
But according to the DNA before, that's not true. That's not about there's
42:42
no physical evidence, there's no medical evidence. There's no DNA evidence here to
42:46
support because that allegation have all. I'm still h that's pretty much what's what
42:59
happened. I mean, I don't believe from here. I don't know what
43:07
else to do to prove an I mean, what else do I need?
43:10
You know? Wow? Uh, But it's true. I'm living it,
43:20
and it's been very difficult for we need to talk about that. But I'm
43:24
opening up and I feel complex and everything that I have and everything that I'm
43:29
saying doctor, everything that I say that I and so that's why that Wow,
43:44
that is sad. I mean, I don't know what else, what
43:47
else they need besides DNA evidence to prove that you are innocent? But I
43:54
don't. I just did the whole system that someone says the whole system needs
44:00
recall, this is definitely ridiculous, and you are It is a pattern.
44:06
This is a pattern that we are hearing as we listen to the various cases.
44:10
Because again, I want to remind people as they listen to these different
44:16
these different cases and these different things, that all of these inmates are not
44:21
in the same location, so they're in different parts of Texas, They're in
44:24
different facilities, So some of these people have never met each other, that
44:29
have no contact with each other. So these stories that you are hearing and
44:35
the similarities that you are hearing, it just speaks for the corruption that is
44:40
going on within the judicial system there in the state of Texas and the TDC
44:45
and definitely the Parole Board. You know, they're doing a lot of underhanded
44:51
things that need to be corrected, and there are a lot of representative elected
44:58
officials that are where of these things. You know, I have come to
45:04
a point where I will not be quiet. I will not sit down.
45:08
I will not be silent. Every time there's something that is brought to my
45:12
attention, I bring it to the at tension of those that I support have
45:16
told me to bring it to their attention. So I am constantly and I
45:21
am constantly emailing caul o' Sherman, Ron Reynolds, Sheila Jackson, Lee Monica
45:28
Dela Cruz, Greg Abbott who is the governor. None of them will respond.
45:36
Cornell X, who is a activist in the Houston, Dallas par of
45:42
view all those areas. He's fluently on social media. I see them on
45:46
Instagram. I see them doing these different things. Where are these people to
45:51
stand up for the rights of these people that have clearly been violated. Civil
45:55
rights after civil rights after civil rights have been viol late, and yet the
46:05
courts do not stand up and make rulings when they have the authority to do
46:08
that. Like we elect these people into office. Well, I'm not in
46:13
the state of Texas, so I didn't elect nobody in the state of Texas.
46:16
But those that are in the state of Texas. You elected these officials,
46:22
and they have failed you. They have failed you as citizens. They
46:28
are corrupt and this corruption. When corruption happens, y'all, it hurts a
46:32
lot of people. When these people think that they're getting over there making all
46:37
this underhanded money. You got to keep doing wrong to cover up for those
46:40
things that you're doing, so you're it's always gonna be something going on,
46:45
and all these people that are affected. You got individuals that have been wrongfully
46:50
and overly incarcerated for twenty twenty five, thirty thirty five, forty years.
46:55
Y'all. We ain't talking about five years. We ain't talking about two year.
47:00
Ye were talking about decades. We're talking about people not see they're not
47:04
even seeing their kids get born and grow up because some of them when they
47:08
when they went away, their kids was babies, their kids was young,
47:14
so they don't get an opportunity to see this. I see all these elected
47:17
officials posting on social media and join their lives, drain a quarter of a
47:24
million dollar salaries, they're nice homes, these these lavish events, when y'all
47:30
are part of the problem because y'all will not make sure that these people are
47:36
doing what they're supposed to do. Even the laws that you have in place
47:38
that could help some of these people, y'all don't enforce them, y'all,
47:43
do not enforce them like you tell me. How can you allow a public
47:51
defender to become assist to district attorney, then to become district attorney and then
47:55
get on the House of Appeals? How how can you let them get on
48:00
the Court of Appeals when they clearly have helped put these people in prison,
48:07
and then now they're getting on a court system that these people are coming up
48:12
before to appeal these cases, they're coming up for parole, and then y'all
48:15
are denying in parole. Y'all are giving them set off after set off after
48:20
set off, after they have done everything that you've asked them to do,
48:24
and then not only that, you are taking away a lot of other programs
48:28
that will help them get out and be productive citizens. And then we talk
48:34
about this latest lockdown where they say drugs are a problem and all of this.
48:37
How are their drugs getting in there? Because these are principals, these
48:40
people are locked down, they can't do nothing. So it goes back to
48:45
the corruption and how y'all have affected these people. Y'all is sad, and
48:53
we need to wake up. What is your plea to the people on today?
49:01
What is your plea to the people on today? How can they help
49:05
you? How? How? How? How can how if there's someone listening,
49:08
they have the authority, have the power, have the resources that that
49:13
could help with your situation, that could help with any situation that that has
49:19
caused someone to be wrongfully or overly incarcerated. How can reach how can you
49:22
reach them today? What would you say to them that that would touch their
49:27
hearts, that they would want to do something? What I would what I
49:30
would have to say is that I would respect, would that they would they
49:37
would be mindful and about things being done here and there all she would just
50:00
want to look at this and that has to do with what the laws that's
50:07
supposed to do. What I can do. But the thing is, I
50:12
mean, uh, it's it's a bus I mean, you know, when
50:17
you have a fortune, prove the case. And if they're saying just staying
50:24
its time, uh don't you know? And so what I'm asking is that
50:31
if there's some disturbs out there that that here in these cakes, that to
50:37
to help us, you know what I'm saying, to try to get be
50:40
you know tasici that and you know, help us to bring these cakes to
50:49
the point and be heard and kind of that's that's what a problem you know
50:58
technique? Right, Okay, that's all. That's all that well. I
51:15
definitely again, I thank you for coming on and sharing with us and allowing
51:22
me to share your story. If you are out there and you can assist
51:27
in any way, you may be a paralegalor you may be a lawyer,
51:30
you may know of an organization or anything that could help these individuals. I
51:37
tell you, if one case can be overturned, they're gonna have to look
51:42
at some more of these cases. So I won't stop until there's justice and
51:47
and and in this unjustice system, because that's exactly what is happening. You
51:52
know, we are we are taught at a young age that we are to
51:58
put our trust into the justice system that it works. And over and over
52:02
again, we have seen case at the case after case across these US across
52:08
the US where it is not it is not, it is not true.
52:13
These people trust in the judicial system, trust that you're gonna do right,
52:17
that the laws are gonna be up hell, and that they're they're gonna do
52:22
right. And they're not. But now it's time for people to be held
52:25
accountable, and if that means outside forces need to come in in a fresh
52:32
eye, a fresh ear, someone that has known they have known, no
52:37
for or against, they have nothing to do with the situation, so there's
52:43
a a openness to their eyes and their ears, so they're not they're not
52:49
biased. They they don't win or lose. So that's that's what it's gonna
52:53
take. And I'm I'm begging the citizens of Texas to stand up and allow
53:00
your voice to be heard. If you won't change, you have to be
53:04
that change. So I'll plead with you on tonight, y'all stand up for
53:07
those that don't have anyone on the outside standing up for them. Because if
53:14
y'all have heard on this show that there's a lot of people that are incarcerated
53:17
that are not even from the state of Texas. So they're in this fight
53:22
alone because they don't have anyone they're in Texas fighting for them, and y'all,
53:28
it's hard. It's hard when you have no one on the outside that
53:34
will go to back for you. So I want to encourage the citizens of
53:37
Texas, y'all go vote in these local elections and make sure that y'all have
53:42
the right people in place, the people that care about the citizens, the
53:45
people that care about your well in, the people that are gonna protect your
53:49
rights. That's gonna protect your rights. Now that's the most important thing.
53:54
But I want to thank you for stopping by and sharing with us on tonight.
53:58
I want to thank those listeners that are tuned in. I tell you,
54:00
if you have been blessed by anything that you have heard on the show
54:04
tonight, I want you to share it across your circle of influence, shared
54:08
with a friend, invite someone to tune in. But most importantly, make
54:13
sure that you are liking and following this page as when we go live,
54:15
you will be notified of every time that we go live, and if you
54:20
follow us on YouTube when there's a new upload of a video, even if
54:25
you miss us, if there's an upload of a video, you will be
54:28
notified. This is one way to stay and inform on what is going on
54:36
and what we have going on with these inmates and TDCJ. So again,
54:40
mister Rowland, I want to thank you for stopping by. You know that
54:45
you're well welcome here anytime you want to come on, if there's some changes,
54:51
some updates, or if you just want to come back on and just
54:53
share again. You're more than welcome to come on and be a part of
54:59
this show. I thank you for sharing on tonight and I pray that you
55:04
all can enjoy the rest of your evening. It's best of your ability as
55:08
you can. Again, thank you for stopping by, and I want to
55:14
thank you guys for tuning in. Y'all have a great night and please share
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this out. Y'all be blessed and I love you guys. Thank you