We now continue with Part II of our interview with Randy Williamson:
Suite 101: As a result of these instances, how has this experience affected your current view of the criminal justice system?
Mr. Williamson: Before this happened, I was in a state of ignorant bliss; did not know or understand how the criminal justice system actually functioned. When this happened to me, the lights went on. I began to see that the criminal justice system in the state of Texas is by design and by intention thoroughly and completely corrupt. The great and noble state of Texas thrives on slave labor disguised in the form of inmate labor sanctioned by way of the Legislature and the criminal justice system who prosecutes, sentences, and punishes criminals in the state of Texas.
The Capitol Building in Austin, TX - there's an entire wing of it that has been built with slave labor. And let me preface the use of the words "slave labor" by saying that if you do work for me at gunpoint or any other threat of violence or harm to you and I do not pay you for your labor in cash money - but instead say, "Here's a shirt and here's a plate of beans - that's your wages." - that, my friend, is slave labor. It's against the law on the federal level to imprison people and force them to work for no wages. However, in the great and noble state of Texas, not only is it not against the law - it is a way of life.
101: In follow-up to this...around here - for instance, take the West Texas region and the recent influx, the recent building of prisons and then the articles that in terms about certain things - that certain people are going to say, "Well, prisons are the best industry here. There are inmates [that] get to contribute spiritually to the welfare of our poeple by singing and going out. You see all the articles - what is your reaction to all of this?
Mr. Williamson: Well, the Bible says something like "the blind lead the blind and they both fall into the ditch." And although prisons have replaced the oil industry in this state - and yes, prisons are, by far and away, the most profitable industry for the state of Texas - we forget or we tend to forget that we're dealing with human lives - and the machinery of the Texas criminal justice system the way I have seen it is that they are viewing human life as nothing more than fodder for the fires that stoke the furnaces of money for Austin. If they can falsely indict, falsely convict, and falsely sentence you to a life of slave labor which they can profit by financially and successfully covering their tracks so that you can never prove your innocence - then even after you've done your time and after they've made their money off of you - you have no recourse. As Simon and Garfunkel said, "Cherish your memories - they're all that's left."
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