Resist and defy! Well, that certainly infers a great deal of chaos wherefore directed focus is lacking. But we are Odinists, not anarchists and therefore the call for resistance and defiance is not an anthem of anarchy but rather, it is a call for restoration of order, strength, unity and majesty on all fronts of Aryan Tribalism.

We cannot hope to achieve any meaningful gains if we do not first resist and defy the deleterious influences of a morally bankrupt society. We must resist capricious urges which may seem innocuous enough upon their initial inception. For when we glance back from whence we have come, most of us, if honest about it, will be able to discern the damage which we have inflicted not only in our own personal lives, but in the lives of our loved ones and our folk community overall, in concert with our previous impulsive and capricious actions.

The majority of you perusing this editorial right now are incarcerated. Residents of the 51st state! Why the 51st state, some may query? While others entering their 20th year, or better behind the walls and wire are all too familiar with the term. Today in Vinland (the U.S. part) there are in fact enough people incarcerated to constitute a 51st state! And while we are technically still citizens of the U.S., we are no longer citizens of the states from which we either hail from, or find ourselves incarcerated in. We are now residents of the 51st state called "Corrections", and sadly so. Enough of us assisted in the formation process of this 51st state, resplendent with its perverse and ill socia lorder. A mere by-product of a larger socially ill and morally bankrupt country and its government.

“Corrections” is a multi-billion dollar business annually in the U.S. and it is not sustainable by corporate, local and federal government greed alone. NO, not at all. It further requires that "WE" participate in the process. Recidivism is the chief component of the economic engine which powers and promotes the corrections industry. With the end of the "Cold War" with Eastern Europe, the U.S. economy suffered a devastating blow. No where was it more immediately felt than in California which was home to the overwhelming majority of the nation's Aerospace Industry. California quickly realized that it desperately required a major economic engine with which it could stimulate its dying economy with. Corrections became that engine which would provide the fiscal infusion California so critically required to fill the economic vacuum it had inherited with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the erosion of the Communist threat which ceased in the latter part of the 1980's.

As the economic woes spread across the U.S., other states followed California's lead and new prison construction exploded. New laws were established to fill those new prisons to maximum capacity and the prison industry of America changed its name to the more socially acceptable mantle of the Corrections Industry.

Consider the absurdity for just a brief moment. When a guard, which are no longer referred to as Screws, Bulls, or Hacks, but rather as, "Correctional Officers", feeds a prisoner his/her meal, is he correcting the meal? How about distributing prisoner's mail. Is he correcting the mail? The answer is of course not. That is because no social, or moral ills are being corrected within the U.S. prison systems wherefore genuine rehabilitation is in regard. Such genuine rehabilitation is absent in its entirety. In fact, the only thing that the corrections industry has corrected is a large portion of the nation's economic system which incurred a state of arrested development in the late 198O's. The entire corrections facade with its "Corrections Officers” is intelligently designed so as to afford a sense of normalcy to unassuming citizens whom continue foot the bill for their continued day to day operations as opposed to investing in an authentic rehabilitation program to immerse the offender in prior to his release back into society. This is not the equivalency of re-integration of a functionally developed individual back into society! It is tantamount to turning lose an angry man whom has been warehoused for years of his life much in the same manner as a living room set of furniture at the local "U-store it" facility! But enough with the history and social studies lessons and finger pointing. Let us endeavor to assume accountability as opposed to shifting the blame. This corrections business would not be so very prosperous if not for our willful and voluntary participation. And no one is going to alter our attitudes and perspective of the current state of circumstances in our lives, but our-selves alone!

I'm not referring to the initial crimes which landed us in prison; in so much as I am referring to our helping the system prosper by going with the flow of its current. There is an entire socially retarded culture which could not exist in these dungeons without our consent. Example: Upon one's initial exposure to this environment, most endeavor to hold fast to the ties which connect them to their home, families and society from which they had come. But the repetitive indoctrination which one is exposed to on a continuum in prison renders it nearly impossible to hold onto tight enough. The prison/corrections’ deliberate agenda promotes an ill design wherein a prisoner is encouraged to forfeit any sound and civilian social skills in exchange for the promoted diet of a morally derelict prison culture resplendent with substance abuse, homosexuality, dishonor, betrayal, fratricidal prison gangs, lack of any authentic self respect, or esteem, etc., etc., etc.. This breakdown, once total and complete, constitutes a state of institutionalization. This is the key contributor of recidivism and is indeed tantamount to total failure as far as a functioning human with any productive living and social skills are in regard.

I implore you all to resist and defy this state and federally sponsored sickness! Do not accept it when some guard refers to the cell which you occupy as your home, or house, for it is not your home. It is a cage which you are forced to occupy. Identify it as such. Your home is wherever your family or loved ones reside... Not in some cage which when occupied the state, or government makes a few dollars off of! We forfeit our dignity, self respect and identity when we willfully embrace the ill social etiquette of the penitentiary culture. We've been taught to think in this erroneous manner and now we must resist and defy this pernicious thinking!

Odinism is about self accountability and taking control of our lives. By living the Nine Noble Virtues, the Rede of Honor, the Æsirian Code of Nine, we may reconnect with the majesty our noble ancestors and our Gods have lovingly preserved, fought for and died for so that we could inherit them. We must restore a sense of fraternal love and solidarity amongst ourselves and then openly exhibit it for all to see the love and respect we seek to restore to our faith/folk community both within and without the prison systems of this nation. We must shun the behavior and attitudes which are not conducive to the welfare of our faith/folk community if ever we would recapture the genuine nobility and strength which once, so very long ago, constituted the Aryan Tribes. This we must embrace, cultivate and teach in the name of our Allfather Odin and the rest of the Æsir and Vanir. And we must resist and defy any agenda which is not in concert with our healthy advancement. As we seize yet another year in our lives, let us edify our faith and folk as we endeavor to walk the Northern Road.

In Frith and fraternal solidarity with thee.