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Autobiography 88- 86762- 20- 8 June 1999 $8 (S.H. inc.) 176 Italian 5x8 Soft cover Karl Louis Guillen Fiamma Lolli Midinet Multimage Place your order here

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Original Autobiography 0- 7388- 5509- X December 10, 2001 $17.84 160 English 5½x8½ Soft cover Karl Louis Guillen Xlibris Xlibris Place your order here or by e-mail

This is the cover of IL TRITACARNE (Italian Translation), or THE GRINDER (English Edition), which compelled us to commence our campaign against the death penalty and the violation of human rights. The cover of Il tritacarne is simple, yet striking when you realize it features on the front a blank execution warrant (see the picture at the foot of the page). It's as icy and sadistic as the slow and hypocrital rituals, as the bureaucratic machinery begins to organize the death of a human being. Even to the last days, and the final execution.

Karl no longer faces the death penalty in Arizona's "Death House", where cyanide gas or poisonous slime flows. Instead he faces death by suffocation within solitary confinement, at SMU II in Florence, Arizona. His innocence is of no importance to the administration, in a bureaucracy where only money, power, or fame speak for justice denied. Karl will be released in 2013 if he survives the 24 hour lockdown, if his mind survives the psychogical torture, the SMU II "Lockdown Diet", and other tortures inherent within these human warehouses.

Karl is innocent, which was why he took his cases to trial, only to find out too late that guilt and innocence do no matter within the system. After 4 years in Arizona's prisons Karl learned enough about the law to begin fighting his cases. However, as in most cases, the U.S. Courts do not look at 2jailhouse lawyer" petitions, because to support the system, those involved must not recognize actual innocence, the inherent arbitrary and capricious treatment meted out to the human beings who have fallen prey to "the grinder", or the American system of justice.

This book is excellent in its own right, if not for the fact that the prison administration broke Karl's hands after he'd written it, or the repeated destruction of the manuscript (that Karl stubbornly re-wrote, even after they seized his type-writer under false pretenses and lies). Today Karl cannot write by hand for long periods, not only because of the pain, but also because he loses control of the legibility. Multimage published IL TRITACARNE to assist Karl in raising money to hire a proper attorney, but to also spread the word of a tragically flawed, corrupted, and maligned judicial system that exists in the heart of the United States, the loudest country in the world, in terms of human and civil rights and democracy.
By clicking here you can read some excerpts and the wonderful poem closing the book.

We of the Committee, members of the Humanist Movement, feel the duty to show Karl's case as an example also for other inmates in USA, and in the world; we feel the duty to fight for the abolition of the death penalty, for the respect of the human rights, and for the establishment of right defense rules for every inmate, indipendently from one's crime.

Il Tritacarne was released on the 15th of June 1999, the price is $8, s.h.incl. and can be ordered by calling/faxing: Multimage Ph/Fax +39/055/580422 or through the Multimage site.
You can buy it in the book shops (you can place an order to the seller if it's not soon available), distributed by Midinet. On its web site you can find the distributers in your region.
Now it's available also its original, full edition called The Grinder published in USA by Xlibris. You can place an order via www.xlibris.com/bookstore, or sending an e-mail to: orders@xlibris.com.
Other way to contact Xlibris, or place an order:
by fax:+1-215-923-4685
by telephone:+1-1-888-795-4274 option 3
by mail: Xlibris Corp.
436 Walnut Street, 11th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19106 USA

We also set up a varied distribution network (e.g: the ever-effective "pass the word", or the promotion through stands during various events) which is an integral part of the campaign for Karl, and the key point to sell his books, thus widening the chance to ensure him a proper defense. We would be grateful for any help you will send us to widen this network. Please contact us!!
But since even the brightest expectation of sale won't be enough to cover Karl's legal fees, we ask you to send a donation, even small, on the giro account we opened just for his cause:
Giro account No15964349
ASSOCIAZIONE MULTIMAGE
Via Mameli, 14
50131 Firenze ITALY

Or sending cash in registered letter, cheque, or IMO to:
Olivier Turquet
V. Mameli, 14
50131 Firenze ITALY

The money will be sent to Karl's parents who run his legal fund.
We invite you all, from the single to the organizations, media, institutions, to join our Committee promoting this campaign. Any kind of help is appreciated: a small donation, one poster attached, the "pass the word" about Karl's books, to take part in our events, and whatever you can suggest.
To assist you to take part in our campaign we set a series of items to enable you to promote his writings, and create a human chain of help and information about his case, and about the prison situation in USA and in the world.

To join us, suggestions, and further info, please write to Olivier Turquet, Multimage editorial manager. You can even write to Karl directly, this is an important way to help him as well. You can also send him pictures or recorded tapes (with no music!). Be careful to write his address as right as it's below, or you mail will come back.
KARL L. GUILLEN # 77614
ASPC - Eyman SMU II
P.O. Box 3400
FLORENCE, AZ 85232 - 3400
USA

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