Attempted extortion and then armed abduction.
police officers, warrant for arrest, pay fines, incarceration, karmic debt

On the 11th of May 2004, two armed uniformed police officers arrived at our back door and informed me that they had a warrant for my arrest for failure to pay fines of around $1100. They informed me that if I did not pay the money to them that I would be taken from my home to the Launceston Remand centre where I would be incarcerated for 11 days.

I believe that in God's eyes their demand for monies under threat of imprisonment was an act of extortion and their armed abduction of me from my home, an act of kidnapping.

As both these acts deny God's One Command to Only be Loving, Compassionate, Merciful and Forgiving and to be peaceful at all times and as I had been previously notified of their intentions, I had previously forwarded to them copies of the document 6th "The Home Invasion Decree." 

This was to inform them of the ramifications to them personally of their intended actions in arresting a peaceful man.

I was duly arrested and driven to the Remand Centre where I was "signed over" to the jailers, stripped searched, and then placed in the day yard along with another 12 or so men. 

We were kept in this concrete lined and wire and fibre glassed roof room that was partially open to the weather from 8 am to 5 pm. There was a toilet at one end, one small wall heater, a blaring TV, table tennis and wooden bench seats. 

At 5 pm we were taken to our cells and locked away for the night to be awoken at 7 am, forced to have a short shower, allowed time to dress and then placed in the day room. The cells are small with no natural light, a TV and a toilet.

I was not allowed to obtain the books I had brought but was able to obtain some reading material from the jails small library. 

Inmates kept coming a going according to arrests made and pending court cases, and there were others who had chosen to not pay fines.

The food was basic and minimal with three meals being given a day.

For myself, the most difficult aspect of those 11 days was finding something to do. I read 4 books and had many discussions with the other fellows being held.

My observations of the jailing process made it clear to me that incarcerating people who have disturbed the peace did not in any way educate them in the errors of their way nor provide them with the understanding as to how their minds are reached by thoughts that inspire their negative acts.

What prison does provide for many is a "club atmosphere" where you are fed three meals a day, clothed and housed and where you can intermingle with others in a similar plight with similar understandings. Some even spoke as if prison was their second home.

I found in my short stay in the remand centre that the system of incarceration merely acts to remove offenders of the street for a time.  

The eleven days passed slowly and I was released promptly at 10am on the 22nd of May.

That is now 11 days less that I have to spend incarcerated, it being the karmic return for my previous funding of others incarceration.

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