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From Orientation
for X.
III. Daily Routine - Wake-up: Send wake-up signal to prisoner’s sleep helmet. (The sleep helmet monitors the prisoner’s
brain waves. This device has two
purposes: 1) psychological, the prisoner
has absolutely no privacy even in sleep, and 2) security, any escape will break
the signal that the helmet sends to control.)
Look down
into pit. Prisoner will be inside
it. Tell prisoner to stand with hands
raised above head in surrender mode.
Note that previous shift has left prisoner in the prescribed
sleepwear. (White sack dress to make her
more visible in dim light. Dress should
leave arms visible below lower half of shoulder muscle, cleavage three inches
below neck, and hem just above knee.)
Observe that her feet are bare and placed together with hobbles on, that
the helmet has been placed at the foot of her cot, that she stands without
slouching, and that her arms are fully erect and vertical with hands apart and
extended to the full 8 inches that the sleep shackles on them allow. Lower the hook into the pit. Tell the prisoner to put the wrist chain over
the hook. Then raise her.
Lower
prisoner onto platform above her cell pit.
Unshackle prisoner’s arms and legs.
(See General Procedure II-Bondage-3 above.) Direct prisoner to remove her dress and
stand naked. These procedures result in
pain in the hoist up and the humiliation of stripping and standing naked within
minutes of having wakened.
* * * *
It was only
a dream! I was a little girl again. Papa and I were on the side of the hill above
our village. The breeze was just right. The kite was so high; it was many feet above
the ground! Then Papa turned to me and
held the string out to me. “Here, you
can take it now,” he said. His face was
beaming. I took the string and ran and
ran and ran. Then I woke up.
I have a
headache. I always wake up with a
headache. There’s this awful thing I
must wear on my head. Now that I am
awake, I must take it off. I stand and
raise my hands. My bare feet ache on the
cold cement. All around me is
cement. I have on only a slip. I have had no clothing over my arms or legs
for such a long, long time. Well, my
slip does go down to my knees. But under
that, nothing. Everything I wear is so
drab and small.
I cry. I can’t help myself. I know I’m a big girl now. I shouldn’t cry but I do. I can barely look up to see the hook coming
down. It’s all just so awful! I can’t stop crying. O, God!
What have I done? Whatever it
was, it must have been something really bad!
I know it wasn’t praying. That’s
good, isn’t it? It couldn’t my being a
rebel against El Leader. How could it
be? I didn’t do anything! What was it I did? I must be a really bad person to have a life
like this. I’m sorry, I’m so very sorry
– whatever it was I did.
I imagine
that somewhere in the universe there is a book that records all of my
thoughts. I can’t write; I’m not allowed
to. Not really. That stupid stuff they make me write before
they send me to this pit doesn’t count.
Somewhere out there is my invisible book where I can write my invisible
thoughts.
In the
meantime the hook has arrived and the guards are yelling at me. I must concentrate on putting my chain over
the hook and not cry at my helplessness as they raise me up.
* * * *
From Orientation
for X.
III. Daily Routine - Morning Prep: In line with General Health Procedures
described below, prisoner shall commence toiletries including brushing teeth
and combing hair. Medical Adjutant (MA)
shall check prisoner and direct further actions by her at this point. MA shall perform the day’s first tests of
blood pressure and other vital signs.
Since prisoner is in unshackled state, guards shall grab hold of her
wrists stretching her arms out in the crucifix position while medical tests are
performed. When MA concludes tests,
guards may delay a few minutes before presenting her with her day’s underwear,
shorts and top to let her humiliation sink in.
Egress
from Sleep Area: Once clothed, order prisoner to extend hands
to receive cuffs. Prisoner must face
guard and extend her arms directly in front of her with no bending of elbows. Hold cuffs directly in front of her face and
order her to look at them. This daily
ritual shall impress on her mind that her life is in bondage to the state. She shall stand there with her arms extended
until she looks strait at the cuffs and says, “I accept these chains as the
just punishment of the state.” You then
put the cuffs on the wrists, tighten them to the acceptable degree and allow
her to lower her arms. Cuff her ankles.
Present her
specially fitted blindfold. It’s 1 inch
wide thin design allows maximum exposure of the face (lack of privacy
again). Hold blindfold under the prisoner’s
nose and make her gaze at it. Then look
directly at her. Get in her face to
emphasize the point. Announce that you
will now take away her sight. Put the
blindfold on top of her head. Slowly
lower it. Adjust the plastic nose guard
to prevent sight from the bottom of the eyes.
Do not adjust elastic band at the back of her skull. It is especially fitted so as to prevent
excessive headaches from too much pressure while preventing eyesight from
slippage.
Stand
stretcher behind prisoner. Order prisoner
to step directly backwards until head, back, but, and legs are directly
touching stretcher. Strap her in. Buckle strap about her shoulders and upper
chest. Buckle strap just below her
breasts. Buckle strap about her
hips. Buckle strap above her lower
thighs just above her knees. Buckle
strap about her ankles. Place plugs in
her ears.
Lower
stretcher to floor. Lift it up and carry
her out of the dungeon.
Great care
must be taken not to let the prisoner have any sensation of going up or out. At night she is walked down the flights of
stairs to impress upon her that for her everything is down. Her cell is in a pit deep below ground. Even though logically she must realize that
to get back out she must have to be taken up, that thought must not be
reinforced by any additional sensory input.
As far as she can tell, she is strapped to the stretcher and then
unstrapped outside of the building.
Breakfast:
Once outside building set end of stretcher with prisoner’s head against
wall so that body is at 45 degree angle to ground. Remove earplugs. Inform prisoner that you shall now feed her
breakfast. The meal will be found on the
table next to her.
Prisoner is
aware that failure to eat and drink will result in MA forcing her to do so.
Before
allowing her any sip of liquid or morsel of food you will order her to open her
mouth. It is usually best to begin with
liquids (usually water).
Touch glass
to her lips. Order prisoner to
drink. For liquids, prisoner shall use
her lips to move glass to position where she can transfer sip to mouth. She shall hold liquid and food items in mouth
until you order to swallow.
Touch food
item to her lips. Order prisoner to
eat. Prisoner will use lips and teeth to
take food from fork or spook and chew.
Order her to swallow.
She is not
allowed to swallow until she is ordered to do so. Vary the length of time that she must have
water or food at her lips or in her mouth to emphasize to her the extent her
life is now totally controlled by us.
* * * *
I’ve been
thinking a lot of the times when I was a little girl and Mama and Papa were
still alive. I would wake up and bounce
out of bed. Since our house had only one
room, I could see Mama cooking. There
was a steaming bowl of cereal on my place on the table. I scamper to my chair. At his place at the table sat Papa smiling at
me. I dived into the cereal. I was vaguely aware that we were poor but I
never noticed. Mama always put berries
and sugar and a surprise – something else really, really good – in it. Many times I ate really fast because when I
see the sunbeam (only one, we had only one window) when the sunbeam was on the
floor just 2 feet beyond Papa, I could hear the other children outside. Mama said, “Now Maria you must not leave until
you eat it all, the bread, too.” So I
would gobble it all up and bounce up and down in my chair. Papa, would smile and say to Mama, “okay
Theo” (her name was Theodora), “I think we can let her go now.” And I would jump up and go outside to play.
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