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At 11:36am on June 24, 2007, shirley dicks said…: thanks Scott. What I do hasn't always been very popular with the public, and when I speak out or have an interview at times have been quite nasty. Since I speak out against the death penalty because I don't believe we have the right to take a life and we never know for sure that someone is guilty, I get a lot of negative feed back.

I've been on a lot of the talk shows like Geraldo Maury, Sally and others and the worse one was in Canada at the Shirley Show. She said she was doing a show on the death penalty and it would be half and half.

But she only had three of us against it and six for....and it was brutal. The audience was stacked against our side of the issue and people booed when she introduced me as a mother fighting to save her son from execution.

A large man sitting in the front row said I should be executed along with my son and my youngest son Trevor happened to be sitting next to him...and they got into a shouting match. My son was ready to punch him out even though he outweighed him by a hundred or more pounds....it was a horrible show.

Shabaka Waglini was also on the show with me and he'd been thirteen years on floridas death row and was found to be innocent...and they told him he shouldn't have been out at nine at night and he wouldn't have been arrested. That's plain silly and stupid to say someone should be home at night or go to death row....

I almost walked off the show but I stayed until the end....but it's a hot topic and issue and I've had to fight for twenty years because of the predudice....mykids suffered the most as they were not accepted in school...kids not allowed to play with them and all because they had someone on the row....

At 11:18am on June 24, 2007, Julie Ann Shapiro said…: Hi Scott,
You missed a fun gathering. I've mostly been working on my novel. Although I did end up with a couple of micro flashes on Jessica's theme, seagulls.

Julie

At 8:49am on June 21, 2007, shirley dicks said…: Scott hello....you asked about speaking to the kids.....when I speak to the kids, I used to do it with my youngest son Trevor. He was only eleven years old when my oldest son was wrongly convicted and sent to death row in TN. www.amotherstorment.com THis is my life story which tells more. At any rate, as he got older, he was an angry young man, got into drugs, alcohol and the whole bit....finally he went to rehab and got off the drugs, but still had a drinking problem. He married had children, divorced, and we spoke out against the death penalty because innocent people are sent there. More than 120 have been freed in the past few years because they were proven to be innocent.

I have a letter from a minister in Nashville who says he knows Jeff was innocent as the guilty person admitted it to him, but it was priviledged information and so he wouldn't go public with it. I adopted his daughter at birth and rasied her as my own child....

We didn't have the money for a good attorney and that is one reason why Jeff got the death sentence....and for twenty years I spoke out against the death penatly with Trevor...I went on TN death row and five of the guys came out and told the kids how they ended up on death row, from doing drugs and robberies, to being in gangs, and more. They tell the kids what it's like to sit there year after year waiting to die and to know how and when it will happen.

The video is called, The CHoice Is Yours and I show it to schools, they can buy a copy to keep and then my son would tell his story of how his anger and hatred at a system who took his big brother away made him drink and do drugs....he told how he finally realized God didn't do these things to us, but man did and his healing began on the long road back. His story is www.trevordicks.com He was killed last year in aone car crash.

Ten years ago I buried Jeff from medical neglect. The system took two sons from me and my family. So I want to let kids know what will happen if they follow the wrong path in life. I tell them how it affects the family and not just them. WHen this first happend to jEff I tried to raise the money for his defense, sold my home and everything I owned, and it wasn't enough for an attorney so I went out and wrote hot checks, sold the merchandise and after the trial, went on the run for a year with my eleven year old son Trevor and one year old Maria.

I turned myself in, moved to TN to be with Jeff and visited every single visiting day, speaking out. I let the kids know that they don't have to be guilty to be on death row but if they hang with the wrong crowd, this can happen. Trevor has already told them about the drugs and alcohol and he can relate to them because he went through it, along iwht a suicide attempt....
www.thechoiceisyours.org

I let them know that it's not just them. Their whole family will be outcasts when they go to prison. Their whole famlies will suffer along with them and for some in some states, they won't ever have a visit where they can hug or touch their mothers, fathers, children etc and it's a hard life.

Many of the kids have written to us and said it made them stop and think about their own life and that they were making changes....it won't work for all, but it will make a lot of them stop an think and not want to go through all that our family has gone through. If I can reach some kids, it's worth speaking out....

At 1:52pm on June 8, 2007, Jacqueline McGuyer said…: Hi Scott,
You pose a very interesting question. This is a struggle I had for a very long time. I became a Christian late in life. My passion for writing came much earlier. I am just now finishing a workshop on Christian Inspirational Writing called GROW (God Rewards Our Work). I hope to offer this on my website. I address this very issue.

I believe the fact I can write a complete coherent sentence is a gift from God. I also believe every morning that I am able to arise from my bed and put both feet on the floor is a gift from God. The day I am unable to wake up, the day I die, I will be at the feet of Jesus. That will be the sweetest gift of all.

There are demons and angels among us. All around us. Remember, fiction is only reality with fuzz and dust around the edges. Skyscrapers, automobiles, trains, jets and rocketships to the moon were once fiction. I believe the people who object to putting the two ideas are much like the Philistines of the Bible who had a problem telling the difference between religion and faith. The Bible says Faith is being sure of what we cannot see. There will always be those who object to EVERYTHING. There are even CBA publishers who object to Jesus in your books. Go figure. They want the message--just don't speak the name.

Anyway, I think I like the way you explained it. God knows the difference--he knows our heart--we're artists. Go to my website--buy Blood Secrets and see how I handled it. I think you'll like it. Java Pump isn't available yet.

Your friend,
Jacki

At 10:11am on June 8, 2007, Scott Theodore Barnes said…: Thanks Rick, I'd be glad to put you down as a friend. You have a great website.
Scott

At 2:05pm on June 6, 2007, Rick Frishman said…: hi check out www.rickfrishman.com and www.author101.com
I am author of 8 books and run the biggest book PR firm in USA
thanks
Rick

At 8:49pm on June 5, 2007, Tiva Wallon said…: Hey Scott. Here's a short little blurb for my paranormal erotica. It's soooo naughty!!!

Hidden in the Well of Death, located deep within the Devil’s toilet was the location of a special amulet Alexis needed to free Ryan, the man she loved. Many before her had tried and failed, thus adding to the long line of souls locked within the gates of Hell. To get there she was forced to make a deal with the Devil himself, to offer up a soul and battle demons as she tried in vain to make her way back home. Ryan needed to blend with living flesh in order to impregnate Alexis, but so did the Devil’s servant. Who had given her pleasures of the flesh like nothing she ever knew existed? Who had planted their seed within her womb? Would she deliver the amulet and set the bloodline free or open the gateway to hell and allow the devil’s spawn to rule the world? Join Alexis as she discovers the true meaning of sex on another level and sets her world on fire!

At 6:50pm on June 4, 2007, Savannah Chase said…: Well I'm glad you are not scarred to say you read the genre as well. It is great to see not only women reading it. It offers a lot for both genders...

At 11:08am on June 4, 2007, Scarlett Dean said…: Although there are few metal stations, metal is far from dead. But you'd probably never recognize it. To me, AC/DC, Led Z, and Black Sabbath were some of the originals. Today's groups have names like Out For Blood, Lamb of God, and Avenged
Sevenfold . You might recognize it when you hear the lead singer "growling" instead of singing.
Of course, there's Metallica but they seem to be dragging their feet with anything new.
I think I'll stick with writing.

At 9:41am on June 2, 2007, Scarlett Dean said…: Hi Scott,
The Condemned is the name of my son's metal band. It seems the only password that doesn't get tossed back at me when I join a group.
:)

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About Me:: I am a farmer and fiction writer. I have published fantasy and science fiction short stories in www.bewilderingstories.com and in The Lamp-Post of Southern California. My own web site is about half completed and I hope to turn it into an ezine by the end of this year.

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Favorite Books:: Fiction: Earthsea; The King of Elfland's Daughter; Caravans; many others
Non-Fiction: The Prize; Harvest of Sorrow; From Beruit to Jerusalem