Talk:Jim Hogshire

Post from "Jim Hogshire", March 12, 2006
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Well, this is Jim Hogshire here, so let me see if I can enlighten whoever so obsessively maintains this bizarre entry about me here.

You'll be happy to know my "whereabouts" are unknown only to people who are either not looking for me or to people who want to portray me as a sketchy, homeless, drifter type as a way of denigrating me. Of course it fits well with the more pipsqueeky lie that I'm a heroin addict.

I'm not dead, either. That's another bullshit story that gets "alleged" about me with alarming frequency. It's also one that causes *other people* (not just me) quite a bit of distress. It's beyond me why anyone would repeat such potentially harmful rumors like that -- without even checking to see if it's true first -- unless they trying to cause harm.

It's been close to ten years now since my "run-in" with the Seattle cops yet the there's nothing here about what happened afterward! There's no mention of how I eventually beat those charges, for instance. No mention of the craven way the cops had targetted me in retaliation for my book "Opium for the Masses" which had (unbeknownst to me) already put me under investigation by the DEA well before the Seattle cops started to surveil me.

I found out about that as part of discovery in the civil rights lawsuit I brought against the cops after I beat their charges (a salient point the writer did not mention in their nebulous story about me and trouble with the police...)

Anyway --

The cops were pissed off at more than just the opium book, though, I found out. They didn't like another book I wrote, either -- "You Are Going to Prison" -- my guidebook to the nightmarish criminal justice machine from the flashing red lights to death row and all stops in between.

It was kind of creepy how much of my stuff they had read ... and how blatant they were about letting me know just why they were there, wearing masks, waving guns and trashing my place. It turned out they were also familiar with my zine, Pills-a-Go-Go. The very first thing they did after they cuffed me, threw me around a bit then stuffed me into a chair was to wave the latest issue in my face and demand to know if I published it.

That was their first question.

The next question was if I had a subscriber's list.

(I told them I didn't, of course).

Anyway, if anyone is interested in the story, it was covered in a lot of places besides Bob Black's mass hate-mail. One article about me, my book, and what happened during and after my "run-in" with the cops appeared in Harper's in either April or May 1997. The article is called "Opium Made Easy" and it was the cover story that month -- (a folio edition even!) so it shouldn't be too hard to find.

A more succinct account appeared in the first week of May that same year (1997) in the New York Times. I cannot recall the date exactly but it was a Sunday edition and the story ran on the back page of the front section. It was written by a woman named Goldberg, I think.

Sorry I don't have that info at my fingertips --

I'll leave it to others to elaborate any further about me and my fascinating career as an "underground" writer. Just, please, refrain from harming me. And sign your name! Don't hide your light under a bushel anymore! So what if you expose yourself as a starry-eyed fan!? You think I'm gonna make fun of you for brown-nosing or something?

Oh, a final note regarding the "You Are Going to Prison" book I'm sure will interest you loads -- it's being made into a movie!

That's right, a movie! I don't have all the details yet but it's stars some of the cast of "Arrested Development" and I think it's being directed by one of the guys from "Mr. Show". It should be hilarious ... which is, I guess, one way to deal with the horror of the AmeriKKKan gulag.

Jim Hogshire

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