Is Life Fair?

Wasted Honor -

Carl R. ToersBijns is the author of the Wasted Honor Trilogy [Wasted Honor I,II and Gorilla Justice] and his newest book From the Womb to the Tomb, the Tony Lester Story, which is a reflection of his life and his experiences as a correctional officer and a correctional administrator retiring with the rank of deputy warden in the New Mexico and Arizona correctional systems.

Carl also wrote a book on his combat experience in the Kindle book titled - Combat Medic - Men with destiny - A red cross of Valor -

Carl is considered by many a rogue expert in the field of prison security systems since leaving the profession. Carl has been involved in the design of many pilot programs related to mental health treatment, security threat groups, suicide prevention, and maximum custody operational plans including double bunking max inmates and enhancing security for staff. He invites you to read his books so you can understand and grasp the cultural and political implications and influences of these prisons. He deals with the emotions, the stress and anxiety as well as the realities faced working inside a prison. He deals with the occupational risks while elaborating on the psychological impact of both prison worker and prisoner.

His most recent book, Gorilla Justice, is an un-edited raw fictional version of realistic prison experiences and events through the eyes of an anecdotal translation of the inmate’s plight and suffering while enduring the harsh and toxic prison environment including solitary confinement.

Carl has been interviewed by numerous news stations and newspapers in Phoenix regarding the escape from the Kingman prison and other high profile media cases related to wrongful deaths and suicides inside prisons. His insights have been solicited by the ACLU, Amnesty International, and various other legal firms representing solitary confinement cases in California and Arizona. He is currently working on the STG Step Down program at Pelican Bay and has offered his own experience insights with the Center of Constitutional Rights lawyers and interns to establish a core program at the SHU units. He has personally corresponded and written with SHU prisoners to assess the living conditions and how it impacts their long term placement inside these type of units that are similar to those in Arizona Florence Eyman special management unit where Carl was a unit deputy warden for almost two years before his promotion to Deputy Warden of Operations in Safford and Eyman.

He is a strong advocate for the mentally ill and is a board member of David's Hope Inc. a non-profit advocacy group in Phoenix and also serves as a senior advisor for Law Enforcement Officers Advocates Council in Chino, California As a subject matter expert and corrections consultant, Carl has provided interviews and spoken on national and international radio talk shows e.g. BBC CBC Lou Show & TV shows as well as the Associated Press.

I use sarcasm, satire, parodies and other means to make you think!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Saturday, March 1, 2014

Is Life Fair?

So many times do we express these two words without so much thinking about the real issue at hand. Because of our own expectations, whether real or unreal, these two words “fair” and “justice” often cross our tongues as we fail to accept what is perfect and that we may be imperfect causing things to go bad or bring negative emotions to what we call unfair conditions imposed on us in our lives.

In a perfect world the Fairness Doctrine which states in part that “Life should always be fair and exactly equal for everyone” is an unrealistic expectation to say the least. The reality is that life is filled with setbacks, disappointments and gloom. Balancing life to give us fairness is not often practical as much of this process is based on things you have no control over. Calculating fairness and what you perceive to be fair is a perspective that has little to do with reality.

For starters, if my life was happy all the time, prosperous and void of miserable situations or stress it would be fair to me. However, this fairness belief system has little to do with the reality that life has been unfair to me and that it does not contain happiness all the time nor the other negatives of life as we speak. In other words, it is best I abandon my fairness doctrine and deal with the realities around me.

It can be replaced with the happiness doctrine. It states that I will choose that which contributes most to my and others' happiness. I accept that my life and all my options are a gift. If I compare my gifts to others' especially to those that have more. I will only reduce my appreciation of my own gifts.

There really is some "justice" in this world. What I have been saying about "fairness" is that rigidly holding on to a fairness doctrine can undermine our happiness. However, one concern people express to me is that if they do not hold on to this doctrine, then there will be no justice or consequences.

We live in a world controlled by natural laws which we cannot "break." Natural laws do provide some measure of natural consequences-of rewards and punishments of our actions. Society can also create laws which provide additional rewards and punishments. Frequently the guilty seem to go unpunished. Accepting the fact that the choices you made are your goals for happiness is as close as it get to being fair.