Anyone familiar with my personal background and literary accomplishments are aware that I spent more than four decades in the Louisiana prison system—six years of which were confined to the state’s death row before my death sentence was reduced to life imprisonment in 1972. I know the difference between fact and bullshit.

During those years of imprisonment, especially those spent on death row, I encountered a slew of self-centered, narcissistic inmates—those who believed the rest of the world should revolve around them and their case. They became so obsessed with manufactured injustices done to them that paranoia became a indelible feature of their personality—so much so that they lost all sense of reality. Reality was something they designed on a daily basis depending upon whatever events or crises were occurring in their lives at the moment.

            Robert Alan Fratta is one of those inmates. I have written about Fratta’s case in two previous blogs. http://www.capitalpunishmentbook.com/?p=148 and http://www.capitalpunishmentbook.com/?p=198 It is obvious from a reading of those posts that I do not have much respect for Fratta and have utter disgust for the crime that sent him to death row—the contract killing of his wife. I survived those 40 years behind bars because I maintained a healthy respect for the convict value system (more commonly known as the “convict code”), and its ugly potential for sudden, unexpected violence. One of the entrenched subcultural values of the prison world was that an “ex-cop” (which Fratta is) is the lowest form of humanity—belonging down there at the bottom of the ocean with whale shit and child molesters. Former Watergate conspirator and CIA spook G. Gordon Liddy described the value best when he said “prison guards” are the lowest species on earth. Ex-cops fell into that same “convict” definition.

            Apparently a recent 48 Hours: Hard Evidence segment aired on one of the networks featuring Fratta’s case. This website has received a number of “comments” from some of those who viewed the program. Virtually every one the comments was negative, prompting me to make a trip to Fratta’s website where I found him enlisting support from the public for a U.S. Justice Department “civil rights” investigation into his case. The following paragraph reflects the basis for the condemned inmate’s call for this investigation:

            “ … even though the D.A.s got the jurors to hate me & use their emotions rather than their logic, all that evidence presented in my trial is still ‘legally insufficient’ to have sustained a guilty verdict, & I must be acquitted. However; due to Lex Baquer’s wealth and friendships and connections with high ranking Texas politicians & Freemasons, the Harris County D.A. (Patricia Lykos), The Texas Court Judges, & Texas A.G. (Greg Abbott) will deny the fact of the legal insufficiency rather than simply obey & uphold the laws & give me justice. So I need intervention in my case from Washington, D.C. I need U.S.A.G. Eric Holder to appoint someone under him to review my trial transcripts to determine the legal insufficiency, then file my direct appeal on my behalf to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stating the legal insufficiency, while Mr. Holder tells Pat Lykos & Greb Abbott to concede that legal fact so I’m immediately acquitted and released. Then see to it I’m compensated for being wrongfully convicted & Imprisoned. Then I also need Mr. Holder to send FBI agents from D.C. to investigate the D.A.’s office, Sheriff’s Department, Lex Baquer, Dr. Lawrence Abrams, Attorney (& Lex’s Personal Friend) James Beeler, & others for their intentionally withholding & stealing evidence that proves my innocence, Lying an committing aggravated perjury, beating me, beating one of the other men convicted, seriously injuring me (for which I need surgeries), & committing other criminal & felony acts & civil rights violations in framing me & covering it up, so the truths can finally be revealed.”

            Either Robert Alan Fratta is dumber or simply crazier than I thought he was. First, what could possibly make him think he or his case is so important that the United States Justice Department would even consider a civil rights investigation into his wild, incoherent allegations? Second, what could possibly make him think he is so significant that all these powerful people—including Freemasons, no less—would conspire to convict him just to see him sent to death row? The answer to these questions can only be found in the deranged mind of Robert Alan Fratta.

            The human tragedy is that some lonely soul will look at the muscles and good looks of this dim-witted clown and believe him. They will waste precious time and irretrievable resources in futile efforts to appease his paranoid delusions. With that one paragraph Fratta established a finding of guilt far more convincing than any jury verdict of guilt rendered against him. I just hope no well-intentioned person will get ensnared into his web of madness.