Dear Michael,

My name is Flavio Cabobianco. You might have heard about me from Françoise Berthoud, who has written a
book about you, me and Michel, the lama.

I know it's a little late but I've only just heard about your scheduled execution date.

I'm sorry this world turned out to be so cruel with you.

I hope you're not too angry.

This won't be the end, no matter what happens.

You will continue to love hard, I believe, no matter what mystery awaits you.

I send you the petition I wrote about you, a few English quotes of my own book and a recent photo.

“To the well-organised mind, death is but the next great adventure.”

love,

Flavio

I think this could happen to any of us. We are all Michael Perry. Condemned to die for something we haven't
done. And even if we have done it, it wasn't us. Not anymore.

How can the State exercise such violence? The State, the whole of Society, is to blame if a crime occurs. How
can a society allow someone to be killed in cold blood for something he might have done? There is never a
hundred percent evidence in any case. I don't think any intelligent person would argue there is that much
evidence in Michael's case. How can anyone consider killing someone if there is any, any doubt at all, that he
might be innocent? People have been wrongly executed in many occasions. But say that the evidence were
indeed absolutely conclusive. Still, Michael was a product of our society and whatever he did we should better
assume our part of the guilt as a society and help this person out. Keeping a criminal isolated from the rest to
prevent further damage to others makes sense. But killing anyone, even a murderer, is always wrong. And if you
read about Michael Perry's case and you're sensitive enough you'll feel how wrong it is to keep him in jail waiting
for his death. You'll see that he's a person, just like you. A different person, a very sensitive person. I think that if
he had killed someone and was able to recall it, he would probably assume it, for his own peace of mind. If you
read his web page you'll see how rational and emotional he is. Killing him speaks of how low, cold and perverted
American, and particularly Texan society is; a society hungry for death. Shame on the United States, shame on
Texas, shame on us humans for ignoring our own violence and our own lack of humanity and putting it outside.
It's easy and convenient to say Michael Perry is the murderer because that makes you and me not murderers,
that makes us good people. But every person in this world who accepts and believes in death penalty are a little
bit murderers. It's pitiful to answer cruel violence with more cruel violence. Murder might be against a perpetrator
or an innocent person, but it's always murder. I can understand a passionate murder such as the warm blooded
impulse of revenge by the victims' near ones. I think it's an evil impulse, but it's understandable. A cold murder is
harder to understand, but it can still be forgiven. But systematic cold murder by the State, I cannot understand it,
ever. Being systematic makes it the worst possible violence. And it is carried out by the State, which represents a
whole society. Death Penalty makes a whole society responsible for killing. It is the lowest of the low, the saddest
and most primitive aggression.

Cold State violence is one of the least natural and most perverted things humans can do. It will only produce
more violent individuals, as a natural response to this unfairness. There is a reason for why there are so many
murderers and serial killers in the United States. Especially more so in those states that have death penalty. The
State violence finds its complementary force in the murderers' violence. It's like having a violent father, you get
children who are violent. Some will let it all out, some will swallow it and meet it outside, and some will let a bit
out and play the rebel. I think Michael Perry was such a rebel child. He didn't let it all out and killed someone, he
didn't swallow it completely. He went around and messed around in dangerous situations. He does have some
share of responsibility for being where he is, he is not a completely innocent victim of circumstances. He knew
the game he was playing. I believe he didn't kill anyone, but I will address those who think he might have
murdered someone. You have to think of the correspondence between what he supposedly did and what he is
being subjected to. When you think about that, he becomes another victim. The amount of violence he is being
accused of is enormous. But I think it's less than the cold violence he is being subjected to. He has spent years
of his life locked in a cage, waiting for his death. This is a form of torture. The mind is the one thing that can
make us suffer the most. Knowing that you will die, knowing that you will be killed is psychologically terribly
painful. Especially more so because what you are being accused of happened so long ago. You are no longer
that person who did what he did. The woman who died suffered an unmeasurable deal. We cannot really
measure her or her family's pain. Murder is always terrible. But think of the kind of violence that has been
exerted in one case and the other. You may think it's more humane to die in Death Roll with a lethal injection
than being shot by a thieve, but I believe it's the other way around. The difference lies in the mind. Think only for
how long violence has been applied and how, and try to see what is more comprehensible, more part of our
human nature. If he had been killed by one of the victim's family in revenge and the State looked the other way,
that would lie on the conscience of the revenger. It wouldn't be as bad to society. It would still be a matter
between two families who have clashed. But you put the State in the middle and you have the whole of society
responsible for another murder. A murder that doesn't really help the victims at all. A murder that just hurts all our
souls.

Michael wouldn't have been condemned to death had he been raised in my country, Argentina. We don't have
death penalty here, our society despises State violence. We had a great deal of it here, with the dirty war. It was
really dirty and mostly innocent people were tortured and murdered by State officials. This has made us feel sick
about State violence, and our country is full of the feeling that State does wrong. As such we are not such a
economically successful country, but we are much more human. Cold State violence is fresh in our hearts and
this allows us to stay further from it.

I feel impotent. I feel responsible. I have done little more than write this. I hope someone does something now,
whether Michael ends up being killed or not. I hope his innocence comes to light some day. And that his case
helps get our world rid of Death Penalty. For good. For ever.

I don't wish anything bad to happen in the United States, but something needs to happen in order for this country
to recognize its amazing incongruity. I hope one day the American public, and the rest of the retrograde world
where death penalty still exists will see this and abolish death sentences. In the whole world, once and for all.

I hope that the pain we are inflicting on ourselves by letting Michael die will teach us something. I hope Michael
too learns something out of all this. I hope his suffering is not in vain and he is able to understand something
deep. As a race, as humans, we have learned a great deal through suffering. We are all connected, and we learn
from our experiences beyond books and physical interaction. I hope this time Michael can understand something
about human nature, about human evilness and human goodness. You can't put the evil outside to protect the
good inside. They are both inside and outside; that is why we shouldn't be killing him. But we can't separate
anything at all, we are always responsible for our own destiny. We can't separate ourselves from our own
mistakes either, from anything that is happening to us. It is happening because we have somehow evoked it. We
are who we are, who we have chosen to be, from the depths of our being. Whatever we reject will come back to
us, in one form or another depending on how we meet it. Whatever we accept in its entirety will free us. If
Michael were able to accept he is a murderer too, even if he did not kill anyone - as I believe - he will be free. We
have to acknowledge we are all killers. Potential or actual. But it's easy to say it and very hard to do it. I wonder if
he sees that all his mates in Death Roll are people just like him. He probably does. There are no monsters out
there. There are only people who have been separated from their own souls, to a greater or lesser degrees. We
are all such people. People who have been split, sometimes to the point of losing touch with our humanity,
sometimes not. Michael hasn't lost his touch. He's one whole being. And killing a whole being splits your soul in
two. The soul of the world will be split on July 1 st. Michael says in his site that he forgives us all. I hope he still
does.

I salute you, Michael, and send you all my love.

Flavio Cabobianco
In the next couple of posts I’ll be sharing quotes from an Argentinean child Flavio M. Cabobianco who has
had memories of the spiritual Reality before birth. He’s been sharing his concepts of God, the Universe’s
organisation, mankind and the soul from three years old. His book Je Viens Du Soleil (I come from the
Sun) from which the quotes are taken was published when he was just ten. He is now 28. His book has sold
almost 50,000 copies in the Americas and Europe.

Life is Penetrating

“I know that to accomplish my mission I need to eat and grow up, I need my body… I was too focused on my
mental, I forgot about my body… Now I’ve learned to not associate with the mental only and to spread it in
all my body. The mental is in the head as well as in the whole body. The body moves because the mental
commands it to move. I am just forming my “self”. The “self” introduces the soul into the body. Yet we are
not the mental nor the body. We are life, and life is everything and is everywhere. Life is penetrating, it goes
through everyting like rays, like light”
~Flavio Cabobianco, 5 years old.

Time and Destiny

“From many destinies is formed the unique destiny, the destiny of mankind. God is beyond time. Everything
that is within time has a beginning and end. Time is for a being to be born, to grow up and to die so that he
accomplishes his journey. God is and is not a journey, He is what makes the journey of life.”
~Flavio, 6 years old