Well, it’s just standard practice, and unfortunately, U.S. government agents torture Americans far more often than they torture foreign “terrorists.”
Since most of you are saying, “No way. That can’t be true!” I’ll let you in on one of the dirty secrets that the “news” media cartel has kept you in the dark about.
In 2003, Congress made the following findings:
1. “The total number of inmates who have been sexually assaulted in the past 20 years likely exceeds 1,000,000.” 42 U.S.C. § 15601(2) That’s an average of over 130 sexual assaults of Americans every day.
2. “Juveniles are 5 times more likely to be sexually assaulted in adult rather than juvenile facilities–often within the first 48 hours of incarceration.” 42 U.S.C. § 15601(4) Of course, no one has been convicted of any crime within 48 hours of being taken into custody.
3. “Prison rape endangers the public safety by making brutalized inmates more likely to commit crimes when they are released….” 42 U.S.C. § 15601(8) Those who are not completely destroyed by this torture are inclined to kill members of “law” enforcement especially when faced with a threat of being imprisoned and tortured again.
4. In its findings on prisoner rape, Congress did not consider as rape “the use of a health care provider’s hands or fingers and the use of instruments to perform body cavity searches in order to maintain security and safety within the prison or detention facility, provided that the search is conducted in a manner consistent with constitutional requirements.” 42 U.S.C. § 15609(12)(C) Of course, these “strip searches” are usually conducted without a warrant or any semblance of probable cause, and therefore, they are technically also rape. Just ask anyone who has gone through one or seen one. For an example, see the one crime victim Hope Steffey experienced at the link below.
“Law” enforcement have most of the sick fun, but judges want a piece of the action, too. For an example, see this article about jailers bringing defendants to a judge’s chambers so that he could rape them. Mobile Press-Register – Former Judge Charged with Kidnapping, Sex Abuse http://www.al.com/press-register/stories/index.ssf?/base/news/1238231726286670.xml&coll=3
Oh, don’t think that you have to commit a crime to be arrested and raped by “law” enforcement. It happens to victims who call the police for help, especially if they are pretty. For an example, see The State Torture of Hope Steffey. http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2008/03/10/p23979
Of course, those sadists in “law” enforcement enjoy beating people, too. See for example, the rare article covering the DoJ’s announcement that 2002 Suspects Died in Police Custody Over 3 Years, 2002 to 2005. http://www.sfltimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=633&Itemid=100
Yes, as a standard practice, young Americans are tortured, raped, and beaten by “law” enforcement every day in America, but the ACLU does nothing, the media censors this information from the public, and most importantly, just as with those who tortured prisoners overseas, the U.S. Government and the state governments do nothing to stop this widespread torture. Why? Because throughout history, the main use of torture has been to control the populace.
Is this acceptable to you? Do you want to know why U.S. government agents can treat you like a slave? If so, see What Happens When the People Lose the Power to Control Government and What You Can Do to Take the Power Back? http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_mark_ada_080204_what_happens_when_th.htm
Here are a couple of passages from that article which point out the importance of the right to present evidence of criminal conduct to a grand jury.
As United States Supreme Court Justice Joseph P. Bradley said in Blyew v. U.S., 80 U.S. 581, 598 (1871), every citizen has a right to enter a complaint before a magistrate, or the grand jury. Justice Bradley explained, “I say ‘right,’ for it is a right, an inestimable right, that of invoking the penalties of the law upon those who criminally or feloniously attack our persons or our property. Civil society has deprived us of the natural right of avenging ourselves, but it has preserved to us, all the more jealously, the right of bringing the offender to justice.” Id.
Justice Bradley also pointed out that if a person was deprived of the right to bring a criminal complaint to a grand jury that person was reduced from the status of a free citizen to no more than a slave. He stated, “To deprive a whole class of the community of this right, to refuse their evidence and their sworn complaints, is to brand them with a badge of slavery; is to expose them to wanton insults and fiendish assaults; is to leave their lives, their families, and their property unprotected by law. It gives unrestricted license and impunity to vindictive outlaws and felons to rush upon these helpless people and kill and slay them at will, as was done in this case.” Id at 599.
Imagine if a citizen presented evidence to a grand jury showing that she was beaten and raped by members of “law” enforcement. Do you think that the citizens on the grand jury would indict those “law” enforcement officers? I do, and I think that the loss of this inestimable right is why our government has become so corrupt and abusive.
So, are you going to do anything to help prevent your son, wife or daughter from being tortured? If so, join us on June 25 for Torture Accountability Action Day. For more info on that see http://tortureaccountability.webs.com/
Oh, by the way, the principle of justice for all no longer exists in the U.S.A. Now, government agents can torture with impunity, but if you even simulate torture, you will be arrested. See U.S. Government Threatens to Prosecute Waterboarding http://www.opednews.com/articles/U-S-Govt-Threatens-to-Pr-by-David-Swanson-090621-780.html
42 U.S.C. § 15601 – Congressional findings concerning rape in jails and prisons in the United States of America http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode42/usc_sec_42_00015601—-000-.html
42 U.S.C. § 15609 – Definitions concerning rape in custody
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode42/usc_sec_42_00015609—-000- http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode42/usc_sec_42_00015609—-000-
This article really hits the ball out of the park Mark. I was upset for hours after read the details and many of the facts in your writing I posted to others on my email list and on Usenet. Your details of rape and abuse by law enforcement, even a judge (!) and the brutal conditions of US prisons reveal what this system is about and what this country is becoming.
Way to go, Bill. Spread the news. Our means to control the government have been stolen, and as a result, we are treated like slaves! If the masses knew what was going on and that a government of, by, and for the people no longer existed in the U.S. A., they might demand real change!
Also, don’t forget that Congress admitted that most of the beatings, sexual assaults, and rapes, also known as torture, occur within the first 48 hours of being taken into custody, and of course, no one has been convicted of anything within 48 hours of being arrested and jailed.
Concerning prison rape, I’ve heard that the jailers in Europe and Canada don’t allow it, and that conditions are different in those prisons. In the United States it seems authorities encourage rape of inmates by other prisoners, and that it is sometimes secretly ordered by authorities as a form of control. Is that true?
Most definitely, this abuse could easily be stopped, but it isn’t because it is used as a form of control. It’s used to make it clear to you that you have no power and can be abused by those with power.
Remember, most of the abuse is committed by “law” enforcement within the first few hours after arrest. For instance, if you can’t make bail right away and will be held over night, you will be strip searched in most jails even without probable cause that you have a weapon or banned substances, and if you complain about it, you will probably be beaten and get a body cavity search, too. Of course, if you happen to be a pretty young woman, you almost certainly will be subjected to a strip search and a body cavity search.
As Hope Steffey experienced, if you are arrested without cause and you are complaining about it, then you will almost certainly be abused. This is to remind you that they are in charge and that they are able to do anything to you. Sometimes it is an illegal “strip search” conducted by members of the opposite sex while a crowd watches, and sometimes an inmate is sent by jail staff to do the dirty work.
In fact, just like in the movie Crash, some members of “law” enforcement will conduct strip searches and body cavity searches in public without even arresting you! Of course, such acts are clearly rape, but the prosecuting princes protect their thugs virtually all of the time. For example, a few years ago in Pensacola, Florida, a cop performed a strip search and body cavity search on two 15 year old girls who were passengers in a car that he had pulled over. He did it in front of several officers that he called to watch. Instead of being fired and prosecuted, he was promoted even though the Sheriff’s department paid an undisclosed sum to settle the lawsuit brought against it by the girls.
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More fuel for the fire – http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/31/inmate.sex/
Former Alabama judge indicted on inmate sex charges
“(CNN) — A former south Alabama judge is accused of checking male inmates out of jail and forcing them to engage in sexual activity including paddling, according to officials and court documents. . .Former Mobile County Circuit Judge Herman Thomas denies all the charges, his attorney says. . . The indictments total 57 counts, and the charges range from ethics violations to kidnapping, extortion, sex abuse and sodomy. If convicted on the most serious charge — kidnapping, a Class A felony — Thomas faces a prison sentence of 10 to 99 years in prison, Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson Jr. said Monday.”
Read the story, and subsequent stories, it gets more interesting.
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