Torturing political prisoners: not Russia but right here in the USA
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I wouldn't mind perusing this but I'm not signing up for anything. Got any notable excerpts?EXCLUSIVE: Jan. 6 Prisoners and Families Expose Brutal Truth About Jail Lockdown
www.theepochtimes.com
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With McAbee on the ground in pain, Lancaster ordered the pod officer to handcuff him. As McAbee was being handcuffed, Lancaster sprayed him again, point blank, in the face.
Sarah’s account is validated by the texts sent by other Jan. 6 prisoners to their family members.
By now, Sarah said other Jan. 6 prisoners had emerged from their cells. Three of them, Ron Sandlin, Bart Shively, and Ryan Nichols, began yelling at Lancaster, telling her to stop her assault on McAbee. Sandlin was then handcuffed. He and McAbee were taken away to solitary confinement. Shively and Nichols were also sprayed, cuffed, and placed in isolation pods. According to Sarah, there are no cameras in the isolation pod area.
“It’s very concerning because the guards can come in and do whatever they like to these people with no accountability,” she said.
Messages sent by two more Jan. 6 prisoner provides corroboration and more detail.
Sarah then recalled that the facility has a long history of sub-human conditions. She also noted that Lancaster, notorious among Jan. 6 prisoners and their family members for being particularly vulgar and brutal, had been banned from the Jan. 6 pod for verbal abuse and for stealing the inmates’ mail.
“I don’t know if that ban was lifted or why she was in that pod,” she said.
Her account was again validated independently by the messages from other Jan. 6 prisoners.
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“I have been unable to talk to my husband,” Nicole said further, adding that the tablets the prisoners use to communicate with their family members were suddenly confiscated. “He has not been able to send me a message. The last message he sent me was that they were being assaulted and officers had taken off their body cams.”
A text message from a prisoner’s family member confirmed that the inmates’ tablets had been confiscated.
She also revealed that the prisoners’ electronic grievance system has been turned off and they have not been able to file grievances with the jail for over a month. This means none of the incidents of abuse are being documented, and no one is being held accountable. Even the paper grievances filed by prisoners are “torn up in front of their faces.”
The history of abuse was validated by the message of another Jan. 6 prisoner.
In the meantime, Sarah said her husband was in his cell drenched in OC spray for over 12 hours before he was taken to medical and “thrown into a hot shower.” Afterward, guards made him put the same OC spray-soaked clothing back on before putting him back in his cell. Four hours later it began to reactivate on his skin and in his eyes.
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“I’m angry at this point, over what’s continuing to happen,” Bonnie told The Epoch Times. “It’s like this jail is untouchable. It’s aggravating that these men are still in the same situation after two years.”
Aside from the abuse and abhorrent conditions, Bonnie said her husband’s “discovery was taken from him.”
All of the work he’s been doing on his case, all of the motions, everything he has been working on for his case for the past 19 months was on a thumb drive that has now gone missing from his cell for the second time.
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According to Joseph McBride, the attorney representing Nichols and several other Jan. 6 prisoners and defendants, the prison guards are retaliating against Nichols because of the habeas petition filed against Lancaster.
“There is no other explanation,” McBride told The Epoch Times. “Our plan is to argue for his release today.”
According to a motion (pdf) filed on the morning of Aug. 8 in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, McBride petitioned “the Court to dismiss all charges against” Ryan Nichols “for the reason that the government, in the person of the President, has intentionally and irreparably poisoned the jury pool.”
Citing 31 separate statements Biden made against MAGA Republicans during his 24-minute speech on Sept. 1, McBride charges that “The President has incited the entire nation to hate the January 6th defendants as a patriotic duty.”
According to the Defendant’s Emergency Motion for Immediate Pre-Trial Release and Request for an Emergency Hearing (pdf) McBride also “moves the Court to order the immediate temporary release” of Ryan Nichols “from pretrial confinement” because:
McBride has also petitioned the court (pdf) for a change of venue."
There are numerous other reports such as tying up prisoners and beating them. One guy lost his eye.
Keep in mind these men are supposedly innocent until proven guilty. They are illegally denied bail.
They are denied a speedy trial.
They are often denied access to counsel or to effectively participate in their defense.
The DOJ has withheld exculpatory video evidence which would clear most of them since they are mostly innocent.
The DOJ has drummed up phony charges such as seditious conspiracy when there was none, or twisting a law concerning interfering with court proceedings as far as evidence to charge mere protesting is a crime. They claim areas were restricted but most charged can be seen clearly escorted by police who opened the doors for them to enter the Capitol.
Even where someone did something wrong, like pepper spraying police (not many), the DOJ charges that assault as one with a deadly weapon even though they classify the police pepper spraying people as "non-lethal."
The innocent (accused but not found guilty) have been fed poisoned food; kept in severe mold conditions, beaten, tortured in various ways, etc, etc,...
Keep in mind these men are supposedly innocent until proven guilty. They are illegally denied bail.
They are denied a speedy trial.
They are often denied access to counsel or to effectively participate in their defense.
The DOJ has withheld exculpatory video evidence which would clear most of them since they are mostly innocent.
The DOJ has drummed up phony charges such as seditious conspiracy when there was none, or twisting a law concerning interfering with court proceedings as far as evidence to charge mere protesting is a crime. They claim areas were restricted but most charged can be seen clearly escorted by police who opened the doors for them to enter the Capitol.
Even where someone did something wrong, like pepper spraying police (not many), the DOJ charges that assault as one with a deadly weapon even though they classify the police pepper spraying people as "non-lethal."
The innocent (accused but not found guilty) have been fed poisoned food; kept in severe mold conditions, beaten, tortured in various ways, etc, etc,...
What if the same thing happens to you down the road?
You think it can't? That we'll always see the feds on your side? What if one day the government turns right wing and such practices have been normalized?
They should have thought of that before they tried to overturn an election
First off, I wouldn’t trust a mother fuking thing you post if you paid me. So I’m pretty certain it’s BULLSHIT. You’ve posted lies and absurd mind numbingly idiotic crap so often in here your word ain’t worth 50 cents with two quarters taped to it. So no….I’m not worried it would happen to me since it most likely didnt happen to these people. But on the off chance that you won the lottery and it is accurate I would say first…..hahahahahha coksukkers!!!!!! Then i would say I’m still not worried cause I don’t make it a practice to join dum fuk mouth breathing red neck shit birds in a cult that worships the nut sack of a giant orange pasty assed piece of shit lying turd and refuse to accept election results like these fuking morons did.
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Oh let’s look at the source….well what do you know……the epoch times…..BAHAHAHAHAAAA!!! You’ve got to be kidding me! A far right nut job trump propaganda rag that spouts Qanon bullshit and claims democrats are a cabal of pedophiles and that Jan 6th was a false flag. Shove this crap up your ass @randman1. Man it is laughable the shit you fall for.
In other words, you know for certain it's true; hence the absurd hissy-fit.
Yes or no, do you believe satanic reptilian child molesters are running the govt?
I don’t want to hear any crying when law enforcement gives somebody else the Freddie Gray treatment.
Epoch Times is truly special. It's pretty amazing just how totally off-the-charts-nuts these sources can get, and the following they have.
Google: Falun Gong
How The Epoch Times Created a Giant Influence Machine (Published 2020)
Since 2016, the Falun Gong-backed newspaper has used aggressive Facebook tactics and right-wing misinformation to create an anti-China, pro-Trump media empire.
So I won’t get any crying? Very good then.
I can't read the article because it's behind their paywall, but I just wanted to point out that I found it pretty funny that you sought to rag on Epoch Times by citing the NYT. That's equivalent to asking Coach K why Psycho T put his face in front of Gerald Henderson's elbow.Epoch Times is truly special. It's pretty amazing just how totally off-the-charts-nuts these sources can get, and the following they have.
Google: Falun Gong
How The Epoch Times Created a Giant Influence Machine (Published 2020)
Since 2016, the Falun Gong-backed newspaper has used aggressive Facebook tactics and right-wing misinformation to create an anti-China, pro-Trump media empire.www.nytimes.com
You can dis Epoch all you want, but that doesn't mean they don't occasionally get something right or break a story (I seem to recall they were part of the early reports on covid being lab generated, not a wet market creation). The same applies to NYT despite their clear agenda and leanings. We all have to consider the source when reviewing things and filter it accordingly. That doesn't translate to a complete and utter dismissal of anything they report. Why should Epoch be any different?
Epoch has integrity. NYTs does not. Both report on a wide range of topics not politically related, and so maybe both are good for that, but Epoch doesn't publish straight propaganda like the NYTs does.
I had no problem accessing their home page and other links. It's far right loony propaganda.
Buy a subscription so you can absorb everything they have to offer. I'm sure you will be just as enriched as the rest of the cult members who cite them as a reliable source.
Wasn't talking about Epoch article. I was responding to your post with your link from the NYT and they told me that I've reached their free article limit. But I don't understand how you would have access to either one since you've previously represented that you don't take in the "news" and only watch YouTube. No biggie though, just pointing out that it makes no sense (regardless of your personal opinion) to make the argument that one entity is at the extreme of a political spectrum by taking the word of another entity that is at the completely opposite end of that spectrum. To the NYT, anyone neutral or leaning conservative would be crazy right wingers.
I don't watch TV news channels. Have I looked at "news" articles online? Of course.
I can't explain the NYT link. It worked for me through a Google search. However, when I clicked it from this thread, I got the paywall. I dunno.
I'll gladly concede that the NYT is biased. They're all biased. If you trust Epoch and the Falun Gong religious movement to provide authentic, accurate "news"... go for it. I just see another loony site from the looniest on this board preening his loony shit by starting a new thread because he wasn't getting enough attention in the political thread.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
You obviously know nothing of what that word means
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The thing about being way too proud and arrogant is you need to at least have some reason for it. Demonstrating you are just ignorant and stupid while imagining you seem sane and reasonable just doesn't cut it.
But go ahead and ask whatever insane questions you want but not playing that game. I like to talk facts. Maybe you should try that sometime.
The New York Times just like The Washington Post allows readers free access to articles as a sample in hopes we'll purchase a subscription. After your number of free looks is used up, the paywall comes up. Damned free enterprise.
