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Ally
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 Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 3:37 pm Post subject: Police Torture Recorded |
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One of the most important domestic stories the national media suppressed.
When Tennessee law enforcement officials showed up at the home of Lester Siler, who they suspected of drug use, they asked Lester's wife and son to leave. They didn't know that Lester's wife had turned on a tape recorder in the kitchen.
When Lester exercised his constitutional right not to sign a consent to search his house, these officers spent the next two hours torturing him. They beat him with bats and guns, held loaded guns to his head, threatened to shoot him, dunked his head in the toilet, burned him with lighters, attached his testicles to a battery charger, threatened to cut off his fingers, and threatened to "go get" his wife and take his child away from him.
Then they arrested him for "evading arrest". It wasn't until the wife's recording made it to the FBI that all hell broke loose. And go figure, even though these officers have been convicted in federal court, not one national media outlet gave this story the coverage it deserved. But that's okay. At the time, reporters were busy decrying the immorality of Janet Jackson's Superbowl nipple! These are the same "journalists" who refused to cover the United States Government's secretive medical marijuana program.
I'm warning you now, this is the most disturbing recording I've ever heard in my life. But people need to know about this. Our war on drugs is a failure, and the national media is following a code of silence on related humans rights abuses.
http://wms.scripps.com/knoxville/siler/siler.mp3
The link at the top will open the actual audio recording of the torture (some people have to copy and paste the link into thir browser to activate the link). And a web search for "Lester Siler" will give you access to further local and blog coverage of this story.
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I couldn't bear to listen to the entire recording. You can also read what happened to the police here:
http://www.wbir.com/news/archive.aspx?storyid=27204 |
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Skylace
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| Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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That is bloody awful. There is really no way to describe it. Scum.  |
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Ally
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| Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Skylace wrote: | | That is bloody awful. There is really no way to discribe it. Scum. |
It's good that the FBI got involved and there these scumbags were put in prison. All to often there isn't justice in these cases. |
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Skylace
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| Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Ally wrote: | | Skylace wrote: | | That is bloody awful. There is really no way to discribe it. Scum. |
It's good that the FBI got involved and there these scumbags were put in prison. All to often there isn't justice in these cases. |
That's very true indeed! |
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