- "On a couple of occasions, I entered interview rooms to find a detainee chained hand and foot in a fetal position to the floor, with no chair, food or water. Most times they urinated or defecated on themselves, and had been left there for 18-24 hours or more. On one occasion, the air conditioning had been turned down so far and the temperature was so cold in the room, that the barefooted detainee was shaking with cold. ... On another occasion, the [air conditioner] had been turned off, making the temperature in the unventilated room well over 100 degrees. The detainee was almost unconscious on the floor, with a pile of hair next to him. He had apparently been literally pulling his hair out throughout the night. On another occasion, not only was the temperature unbearably hot, but extremely loud rap music was being played in the room, and had been since the day before, with the detainee chained hand and foot in the fetal position on the tile floor."
He dared to suggest that something reading that might think it was a government more evil than us?!!
Whenever something like this happens, I think of what Eddie Murphy said in Beverly Hills Cop: "Disturbing the peace? I got thrown out of a window! What's the charge for getting pushed out of a moving car, huh? Jaywalking?"
Then I read the Supreme Court gave the okay for the Government to play Sim City with your house and an 8 year old is suspended for pledging allegience to the United Federation of Planets instead of the regular Pledge. Hey, maybe if he put the words "under God" in his version, he'd still be okay...or at least protected by those that cry "christian bigotry" at the slightest provocation. Or maybe they should've gagged him like that kid in Matt Groening's Life in Hell strip after he did his version of the Pledge and smugly declared "It's a free country".
Geez, I go away to lick my wounds for a few days, and everything's...*sigh* just as nuts as ever.
