This isn’t the first story like this I’ve read, and the far
right fundies who are so worried about the black helicopters and FEMA camps are
strangely silent about the real invasions of the civil rights of real people. This
isn’t conspiracy theory folks, this is the real freakin’ deal.
This story comes from two sources, The Daily Kos and Think Progress they match up pretty well. This is a prime example of how the War
On Drugs has totally distorted the relationship between the civilians and the
folks that supposedly take an oath “to protect and serve.” Traffic stops that
used to get you a warning or a citation have become the camel’s nose allowing
some police departments to, apparently, do anything they damn please.
And from Penny Lernoux’s books and a dandy little volume
called School of the Assassins: Guns, Greed and Globalization there’s good data
that the war on drugs was never just about keeping drugs out of the US . That war
provided a handy cover to allow support for the covert war against so called “subversion”
in Latin America .
The real kick in the teeth were cases where the cops in
countries like Argentina who were supposed to be helping the US keep drugs out
of the US were actually the drug lords we were fighting against. Damn, you
couldn’t tell the players even with a score card and a lot of locals ended up
jailed, tortured, disappeared and dead. Find a used copy of Lernoux’s Cry of
the People and don’t read it just before lights out. It’s very uncomfortable
reading.
The real kicker is that the cops managed to get a search
warrant. Now, my knowledge of the chain of command here comes from watching Law
and Order and Blue Bloods. Cops have suspicion go to somebody in the DA’s
office and the DA goes to a judge. Judge says yay or nay and the warrant goes
back to the cops. I’d love to get my hands on that warrant because this is a
list of the procedures a man stopped for doing a rolling stop through the sign
was forced to undergo, without his consent. In fact over his continued
protests.
A review of Eckert's medical records, which he released
to KOB, and details in the lawsuit show the following happened:
1. Eckert's abdominal area
was x-rayed; no narcotics were found.
2. Doctors then performed an
exam of Eckert's anus with their fingers; no narcotics were found.
3. Doctors performed a
second exam of Eckert's anus with their fingers; no narcotics were found.
4. Doctors penetrated
Eckert's anus to insert an enema. Eckert was forced to defecate in front
of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his
stool. No narcotics were found.
5. Doctors penetrated
Eckert's anus to insert an enema a second time. Eckert was forced to
defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as
doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found.
6. Doctors penetrated
Eckert's anus to insert an enema a third time. Eckert was forced to
defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as
doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found.
7. Doctors then x-rayed
Eckert again; no narcotics were found.
8. Doctors prepared Eckert
for surgery, sedated him, and then performed a colonoscopy where a scope with a
camera was inserted into Eckert's anus, rectum, colon, and large intestines. No
narcotics were found. Throughout this ordeal,
Eckert protested and never gave doctors at the Gila Regional
Medical Center
And guess who is being dunned by the hospital for the bills
it isn’t the cops, the DA’s office or the judge. Frankly I’d give the “hospital”
the one fingered salute and dare them to take me to collections. And then I'd call every TV, radio station and newspaper in a three state area.
Either the cops grossly overstepped their bounds or a judge
who is so far nameless signed off on a warrant that allowed the cops to do
whatever they pleased. Frankly, I believe that everybody from the cops to the DA to the judge should get their asses canned. And I hope the hospital is part of this lawsuit because
they have no business even getting involved. And the impetus for this crap? The
PD’s get a share of any resources seized, especially cash. Follow the money it
will usually lead you to the truth.
2 comments:
If you watched the local news video on the affair, they pointed out that the warrant signed by the judge was good in a certain county, but the hospital in that county wouldn't perform the procedures, calling them unethical, so they went to a different hospital in a different county to rape this man. So, they effectively performed all these procedures without a valid warrant. I think someone is going to be in BIG trouble, here...
I tend to not watch videos. That's just me. Valid or not it was still rape and there needs to be a whole lot of firing going on.
The war on drugs has really distorted law enforcement. They don't have to prove that the money was going to be used for anything drug related, just that they suspect it. And given the almost universal presence of drugs like coke and pot chances are that some of the bills you're carrying probably have traces on them.
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