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Goverment Tortures her Own

Mike S. Adams tells a strange story. of abuse, video tapes, and coverup of an American citizen.

Dr. Sell has long alleged a videotaped humiliation of his being stripped naked and then tormented by scalding water for ten minutes in front of a female onlooker. He even identified the date of this atrocity as February 19, 2000. For years he has sought release of this and similar videotapes to the public so that people could become aware of the injustice.

He alleged that this occurred repeatedly, but the government responded by calling him paranoid and delusional. He said there were videotapes to prove his claims. The government at first insisted that the videotapes no longer existed until they suddenly reappeared.

The courts have refused to release the tapes that could either prove or disprove the accusations of this man. Their has been no public outcry because the media hasn't reported it, and the goverment won't release the video. We are therefore outraged about Abu Graib, but so silent about abuse of a political prisoner. We as Americans have more to fear from our own goverment than we do from Arabic terrorists.

Has the bizarre psychiatric sadism against the Iraqi prisoners been used against our own citizen? Are taxpayer dollars being spent to take every step possible to keep these videotapes a secret? If so, isn’t this case every bit as newsworthy as the one involving the captured Iraqis, many of whom killed American soldiers?

The seven-year imprisonment of Dr. Sell has been kept from greater publicity by an extraordinary sealing of key records in the case. When Dr. Sell's attorneys were finally allowed to view the videotapes of his abuse, the judge even gagged them by ordering them not to tell others what the tapes reveal.

Millions of dollars are being spent on prosecuting our soldiers in Iraq, many of whom were probably just following orders. Yet no one is lifting a finger to hold any government official accountable for the treatment of Dr. Sell.

Instead, all the stops have been pulled to cover up the videos capturing abusive treatment of Dr. Sell. On August 12th Judge Donald Stohr denied motions filed by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and others to release the videotaped abuse.

THis guy has been a prisoner a lot longer than any of the Iraqi's. Not even Marvin Zindler finds this important.

posted by Liberty @ 6:33 AM