Posted on 08/06/2021 11:45:30 AM PDT by A.M. Smith
The Capitol protester whose feet were pictured on Nancy Pelosi’s desk is now claiming, through his lawyer, that he was subjected to inhumane treatment and torture while being imprisoned in a DC jail earlier this year.
Richard ‘Bigo’ Barnett, 61, claimed he was ‘tortured’ at the DC jail, citing episodes in which he was pushed head first into the concrete floor and held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day.
In one incident, when he felt he was having a heart attack in jail, the Capitol rioter who put his feet up on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk said he was laughed at and denied medical attention.
The allegations were made in a ’emergency request’ by Barnett’s attorney Joseph D. McBride calling on Amnesty International and the American Civil Liberties Union to investigate the treatment and alleged ‘human rights violations’ of Capitol rioters at the jail.
According to the letter, he was exposed to “various psychological and emotional abuses,” such as being assaulted by staff, receiving threats against his wife, and being forced to live in “disgusting unsanitary conditions.”
He was also allegedly robbed of his stuff and subjected to sleep deprivation.
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I agree.
Started with Lincoln in the Civil War. Wilson did it too, and so did FDR.
Bttt.
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He lived a few towns from here. The local newspaper and TV stations are really playing up this “rioter”.
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Won’t happen to me. I’ll kill them all. Or they’ll kill me, and I won’t have to worry.
You are sadly misinformed. A congressional delegation consisting of Matt Goetz, Bobbit and a number of others tried to visit these prisoners about 10 days ago. The bull dyke "supervisor," of the lock up in DC refused to let the group inspect the jail and then, on the pretext of talking privately with the group, lured them outside the jail entrance. The supervisor ran back in side the jail and locked the delegation out. I am waiting to see what follows. This was broadcast live by OAN, I believe.
Matt Gaetz and M.T. Greene seem to be about the only Congress Critters paying attention to these people. Sydney Powell and several others have started working on trying to help them.
This is what happens when laws are passed supposedly for a certain group-drug dealers, terrorists etc. Eventually it is misused.
Same with the so-called red flag laws. They declare you a danger to your self or others due to mental problems and then they can take your guns etc.
I still recall that many in the Soviet Union were locked up based on their being mentally ill - when it was actually that they were political dissidents.
As I understand it,eventually they were afforded and opportunity to speak with their lawyer, only while in close physical presence of guards.
This would violate confidentiality privilege of the lawyer-client relationship.
Furthermore, since the guards definitely identify with the Fed and with their brother police officers,
I am sure that any meaningful defense information would be shared with the prosecution.
Also, this action of delay by the Fed., which originally submitted erroneous and fictional information for trial, denies the civil right to a speedy trial.
To suggest that this incident is not politically motivated would render this posture by the prosecution as to be a farce !
I believe that Pelousey intends to delay the bulk of the trials until just prior to the midterm elections of 2022 for political impact.
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights are meaningless to a Socialist.
Please read Tagline,
It is good that a few decent people in Congress tried to visit them in jail and get this situation straightened out. But nothing will come of it unless the Repubs in Congress unite and refuse to consider or pass any legislation until these people are freed or until there are sustained, very edgy mass street demonstrations demanding their release.
Given the shameful history of conservative weakness, cowardice and inaction in the face of the decades-old leftist onslaught, it is extremely likely that neither will happen.
Yes. “Slain” was used in the press for many days after the true cause appeared. And it may appear again.
Note my tag line...
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