I was pretty much on his side until this:
> Mr. Heicklen has sued the government and various hospitals to which he was taken after being issued citations and falling to the ground.
He sued the hospitals? What did they do wrong?
> Mr. Heicklen has sued the government and various hospitals to which he was taken after being issued citations and falling to the ground.
He sued the hospitals? What did they do wrong?
The purpose of the hospital visits is to perform what is euphemistically referred to as extraordinary rendition. In each incident, the hospitals, ambulance personnel and the police knew that I had no medical problem. The hospitals are in collusion with the police to perform torture. At the hospitals, I have been sodomized, had a plug driven up my left nostril (extremely painful), had my corneas “dusted” with a brush, beaten black and blue on my chest, and forcefully injected with thorazine on two occasions against my expressed wishes. Two days after one of these hospital visits, I saw my physician, who looked at my chest and exclaimed: “Did the police do that to you?” I answered: “No, it was not the police. It was the hospital personnel.”
"I have been arrested 9 times. The proper procedure for police is to take the arrestee to a magistrate. This happened twice. On 7 occasions, I was taken to hospitals (3 times to NY Downtown Hospital, 3 times to Bellevue Medical Center, and once to Saint Vincent Catholic Hospital)."
I can't help but think of the recent case of the NYPD who was forcefully admitted to a psych ward because he was a whistleblower.
I believe that taking the "suspect" to the hospital in this case is putatively for his own safety, just in case the reason he's unresponsive is that he's having a seizure or some other medical issue. But from Julian case, it appears that sometimes this is treated as an invitation to "soften him up".
(fwiw, I've never met Julian, but I've communicated with him by email and get regular updates on his work)
Whatever about the law on what he was doing, they was clearly wrong to be harassing the videographer, and DHS appear to have paid out $5000 in settlement. http://blogofbile.com/2010/10/18/settlement-with-department-...
I'm not sure its a good idea that they can hand out tax-payer money to avoid judgement against them for their illegal acts.