In June 2010 I posted excerpts of Julian's Jailhouse Journal
in Libertarian News Examiner after Julian was released from Rikers Island and
made it available to all of his Tyranny Fighters.
Julian's Jailhouse
Journal: Police State USA
June 17, 2010
10:43 AM MST
News from the liberterrain…
Seventy-eight year old veteran libertarian, Fully Informed
Jury Association activist and indefatigable freedom campaigner Julian Heicklen
released his jailhouse journal to his fellow Tyranny Fighters on Tuesday.
Heicklen was arrested on May 25 for committing the crime of
standing on public property in front of the US District Courthouse in Manhattan
while peacefully giving jury rights information to individuals, sent to jail
for 18 Days in New York City's notorious Rikers Island, and then released
"in the interest of justice."
Following are just a few outtakes from his journal. Anyone
who finds these entries disturbing, disgusting, outrageous and inexcusable
should read his entire journal.
"The handcuffs were removed. A number of capillaries
had been broken in my wrists. My hands turned blue."
"I was physically and verbally abused during these
drags. My upper arms were crushed in their hands, and blood vessels broken.
This was painful. My upper arms turned blue. My sneakers had no shoelaces, so
my toes kept smashing into the front of the sneakers breaking blood vessels in
my toes. This was unpleasant to say the least. My toes turned blue, and did not
return to normal for two weeks."
"The nurses and doctors pounded on my chest and pinched
my fingers, which was quite painful, but I would not utter a sound. Then they
sodomized me by shoving a needle up my rectum. Presumably they were looking for
drugs (or bombs)."
"I objected vociferously, but the attendants pinned me
to the floor while the doctor gave me an injection in my buttocks. Presumably
this was a thorazine shot. I passed out."
"The toilet had overflowed, so there was urine and
feces on the floor. I got very little sleep in these pens, because I did not
have room to lie down and my old body would ache in the sitting position."
"The toilet did not flush, so feces and urine
accumulated in the toilet."
"However the NY City police officer who had to drag me
up and down stairs in the courthouse was more articulate. Every few minutes, he
would say: 'You worthless piece of sh*t," apparently directed at me.
Heicklen, blessedly, is not without a sense of humor:
"On Sunday at 6:00 am some guy got a razor and cut up
my face pretty severely. That guy was me. It was my first shave since I left
home the previous Tuesday morning."
Now everyone can read JULIAN'S
JAILHOUSE JOURNAL in Tyranny Fighters: The Julian Heicklen
Chronicles where it's published in
its entirety as a Special Bonus
Chapter.
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