ARREST PRISON TORTURE!
Government-sponsored torture in federal and state prisons thrives. Victims are isolated in control units, left naked on cold floors for days, spread-eagled in 5-point body restraints, crammed into restraint chairs for untold hours, forced to wear restraint hoods, fitted with stun belts that can deliver 50,000 volts of electricity. Such unspeakable horrors are perpetrated--yes, in your name--only because you don't see it, haven't heard of it, can't imagine it.
But what if you could? What if thousands of ordinary American citizens could be induced to view a restraint bed, then invited to enter a control unit, to feel the shock of absolute sensory deprivation, to picture being caged in that tiny, bare cell for months or years, to realize with horror why prisoners often go mad?
Sound impossible? Far from it. Such an experience could be available at every state and county fair. Imagine a control unit facsimile set up at the fair as a "house of horrors." Imagine a bunk outside the cell with a mannequin in 5-point restraints. Imagine a photo display of brutal torture devices used in our prisons. Then imagine the visitor, now beguiled, stepping inside the cell for an experience that will penetrate every sense and remain indelibly etched in the brain.
Will visitors dismiss such cells as reserved for the most violent, most despicable prisoners? Not for a minute. A human rights representative will be on the spot with literature and facts. The biggest secret of the "land of the free" is out. Anyone, young or old--a minor player on a pot charge or a big time racketeer, can end there. You or your loved ones could end there.
Does a prisoner at least receive due process before being consigned to these horrors? Visitors will learn that control unit classification is often assigned randomly, largely based on an informer system and a kangaroo court. Similarly, torture can occur at the whim of prison staff. Prisoners are denied the right to know and face their accusers, denied the right to a fair hearing, denied even an expiration date when their nightmare control unit torment will end.
How can we bring thousands of people to voluntarily confront control unit experience? Simple. By means of an easily transportable and assembled control unit exhibit. The cell can be lightweight, painted to resemble concrete walls, and installed with toilet, sink, and bunk to accurate specifications. It will look and feel like the real thing. Outside the cell will be a bulletin board with large laminated photos of horrific prison conditions. The simulated control unit can be transported to sites at state and county fairs.
Will this work? Does the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. work? When D.C. visitors see the tools of Nazi torture and killings, see photos of the prison camps, can they ever forget the horror? Neither will they forget the display of US prison torture.
HOW YOU CAN HELP
·Needed: A legitimate, nonprofit organization to establish a fund for collecting donations for this enterprise. Donors will not be hard to find. The more money that is donated, the greater the number of control unit exhibits that can tour the country. Donations will be used to buy authentic control unit fixtures--toilet and wash basin-materials to build the cell and bed, a mannequin to serve as a prisoner in restraints, and perhaps additional torture devices for display.
·Needed: Donors after the fund is established.
·Needed: Volunteers to staff the exhibit at fairs in their city or town.
This is an idea whose time has come. North Coast Xpress has agreed to serve as a temporary contact with the individuals responsible for this concept.
If you can help in any capacity, please contact NCX at P.O. Box 1226, Occidental, CA 95465, or call (707) 874-1453 or email <doretk@sonic.net>.