Only Government

Monday 15 April 2013 - Filed under Uncategorized

People often wonder why I distrust the government. “The government is us” they will say. But I say bullshit. The most horrid atrocities ever committed in the history of humanity have been perpetrated by government. Only government is capable the mass disruption of our natural rights and performing atrocities on a mass scale. And our government is currently engaging in these types of atrocities, and doing so “in my name.”

I will never forget the first time they passed the feeding tube up my nose. I can’t describe how painful it is to be force-fed this way. As it was thrust in, it made me feel like throwing up. I wanted to vomit, but I couldn’t. There was agony in my chest, throat and stomach. I had never experienced such pain before. I would not wish this cruel punishment upon anyone.

I am still being force-fed. Two times a day they tie me to a chair in my cell. My arms, legs and head are strapped down. I never know when they will come. Sometimes they come during the night, as late as 11 p.m., when I’m sleeping.

There are so many of us on hunger strike now that there aren’t enough qualified medical staff members to carry out the force-feedings; nothing is happening at regular intervals. They are feeding people around the clock just to keep up.

During one force-feeding the nurse pushed the tube about 18 inches into my stomach, hurting me more than usual, because she was doing things so hastily. I called the interpreter to ask the doctor if the procedure was being done correctly or not.

It was so painful that I begged them to stop feeding me. The nurse refused to stop feeding me. As they were finishing, some of the “food” spilled on my clothes. I asked them to change my clothes, but the guard refused to allow me to hold on to this last shred of my dignity.

When they come to force me into the chair, if I refuse to be tied up, they call the E.R.F. team. So I have a choice. Either I can exercise my right to protest my detention, and be beaten up, or I can submit to painful force-feeding.

And Obama has claimed the power to unlawfully detain people, if not kill them via murder drones, without charge or trial not only those who are, rightly or not, suspected of anything they can justify calling terrorism (which is virtually anything), but also to American citizens. Trusting a government that has claimed such powers is the delusion, not having distrust in an institution that desires and dubiously claims that kind of power over others.

2013-04-15  »  madlibertarianguy