Libertarian freedom activist forcibly hospitalized and drugged
Submitted by xntryk1 on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 09:54
By Garry Reed
Libertarian News Examiner | November 4, 2009
Veteran libertarian civil rights activist Julian Heicklen calls it "an out-and-out kidnapping" when Homeland Security Police forcibly transported him to a hospital where he was injected with Thorazine against his will.
It began shortly after Heicklen arrived at the US District Courthouse in New York City for the third Monday in a row to pass out pamphlets to prospective jurors.
The pamphlet, produced by the Fully Informed Jury Association (FIJA) entitled “A Primer for Prospective Jurors” informs jurors of their right to judge the law and its application as well as the facts in a case, regardless of the judge's instructions to the contrary.
As in the past, (Jury activist arrested for exercising First Amendment rights) Homeland Security police told him he couldn't do that on federal property and ordered him to leave. As in the past, Heicklen explained that the First Amendment recognized his right to do what he was doing.
Then, as Heicklen tells it in his email report to supporters, "One of them said that I was under arrest, get his hands behind his back and handcuff him."
As Heicklen always does when faced with arrest, he dropped to the ground and went limp and silent.
In the past, he was arrested, handcuffed, placed on a gurney and transported to a hospital where he was examined and eventually released in time to be home later the same day.
(Full accounts of this and his first two trips to Manhattan can be read on the New Jersey Libertarian Party website.)
But this time something different happened. "I remained in that position for over an hour," Heicklen says, "before I was lifted onto a gurney and strapped securely. I was never handcuffed nor received a citation or summons. It was an out-and-out kidnapping."
From the ariticle, conclusionary editorial comment
EDITORIAL COMMENT
"If it's true that the government is reading all of the emails that pass between Julian and his supporters and well-wishers, let's force them to violate everyone's rights. EVERYONE who reads this article should get on Julian's email list. Make them spy on the entire American freedom movement. Maybe they'll even join us! Send your email address to jph13@psu.edu and ask Julian to add you to the "Do Not Spy On Me" list. It will be one small way you can show your support for Julian and for freedom."
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"If people let government decide which foods they eat and medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny."
Thomas Jefferson
Papers please? Uh.. NO! GD
Papers please? Uh.. NO!
GD Gestapo!
WTF!?
What is the law (whether constitional or not)
on the federal property thing?
And is that gut federally funded?
CAMERA DUDE, SHUT UP!!!!
Seriously camera guy... you talk waaaay to much to law enforcement! You even volunteered information to them without being asked. Every question or comment they make is to help them further investigate you. You told them about emails, association, the reason you're there. when you were suppose to be there - everything!
Way to keep the camera steady though. A steady hand is the toughest part.
No kidding
He really needs to learn not to talk to them.
What can they be thinking, injecting
with thorazine? What is the rationale? Who decides these things, who gives the orders? Ok a lackey carries out the orders, but what mastermind sits around thinking up horrible things to do to people in their custody?
We should all know about
We should all know about jury nullification.
There always seem to be only
There always seem to be only 1 person willing to stand up to these tyrants. There needs to be 1000 people drop to the ground.
“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds”
-Sam Adams
“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds”
-Sam Adams
Could 20 people show up
to take his place, or his back, next week? Yes, I know, what am I doing in my community?
Thanks for the video - It has inspired me.
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you win!"
GANDHI
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you win!"
GANDHI
Here is the video of the arrest.
As Heicklen always does when faced with arrest, he dropped to the ground and went limp and silent.
http://www.youtube.com/wa...
Thanks for posting
this video, Black Ops...now that's activism, or in his case, inactivism...
I respect Mr. Heicklen's efforts...
I guess I'm attempting to make light due to my belief in finding the humor whenever possible, especially when confronted with multiple disturbing facts in rapid succession...thereby allowing one to keep on keeping on... (I just read several disturbing articles in a row here at DP)
Thanks to eccentric one, too, for sharing the story...
Give Peace a Chance - John Lennon
http://www.enduswars.org/
He's lucky they didn't shoot him in the back of the head
Just a little younger and a little darker and he'd have been a dead man. But we wouldn't do anything about it anyway.
Wow you screwed up bigtime without even realizing it.
When they make a claim, such as "federal this and that" ask them to prove their claim, ask them if they are assuming jurisdiction. Do NOT provide ID as that places you in their jurisdiction.
I will suggest, for you to think about, would be to study the law and how to apply it.
I reserve the right to govern myself.
I reserve the right to govern myself.