This is the story of a man who was taken into legal custody under false pretenses and thrown immediately into solitary confinement. He was held in a tiny cell, illuminated for 24 hours a day, which he never left except to be interrogated. Guards would hammer on the cell door every half hour around the clock, to keep him awake. After a month of this, he couldn't walk any more. He wasn't allowed to talk without being punished; he could not shower or shave; he had no access to any reading material, a lawyer, or anyone in the outside world.
After two months, the government that seized him decided it had made a mistake, and that he wasn't guilty of the crime they had suspected he had committed. But they kept him in solitary confinement for another five months anyway. ..(he was not "arrested" until he had spent three months in solitary confinement), but he was never informed of this, nor was he allowed to contact a lawyer...
After seven months, the government finally let him out of his tiny, constantly illuminated cell, and offered him a deal: If he would plead guilty to the criminal charge they had fabricated, they would release him from prison. He refused.
So the government kept him in prison....This story did not take place in Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia: It is taking place today in the United States...
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/printer_3620.shtmlComment: this story references an earlier story on the same subject published in the Washington Post. I posted it here, there was not much interest. I am posting this piece on the same guy because you really ought to read it so you will know what to expect when they come for you.