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In reply to the discussion: Ken Starr, prosecutor in Clinton Whitewater probe, dies at 76 [View all]Judi Lynn
(160,420 posts)72. They chained Susan McDougal to a toilet
They chained Susan McDougal to a toilet
ROBERT SCHEER
May 14, 1998
PRISON - or the threat of it - hangs over those who won't incriminate the president. She has been held mostly in solitary confinement, denied exercise as well as a Bible. On several occasions, she has been chained to a toilet for hours at a time. She was "housed on the same row with murderers, molesters, abusers and psychotic prisoners, one of whom attempted to stab her with a sharpened pencil," according to a brief filed by her attorney last week.
Doctors report that a precondition of scoliosis has degenerated to the point where parts of her vertebrae are fused. She is in constant back pain, exacerbated by sleeping on mattresses on concrete floors and spending many hours forced to sit upright in holding cells. She is Susan McDougal. Her constant degradation is outlined in a motion filed last week by her attorney, Mark Geragos, to reduce her sentence. It cries out for a full-scale civil rights investigation.
Maybe then we will learn the facts of her prison condition. But to know that something very wrong is afoot, observe those photos of McDougal, manacled with heavy shackles, as she moves through Kenneth Starr's never-ending inquisition. This barbarous treatment, unprecedented for a civil contempt prisoner, was not intended to prevent escape.
The plan to break her spirit and force a denunciation of the president is obvious with each turn of the screw. She served 18 months for civil contempt, and now, in the last hours of the Little Rock grand jury, Starr piled on the more serious charge of criminal contempt.
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That originally comes from (I think) Bette Davis or some other celebrity of her era (n/t)
CarlYasutomo
Sep 2022
#92
To say something good about him, he'll finally be able to keep his mouth shut.
LT Barclay
Sep 2022
#45
He was a turd in every sense of the word. A real perv. Here's a little link to his recent past...
flying_wahini
Sep 2022
#56
Hmm another persons grave I would not mind visiting to show them the respect they are due
cstanleytech
Sep 2022
#66
Pleased to outlive that MFer. With any luck the world will never hear your name again. nt
Doremus
Sep 2022
#104