Millions of dollars are being spent on prosecuting our soldiers in Iraq, many of whom were probably just following orders. Yet no one is lifting a finger to hold any government official accountable for the treatment of Dr. Sell.
Instead, all the stops have been pulled to cover up the videos capturing abusive treatment of Dr. Sell. On August 12th Judge Donald Stohr denied motions filed by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and others to release the videotaped abuse.
Since Dr. Sell himself favors release of the videotapes, what is the legitimate reason for hiding them from the public? The only plausible basis for the government to hide the tapes is to conceal its own wrongdoing.
Judge Stohr had even withheld from the public many of the documents filed in the case. He did finally unseal some of the documents, but not the videotapes themselves.
There has been endless outcry about holding terrorists offshore for a few years without a trial. Yet Dr. Sell has been incarcerated far longer than any terrorist, and barely a murmur is ever heard about it.
One reason is that the public cannot criticize what it does not know. Concealing documents in the case from the public has allowed injustice to fester. Withholding the videotapes also permits egregious misconduct to go unpunished.
Dr. Sell's attorneys, after viewing the videotapes, brought a motion requesting that Judge Stohr himself view the videotapes. But he refused, perhaps thinking that he would rather not know what abuses have occurred at the hands of his fellow government employees.
Shocked by prison abuse of Iraqi terrorists, voters would be truly incensed to see such abusive treatment of a presumed-innocent American. Every indication is that the Dr. Sell videotapes captured similar abuse in a federal prison and that they are being withheld from the public.
Right now, you have lost all of your credibility with the public, Mr. Rather. Isn?t this a great opportunity to show us that you care about our citizens, just as much as you care about Iraqi prisoners of war? Wouldn?t it be nice to take a short break from criticizing ?Bush?s war in Iraq? to help a fellow citizen?
Mike S. Adams (www.DrAdams.org) will be speaking at the University of Georgia on Wednesday October 6th. The speech will be held in the Tate Student Center Reception Room (at 7:30 p.m.), followed by a book signing at 8:30 p.m.
Dr. Adams will be at Georgia Tech on Thursday October 7th. The speech will be held in Room 321 of the Student Center (at 11 a.m.), followed by a book signing at noon. He will travel to the University of Alabama that evening for a 7:30 p.m. speech, which will be held in Room #40 in Alston Hall.
Finally, he will be doing a book signing at Mississippi State University on Saturday October 9th (from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the MSU campus bookstore).