Darleen Click at Protein Wisdom describes a different sort of prisoner abuse.
They were confined in cramped quarters with inadequate food. The lights were kept on 24/7 and guards would shine flashlights into the prisoners faces at all hours. Guards threatened mental health workers who were assigned to the prisoners not to interfere with the guards’ questioning of the prisoners. After a week, the prisoners were “weak, confused and downright exhausted” according to testimony of the mental health workers.
No, it's not Guantanamo Bay. It's the way CPS treated the FLDS mothers and children.
Linda Werlein, director of a local mental health and mental retardation center who assisted CPS in the days after the raid, said CPS workers treated her staff with suspicion, told her they would be arrested if they interfered with the questioning of the mothers, and that the church mothers would not talk without their attorneys present.
"Each and everything we were told was either inaccurate or untrue," she said in her statement, adding, "I was struck by what wonderful mothers they were."
She said CPS workers appeared suspicious of the mothers. At one point, she said, a CPS investigator told her that the sect would "kill all of the children they deemed to be imperfect."
Another mental health worker described the coliseum where the children were staying after being seized by the state as "like a Nazi concentration camp," saying the children were given inadequate food and lived in cramped quarters.
She said the lights were kept on at all hours and that CPS workers would shine flashlights in the faces of the women. When the mothers were separated from their children and returned to the ranch, several mental health workers said, they were not given a chance to say goodbye to their children.
By the end of their multiweek time in the emergency shelters, the women and children appeared "weak, confused and downright exhausted," wrote Bianca Spies.
Another mental health worker, Terre Reid, said she heard a CPS worker say, "These women will have to choose between their church and their kids."
I keep wondering where all the protesters are. You know the ones I'm talking about. The ones who are so concerned about the conditions terrorists are being kept in.
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