When Tennessee law enforcement officials showed up at the home of
Lester Siler, who they suspected of drug use, they asked Lester's wife and
son to leave. They didn't know that Lester's wife had turned on a tape
recorder in the kitchen. When Lester exercised his constitutional right
not to sign a consent to search his house, these officers spent the
next two hours torturing him. They beat him with bats and guns, held
loaded guns to his head, threatened to shoot him, dunked his head in the
toilet, burned him with lighters, attached his testicles to a battery
charger, threatened to cut off his fingers, and threatened to "go get" his
wife and take his child away from him. Then they arrested him for
"evading arrest". It wasn't until the wife's recording made it to the FBI
that all hell broke loose. And go figure, even though these officers have
been convicted in federal court, not one national media outlet gave
this story the coverage it deserved. But that's okay. At the time,
reporters were busy decrying the immorality of Janet Jackson's Superbowl
nipple! These are the same "journalists" who refused to cover the United
States Government's secretive medical marijuana program.