Doctors For Equal Rights For Physical And Mental Pain

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       Founding members Siobhan Reynolds Kevin Byers Vanessa Mullin Alen J Salerian Solange MacArthur

     Prison Snapshots from Butner FMC July 2015 And My Baba

       Alen J Salerian MD

       March 18, 2015

   My brain was under siege when a large potato face Lieut. warned me that I will have to eat my own feces and drink urine for a good while for refusing a visual examination of my genitals. My refusal was a philosophical one for I thought it  made not sense to go through an offensive body search just because my daughter had visited with me for 10 minutes.

 I smiled remembering how my Baba smiled and cleaned toilets for 4 years during his military duty – a brilliant mind cleaning toilets-because of Stone Age mentality.  “You mean you're not going to break my bones and beat me up” I said sitting on the floor watching five large men grimace as if they were watching their local team lose  an important game.

 The Lieut. Said” no”. Other memories rushed in. Images of  Turkish-Armenians drinking urine during the  death March from Anatolia to Aleppo in 1915. Take me now I I said  jumping up for them to shackle me to solitary confinement with extra meals.