No shit. I've seen the worst of it. Who here would disagree that (knowing exactly the results of their actions before taking them) denying someone a combination of pain medication (opioids), an anticonvulsant (chlormethiazole and nitrazepam; shit, that could have KILLED me) and a pair of alpha2 adrenoreceptor agonists (clonidine, tizanidine, not addictive as such but a sudden stoppage of use can cause a massive sympathetic storm and hypertensive crisis, its even written on the labels never to stop taking either of them suddenly) to coerce a statement out of someone is torture in the literal, purest sense of the word?
Little different IMO to frying someone's balls with a car battery or beating the shit out of them, no? fuckers told me either give us a statement (I had the meds with me, and they KNEW I was going into pretty severe WD) and get your medication straight after, or it'll be 5-6 hours until a doctor signs off anything. I took the half way route and gave them a 'go fuck yourself, no comment' statement. And afterwards, got the stuff, and they certainly didn't bother getting any doctor to sign anything.
Thats happened twice. One time I got lucky, in that nitrazepam is long acting, and for some weird reason, chlormethiazole, despite daily use for years, has caused no physical dependence. Other time, I vaguely remember the cell door being opened, before the onset of a seizure and seeing the on-call doctor, who luckily had been in direct line of sight hurrying over, blacked out, and then came to after being pumped full of diazepam.
Twice deliberately that is, plenty more times out of sheer negligence.
Lets see...what else? refusal to provide food and water for several days. Search warrants for the most stupid of things...the stealing of several air weapons+ a dart-rifle. Claiming a .177 cal airgun was 'a sawn off shotgun', despite its obviously having no alterations made to the barrel, a bore which cannot possibly chamber even a 9mm shotgun shell, and who the hell mounts a scope on a sawn-off shotgun?
Nicked after a fishing expedition, to see if they could find evidence to justify a search, for possession of some SOCl2 and another, pretty damn obscure reagent, SOCl2 IS on the chemical weapons convention listed chemicals list, but as a possible precursor, not a CW agent. Which means anyone that either sells or produces over 300 TONS annually must file a report. doesn't apply to the likes of research institutions that use liters, tens, even 100 liters a year. Fucks sake, I had 100ml, or rather, a 100ml bottle which had seen some use and was between half and 3/4 full. It can be used in making sarin, or as a rather atypical modification to either the Meyer-Clarke or Dezpretz synth routes to sulfur mustards, and the other reagent was a mercaptan (thiol), and via some bastardization (I didn't have the other components for sarin, so mustards could be the only possibility, I COULD make either without difficulty, but that isn't how I'd do it, and besides, I don't want anything to do with either of them) I could have turned out a sulfur mustard analog, but given the thiol in question, was dodecanethiol the resultant compound would be a skin contact agent only, almost certainly, that 12-carbon chain, and twice over, given the sulfur mustards are (bis-haloalkyl)thioethers, with the halogen located on the terminal carbons, thats a 24 carbon chain, I'd expect the theoretical (bis-12-chlorododecyl)sulfide to more than likely not even be a liquid, but something waxy or solid that would have TERRIBLE potential for a theoretical use as a chemical weapon. And it certainly has never been used as one either. Hadn't made that specific compound, just had the dodecanethiol and thionyl chloride among many chemicals in my storage cupboards and shelves, the dodecanethiol was for something specific, and completely unrelated to the SOCl2, which is my favourite chlorinating agent, and for dehydrating transition metal chlorides which can't be thermally dehydrated to the anhydrous forms, such as AlCl3.
Just because its convenient for chlorinating things, anything that requires chlorinating really, because it is very fast to react, and workup is simplified, as the decomposition products are HCl and SO2, both gaseous so can be boiled out of whatever is being reacted, or trapped if necessary with a base, its a lot more convenient than using phosphorus trichloride, phosphorus pentachloride etc., which leave solids behind and of course, require phosphorus to make them. I do have phosphorus, couple of kilograms of it, which oddly the pork didn't give a damn about, 2kg red phosphorus and some white phosphorus (unweighed), as well as asking stupid questions like 'do you have any ammonium nitrate'
(ammonium nitrate was the explosive du jour with the IRA and plenty others, due to its use in fertilizer, mixed with diesel or other similar fuel, sometimes sensitized with nitromethane and/or aluminium dust, but its used in bulk for blowing stuff up, I.e packing oil drums in trucks, and one could put a blowtorch to ANFO [ammonium nitrate-fuel oil] or pound on it with a hammer without it going off. It isn't sensitive in the least, you need a powerful blasting cap and a booster charge of something like HMTD, TNT, nitroglycerine etc. to actually set it off)
Fuckers stole both, and even after acknowledging the fact that no crime had been committed and the items were legal,
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