"Ill. inmate who claimed torture is released" March 18, 2011|Associated Press
CHESTER, Ill. — A man who contended that Chicago police tortured him into confessing to killing a Chicago couple and spent more than 25 years in prison walked out a free man yesterday, eight years after his codefendant was pardoned and freed from the state’s death row by a former Illinois governor.
Sadly, torture is nothing new to AmeriKa.
Eric Caine said he isn’t bitter about his incarceration, but does plan to seek recourse. He said he hopes to marry his girlfriend and channel his efforts into a possible ministry.
He's a better man than me.
Caine wore clothing and shoes provided by his attorney and carried a Bible and family pictures. He said what he’s really been craving is oxtail stew.
“This is the first day of the rest of my life,’’ Caine said, before letting out a loud, “Woo-hoo!’’
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Related: Archdiocese suspends outspoken priest
Oh, and the scum torturer that sent him up:
"Illinois sues to halt pension to liar" February 08, 2011|Associated Press
CHICAGO — Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan filed a lawsuit yesterday to stop a former Chicago police official convicted of lying about the torture of suspects from getting his $3,000-a-month pension.
Try to think of it as a reward.
Also see: Stench of Torture in Windy City
Madigan’s suit names Jon Burge and the Policemen’s Annuity and Benefit Fund of Chicago, saying that the board violated the state’s pension code last month when it voted not to terminate Burge’s benefits.
Burge was sentenced last month to 4 1/2 years in prison after being convicted in June of lying in a civil lawsuit when he said he had never participated in or witnessed the physical abuse of suspects....
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Look what else was released:
"Report describes scientist’s plague death" February 25, 2011|Bloomberg News
NEW YORK — A Chicago scientist died of the plague after becoming the first US researcher to contract the disease in more than 50 years, according to a government report.
The man, a 60-year-old university researcher who was not identified in the report, was working with a weakened form of plague bacterium that was previously thought to be harmless to humans....
Why would they even be working with such a thing?
Why would you dig up Spanish Flu?
The bubonic plague killed millions of people in medieval Europe....
Part of the endgame, population-reduction plan?
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"3 children killed in Chicago house fire" April 08, 2011|Associated Press
CHICAGO — A fast-moving fire sparked by a 4-year-old boy playing with a lighter in bed early yesterday left three children dead and more than a dozen people homeless on Chicago’s South Side, officials said....
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Also see: Boy, 3, dies in roller coast accident at Ill. amusement park
Blagojevich telling lies, prosecutor says
We used to say takes one to know one.
Related: Blago Beats Crack Government Prosecutor
:-)
Update (no joke):
"Girl is fined after April Fools’ prank
BLOOMINGTON — A 16-year-old central Illinois girl has been given $150 in tickets after the worried victims of her April Fools’ Day prank called police. Police say the girl texted her friend and cousin Friday morning and said she had been robbed and shot in the foot. The pair called police, who rushed to a home where they found the 16-year-old safe. She received tickets for disorderly conduct and truancy."
