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Monday, February 06, 2006

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Too bad torture is illegal in this country

If anybody deserves it, he does.

On June 5, 2004, Daniel Porter picked up his two children (8-year old Lindsey and 7-year old Samuel) for a weekend visit. That's the last time their mom has seen them. He won't tell anyone where they are, or if they're alive. He's laughing about it, talking about how the more they push, the more he'll dig in his heels, and ridiculing the authorities who are desperately searching for his children. [view photo of Daniel Porter]

A Kansas paper managed to get hold of about eight hours of recorded telephone calls Daniel Porter has made from the jail where he's awaiting trial (which is scheduled to begin this week). The calls date back to early last year through the beginning of this year, and are mostly to a friend of his or his family members. Some of the things he's said:

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"I planned my big jailhouse deal a month before I got arrested, so I knew I was gonna go to jail. I just didn’t tell noooobody."

"I can play the game, too. I’ll be happy in jail.”

In call after call, Porter talked about how he had the “upper hand” in what he saw as a cat-and-mouse game with the law. He talked about investigators failing to find his children and laughed about how much money his case was costing the state.

“They’re looking so stupid. When they first arrested me, they didn’t look for no scars on my hands or arms or face to see if the kids fought back as I struggled to kill them. Or if I buried them, why wouldn’t I have calluses?”

Porter said in one call that he wanted people to believe the children were dead: "Let ’em think that they’re dead. That way they don’t have to worry so much about finding them. … I’d rather die than give them the satisfaction. ... They can look for dead bodies in the woods by my house and in Trenton and down where I hunted in Princeton. (laughter) I heard somebody say they think I put them with the Mennonites."

"My lawyer mentioned, you know, that they may even try — nobody has proof that the kids are all right — they may even try to get you for murder. I said, ‘Oh, great. How will that set over if maybe, say, they give me the death penalty and then two weeks after I’m dead, here comes the kids?’ They’re gonna feel pretty good then, ain’t they?"

"Let’s say they give me 30 years to life and I get out after doing 25 years and then all of a sudden, wham! There’s the kids. ‘Oh, hi, kids!’ And so I serve 25 years for murder, let’s say that. And then I turn around and I kill both of them. They couldn’t arrest me again, could they?"

In the calls, Porter blames his ex-wife. He says that she was an unfit mother. He constantly criticizes her, saying that she “wanted to wear the jeans” in the family and spent too much money.

“So why would I want my kids with a woman that has no money and don’t know how to spend it?”

“I told the guard the other day I should get life in prison or the death penalty just for marrying her.”

Porter said the trial was going to be “like an ugly divorce. … She thinks the kids are hers. Well, the kids are mine, too.”

Porter says he likes jail life. He's already going to be serving ten years for weapons violations. If convicted in this case, he faces another 40 years. He likes to brag about how he has befriended an inmate who is being held on multiple murder charges.

“Man, I’m eating this up. Being able to sleep extra, take a nap in the middle of the day if I want, play cards.”

“I’m living better in here than I did part of the time growing up. And it’s free."

“The guards call me Al Pacino and the Godfather in here, because of the way I run things. I got some pull, buddy. I can’t wait to get to prison and get started all over, because it’s gonna be like a new school.”

I hope someone makes the dudes inside the prison aware of that one. I'd love to see some big, burly lifer leave him squealing like a pig and begging for his mommy. He needs a couple doses of humility.

The case had been televised on “Inside Edition” and “America’s Most Wanted,” about which Porter says:

“They call me a movie star around here. Everybody recognizes me. But everybody’s on my side. Ain’t one person here thinks that I killed them.”

Porter at one point said that no one knows how his story will end. “This case ain’t gonna be closed until the kids come home,” he said. “So, it could be tomorrow, it could be 10 years.”

About his public defender, Porter says:

“I heard he only lost one case, and that was 15 years ago. But he ain’t gonna win mine. I’m not gonna walk scot-free.”

It's really too bad we're not allowed to apply special circumstances to select cases, and allow them to be tortured until they come clean. Since that's not an option, give him what he wants. Toss him in solitary until he decides to tell where those kids (or their bodies) are. [KC Star, AMW, Google It!]

Kate blogs at The Original Musings.

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posted by Kate at 1:02 AM