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US Government's Human Experimentation Apology: They're
Only Sorry They Were Caught
Countless examples prove atrocious experiments
are routine
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US government has today apologised for intentionally infecting
almost 700 people in Guatemala with sexually transmitted diseases
in the 1940s, however, it has not apologised for countless other
similar atrocious experiments and programs that it has engaged
in and continues to engage in, amounting to an all out biological
and chemical warfare attack on humanity.
NBC
News today carries the story that Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton and Health and Human Services Secretary
Kathleen Sebelius have offered extensive apologies for actions
taken by the U.S. Public Health Service between the years of
1946-48.
During this time, US medical researchers, along
with the Guatemalan government, intentionally infected 696 Guatemalan
men and women with gonorrhea and syphilis without their knowledge
or permission.
Subjects, who were hand picked from groups of
soldiers, prisoners and institutionalized mental patients, were
infected through direct inoculation and visits from infected
prostitutes.
They were then encouraged to spread the disease
around and, by all accounts, hundreds were never offered treatment.
Nothing of any use was ever gleaned from the study,
the purpose of which the government maintains was to determine
whether syphilis could be prevented by penicillin.
Records of the program were hidden, but recently
discovered by Professor
Susan M Reverby of Wellesley College, upon researching
and writing about the similarly horrific Tuskegee
experiment, in which hundreds of working class
African American in Alabama, were diagnosed with syphilis but
never told and instead allowed to die as part of a government
experiment to study the disease.
Treatment was actively withheld from the men,
yet they were told they were being treated for "bad blood".
The experiment ran from 1932 until it was exposed in 1972.
In her article titled "Normal
Exposure' and Inoculation Syphilis: A PHS 'Tuskegee' Doctor
in Guatemala, 1946-48", Professor Reverby
explains how a Public Health Service
physician called Dr. John C. Cutler was recruited to take part
in Tuskegee in the 1960s after being involved in the earlier
Guatemala experiment.
The article states:
Cutler and the other physicians chose men in
the Guatemala National Penitentiary, then in an army barracks,
and men and women in the National Mental Health Hospital for
a total of 696 subjects. Permissions were gained from the
authorities but not individuals, not an uncommon practice
at the time, and supplies were offered to the institutions
in exchange for access. The doctors used prostitutes with
the disease to pass it to the prisoners (since sexual visits
were allowed by law in Guatemalan prisons) and then did direct
inoculations made from syphilis bacteria poured onto the men’s
penises or on forearms and faces that were slightly abraded
when the “normal exposure” produced little disease,
or in a few cases through spinal punctures. Unlike in Alabama,
the subjects were then given penicillin after they contracted
the illness. However, whether everyone was then cured is not
clear and not everyone received what was even then considered
adequate treatment.
Yet the PHS was aware then that this was a study that would
raise ethical questions. For as Surgeon General Thomas Parran
made clear “’You know, we couldn’t do such
an experiment in this country.” Deception was the key
here as it had been in Tuskegee. Much of this was kept hushed
even from some of the Guatemalan officials and information
about the project only circulated in selected syphilology
circles. When it proved difficult to transfer the disease
and other priorities at home seemed more important, Cutler
was told to pack up and come back to the States.
Reverby also uncovered similar experiments carried out on American
prisoners:
In 1944 the PHS had done experiments on prophylaxis in gonorrhea
at the Terre Haute Federal Penitentiary in the United States.
In this prison, the “volunteers” were deliberately
injected with gonorrhea (which can be cultured), but the PHS
had found it difficult to get the men to exhibit infection
and the study was abandoned.
Her article also refers to research that details
how experimentation on American prisoners became institutionalized,
with inmates being exposed to everything from viruses causing
warts and herpes to Malaria, and even agents of chemical warfare.
In 1997 Reverby was a member of the group that
lobbied President Bill Clinton to offer a public apology to
those who survived the Tuskegee experiment and their families.
Now there comes a similar apology regarding the
Guatemala project:
"The sexually transmitted disease inoculation
study conducted from 1946-1948 in Guatemala was clearly unethical,"
today's US government statement reads. "Although these
events occurred more than 64 years ago, we are outraged that
such reprehensible research could have occurred under the guise
of public health. We deeply regret that it happened, and we
apologize to all the individuals who were affected by such abhorrent
research practices."
There is a pattern here - the government only
apologizes when the facts are exposed. They are not sorry for
carrying out the experiments, rather they are merely sorry for
getting caught.
There are countless other examples of the US government
having illegally tested and used bio-weapons on its own citizens.
Declassified documentation of the Program
F fluoride study, for example, has revealed that
atomic researchers secretly gathered and analyzed blood and
tissue samples from citizens of Newburgh, New York from 1945
to 1956, with the cooperation of State Health Department personnel,
in order to study of the health effects of fluoridating public
drinking water.
The documents show that much of the original proof
that fluoride is safe for humans in low doses was generated
by A-bomb program scientists, who had been secretly ordered
to provide "evidence useful in litigation" against
defense contractors for fluoride injury to citizens. The first
lawsuits against the U.S. A-bomb program were not over radiation,
but over fluoride damage, the documents show, because fluoride,
one of the most toxic substances known to man, was the key chemical
in atomic bomb production.
Now more than two thirds of U.S. public drinking
water is fluoridated.
Where is the apology for this experiment on unwitting
Americans?
Another example comes in the form of Project
SHAD, in which live toxins and chemical poisons
were knowingly used on American servicemen on American soil.
The Pentagon's biowarfare program has long been
in operation and US citizens have never been spared from experimentation.
Other cases involve spraying clouds of bacteria
over San Francisco, releasing toxic gases into the New York
subway, holding open-air biological and chemical weapons tests
in at least four states in the 1960s, the list goes on, and
these are only the declassified known examples.
Where are the apologies for these experiments
on unwitting Americans?
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Read: The Population Reduction Agenda For Dummies
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Steve Watson is the London based writer
and editor at Alex Jones' Infowars.net, and regular contributor
to Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International
Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham
in England.
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