How about the sterilization of Puerto Rican women?

http://womenst.library.wisc.edu/bibliogs/puerwom.htm

To all of those who see no racism in the T-bagger “movement”- Just who do you think were it’s forebearers? This nation was born of greed, nurtured by slavery and genocide, and brought into adulthood through imperialism! American exceptionalism indeed!

Did anyone listen to Susan Reverby on Democracy Now? I am glad she unearthed this stuff, but she is an idiot. She seems to think that at the time these odious actions were carried out morals were different than they are now. Why do people in the present always have to congratulate themselves on how much better they are than people ... 50 years ago ... 200 years ago ... 2000 years ago?

As my husband said, if what you are doing is legitimate, you don’t mind having it exposed to public view. And as far as experimentation goes, my attitude is that if you are not willing to do it to yourself, you have no right to do it to others. (Great doctors have used themselves as subjects, for those who are not aware of it.)

Second, Reverby stated that “we” would not be here now without medical experimentation. I hate to tell her this, but human beings survived for nearly 100,000 years prior to medical experimentation. For a historian, she seems woefully ignorant of human evolution and woefully ignorant of the many ethical people who were alive at the time of these obscene experiments.

I think any health care provider engaged in any experimentation, mental or physiological, which is not open to public view, needs to have his/her license revoked and be barred from practicing. I, of course, include the psychologists at Guantanamo.

These revelations come out once every so often, maybe in a slow news cycle or even when something else is going on currently that might deserve some scrutiny..

Mostly, we get our first glimpse into these issues when the last person or persons involved has DIED.. When any that might have been held accountable or have helped expose more of the same are in the ground (or too old to be tried). That’s when we are allowed to see the worst inner machinations of our government and their enablers and collaborators..

Then everybody can apologize, hold hands and grieve and pledge to insure these things remain relics of history! IE: never expose those ongoing now..

Amy Goodman probably (if only accidentally) got it 100% right when she wrote that President Obama called and apologized for the abuses “when the story came out” .. Does anyone really believe knowledge of these crimes existed only in a dusty university basement?

There’s video of the maniac American doctor in his later years, he’s a benign-appearing elderly silver haired man.. a harmless and proper looking gent.. even an authority figure! He’s calmly explaining one or more things about his projects and the importance of methodology.. It’s instructive about the perils of believing anybody these days .. and also that there really are serious lies and conspiracies being perpetuated and hidden by otherwise normal looking people.

Still this pattern of eventual (if tardy) revelation regarding hidden things of the past is hopeful in a way.. It means that if we wait about another twenty years we’ll likely finally know who killed JFK and exactly why! .. in maybe 40 years we can know who attended Vice President Cheney’s secret ‘energy planning summit’ and if the attendees cut cards or flipped coins to split up the Iraqi oil fields and government contracts that would flow from Bush’s not then yet declared War on Terror.

About illegal and unethical medical experimentation on humans for profit or worse.. The powers are not doing it only in prisons and basements.. it’s out in the open for all to see!  Example: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/10/05/dont-eat-these-beans-if-youre-thinking-of-having-children.aspx

Adios!

If you believe that these kinds of experiments are “a thing of the past” and aren’t being carried out by the CIA and others currently, I’ve got a bridge to sell ya.

For instance, there is no difference between this story and the experimental vaccines being given to soldiers in our (and, no doubt, other countries’) military and experimental “Aids” vaccines being administered to civilian populations.

And ITW, you’re wrong.

AS:
Thanks for reminding me.  You certainly did!  To you, AS,I owe an apology.

ITW:

I have news for you! When this piece of news was reported at TD’s “Ear to the Ground” section a week ago, I was one of the few who wrote the following comment”

“This so-called apology coming 60 years after the occurrence of this terrorist crime by an American government is hollow and meaningless for its victims since they can’t take it to a bank of justice.”

“However,the apology has one positive aspect to it since it reveals to Americans one of the many secret crimes perpetrated by their governments in their names and with their tax-payers’ money.”

“The infamous Tuskegee Experiment coupled with this latest Guatemala’s revelation, and only an Omniscient God knows how many other secret crimes not revealed yet, confirm that the 9/11 plot was an inside job, planned and executed by our government agencies as a necessary prelude for the wars that followed. Our governments, like the case with all governments, operate under the evil principle that “means justify the ends.”

“America will never be a light unto the nations unless and until agencies such as the CIA and the FBI are abolished, and secrets in the name of national security are treated for what they are: a cover to commit crimes against humanity.”
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“Seeking a World of Peace Together” is my latest motto ITW. However, peace without justice will never be achieved. I challenge you to identify the places on earth where justice is most absent and suggest a constructive people-to-people plan to achieve peace, for you and I are now on agreement that governments cannot be trusted! They are part of the problems and not the solutions and that applies to the Israeli and Palestinian governments!

Israel would never do something like that.  Only the “good ol’ U.S. of A.”.  It was part of our “Good Neighbor Policy” with Latin America. We also overthrew the Guatamalan President Arbenz in 1954. It resulted in decades of civil war that resulted in countless innocent deaths.

No one cares. No one posts.

Had Israeli researchers conducted such heinous experiments on Palestinians, you’d have 30 pages of responses, with 100 from Robert alone showing how Israel is the worst evil since Lucifer rebelled against God.

But these are just Guatemalans on the other side of the world so nobody cares.

“Humanity” is only for victims of Israel, I guess.