“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government . . .” - Thomas Jefferson
Do you find the likelihood of our democratic government (US) covertly performing involuntary weapons testing on its own citizens hard to believe? Does the idea of involuntary directed energy weapons testing/torture and psychological attacks on innocent Americans seem improbable in our enlightened society? Perhaps a look at our recent history may help you to have a more realistic view. . .
Various United States government agencies have, over the course of the 20th century, engaged in involuntary medical and radiation experimentation on American citizens. The Department of Energy, CIA, Public Health Service (now the Dept. of Health and Human Services) and others have admitted to these abuses.
One particularly chilling account is the Vanderbilt Study, conducted with funds provided by the Public Health Service, the Tennessee State Department of Health, and Vanderbilt University between 1945-1949. 820 poor pregnant Caucasian women were given tracer doses of radioactive iron in experiments performed at Vanderbilt University under the pretense of providing free pre-natal care. “The women, who were anywhere from less than ten weeks to more than thirty-five weeks pregnant, were administered a single oral dose of radioactive iron, Fe-59, during their second prenatal visit, before receiving their routine dose of therapeutic iron.” The dose of radiation was administered to the pregnant women in a single “cocktail”. “There is at least some indication that the women neither gave their consent nor were aware they were participating in an experiment. Vanderbilt study subjects, expressing bitterness at the way they believed they had been treated, testified at an Advisory Committee meeting that the proffered drink, called a “cocktail” by the investigators, was offered with no mention of its contents. “I remember taking a cocktail,” one woman said simply. “I don’t remember what it was, and I was not told what it was.” A follow up study showed a disproportionately high incidence of cancer among these subjects. (Writers’ Note: The true number of victims of this experiment is at least 1640, as the defenseless unborn these women carried were also unjustly condemned to drink the radioactive cocktail.) “This experiment was just one of “several thousand government-sponsored human radiation experiments and hundreds of intentional (radiation) releases conducted from 1944 to 1974.”
In another study that caused public outrage, mentally retarded children institutionalized at the Fernald State School. Waltham, Massachusetts, in the 1940’s were fed doses of radiation with their breakfast cereal for the purpose of studying the way the body absorbs calcium and iron. The experiments were “often” performed without the informed consent of the subjects or their families. In late 1995, President Clinton apologized to the subjects at Fernald after an advisory committee’s ruling that the tests were “morally troubling.” Although the government formally apologized, no financial compensation was offered to victims. “The fact of the matter is that they used these kids as guinea pigs,” said Michael Mattchen an attorney for the victims. The actions of the researchers “violates Nuremberg” and “rules of decent society.”
We can only touch the “tip of the iceburg” in this article. Ironically, the same democratic nation that condemned the Nazis for involuntary human experimentation in the medical trials at Nuremberg in 1947 was quietly conducting similar atrocities on American citizens. I invite you to read the Department of Energy’s Human Radiation Experiments website to get a broad synopsis of our history in this regard.
Would you not agree, that our historical context makes the stories of modern day victims of directed energy weapons testing and psychological attacks all the more plausible?
References:
1. Department of Energy Openness: Human Radiation Experiments - The Office of Human Radiation Experiments, established in March 1994, leads the Department of Energy’s efforts to tell the agency’s Cold War story of radiation research using human subjects.
2. A personal account by Freddie Boyce, one of the victims of the Fernald State School radiation experiments
3. Atomic Energy Commission Involuntary Radiation Tests
4. Craft vs Vanderbuilt University - court case arguing extension of statute of limitations for victims of radiation experiments