Breaking the Nuremberg Code: The US Military’s Human-Testing Program Returns

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seemslikeadream  (1000+ posts)       Fri Mar-21-08 12:55 PM
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Breaking the Nuremberg Code: The US Military’s Human-Testing Program Returns 
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The Pentagon is slated to release a suspected toxicant in Crystal City, Virginia this week, ostensibly to test air sensors.

The operation is just the latest example of the Defense Department’s long history of using service members and civilians as human test subjects, often without their consent or awareness.

Gas chambers in Maryland

Wray C. Forrest learned about the US military’s human-testing program the hard way. In 1973, the Army sent then 23-year-old Forrest to its Edgewood Arsenal chemical-research center in Maryland, promising patriotic service and a four-day work week.

Instead, he became one of roughly 6,720 soldiers used as Edgewood Arsenal test subjects between 1950-1975.

Forrest was given a new identity at Edgewood: Research Subject #6692. He says, "That was the number assigned to me … similar to the numbers assigned to the Jews in the concentration/death camps in Germany during WWII."

The US military tested heart drugs on Forrest, which he says were administered by IV and various types of injections. Forrest was also exposed to "contaminated drinking water, food, and various ground contaminates that permeate Edgewood Arsenal. BZ , napalm, mustard agents, and any number of other contaminates in the ground and drinking water there, from previous testing done there by the military."

A total of 254 different chemicals were researched on soldiers at Edgewood, and Forrest notes, "We were never informed as to exactly what we were being given. We also did not sign any informed consent prior to the testing. This was a direct violation of the Geneva Convention rules for the use of humans in chemical and drug experiments/research."

The Edgewood Arsenal facility played a role in WWII human subject testing as well. Roughly 4,000 US soldiers were used as human guinea pigs in chemical research which often took place in gas chambers.

US Navy member Nat Schnurman, for example, was sent to an Edgewood gas chamber six times one week in 1942. As The Detroit Free Press reported: "On his last visit, a blend of mustard gas and lewisite was piped in. Schnurman was overcome with toxins, vomited into his mask and begged for release. The request was denied. His next memory is of coming to on a snowbank outside the chamber."

A pattern of abuse and neglect






ONLY 35 YEARS, BUT WHAT'S THAT TO THE "OFFICAL" BELIEVERS, HUH?


 

Hope2006  (1000+ posts)       Sat Mar-22-08 09:20 AM
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3. It is very patriotic
 to highlight the ills of a society in order to increase awareness. An enlightened society is a society that has the ammunition it needs to "cure" those ills.

Asking why someone who obviously loves her country very much would want to live here sounds an awful lot like asking someone "Why do you hate America?" when he or she is protesting against, say, the Iraq war.

Where have we heard that before?

Let the fighting commence. 
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