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tl;dr
"U.S. government medical researchers intentionally infected hundreds of people in Guatemala, including institutionalized mental patients, with gonorrhea and syphilis without their knowledge or permission more than 60 years ago. "
EDIT:
Some new info:
"The Guatemala experiments, which were conducted between 1946 and 1948, never provided any useful information and the records were hidden."
So yeah, these people all got some serious STI's without consent or knowledge for... well nothing.
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Last edited by Liberator on Oct 1st, 2010 at 04:05 PM
What I love about this is that the appology is an obvious ploy to pre-empt any negative press about the prof uncovering these experiments.
It might seem a little less cynical if, i dont know, the American government willingly started sharing information about past abuses of federal power, not needing it to be found before they recognize they might have something to appologize for.
You know what I find scary, that the government of Guatemala was apparently complicit in this. Which means that the US either strong armed them into doing it or the Guatemalans saw nothing wrong with the idea.
Is that not the purpose of all apologies?
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A juvenal prank.
Either way its the smart move. This way it gets a few minutes of air time on CNN and a few Blog posts. Had they waited until an intrepid investigator uncovered it it'd become a true media shitstorm.
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they obviously had to say something, but I can't see this having a major impact on the American public. Nobody really cares about Tuskeegee, nobody cares about the incarceration and steralization of the mentally handicapped.
In terms of these acts, this one is not really "abnormal" for the CIA or the medical community at the time, so it is hard to be surprised by it, and these other events are well known and there is really no political traction there. I almost assume the apology is a bigger story than the experiments themselves would be.
indeed. Similar things can be said of the bio-weapons industry, though a lot of that was done by racist regiemes in Africa.
It would be interesting to see what was up... It might have been anti-communist alliances between the intelligence agencies, like with Somoza, though that was more of the American government ignoring abuses by the Somozan gvt.
the country should sue take them to civil court or the world court... that should raise some eyebrows and keep it in the media, at least get reparations or get names of people responsible and have them charged for criminal and human rights violation..
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i just think we need to start holding government officials accountable of federal crimes as well as international violations regardless if they senators or CIA agents a crime is a crime.
it started going down hill since that sh#%bag marine general started supporting and traffic cocaine to raise money for what was an illegal off the books operation which broke not just US laws but foreign sovereignty of other nations.
ever since he was pardon it seems ppl were embolden to do the same.
what was that turds name? what he did was not the marine way or part of its ethos..
edit: never mind you brought up his name and kick started my memory weird how that works..oliver north is who i was describing i had just forgotten his name
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