{"id":63719,"date":"2021-05-05T08:33:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T12:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=63719"},"modified":"2021-05-05T08:33:12","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T12:33:12","slug":"how-the-u-s-government-keeps-experimenting-on-its-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=63719","title":{"rendered":"How the U.S. Government Keeps Experimenting on Its Citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Mind Control to Viruses: How the Government Keeps Experimenting on Its Citizens<\/strong><\/h1>\n

By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead
\nMay 03, 2021<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don\u2019t recognize them for what they are until it\u2019s too late.\u201d \u2014 Ransom Riggs,\u00a0Miss Peregrine\u2019s Home for Peculiar Children<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The U.S. government, in its pursuit of so-called monsters, has itself become a monster.<\/p>\n

This is not a new development, nor is it a revelation.<\/p>\n

This is a government that has in recent decades unleashed untold horrors upon the world\u2014including its own citizenry\u2014in the name of global conquest, the acquisition of greater wealth, scientific experimentation, and technological advances, all packaged in the guise of the greater good.<\/p>\n

Mind you, there is no greater good when the government is involved. There is only greater greed for money and power.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the public has become so easily distracted by the political spectacle out of Washington, DC, that they are altogether oblivious to the grisly experiments, barbaric behavior and inhumane conditions that have become synonymous with the U.S. government.<\/p>\n

These horrors have been meted out against humans and animals alike. For all intents and purposes, \u201cwe the people\u201d have become lab rats in the government\u2019s secret experiments.<\/p>\n

Fifty years from now, we may well find out the whole sordid truth behind this COVID-19 pandemic. However, this isn\u2019t intended to be a debate over whether COVID-19 is a legitimate health crisis or a manufactured threat. It is merely to acknowledge that such crises can\u2014and are\u2014manipulated by governments in order to expand their powers.<\/p>\n

As we have learned, it is entirely possible for something to be both a genuine menace to the nation\u2019s health and security and a menace to freedom.<\/p>\n

This is a road the United States has been traveling for many years now. Indeed, grisly experiments, barbaric behavior and inhumane conditions have become synonymous with the U.S. government, which has meted out untold horrors against humans and animals alike.<\/p>\n

For instance, did you know that the U.S. government has been buying hundreds of dogs and cats from \u201cAsian meat markets\u201d as part of a gruesome experiment into food-borne illnesses? The cannibalistic experiments involve killing cats and dogs purchased from Colombia, Brazil, Vietnam, China and Ethiopia, and then\u00a0feeding the dead remains to laboratory kittens<\/a>, bred in government laboratories for the express purpose of being infected with a disease and then killed.<\/p>\n

It gets more gruesome.<\/p>\n

The Department of Veterans Affairs has been\u00a0removing parts of dogs\u2019 brains to see how it affects their breathing<\/a>; applying electrodes to dogs\u2019 spinal cords (before and after severing them) to see how it impacts their cough reflexes; and implanting pacemakers in dogs\u2019 hearts and then inducing them to have heart attacks (before draining their blood). All of the\u00a0laboratory dogs are killed<\/a>\u00a0during the course of these experiments.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just animals that are being treated like lab rats by government agencies.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe the people\u201d have also become the police state\u2019s guinea pigs: to be caged, branded,\u00a0experimented upon without our knowledge or consent<\/a>, and then conveniently discarded and left to suffer from the after-effects.<\/p>\n

Back in 2017, FEMA \u201cinadvertently\u201d\u00a0exposed nearly 10,000 firefighters, paramedics and other responders to a deadly form of ricin<\/a>\u00a0during simulated bioterrorism response sessions. In 2015, it was discovered that an Army lab had been \u201cmistakenly\u201d shipping deadly anthrax to labs and defense contractors for a decade.<\/p>\n

While these particular incidents have been dismissed as \u201caccidents,\u201d you don\u2019t have to dig very deep or go very back in the nation\u2019s history to uncover numerous cases in which the government deliberately\u00a0conducted secret experiments on an unsuspecting populace<\/a>\u2014citizens and noncitizens alike\u2014making healthy people sick by spraying them with chemicals, injecting them with infectious diseases and exposing them to airborne toxins.<\/p>\n

At the time, the government reasoned that it was legitimate to experiment on people who did not have full rights in society such as prisoners, mental patients, and poor blacks.<\/p>\n

In Alabama, for example, 600 black men with syphilis were allowed to suffer without proper medical treatment in order to study the natural progression of untreated syphilis. In California, older prisoners had testicles from livestock and from recently executed convicts implanted in them to test their virility. In Connecticut, mental patients were injected with hepatitis.<\/p>\n

In Maryland, sleeping prisoners had a pandemic flu virus sprayed up their noses. In Georgia, two dozen \u201cvolunteering\u201d prison inmates had gonorrhea bacteria pumped directly into their urinary tracts through the penis. In Michigan, male\u00a0patients at an insane asylum were exposed to the flu<\/a>\u00a0after first being injected with an experimental flu vaccine. In Minnesota, 11 public service employee \u201cvolunteers\u201d were injected with malaria, then starved for five days.<\/p>\n

As the Associated Press reports, \u201cThe late 1940s and 1950s saw huge growth in the U.S. pharmaceutical and health care industries, accompanied by a boom in prisoner experiments funded by both the government and corporations. By the 1960s, at least half the states allowed prisoners to be used as medical guinea pigs \u2026 because they were\u00a0cheaper than chimpanzees<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moreover, \u201cSome of these studies, mostly from the 1940s to the ’60s, apparently\u00a0were never covered by news media<\/a>. Others were reported at the time, but the focus was on the promise of enduring new cures, while glossing over how test subjects were treated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Media blackouts, propaganda, spin. Sound familiar?<\/p>\n

How many government incursions into our freedoms have been blacked out, buried under \u201centertainment\u201d news headlines, or spun in such a way as to suggest that anyone voicing a word of caution is paranoid or conspiratorial?<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, these incidents are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the atrocities the government has inflicted on an unsuspecting populace in the name of secret experimentation.<\/p>\n

For instance, there was the U.S. military\u2019s\u00a0secret race-based testing of mustard gas on more than 60,000 enlisted men<\/a>. As\u00a0NPR<\/em>\u00a0reports, \u201cAll of the World War II experiments with mustard gas were done in secret and weren’t recorded on the subjects’ official military records. Most do not have proof of what they went through. They received no follow-up health care or monitoring of any kind. And they were sworn to secrecy about the tests under threat of dishonorable discharge and military prison time, leaving some unable to receive adequate medical treatment for their injuries, because they couldn’t tell doctors what happened to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

And then there was the CIA\u2019s\u00a0MKULTRA program in which hundreds of unsuspecting American civilians and military personnel were dosed with LSD<\/a>, some having the hallucinogenic drug slipped into their drinks at the beach, in city bars, at restaurants. As\u00a0Time\u00a0<\/em>reports, \u201cbefore the documentation and other facts of the program were made public, those who talked of it were frequently dismissed as being psychotic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now one might argue that this is all ancient history and that the government today is different from the government of yesteryear, but has the U.S. government really changed?<\/p>\n

Has the government become any more humane, any more respectful of the rights of the citizenry? Has it become any more transparent or willing to abide by the rule of law? Has it become any more truthful about its activities? Has it become any more cognizant of its appointed role as a guardian of our rights?<\/p>\n

Or has the government simply hunkered down and hidden its nefarious acts and dastardly experiments under layers of secrecy, legalism and obfuscations? Has it not become wilier, more slippery, more difficult to pin down?<\/p>\n

Having mastered the Orwellian art of Doublespeak and followed the Huxleyan blueprint for distraction and diversion, are we not dealing with a government that is simply craftier and more conniving that it used to be?<\/p>\n

Consider this: after revelations about the government\u2019s experiments spanning the 20th<\/sup>\u00a0century spawned outrage, the\u00a0government began looking for human guinea pigs in other countries<\/a>, where \u201cclinical trials could be done more cheaply and with fewer rules.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Guatemala, prisoners and patients at a mental hospital were infected with syphilis, \u201capparently to test whether penicillin could prevent some sexually transmitted disease.\u201d In Uganda, U.S.-funded doctors \u201cfailed to give the AIDS drug AZT to all the HIV-infected pregnant women<\/a>\u00a0in a study\u2026 even though it would have protected their newborns.\u201d Meanwhile, in Nigeria, children with meningitis were used to test an antibiotic named Trovan.\u00a0Eleven children died<\/a>\u00a0and many others were left disabled.<\/p>\n

The more things change, the more they stay the same.<\/p>\n

Case in point: back in 2016, it was announced that scientists working for the Department of Homeland Security\u00a0would begin releasing various gases and particles on crowded subway platforms<\/a>\u00a0as part of an experiment aimed at testing bioterror airflow in New York subways.<\/p>\n

The government insisted that the gases released into the subways by the DHS were nontoxic and did not pose a health risk. It\u2019s in our best interests, they said, to understand how quickly a chemical or biological terrorist attack might spread. And look how cool the technology is\u2014said the government cheerleaders\u2014that scientists can use something called\u00a0DNATrax<\/a>\u00a0to track the movement of microscopic substances in air and food. (Imagine the kinds of\u00a0surveillance<\/a>\u00a0that could be carried out by the government using\u00a0trackable airborne microscopic substances<\/a>\u00a0you breathe in or ingest.)<\/p>\n

Mind you, this is the same government that in\u00a01949 sprayed bacteria into the Pentagon\u2019s air handling system<\/a>, then the world\u2019s largest office building. In 1950, special ops forces\u00a0sprayed bacteria from Navy ships off the coast of Norfolk and San Francisco<\/a>, in the latter case exposing all of the city\u2019s 800,000 residents.<\/p>\n

In 1953, government operatives\u00a0staged \u201cmock\u201d anthrax attacks on St. Louis, Minneapolis, and Winnipeg<\/a>\u00a0using generators placed on top of cars. Local governments were reportedly told that \u201c\u2018invisible smokescreen[s]\u2019 were being deployed to mask the city on enemy radar.\u201d Later experiments covered territories as wide-ranging as Ohio to Texas and Michigan to Kansas.<\/p>\n

In 1965, the government\u2019s experiments in bioterror took aim at Washington\u2019s National Airport, followed by a 1966 experiment in which\u00a0army scientists exposed a million subway NYC passengers to airborne bacteria that causes food poisoning<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And this is the same government that has taken every bit of technology sold to us as being in our best interests\u2014GPS devices, surveillance, nonlethal weapons, etc.\u2014and used it against us, to track, control and trap us.<\/p>\n

So, no, I don\u2019t think the government\u2019s ethics have changed much over the years. It\u2019s just taken its nefarious programs undercover.<\/p>\n

The question remains: why is the government doing this? The answer is always the same: money, power and total domination.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the same answer no matter which totalitarian regime is in power.<\/p>\n

The mindset driving these programs has, appropriately, been\u00a0likened to that of Nazi doctors experimenting on Jews<\/a>. As the Holocaust Museum\u00a0recounts<\/a>, Nazi physicians \u201cconducted painful and often deadly experiments on thousands of concentration camp prisoners without their consent.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Nazi\u2019s\u00a0unethical experiments<\/a>\u00a0ran the gamut from freezing experiments using prisoners to find an effective treatment for hypothermia, tests to determine the maximum altitude for parachuting out of a plane, injecting prisoners with malaria, typhus, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, yellow fever, and infectious hepatitis, exposing prisoners to phosgene and mustard gas, and mass sterilization experiments.<\/p>\n

The horrors being meted out against the American people can be traced back, in a direct line, to the horrors meted out in Nazi laboratories. In fact, following the second World War, the U.S. government recruited many of Hitler\u2019s employees, adopted his protocols, embraced his mindset about law and order and experimentation, and implemented his tactics in incremental steps.<\/p>\n

Sounds far-fetched, you say? Read on. It\u2019s all documented.<\/p>\n

As historian Robert Gellately\u00a0recounts<\/a>, the Nazi police state was initially so\u00a0admired<\/a>\u00a0for its efficiency and order by the\u00a0world powers<\/a>\u00a0of the day that J. Edgar Hoover, then-head of the FBI, actually sent one of his right-hand men, Edmund Patrick Coffey, to Berlin in January 1938 at the invitation of Germany\u2019s secret police, the Gestapo.<\/p>\n

The FBI was so impressed with the Nazi regime that, according to the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>, in the decades after World War II, the FBI, along with other government agencies, aggressively\u00a0recruited at least a thousand Nazis<\/a>, including some of Hitler\u2019s highest henchmen.<\/p>\n

All told, thousands of Nazi collaborators\u2014including the head of a Nazi concentration camp, among others<\/a>\u2014were given secret visas and brought to America by way of Project Paperclip. Subsequently, they were hired on as spies, informants and scientific advisers, and then camouflaged to ensure that their true identities and ties to Hitler\u2019s holocaust machine would remain unknown. All the while,\u00a0thousands of Jewish refugees were refused entry visas<\/a>\u00a0to the U.S. on the grounds that it could threaten national security.<\/p>\n

Adding further insult to injury,\u00a0American taxpayers have been paying to keep these ex-Nazis on the U.S. government\u2019s payroll<\/a>\u00a0ever since. And in true Gestapo fashion,\u00a0anyone who has dared to blow the whistle on the FBI\u2019s illicit Nazi ties has found himself spied upon<\/a>, intimidated, harassed and labeled a threat to national security.<\/p>\n

As if the government\u2019s\u00a0covert, taxpayer-funded employment of Nazis after World War II<\/a>\u00a0wasn\u2019t bad enough, U.S. government agencies\u2014the FBI, CIA and the military\u2014have since fully embraced many of the Nazi\u2019s well-honed policing tactics, and have used them repeatedly against American citizens.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s certainly easy to denounce the full-frontal horrors carried out by the scientific and medical community within a despotic regime such as Nazi Germany, but what do you do when it\u2019s your own government that claims to be a champion of human rights all the while allowing its agents to engage in the foulest, bases and most despicable acts of torture, abuse and experimentation?<\/p>\n

When all is said and done, this is not a government that has our best interests at heart.<\/p>\n

This is not a government that values us.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the answer lies in\u00a0The Third Man<\/em><\/a>, Carol Reed\u2019s influential 1949 film starring Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles. In the film, set in a post-WW II Vienna, rogue war profiteer Harry Lime has come to view human carnage with a callous indifference, unconcerned that the diluted penicillin he\u2019s been trafficking underground has resulted in the tortured deaths of young children.<\/p>\n

Challenged by his old friend Holly Martins to consider the consequences of his actions, Lime responds, \u201cIn these days, old man, nobody thinks in terms of human beings.\u00a0Governments don\u2019t, so why should we?<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHave you ever seen any of your victims?\u201d asks Martins.<\/p>\n

\u201cVictims?\u201d responds Limes, as he looks down from the top of a Ferris wheel onto a populace reduced to mere dots on the ground. \u201cLook down there. Tell me. Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever? If I offered you twenty thousand pounds for every dot that stopped, would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money, or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spare? Free of income tax, old man. Free of income tax \u2014 the only way you can save money nowadays.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is how the U.S. government sees us, too, when it looks down upon us from its lofty perch.<\/p>\n

To the powers-that-be, the rest of us are insignificant specks, faceless dots on the ground.<\/p>\n

To the architects of the American police state, we are not worthy or vested with inherent rights. This is how the government can justify treating us like economic units to be bought and sold and traded, or caged rats to be experimented upon and discarded when we\u2019ve outgrown our usefulness.<\/p>\n

To those who call the shots in the halls of government, \u201cwe the people\u201d are merely the means to an end.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe the people\u201d\u2014who think, who reason, who take a stand, who resist, who demand to be treated with dignity and care, who believe in freedom and justice for all\u2014have become obsolete, undervalued citizens of a totalitarian state that, in the words of Rod Serling, \u201chas patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advances, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n

In this sense, we are all Romney Wordsworth, the condemned man in Serling\u2019s\u00a0Twilight Zone\u00a0<\/em>episode \u201cThe Obsolete Man.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Obsolete Man<\/a>\u201d speaks to the dangers of a government that views people as expendable once they have outgrown their usefulness to the State. Yet\u2014and here\u2019s the kicker\u2014this is where the government through its monstrous inhumanity also becomes obsolete. As Serling noted in his original script for \u201cThe Obsolete Man,\u201d \u201cAny state, any entity, any ideology which fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man…that state is obsolete.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

How do you defeat a monster?<\/p>\n

As I make clear in my book\u00a0Battlefield America: The War on the American People<\/em><\/a>, you start by recognizing the monster for what it is.<\/p>\n

WC: 2810<\/p>\n

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