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GOVERNMENTS vs THE PEOPLE Crimes Against Humanity GOVERNMENTS PEOPLE THE Crimes Against Humanity Millions of citizens in Western democracies have been the victims of government-funded experiments with radiation, drugs, biowarfare agents, vaccines and sterilisation, without their knowledge or informed consent. lor decades, Western democratic nations, the avowed champions of the civil soci- ety, freedom and human rights, have been using their own citizens as human guinea pigs in experiments involving radiation, biological and chemical weapons, psychotropic drugs, vaccinations and sterilisations. Entire populations in the United States and United Kingdom, as well as in Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, France, Japan, Norway, South Africa, Sweden and Switzerland, have become ‘experimental animals' in the field laboratories of medical, sci- entific, military and intelligence personnel. The list of atrocities perpetrated upon citizens by their democratically elected represen- tatives reads like a horror story from a Nazi concentration camp. Thousands of individu- als were experimentally exposed to lethal doses of radiation during the Cold War. Millions have been (and still are) victims of biological and chemical weapons that govern- ments trialled on their own people. Others became unsuspecting victims of the cryptocracy'—pawns in CIA mind-control experiments involving LSD, electroshock therapy and hypno: Orphans in state care were used for investigatory vaccine trials. Indigenous people were knowingly allowed to stay in an atomic weapons test zone. Homosexual prisoners in the UK were given electric shock treatment and the female sex-hormone oestrogen in an attempt to reverse their sexu- al orientation. Black Americans were involved in experiments which observed syphilis but withheld treatment. People with intellectual disabilities were forcibly sterilised. Millions of citizens living in Western democracies are casualties of experimentation by the state. Some are ordinary citizens who served as unwitting guinea pigs; many more are people who are devalued, disenfranchised or discriminated against. The benevolent state has turned into the malevolent state. The governments that pay lip service to freedom, justice and individual rights have preyed upon the powerless, the weak and the helpless, in what can only be described as Crimes against Humanity. RADIATION TESTING Motivated by Cold War zeal and the quest for scientific advancement, the governments of most Western nations embarked upon a plethora of tests involving radioactive sub- stances, administered to unwitting citizens in a variety of ways. These tests were conducted from the mid-1940s, and many of them are being continued to the present day. They involved bizarre and repulsive procedures such as injecting human subjects with radioactive material, feeding humans radioactive food, irradiating individuals, towns and cities, and inflicting flash burns upon human subjects. Only a few of the experiments were for therapeutic purposes, i.e., for the benefit of the citizen involved. At the time of the experiments, it was known that radioactivity posed a signifi- cant threat to human health and life.?, Armed with this knowledge, various governments continued nevertheless to sanction and fund the tests. by Susan Bryce © 1997 c/- Post Office Mapleton, Qld 4560 Australia Telephone: +61 (0)7 5445 7345 American Radiation Experiments Numerous US Government agencies were involved in some way with radiation experi- ments during the Cold War. The bulk of the experiments were conducted by the Departments of Defense, Energy, Health and Justice, the National Security Agency (NSA), the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) and the CIA. The grim reality of US Government radiation experiments is bluntly summarised in the 1986 Congressional Sub-committee Report, "American Nuclear Guinea Pigs: Three c/- Post Office Mapleton, Qld 4560 Australia Telephone: +61 (0)7 5445 7345 NEXUS - 35 by Susan Bryce © 1997 FEBRUARY - MARCH 1998