USA did illegal expriments on unwilling citizens
6 years ago by crankmeup · 468 Likes · 18 comments · Trending
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zinope
· 6 years ago
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I'd imagine every government does this
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deleted
· 6 years ago
I bet my entire family's combined wealth that they do
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willfree
· 6 years ago
I reckon just about every government would if they had the resources, but the poorer the country, the less sophisticated the methods of control available to them
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guest_
· 6 years ago
Which as messed up as some of these things can go- often just means similar ambitions through trial and error actions of a less refined or more brutal nature.
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skittles
· 6 years ago
No one ever actually DOES anything about what the government does that's illegal, amoral, and unconstitutional. Everyone loves debating it, no amount of citizenship exits to unite us to a common goal and enemy. We spend too much time talking and then zero action.
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creativedragonbaby
· 6 years ago
Because we fear authority. It's ingrained in us.
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sir_spiderman
· 6 years ago
Tell that to my ODD
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guest_
· 6 years ago
It’s less a fear of authority and more a fear of instability. If the government refuses to follow its own laws who will make it and how? When the system all but tells you (and sometimes does tell you) it isn’t going to do anything about something it knows is wrong the only option left is forced compliance. Revolution on a small scale will fail badly and not end well for those participating. On a large scale it MIGHT work but is risky, and even if it works you now have a domestic and global power vacuum and have destroyed a functioning government. The economy, stability, safety, and people’s ways of lives are likely uprooted and a considerable period of hardship begins that may or may not end. Many prosperous nations have been turned into generations or centuries of poverty through revolution. So it’s more that people sell out their values for comfort. Humans generally can be relied upon to act in their self interest.
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skittles
· 6 years ago
It's not fear. It's just people don't have a strong sense of community like they did ages ago. Now we see homelessness and poverty and consider it's not happening to us so we blame them for poor life choices and look the other way. If our neighbors lose their home to foreclose we say thank God it's not us and go blindly on with our day. We don't ban together to accomplish anything.
flyingoctopus
· 6 years ago
Woah Jimbo that's a handful.
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vodka
· 6 years ago
Anyone else read it in his voice?
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guest
· 6 years ago
It still happens, but, you usually sign a contract first.
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funkmasterrex
· 6 years ago
MK Ultra. That shit was crazy
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guest_
· 6 years ago
Oh man. MK Ultra? Child’s play. There were many more ultra programs. There were the Tuskegee experiments, there was the testing of nuclear fallout on soldiers and release of radiation on the public, aerial release of biological agents over US cities to test dispersion patterns, experimentation on soldiers throughout such as the use of radiation and fuel to try and treat eczema, experiments with drugs, weapons, etc in Vietnam... its a long list. That’s not even by far the worst stuff. Not to mention the funding, training and founding of terrorists, overthrowing governments for private companies (look up our fruit wars), the fact that the “drug problem” was created by the CIA to both fund illegal activities in drugs for weapons deals and target inner city minorities to “pacify” them, oh man. Too much for one post.
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guest_
· 6 years ago
Read up on unit 731 if you have a strong stomach and want to see some messed up stuff. A Japanese unit that performed twisted human experiments and used chemical and biological weapons against mass civilian populations just for the lulz. Many of those weapons remain to this day and have killed people within the last several decades. Most of this unit was pardoned at the war crimes trials and given protection and made powerful and wealthy by the US government in exchange for them sharing what their experiments had taught. Many went on to be high officials in large corporations. Many common products and technologies we use everyday have direct links to these atrocities.
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funkmasterrex
· 6 years ago
You mean unit 731? Yeah that was fucked up as well... as was operation paperclip, but that got us too the moon.
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guest_
· 6 years ago
Oopsie. Typo. Yes. Unit 731 not 721. I’ll edit the original comment. Thank you. Operation paper clip was done dirty pool, like most of these almost everyone was in on it. Or at least all the world powers. It doesn’t make playing dirty ok, but we can observe a pattern than world powers and professional winners tend to be the ones who don’t play a strictly clean game.
funkmasterrex
· 6 years ago
No problem mang. Agreed.... it's like "if you ain't cheating, you ain't trying".
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