SofiasMami said:
After reading accounts this week of survivors of Auschwitz, which was liberated by the Soviets 70 years ago this week, I think most humans are only a degree or two away from behaving worse than animals.
-Teresa
Don't read the following if you want to keep faith in humanity:
"Medical professionals gathered and collected data on the CIA’s use of torture techniques on detainees during the 21st century war on terror, in order to refine those techniques, and "to provide legal cover for torture, as well as to help justify and shape future procedures and policies", according to a
2010 report by Physicians for Human Rights. The report stated that: “Research and medical experimentation on detainees was used to measure the effects of large-volume waterboarding and adjust the procedure according to the results.” As a result of the waterboarding experiments, doctors recommended adding saline to the water “to prevent putting detainees in a coma or killing them through over-ingestion of large amounts of plain water.” Sleep deprivation tests were performed on over a dozen prisoners, in 48-, 96- and 180-hour increments. Doctors also collected data intended to help them judge the emotional and physical effects of the techniques so as to “calibrate the level of pain experienced by detainees during interrogation" and to determine if using certain types of techniques would increase a subject's "susceptibility to severe pain.". The CIA denied the allegations, claiming they never performed any experiments, and saying "The report is just wrong"; however, the U.S. government never investigated the claims.[142][143][144][145][146][147]
In August 2010, the U.S. weapons manufacturer Raytheon announced that it had partnered with a jail in Castaic, California in order to use prisoners as test subjects for a new non-lethal weapon system that "fires an invisible heat beam capable of causing unbearable pain."[148]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_States
Eugenics was practised in the United States many
years before eugenics programs in Nazi Germany.
Some states sterilized "imbeciles" for much of the 20th century. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the 1927 Buck v. Bell case that the state of Virginia could sterilize those it thought unfit. Although compulsory sterilization is now considered an abuse of human rights, Buck v. Bell was never overturned, and Virginia did not repeal its sterilization law until 1974.[52] The most significant era of eugenic sterilization was between 1907 and 1963, when over 64,000 individuals were forcibly sterilized under eugenic legislation in the United States.[53] Beginning around 1930, there was a steady increase in the percentage of women sterilized, and in a few states only young women were sterilized. From 1930 to the 1960s, sterilizations were performed on many more institutionalized women than men.[28] By 1961, 61 percent of the 62,162 total eugenic sterilizations in the United States were performed on women.[28]
a mental institution in Lincoln, Illinois fed its incoming patients milk infected with tuberculosis (reasoning that genetically fit individuals would be resistant), resulting in 30-40% annual death rates. Other doctors practiced euthanasia through various forms of lethal neglect.[61]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States
Ever heard of the Second Long Walk? Our great nation of America, after signing a treaty with the Navajo nation, decided to slaughter hundreds of thousands of the Navajo's sheep due to "overgrazing". There was no compensation for this. The Navajo treated their sheep like family and they were spiritual animals to them. They used their wool to make the woolen Navajo blankets that everyone is fond of.
Ever hear of the trail of tears? Our government took their livestock too during this time. Hence, why this "Livestock Reduction" is known to the Navajo as The Second Long Walk due to the economic and spiritual devastation it had on them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_Livestock_Reduction
I'm running out of words. So.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willowbrook_State_School
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letchworth_Village
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...bb7f50-f739-11e3-a3a5-42be35962a52_story.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_haemophilia_blood_products
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Survive_a_Plague
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1787837/
These are things that I never learned about in history classes. I had to discover them on my own through the internet and Netflix. Sad. Horrifying. Left me in a somber contemplative mood afterwards.
