Fair enough. I believe that if we all share the benefits of the common good, we must also all share the burden of the common bad. Agree to disagree. However, I would certainly hope that you do not condone such horrific medical experiments. Kinda sounds like you could easily just sweep this under the rug and I find that disturbing if true.
It's completely speculative but I just don't think politics has anything to do with it. It's a matter of right and wrong.
From OP Article:
The experiments were discovered by Susan M. Reverby, a medical historian and professor of women’s studies at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Mass.,
Umm Hmmm :clap: Two things -
• ''Women's Studies Departments" are very centrist and objective forums, yeah!
• Wellesley = Clinton's Alma Mater . . . wasn't Hillary a big shot in the Wellesley :uhem: "Womens Studies Department"?
Just because a single Women's Studies Professor / Author says that American Doctors infected Guatemalan prisoners with the gonzo we all have to believe it hook line and sinker?
How does the democratic party benefit from this revelation?
I know politics well enough to know that everything is done on a quid pro quo basis . . . give something > get something back in return.
Of course our current administration is eager to enhance and further develop
social democratic politicians wherever possible, this should be no surprise.
ƒ said:
We know that the reparation revenues when they come are going directly to the Guatemalan government and not the surviving members of those who were allegedly intentionally infected with Syphillis, right?
jag said:
We do? That's quite an assumption. No one from the US government has suggested that any reparations be made at all at this juncture. Personally, if there are remaining victims or direct immediate descendants, I think they should receive compensation....paid directly to them and NOT the Guatemalan government and certainly not "billions upon billions" of dollars as you suggested will be the case.
millions . . billions . . . trillions, I'm so jaded and cynical these days.
You sound like Carl Sagan for fuck's sake!
I knew it was coming . . . Remember that old ''The Who By Numbers LP"?
connecting dots
If the reparation revenues were to go directly into the accounts (or pockets as it were) of the surviving victims' family members free of the government of Guatemala getting their grubby hands on it first, I don't have a problem with it, however, knowing that Guatemala is a third world nation ruled by a few elite thugs I don't see that happening. We'll be staying tuned.
Note: Did you read the wiki on Colom?
A pretty ''colorful'' guy eh?
Gotta love that immunity!
