Bill Gates again.
https:// www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/12/17/operation-delirium
OPERATION DELIRIUM
"Colonel James S. Ketchum dreamed of war without killing. He joined the Army in 1956 and left it in 1976, and in that time he did not fight in Vietnam; he did not invade the Bay of Pigs; he did not guard Western Europe with tanks, or help build nuclear launch sites beneath the Arctic ice. Instead, he became the military’s leading expert in a secret Cold War experiment: to fight enemies with clouds of psychochemicals that temporarily incapacitate the mind—causing, in the words of one ranking officer, a “selective malfunctioning of the human machine.” For nearly a decade, Ketchum, a psychiatrist, went about his work in the belief that chemicals are more humane instruments of warfare than bullets and shrapnel—or, at least, he told himself such things. To achieve his dream, he worked tirelessly at a secluded Army research facility, testing chemical weapons on hundreds of healthy soldiers, and thinking all along that he was doing good."
It is not good.
"The lawsuit’s argument is in line with broader criticisms of Edgewood: that, whether out of military urgency or scientific dabbling, the Army recklessly endangered the lives of its soldiers—naïve men, mostly, who were deceived or pressured into submitting to the risky experiments. The drugs under review ranged from tear gas and LSD to highly lethal nerve agents, like VX, a substance developed at Edgewood and, later, sought by Saddam Hussein. Ketchum’s specialty was a family of molecules that block a key neurotransmitter, causing delirium. The drugs were known mainly by Army codes, with their true formulas classified. The soldiers were never told what they were given, or what the specific effects might be, and the Army made no effort to track how they did afterward. Edgewood’s most extreme critics raise the spectre of mass injury—a hidden American tragedy."
Please do not let psychiatrists decide who is crazy and who isn't.
They are ethically permitted to make you a lab rat. "For the greater good."
It is actually amazing to look up at the sky lately. It is blue. The planes have short contrails. The clouds are natural.
Something fundamental has changed.
It seems obvious to me if you lose your protective instinct for yourself, you would lose it for others, too.
Man, that is some evil stuff.
Vacaville prison evokes a shudder in a lot of natives here.
I remember turning off all the lights, closing the curtains, and my
grandma holding me down below the window and telling me to be quiet when the prisoners released came looking for work or barter.
I was briefly tempted to make fun of you. I refrained.
No, I am not really a mean person. Just a little cynical.