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>>Despite the clearance

of some CT scanners (Rapiscan), the FDA’s website shows that no data

has ever been presented to the agency as to the safety of these devices

and states that it has never approved these devices as being safe

because “some Food and Drug Administration officials were worried that

full-body CT screening scans (Rapiscans) ‘may be exposing thousands of

Americans to unnecessary and potentially dangerous radiation’ and that

CT scans of the chest delivered 100 times the radiation of a

conventional chest x-ray … between .2 to 2 rads of radiation during a

single scan.”<< 

>>The

government has been forcing prisoners, the majority of whom are Blacks

and Hispanics, to be subject of these types of inhumane experiments for

years. They recall the Tuskegee experiments, where 400 Black men were

allowed to suffer with syphilis for 40 years so that doctors could

study the disease. Also, Dr. Albert Kilgman, at Holmesburg Prison near

Philadelphia, under the direction of major pharmaceutical companies

like Merck and Dupont, exposed Black prisoners to herpes, gonorrhea,

malaria, dysentery and even athlete’s foot from the 1950s to the

1970s.<<

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Prisoners forced to submit to radiation

experiments for private foreign companies

Posted By mary On March 20, 2010 @

7:31 pm

by Eddie Milton Garey Jr.

 

 

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The Rapiscan Secure 1000 has been called a

“virtual strip search.” It shows a person’s private parts but obscures

the face. Bush’s Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff heads the

so-called full body scanner lobby.

In Illinois, federal judges have allowed at

least two lawsuits to proceed against correctional officials for using

full body scanners to reveal the anatomy of both prisoners and visitors

without removing their clothing. This is the very same device that

airports are seeking to implement on some inbound flights to the United

States.

 

 

The cases of Young v. County of Cook, 2009

U.S. Dist. Lexis 64404(N.D. 111.), and Zboralshi v. Monohan, 616

Supp.2d 792, 798 (2006, N.D. Ill), explain, “A Rapiscan is a machine

that uses ‘back-scatter’ x-ray technology to conduct a body scan.”

There is no significant difference between using Rapiscan and computer

tomography (CT scan) whole body scanning.

Despite the clearance of some CT scanners

(Rapiscan), the FDA’s website shows that no data has ever been

presented to the agency as to the safety of these devices and states

that it has never approved these devices as being safe because “some

Food and Drug Administration officials were worried that full-body CT

screening scans (Rapiscans) ‘may be exposing thousands of Americans to

unnecessary and potentially dangerous radiation’ and that CT scans of

the chest delivered 100 times the radiation of a conventional chest

x-ray … between .2 to 2 rads of radiation during a single scan.” See,

e.g., Virtual Physical Ctr-Rockville, LLC v. Philips Med. Sys., 478

F.Supp.2d 840, 842-43(D. Md. 2007) and “FDA Raises Body Safety Issue”

by Marlene Cimons in the Los Angeles Times, June 5, 2001.

 

 

The Federal Bureau of Prisons officials have

been forcing inmates at USP Big Sandy to submit to random computerized

tomographic whole body radioactive scanners. If they refuse to submit

to these radiation experiments, prison officials are charging them with

disobeying a direct order and subjecting them to a wide range of

sanctions, including but not limited to loss of good time credits,

resulting in an extended time in prison, even if they agree to be

subjected to an ordinary visual strip search as a reasonable

alternative to radiation exposure from the whole body scanner. These

images are saved and viewed by male and female staff and available

online to certain civilian populations.

 

 

Regulations at 28 CFR §§ 512.11 and 512.12

prohibit the government from using inmates for this type of

experimentation and require them to give both the inmates and the

public notice of their intent to use inmates as test subjects as well

as all of the possible effects related to being subjected to any such

experimentation – and then only on a voluntary basis. See also

Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. § 551(4) and 5 U.S.C. §

553(b)-(d).

 

 

Federal regulations also prohibit the use of

x-ray, MRI or similar devices on inmates for any reason other than

legitimate medical purposes or only when there exists reasonable

suspicion that the inmate has recently secreted contraband – and then

only by a licensed practitioner in the manner set out in 28 CFR §§

552.13(b)(1) and 541.48.

The government has been forcing prisoners, the

majority of whom are Blacks and Hispanics, to be subject of these types

of inhumane experiments for years. They recall the Tuskegee

experiments, where 400 Black men were allowed to suffer with syphilis

for 40 years so that doctors could study the disease. Also, Dr. Albert

Kilgman, at Holmesburg Prison near Philadelphia, under the direction of

major pharmaceutical companies like Merck and Dupont, exposed Black

prisoners to herpes, gonorrhea, malaria, dysentery and even athlete’s

foot from the 1950s to the 1970s.

 

 

In 1952 over 300 Black inmates at an Ohio

state prison were injected with live cancer cells so that doctors at

the Sloan-Kettering Institute could study the effects. In these cases

the research subjects’ rights were violated because either they were

not told that they were participating in an experiment or the

government knew the experiments had no therapeutic value, or both.

 

 

Other cases include Heinrich v. Sthemet, 62

F.Supp.2d 282(D.Mass. 1999) (government utilized false pretenses to

lure plaintiffs into participating in radiation experiments which the

government knew had no therapeutic value); Stadt v. Univ. of Rochester,

921 F.Supp. 1023 (W.D.N.Y. 1996) (plaintiff, who thought she was

receiving medical treatment for scleroderma, was injected with

plutonium without her knowledge or consent as part of a U.S. Army

study); In re Cincinnati Radiation Litig., 874 F.Supp. 796 (S.D. Ohio

1995) (plaintiffs were not informed that the radiation they were

receiving from the Department of Defense was part of a military

experiment rather than treatment of their cancer).

 

 

In Allen v. United States, 588 F.Supp. 247,

399 (D. Ut. 1984), the court held that it is becoming established that

shortening of life span is a general effect of whole body exposure to

ionizing radiation. Experiments have also shown a similar reduction may

be caused by irradiation of substantial portions of the body from

ingestion of radioactive materials.

 

 

In all of those cases, both the state and

federal government had told the subjects that they experimented on that

the radiation levels were harmless – only for the victims to learn

later that they were in fact not harmless, but deadly!

 

 

It has also been reported that these whole

body Rapiscan scanners have been malfunctioning. They have caused

electrical shocks as in the case of Carrie Milton v. Rapiscan, 2005

U.S. Dist. Lexis 11574(E.D. La.). An airport security screener was

severely shocked and suffered permanent injury to her hand operating

one of these Rapiscans.

 

 

Independent tests on Rapiscan devices have

also shown that the EEPROM chips, which are used to calibrate the

radiation levels of the whole body scanners, have repeatedly

malfunctioned, resulting in greater radiation exposure than Rapiscan

reports on its own websites. Some prisoners have experienced blurriness

of vision, headaches and groin pains after being subjected to these

whole body radiation scans. Many of these prisoners have been

Rapiscanned up to three times in a single day, even though they never

left the institution or had any contact with anyone outside the

institution.

 

 

In the 1960s and ‘70s the Bureau of Prisons

forced inmates – mostly Black and Hispanic prisoners – to submit to

radiation exposure to their testes in order to study the effects. See

the case of Bibea v. Pacific Norththemst Research, 980 F. Supp.

349(D.Or. 1997); See also, Clay v. Martin, 509 F.2d 109(2d. Cir. 1974)

(“The court reversed the decision that dismissed … prisoner’s complaint

against defendants, federal government and prison officials, holding

that it was against public policy to dismiss the complaint on pleading

technicalities because the action involved experimentation on humans.”)

 

 

Other experiments include testing psychotropic

narcotics on inmates who have not been prescribed them just to see

their effects, such as in the recent case of Walker v. Hastings, 2009

U.S. Dist. Lexis 80924, Case No. 09-CV-074-ART(E.D. KY). Walker was

diagnosed with H Pylori, a bacterium that can infect one’s stomach or

intestines, but was given Zyprexa, a psychotropic narcotic on at least

nine different occasions by a prison pharmacist at USP Big Sandy

seeking to test the effects of the medications for pharmaceutical

companies.

 

 

If this is a legitimate security concern and

not for the mere use of inmates as test subjects for private interests

of companies like Rapiscan Corp., then ask the Obama administration,

Eric Holder and Department of Justice officials why are they

threatening inmates and charging them with disciplinary infractions for

disobeying unlawful orders to submit to these radiation experiments,

even when they are willing to submit to an ordinary strip search?

 

 

Update: Record long lockdown punishes

cross-racial unity

The inmates have only refused to be exposed to

harmful amounts of radiation and not to be the subject of a human

radiation experiment, but they never disobeyed any lawful orders. Yet

on March 1, the warden at USP Big Sandy imposed a lockdown that is

expected to last at least two months.

The lockdown is clearly in retaliation against

Black prisoners for exercising their First Amendment rights to petition

the government for redress of grievances. Since this prison has been

open, no lockdown has lasted more than 21 days – not even when there

were repeated back-to-back murders.

But when all the inmates have found common

ground for unifying lawfully, the federal white overseers have deemed

this to be a threat to the order, security and discipline of the

institution.

This warden finds it a serious security threat

when all of the different factions of inmates decide not to focus on

killing one another but on coming together in peaceful, lawful

challenges to tyrants’ abuse of power in total, reckless disregard of

our basic human rights and bodily integrity. Even the skinheads, Aryan

Brotherhood and American Born whites came to an agreement with Blacks

not to be subject to these human radiation experiments.

To my knowledge, there were no threats of

violence, there were no assaults and there were no mass demonstrations

– just individuals refusing to be the government’s test dummy for this

Rapiscan x-ray product being illegally used on us in violation of the

Code of Federal Regulations. But if we had ganged up on an inmate, no

such lockdown would’ve occurred for more than a couple of days to a

week. Imagine that!

Send our brother some love and light. Write

to Eddie Milton Garey Jr., 91876-020, USP Big Sandy, P.O. Box 2068,

Inez KY 41224.

 

 

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