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Originally Posted by Gin

http://gizmodo.com/5409588/cop-taser...throwing-a-fit

yeah, and the girl is still guilty with a juvenile criminal record now.

See also: http://www.truecrimereport.com/2009/...ar-old_wom.php (with video this time)

and tasers are not without side effects, especially on 10 year olds or 73 year olds..

and people wonder why some americans distrusts government so much..

Spoiler for little known recent history:

and related to that, remember the official Clinton apology for the Tuskegee experiments with syphilis, many decades later? It's really only the tip of the iceberg. Even Clinton was reluctant and did not release all official documents on the known radiation experiments, which only came to light because of an investigation by a journalist using the Freedom of Information Act. Anyone who suspected that decades ago were simply classified as nutcases.

http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/human_experimentation.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_r...on_experiments

Immediately after World War II, 829 pregnant mothers in Tennessee received what they were told were "vitamin drinks" that would improve the health of their babies, but were, in fact, mixtures containing radioactive iron, to determine how fast the radioisotope crossed into the placenta.

In December, 1993, Secretary of Energy Hazel O'Leary made a disturbing announcement: since the 1940's, the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission had been sponsoring a series of tests on the effects of radiation on the human body. American citizens who had checked into hospitals for a variety of ailments had been secretly injected with varying amounts of plutonium and other radioactive materials without their knowledge. Most patients thought it was "just another injection," but the secret studies left enough radioactive material in the patients' bodies to readily induce cancer.

In 1967, the CIA places a chemical in the drinking water supply of the FDA headquarters in Washington, D.C. to see whether it is possible to spike drinking water with LSD and other substances (Cockburn and St. Clair, eds.).

In 1966, U.S. Army scientists drop light bulbs filled with Bacillus subtilis through ventilation gates and into the New York City subway system, exposing more than one million civilians, including women and children, to the bacteria
see: Wallstreet Journal Oct. 22, 2001 "Years Ago, The Military Sprayed Germs on U.S. Cities"
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/germs.htm

In 1985, a former U.S. Army sergeant tries to sue the Army for using drugs on him in without his consent or even his knowledge in United States v. Stanley, 483 U.S. 669. Justice Antonin Scalia writes the decision, clearing the U.S. military from any liability in past, present or future medical experiments without informed consent (Merritte, et al..


In 1990, the CDC and Kaiser Pharmaceuticals of Southern California inject 1,500 six-month-old black and Hispanic babies in Los Angeles with an “experimental” measles vaccine that had never been licensed for use in the United States. Adding to the risk, children less than a year old may not have an adequate amount of myelin around their nerves, possibly resulting in impaired neural development because of the vaccine. The CDC later admits that parents were never informed that the vaccine being injected into their children was experimental (Goliszek).

The FDA allows the U.S. Department of Defense to waive the Nuremberg Code and use unapproved drugs and vaccines in Operation Desert Shield (Sharav).

Lot's more much lesser known cases here: http://mrgreenbiz.wordpress.com/2009...tes-1845-2007/


And most recently in 2004: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programme...ld/4038375.stm

In his BBC documentary “Guinea Pig Kids” and BBC News article of the same name, reporter Jamie Doran reveals that children involved in the New York City foster care system were unwitting human subjects in experimental AIDS drug trials from 1988 to, in his belief, present times"

Subsequently in 2005, the official response was: http://www.nyc.gov/html/acs/html/pr/pr05_04_22.shtml

In response to the BBC documentary and article “Guinea Pig Kids”, the New York City Administration of Children’s Services (ACS) sends out an Apr. 22 press release admitting that foster care children were used in experimental AIDS drug trials, but says that the last trial took place in 2001 and thus the trials are not continuing, as BBC reporter Jamie Doran claims.

I also don't think many people know how Donald Rumsfield--the same Mr. Secretary of Defense--became personally involved in approving Aspartamine aka Nutrasweet, (which gives me headaches, lol)
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2...611120412nov12

after the initial FDA panel of scientists voted against it 3-2.
more details at:
http://www.stevia.net/aspartame.htm
http://www.swankin-turner.com/hist.html