Arkansas AIDS plasma scandal - Clinton goons at it again...

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The Ottowa Citizen, May 20, 1999

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Another Crazy Clinton Coincidence

Intimidation Campaign Suspected as Arkansas Clinic Razed

Montreal Office Ransacked on Same Night

The controversial story involving tainted plasma from Arkansas prisoners that was shipped to Canada in the 1980s while Bill Clinton was state governor has taken a mysterious and chilling new turn.

Two crimes that occurred within hours of each other Tuesday night, [May 18, 1999], hundreds of kilometres apart, have raised questions about whether someone is trying to intimidate or silence those who are asking questions about the prison-blood fiasco.

In Pine Bluff, Arkansas, someone firebombed a prosthetics clinic owned by Michael Galster, who has been pushing hard for a U.S. government investigation. The clinic was burned to its shell and fire officials, who found a gas container in Mr. Galster's attic -- where he kept his documents -- say they're "90-per-cent sure" the fire was arson.

In Montreal, someone broke into the offices of the Quebec chapter of the Canadian Hemophilia Society, which recently unearthed documents that showed Finance Minister Paul Martin was a board member of the corporation that owned Connaught Laboratories, the company that fractionated and distributed the Arkansas prison plasma in Canada.

Hemophilia Society officials say thieves stole a computer and three telephones. They also stole documents from a box labeled "Hepatitis C, Krever Commission, Reform of the blood system, HIV-AIDS."

Police are investigating both incidents.

Mike McCarthy, a Canadian hemophiliac at the forefront of pushing for answers into the prison plasma scandal, says he's convinced the two crimes are connected.

"It's too much of a coincidence," he said, adding that someone is worried Mr. Galster and the victims are probing too close to the truth.

"They're trying to find out what we know and erase the trail if they can."

"I think they're also sending a message. They're trying to scare us into backing off. They're trying to put the fear of God into us, that if we pursue the truth it can get worse. That the next action might not just be buildings and records."

The RCMP are examining the prison-blood scheme as part of their criminal investigation into the tainted-blood scandal. RCMP Cpl. Gilles Moreau said yesterday that the Mounties are willing to review any evidence local police in Montreal and Arkansas uncover.

"We do not work in a vacuum," said Cpl. Moreau. "If there's information that is linked to the blood distribution system for the period that we're investigating, we're certainly not going to close our eyes to that information. We welcome any information that comes our way."

The story of how prison plasma was collected and found its way into the bloodstreams of unsuspecting Canadians stands as one of the most shocking aspects of the tainted-blood tragedy.

It's not known how many Canadians contracted HIV and hepatitis C from the plasma of Arkansas prisoners, who were paid $7 a unit, although it's likely that several hundred people were infected by the tainted products.

At the time, U.S. companies that fractionate blood products had stopped buying prison blood because it was widely understood that, since many inmates practised unsafe sex or were intravenous drug addicts, their blood posed a high risk of carrying the AIDS virus.

In Arkansas, a private firm, Health Management Associates, was given a contract by the state government to collect the prisoners' plasma. The firm had difficulty locating a U.S. customer but found a willing buyer in a Montreal blood broker, Continental Pharma Cryosan, which then sold the plasma to Toronto-based Connaught Laboratories. Connaught apparently didn't realize the plasma had come from prisoners.

Canadians learned of the prison plasma scheme in 1995, when Justice Horace Krever's inquiry unearthed some aspects of the story. Last September, the Citizen revealed further details.

Also last fall, Mr. Galster went public with his accusations about the Arkansas prison system, where he conducted orthopedic clinics during the 1980s. Mr. Galster published a book, BLOOD TRAIL, which is a fictionalized account of how the prison-plasma program worked.

He wrote under a pseudonym because he feared reprisals. Soon after media stories began appearing, he revealed his true identity. In February, he organized and participated in a news conference in Washington where Canadian victims called for a probe by the U.S. Justice Department and announced plans to depose Mr. Clinton.

Mr. Galster said yesterday he is reeling with shock from the firebombing of his clinic, which he has owned for 21 years.

He said he worked until about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday and was later called at home about the fire.

"I'm trying not to get too paranoid about it. I pray to God that it was just a coincidence."

Mr. Galster said that if someone is trying to silence him, it won't work.

"They're barking up the wrong tree. They can't erase the victims who are seeking the truth."

Pine Bluff's fire marshal, Capt. Randy Rushing, said the state crime lab has been called in to help with the arson investigation.

Capt. Rushing said fire officials have a "couple of leads," but have no evidence on a motive.

In Montreal, hemophilia society officials are puzzled.

In recent days, the group learned that Mr. Martin was a director of the Canada Development Corporation (CDC) from 1981 to 1986 -- the key years of the tainted blood scandal. The CDC was created with federal seed money to promote the country's leading industries and owned a variety of firms, including Connaught.

The Citizen published details of the story on Saturday, and indicated that Mr. Martin has no recollection of any discussions about tainted blood while a CDC board member. The article stated that Mr. Martin's connection to the CDC had been "unearthed" by the hemophilia society.

Just three days later, the break-in occurred. Thieves entered the office of executive director Pierre Desmarais and were selective in what they took.

Mr. Desmarais said that because the thieves stole documents -- not just computer equipment -- it appears they were looking for information, not goods.

"It's really frightening. This is the kind of thing you see in movies.

The Ottowa Citizen, May 20, 1999



-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), May 23, 1999

Answers

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NOTE TO ALL WHO WOULD DENTY THE TRUTH OF "BOB" DOBBS: There is nothing lower than a debunker. The debunker is the most despicable parasite in Creation -- worse even that the Critic. DEATH to EST debunkers! DEATH to UFO debunkers! DEATH to WRESTLING debunkers! DEATH TO ALL SUBGENIUS DEBUNKERS!!!! WE WILL BURY YOU IN "DE BUNKERS!!"

J.R."BOB" DOBBS:Big Brother-A-Go-Go 1995 "FOR ALL YOU KNOW, HE MAY ALREADY BE WORLD OVERLORD."

J.R. "Bob" DOBBS -- the High Epopt over all SubGenii -- is no worn- out, overused deity from thousands of years ago, but a LIVING, BLEEDING DIETY FOR TODAY. "He is the Sales Man, the Now Man, the Man of Tomorrow, and the Key to the Gateway IS HIS PIPE." (Godecclessians 3:14) It is because The Conspiracy fears him to the depths of their lizard souls that they try to water down his terrifying message -- and would even deny that he exists at all!! He started leaving hints of his presence in the cheesy ads of the 1950s, following his Divine Emaculation by JHVH-1 Itself -- alien Space God from some Corporate Sin Galaxy. Today, despite persecution and harrassment, his Church is the Zorro of world religions, scratching a bloody 'B' on the beefy seat of The Conspiracy!! He is here to SMITE the Mediocretins, Assouls, Glorps, Conformers, Nuzis, Barbies and Kens -- the FALSE PROPHETS and PINK BOYS who have made "NORMALITY" the NORM!! ALL PINKS ARE LIVING STEREOTYPES -- dupes of the Conspiracy, lacking the spark of originality which is the trademark of every SubGenius soul. AND YET THEY CONTROL THE EARTH. Creatures of such BLINDNESS and VENALITY as these LOWLY HUMANS have never had so much POWER over ALL NATURE before, and there's NO TELLING what might happen. The reins of control must be wrested from Their clammy grip before it's TOO LATE!!

"BOB" is the MYSTIC SUPERSALESMAN on whose WHEELING AND DEALING SKILLS the FATE OF THIS UNIVERSE DEPENDS!! "BOB" is HE who has come to AWAKEN US to the SLACK that has been robbed from our kind for CENTURIES -- the ONLY INTERCESSOR between MANKIND and the STARK FIST OF REMOVAL, that all-smashing force from Above which we must simultaneously placate and defy.

And -- huh? You mean you really didn't know about "Bob" and "Slack?" You didn't even suspect that there was a Conspiracy of NORMALS leeching away your Slack all the time, like vampires who don't know any better -- that there are really two species of upright bipeds on Earth, US and THEM?? You didn't know that?

Oh, well, forget it, we didn't mean you, we meant the next guy. No, seriously, don't worry about it. You don't need to know who "Bob" is. Or was. It's no big deal. Really. Just throw this away. Now. Look for something else to read. You don't want to be CAUGHT with this. PUT IT DOWN NOW. There's something WRONG with THIS PAMPHLET in your hands, it's upsetting you, its authors must be CRAZY, EITHER THAT OR ELSE THROUGHOUT YOUR ENTIRE LIFE UP TIL NOW YOU HAD BEEN HYPNOTISED INTO THINKING EVERYTHING WAS OKAY, BUT SOMETHING IN HERE HAS TRIGGERED THE SCALES TO FALL FROM YOUR EYES, BUT YOU'RE NOT READY YET... you're having intense feelings of Deja Vu, as if YOU HAVE READ THIS SOMEWHERE BEFORE... THERE! WE DID IT! WE GOT YOU TO READ THIS FAR AND NOW IT'S TOO LATE!

By the way, it wasn't the words that held the code-trigger*, it was THE WHITE SPACES AROUND THE BLACK LETTERS. You will someday be glad we have done this to you, because EVEN YOU WILL EVENTUALLY BE A STOOGE WARRIOR for SLACK and FREEDOM -- if not now, then at least in some future lifetime in which you have more balls or ovaries.

What is Slack? If you have to ask, you can never know. You were born with it -- everyone is born with Original Slack -- but the Conspiracy has most of it now. They don't even know what it is, but that hasn't stopped Them from siphoning off what little you have left. (The stealing of Slack paradoxically becomes easier the less of it there is around.)

The Slack that can be described is not true Slack. By definition, it is indefinable. True Slack is "Something for Nothing." It is a kind of direct perception, unfettered by so-called "Common Sense."

Happiness is agony compared to Slack. Compared to Slack, NIRVANA is like having your eyes slowly gouged out with a carrot-peeler while recieving electroshock. Ten hours spent basking in the White Light of the Ultimate is like ants crawling up your nose and burrowing deep into your sinuses while you are dying of thirst in the desert, in relation to an eigth of a millisecond of Slack.

So you must ask yourself: Do you have Slack? Do you? How would you know?

Slack is different things to different people. For 3/4 of the world's population, Slack is a good meal. And if things keep getting worse, someday Slack for ANYBODY could be just one more breath of REAL AIR.

For you, at this point in the 20th Century, Slack is probably tied very closely to MONEY. This is because the Conspiracy has made it seem NATURAL that you have to "work" to "buy Slack." It's mindboggling how completely They have reversed the natural order of things, and how easily we all fell for it. Although SubGenii by definition are never Conspiracy dupes, most of them are Conspiracy SLAVES.

The reason They have been so successful these last 10,000 years is that -- ironically -- at any given time you actually have more Slack than you can possibly appreciate until it is taken away. You are HALF ASLEEP until that happens -- and after it does happen, you'll never again have a chance to be fully awake. It is, to use the proper expression, FUCKED.

By the same token however, Slack cannot be bottled or sold -- thus it is really FREE! You don't even need "Bob" to find it; you need only develop your "Slack Awareness." "Bob's" teachings can expedite this process, so that it snowballs until you get more and more Slack with less and less work. Or, rather, through real work, instead of wage drudgery. For Slack isn't exactly laziness, but a kind of active sloth. It is what "Bob" calls "surfing the Luck Plane" -- floating down The Path of Least Resistance -- EXPLOITING your MISTAKES. You "negate effort" by not trying, by not even doing ... by merely "letting." When you can finally let go and just "SEE" rather than "look," then and only then will you trulybe able to "PEE FREELY." Only then will you have achieved Achievingness without trying.

Once you do have Slack, you don't have to worry about sharing it because no matter how much you possess, ten times as much is radiated out. And this can mean INSTANT MONEY -- LUCK AT THE RACES -- AN AVALANCHE OF FRENZIED SEX -- ANYTHING YOU DESIRE!

"Bob" isn't so lucky because he's smart, but because he might as well be incredibly stupid by "normal" standards. If you could be a tenth as dumb as "Bob," your mistakes, blunders, follies and fobles would become as profitable as his. To truly know Nothing-- ah, if but we only could!! Human nature would improve a millionfold!

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-- ! (!@!.!), May 24, 1999.


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