I am not one of the plaintiffs in this Vietnam Veterans of America, et al. v. Central Intelligence Agency, et al. I am one of the 7120 men used from 1955 thru 1975, when the Army stopped the program upon the release of the 1975 Department of the Army Inspector general Report on Human Experimentation, that found the government was violating the Nuremberg Codes of 1947.

I blame Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld as they both had seats at the National Security Council, Cheney as Chief of Staff and Rummy as Secretary of Defense. To date the government still has failed to help these veterans and or their widows, more than 34 years after the last experiments was conducted.

You will notice in the lawsuit no one is asking for money, they are asking for healthcare, an apology, an admission we were lied to, and some want the medals we were promised. (I have enough, and I damn sure don't want one commemorating that I was a fool).

What This Case Is About

Plaintiffs seek declaratory and injunctive relief only – no monetary damages – and Plaintiffs seek redress for 25 years of diabolical experiments followed by over 30 years of neglect, including: the use of troops to test nerve gas, psychochemicals, and thousands of other toxic chemical or biological substances and perhaps most gruesomely, the insertion of septal implants in the brains of subjects in a ghastly series of mind control experiments that went awry;

the failures to secure informed consent and other widespread failures to follow the precepts of U.S. and international law regarding the use of human subjects, including the 1953 Wilson Directive and the Nuremberg Code;

an almost fanatical refusal to satisfy their legal and moral obligations to locate the victims of their gruesome experiments or to provide health care or compensation to them;

the deliberate destruction of evidence and files documenting their illegal actions, actions which were punctuated by fraud, deception, and a callous disregard for the value of human life.

The Complaint asks the Court to determine that Defendants’ actions were illegal and that Defendants have a duty to notify all victims and to provide them with health care going forward.

What is left out of this case, is the fact that the scientists and doctors that worked at our defense agencies spent years traveling back and forth to Gagetown, Canada and Porton Downs, England, where our allies were doing similar experiments, sometimes jointly to see if the results were the same.

This web page on Porton Downs explains the English project since they have Universal Health care, the English paid each of the veterans a small stipend and publicly apologized to them for the betrayal.

This is the history of the Porton Down experiments written by Professor Ulf Schmidt Cold War at Porton Down: Informed Consent in Britain’s Biological and Chemical Warfare Experiments as you can see they were as lax as the American doctors were.

Bottom Line is that the national Security Council in 1974 and 1975 had the opportunity to stand up and say you will NOT use American soldiers as human guinea pigs, they failed to do so, despite the fact that is exactly what they should have done.

I am appalled by what they approved in the past 8 years on detainees, but I am more sickened by what they approved in 1974 and 1975 it is way past time the government is held accountable for torturing foreign detainees and American soldiers more than 30 years ago.

In my opinion Liz Cheney is a apple who did not drop to far from her fathers tree, and for that matter she is her mothers daughter also. Evil is something you know when you see it.

I have seen it and lived thru it. Enough talking about it, prosecute them.