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Myrmidon The Ant King from In Antartica Since: Nov, 2009
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#2: Oct 1st 2010 at 12:07:34 PM

What are you Goddammit-ing about? That they admitted it? The people who did it are long dead.

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Myrmidon The Ant King from In Antartica Since: Nov, 2009
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#3: Oct 1st 2010 at 12:09:47 PM

That they did it in the first place. Admitting it was kind of a good thing.

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FeoTakahari Fuzzy Orange Doomsayer from Looking out at the city Since: Sep, 2009
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#4: Oct 1st 2010 at 2:19:55 PM

Hell, we already knew the government did plenty of stuff like that.

I'd say what they did back then doesn't matter—what matters is whether they're doing anything now that we ought to oppose.

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#6: Oct 1st 2010 at 2:47:06 PM

Why am I not surprised?

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#7: Oct 1st 2010 at 2:53:41 PM

I've read about this before. Disgusting. For extra fun, see Project MKULTRA.

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#8: Oct 1st 2010 at 2:55:12 PM

Unethical is a kind word for what was done.

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#10: Oct 1st 2010 at 3:04:42 PM

The laundry list of shit our asshole government has done is depressingly long. These are just the tip of the so called iceberg. I will have to dig the link up back home but there is a pretty long list of horrid things. Including testing on children. Did I mention these were orphans?

edited 1st Oct '10 3:05:15 PM by TuefelHundenIV

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#11: Oct 1st 2010 at 3:07:48 PM

...and this is why I'll end up a misanthrope.

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#12: Oct 1st 2010 at 3:09:33 PM

Erm... I'm hoping America has moved on since the Cold War days by this point? No other nasty secrets to tell the world?

EDIT: Seriously, this is disturbing...

edited 1st Oct '10 3:10:13 PM by GameChainsaw

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#13: Oct 1st 2010 at 3:15:49 PM

Oh lord I don't want to know what other dirty laundry we haven't aired yet or have created in the last decade. Especially with our Three Letter Acronym groups doing a lot of work in the 80's and 90's.

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#14: Oct 1st 2010 at 3:19:49 PM

Seems like a lot of countries were doing crap like that in that era. Germany, Japan, heck, sure the Soviets did something like that... Just to put it into perspective.

...doesn't make it right, though. But I can see how some other nation would get it in their heads that their experiments would be "different".

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jaimeastorga2000 Indeed Since: May, 2011
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#15: Oct 1st 2010 at 3:20:05 PM

Erm... I'm hoping America has moved on since the Cold War days by this point? No other nasty secrets to tell the world?

You wish.

The worst part is that these fucking things only get released decades after the fact, so nobody is calling for punishment anymore, and the people who do them have no deterrent and nothing to fear while they contine to hide behind classification.

edited 1st Oct '10 3:31:52 PM by jaimeastorga2000

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#16: Oct 1st 2010 at 3:24:25 PM

I know other nations are by no means innocent but its no excuse for us to do it either. There is toeing the line as tightly as possible and then there is crossing the line often way over the line.

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CIA trained and the reading and training material used to train them included rather horrid things to do to a population.

One of many such charming groups we funded, built, and trained to do the really dirty work by proxy.

edited 1st Oct '10 3:39:07 PM by TuefelHundenIV

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#18: Oct 1st 2010 at 7:21:38 PM

There more humane ways to get your heaps of corpses.

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Swish Long Live the King Since: Jan, 2001
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#19: Oct 1st 2010 at 7:49:45 PM

... Is anyone else slightly concerned that this admission will bring up the whole "US created the HIV and gave it to homosexuals" thing again?

If you haven't heard that... then you probably aren't concerned.

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#20: Oct 1st 2010 at 8:14:56 PM

The government lies through their nose and only says anything when it's long over? Wow, what a surprise!

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#21: Oct 1st 2010 at 8:15:36 PM

That is not the surprise. The surprise is what they did.

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Starscream from Sydney, Australia Since: Jan, 2001
#22: Oct 1st 2010 at 8:18:06 PM

That's not surprising either imo; then again, I stopped trusting governments long ago. Many people in power will do anything to keep it, and henceforth abuse it; a true Cincinnatus is depressingly rare.

Like hell the government's outraged. Give me a break.

edited 1st Oct '10 9:24:22 PM by Starscream

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BalloonFleet MASTER-DEBATER from Chicago, IL, USA Since: Jun, 2010
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#23: Oct 1st 2010 at 8:31:07 PM

Erm... I'm hoping America has moved on since the Cold War days by this point? No other nasty secrets to tell the world?

Torturing & Killing Autistics to 'make them normal', as well as some unethical shit to force pedophiles to be 'normal'. Wait the only thing that is state-sanctioned (now) is the pedophilia aspects.

The worst part is that these fucking things only get released decades after the fact, so nobody is calling for punishment anymore, and the people who do them have no deterrent and nothing to fear while they contine to hide behind classification.

Solution: Overthrow the Government. Oh wait I'll get V& for saying that. It's only a joke, FBI people. Don't get srs bsnss.

Besides, that mentality prevents any sort of new investigation into K Ennedy's assassination & 9/11

EDIT: you all want something amazingly rage-worthy? read up "Killing Our Own", it's a novel that details the US testing nuclear weapons on soldiers & sailors, mormon villages, etc..

edited 1st Oct '10 8:34:42 PM by BalloonFleet

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#25: Oct 2nd 2010 at 4:07:49 PM

Balloon Fleet, are you actually suggesting that Jews Did WTC or just being anti-establisment for its own sake?

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