Records revealed last January show that 61 African Americans were guinea pigs along with 12 others in a 12 year military study at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center designed to see how exposure to full- and partial- body radiation 10 times higher than normal would effect the body. After 60 days of exposure to the radiation (250 rads in one session), 25 of the patients died.
The tests were conducted from 1960 to 1972 by Eugene L. Saenger, an eminent radiological health specialist. Saenger knew something was wrong as he wrote a report to the Defense Department stating, "one can identify eight cases in which there is a possibility of the therapy contributing to mortality." Ironically, Saenger also serves as a key governmental witness on radiation lawsuit cases brought against the Department of Energy.
Dr. David S. Egilman has been researching the Cincinnati experiments for over ten years and did not mince words when he told us, "What they did was murder those black patients. And those researchers, Gottschalk and Saenger, as dirty as Mingele." Egilman testified on January 18 before the House of Representatives Energy and Power Subcommittee regarding the experiments and further contends that the tests were conducted with no informed consent and were not ethical at the time.
Friday, January 19, 2007
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
The Tuskegee Experiments and More...
This tragedy is compounded by the fact that so many of us don't even know we are
being used in this manner.
Thanks to the persistence of reporter Eileen Wellsome of The Albuquerque Tribune, whose special report last November titled "The Plutonium Experiment" cracked open a decades long scandal of radiation experiments on unsuspecting citizens throughout the country, we are now seeing evidence of the atomic age horrors that so many in the scientific community and government knew but kept silent about. It is a collection of U.S. government sponsored guinea pig experiments. But there is also another sad fact: The experiments reveal a disturbingly large involvement of people of color, especially African-Americans.
Though it is clear that other reports of radiation tests on civilians--mainly poor, disadvantaged, or mentally impaired--during the Cold War were not limited to blacks only, they do show a continuing legacy of medical science using unsuspecting African Americans. There is little or no informed consent involved. This is nothing new as all African-Americans share a common medical/scientific history: Black lives are easily expendable. Thus it is no surprise that this bitter legacy has found renewal with the recent revelations of the Cold War radiation experiments.
E. Cooper Brown, Director of the National Committee of Radiation Victims, says, "It is my guess that all those experimented on with radiation will turn up to be at least 60 per cent people of color, with a large portion being African Americans." If this is indeed true, then African Americans will be part of yet another medical/scientific nightmare comparable to--and even surpassing--the Tuskegee experiments.
The Tuskegee experiments were a 40 year government sponsored medical study begun in 1932 that allowed 399 late stage syphilitic African American men to go untreated, even when safe and effective medical treatments were available in the 1940s. Also affected were 50 wives who were infected by their husbands and 20 children who were given the disease congenitally. When the study became public in 1972 after an expose by Jean Heller of the Associated Press, there was much public outcry with many in the black community saying the study already confirmed their suspicions of a governmental plan for genocide of black Americans. Congress held hearings to investigate the study resulting in passage of the 1974 National Research Act which implemented stricter federal guidelines on research institutions using federal money and mandating institutional review boards to oversee research using human subjects-which are currently being violated on a grand scale.
As in the Tuskegee experiments, the radiation tests also show a very benign concern by the researchers for their black patients. When we interviewed Dr. Louis A. Gottschalk, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the University of California, Irvine, and author of the 1969 study "Total and HalfBody Irradiation," we asked him was there follow-up on the patients to see if any were still alive during 1969 (his study looked at 16 patients, 13 of which were black). He said, "These were terminal cancer patients. I was interested in just cognitive aspects--there were no follow-ups."
Lets examine what is currently known regarding the involvement of African Americans in the Cold War radiation tests: The Cincinnati Experiments - info. in another post coming soon.
being used in this manner.
Thanks to the persistence of reporter Eileen Wellsome of The Albuquerque Tribune, whose special report last November titled "The Plutonium Experiment" cracked open a decades long scandal of radiation experiments on unsuspecting citizens throughout the country, we are now seeing evidence of the atomic age horrors that so many in the scientific community and government knew but kept silent about. It is a collection of U.S. government sponsored guinea pig experiments. But there is also another sad fact: The experiments reveal a disturbingly large involvement of people of color, especially African-Americans.
Though it is clear that other reports of radiation tests on civilians--mainly poor, disadvantaged, or mentally impaired--during the Cold War were not limited to blacks only, they do show a continuing legacy of medical science using unsuspecting African Americans. There is little or no informed consent involved. This is nothing new as all African-Americans share a common medical/scientific history: Black lives are easily expendable. Thus it is no surprise that this bitter legacy has found renewal with the recent revelations of the Cold War radiation experiments.
E. Cooper Brown, Director of the National Committee of Radiation Victims, says, "It is my guess that all those experimented on with radiation will turn up to be at least 60 per cent people of color, with a large portion being African Americans." If this is indeed true, then African Americans will be part of yet another medical/scientific nightmare comparable to--and even surpassing--the Tuskegee experiments.
The Tuskegee experiments were a 40 year government sponsored medical study begun in 1932 that allowed 399 late stage syphilitic African American men to go untreated, even when safe and effective medical treatments were available in the 1940s. Also affected were 50 wives who were infected by their husbands and 20 children who were given the disease congenitally. When the study became public in 1972 after an expose by Jean Heller of the Associated Press, there was much public outcry with many in the black community saying the study already confirmed their suspicions of a governmental plan for genocide of black Americans. Congress held hearings to investigate the study resulting in passage of the 1974 National Research Act which implemented stricter federal guidelines on research institutions using federal money and mandating institutional review boards to oversee research using human subjects-which are currently being violated on a grand scale.
As in the Tuskegee experiments, the radiation tests also show a very benign concern by the researchers for their black patients. When we interviewed Dr. Louis A. Gottschalk, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the University of California, Irvine, and author of the 1969 study "Total and HalfBody Irradiation," we asked him was there follow-up on the patients to see if any were still alive during 1969 (his study looked at 16 patients, 13 of which were black). He said, "These were terminal cancer patients. I was interested in just cognitive aspects--there were no follow-ups."
Lets examine what is currently known regarding the involvement of African Americans in the Cold War radiation tests: The Cincinnati Experiments - info. in another post coming soon.
Monday, January 08, 2007
Rev. Pinkney's Mother Passed On
The mother of Rev. Edward Pinkney passed on. Dessie Ree Pinkney's legacy will live on through her son, the Rev. Edward Pinkney. She passed on Jan. 8, 2007. May memories of her love be embedded in the hearts of her many loved ones.
Rev. Edward Pinkney
Funeral: Mt. Olive Baptist Church
5730 Chicago Ave.
Chicago, Ill.
Sat. Jan. 13, 11am
Rev. Edward Pinkney
Funeral: Mt. Olive Baptist Church
5730 Chicago Ave.
Chicago, Ill.
Sat. Jan. 13, 11am
Sunday, January 07, 2007
Notice - Important
Everyone's support is needed at an important hearing on several constitutional issues on January 25, 2007 at 9am at the Berrien County Courthouse, 811 Port Street in St. Joseph, Michigan. Whether or not to drop charges against Rev. Pinkney will be decided.
Friday, January 05, 2007
Berrien County & Rev. Pinkney - current summary
Judge Wrongly Set Aside Election,
President Bush then Nominated Judge for Federal Bench
What was President Bush thinking when he nominated Judge Paul Maloney from Berrien County, Michigan to be a federal judge? Judge Maloney was supported by U.S. Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., heir to the billion dollar corporation Whirlpool which controls 80% of the world appliance market.
Benton Harbor is a city in Berrien County, Michigan with 11,980 residents. 70% are unemployed, 90% of the people live below the proverty level. Drugs are flooding the community. It appears to be a corporate plan to make the people corrupt and susceptible to bribery. We have more homeless people per-capita than anywhere in the state. What would a city like Benton Harbor, Mich. want with a Jack Niclaus Signature golf course, a Yacht boat launch and a 100 million dollar gated community with no jobs?
On April 15, 2005 Judge Paul Maloney, who openly practices racism, reversed an election. Black Autonomy Network Community Organization successfully recalled a corrupt city administrator backed by the Whirlpool Corp., the largest employer in the area. Whirlpool is taking over the city of Benton Harbor and turning it into an exclusive resort by circumventing the will of he people. Judge Maloney actually set aside an election.
Whirlpool needed six votes from the Benton Harbor city commissioners. With Glen Yarbrough (a convicted felon) Whirlpool had the six votes needed only with the recall commissioner Yarbrough voting.
So they had to bring him back.
Chief prosecutor James Cherry met with city commissioner Yarbrough, according to the daily newspaper, the Herald Palladium. He advised him on what he needed to do to have the election set aside. Yarbrough was told to find anybody who agreed to say they were paid to vote. Yarbrough found an old friend of his family, Mansel Williams and gave him ten dollars and some crack to say Rev. Pinkney paid him five dollars. That started the criminal investigation. Detective Dannefer went out with a bank roll bribing, coercing, and offering special deals to anyone who voted. We have Dannefer on tape bribing witnesses.
Rev. Pinkney was tried for voter fraud which ended in a hung jury because the government had tainted the jury. The second trial will begin on March 13, 2007 at 9am. On Jan. 25, 2007 at 10am, there will be a constitution hearing motion for a direct verdict to quash the information and to dismiss. Then there will be a motion for a jury challenge; Berrien County's history is to have an all-white jury, not a jury of one's peers.
To sum this up, Rev. Pinkney, and BANCO (the Black Autonomy Network Community Organization) sucessfully and fairly recalled a city administrator backed by Whirlpool and U.S.Rep. Fred Upton, heir to the largest corporation in the area which refuses to hire people from Benton Harbor. Circumventing the will of the people the recall vote was overturned by Maloney. Rev. Edward Pinkney was arrested on election fraud charges. There was no election fraud commited by Rev. Pinkney and he faces 20 years in prison.
Remember, in order to set aside any election, it must appear affirmatively that the sucessful ticket received a number of improper votes, which if rejected, would have brought it down to a minority. Prosecutor James Cherry admitted that he did not have the votes to set aside the election. Judge Paul Maloney stated in open court, " Only because Rev. Pinkney was involved am I setting aside the election."
The most important issue of all: Judge Paul Maloney stole the election for a corporation and then was nominated for federal judge. Corporations are taking over the world and ruining lives. You must stand up to the corrupt election official.
Prosecutorial misconduct has reached epidemic proportions in Berrien County and in our country.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
CONTACT
Rev. Edward Pinkney
1940 Union St
Benton Harbor,MI 49022
269-925-0001
President Bush then Nominated Judge for Federal Bench
What was President Bush thinking when he nominated Judge Paul Maloney from Berrien County, Michigan to be a federal judge? Judge Maloney was supported by U.S. Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., heir to the billion dollar corporation Whirlpool which controls 80% of the world appliance market.
Benton Harbor is a city in Berrien County, Michigan with 11,980 residents. 70% are unemployed, 90% of the people live below the proverty level. Drugs are flooding the community. It appears to be a corporate plan to make the people corrupt and susceptible to bribery. We have more homeless people per-capita than anywhere in the state. What would a city like Benton Harbor, Mich. want with a Jack Niclaus Signature golf course, a Yacht boat launch and a 100 million dollar gated community with no jobs?
On April 15, 2005 Judge Paul Maloney, who openly practices racism, reversed an election. Black Autonomy Network Community Organization successfully recalled a corrupt city administrator backed by the Whirlpool Corp., the largest employer in the area. Whirlpool is taking over the city of Benton Harbor and turning it into an exclusive resort by circumventing the will of he people. Judge Maloney actually set aside an election.
Whirlpool needed six votes from the Benton Harbor city commissioners. With Glen Yarbrough (a convicted felon) Whirlpool had the six votes needed only with the recall commissioner Yarbrough voting.
So they had to bring him back.
Chief prosecutor James Cherry met with city commissioner Yarbrough, according to the daily newspaper, the Herald Palladium. He advised him on what he needed to do to have the election set aside. Yarbrough was told to find anybody who agreed to say they were paid to vote. Yarbrough found an old friend of his family, Mansel Williams and gave him ten dollars and some crack to say Rev. Pinkney paid him five dollars. That started the criminal investigation. Detective Dannefer went out with a bank roll bribing, coercing, and offering special deals to anyone who voted. We have Dannefer on tape bribing witnesses.
Rev. Pinkney was tried for voter fraud which ended in a hung jury because the government had tainted the jury. The second trial will begin on March 13, 2007 at 9am. On Jan. 25, 2007 at 10am, there will be a constitution hearing motion for a direct verdict to quash the information and to dismiss. Then there will be a motion for a jury challenge; Berrien County's history is to have an all-white jury, not a jury of one's peers.
To sum this up, Rev. Pinkney, and BANCO (the Black Autonomy Network Community Organization) sucessfully and fairly recalled a city administrator backed by Whirlpool and U.S.Rep. Fred Upton, heir to the largest corporation in the area which refuses to hire people from Benton Harbor. Circumventing the will of the people the recall vote was overturned by Maloney. Rev. Edward Pinkney was arrested on election fraud charges. There was no election fraud commited by Rev. Pinkney and he faces 20 years in prison.
Remember, in order to set aside any election, it must appear affirmatively that the sucessful ticket received a number of improper votes, which if rejected, would have brought it down to a minority. Prosecutor James Cherry admitted that he did not have the votes to set aside the election. Judge Paul Maloney stated in open court, " Only because Rev. Pinkney was involved am I setting aside the election."
The most important issue of all: Judge Paul Maloney stole the election for a corporation and then was nominated for federal judge. Corporations are taking over the world and ruining lives. You must stand up to the corrupt election official.
Prosecutorial misconduct has reached epidemic proportions in Berrien County and in our country.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
CONTACT
Rev. Edward Pinkney
1940 Union St
Benton Harbor,MI 49022
269-925-0001
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