-Caveat Lector- The New Australian A tale of two bloodgates: another media cover-up By Gerard Jackson No. 108, 21-27 February 1999 Rupert Murdoch's Australian is certainly hot on justice and political corruption. On 9 February it published a news report on the French bloodgate, following it up on the 12 February with another lengthy report. Several former French government ministers are on trial for allowing AIDS-contaminated blood to be distributed. About one thousand people died because of their actions and there is no doubt that many more will follow them. What is really mysterious, or so it at first seems, is that America's bloodgate scandal, one that may have infected about 2,000 Americans, not to mention the number of Canadians it killed, has not been reported by the Australian media, and in particular Cameron Forbes, The Australian's Washington-based correspondent, even though the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) are investigating the case. Of course, the mystery evaporates once one knows that America's contaminated blood scandal originated in Arkansas when that lovable rogue ol' Bill Clinton was governor. Once again, it is who you are that seems to count, not what you have done. The squalid story goes back, as do so many, to Arkansas in the early 1980s when Clinton was governor. HMA (Health Management Associates) won a $US3 million contract to provide medical services to Arkansas state prisons. The contract also allowed the company to collect blood from prisoners and sell it, but US health regulations didn't permit the sale of prisoners' blood within the country. However, HMA was able to evade the rules by selling the blood in Canada, with fatal consequences. When HMA had its license withdrawn by the authorities because of its poor medical practices, Bill Clinton publicly defended the company and used his authority as governor in 1985 to have its license renewed, even though the company was accused of using inmates to draw blood and had employed bogus doctors. Now why should this "potentially great" and "flawed man" (the Australian media calls him "flawed" rather than corrupt) go out of his way to support the practices of a fraudulent medical company. After all, Clinton is man who knows how to share pain � or should I say inflict it? This is a man who does nothing for nothing. And so it was here. The company was headed by none other than Leonard K. Dunn, a key Clinton supporter and important donor to the Bill and Hillary charity foundation. Not only did a grateful Bill reward the generous Mr Dunn with the prison contract but he also got him appointed to the state business council. And would you believe it, the same Mr Dunn ended up with Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan's assets, well what was left of them after the Clintons had got through with it. Ain't that just cosy Can't you imagine the howls of outrage from our left-wing crusading journalists if a Republican had done this. I know I can. Fortunately, even the best laid plans of rats and men go awry. DR Michael Galster was working in the prison system when HMA was operating. Using the pseudonym Michael Sullivan he wrote a fictionalized account of the scandal and called it Blood Trail. Ceasing to fear Clinton's attack machine and his media stormtroopers, Galster went public by revealing his identity. He not only accuses Clinton of organizing bribes to various state official officials to make sure that HMA could continue its blood-selling operations, he suggests that Clinton benefited financially from the operation. Though the scandal has been extensively covered by the Canadian papers, the mainstream American media has done its best to ignore it � censor it would be a more appropriate description. As expected, the Australian media has also joined the 'conspiracy of silence,' even ignoring a group of former Arkansas prisoners who are launching a class action suit against the state, claiming that HMA infected them during blood donations. The revelation that the RCMP is now working with the FBI regarding criminal charges in the US is another uncomfortable fact that our fearless journalists ignored. Moreover, Vince Fosters ghost, so to speak, has also been brought into the scandal.* A Press Conference will be held on February 24 at the National Press Club in Washington to demand a federal investigation into Clinton's 'bloodgate' scandal. Will Cameron Forbes and Cameron Stewart (The Australian's New York correspondent) be there? I doubt it. Caped Crusaders they ain't. In fact, I don't even consider them to be real journalists. Forbes couldn't hotfoot it fast enough to Jasper, Texas, to report on a race-inspired murder. And Stewart couldn't get to Wyoming fast enough either when it was claimed a young man had been murdered for being a homosexual. But neither of them ever bothered to scurry down Arkansas way to investigate a single Clinton scandal. I don't know whether Clinton is genuinely guilty of any wrongdoing concerning HMA's blood-selling operation. But I do know that journalists should have reported it and tried to uncover the truth. They didn't. Smart-aleck journalists can smear Jefferson,** Bob Barr, Ken Starr and Linda Tripp but they cannot report the Arkansas blood scandal. I'll let readers figure out for themselves what the hell is going on here. *The Australian whitewashes Clinton and the Foster suicide reveals how Wilson, when he was The Australian's Washington-based, correspondent chose to deal with the Foster case **Why did Murdoch's Australian trash Thomas Jefferson? shows that Forbes is no better than Wilson. The New Australian http://www.newaus.com.au/news108forbes.html Bard Visit me at: The Center for Exposing Corruption in the Federal Government http://www.xld.com/public/center/center.htm Federal Government defined: ....a benefit/subsidy protection racket! DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! 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