And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 10:05:01 -0500 >From: "*Noquisi* (Day Starr)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en]C-WorldNet (Win95; U) >X-Accept-Language: en >To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, xchat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: 'DIPITY Re: Violence Initiative Project Part 1 >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >"*Noquisi* (Day Starr)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replies: >Mitch Cohen wrote: > >> Beware The Violence Initiative Project -- >> Coming Soon to an Inner City Near You >> >> by Mitchel Cohen, of the >> Brooklyn Greens / Green Party of NY, >> & the Red Balloon Collective >> >> "It is proper to focus on blacks and other minorities as they are >> over-represented in the courts and not well studied." >> -Gail Wasserman, Ph.D., from her funding proposal to establish a >> "behavioral disorders" center at Columbia University's Department of >> Child Psychiatry. >> >> "Unemployment runs in the genes just like bad teeth." >> - Richard Herrnstein, Princeton University, and co-author of The Bell >> Curve. >> >> As late as the 1980s, a number of U.S. and European scientists were >> still claiming that Black people, Latinos and American Indians are less >> intelligent than Caucasians. (Asians were left out of the mix.) >> Intelligence, they said, ran in the genes along racial lines. Some >> scientists are now proposing that violence is an hereditary >> characteristic of Black and Latino people and, unlike the case with >> genetic intelligence, something can be done about it. Scientists, they >> say, can control the alleged "genetic predisposition" to committing >> criminal acts of violence by medicating Black and Latino children >> before >> aggressive behavior and violence occur. >> >> Under the aegis of the federally-funded Violence Initiative Project, >> Gail Wasserman, a professor in Child Psychology at Columbia University, >> and Daniel Pine, a medical doctor associated with the same institution, >> are picking up where the utterly discredited racially-based intelligence >> theories of Jensen, Herrnstein, Eysenck, Shockley and Murray leave off. >> The new proponents of genetic racism lead a team of researchers in >> performing numerous experiments, partly funded by federal dollars, on >> children as young as six years of age. >> >> In one "study" at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, 34 healthy >> boys, aged six to ten, were administered the drug fenfluramine, the >> primary ingredient in the diet drug fen-phen which had been banned by >> the U.S. government.(1) The boys were all from impoverished families; 44 >> percent were African-American and 56 percent were Hispanic. >> >> The boys were made to fast for 12 hours prior to beginning, and during >> the test were allowed only water. An intravenous catheter was inserted >> and designed to remain in place for five and one half hours. During that >> period an oral dose of the drug fenfluramine hydroxide was administered >> (10mg/kg). Blood was drawn hourly. >> >> Scandal swirled around the sale of fen-phen in the mid 1990s, as >> Federal Drug Administrations studies showed that the drug caused severe >> heart-valve damage in as many as 30 percent of the adults who took >> it.(2) Fenfluramine was also shown to cause a fatal heart condition >> known as pulmonary hypertension.(3) Effects of a single dose of >> fenfluramine, writes the Albany-based Disability Advocates, Inc., >> "frequently included anxiety, fatigue, headache, lightheadedness, >> difficulty concentrating, visual impairment, diarrhea, nausea, a feeling >> of being 'high,' and irritability."(4) Ninety percent of adult subjects >> experienced side-effects from a single dose of fenfluramine. And studies >> done on rodents and monkeys have shown that a single dose of >> fenfluramine caused microscopic damage to brain cells. Despite the fact >> that the dangers had been well-established, the NY State Psychiatric >> Institute proceeded with administering fenfluramine to children in doses >> 8 times higher than the amounts causing damage to monkeys' brains, even >> after the drug had been banned in September, 1997. >> >> In using that drug, the clinicians hypothesized, they could counter the >> alleged racially inherited genetic predisposition to aggressive behavior >> and violence by increasing serotonin levels in the brain. Some >> scientists have correlated lower than average serotonin levels with >> aggressive behavior. (Whether decreased serotonin levels cause >> aggression or are effects of it is a distinction conveniently fudged by >> researchers, for reasons we'll get to near the end of this report.) By >> increasing serotonin levels through medication, the researchers are >> claiming they could prevent the kids from committing future acts of >> violence, despite the fact that most of the children had not committed >> any acts of violence at all. >> >> The children were selected because they each had an older sibling who >> had been ruled a delinquent by Family Court. The children's names and >> addresses, which are supposed to be confidential and sealed, were (and >> continue to be) culled by government officials at the Department of >> Probation and the New York City Board of Education and passed along to >> Wasserman and Pine. The involvement of public officials became known due >> only to exposes in local newspapers.(5) >> >> Forced to reply, the NYC Board of Education denied that students had >> been referred for the purpose of participating in research, which would >> have been illegal. But the documents indicate that that is precisely >> what happened. In fact, writes Newsday, the Board's Committee on Special >> Education "worked closely with the researchers from the beginning."(6) >> And, as the Department of Probation itself has written, "We are >> participating in a Research Project being conducted by Professor Gail >> Wasserman, of Columbia University, regarding younger brothers of male >> offenders, in a [sic] effort to identify early predictors of anti-social >> behavior."(7) >> >> Pine, Wasserman and other researchers from the New York State >> Psychiatric Institute, have been experimenting on young minority >> children since 1992. Similar experiments have been going on at Queens >> College and at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York, and at >> facilities throughout the United States, under the rubric of the >> national Violence Initiative Project, supervised and funded through the >> National Institute of Mental Health. >> >> And the money is pouring in. By claiming genetic predisposition, >> psychiatrists are able to tap into the hundreds of millions of dollars >> available for genetic research * the latest claim for why people do >> anything: commit violent crimes, engage in homosexual or heterosexual >> behavior (with the latter still, illogically, seen as the norm even with >> an alleged genetic basis for a variety of sexualities), come down with >> certain cancers, even commit murder * it's in the genes. The money, in >> turn, has fueled all sorts of similar "projects," including new methods >> for genetically frisking prisoners for "bad DNA," and for screening >> workers and denying them insurance. Some companies have fired workers >> because, they've been told, they suffer from genetic predisposition to >> certain diseases such as sickle cell anemia or breast cancer (even >> though the whole "breast cancer gene" panic of the last two years is >> utterly fraudulent). > >Far less in public resources are allocated towards researching the >effects of toxic byproducts of industrial production and the >chemicalization of agriculture in causing cancer, lead-poisoning and >other immune-compromising "diseases". Instead, funding * and thus, blame >-- is shifted to an individual's (or ethnic/racial grouping's) >biological makeup. In such a framework, the widespread social and >environmental causes are ignored and the victim becomes targeted as the >culprit. It's their own fault. Or, if not their "fault," the more >liberal version goes, it's still "in their genes, poor souls." > >Thus, we see, today, psycho-surgery, lobotomies, and electroshock >making a comeback, as well as medicalization of what are fundamentally >socially or environmentally-caused ailments and behaviors. New and >dangerous genetically-engineered drugs are being tested on prisoners, >soldiers and mental patients institutionalized in asylums or warehoused >in impoverished inner-city slums, Indian reservations, and Third World >countries. To the giant pharmaceutical corporations as well as to the >government, these areas provide a necessary surplus of human guinea >pigs. The Violence Initiative Project experiments on Black and Latino >children are simply reheated Nazi experiments, with an American accent. > > > >-- >Back To The Blanket Journal: >http://www.angelfire.com/biz/BackToTheBlanket > >Heroine Mu Gui-Ying >http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Pagoda/7111 > &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
