Posted on 01/18/2006 8:53:58 PM PST by llevrok
OTTAWA (CP) - A new Hollywood film will dramatize the story of how contaminated blood from Arkansas prisoners found its way into the veins of thousands of Canadian hemophiliacs, killing many.
Blood Trail will make revelations that point to criminal negligence and raise suspicions of murder, says Elizabeth Fowler of Clear Pictures Entertainment
"There's bits here and bits there and that's how they managed to get away with it. You put it all together and you go, 'Whoa!' "
An RCMP investigation has been underway for close to five years, but no charges have been laid in connection with the prison blood.
Charges have been filed against leading figures in the Canadian Red Cross and the federal Bureau of Biologics but they don't involve the Arkansas connection.
Fowler said Blood Trail, which is expected to be released in about a year, will feature some prominent characters: Bill Clinton and Paul Martin.
Clinton, who went on to become U.S. president, was Arkansas governor in the 1980s when inmates in a state prison were allowed to run their own blood program without screening for infections.
A now-defunct Montreal company, Continental Pharma, bought the blood from Arkansas, then sold it to Connaught Laboratories of Toronto.
Connaught was controlled at the time by a Crown corporation, Canada Development Corp. (CDC), of which Martin was a director.
CDC minutes from the time went missing but some reappeared in the files of a Calgary chemical company.
The story is marked by many strange coincidences. On the same night in May 1999, Galster's clinic in Arkansas was firebombed and the offices of the Canadian Hemophilia Society were burgled.
An Arkansas prison warden was found murdered just as he was about to talk about the story, said Fowler.
(Excerpt) Read more at canada.com ...
Bill Clinton had to personally override FDA shutdowns on his prison blood program FIVE TIMES. And, he had a friend who got very rich off it.
Thank you for the ping. This is the kind of thing the GOP should have been highlighting all this time. They may have squandered an opportunity, but there's still time to salvage truth about which party is more evil. [Note tagline]
Ping.
See #28.
Wow! What a link post! Got it saved. Well, I guess Judicial Watch did a few things right. Their deposition of Linda Tripp made all of this possible. FRegards....
Time will slow down in 2008, and your powerful, Downside Legacy site will be very important. FRegards....
Thanks for the recap. Clinton's scandals are still hanging out there, and I hope one of them finally hangs him (and his self-righteous, anti-American wife).
Look I have a hemopheliac son who contracted Hep C from this bad blood. YES they were testing back then and they KNEW it was contaminated. The Candian Red Cross was WARNED that it was tainted and used it anyway to save money. As for Aids, back then it was called GRID. Gay Related Infectious Disease. The gay lobby in the US was so strong that they THREATENED the then government that if they didn't change the name of GRID to something else, they would POLLUTE the blood supply DELIBERATELY. You should read the book "The Aids Coverup"!!
My son is a factor 9 Hemopheliac and the Factor IX's did much better than the Factor 8's. 80% of the Factor 8 Hemopheliacs are co-infected with Hep C and HIV!! Clinton was at the very heart of this scandal as he was Governor of Arkansas at the time and he ran an end pass around the law to allow the Arkansas Prisoners blood to be SOLD.
Although my son has never had an liver problems and his liver remains normal (thank God he does not drink) but it is like sitting on a ticking time bomb. It is called the Silent Killer. In our home WE TRUST GOD for his protection. His positive status for Hep C is subject to change!!
Whoops. GRID = Gay Related Immune Deficiency!!
An Arkancide, of course!
FReeper Boyd's Blood Trail links:
Thanks Arthur!!
Drip...
Mike Galster made all of it possible. Linda Tripp, bless her, provided a key detail in the Vince Foster mystery that has yet to be explored in full. There are people out there who may yet talk. If the Clinton bunker begins to crumble, Linda will get special credit.
Hiya, Maddie!
Depends on your definition of "murder".
Well wha'da'ya know! This forum has grown so big I'm missing all the good stuff. Now I know! Thanks backhoe!
Agree with you there!
Even I forget to use the darn thing from time to time ( dern all this new-fangled stuff... ) but it really contains a lot of raw information.
Amazing isn't it? I'll have to play with it for awhile. Many thanks to JohnRob and JimRob.
Don't forget, the Tainted Blood scandal was first written about as a supposed fiction. But after it came out that Tripp had seen the key word, the author realized he could credibly step forward and say it like it is. FRegards....
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