Posted on 10/02/2007 4:13:36 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker
TORONTO -- A Toronto judge has not only acquitted senior administrators of the blood system of all criminal charges in the tainted-blood tragedy, she has suggested they were utterly innocent and never should have been charged in the first place.
In a forcefully written judgment, Madam Justice Mary Lou Benotto of the Ontario Superior Court said that the accused acted professionally and reasonably in the face of a bedevilling public-health problem, and that the horrific infection of hemophiliacs with HIV-AIDS was not their fault.
"The events here were tragic. However, to assign blame where none exists is to compound the tragedy," she said.
Victims of tainted blood reacted with seething disbelief. "People were infected and people died," John Plater of the Canadian Hemophilia Society said outside the courthouse, his voice rising in anger.
"How that could possibly be considered reasonable behaviour is beyond us."
(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...
Seems the victims fell into that category.
Clinton & the killer blood
see http://prorev.com/blood.htm
PROGRESSIVE REVIEW, 1999 - In the mid-1980s, as contaminated blood flowed from Arkansas inmates to other countries, then-Governor W.J. Clinton sat on his hands despite evidence of severe mismanagement in his prison system and its medical operations. . .
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Some of the killer blood ended up in Canada where it contributed to the deaths of an unknown number of blood and plasma recipients. An estimated 2,000 Canadian recipients of blood and related products got the AIDS virus between 1980 and 1985. At least 60,000 Canadians were infected with the hepatitis C virus between 1980 and 1990. Arkansas was one of the few sources of bad blood during this period. . .
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MAY 2005. . .
BURIED IN OUR ARCHIVES is one of the sadder of the many scandals of the Clinton machine: the bad blood that was shipped from Arkansas prisons to Canada that contributed to the loss of thousands of lives. The story was a big one in Canada but the heavily pro-Clinton media in the states steadfastly pushed it to one side with a few exceptions such as Salon. As we moved from the rampant corruption of Clinton to the maniacal machinations of Bush, we also pushed it aside. . . until yesterday when a former Arkansas prison guard wrote us:...
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THE ARKANSAS BLOOD SCANDAL
Among blacked-out stories about Clinton is the tale of how his Arkansas prison system sold tainted blood to Canadian sources well after inmate-originated blood was banned by American blood companies. Some 7,000 Canadians have died or are expected to as a result of contaminated blood, some of it from the Arkansas prison system...
To assign blame would be to drag the affable Bill Clinton before the courts and explain his kickback scheme of selling AK prison blood for campaign cash. Bill and Jocelyne (Elders) lied, people died. Old news. Move along.. Move along..
Aids - the government-protected disease.
Carolyn
Socialized medicine??????????????
This, too, is part of the rapist’s legacy and the wife who shelters him from accusations and is currently seeking the Presidency.
Clinton knowingly sold inmate blood that was tainted with HIV.
Carolyn
Bttt
THe Clinton/Tainted blood scandal stories being released up here even now are quite thorough in their failure to mention Bill, Jocelyn and Hilary (’s) involvement in prison blood sales.
Are crimes of omission not just as evil as crimes of comission?
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