rhetorical, I know...but I had to
FDR, MARGARET SANGER, THE BLACK PROJECT AND THE TUSKEGEE STUDY.
The Nazis were not the first to conduct deadly experiments on human beings they considered inferiors.
In using human beings as laboratory animals, Obama was following on the tradition of other democratic administrations.
Remember The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. In 1932, under FDR, Blacks were used as laboratory animals, medical experiments that were unethical, non-consensual, and illegal.
THE U.S. GOVERNMENT 40-YEAR EXPERIMENT ON BLACK MEN WITH SYPHILIS
by Borgna Brunner
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmtuskegee1.html#ixzz2xla5T4gg
“The United States government did something that was wrong—deeply, profoundly, morally wrong. It was an outrage to our commitment to integrity and equality for all our citizens... clearly racist.”
—President Clinton’s apology for the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment to the eight remaining survivors, May 16, 1997
UNDER TRUMAN, BLACKS AND GUATEMALANS WERE INFESTED WITH SYPHILIS IN NAZI-STYLE EXPERIMENTS
Later, the syphilis experiments were conducted from 1946 to 1948 in Guatemala, by United States-led human experiments during the administration of President Truman and President Juan José Arévalo with the cooperation of some Guatemalan health ministries and official, U.S. researchers used prostitutes to infect prison inmates, insane asylum patients, and Guatemalan soldiers with syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases, in order to test the effectiveness of penicillin in treating the STDs. They later tried infecting people with “direct inoculations made from syphilis bacteria poured into the men’s penises and on forearms and faces that were slightly abraded . . . or in a few cases through spinal punctures”.
Approximately 700 people were infected as part of the study (including orphan children). The study was sponsored by the Public Health Service, the National Institutes of Health and the Pan American Health Sanitary Bureau (now the World Health Organization’s Pan American Health Organization) and the Guatemalan government.
The team was led by John Charles Cutler, who later participated in the Tuskegee syphilis experiments. Cutler chose to do the study in Guatemala because he would not have been permitted to do it in the United States.
In 2010 when the research was revealed, President Obama officially apologized to Guatemala for the studies.
Will Obama apologize for his administration use of Americans as laboratory animals?