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Even Hillary’s brother, Hugh Rodham, sold one of many notorious Clinton pardons to a big-time crack dealer:
http://speakout.com/activism/news/5653-1.html
“Hugh Rodham received a contingency fee ... In 1995, Vignali was convicted of masterminding a scheme to distribute 800 pounds of crack cocaine, worth millions of dollars, from Los Angeles to a narcotics ring in Minneapolis ...” [and Hillary’s brother sold that man a pardon]
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Research on Tainted Blood Scandal
FR EXCLUSIVE: victim of Clinton and the tainted prisoner blood scandal in Arkansas
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3413444/posts
[Doug from Upland’s confidential source]
[— now thoroughly vindicated.]
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Red Cross apologizes for scandal
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1413439/posts
HAMILTON (CP) - Tens of thousands of Canadians infected with AIDS or hepatitis C got an apology from the Canadian Red Cross on Monday after the charity pleaded guilty to distributing tainted blood in exchange for dropped criminal charges. “The Canadian Red Cross Society is deeply sorry for the injury and death caused to those who were infected . . . and for the suffering caused to families and loved ones of those who were harmed,” Dr. Pierre Duplessis, the organization’s secretary general, told the Ontario Superior Court in a video-taped apology as tearful victims looked on. “We accept responsibility... [snip]
[But what about Governor Bill Clinton?]
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Tainted And Stained: The Clinton Legacy and HIV
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1691239/posts
The Reality Check ^ | 8/28/2006 | Daniel Clark
At this year’s International AIDS Conference, former president Bill Clinton fielded criticisms that he had not “done enough” about the HIV virus. In activist-speak, this means that he didn’t throw enough of American taxpayers’ money at the problem. Of all the criticism that could have been leveled against him, this is the most absurd. During Clinton’s last year in office, the U.S. government spent $12.2 billion to fight AIDS. If it were possible to simply spend the disease out of existence, we would have done it long ago.
If attendees of the conference wanted to challenge the former president, they’d have done better to examine the quality of his efforts, and not the quantity. If they did, they might wonder why they’d even invited him to speak in the first place. Consider the following:
* As governor of Arkansas, Clinton presided over the sale of blood plasma that was drawn from state prison inmates. The sale of prisoners’ blood was by then illegal within the United States because of the emerging threat of AIDS. However, the contractor that Clinton had hired to administer the program found a buyer in Canada. The blood was eventually distributed to hemophiliacs by the Canadian Red Cross, which last year pled guilty for not having properly tested it. The program is estimated to have infected 1,000 Canadians with HIV, and another 20,000 with hepatitis C.
* During the 1992 presidential campaign, Clinton promised to lift the prohibition against people with the HIV virus emigrating to the United States. Nevertheless, he signed a bill the following year affirming that HIV met the definition of a “communicable disease of public health significance” under immigration law. However, he reversed himself again in 1996, when he directed the Immigration and Nationalization Service to consider victims of the HIV virus to be eligible, nonsensically, for political asylum.
* In addition, Clinton almost completely abandoned drug enforcement during his first term as president, when he slashed funding and personnel from the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Rates of drug interdiction and prosecution of drug dealers both declined sharply.
* For his first surgeon general, he picked Joycelyn Elders. As director of the Arkansas Department of Health, to which Clinton had also appointed her, Dr. Elders knowingly distributed defective condoms to public schools, because she feared that the reputation of condoms would suffer from the publicity of a recall.
* When it came time for Clinton to appoint Elders’ replacement, he selected Dr. David Satcher. As director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Satcher had overseen, and later defended, an experiment that was so unethical that if it were done in the United States, it would have been illegal. The purpose of this third-world study was to see if the anti-AIDS drug AZT could reduce a pregnant woman’s chances of passing the HIV virus on to her baby. Although the researchers already understood AZT to be an effective drug, they administered placebos to some of the women. This is a direct violation of the Nuremburg Code of medical ethics, which stipulates that “preparations should be made and adequate facilities provided to protect the experimental subject against even remote possibilities of injury, disability, or death.”
* Clinton also appointed Dr. Kristine Gebbie to be America’s “AIDS czar.” Leave it to the first presidential administration from the “free love” generation to blame a sexually transmitted disease on sexual inhibition, especially where minors are concerned. “Unless Americans embrace sex as an essentially important and pleasurable thing,” she lectured, “we will continue to be a repressed, Victorian society that misrepresents information, denies sexuality early, denies homosexuality, particularly in teens, and leaves people abandoned with no place to go.” Some anti-AIDS message that is: Sex is fun, kids, so feel free to experiment.
[snip]
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Tainted-blood victim still feels left out
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1432872/posts
SMITHS FALLS — Still on the outside looking in.
That’s how Tina Lyon feels even as the Canadian Red Cross awaits formal sentencing Thursday for distributing tainted blood that left her with hepatitis C after a blood transfusion in 1985.
The Red Cross was fined $5,000 after pleading guilty in Hamilton court May 30 to violating the Food and Drug Regulation Act.
The agency also agreed to set up a $1.5-million scholarship fund that Lyon hoped could help pay for her son John’s second year at Carleton University starting next fall.
It turns out, however, her family is ineligible for the scholarship just like it was for the original $1.1 billion federal compensation packaged announced in 1998.
[snip]
The wife of Ron Lyon and mother of two boys, Tina Lyon estimates she has lost $250,000 in wages and benefits since 1990 when she was forced to quit her job at Hershey Canada because it left her feeling exhausted.
“What this has done to me, it’s changed my life completely,” she said.
Lyon fell outside the controversial federal compensation package, which included only people who received tainted blood between 1986 and 1990.
[snip]
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Gov. Clinton: Arkansas Blood Scandal Turned into Film [2006]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1560763/posts
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. [snip]
[RCMP — Royal Canadian Mounted Police]
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.
[snip]
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.