Posted on 03/30/2005 7:30:24 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo
IMPERIAL JAPANESE CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY: Witness Account "C" Test How Long a Human Being Could Survive With Just Water and Biscuits
Imperial Japanese Medical Orderly Ishibashi witnessed:
(Translation) "I saw the malnutrition experiments. They were conducted by the project team under the technician Yoshimura. He was a civilian project team under the technician Yoshimura. He was a civilian member of Unit 731. The purpose of the experiments, I believe, was to find out how long a human being could survive just with water and biscuits. Two individuals were used for this experiment. They continuously circled a prescribed course within the grounds of the Unit 731 carrying, approximately, a 20-kilogram sandbag on their backs. One succumbed before the other, but they both ultimately died. The duration of the experiment was about two months. They only received Army biscuits to eat, and water to drink, so they would not have been able to survive for very long. They weren't allowed a lot of sleep either."
also (snip)
"Dehydration Tests
Men, women, and children who became experiment prisoners were mummified alive in total dehydration experiments. They sweated to death under the heat of hot dry fans. At death, their corpses weighed only one-fifth of their normal body weights. Others were electrocuted or boiled alive. "
also (snip)
"Other experiments were not related to germ warfare per se, but transpired so that the doctors could learn more about how humans live and die. These included studies of dehydration, starvation, frostbite, air pressure - some inmates had their eyes blown out - transfusions of animal blood to humans and others.
and (snip)
"Marutas (Chinese inmates imprisoned in the medical facility by the Japanese Army) were denied food or water to determine the maximum length of survival, or mummified alive in total dehydration experiments."
That's basically what I said in my first post to you. If doctors were certain about her level of awareness there would be no need to give her morphine. Because they are not certain, as I said before, I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that she might have had some awareness of the pain of the dehydration/starvation process. I say "had" now because she is dead.
I wrote the way I did to illustrate that the moral criteria you use for judging Terri's situation, if applied to the Imperial Japanse, does not support your condemnation of that society. While I happen to agree with your conclusions about the Imperial Japanese, and that due process (whatever that means at any given moment) is better than no due process, I think that the rationale you use in Terri's case would thwart moral criticism of another society. If the state of Flordia can set its own standards, why couldn't the Imperial Japanese? In the same way, judging the decision of a State court judge ordering the dehydration and starvation of a U.S. citizen based merely on a standard that the order was not taken lightly or that they set their own standards seems inadequate. If Terri's situation is a 'tragedy', the question comes to mind; what's wrong with it? Why is it 'tragic' to you, since it was purportedly done with due process?
I would rather say that if something is wrong with it, then everything is wrong with it.
Cordially,
The spelling is fine my advice would be to take a course in reading comprehension
Only if your cerebel cortex has been liquefied.
The morphine is to slow down her heart rate.
I assume I am still permitted to respond to pings, Guennie. Which is what I was doing. Thanks anyway.
> Would you like some court documents to read about this; I'll send you links if you'd like them.
I'd very much appreciate if you'd provide those links -- either by public posting or private message. Thanks.
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