The Department of Veterans Affairs has been removing parts of dogsâ brains to see how it affects their breathing; applying electrodes to dogsâ spinal-cords (before and after severing them) to see how it impacts their cough-reflexes; and implanting pacemakers in dogsâ hearts and then inducing them to have heart-attacks (before draining their blood). All of the laboratory dogs are killed during the course of these experiments.
Itâs not just animals that are being treated like lab-rats by government agencies.
âWe the peopleâ have also become the police stateâs guinea pigs: to be caged, branded, experimented upon without our knowledge or consent, and then conveniently discarded and left to suffer from the after-effects.
Back in 2017, FEMA âinadvertentlyâ exposed nearly 10,000 firefighters, paramedics, and other responders to a deadly form of ricin during simulated bioterrorism-response sessions. In 2015, it was discovered that an Army lab had been âmistakenlyâ shipping deadly anthrax to labs and defense contractors for a decade.
While these particular incidents have been dismissed as âaccidents,â you donât have to dig very deep or go very back in the nationâs history to uncover numerous cases in which the government deliberately conducted secret experiments on an unsuspecting populace â citizens and noncitizens alike â making healthy people sick by spraying them with chemicals, injecting them with infectious diseases and exposing them to airborne toxins.
At the time, the government reasoned that it was legitimate to experiment on people who did not have full rights in society such as prisoners, mental patients, and poor blacks.
In Alabama, for example, 600 black men with syphilis were allowed to suffer without proper medical treatment in order to study the natural progression of untreated syphilis. In California, older prisoners had testicles from livestock and from recently executed convicts implanted in them to test their virility. In Connecticut, mental patients were injected with hepatitis.