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Clinton's Arkansas blood scandal
Just when you're certain you've heard about
and explored every conceivable crime to
which President Clinton has been a party,
another bombshell drops.
Like so many other Clinton administration
scandals, this one still hasn't been broken in
the establishment U.S. press, but it has been
covered extensively in Canadian papers --
from the Calgary Sun to the Ottawa Citizen.
Those reports have also appeared in
WorldNetDaily, bringing this story to the
attention of radio talk-show hosts throughout
America.
Here's the story: In the early 1980s, while Bill
Clinton was serving as governor of Arkansas,
his administration awarded a contract to
Health Management Associates to provide
medical care to the state's prisoners. The
president of the company was, naturally, a
long-time friend and political ally of Clinton
and was later appointed by him to the
Arkansas Industrial Development
Commission. Later, he was among the senior
members of Clinton's 1990 gubernatorial
re-election team.
As part of the deal HMA struck with
Arkansas, in addition to treating the
prisoners, the company collected their blood
and sold it. Because of the exploding AIDS
crisis, U.S. regulations didn't permit the sale
of prisoners' blood within the country. But
HMA found a willing buyer in Montreal,
which brokered a deal with Connaught, a
Toronto blood-fractionator, which didn't
know the source of the supplies. The blood
was distributed throughout Canada by the
Red Cross. Sales continued until 1983, when
HMA revealed that some of the plasma might
be contaminated with the AIDS virus and
hepatitis. The blood was also peddled
overseas.
Now the lid has been blown off this scandal
by Michael Galster, who conducted
orthopedic clinics in the Arkansas prison
system during the period the blood was
collected. Afraid to tell the story any other
way, Galster authored a thinly veiled fictional
book called "Blood Trail," which tells the
story of an Arkansas governor's role in the
mega-scandal -- an Arkansas governor, by the
way, who later becomes president.
Galster charges HMA officials knew the blood
was tainted as they sold it to Canada and a
half-dozen other foreign countries. He also
alleges that Clinton knew of the scheme and
likely benefited from it financially.
"We now have solid evidence he not only
knew about it, but he signed off on it," Galster
told the Calgary Sun.
Galster says Clinton organized a payoff plan
to various officials, including a judge, to
make sure the blood sales continued. He
claims millions were made from the
conspiracy because between 5,000 and 8,000
units of blood were shipped every week from
one prison alone. He has eyewitness reports
that inmates were even drawing blood from
each other with dirty needles.
So fearful of the dreaded Clinton attack
machine was Galster, that he wrote the book
under a pen name, Michael Sullivan. But now,
as of last week, he has gone public with his
story.
"Knowing the nature of politics in Arkansas, I
felt unsafely exposed," said Galster.
Galster is understandably frustrated with the
unwillingness of the U.S. media to seize on
this latest Clinton scandal -- even as the
impeachment process begins to move
forward.
"If you would just listen to all of the dying
people out there, you would understand that
there are much greater atrocities than a sexual
liaison in the Oval Office," he told the Ottawa
Citizen.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are now
investigating the blood trail, but Galster is
frustrated that the FBI has not yet conducted a
probe. I have some advice for Galster on that
front: Don't hold your breath.
If even a small percentage of Galster's
accusations are true -- and I have no doubt
they are -- this is criminal behavior
tantamount to mass murder. No one is certain
how many people in Canada and other
foreign countries died as a result of infections
from the bad blood. It may have been
hundreds. It may be thousands.
It's worth pointing out, however, that even if
the catastrophe was all the result of innocent
mistakes, Clinton is the president who wanted
to take over the U.S. health-care system -- to
nationalize it and, presumably, run it as
efficiently and humanely as he and his friends
in Arkansas did in the 1980s.
Can you imagine the kind of holocaust such a
system would have wrought on America? |
