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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (8889)	1/12/2007 5:50:18 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36921

Another case of bad science employed by the highest bidder. Canadian victims of CIA Cold War MK-Ultra experiments sue Fri Jan 12, 1:59 PM MONTREAL (AFP) - lA Montreal woman who was brainwashed almost 50 years ago is demanding reparations on behalf of herself and hundreds of victims of the CIA-backed mind control experiments during the Cold War. Janine Huard asked a Canadian federal court this week to authorize a multi-million dollar class action suit against the Canadian government for its alleged complicity in the involuntary tests, her lawyer Alan Stein told AFP. Ottawa partly funded the research, led by doctor Ewen Cameron at McGill University's Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal from 1950 to 1965, he said. Huard was given "experimental drugs and electric shock treatments" and subjected to psychic-driving tests, using electroconvulsive therapy and psychedelic drugs such as LSD in an attempt at mind control, he said. She was also left in a dark room and forced to listen to recorded messages saying she was a bad mother who neglected her children, for six or seven hours a day for a week. The treatments were part of Cameron's "depatterning program," Stein said, given Huard following her admission to the hospital for mild depression after giving birth. "The idea was to erase her memories and re-forge her personality." Scottish-born Cameron pioneered the techniques. He was recruited by the CIA in the 1950s to conduct mind control experiments, part of its notorious Project MK-Ultra, first revealed in the 1970s. According a US congressional investigation, some 30 universities and institutions were involved in the project that is believed to have produced little useful scientific data. Much of the files have since been destroyed. Huard described her treatment as "torture," telling Canadian media that she was unable to care for her children and was forced to rely entirely on her mother for a decade afterwards. The Canadian government has denied culpability in the affair, yet offered 70 people who underwent the sadistic tests about 100,000 dollars each in the early 1990s on compassionate grounds. Another 250 people were refused indemnity because their injuries were deemed mild, Stein said. Huard received 66,000 dollars from the CIA, but no redress from Canada. In 2004, a Canadian court forced Ottawa to compensate one of the 250 neglected victims, inspiring Huard to step up her fight on behalf of all forlorn victims, Stein said. Government attorneys insist her appeal is too late, almost a decade after she was first denied damages. But Stein asked a federal court on Wednesday to extend the statute of limitations for restitution and certify Huard's class action lawsuit. The court's decision is pending. ca.news.yahoo.com

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (8889)	1/12/2007 8:21:10 PM
From: Ron	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36921

This one's for you, Wharfy... Oh yes, they're at it again... ------ "A Seattle school board has placed a moratorium on screenings of 'An Inconvenient Truth', having found its subject matter too controversial. Echoing the language of the evolution debate, the school board found that students must be told that global warming is only a theory and presented with an opposing viewpoint. The ban was prompted by the complaints of a parent: '"Condoms don't belong in school, and neither does Al Gore. He's not a schoolteacher," said Frosty Hardison, a parent of seven who also said that he believes the Earth is 14,000 years old. "The information that's being presented is a very cockeyed view of what the truth is ... The Bible says that in the end times everything will burn up, but that perspective isn't in the DVD."'" seattlepi.nwsource.com