By Bob S.
May 2, 2011
I am a retired attorney who has been working as an activist with hundreds of US citizens who have been used as involuntary subjects of federal agency experiments. I am also one of those involuntary subjects.
I have submitted separately to the Commission testimonies from 17 victims of non-consensual experiments who have suffered and are continuing to suffer severe pain and permanent harm as the result of lengthy, highly advanced electronic experiments carried out on us without their consent and against their will by federal government agencies.
Because we understand that our submissions will be made public, we are not including identifying information on our statements. We have, however, provided you with contact information. We are more than willing to provide full identifying information to the Commission in investigating our complaints, and we are willing to make identifying information public if it serves a useful purpose.
I want to make it clear that I am not providing legal representation to any of these victims of illegal federal agency experiments. I am speaking on their behalf only as an activist, not as their attorney.
In this letter, I shall discuss the following points:
1. Federal agencies have engaged in nonconsensual human experimentation over the past 110 years and are continuing such experimentation today.
2. Experimenters within federal agencies are permitted to literally get away with murder since their crimes are protected as classified government secrets.
3. Present Federal Regulations and international standards provide no protection whatsoever to the victims of government experimenters since government secrecy barriers make it impossible for the victims of government experiments to obtain proof that Federal Regulations and international standards are being violated.
4. The Department of Health and Human Services, which has been given by Federal Regulations the responsibility for investigating complaints of nonconsensual human experimentation by any federal agency, has evaded its responsibility by using a ludicrous excuse for refusing to investigate complaints and for covering up the violations of Federal Regulations which it has the duty to enforce.
5. Only government agencies have available for use the highly advanced technology that is being used for current experiments on involuntary subjects.
6. Responsibility of government agencies for the current advanced electronic technology experiments is established by the participation of federal agencies in covering up responsibility for these experiments.
7. Massive evidence proves beyond reasonable doubt that the FBI is actively participating in the cover-up of nonconsensual experiments that are torturing citizens.
8. Historically proven COINTELPRO operations of the FBI are now being combined with nonconsensual experimentation so that victims of the combined programs will seem to be paranoid and delusional when they tell the true story of their bizarre total experiences.
9. The COINTELPRO experiences of nearly all victims of present nonconsensual electronic experimentation are proof that the total program is being carried out by federal agencies.
10. The massive available evidence of highly advanced electronic technology experiments, causing extreme pain and suffering to hundreds of involuntary subjects, necessitate a report to President Obama concluding that present Federal Regulations and international standards do not adequately guard the health and well-being of participants in scientific studies supported by the Federal Government and that a thorough, independent investigation of this evidence is mandatory to determine which federal agencies are presently engaged in nonconsensual experimentation on US citizens so that the torture of this involuntary experimentation can be brought to an end.
11. Since the FBI and DHHS have both refused to meet their responsibility to investigate reports of violations of Federal Regulations and of the Geneva Convention and since the FBI has disqualified itself as an objective investigator of its own misconduct relating to these experiments, it is imperative for the Commission to recommend to the President the appointment of an Independent Prosecutor to determine specific responsibility within federal agencies for carrying out illegal experiments on hundreds of involuntary subjects.
DISCUSSION
1. Federal agencies have engaged in nonconsensual human experimentation over the past 110 years and are continuing such experimentation today.
The present investigation was ordered by President Obama in response to the discovery of government agency experiments conducted between 1946 and 1948 in which nearly 700 Guatemalan prisoners, soldiers and mental patients were intentionally infected with syphilis without their knowledge or consent, in an effort to test penicillin's effectiveness against the disease. This was only one small part of the long and sordid record of illegal and unethical programs of experimentation carried out over the past 110 years. An account of this shocking history may be found at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_experimentation_in_the_United_States
The President has asked the Commission to determine whether present Federal Regulations and international standards adequately guard the health and well-being of participants in scientific studies supported by the Federal Government. The answer to that question is that federal regulations and international standards may provide adequate protection to voluntary participants in scientific studies supported by the Federal Government, but that they provide no protection whatsoever to hundreds of present involuntary participants in federal agency experiments.
The human subjects of the Guatemalan syphilis experiments were all involuntary participants. They did not know that they were being infected with syphilis. They certainly would not have volunteered to be the subjects of such experimentation, but they were given no choice. I will prove to you that the same thing is happening today to hundreds of US citizens who have been made the involuntary subjects of severely harmful government experiments using highly advanced electronic technology.
The present victims of government experiments did not volunteer to be participants in experiments. They were not informed that they had been selected as subjects of government electronic experiments. They were not informed about the risks of participating in the experiments. They did not give their consent to participation in the experiments. They would have refused to consent to the experiments if they had been asked. They have no possible way of ending their participation in the experiments unless the Commission recommends to the President procedures that will enable these involuntary participants to withdraw from experiments that they never consented to participate in.
2. Experimenters within federal agencies are permitted to literally get away with murder since their crimes are protected as classified government secrets.
Federal agencies have a 110 year record of engaging in secret, harmful, often deadly, nonconsensual human experimentation. Wikipedia summarizes the record in these words:
“There have been numerous experiments performed on human test subjects in the United States that have been considered unethical, and were often performed illegally, without the knowledge, consent, or informed consent of the test subjects.
Many types of experiments have been performed including the deliberate infection of people with deadly or debilitating diseases, exposure of people to biological and chemical weapons, human radiation experiments, injection of people with toxic and radioactive chemicals, surgical experiments, interrogation/torture experiments, tests involving mind-altering substances, and a wide variety of others. Many of these tests were performed on children and mentally disabled individuals. In many of the studies, a large portion of the subjects were poor racial minorities or prisoners. Often, subjects were sick or disabled people, whose doctors told them that they were receiving "medical treatment," but instead were used as the subjects of harmful and deadly experiments.
Many of these experiments were funded by the United States government, especially the Central Intelligence Agency, United States military and federal or military corporations. The human research programs were usually highly secretive, and in many cases information about them were not released until many years after the studies had been performed.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_States
Many of these secret federal agency experiments produced serious risks of death of the human subjects and many of the subjects did in fact die because of harm inflicted upon them by the government experimenters. The federal agency personnel who produced these deaths could have been prosecuted for murder if the facts could have been proven.
The crime of murder is defined by law as the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought.
Malice aforethought exists if there is intent to inflict grievous bodily harm short of death. Malice aforethought also exists if there is reckless indifference to an unjustifiably high risk to human life.
Government experimenters who deliberately infect an uninformed, involuntary subject of their experiment with syphilis are inflicting grievous bodily harm short of death. They are also acting with reckless indifference to an unjustifiably high risk to human life, which may eventually result in death. They meet both these definitions of malice aforethought. Therefore, when death does occur as the result of the syphilis infection, the government scientists who produced the death are guilty of murder!
The same is true for a great many of the other government experiments on involuntary subjects over the past 110 years, and the same is true for the highly advanced electronic technology being carried out on hundreds of involuntary subjects today. None of the evil government experimenters who committed countless murders over the past 110 years could be prosecuted for their crimes.
Neither can any of the present government experimenters be prosecuted because the evidence needed to prove their guilt is shrouded behind the impenetrable government walls of secrecy. These government-funded criminals have been getting away with murder for 110 years. They are still doing so today.
The victims of non-consensual government experimentation cannot go to court to obtain a remedy. If they die, their heirs have no civil remedy available. Government secrecy barriers prevent them from accessing the evidence necessary to prove responsibility for harm. The evidence they need is classified and thus cannot be accessed through FOIA requests or through discovery procedures during litigation.
If victims of non-consensual government experimentation or their heirs attempt to bring a legal action against government officials who are believed to be responsible for the severe harm or death produced by nonconsensual experimentation, the government has the power to tell the court that the case must be dismissed because litigation of it will result in disclosure of “state secrets.” Courts will then dismiss the case, relying only on this statement by government and without any need by government to prove to the court the truth of the assertion that litigation will disclose “state secrets.” The “state secret” that the government does not want disclosed is the murder by government experimenters of involuntary subjects of their experiments.
It is thus easily possible for government scientists to get away with murder. Our government has given them a license to kill as well as to inflict prolonged physical torture upon anyone that they choose to be an involuntary subject of their experiments.
Whatever happened to the constitutional guarantee that government may not impose punishment upon citizens without due process of law? What happened to the guarantee that the government may not impose cruel and unusual punishment upon anyone? Those constitutional rights are now only an illusion. They have been superseded by government secrecy laws which authorize government torture and murder as long as it is done under the protective cloak of classified government secrets.
3. Present Federal Regulations and international standards provide no protection whatsoever to the victims of government experimenters since government secrecy barriers make it impossible for the victims of government experiments to obtain proof that Federal Regulations and international standards are being violated.
Now we come to the specific question that the Commission is responsible for investigating: Do present Federal Regulations and international standards adequately guard the health and well-being of participants in scientific studies supported by the Federal Government.
The Geneva Convention of 1949 prohibits human experimentation by government without obtaining advance, informed consent from the subjects of the experiments. The Geneva Convention is equivalent to law in the US.
Federal Regulations now also require that advance, informed consent must be obtained from human subjects of experiments authorized by the Federal Government. Federal Regulations are also equivalent to law.
However, no penalties are provided for violations of the Geneva Convention or for violation of the Federal Regulations. For 110 years, government experimenters have totally disregarded laws against murder, which carry very severe penalties. So how could we expect them to comply with Federal Regulations or with international standards which provide no penalties for violation?
Of course there has been no compliance whatsoever by federal agencies with either the international standards set forth in the Geneva Convention or with the Federal Regulations. Exhibit A describes the deadly, nonconsensual experiments that continued after the fourth Geneva Convention became binding on the US. The international standards prohibiting experiments on involuntary subjects were entirely ignored by federal agencies. Federal agency experiments on involuntary citizens are now being carried out on a massive scale, far in excess of anything that has occurred in previous US history.
4. The Department of Health and Human Services, which has been given by Federal Regulations the responsibility for investigating complaints that any federal agency is engaging in nonconsensual human experimentation, has evaded its responsibility by using a ludicrous excuse for refusing to investigate complaints and for covering up the violations of Federal Regulations, which it has the duty to enforce.
Present Federal Regulations require that every experiment involving human subjects must be registered with the Dept. of Health and Human Services (DHHS). DHHS has an office responsible for investigating complaints about experiments which fail to comply with the regulations. I realize that the Commission is operating as a part of DHHS, but I must tell you that DHHS has been covering up the truth about the federal agency experiments, which it has the responsibility to investigate or to arrange to have investigated.
I know exactly how DHHS handles complaints about nonconsensual experimentation. I have made one myself, and I know of other victims of nonconsensual federal agency experiments who have done the same. We present to DHHS a complaint that we are being used as involuntary subjects of federal agency experiments. We offer to provide evidence to prove our allegation. DHHS then sends us a form letter, saying that before it can investigate our complaints, it is necessary for us to identify the specific government experiment about which we are complaining.
DHHS is making the ludicrous assumption that if we are participants in a government experiment, then we must have been informed about which experiment we are participating in because this is required by Federal Regulations and all agencies are required to comply with Federal Regulations.
I wrote back to explain to a dimwitted bureaucrat that my complaint was that I had been made an involuntary participant in a government experiment and that this meant that I had not been given any information to identify the experiment. I needed to have DHHS investigate to identify the experiment which was being carried out on me without informing me or obtaining my consent. The dimwitted bureaucrat wrote back, ignoring what I said, and repeating the same refusal to investigate a complaint that did not identify the specific experiment about which I was complaining.
It was not just my bad luck in encountering a dimwitted bureaucrat. Every other involuntary participant in government experiments who has sought investigation by DHHS has received the same form letter response. By this ludicrous method, DHHS has evaded its responsibility to investigate all complaints of nonconsensual experiments.
Imagine a city enacting an ordinance requiring that burglars must leave calling cards at the scene of their crimes so that they can be identified and arrested. When a burglary victim tries to report the crime to the police, the police ask to see the calling card left by the burglar. When the victim says that the burglar failed to leave a calling card, police tell the victim that there could not have been a burglary since burglars are now required by law to leave a calling card when they commit a burglary.
That is the kind of irrational response that the victims of nonconsensual experimentation are getting from DHHS when they try to report nonconsensual experiments being performed on them without being given an identification of the experiment in which they are involuntarily participating.
5. Only government agencies have available for use the highly advanced technology that is being used for current experiments on involuntary subjects.
The advanced electronic technology, which is being tested on hundreds of involuntary subjects, is available to federal agencies. They are at the forefront in developing advanced technology through their contractors. The contractors supply the new technology only to government. The contracts prohibit them from furnishing the technology that they develop for government to independent outside sources from which it could be transmitted to other nations. We can thus conclude that the the most advanced forms of electronic technology used for experimentation on involuntary subjects is available only to government agencies and to their contractors.
I do not have the technical expertise to say which kinds of experiments involve such advanced technology that it could only be available to government, but there is no doubt that a large amount of the technology would fall into this category. An analysis of the technology being used in the experiments should be done by experts who have the capability of determining which forms of technology are available only to government. This will establish the certainty that experiments using those forms of technology are being performed by a government agency.
It is highly unlikely that people outside government would be testing any of this technology on involuntary subjects. The risk for them would be too high. They do not have the protection of government secrecy.
The only safe way for government agencies to carry out these experiments is to do the experiments themselves. This is what they have always done in the past. There is a very high probability that the present experiments are being performed by federal agencies. We don't know which ones. It is likely that more than one government agency is responsible for conducting the present experiments. A thorough investigation will be necessary to determine precise responsibility within government agencies for these experiments.
6. Responsibility of government agencies for the current advanced electronic technology experiments is established by the participation of federal agencies in covering up responsibility for these experiments.
As discussed above, we know that DHHS is using absurd excuses to cover up nonconsensual experimentation by agencies and to evade its responsibility to investigate or see that the allegations are investigated. The way that DHHS handles such complaints violates the purpose and intent of the Federal regulations and of the Geneva Convention.
The other agency that has a clear responsibility to investigate is the FBI. It is the responsibility of the FBI to investigate violations of federal law. The Geneva Convention and Federal regulations requiring advance, informed consent by participants in federal agency experiments are equivalent to federal laws. The FBI has a responsibility to investigate the violation of these laws, but whenever the victims of nonconsensual experiments by federal agencies have asked the FBI for investigation of their experiences as involuntary test subjects, the FBI has flatly refused the requests without any explanation.
Why will neither DHHS nor the FBI meet their responsibility to investigate the reports by hundreds of people that they are being tortured in violation of the equivalent of Federal Regulations and also in violation of the Constitution? The FBI also has an obligation to investigate serious misuse by federal agencies of federal funds for engaging in the torture of citizens in violation of the law and the Constitution.
7. Massive evidence proves beyond reasonable doubt that the FBI is actively participating in the cover-up of nonconsensual experiments that are torturing citizens.
The FBI has not only refused to investigate these extremely serious allegations, but it has actively engaged in the cover-up of the experiments by carrying out covert COINTELPRO operations in conjunction with the experiments.
COINTELPRO operations are programs of crime and harassment developed under the leadership of infamous FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover for the purpose of combating and repressing political activists whose views Hoover considered “unacceptable.” These unconstitutional operations by the FBI were investigated by congress in 1976-78 and again in 1989. Court cases and the work of investigative journalists revealed additional information about the massive program of illegal and unconstitutional covert warfare waged against innocent citizens by the FBI from 1956 to at least 1990.
I was targeted by the FBI in 1954 because of my activism against McCarthyism in college and because of my intention to enter the legal profession for the purpose of advancing and protecting constitutional rights. I can testify that these operations did not end for me in 1990. They have continued without interruption to the present day.
Examples of typical COINTELPRO operations are:
• Interception and tampering with mail in both directions. The Senate investigation of 1976-78 revealed that USPS had been giving the FBI illegal access to mail since 1940. Our experience establishes that the illegal access still continues.
• Access and thefts from safe deposit boxes at four banks on repeated occasions. Banks are supposed to permit access only when shown a search warrant, but in practice, they grant access whenever they are asked by the FBI.
• Ability to bypass any lock or security device on any home, office, or car without breaking in. Common thieves must physically break in, and they steal only things of value. Our burglars stole things of great personal value to us but mostly of little value to anyone else.
• Ability to obtain cooperation and participation by local police. Local police have always been a part of COINTELPRO. They cover it up and sometimes participate in it. The LAPD refused to take burglary reports, claiming that there could not be a burglary without a physical break-in. This is not true legally. Police misstated the law about this and other subjects to evade their responsibility to take reports. The LAPD openly harassed us for years. They followed us wherever we went until I wrote a letter to the Police Chief. That stopped the harassment, but they still refuse to take reports of COINTELPRO crimes.
• Ability to arrange for numerous local people to participate in elaborate harassment operations. The FBI maintains an army of people throughout the nation who work full time at regular jobs but who are available at any time to carry out whatever special work assignments the FBI gives them to perform. The FBI calls these people “informants.” The victims of harassment by these people call them “perps” (short for perpetrators).
Around 2000, I made contact with people on the Internet who were experiencing both COINTELPRO operations and electronic attacks. I had not previously been aware that I and my domestic partner had been experiencing electronic attacks, but now I realized that they had long been going on for us for years without our recognition.
I realized now that there had been a merger of two government programs. Electronic attacks had been added to COINTELPRO operations as an additional weapon to use against those such as myself who had been politically targeted. COINTELPRO harassment and crime operations had been added to government programs of experimentation such as the MK-ULTRA mind control experiments of the CIA.
8. Historically proven COINTELPRO operations of the FBI are now being combined with nonconsensual experimentation so that victims of the combined programs will seem to be paranoid and delusional when they tell the true story of their bizarre total experiences.
The purpose of combining COINTELPRO with the experiments is to weaken, debilitate, and confuse the subjects so severely that they would not be able to fight back and achieve a solution that had been achieved twice previously when COINTELPRO victims took proof of the truth of COINTELPRO operations to the public and created public pressure that forced congress to undertake the two COINTELPRO investigations.
COINTELPRO operations have evolved over the decades into harassment activities that are designed to seem utterly impossible and unbelievable so that anyone who hears reports of the truth will think that the victim must be utterly paranoid and delusional. When unbelievable COINTELPRO experiences are combined with unbelievable electronic experiments, the combined experiences of the victim are far beyond belief by all normal standards.
Even close friends and relatives of the victim do not believe the truth. If victims go to the police to seek investigation of the crimes being committed against them, the police, who know what is really happening, have a good excuse for treating truth as insanity.
Victims of these combined programs are being viciously tortured, but they have nowhere to turn for help. It is a horror beyond the imagination of someone who has not lived with these experiences. Some of the victims have committed suicide. Some have turned into vegetables. All of them have been hurt so deeply that they will never get over the pain even if the horror stopped tomorrow.
I am reluctant to try to tell the Commission truth that seems so unbelievable, but it is truth that I and hundreds of other victims of this combined program must live with day and night. We must try to make this unbelievable truth recognized and understood by the Commission.
We must try to make the Commission understand how COINTELPRO operations are being used by the FBI for the purpose of discrediting victims of the combined programs and giving local police an excuse for refusing to investigate any of the true horrors to which the victims of these programs are being constantly subjected.
The Commission is likely to receive submissions from other victims who do not understand their true situation and who use the wrong terminology to describe their experiences with COINTELPRO operations. Some of the victims who know nothing about FBI history believe that they are being persecuted by “local gangs.” They describe true experiences with delusional terminology such as “gang stalking,” “citizen stalking,” “organized stalking groups,” etc.
The Commission will no doubt do Internet research and find websites that use this delusional terminology. It's not because the people are mentally ill. They are describing real COINTELPRO experiences but misinterpreting what they see and using the wrong terminology to describe it because they do not understand COINTELPRO.
The primary purpose of COINTELPRO operations today is to cause the extremely serious problems of nonconsensual testing to be treated as paranoid delusions because the accompanying COINTELPRO experiences seem unbelievable and because these experiences are misinterpreted by the victims in a delusional way. Both the experiments and the COINTELPRO operations are totally real and both involve very serious violations of the law and the Constitution by federal agencies, but the truth has been made to seem unbelievable so that no one will believe the truth and so that the truth about federal agency crimes will be dismissed as paranoid delusions.
9. The COINTELPRO experiences of nearly all victims of present nonconsensual electronic experimentation are proof that the total program is being carried out by federal agencies.
The COINTELPRO experiences which I have described above and other harassment and crime experiences, which I can describe in more detail later, prove that the COINTELPRO operations of the FBI did not end in 1990 and that they are still continuing today. The COINTELPRO operations that I have described have never been used in this country by any organization other than the FBI. They could only be carried out by a federal agency with the capability of the FBI. That is a 100 per cent certainty.
If we know with 100 per cent certainty that the FBI or another federal agency is supplementing non-consensual electronic experimentation with COINTELPRO operations, then there is no need to prove independently with 100 per cent certainty that the electronic experiments are being performed by a government agency. The fact that the FBI is supporting the experiments in the way that I have described means that a government agency is responsible for the performance of the experiments and for covering up the truth about the experiments regardless of who is actually carrying out the experiments.
10. The massive available evidence of highly advanced electronic technology experiments, causing extreme pain and suffering to hundreds of involuntary subjects, necessitate a report to President Obama concluding that present Federal Regulations and international standards do not adequately guard the health and well-being of participants in scientific studies supported by the Federal Government and that a thorough, independent investigation of this evidence is mandatory to determine which federal agencies are presently engaged in nonconsensual experimentation on US citizens so that the torture of this involuntary experimentation can be brought to an end.
It is impossible for the Commission to conclude that there is adequate protection for involuntary participants when DHHS and the FBI both refuse to investigate allegations of nonconsensual testing and when the FBI is reported by an attorney and by many other victims to be participating in the nonconsensual experiments by engaging in COINTELPRO operations to discredit the victims.
I am submitting herewith testimony of the experiences of 14 other victims of nonconsensual advanced electronic experimentation. Many other victims of these nonconsensual experiments will be submitting their testimony in separate statements and at the forthcoming meeting of the Commission in New York.
Their experiences involve many different forms of advanced electronic experiments. I know from my communications with these victims that nearly all of them have COINTELPRO experiences in addition to the electronic experimentation. Most of them will not discuss the COINTELPRO experiences because they do not recognize the relevance of this information in establishing government responsibility for the total program. Some of them misperceive the COINTELPRO experiences as harassment by local gangs, but all their experiences are similar to what I have described and explained here. I am giving the only possible correct interpretation of the common experiences of all present victims of nonconsensual experimentation and COINTELPRO operations.
The conclusion that must be drawn in the report by the Commission to President Obama is that present Federal Regulations and international standards do not adequately guard the health and well-being of participants in scientific studies supported by the Federal Government.
11. Since the FBI and DHHS have both refused to meet their responsibility to investigate reports of violations of Federal Regulations and of the Geneva Convention and since the FBI has disqualified itself as an objective investigator of its own misconduct relating to these experiments, it is imperative for the Commission to recommend to the President the appointment of an Independent Prosecutor to determine specific responsibility within federal agencies for carrying out illegal experiments on hundreds of involuntary subjects.
The third reason for discussing COINTELPRO evidence is that it demonstrates the FBI must not be assigned the responsibility of investigating the issue of adequate protection against nonconsensual experimentation when the FBI has previously refused to meet its responsibility to investigate this issue and when it has engaged in COINTELPRO operations that have added to the torture now being endured by victims of nonconsensual experimentation. It is essential to have an independent investigation of the FBI's role in covering up non-consensual experimentation by COINTELPRO operations.
The only possible way to obtain an independent investigation of FBI responsibility in the major government wrongdoing that I have described to you is by the appointment of an Independent Prosecutor. This appointment is normally made by congress or by the Attorney-General. Since this report is being made to the President, the normal course of action would be to ask the Attorney-General to make the appointment, but since the Special Prosecutor will need to investigate the Bureau within the Justice Department, it would be more appropriate for the President to select the Independent Prosecutor and recommend his choice to the Attorney-General.
CONCLUSION
I realize that I am attempting to convey to the Commission a government horror story that may seem beyond belief since it has been buried beneath layers of government secrecy and known only to several hundred victims who have been suffering the horrors of a covert government war being waged against them for years.
The history of COINTELPRO crime and harassment is now a faded memory for nearly everyone but the victims of the continuing reality for which they have had no possible legal remedy for years. For me the horrors of covert COINTELPRO torment have extended over 57 years.
No one else has lived through this much secret government torture. No one else has the knowledge and the experience that I have with this subject. I stand ready, willing, and able to answer any and all questions that any member of the Commission or the Staff may wish to ask. I can provide documentation to support anything that I have said. If anyone has doubt about the truth of what I say, please give me the chance to prove the truth to you.
I am speaking on behalf of several hundred victims of modern government torture who have had nowhere to turn to find a remedy as the torture has continued year after year with no hope of an end in sight. Now at last, we do have hope. We do have a Commission looking at an issue that no one else has been willing to investigate. You are our last chance. If you do not give us a solution, we have nowhere else to turn. There is no other possible solution that we have not tried.
The Bioethics Commission is our last hope. That places a very great responsibility upon each of you to investigate what we tell you fully and thoroughly and to ask questions about any question or issue that may cause you to have doubt or disbelief. I assure you that I can answer any question you ask and that I can document and prove anything that needs to be proved to your full satisfaction. Please don't make assumptions against us without giving me a chance to prove the truth to you.
You now have hundreds of lives in your hands. Please save those lives. Please make those lives worth living again.
Sincerely yours,
Robert S, JD
EXHBITS
1. List of Secret USS government experiments on involuntary subjects since 1949.
2. Letter from Lucy X to the Bioethics Commission 05-02-2011 (File:BioethicsCommissionLtr_05-02-2011)
3. Testimony of Lucy X (File: 03_LucyX_COINTELPRO_stmt_April_2011)
4. Testimony of Suzanne L (File: 04_SuzanneL_Cointelpro_stmt_May_2011)
5. Testimony of Ramon G (File: 05_RamonG_COINTELPRO_stmt_April_2011)
6. Testimony of Bob D (File: 06_BobD_Testimonial_April_2011)
7. Testimony of Bernice E (File: 07_BerniceE_Stmt_NCHE_May_2011)
8. Testimony of Margaret H (File:08_MargaretH_COINTELPRO_stmt_July_2010)
9. Testimony of Jeff M (File: 09_JeffM_COINTELPRO_stmt_Feb_2011)
10. Testimony of Kelly C (File: 10_KellyC_Stmt_NCHE_May_2011)
11. Testimony of Rosario H (File: 11_RosarioH_Stmt_of_NCHE_May_2011)
12. Testimony of Guy P (File: 12_GuyP_Testimonial_Sept_2010)
13. Testimony of Gerard C (File: 13_GerardC_ Statement_April_2011)
14. Testimony of Steve A (File: 14_SteveA_Testamonial_Dec_2010)
15. Testimony of Abshir M (File: 15_AbshirM_statement_7_2011)
16. Testimony of Nicholas T (File: 16_NicholasT_Testimonial_Mar_2011)
17. Testimony of Breanda B (File:17_BrendaB_COINTELPRO_stmt_Sept_13_2010)
18. Testimony of Robert B (File: 18_RobertB_Stmt_Feb_2011)
19. Testimony of Naomi H (File: 19_NaomiH_Statement_May_2011)
Bob S. submitted this statement:
I am a retired attorney who has long been an involuntary subject of federal agency experiments using Directed Energy Weapons. I filed a complaint with the Office of Human Research Protection (OHRP) about four years ago.
The answer by this office was that it could not investigate my complaint unless I identified the specific government experiment about which I was complaining. I explained that I had no way to identify the experiment since I had not been asked to volunteer to participate in it. OHRP replied that it could do nothing to help me without identification of the experiment.
OHRP has been denying to me and to all other victims of non-consensual experiments the protection that is supposed to be available under Federal Regulations. More recently the excuse given by OHRP has been reworded as follows in a letter to another victim of non-consensual experimentation:
“OHRP evaluates all substantive allegations of noncompliance involving research projects or institutions over which it has jurisdiction. OHRP has determined that it does not have jurisdiction over the matters referenced in your letter. Therefore, OHRP will not be able to pursue this matter on your behalf.”
The internal policies of DHHS require OHRP to investigate complaints about experiments being performed by DHHS. If a complaint is about experiments being performed by a different agency, the policy of OHRP is to refer the complaint to the head of the Department that is engaged in the experiments.
What remedy is available to the hundreds of victims who are being used without their consent as subjects of unidentified experiments involving directed energy weapons or implants? These experiments are very likely being performed by the CIA or by DOD, but involuntary participants in the experiments are never told who is experimenting on them. So they have no possible remedy from DHHS or elsewhere.
OHRP is telling all these hundreds of people that OHRP does not have jurisdiction. No other government office will accept jurisdiction to investigate. So the victims of these experiments are being tortured year after year by painful and permanently harmful government experiments with no end in sight and no legal remedies available to them.
This government torture of citizens will continue indefinitely unless the Commission meets its responsibility to report to the President that these people are suffering terrible harm as non-consensual subjects of government experiments who are desperately in need of a means for ending this government torture.
But the members of the Bioethics Commission are ignoring all the pain and permanent harm that is being inflicted on innocent citizens by government agencies. Instead of meeting their responsibility to bring an end to this government torture, Commission members are stating in their public discussion that something like the Guatemala experiments cannot happen again because of the present requirement in Federal Regulations to obtain advance, informed consent. This conclusion is directly contradicted by an enormous amount of evidence that has been submitted to the Commission.
How effective would laws against robbery be if we did not have police who take responsibility for enforcing these laws? That's how effective Federal Regulations are in prohibiting experiments without advance, informed consent when there is no one in DHHS or elsewhere who will enforce the regulations.
Every person who was permitted to make public comments at the March and May meetings of the Commission reported personal knowledge and experience with years of harmful government experiments being performed without obtaining advance, informed consent. I am familiar with a great deal of written evidence submitted to the Commission by myself and by others to document massive federal agency experiments being performed on involuntary subjects. Oblivious to all this reported reality, the Commission is stating publicly that the risk of such things happening has been eliminated by the present requirement of Federal Regulations to obtain advance, informed consent.
The Bioethics Commission is covering up the truth that is being reported to it by citizens in overwhelming oral and written submissions.
My letter of May 2, 2011 to the Commission is at http://www.CointelproToday.org.
Bob S
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