On Sat, Jul 09, 2016 at 09:17:12PM -0700, Rayzer wrote:
club. I spent my 18th in the Tombs, 100 Centre St. Manhattan Criminal court, for an anti-Vietnam war demo in 1971.
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And did the protest change anything? The protesters are protesting, the screwing is going on with some damages from both sides. Long ago, an old man told me wars like in Vietnam were done for beta testing of weapons and dangerous stuff, especially the side effects. First they poison them, then they ``heal'' them... https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/birth-defects-caused-agent-orange ==== In the years following the Vietnam War reports, of high rates of miscarriages, premature births, congenital birth defects, and infant mortality began to surface from regions in Vietnam where Agent Orange was used. the United States Government passed the Agent Orange Act. This act mandates the US government to pay for the medical care of any Vietnam War veteran, regardless of length of service, related to an Agent Orange disease. ==== IIRC, the USA gave its Vietnamese soldiers psychoactive drugs (some for being brave) and some of the drugs were found to have very adverse side effects. Don't have better reference ATM than this: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/04/the-drugs-that-built-a-sup... === The British philosopher Nick Land aptly described the Vietnam War as “a decisive point of intersection between pharmacology and the technology of violence.” Committee on Crime revealed that from 1966 to 1969, the armed forces had used 225 million tablets of stimulants, mostly Dexedrine (dextroamphetamine), an amphetamine derivative that is nearly twice as strong as the Benzedrine used in the Second World War. For the first time in military history, the prescription of potent antipsychotic drugs like chlorpromazine, manufactured by GlaxoSmithKlinea ... became routine. ===