Obama Administration Czar Cass Sunstein wrote a paper in 2008 stating that the government should respond to conspiracy theories via "cognitive infiltration of extremist groups."
In other words, Cass Sunstein advocates thought and speech control.
So in light of Sunstein's extremist point of view, I decided to write a series on conspiracy theories that turned out to be true!
Welcome to Cass Sunstein's Conspiracy Theory!
- Cass Sunstein’s Conspiracy Theory: Introduction
- Cass Sunstein’s Conspiracy Theory: Operation Northwoods
These are the things Cass Sunstein hopes you never find out.
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Using Humans as Laboratory Rats
For 40 years ... from 1932 to 1972, the U.S. government conducted an experiment on 399 black men with syphilis. These men were mostly illiterate sharecroppers from one of the poorest counties in Alabama.
The government never told them what disease they were actually suffering from, nor of its seriousness. Instead, the government told them they were being treated for "bad blood." The government and its doctors never had any intention of curing them.
These (black) men were not only given false information about their disease, but were inflicted with dangerous "treatments" as well - while genuine treatment was intentionally withheld. In 1947 for example, when penicillin became the drug of choice for sufferers of syphilis, the United States Public Health Service (PHS) refused to offer it to the 399 "subjects" of their study.
Last Chance for Special Free Treatment!
The men agreed to be studied by the PHS freely, because they had been promised "free" health care and $1,000 in burial insurance. Unfortunately, these unsophisticated and trusting men became pawns in a racist and immoral government conspiracy. James Jones, author of the book Bad Blood, says the Tuskegee Experiment was “the longest non-therapeutic experiment on human beings in medical history.”
At first, the men were prescribed the common syphilis treatments of the day - bismuth, neoarsphenamine, and mercury - but in such small doses that only 3 percent showed any sort of improvement at all. In order to get them to show up for painful and dangerous spinal taps, the PHS doctors sent them propaganda letters stating: “Last Chance for Special Free Treatment!” The U.S. Surgeon General even sent them "certificates of appreciation" after 25 years in the study.
In truth, what the doctors wanted were autopsies ... another fact concealed by the PHS.
The PHS would stop at nothing to keep these men in the dark about the true nature of their disease. When several campaigns to eradicate venereal disease came to Macon County, the men were prevented from participating. When penicillin was discovered as a genuine cure, the men were deliberately denied penicillin. During WWII, 250 of the men registered for the draft and were thus ordered to get treatment for their syphilis. But the PHS got them exempted.
The government carried on this twisted experiment until the story was blown wide-open by Jean Heller on July 25, 1972, when the Washington Evening Star ran this headline on its front page: "Syphilis Patients Died Untreated."
For 40 years, the U.S. Public Health Service has conducted a study in which human guinea pigs, not given proper treatment, have died of syphilis and its side effects. The study was conducted to determine from autopsies what the disease does to the human body.
This is exactly the type of story that deviants in government, like Cass Sunstein, wish to hide in their quest to "respond to conspiracy theories." You see, it's much easier for them if the peasants don't know what their betters are really up to.
Too many others insist conspiracies don't exist as well, claiming it's nothing but "psychotic paranoia" to believe the U.S. government would ever commit such horrendous acts ... a position that's either intellectually naive, or more likely ... dishonest.
To not believe conspiracies exist, is to ignore history, believe that no one acts in collusion, that a politicians DNA makes it impossible for them to do anything wrong, and that no person (especially politicians and government bureaucrats) will do whatever it takes to gain power or manipulate situations for personal gain.
Of course, all conspiracy theories aren't true. But by insisting that conspiracy theories are nuts ... we only condemn ourselves to a life without truth.
Resources:
- U.S. Public Health Service Syphilis Study at Tuskegee
- The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
- Remembering Tuskegee
- LeNoir: Tuskegee Syphilis Study (VIDEO)
Will Democrats Revisit The “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act?”
Top Obama Czar Cass Sunstein
Infiltrate all ‘Conspiracy Theorists’
From a recent news report, it appears Obama CZAR Cass Sunstein, supports infiltrating and spying on Americans, their groups and organizations to obstruct Free Speech, disrupt the exchange of ideas and disseminate false information to neutralize Americans that might question government.
See: http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=121884
Obama’s CZAR’s proposal appears to duplicate Rep. Jane Harman’s “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act” HR 1955, introduced in 2007 that stressed disrupting political and other groups without evidence of wrongdoing. Interestingly Obama refused to take a position on this bill.
Rep. Harman’s “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act” was not written exactly like the Nazi 1933 Discriminatory Decrees that suspended the Reich Constitution, but could bring America to the same place by trashing America’s civil liberties. The “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act” when closely examined, defined “homegrown terrorism” as “any planned act” that might use force to coerce the U.S. Government or its people to promote or accomplish a “political or social objective.” No actual force need occur. Government need only charge that an individual or group “Thought” about doing it. This bill was passed by the House but later died in a Senate Committee after Americans became angry upon learning about it.
Currently—the U.S. Government has already laid the groundwork for the covert infiltration of Americans. Since 9/11 federal government has established across the nation more than 112 Fusion Centers. Fusion Centers were originally established to improve the sharing of anti-terrorism intelligence among different state, local and federal law enforcement agencies. But has since expanded with encouragement of the federal government to pursue all crimes and hazards. Fusion Centers now pursue for analysis not just criminal and terrorist information, but any information that can be derived from police, public records and private sector data about Americans. Fusion Centers increasingly are involving components of the U.S. Military in addition to other government entities to spy on Citizens. Fusion centers heavily rely on local informants for information that is shared with Local, State, and Federal police agencies. Recently the Department of Homeland Security began sharing more classified Military information with local Fusion Centers; perhaps a mistake; historically local police have not kept secrets.
Because approximately 40 Fusion Centers appear to operate more independently than others, it is not possible to generalize the mission of Fusion Centers. Some Fusion Centers however, take advantage of ambiguous lines of authority to manipulate differences in federal, state and local laws to maximize information collection. Increasingly (private security companies and their operatives) work so closely with law enforcement and Fusion Centers—providing and exchanging information about Americans, they appear to merge with police. That is what happened in Germany during the 1930’s when a private Gestapo merged its operations with German State Police. Fusion Centers exchange information with select U.S. private sector companies; that has enabled fusion centers to escape accountability and public oversight.
While the press on occasion has discussed Fusion Centers invading the privacy of Citizens, media missed Fusion Centers’ involvement in criminal and civil asset forfeitures. It was problematic law enforcement and private government contractors would gain wider access to Fusion Center data to secure evidence to arrest Americans and or civilly forfeit their homes, inheritances and businesses under Title 18USC and other laws to keep part of the assets.