[Peace-discuss] Fw: An Attack on Conscience Through MindDestroyingDrugs

Wed Jun 30 14:04:26 CDT 2010

>but nevertheless China IS a much more brutal and repressive government

I disagree and believe that this vision of China is a product of the Western demonization of competitors and those that they disagree with. 

With respect to the role and brutal repressiveness of the US government in conjunction with medical personnel, one can go way back in US history before there was a CIA and take note of US Army giving Native Americans Typhus ridden blankets and then watched them die without offering any medical help, the Tuskegee experiment in which the government funded medical researchers to give poor illiterate black men Syphilis without their knowledge and consent without giving them any sort of medical treatment so they could see the effects of untreated Syphilis, wherein many suffered died a horrible death from the disease, the testing at government expense of drugs on civilian prisoners - often without their knowledge or consent, or the defining of rebels and those who actively opposed the established ways as mentally ill so as to confine them to asylums where they were ill treated and abused (under the supervision of medical personnel) and where they were given lobotomies, shock treatments, and drugs to turn them into zombies.  Of course, the actual number of deaths resulting from Government instigated, invoked, and supported actions by medical personnel over the course of Amerikan history is greatly under reported - if reported at all.  

Currently, leaving aside instances connected with the military or the CIA, one only has to note the number of deaths caused by law enforcement where medical examiners, who are medical personnel, engage in justifying, rationalizing, and explaining the deaths as not being sue to the actions of Law enforcement personnel and their procedures and weapons but due to some natural medical cause where the police actions are only said to be minor contributory factors.  Or of medical personnel who define and describe injuries suffered by prisoners of suspects at the hands of law enforcement as being something which is vague and ambiguous that could be caused by a multitude of other factors or as an injury that is other than one caused by police or prison personnel by not considering any other medically possible descriptions of the self-same injury.

As for brutality and repression, I have to wonder how many persons China has in prison as compared to how many the US is warehousing - both historically and currently, how many persons have been executed in each country, and how prison conditions compare historically and currently when standardized for the common standards of living in the respective country.  Why is it that both the Soviet Union and China tended to sentence dissidents to work camps, banishment to communities in the hinterlands, to centers for re-education and indoctrination, and the like rather than to capital punishment if there repression is so brutal; whereas, the US, has utilized capital punishment to a much greater degree for all kinds of criminal acts as well as for political acts, which often get defined as treason or threats to national security.  We have no figures on how many dissidents have been placed officially or unofficially on secret assassination lists or actually been assassinated or had attempts made on taking their lives.  One has to wonder about the police actions with respect to the Black Panthers where individuals were set up and killed by police or the dissident group in Philly that were killed by police who in the process destroyed a whole city block, or the government sanctioned and unsanctioned physical attacks on black dissidents in both the north and south prior to and during the Civil rights period by law enforcement or white citizens councils supported by their local governments.  How about all the unprevented and unpunished beatings, killings, and lynching of troublemaking members of minority groups (Native Americans, Spanish-speaking Americans, Afro-Americans, Asian-Americans, etc.) by US White Anglo citizenry without any intervention by Government officials that would protect those dissidents or to catch and punish the perpetrators of such beatings, killing and lynching.

I do not know about you; but I consider such events illustrative examples of US brutality and repression by citizenry supported and condoned by government and by agents of the US Government at all levels which has existed and been operative throughout US history.  I do not see it as being any less than what one finds in any other country.  IO really think that one needs to ask the victims of US Government brutality and repression if they see or feel or experienced it to be any less than that which they have read about or heard about, or believe to be happening in other countries.

From: unionyes 
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 9:04 AM
To: Peace-discuss ; Laurie Solomon 
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Fw: An Attack on Conscience Through MindDestroyingDrugs

Laurie,

I mainly posted this because I was curious if Wayne Johnson ( who is currently in China ) would receive it ( due to China's internet censorship ) and / or if he had any comments about this.

I am well aware of the role of American medical and psychiatric professionals working with the U.S. government and the CIA.
It is similar, but nevertheless China IS a much more brutal and repressive government.

I do see our own government however moving increasingly toward the more repressive model of China and Israel. 

David J.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Laurie Solomon 
  To: unionyes ; Peace-discuss 
  Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 9:57 PM
  Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Fw: An Attack on Conscience Through Mind DestroyingDrugs

  I am sorry but I see little difference between that which is happening in China and that which has and is happening in the US were medical personnel and psychologist (and possibly psychiatric workers) have joined the ranks of the military and the CIA as consultants and practitioners and are engaged in similar practices.  What makes the Chinese situation different?  Certainly there is no claim being made that all Western doctors abide by the oath and do not engage in violations of their oath or a claim that all Chinese doctors engage in the described activities.

  I think that this can be viewed as a form of ideological propaganda on behalf of Falun Gong supporters in an attempt to gain Western support for their cause and not a truly objective or scientific comparative study of such practices across nations against populations that the establishment sees as dangerous agents of non-establishment belief systems, political philosophies, and religions. 

  From: unionyes 
  Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 7:47 PM
  To: Peace-discuss 
  Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fw: An Attack on Conscience Through Mind DestroyingDrugs

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Falun Gong Human Rights Working Group 
  To: unionyes at ameritech.net 
  Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 6:12 PM
  Subject: An Attack on Conscience Through Mind Destroying Drugs

        Online version is here.
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        An Attack on Conscience
        Through Mind Destroying Drugs

        In the free world, the sworn and solemn oath taken by medical doctors is "to do no harm." Conversely in China, doctors often collaborate with authorities to help destroy the health and sanity of people who do not "toe the Party line." By use of insidious and purposeful administering of mind-alternating drugs, China allows doctors to do intentional harm to the minds of those viewed to be in opposition to its requirements 

        In a speech to the United Nations Human Rights Council on March 15, 2010, Dr. Shizhong Chen told the Council that, "Volumes and volumes of reports from the Council's own Special Rapporteurs have documented thousands of cases of severe torture and killing of Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese authorities." He described documentation of how, when physical torture failed to break the will of Falun Gong practitioners, the Chinese authorities turned to psychiatric abuse. He concluded by appealing "to international society to speak up against China's mind-killing medication. To remain silent to such killing of the mind is a suicide of our collective conscience and humanity." To read his entire speech, please click here. 

        The UN Committee, formed to review reports of Torture in China, stated, "The Committee also notes with concern that this provision has been misused to detain some people in psychiatric hospitals for reasons other than medical." 

        Chinese authorities have taken an untold number of perfectly rational and sane Falun Gong practitioners to mental hospitals to be "transformed." 

        The U.N. Special Rapporteur, Professor Manfred Nowak, in his China Country Visit Report stated: "Detainees also stated that Falun Gong practitioners who had not renounced their beliefs after six months in detention were placed in the Intensive Training section until they were 'reformed'. Falun Gong practitioners formerly detained at this facility refer to this section as the 'Intensive Torture Section.'" 

        Statistics indicate that cases of "psychiatric treatment" have spread to 23 out of 33 provinces under the direct leadership of the central government in China. At least 100 psychiatric facilities have been employed in the persecution. Clearly, the abuse of psychiatric drugs on Falun Gong practitioners has been a well-planned, systematically carried out, top-down policy. 

        Since the objective of supposed psychiatric treatment is not for the "patient's" well-being, the "psychiatric treatment" may well take place in mental hospitals, forced labor camps, or any detention facility. The following accounts remind us of what is really being done to Falun Gong practitioners behind the scenes of China's expanding economy. 

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        Mr. Zhao Peijie Forced to Ingest Nervous System Destroying Drugs 

        Mr. Zhao Peijie, male, 32 years of age, from Xiaonigou Village, Datong Town, Rongcheng City, Shandong Province, was beaten, tortured, and forced to take drugs that destroyed his central nervous system. As a result, he became mentally ill, and died in the wilderness on June 28, 2008. 

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        Ms. Liu Xiaolian Beaten, Drugged and Electrocuted in a Psychiatric Department 

              Ms. Liu Xiaolian
             Ms. Liu Xiaolian's swollen body

        In April 2006, officials from the Chibi City Police Department, Hubei Province arrested Ms. Liu Xiaolian, 69, and sent her to the Psychiatric Department of the Pufang Hospital. At the hospital, Ms. Liu was brutally beaten, injected with toxic drugs, fed mentally debilitating drugs, and shocked with high-voltage electric batons. For 24 hours, they continuously injected her with the drug. She lost consciousness for two consecutive days and her whole body became dark and swollen. After she woke up, she temporarily lost the ability to speak. She died on the afternoon of October 26, 2008. 

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        Ms. Li Dongqing Injected with Brain-Damaging Drugs at a Mental Hospital 

              Ms. Li Dongqing, 46, lived in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. On May 24, 2008, she was arrested and put into the Dongling District Mental Hospital in Shenyang. She was injected with drugs, which made her suffer severe psychological damage.

                    Ms. Li Dongqing

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        Ms. Han Ming Subjected to Forced Labor, Dies at age 30 

              Ms. Han Ming was an employee of the Pingshui Machinery Factory in Pingba County, Guizhou Province. On February 28, 2001, she was sentenced to two years of forced labor. While detained in the Guizhou Province Women's Forced Labor Camp, she was injected with an unknown drug, which caused her entire body to suffer muscle atrophy. Her condition deteriorated and she died on March 20, 2003, at the age of 30.

                    Ms. Han Ming

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        Pregnant Woman Injected with Harmful Drugs 

        Ms. Zhang Wuying and her husband, Mr. Wu Dianhui, are from Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province. In February of 2000, the Changzhou Public Security Bureau arrested Mr. Wu. Although Mr. Wu and his wife were not mentally ill, upon his release from the detention center, the two were forcibly taken to the Changzhou Liberation Army's 102 Mental Hospital. Ms. Zhang was tied to the bed, injected with unknown drugs and force-fed, even though she was over five months pregnant. 

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        Ms. Han Sentenced to Forced Labor for Her Belief, Her Sister Loses Job 

        Ms. Han Yuheng tried to check into a Beijing hotel on February 21, 2009, while on a business trip, when a computer check identified her as a Falun Gong practitioner. She was arrested on the basis of this identification alone and subsequently sentenced to two years of forced labor. When her case garnered interest on the Internet, Chinese authorities started to harass her family in apparent retaliation. As a result, Ms. Han's sister, Ms. Han Yuguan, was dismissed from her job. 

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        Ms. Jiang Nan Injected with Drugs in a Sichuan Province Mental Hospital 

        Ms. Jiang Nan, 39, a teacher from Deyang City, Sichuan Province was harassed for practicing Falun Gong by village officials, including her ex-husband and by superiors at work. On August 7, 2009, she was reported to the authorities for distributing Falun Gong materials, her home was ransacked, and she was taken to a mental health facility in Deyang City. At the facility she was told that she needed to admit she was suffering from mental illness in order to avoid a criminal sentence. She was administered drugs for unknown reasons and tied to a bed until she was in a weakened and emaciated state. In November of 2009, her supervisor at work was informed that he could pick her up from the hospital. It is unknown whether she has returned home safely. 

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        Ms. Li Juhua Became Mentally Disoriented Following Detention 

        Ms. Li Juhua from Huangpi District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province was detained twice and sent to a forced labor camp three times over the last ten years due to her Falun Gong practice. She was imprisoned for a total of four years, her home was ransacked twice, and the authorities constantly harassed her family. She is currently being held at the Hewan Forced Labor Camp in Wuhan City. It has been reported that she has become completely emaciated, has difficulty walking and seems disoriented and unable to comprehend things. 

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        Ms. Liu Weishan Tortured, Paralyzed and Mentally Confused 

        Ms. Liu Weishan, 51, was last arrested in September of 2002 for distributing Falun Gong related materials, and imprisoned at various places in Xiangfan City, Hebei Province. After she went on a hunger strike--her only means of protest, she was brutally beaten and tortured by repeated and vicious force-feedings. She was given forced injections of unknown and unnecessary drugs and became mentally disoriented very soon thereafter. Currently, she is reported to be paralyzed and bed-ridden. Her muscles have atrophied, and she is completely emaciated and can no longer communicate in a meaningful way. 

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        Ms. Tang Min Tortured at a Mental Hospital 

              Ms. Tang Min from Changsha City, Hunan Province was forced to stay at a brainwashing center in 2004 and then taken to a mental hospital because she refused to renounce her Falun Gong practice. In May 2009, she was again taken to a mental hospital in Hunan Province where she was injected every two weeks with an unknown drug that made her shiver with coldness and caused anxiety.

                    Ms. Tang Min

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