By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead
The U.S. government, in its pursuit of so-called monsters, has become a monster.
It is not a new development, nor is it a revelation. It is a government that in recent decades has unleashed untold horrors upon the world, including its own citizenry, in the name of global conquest, the acquisition of greater wealth, scientific experimentation, and technological advances, all packaged in the guise of the greater good.
Mind you, there is no greater good when the government is involved. There is only greater greed for money and power.
Unfortunately, the public has become so easily distracted by the political spectacle in Washington, D.C., that it all together oblivious to the grisly experiments, barbaric behavior, and inhumane conditions that have become synonymous with the U.S. government.
These horrors have been meted out against humans and animals alike. For all intents and purposes, “we the people” have become lab rats in the government’s secret experiments.
Fifty years from now, we may well find out the whole sordid truth behind this COVID-19 pandemic, however, this column isn’t intended to be a debate over whether COVID-19 is a legitimate health crisis, or a manufactured threat. It is merely to acknowledge that such crises can, and are, manipulated by governments in order to expand their powers.
We have learned, it is entirely possible for something to be both a genuine menace to the Nation’s health and security and a menace to freedom.
It is a road the United States has been traveling for many years. Indeed, grisly experiments, barbaric behavior, and inhumane conditions have become synonymous with the U.S. government, which has meted out untold horrors against humans and animals alike.
“We the people” have become the police state’s guinea pigs to be caged, branded, experimented upon without our knowledge or consent, and then conveniently discarded and left to suffer from the after-effects.
For instance, did you know that in 2017, FEMA inadvertently exposed nearly 10,000 firefighters, paramedics and other responders to a deadly form of ricin during simulated bioterrorism response sessions? In 2015, it was discovered that an Army lab had been mistakenly shipping deadly anthrax to labs and defense contractors for a decade.
Although these specific incidents have been dismissed as accidents, you don’t have to dig very deep or go very back in the Nation’s history to uncover numerous cases in which the government deliberately conducted secret experiments on an unsuspecting populace, citizens and noncitizens alike, making healthy individuals sick by spraying them with chemicals, injecting them with infectious diseases, and exposing them to airborne toxins.
Many of the government’s incursions into our freedoms over the years have been blacked out, buried under entertainment news headlines, or spun in such a way as to suggest that anyone voicing a word of caution is paranoid, or conspiratorial.
Unfortunately, the incidents we know about are just the tip of the iceberg in atrocities the government has inflicted on an unsuspecting populace in the name of secret experimentation.
For instance, there was the U.S. military’s secret race-based testing of mustard gas on more than 60,000 enlisted men. And then there was the CIA’s MKULTRA program in which hundreds of unsuspecting American civilians and military personnel were dosed with LSD, some having the hallucinogenic drug slipped into their drinks at the beach, in city bars, at restaurants.
Now one might argue that this is all ancient history and that the government today is different from the government of yesteryear, but has the U.S. government really changed?
After all, it is the same government that in 1949 sprayed bacteria into the Pentagon’s air handling system, then the world’s largest office building. In 1950, special ops forces sprayed bacteria from Navy ships off the coast of Norfolk and San Francisco, in the latter case exposing all of the City’s 800,000 residents.
In 1953, government operatives staged “mock” anthrax attacks on St. Louis, Minneapolis, and Winnipeg by using generators placed on top of cars. Community governments reportedly were told that “‘invisible smokescreen[s]’ were being deployed to (be a) mask the city on enemy radar.” Later experiments covered territories as wide-ranging as Ohio to Texas and Michigan to Kansas.
In 1965, the government’s experiments in bioterror took aim at Washington’s National Airport, followed by a 1966 experiment in which army scientists exposed a million subway NYC passengers to airborne bacteria that causes food poisoning.
It is the same government that has taken every bit of technology sold to us as being in our best interests, GPS devices, surveillance, nonlethal weapons, and used it against us, to track, control, and trap us.
So, no, I don’t think the government’s ethics have changed much over the years. It’s just taken its nefarious programs undercover.
The question remains: Why is the government doing it? The answer is always the same: Money, power, and total domination.
It’s the same answer no matter which totalitarian regime is in power.
When all is said and done, it is not a government that has our best interests at heart.
It is not a government that values us.
To the powers-that-be, the rest of us are insignificant specks, faceless dots on the ground.
To the architects of the American police state, we are not worthy, or vested with inherent rights. It is how the government can justify treating us like economic units to be bought and sold and traded, or caged rats to be experimented upon, and discarded when we’ve outgrown our usefulness.
I make clear in my book, “Battlefield America: The War on the American People,” to those who call the shots in the halls of government, “we the people” are merely the means to an end.
—The Rutherford Institute