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I sin sidste bog med titlen 'Secret Science: A Century of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments,' præsenterer historikeren ved University of Kent, Ulf Schmidt, en række af sagstilfælde om hemmelige statsprojekter som blev udført mellem 1939 og 1989.
I et eksperiment i 1953 blev en 20 årig ingeniør ved Royal Air Force (RAF) ,Ronald Maddison dræbt idet han var udsat for hvad der siden er betegnet sarin gas.
Ligesom mange tjjenende ved hæren i den tid, som blev han lovet en lille smule ekstra løn eller et par dage fri for at tage del i eksperiementet. For 15 shillings og et fripas på tre dage, meldte Maddison sig som frivillig.
En anden frivillig , den 19 prige Alfred Thornhill, var vidne til ingeniørens død ved militærets videnskabelige kompleks ved Porton Down, Wiltshire.
Ved en undersøgelse i 2004 indtil Maddisons død, fortalte Thornhill de tilstedeværende at den 20 årige kollapsede efter at dråber var dryppet på hans tøj.
"Jeg havde aldrig set nogen dø før og hvad den mand gik igenne var absolut uhyrligt. Det var som om han var blevet dræbt ved elektrisk stød, hele hans krop var i krampetrækninger" sagde han.
Comment: Blot en lille fejl for det gode af Mor Britaania! Og de lovede ham lidt penge og nogle fridage, så det retfærdiggør det... I det mindste for den psykopatiske logik bag det.
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"The skin was vibrating and there was all this terrible stuff coming out of his mouth...it looked like frogspawn. I saw his leg rise up from the bed and I saw his skin begin turning blue. It started from the ankle and started spreading up his leg."
Thornhill said it was like watching something from "outer space," as Maddison's state continued to deteriorate.
Sarin is now classified as a weapon of mass destruction (WMD) by the United Nations (UN).
The inquest into Maddison's death ruled he had been "unlawfully killed," and awarded his family £100,000 pounds compensation.
In separate case study, Schmidt found that in 1963 a government scientist had released allegedly "plague like" bacteria onto the London underground. Commuters were never told that the experiment had taken place.
The bacteria was Bacillus Globigii which, although not believed to be harmful at the time, is now known to cause food poisoning, eye infections and occasionally death.
Scientists were trying to discover if aerosols traveled via the transport network or the Underground's air conditioning system.
Comment: Surely this could have been tested without the use of a potentially harmful pathogen. Then again, maybe the MOD just enjoys putting ordinary citizens' lives at mortal risk.
In another experiment conducted on a ship in the Outer Hebrides in 1952, a civilian trawler came into the area.
Rather than stopping the vessel and quarantining the crew, scientists decided to let it go onward to see what would happen. It eventually docked for a time in Blackpool, though no contagion was reported.
The book suggests that up to 21,000 service personnel were experimented on over decades of secret testing, with some suffering chemical burns, vomiting and breakdowns.
One victim, Corporal Harry Hogg, then 20 years old, spoke of his experiences in a gas chamber used to test chemical weapons: "It seemed like an eternity. They opened the door and we all piled out on hands and knees, groaning and moaning and crying... one man was just like an animal."
"He was trying to eat grass. He was out of his mind. What we went through was horrendous," Hogg added.
In 2008, the government apologized for using servicemen as guinea pigs and awarded compensation to 670 of the victims.
Kommentar: 'Uansvarlig' begynder ikke engang at beskrive den Britiske herskende elite. I det store hele hører de ikke til den slags folk som udgør en god ledelse, for slet ikke at tale om bekendtskaber. Hovedparten fortjener muligvis at være i fængsel: Death squads, pedophiles and psychopaths: Inside the British establishment
Og blot fordi eksperimenterne officielt sluttede i 1989, så tro ikke at det er virkeligheden. Vi hører blot først om det om 50 år, hvor vi så igen på det tidspunkt kan fortrøste os med at vi ikke længere lever i den tid.