Clinton Prison Blood Scandal Re-Emerges

The question as to what happens to a political party which puts a psychopath into the whitehouse and then goes to the wall to keep him there after the damage is writ large is not yet settled.

looked at the salon article; good job digging it up. don't know why this story got no press in the US, but would like to hear what canadian a2k folk have to say on it. puzzles me too why GOP didn't make anything of it, instead of obsessing with Whitewater & Monica Lewinsky. if Clinton knew this was happening, then he has blood on his hands, literally.

a question to gungasnake, do you have to put 3 k's in slick? nobody's suggesting a kkk connection, right? when you have a serious charge, i think you should let the facts speak for themselves, but that's just my personal taste.

The democrat party has no legitimacy of any sort or any right to exist. In my view, the only thing which can really fix our present political woes is for the dem party to be destroyed and replaced by something else.

For a decade, from the early 1980s, an estimated 500 people contracted hepatitis C from blood brought in from the United States. Scottish NHS stocks were also augmented by infected donations from US military personnel in Britain and inmates of Barlinnie prison in Glasgow.

[...]Confidential minutes from meetings held by directors of the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS) also show the agency was taking increasing quantities of blood from American troops and that doctors knew in 1981 the blood they were buying in from the US was contaminated with at least two forms of the hepatitis virus.

The documents, released under the Freedom of Information Act, are now to be used by lawyers to build up a case for the government to order a judicial inquiry into how thousands of patients in the UK - including hundreds of Scots - contracted HIV and hepatitis from contaminated blood in the 1970s and 1980s.

More than 1000 people are now dead as a result of receiving infected blood and many have gone on to develop Aids and liver cancer because of their infection. Haemophiliac families, who were given NHS products to make their blood clot, have been wiped out by the faulty treatments.

But unlike other countries where so-called "tainted blood" scandals have led to inquests and criminal convictions, the UK government has refused a public inquiry into what has become known as "the biggest medical treatment disaster in the history of the NHS".
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The dossier reveals that in 1983, a time when the US had stopped taking blood from its prisoners amid growing concerns about the spread of HIV and hepatitis, Scotland continued with its policy of taking blood from inmates. Documents from the government in Canada, which also continued with the controversial practice, showed there was a "high probability" of prison blood being contaminated with both HIV and hepatitis C.

Effective heat treating of blood - which killed hepatitis and HIV - was not introduced in Scotland until 1987.

I view the democrat party as a criminal enterprise. They knew Slick had major kinds of psychiatric issues by the middle of 94:

http://reason.com/9411/fe.efron.9411.shtml

They were absolutely obligated at that point to pack Slick's sorry ass off to St. Elizabeth's hospital where he belonged and hand the whitehouse over to Algor. That (the president being found to be incapacitated) is what the vice president is there for. What they actually did in going to the wall to keep that lunatic in power after the problems were splashed across the world's newspapers was inexcusable.

gungasnake wrote:

The democrat party has no legitimacy of any sort or any right to exist. In my view, the only thing which can really fix our present political woes is for the dem party to be destroyed and replaced by something else.

I've thought so since Watergate.

That was about the Democrtas, wasn't it?

gungasnake wrote:

I view the democrat party as a criminal enterprise. They knew Slick had major kinds of psychiatric issues by the middle of 94:

http://reason.com/9411/fe.efron.9411.shtml

They were absolutely obligated at that point to pack Slick's sorry ass off to St. Elizabeth's hospital where he belonged and hand the whitehouse over to Algor. That (the president being found to be incapacitated) is what the vice president is there for. What they actually did in going to the wall to keep that lunatic in power after the problems were splashed across the world's newspapers was inexcusable.

read the Efron article. a bit of a test of one's patience--windy, repetitious, in no great hurry to get to the point.

so for anyone not inclined to slog through it, the gist is a claim that Clinton suffers from obsessive compulsive disorder. that's nothing to trivialize, it merits therapy certainly, but hospitalization is completely overkill. i happen to know a bit more than most lay people about psychiatric disorders. OCD isn't all that uncommon, and while it certainly incoveniences people afflicted by it, OCD by itself doesn't preclude a productive life.

does Clinton have it? you need a psych PhD to make that diagnosis. if he did, it would certainly have diminished his effectiveness as president; but he's not a lunatic--even Efron concedes that he's not psychotic--so there wasn't any legal way he could be commited against his will as you suggest. and most of what Efron wrote suggests that people outside his immediate circle believed him to be indecisive and unfocused by preference, and not because of an inability to concentrate.

And what about Frank D. White, if I follow your logic? All this happened within his term as well - and was stopped only by Clinton afterwards!

Efron was a friend of Ayn Rand's and was widely regarded as a heavyweight; she certainly writes better than YOU do. Other than that, most descriptions of complex phenomena are lengthy.

Clinton is best described as a quasi-functional psychopath. Only a psychopath would be involved in schemes like Chinagate or this prison blood deal, or in the sort of criminal stupidity inherent in the Monica Lewinski affair.