Torture in the United States
The US Military and CIA have used hundreds of thousands of Americans in programs of involuntary human experimentation. For example, the US Navy has admitted to performing at least 650 experiments on involuntary human test subjects since 1975 (Interim Report of the Advisory Committe on Human Radiation Experiments, US Congress). Involuntary human experiments continue today, even now that the Cold War is over:
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... concerns are also being raised about involuntary human experimentation involving new forms of classified research and testing of high technology military weaponry, including microwave and laser equipment ... given the past history of secret experimentation by the (United States) government, these allegations ... should not be dismissed ... "Torture in the United States,
World Organization Against Torture, 1998People are less aware of these involuntary human experiments than they are of animal experimentation issues, and less is being done to help past and current victims. In the US, newspapers and other news media refuse to report involuntary human experimentation programs even when there is solid and convincing evidence. For example, human radiation experiments conducted during the 1980's involved
" ... the feeding of radioactive substances to pregnant women and mentally retarded students, ... the unethical irradiation of workers, soldiers, mental patients, and prison inmates ...
I am among those who persistently tried to get national media coverage of this outrageous example of government wrongdoing. To say the media were reluctant to listen would be an understatement. The fact is that, for more than a decade, documentation was ignored and facts were misreported."
Geoffrey Sea, The Radiation Story No One Would Touch, Columbia Journalism Review, March / April 1994
Involuntary human experiments are also being kept secret by repression of the political groups that might expose them. Duiring the Fall of 2002, I myself tried to make student groups at UC Berkeley aware of a current on-going program of involuntary human experimentation. Students who were initially interested in working on this problem later suddenly became unwilling to help. It seemed to me these students had been persuaded -- perhaps threatened -- to not become involved.
I am a US citizen,
and I am myself a victim of a program of involuntary human experimentation. For this reason I am applying for political asylum in Europe, currently here in Germany. Because of the problems getting news media in the US to report these experiments, and because of political repression in the US, I would like to see if political groups and student groups in Europe are interested in working on this problem.Since I speak very little German, I need help in contacting these groups. If you can help, please let me know.
Unfortunately, the only way to contact me is in person, because I don't have a phone and I think my sending and receipt of email has been interfered with (yes, the US Military and CIA know how to do that). My name is Michael Overlin, and my address is 16 Gutenbergweg, 1 Stock, Zimmer 8, Nürtingen. (Warning: the first floor of this building looks like a warehouse, you will not see it is a residential unit until you go up to 1 Stock).