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Antigen:
Oh hell yeah, they did!

From: http://thestraights.com/reports/us_involvement.htm

--- Quote ---In 1971 the United States Senate's Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights under the directorship of Senator Sam Ervin began an investigation of the US government's role in behavior modification. Ervin's 650 page report was published in November 1974 under the title "Individual Rights and the Federal Role in Behavior Modification." Other members of the subcommittee included: Senators John McClellan, Arkansas, Edward Kennedy, Massachusetts, Birch Bayh, Indiana, Robert Byrd, West Virginia, John Tunney, California, Edward Gurney, Florida, Roman Hruska, Nebraska, Hiram Fong, Hawaii, Strom Thurmond, South Carolina, and Lawrence Baskir, Chief Counsel, Dorothy Glancy, Counsel, Joseph Klutz, Research Assistant, Alfred Pollard, Research Assistant, and George Downs, Sr, Chief Printing Clerk, and Anita Kinlaw, a legal intern. The report includes a study of Straight's predecessor program, The Seed, and concludes that The Seed used methods similar to the "brainwashing" methods employed by North Koreans against American servicemen during the Korean War.


It was because of this stipulation to require clients to sign human consent forms, in large part, that Seed expansion programs like the one in Saint Petersburg, Florida shut down in the first place.


Sidebar
The Declaration of Helsinki governs all medical research in the United States. It states "The right of the research subject to safeguard his or her integrity must always be respected. Every precaution should be taken to respect the privacy of the subject and to minimize the impact of the study on the subjects physical and mental integrity and on the personality of the subject." . . . "The doctor should be particularly cautious if the subject is in a dependent relationship to him or her or may consent under duress." The Nuremberg Code of Ethics in Medical Research requires that research subjects must "be able to exercise free power of choice without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion."
Since The Seed was then being funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under NIH, and since NIDA was then directed by Dr. Robert L. DuPont, Jr., the White House's Second Drug Czar, Senator Ervin directed Dr. DuPont and NIDA to require The Seed to issue NIDA human consent forms to Seed participants and to their parents acknowledging that they were participating in human experimentation as required by NIDA's own regulations.

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Here's the cover and relavent page from that report.
http://thestraights.com/images/seed-Ervin-brainwash.gif


Everything that people say to you is personal. Whether it is constructive criticism or not will determine whether it cam from and asshole or not.

----Bill Warbis
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Ginger Warbis ~ Antigen
Seed sibling `71 - `80
Straight South (Sarasota, FL)
   10/80 - 10/82
Anonymity Anonymous
Some days, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.

GregFL:
I was interned in the St Pete when the Irwin report was being prepared. We weren't privy to the fact that the study was going on, but I do remember some government suits hanging around a bit.

I also remember Art Barker appearing before the group seething mad proclaiming "fuck them, we will do it without them, absolutely furious over the disclosure forms.

This report, along with the fearless reporting of the St Pete times, and the belated but important awakening of the St Pete independent after numerous abuse reports and the Irwin report, caused decreased enrollment and interest in the St Pete seed.

True to form, when the money dried up the seed disappeared almost overnight, citing financial problems.

To me, Senator Irwin and the st pete times staff writers were 70s era heroes to us children held against our will in those crazy experimental mind control cults.

Thank you people wherever you are.

I'll kick your arse:
:jamin:

lonewolf:
I remember helping to pack the place up in St Pete. That was the last time I was there.....Remember Art saying....don't have a damm thing to do with Straight Inc......Those folks are fucked up.....You know he was right....as I read the night-mares those kids went through.

none-ya:
Hey Wolf, it sounds like the seed closing broke your heart.

 :waaaa:  :cry:  :waaaa:

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