Seven Dollar Bill

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Bill Clinton forced to limit the fallout.  The Times, Jan 15 ,2008

Cast your mind’s back to mid-1980s, when contaminated blood flowed from the Arkansas prison system to other countries, and then Governor W.J. Clinton sat on his hands despite evidence of severe mismanagement in his prison system and its medical operations. http://prorev.com/blood.htm

[OTTAWA CITIZEN WASHINGTON POST, March 2006]. ONE OF THE BEST kept secrets of the American elite has been that its prison policies have not been tough love but, at best, massive negligent manslaughter. Not only has the war on drugs killed more young black American men on the streets than were killed in Vietnam, but the prison system is a primary incubator for AIDS.

CLINTON’S SCOTTISH COURT WARNING, Daily Record, Oct 31 2005. In Scotland there has been a call for a full public inquiry into why so many Scots contracted hepatitis C from infected blood products imported from America.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned in the early 80s that prison plasma carried a high risk of being contaminated. Despite repeated warnings from the Food and Drug Administration, Arkansas kept its prison plasma program running until 1994 when it became the very last state to cease selling its prisoners’ plasma. The prisoners’ were paid $ 7 dollars for donating blood. By way of contrast, because of the high prevalence of hepatitis B in prisons, the Canadian Red Cross Society had stopped collecting donations from prison inmates in 1971.

The scandal provides yet another insight into how the American media misled the public about Clinton during the 1992 campaign. The media ignored a major Clinton scandal despite, for example, 80 articles about it in the Arkansas Democrat in just one four-month period of the mid-80s.

Some 7,000 Canadians have died or are expected to as a result of contaminated blood, some of it from the Arkansas prison system. Although the tainted blood story has been ignored in the US, it is a major scandal in Canada and the target of an investigation by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

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  1. timez0ne said

    48 million uninsured Americans, in need of health care.

    http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/google-takes-on-michael-moore/

    DON’t forget to Vote for the choice of improved Health Care

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