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The Pros And Cons Of MK-Ultra

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Controlling the Nation Is America really the land of the free? That may not have been the case during the late 1940’s and early 1950’s when the government supposedly abducted american citizens off the street so the CIA could perform experiments on their brains to achieve mind control. So, what do you really know about America and their little known mind control program called MK-Ultra? To get a better idea of the American projects, let's take a look on the reasons why they were testing. At the time, multiple countries were conducting tests on their citizen to use them as a weapon in time of war (Melissa) or if an enemy was captured from the opposing side they would experiment on them. If the trial was successful they would use them as a spy, unwillingly of course. The bigger, more known countries that did this were the Russian Soviet Union, Japan, Korea, and Nazi Germany. Russia was known to go to the extremes to accomplish this goal, they even went as far as depriving their victims of sleep and the necessities of life to see which brain would be easier to test on. Same with the Nazis, they had a specialized physician in the field of neuroscience named Doctor Josef Mengele …show more content…

Multiple doctors, military personnel, and government figures were involved in organizing and conducting experiments to help grow MK-Ultra into the biggest biological weapon the world has ever seen and let's not forget about the victims of these studies (Melissa). The citizens that were supposedly abducted were homeless people and others that would not be missed if they were to disappear forever (The CIA Can Do Mind Control). A lot of research papers also state that some murders were programed by MK-Ultra and that's why they did what they did. Such people include, Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray, and even the Aurora mass shooter James Eagan Holmes, but if that is true, it means MK-Ultra isn’t as dead as we thought is was (The CIA Can Do Mind

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The Nazis called this the Euthanasia Program. Euthanasia translates to good death. The Nazis sold this to the public as a way of putting the disabled to rest, and giving them a “way out” of a pain filled death, but the Nazis saw it as a clandestine murder program. They would kill people who were mentally and physically disabled. The Nazis targeted all the disabled, not just the elderly or the middle-aged people with disabilities.

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When James “Whitey” Bulger appeared in court for the first time in June of 2013, one would never know that he was once the most feared criminal in Boston. At 84 years old, Bulger “shuffled into a federal courthouse” like “a dinosaur in an orange jumpsuit.” (McMorrow 1) After 16 years of escaping the wrath of the FBI, Bulger was finally being put on trial for his long list of heinous crimes including 11 murders, money laundering, weapon violations, and racketeering. (McMorrow 1) However, even more shocking than his convictions was the relationship Bulger had with the FBI, which unraveled before the eyes of the court and people across the country.

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He proved that the CIA used victims such as the mentally ill and heroin addicts for human experimentation in their project on mind control, MK-Ultra. “The Central Intelligence Agency drugged American citizens without their knowledge or consent.” states Senator Kennedy in the MK-Ultra trial. Some experimented on in MK-Ultra were given doses of lysergic acid diethylamide, known as LSD. The properties of LSD were not well known at the time of MK-Ultra experimentation.

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Did you know that some prisoners in concentration camps during WWII were subjected to serious, and sometimes fatal medical experiments done on them? There are three different categories of medical experiments. These experiments were only done to help the Nazis survive during that time. Hitler was originally the one who gave the german physicians permission to do these horrific experiments on innocent people.

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The Demented Doctor “The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we’re doing it.” said Josef Mengele. He knew his own wrong doings all too well. This seemed to be the hard cold truth to every soul that was taken by the “Angel of Death”.

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Josef Mengele did experiments on twins in 1941-1945. He tried to figure how to quickly multiply the German race by learning the secrets of multiple births. He experimented on 2,000 kids who were twins, only 200 survived. He would inject food coloring into the eyes of one of the twins to see if the eye color would match his or her twin. He would try to do sex change operations on them to match the others gender.

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One example of why Mk-Ultra is unethical is the damage that occured in a individual’s life. For instance, an unidentified woman and men articulated how the experiment “cost me my life” and that it was “like they had complete control over me” (Mind Experiments). Taking over a individual’s mind and physical body will never be humane, especially if it is at the expenses of another's life. Additionally, a more personal testimony was when Russell Kirk explained that he didn’t even know what he was doing and on several attempts he tried to commit suicide. He describes how he felt depressed but couldn’t understand why he felt so wrong.

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These human beings were killed in horrible dehumanizing ways. They were ordered to either the gas chambers or the crematorium; or they died because of their bad health. “We did not know, as yet, which was the better side, right or left, which road led to prison and which led to the crematorium” (Wiesel pg 32) Innocent people were tricked into walking right into the gas chambers. They would strip down and stand in lines nakes, thinking they were waiting for a shower; but instead they were in line for their death.

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In the first stave of Charles Dickens’ story, A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge didn’t have much enthusiasm for Christmas. He didn't like people mentioning it and curse the ones who did. He found no reason to be merry and celebrate. But, after being visited by the ghost of his former partner, Jacob Marley, and the three spirits of Christmas, Scrooge becomes a changed man. To the Ghost of Christmas Future, he makes a promise that he will honor Christmas whole heartedly and will try to be better all year round.

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Mengele kidnapped twins to identify the ultimate source of certain diseases occurring within the family and the role of genetics on diseases. The Nazis other goal was to determine and assure that Jewish people are below or more inferior than them. Mengele was so engrossed with genetics that he would pull out their eyes to give it to Magnussen who is in charge of eye pigmentation. He was obsessed in finding out how to change the color of the human eye. He introduced

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The malpractice of doctors during the 19th century foreshadows the horrific human experimentation conducted by Nazi Germany medical experts during World War Two. The Second World War is distinguished by the mass murder of millions of European Jews. This genocide was conducted by Adolf Hitler, and it is primarily characterized by the utilization of those in concentration camps for medical experiments. Doctors in the 1800s lacked the knowledge of medicine and availability of modern technology to provide beneficial diagnoses and perform the most appropriate treatment. This lack of expertise lead to curiosity and eventually experimentation.

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Throughout history and into modern day civilization, humans have always come across a question, “Can I control that being?” This question then flows into acts and experiments of mind control and hypnosis. Hollywood has also produced multiple movies based around the inhuman experimentations of mind control; but those things only happen in movies, right? Well, not quite. The Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.) in the United States of America, has performed many heinous experiments on humans.

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To illustrate, the book discusses how the government utilizes mind control methods such as providing an alternative definition to words. “All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. ‘Reality control,’ they called it: in Newspeak, ‘doublethink’” (18). Providing an alternative meaning of words can misconstrue them in the favor of Big Brother. Likewise, the United States has emulated “doublethink” when it presents itself as convenient.

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From Paradise to Parasite When one envisions taking a trip abroad to Southern France, they might imagine bright blue skies, warm sand beneath their feet, and a relaxing day at the lake with their family. Richard Brogan, a math teacher from the United Kingdom was expecting just that, but what he ended up truly experiencing was nothing short of a nightmare. Blurry vision and slight redness in his eye were no reason to panic, for mild irritation was common for Brogan due to his frequent use of contact lenses. However, when his blurry vision worsened to near blindness and the pain in his eye intensified to pure agony, he decided to cut his vacation short and make an appointment with his ophthalmologist. The diagnosis?

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