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America itself, as a Crime Against Humanity

America, originally intended to be a “shining city on a hill” has in its moral priggishness turned out, instead, to be a sinkhole in the valley of the shadow of death.

(CALGARY, Alberta) - I am so angry today against the United States and its moral crimes, that I fear I may go a bit overboard. So be it.

We all know what’s happened and is happening in Mexico because of America’s drug policy. And now the same fate is befalling Guatemala. Mexican cartels working with local gangs control around 40 percent of the country.

U.S. Apologizes for Abusive Guatemala Human Medical Experiments

As Walt Kelly's "Pogo" observed, "We have met the enemy and he is us."

(SAN FRANCISCO) - The U.S. government acknowledged that between 1946 and 1948, U.S. Public Health Service physicians deliberately infected at least 696 Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhea without their knowledge or consent to study the effect of VD.

U.S. officials formally apologized for the "abhorrent" and "clearly unethical" medical experiments.