[On this veteran's day, it's not only important to remember the veterans
who saved the world during WWII, but also to remember that our nation's war
machine is an *offensive* weapon which is both destructive to the nations
which "we" conquer and also destructive to the young people who are duped
into joining our country's war machine.  Another example: ]

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RESEARCHER CHARGES DOD LABS USING GULF WAR VETS FOR PURPOSE OF HUMAN
EXPERIMENTATION

CONTACT: PATRICIA AXELROD, 301-270-2650

   WASHINGTON, Oct. 31...A John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur researcher said
today the Department of Defense is using her work to experiment on U.S. Desert
Storm verterans.

   Patricia Axelrod, a 1991 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, asserts that
the DNA diagnostic test she proposed to Gen. Ronald Blanck, the commander of
Walter Reed Army Hospital, has been secretly implemented by Pentagon
laboratories for purposes of conducting "research" on Desert Storn Syndrome
sufferers.

Desert Storm Syndrome DNA Protocol as devised by the Lawrence Livermore
Laboratory will screen blood, hair, urine, sperm or vaginal discharge for
exposure to parasites, depleted uranium and/or chemical, bacterial or viral
warfare agents.  Armed with the results a physician can then diagnose and
treat the sufferer.

   Axelrod says, "I proposed the test to help the Gulf War vets, not to reduce
them to lab rats." Citing the cases of two Desert Storm veterans Candy Lovett
and Selina Nelson, an outraged Axelrod now states that the Department of
Defense is using the test results to monitor the effects of biological warfare
agents on humans, withholding the results from the soldiers while
incorporating the findings into biological weapons programs. "Gen. Ronald
Blanck and others have duped me into assisting them in their plans to deceive
Gulf War veterans, and I am now examining legal recourse against them," she
said.

   Lovett, newly released from Brooks Army Hospital, is wheelchair-bound and
brain-damaged, she says, as a result of chemical warfare poisoning, and offers
her Army medical records to support her charge.

   Doctors at Brooks disagree with her conclusiions and have diagnosed her as
suffering from war stress, a condition known medically as Post Traumatic
Stress Syndrome. She was given a medical discharge from the Army effective
Oct. 28.

   Broke, with her son Leon in foster care, Lovett says she will go home to
Martha's Kitchen, a homeless shelter in Temple, Texas. Lovett says, "I was
patriotic. I trusted the U.S. Army, and they played me for a fool."

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Editors note: For more information contact Patricia Axelrod at 301-270-2650.