- Sometime soon the on-line U.S. Code archives
will delete the horrific law that was Section 1520 of U.S.C. Title 50,
since it was repealed. That law allowed for the testing of chemical and
biological agents on entire "civilian populations." The law
was in effect in the U.S. for 20 years (enacted in 1977 as Public Law 95-79
and then repealed in 1997) and is PROOF that turning entire "civilian
populations" into Guinea pig farms was considered. One is forced to
wonder if over that time the military abstained from that which the law
defined.
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- Here then is that law. Save this short
law. Any government what would enact it could just as easily repeal it
with a lie.
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- --- (repealed) U.S. Code Tile 50 Section
1520 ---
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- (still here: http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/50/1520.html)
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- U.S. Code Title 50, Chapter 32
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- Sec. 1520. Use of human subjects for
testing of chemical or biological agents by Department of Defense; accounting
to Congressional committees with respect to experiments and studies; notification
of local civilian officials
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- (a) Not later than thirty days after
final approval within the Department of Defense of plans for any experiment
or study to be conducted by the Department of Defense, whether directly
or under contract, involving the use of human subjects for the testing
of chemical or biological agents, the Secretary of Defense shall supply
the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives
with a full accounting of such plans for such experiment or study, and
such experiment or study may then be conducted only after the expiration
of the thirty-day period beginning on the date such accounting is received
by such committees.
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- (b) (1) The Secretary of Defense may
not conduct any test or experiment involving the use of any chemical or
biological agent on civilian populations unless local civilian officials
in the area in which the test or experiment is to be conducted are notified
in advance of such test or experiment, and such test or experiment may
then be conducted only after the expiration of the thirty-day period beginning
on the date of such notification. (2) Paragraph (1) shall apply to tests
and experiments conducted by Department of Defense personnel and tests
and experiments conducted on behalf of the Department of Defense by contractors.
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- --- END OF (repealed) U.S.C. 50(1520)
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- (still here: http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/50/1520.html)
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