Posted on 10/30/2005 7:16:10 PM PST by Liberty Wins
A documentary by US film-maker Kelly Duda, has fresh evidence of Arkansas prison officials selling infected blood products collected from inmates with AIDS during the administration of former governor Bill Clinton.
The film, titled “Factor 8: The Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal,” will be shown at the American Film Institute Festival in Los Angeles on November 8. Duda spent almost ten years researching the story of the tragic blood policy in Arkansas’ prison system that led to thousands of hemophiliacs world-wide being infected with both AIDS and hepatitis.
The contaminated blood was used to manufacture clotting agents for hemophiliacs and exported to Canada, the UK and Europe during the 1980’s and 1990’s.
Duda’s film gives new details about the scandal, including falsification of medical records by prison authorities to hide the fact that the blood came from infected prisoners, who were paid to donate their blood.
Claims have also been made in the documentary that Clinton may have known about the infected blood. “It would be ludicrous that Bill Clinton did not know that the plasma program was experiencing problems,” said Randal Morgan, deputy director of the Department of Corrections.
The “tainted blood” scandal first erupted in Canada when it was discovered that more than 1,000 Canadians was infected with blood-borne HIV and up to 20,000 others had contracted hepatitis C. Officials considered it one of the worst public health disasters in Canadian history.
The Canadian Hemophilia Society is asking the RCMP to consider the documentary as new evidence in the ongoing police investigation into the tainted-blood scandal.
According to the Scottish Sunday Herald, hemophiliacs in the UK have demanded an investigation by the government, and numerous lawsuits have been filed against pharmaceutical companies handling the blood products.
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Indict Willie!
Clinton Blood Scandal Exposed In New Film - October 30, 2005
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Previous columns"wait a second......bill clinton had aids infested blood put out into the blood supply in order to infect ordinary citizens?"
You really didn't know about this? Well, the MSM tried like hell not to report it.
i had heard something about it before, but had been more interested in the vincent foster-ron brown clinton body count (obviously this is a part of it), and chinagate, etc.
this is so sick, these people have gotten away with so much. this stalinist press will cover for anything these evil commies do......
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