Hi Marilyn >Keith at Biofuel@sustainablelists.org wrote: >"Does anything know anything about soldiers being given drugs >before going into combat, as has been alleged?" > >Several US militiary men returning from Iraq have become violent >against their wives, some wives being killed by these husbands >in a California base. There has been a lot of speculation that this >violence was brought on by reactions to drugs in their systems, >but I haven't heard of any studies confirming this. If such studies >did exist, we probably wouldn't hear about them anyway. > >There were news reports in England, where I lived at the time, >that the Chinese troops who mowed down the protesters in >Tiannamin Square were given drugs to make them aggressive, >and this, in addition to being told that the students in the Square >had been extremely violent, made them willing to kill their own >people. Did US news sources report this?
I saw those reports, I was also in England then. Google finds some smatterings, "unofficial" stuff, eg: "Junior XNA [Xinhua News Agency] staffers stopped work after editors suppressed a report, based on hospital accounts, that soldiers had been given amphetamines prior to clearing out Tiananmen and protesters had been shot with dum dum bullets forbidden by the Geneva convention." Another: "The soldiers had obviously been drugged because sedatives were ineffective on them. The doctors believed that military personnel had been given amphetamines before being sent into the square. As wounded students began streaming back onto the university campus, they confirmed the bizarre behavior of the soldiers who they reported had been laughing hysterically as they mowed down the students..." This is from The Age, not just about Tiananmen Square: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/01/20/1042911325152.html More than once were warriors out of their tiny minds - theage.com.au I keep hearing about it, but never enough to pin it down. It goes back to the WW2 research findings that most soldiers wouldn't pull the trigger even under direct attack, not quite the good news the military wanted to hear. How to make them kill on demand, so they're "capable of violent acts without guilt feelings", ie turn them into psychopaths? It seems it's not so easy, the Milgram experiment etc to the contrary. Little pills might help though. Best Keith >Marilyn _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
