Delaware Is Violating International Treaties & Agreements

This was written by Harlan Girard of the International Committee On Offensive Microwave Weapons a few years ago and I sent it to the elected officials in Delaware and in Washington but none seems to care that international treaties and agreements are being violated daily by US intelligence agencies and their subcontractors who are using citizens as human test subjects without their informed written consent. If you were to ask any one who has openly voiced their opposition to being targeted by these weapons if they agreed to be used I can guarantee you that everyone of them would stated emphatically that they did not. Someone in Washington needs to launch an investigation and hold all responsible parties accountable for the human rights abuses that are occurring each and every day to innocent human beings. Are the treaties and agreements entered into by the US with foreign nations meaningless? Have we as a country sunk to the level where signed documents are nothing more than tissue paper? Why did Washington allow this to happen and worse of all to continue? 
Dannie Moore


In 1947, the United States Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, Germany established the Nuremberg Code as the standard by which to judge German scientists who had experimented with human subjects during World War II. Among other things, the Code prescribed that "Voluntary consent of the human subjects in research is absolutely essential. The duty and responsibility for ascertaining the quality of the consent rests upon each individual who initiates, directs or engages in the experiment."
 
In 1948, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which at Article 5, states that, "No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment"
 
In 1964, the 18th World Medical Assembly of the World Medical Association met in Helsinki, Finland. As a result of that gathering, the Helsinki Declaration was formulated, which further solidified the principles laid out in the Nuremberg Code, including a reaffirmation of informed consent and the development of independent review boards to oversee research proposals.
 
In 1966, the the United Nations adopted the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which at Article 7, expanded the definition of cruel and inhuman treatment to include unconsented experimentation on human and which now prohibits the use of human subjects in medical or scientific experimentation without their free consent. This convention went into effect on June 26, 1987 and the United States ratified it in 1990.
 
In 1974, the Congress enacted the National research Act, P.L. 93-348, which reinforced the important precept of informed consent in the conduct of medical research. The Act, also established the "Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research." The Commission was tasked with the duty of identifying "the basic ethical principles that underlie the conduct of biomedical and behavioral research involving human subjects, and to develop guidelines, which should be followed to assure that such research is conducted in accordance with those principles." Again, one of those important principles were that of informed consent.
 
Thereafter the Commission met monthly and in February 1976, issued the "Belmont Report" containing a statement of basic principles and guidelines to resolve disputes over ethical problems arising out of research with human subjects. The Commission urged the then U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare (DHEW), now the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), to adopt the Belmont Report in its entirety as official DHEW policy.
 
In 1978, the Congress enacted P.L. 95-622, establishing the "President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine, Biomedical and Behavioral Research (President's Commission).
The President' Commission issued it's first biennial report in 1981, and after review and comment, the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), responding on behalf of all affected department and agency heads to the recommendations of the President's Commission, stated: "The President should, through appropriate action require that all federal departments and agencies adopt as a common core the regulations governing research with human subjects issued by the DHHS (codified by 45 CFR Part 46), as periodically amended or revised, while permitting additions as needed by any department or agencies that are not inconsistent with these core provisions.
 
As a result of this OSTP pronouncement, a proposed Model Federal Policy was issued for comment on June 3, 1986 and was initially adopted by nineteen (19) federal agencies and departments including the Department of defense, on June 18, 1991. Thos model policy is known as the "Common Rule".
 
In January 1994, President Clinton, established the 20th Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments (Advisory Committee), to examine reports that the federal government had funded and conducted unethical human radiation experiments during the "Cold War".
 
In September 1994,the U.S. Department of State issued "Civil and Political Rights in the United States: A Report of the United States of America Under the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights". In the report , it is noted that the United States considers experimentation on unconsenting human subjects to be a violation of the subjects constitutional rights under the 4th, 5th and 8th amendments to the United States Constitution.
 
In October 1995, the Advisory Committee issued its final report and made certain recommendations on ways in which the federal government should modify its policy governing classified research on human subjects.
 
On March 27, 1997, President Clinton, issued a presidential memorandum to the heads of nineteen (19) federal department and agencies designed to strengthen the protection for human subjects of classified research. Among other things, the Advisory Committee, as a result of its work had suggested to the President that all classified research projects meet the following requirements:
A. obtain informed consent from all human subjects;
B. inform human subjects of the identity of the sponsoring agency;
C. inform the subject that the project involves classified research;
D. obtain approval from an independent panel that reviews the projects scientific merit, risk-benefit tradeoffs and ensures that the human subjects have enough information to make an informed consent; and 
E. maintain permanent records of the panes deliberation and consent procedure.