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the p-terminal precedent: the imperial method indicted — Persons of Expendability

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Ottawa could easily have asked your then CIA for, what is the term, “Persons of Expendability” from Southeast Asia or Negroes, the subjects expended for your inspiring U.S.A.’s MK-Ultra.

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Marathe turns U.S. history against U.S. squeamishness, as in 072's drug-war jab: Canada's "nightmare of legalities" over human subjects could have been solved American-style, by procuring "'Persons of Expendability' from Southeast Asia or Negroes" as "for your inspiring U.S.A.'s MK-Ultra." The political charge is that the U.S. has no standing to be horrified by the pleasure-experiment when its own security apparatus pioneered expendable-population experimentation. It is the same structural indictment the serial keeps making — American method exposed at the moment America condemns Québec.

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