Human Rights Violators: DIHS Nurses

[pop goes the weasel]

I found a rather long May 14, 2008, blog post at Home of the Brave about the involvement of medical professionals in unethical activities on behalf of Homeland Security:

I just read through the last part of the series, and it is evident that nurses committed multiple acts of malpractice against detainees when they forcibly injected psychotropic and antianxiety drugs for inappropriate reasons, at inappropriate doses and under questionable or no medical prescriptive authority to carry out these involuntary medication administration orders to patients who were actively and cogently trying to refuse them. There is documentation at the WaPo site which includes a pdf letter from ICE about what it terms “medical escort policy” and sedating patients. These are gross violations of human rights.

These nurses must be held accountable, and from a moral standpoint, the USPHS nurses working for the DIHS should resign their commissions en mass. This is reprehensible.

http://revolutionredux.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/human-rights-violators-dihs-nurses/

The same post also shows a chart comparing national attitudes toward torture. According to the chart, Americans support the use of torture more than the Chinese or Russians.



Pretty depressing stuff. It just goes to show how important the elections are this year, and how imperative it is that we all act to restore American respect for civil liberties and basic human rights.

[EFerrari]

1. The Bush torture presidency would have been impossible

without the collaboration of medical professionals. It's shocking but it's also true.