Comments on: APA Scrubs Web Pages Linking Organization to CIA Torture Workshops http://pubrecord.org/torture/7646/scrubs-pages-linking-organization/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=scrubs-pages-linking-organization Intrepid New Journalism Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:20:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David Roknich http://pubrecord.org/torture/7646/scrubs-pages-linking-organization/comment-page-1/#comment-2582 David Roknich Wed, 19 May 2010 16:29:55 +0000 http://pubrecord.org/?p=7646#comment-2582 This is not much different from the "removal" of similar truths from the web, most notably during the Bush administration. One good example was the removal of the history section from the website of Brown Brothers Harriman - the largest private bank in the world: history is preserved in the case by Wikipedia: "is particularly notable because of the large number of influential American politicians and government appointees who have worked at the company since its foundation: e.g., W. Averell Harriman, Prescott S. Bush, Robert A. Lovett. While Prescott Bush and W. Averell Harrimann worked for the firm, it helped finance Nazi Germany against U.S. law" As soon as Bush took office, things began to disappear from government websites that were upsetting to the oil companies and other friends of the Bush family - include wildlife migration patterns in the Alaskan tundra and the Ozone layer animation - all the toxicology studies for common poisons and powerful carcinogens such as PENTACHLOR also disappeared. Printed reports from EPA libraries were hastily stuffed into dumpsters. In conversations with supporters of the chemical and logging industries I was personally threatened and ridiculed - but worse things have happened to individuals who dared to stand up against the inner circle of the oligarchy who expect their deeds to remain hidden from those who suffer the results of their efforts. In short, what you expose here is not a surprise, but thanks for clarifying the role of the APA. David Roknich Galesburg, Illinois This is not much different from the “removal” of similar truths from the web, most notably during the Bush administration. One good example was the removal of the history section from the website of Brown Brothers Harriman – the largest private bank in the world: history is preserved in the case by Wikipedia:
“is particularly notable because of the large number of influential American politicians and government appointees who have worked at the company since its foundation: e.g., W. Averell Harriman, Prescott S. Bush, Robert A. Lovett. While Prescott Bush and W. Averell Harrimann worked for the firm, it helped finance Nazi Germany against U.S. law”

As soon as Bush took office, things began to disappear from government websites that were upsetting to the oil companies and other friends of the Bush family – include wildlife migration patterns in the Alaskan tundra and the Ozone layer animation – all the toxicology studies for common poisons and powerful carcinogens such as PENTACHLOR also disappeared. Printed reports from EPA libraries were hastily stuffed into dumpsters.

In conversations with supporters of the chemical and logging industries I was personally threatened and ridiculed – but worse things have happened to individuals who dared to stand up against the inner circle of the oligarchy who expect their deeds to remain hidden from those who suffer the results of their efforts.

In short, what you expose here is not a surprise, but thanks for clarifying the role of the APA.

David Roknich
Galesburg, Illinois

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