Do you think the American government is experimenting on people still?

Please read the following before answering the poll. The United States government did something that was wrong — deeply, profoundly, morally wrong.

The following is an excerpt from former President Clinton’s apology given Oct. 3, 1995.

"Thousands of government-sponsored experiments did take place at hospitals, universities, and military bases around our nation. Some were unethical, not only by today's standards, but by the standards of the time in which they were conducted. They failed both the test of our national values and the test of humanity. The United States of America offers a sincere apology to those of our citizens who were subjected to these experiments, to their families, and to their communities. When the government does wrong, we have a moral responsibility to admit it."

On behalf of the government, Clinton apologized for thousands of experiments on innocent Americans. Many of these experiments were MK Ultra type Mind Control and Mood Control experiments.

Clinton made the remarks as he accepted the recommendations of an advisory committee he appointed to study the secret experiments, which began in 1944 and continued for three decades.

The experiments included: the exposure of people to chemical and biological weapons (including infection of people with deadly or debilitating diseases), human radiation experiments, injection of people with toxic and radioactive chemicals, surgical experiments, interrogation and torture experiments, tests involving mind-altering substances, and a wide variety of others. Many of these tests were performed on children, the sick, and mentally disabled individuals, often under the guise of "medical treatment". In many of the studies, a large portion of the subjects were poor, racial minorities, or prisoners.

It is extremely concerning to know that many Americans are not even aware of President Clinton’s apology regarding human experimentation. The fact that they, the government, dare to use human beings in experiments is unnerving. We are dealing with the unethical, immoral, and illegally acting here.

Recognizing two things is an important part of the whole: That it happens is not a question; it is a matter of fact, and it has been documented through the decades. Second, we have great difficulty looking at it or analyzing it from the opposite sides of the spectrum from the offenders (who have human beings in the loop of what they employ).

What are your thoughts on the matter? Do you think things like this are still happening?