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bobb wrote:
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Trying to put a happy face on this one is
like painting a smiley face on the nosecone
of an atomic bomb.

It's like the "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign welded into
the gateways of several Nazi death camps.
(Work brings freedom or work makes freedom)

The courts have already gotten involved, and
a FOSTER Mom who refused to knuckle under
to the pressure and threats from the agencies
got the ball rolling. The rotten agencies thought
they could steamroller this one and it WILL
backfire severely.

The failures that basically enabled the Foster
kids to be used almost sadistically as Guinea
Pigs for AIDS drugs were and are systemic evils.

Did you think that the requirement that
ADVOCATES be appointed to look out for the
interests of each individual kid were a mere technicality?

There been more than just a single article exposing this problem.

I pointed out that the early article was a piece of yellow journalism.
It did not provide depth but instead focused on the sensational by
mainly addressing the story of one foster parent advocate for the child
in her care.

While it's a great hook, it's not the whole story, as this article
shows with more balance.

The
problem, of course, is and was the state.

As the first article tried to paint the picture, in limited sensational
terms, yes. But that's now the media does things. Some media.

Hey, as I already mentioned the state got the kids and who really
cares what
they do with them.

You apparently didn't read this article. Both the reseachers and the
state went to considerable pains to protect the children, and to make
available to them the same advanced skill and medicines that other
non-foster children were being offerred.

Only if you beleive the state and the researchers. I don't. There are a
great many adults to do 'testing' on while at the same time the best medical
care could, and should, be offered foster children. These kids should not
be used as test tubes. The state has no business making these kinds of
decisions.

bobb


Hey, need a Guinea
Pigs for research? Yeh. we got lots. Mostly poor and minority.

You think the 90% of the children entered into the program by their own
legal parents were mostly poor and minority?

Whose 'best interests' are being served?

Those children who lived rather than died.

I know of few medical Tx that do not have some discomfort, up to and
including considerable pain, but the patient more often lives. In these
cases, as the state being surveyed noted, the death rate of AIDS
victims dropped considerably. As I recall from 40 to 19.

So we could say that 21 children's "best interests" were very well
served, don't you think?

You seem up to your usual level of intelligent contribution today,
bobber. You did your mandatory fifteen headbutts on the edge of the
toilet I presume.

bobb

Read the article again, bobber, and just for the fun of it, comment on
each point made in it. You cherry pick, and ignore what differs with
your sick biases, just as you do with queers, blacks, women, mexicans,
etc.

The only good people in your book, apparently, are those that ****
children and get too heavy a sentence.

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