15-02-2012, 07:53 AM
Adele, thanks for that interesting tidbit on where LSD localizes in the body and brain! It is amazing how little it takes 100-200 micrograms to have a very strong and 'unusual' experience.
Jan, you seem to be searching for some reasonable answer to why France, why that small town, etc. There may be no 'reasonable' reason. Or, the 'reason' may only become apparent if we were to interview a participant in the planning or see the secret documents on it. Other operations have been carried out in ostensibly friendly nations. Certainly most of the Gladio operations were - and some were quite deadly. Granted they were of a different character and involved local 'stay-behind' neo-fascist groups, but seem to have been set up and instigated by some larger intel organization. I could imagine, for example, a moment of opportunity presenting itself in a small town in some way. Perhaps a very small outbreak of ergotism, to which the CIA team added their own ingredients to the bread in town - knowing that most of the reaction would be to their ingredients and not the ergot. Or some other logical situation of opportunity that we can't perceive. Or maybe they just randomly picked on a small town - they don't and didn't care about what happened to mere peasants [to them most everyone is a 'peasant'], in their notions of 'for the greater good' of the US and its Empire. The reactions of the townspeople certainly seem, to me, to be way beyond classical ergotism. And if it was put in the bread, then yes they had no way of controlling dosage and some must have had enormously strong trips - a terrifying experience, especially when one is not expecting anything unusual and/or knows nothing of hallucinogens.
Jan, you seem to be searching for some reasonable answer to why France, why that small town, etc. There may be no 'reasonable' reason. Or, the 'reason' may only become apparent if we were to interview a participant in the planning or see the secret documents on it. Other operations have been carried out in ostensibly friendly nations. Certainly most of the Gladio operations were - and some were quite deadly. Granted they were of a different character and involved local 'stay-behind' neo-fascist groups, but seem to have been set up and instigated by some larger intel organization. I could imagine, for example, a moment of opportunity presenting itself in a small town in some way. Perhaps a very small outbreak of ergotism, to which the CIA team added their own ingredients to the bread in town - knowing that most of the reaction would be to their ingredients and not the ergot. Or some other logical situation of opportunity that we can't perceive. Or maybe they just randomly picked on a small town - they don't and didn't care about what happened to mere peasants [to them most everyone is a 'peasant'], in their notions of 'for the greater good' of the US and its Empire. The reactions of the townspeople certainly seem, to me, to be way beyond classical ergotism. And if it was put in the bread, then yes they had no way of controlling dosage and some must have had enormously strong trips - a terrifying experience, especially when one is not expecting anything unusual and/or knows nothing of hallucinogens.
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass