I loved reading about United States History and Politics, even as a young child. In 1982, I began studying Political Science as a student at West Valley College. I was excited to take my first college course in Political Science.

My professor was Bill Whitney. He was very excitable and interesting, lecturing about elections during the depression, political parties and spy satellites. I told him that he had very interesting ideas but I thought he would be more effective if he cited more research.

Professor Whitney then accused me of being a spy for Dr. Karamitsos who was a Marxist. I was surprised. I knew about Communism, but I was only taking World History with Dr. Karamitsos. I barely knew her. I was a political moderate, sensible. Communism in Russia and China seems extreme to me. I was shocked and did not know how to respond to him.

Professor Whitney assigned a project analyzing the news media. I recorded on my Video Tape Machine, the national news for ABC, NBC, and CBS. It was during the presidential election of 1984 between President Ronald Reagan and Vice President Walter Mondale. Due to my analysis, I began to see how the news media covered certain stories and yet ignored others.

Moreover, I learned how much fear and anger often gets stirred up when we discuss politics. Political discourse is designed to evoke powerful affect and certain behavior.

In college, I was very interested in the politics of Central America – El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico. Because I took a Spanish language class at San Jose State University, I discussed with my fellow students the news from Spanish language stations from Latin America. I came to realize that Spanish language television news from Mexico covered many stories from Nicaragua and El Salvador that CBS, NBC, and ABC news did not cover.

I asked my pastor at church, Father Clemens, if he knew someone at Santa Clara University who was connected with Central America. He introduced me to Father James Torrens who connected me with a newsletter from Costa Rica about Central American Politics and life.

Upon receiving the newsletter monthly, I was shocked how dramatically different the United States television networks ignored news from Central America. At the time, Nicaragua and El Salvador were very important political stories, because they were debated by many US Congressmen. Yet many relevant facts about Latin America were not being covered by the US television networks.

I was reading a writer from Mexico describe the United States and he wrote that “Americans see the world like we have mirrors at our borders.” Americans see the rest of the world like we see the United States, even though the world is vastly different – social customs, poverty, infrastructure, media, and government. Americans do not seem to distinguish our own country from other countries which are vastly different. I think Americans find it very difficult to see the world accurately, because the news media is not presenting vital information about the world. Moreover, I do not think the news media objectively and fairly covers domestic issues in the United States. How objective are we as Americans?

What secrets are being kept by government from its own citizens?

 

Who does government serve, if not its citizens?  In 2002, my mom filed a lawsuit in another legal dispute.  My mom said her lawyer, Jean Starcevich, requested a recommendation for a doctor to do a psychiatric evaluation. I recommended Dr. Daniel Amen who is a neurologist and psychiatrist.  My mom flew to Orange County, California, USA and had a SPECT (Single Photon Emission Computer Tomography).  This is a type of brain scan of blood flow in the brain.

 

Upon returning from Southern California, my mom told me the Amen Clinic staff had informed her that she had poor overall blood flow in her brain and the appearance of bumps and waves in the surface area of her brain which is indicative of poor brain function.  Therefore, she was at risk for neurological problems later in life.

 

My mom was born in Omak, Washington, a small town in north central Washington State.  My dad was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.  Yet my parents were part of an experiment to determine how much radiation a human being could tolerate before getting sick.  (Please check the documentation below if you wish to evaluate the veracity of these claims.)

 

The Amen Clinic staff had told her that radiation was released in Hanford, Washington, USA (from 1944 to 1972).  My dad served during World War II in the Marshall Islands as a United States Marine.  Sometime after his honorable discharge from the Marine Corp, my dad began working at the General Electric plant which produced plutonium for the United States government.  My mom and dad were married in 1956 in the Hanford, Washington area.

 

In 1981, my father died of lymphatic cancer and its complications at 57 years old.  My mother had a stroke in 2006 and suffered terribly from seizures.  During the last ten years of her life, she was catatonic at times, starring off into space and unable to speak.  My mom was an gifted concert violinist in college and later became an executive administrator for high technology companies.  After her stroke in 2006, she bravely endured her unbearable suffering with dignity and humor until her death in 2018.  No one should have to endure such pain for such highly unethical secret research.

 

The staff experimenting with releasing radiation from 1944 to 1972 in Washington State was instructed to keep as few records as possible.

 

References

 

Wald, M. L., (1986, October 24), Northwest Plutonium Plant Had Big Radioactive Emissions in 40s and 50s, Section A, Page 20.

 

The Release of Radioactive Materials from Hanford: 1944-1972. (1997, January 24). Retrieved from http://www.doh.wa.gov/hanford/publication/history/release.html