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America's Hidden Holocaust
From Dirty Truths
By Michael Parenti
2-4-3


Some Grim Statistics
Conservatives are fond of telling us what a wonderful, happy, prosperous nation this is. The only thing that matches their love of country is the remarkable indifference they show toward the people who live in it. To their ears the anguished cries of the dispossessed sound like the peevish whines of malcontents. They denounce as "bleeding hearts" those of us who criticize existing conditions, who show some concern for our fellow citizens. But the dirty truth is that there exists a startling amount of hardship, abuse, affliction, illness, violence, and pathology in this country. The figures reveal a casualty list that runs into many millions. Consider the following estimates. In any one year:

* 27,000 Americans commit suicide.
* 5,000 attempt suicide; some estimates are higher.
* 26,000 die from fatal accidents in the home.
* 23,000 are murdered.
* 85,000 are wounded by firearms.
* 38,000 of these die, including 2,600 children.
* 13,000,000 are victims of crimes including assault, rape, armed robbery, burglary, larceny, and arson.
* 135,000 children take guns to school.
* 5,500,000 people are arrested for all offenses (not including traffic violations).
* 125,000 die prematurely of alcohol abuse.
* 473,000 die prematurely from tobacco-related illnesses; 53,000 of these are nonsmokers.
* 6,500,000 use heroin, crack, speed, PCP, cocaine or some other hard drug on a regular basis.
* 5,000+ die from illicit drug use. Thousands suffer serious debilitations.
* 1,000+ die from sniffing household substances found under the kitchen sink. About 20 percent of all eighth-graders have "huffed" toxic substances. Thousands suffer permanent neurological damage.
* 31,450,000 use marijuana; 3,000,000 of whom are heavy usuers.
* 37,000,000, or one out of every six Americans, regularly use emotion controlling medical drugs. The users are mostly women. The pushers are doctors; the suppliers are pharmaceutical companies; the profits are stupendous.
* 2,000,000 nonhospitalized persons are given powerful mind-control drugs, sometimes described as "chemical straitjackets."
* 5,000 die from psychoactive drug treatments.
* 200,000 are subjected to electric shock treatments that are injurious to the brain and nervous system.
* 600 to 1,000 are lobotomized, mostly women.
* 25,000,000, or one out of every 10 Americans, seek help from psychiatric, psychotherapeutic, or medical sources for mental and emotional problems, at a cost of over $4 billion annually.
* 6,800,000 turn to nonmedical services, such as ministers, welfare agencies, and social counselors for help with emotional troubles. In all, some 80,000,000 have sought some kind of psychological counseling in their lifetimes.
* 1,300,000 suffer some kind of injury related to treatment at hospitals.
* 2,000,000 undergo unnecessary surgical operations; 10,000 of whom die from the surgery.
* 180,000 die from adverse reactions to all medical treatments, more than are killed by airline and automobile accidents combined.
* 14,000+ die from overdoses of legal prescription drugs.
* 45,000 are killed in auto accidents. Yet more cars and highways are being built while funding for safer forms of mass transportation is reduced.
* 1,800,000 sustain nonfatal injuries from auto accidents; but 150,000 of these auto injury victims suffer permanent impairments.
* 126,000 children are born with a major birth defect, mostly due to insufficient prenatal care, nutritional deficiency, environmental toxicity, or maternal drug addiction.
* 2,900,000 children are reportedly subjected to serious neglect or abuse, including physical torture and deliberate starvation.
* 5,000 children are killed by parents or grandparents.
* 30,000 or more children are left permanently physically disabled from abuse and neglect. Child abuse in the United States afflicts more children each year than leukemia, automobile accidents, and infectious diseases combined. With growing unemployment, incidents of abuse by jobless parents is increasing dramatically.
* 1,000,000 children run away from home, mostly because of abusive treatment, including sexual abuse, from parents and other adults. Of the many sexually abused children among runaways, 83 percent come from white families.
* 150,000 children are reported missing.
* 50,000 of these simply vanish. Their ages range from one year to mid-teens. According to the New York Times, "Some of these are dead, perhaps half of the John and Jane Does annually buried in this country are unidentified kids."
* 900,000 children, some as young as seven years old, are engaged in child labor in the United States, serving as underpaid farm hands, dishwashers, laundry workers, and domestics for as long as ten hours a day in violation of child labor laws.
* 2,000,000 to 4,000,00 women are battered. Domestic violence is the single largest cause of injury and second largest cause of death to U.S. women.
* 700,000 women are raped, one every 45 seconds.
* 5,000,000 workers are injured on the job; 150,000 of whom suffer permanent work-related disabilities, including maiming, paralysis, impaired vision, damaged hearing, and sterility.
* 100,000 become seriously ill from work-related diseases, including black lung, brown lung, cancer, and tuberculosis.
* 14,000 are killed on the job; about 90 percent are men.
* 100,000 die prematurely from work-related diseases.
* 60,000 are killed by toxic environmental pollutants or contaminants in food, water, or air.
* 4,000 die from eating contaminated meat.
* 20,000 others suffer from poisoning by E.coli 0157-H7, the mutant bacteria found in contaminated meat that generally leads to lifelong physical and mental health problems. A more thorough meat inspection with new technologies could eliminate most instances of contamination--so would vegetarianism.
At present:

* 5,100,000 are behind bars or on probation or parole; 2,700,000 of these are either locked up in county, state or federal prisons or under legal supervision. Each week 1,600 more people go to jail than leave. The prison population has skyrocketed over 200 percent since 1980. Over 40 percent of inmates are jailed on nonviolent drug related crimes. African Americans constitute 13 percent of drug users but 35 percent of drug arrests, 55 percent of drug convictions and 74 percent of prison sentences. For nondrug offenses, African Americans get prison terms that average about 10 percent longer than Caucasians for similar crimes.
* 15,000+ have tuberculosis, with the numbers growing rapidly; 10,000,000 or more carry the tuberculosis bacilli, with large numbers among the economically deprived or addicted.
* 10,000,000 people have serious drinking problems; alcoholism is on the rise.
* 16,000,000 have diabetes, up from 11,000,000 in 1983 as Americans get more sedentary and sugar addicted. Left untreated, diabetes can lead to blindness, kidney failure and nerve damage.
* 160,000 will die from diabetes this year.
* 280,000 are institutionalized for mental illness or mental retardation. Many of these are forced into taking heavy doses of mind control drugs.
* 255,000 mentally ill or retarded have been summarily released in recent years. Many of the "deinstitutionalized" are now in flophouses or wandering the streets.
* 3,000,000 or more suffer cerebral and physical handicaps including paralysis, deafness, blindness, and lesser disabilities. A disproportionate number of them are poor. Many of these disabilities could have been corrected with early treatment or prevented with better living conditions.
* 2,400,000 million suffer from some variety of seriously incapacitating chronic fatigue syndrome.
* 10,000,000+ suffer from symptomatic asthma, an increase of 145 percent from 1990 to 1995, largely due to the increasingly polluted quality of the air we breathe.
* 40,000,000 or more are without health insurance or protection from catastrophic illness.

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* 1,800,000 elderly who live with their families are subjected to serious abuse such as forced confinement, underfeeding, and beatings. The mistreatment of elderly people by their children and other close relatives grows dramatically as economic conditions worsen.
* 1,126,000 of the elderly live in nursing homes. A large but undetermined number endure conditions of extreme neglect, filth, and abuse in homes that are run with an eye to extracting the highest possible profit.
* 1,000,000 or more children are kept in orphanages, reformatories, and adult prisons. Most have been arrested for minor transgressions or have committed no crime at all and are jailed without due process. Most are from impoverished backgrounds. Many are subjected to beatings, sexual assault, prolonged solitary confinement, mind control drugs, and in some cases psychosurgery.
* 1,000,000 are estimated to have AIDS as of 1996; over 250,000 have died of that disease.
* 950,000 school children are treated with powerful mind control drugs for "hyperactivity" every year--with side effects like weight loss, growth retardation and acute psychosis.
* 4,000,000 children are growing up with unattended learning disabilities.
* 4,500,000+ children, or more than half of the 9,000,000 children on welfare, suffer from malnutrition. Many of these suffer brain damage caused by prenatal and infant malnourishment.
* 40,000,000 persons, or one of every four women and more than one of every ten men, are estimated to have been sexually molested as children, most often between the ages of 9 and 12, usually by close relatives or family acquaintances. Such abuse almost always extends into their early teens and is a part of their continual memory and not a product of memory retrieval in therapy.
* 7,000,000 to 12,000,000 are unemployed; numbers vary with the business cycle. Increasing numbers of the chronically unemployed show signs of stress and emotional depression.
* 6,000,000 are in "contingent" jobs, or jobs structured to last only temporarily. About 60 percent of these would prefer permanent employment.
* 15,000,000 or more are part-time or reduced-time "contract" workers who need full-time jobs and who work without benefits.
* 3,000,000 additional workers are unemployed but uncounted because their unemployment benefits have run out, or they never qualified for benefits, or they have given up looking for work, or they joined the armed forces because they were unable to find work.
* 80,000,000 live on incomes estimated by the U.S. Department of Labor as below a "comfortable adequacy"; 35,000,000 of these live below the poverty level.
* 12,000,000 of those at poverty's rock bottom suffer from chronic hunger and malnutrition. The majority of the people living at or below the poverty level experience hunger during some portion of the year.
* 2,000,000 or more are homeless, forced to live on the streets or in makeshift shelters.
* 160,000,000+ are members of households that are in debt, a sharp increase from the 100 million of less than a decade ago. A majority indicate they have borrowed money not for luxuries but for necessities. Mounting debts threaten a financial crack-up in more and more families.


A Happy Nation?
Obviously these estimates include massive duplications. Many of the 20 million unemployed are among the 35 million below the poverty level. Many of the malnourished children are also among those listed as growing up with untreated learning disabilities and almost all are among the 35 million poor. Many of the 37 million regular users of mind-control drugs also number among the 25 million who seek psychiatric help.

Some of these deprivations and afflictions are not as serious as others. The 80 million living below the "comfortably adequate" income level may compose too vague and inclusive a category for some observers (who themselves enjoy a greater distance from the poverty line). The 40 million who are without health insurance are not afflicted by an actual catastrophe but face only a potential one (though the absence of health insurance often leads to a lack of care and eventually a serious health crisis). We might not want to consider the 5.5 million arrested as having endured a serious affliction, but what of the 1.5 million who are serving time and what of their victims? We might want to count only the 150,000 who suffer a serious job-related disability rather than the five million on-the-job injuries, only half of the 20 million unemployed and underemployed so as not to duplicate poverty figures, only 10 percent of the 1.1 million institutionalized elderly as mistreated (although the number is probably higher), only 10 per cent of the 37 million regular users of medically prescribed psychogenic drugs as seriously troubled, only 5 per cent of the 160 million living in indebted families as seriously indebted (although the number is probably higher).

If we consider only those who have endured physical or sexual abuse, or have been afflicted with a serious disability, or a serious deprivation such as malnutrition and homelessness, only those who face untimely deaths due to suicide, murder, battering, drug and alcohol abuse, industrial and motor vehicle accidents, medical (mis)treatment, occupational illness, and sexually transmitted diseases, we are still left with a staggering figure of over 19,000,000 victims. To put the matter in some perspective, in the 12 years that saw 58,000 Americans killed in Vietnam, several million died prematurely within the United States from unnatural and often violent causes.

Official bromides to the contrary, we are faced with a hidden holocaust, a social pathology of staggering dimensions. Furthermore, the above figures do not tell the whole story. In almost every category an unknown number of persons go unreported. For instance, the official tabulation of 35 million living in poverty is based on census data that undercount transients, homeless people, and those living in remote rural and crowded inner-city areas. Also, the designated poverty line is set at an unrealistically low income level and takes insufficient account of how inflation especially affects the basics of food, fuel, housing, and health care that consume such a disproportionate chunk of lower incomes. Some economists estimate that actually as many as 46 million live in conditions of acute economic want.

Left uncounted are the more than two thousand yearly deaths in the U.S. military due to training and transportation accidents, and the many murders and suicides in civilian life that are incorrectly judged as deaths from natural causes, along with the premature deaths from cancer caused by radioactive and other carcinogenic materials in the environment. Almost all cancer deaths are now thought to be from human-made causes.

Fatality figures do not include the people who are incapacitated and sickened from the one thousand potentially toxic additional chemicals that industry releases into the environment each year, and who die years later but still prematurely. At present there are at least 51,000 industrial toxic dump sites across the country that pose potentially serious health hazards to communities, farmlands, water tables, and livestock. One government study has concluded that the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat are now perhaps the leading causes of death in the United States.

None of these figures include the unhappiness, bereavement, and longterm emotional wounds inflicted upon the many millions of loved ones, friends, and family members who are close to the victims.


Public Policy, Personal Pain
If things are so bad, why then has the U.S. mortality rate been declining? The decline over the last half-century has been due largely to the dramatic reduction in infant mortality and the containment of many contagious diseases, largely through improvement in public health standards. Furthermore, years of industrial struggle by working people, especially in the twentieth century, brought a palpable betterment in certain conditions. In other words, as bad as things are now, in earlier times some things were even worse. For example, about 14,000 persons are killed on the job annually, but in 1916 the toll was 35,000, with the labor force less than half what it is today.

The growth in health consciousness that has led millions to quit smoking, exercise more regularly, and have healthier diets also has reduced mortality rates, especially among those over 40. The 55-mile per hour speed limit and the crackdown on drunken driving contributed by cutting into highway fatalities. But the cancer death rate and most of the other pathologies and life diminishing conditions listed earlier continue in an upward direction. Small wonder the climb in life expectancy has leveled off to a barely perceptible crawl in recent years.


Copyright ? 2003 Michael Parenti. All rights reserved.



http://www.michaelparenti.org/HiddenHolocaust.html

I am afraid my secret is out...Easiest way to get a thread to 2 pages is to say "America" in the title

Cool shit

Hmmm... Even on his own page he post no source for his statistics.

Life sucks, but its better than the alternative.

i feel... uhm... lucky!

Welcome back Massivecock!

And your point?

When did we ever say we're perfect? We've just got the best system out there, but its far from perfect. I don't even think perfect is possible for us or any other country that has this large and diverse a population.

But however fucked up it is, it works, it does work and at the end of the day, you can go to sleep knowing when you wake up your world will still be there like always.

i ate my tinfoil hat

IT'S BUSH'S FAULT! AND THOSE REPUBLICANS! BUSh=SATAN! ALL THINGS WOULD BE GOOD AND PURE IF CLINTON WERE STILL IN POWER!

Should have given your hat to Sleazy I hear that he is addicted now.

Is this all you got? Shit, at least the other stuff you posted was somewhat controversial. This is just a bunch of statistics, that every country has (obviously with different numbers, across the board, some better, some worse).

Like i said, jsut about every country in the world has all of these problems. Are we all suffering from a hidden holocaust? Do you even understand what the word holocaust means, or do you have a buzz word quota you just have to meet each month?

* 26,000 die from fatal accidents in the home.

wtf

As long as people don't die from wanking I don't care...

nice stats :321GFY
* 31,450,000 use marijuana; 3,000,000 of whom are heavy usuers - especially like this one

You're a fucking tool Rene. Take your shit elsewhere. Maybe post a tutorial on here how paysite owners can protect themselves against password sites. Make yourself useful.....Use your fraudulent past and present to help the adult community that you have ripped off in the past and continue to do in the present. :321GFY

* 700,000 women are raped, one every 45 seconds.

bustas best to step they game up.

bullshit statistics

Social Darwinism, anyone?

Thats not nothing, I'm sure India and China have 50x more problems and people dying. This country has only 280 million people. India and China have over a billion each, and don't have close to enough food and water for like 50% of their population. Have you ever heard how much AIDS victims are in India, I think like 60 to 70%. This country is heaven compared to some other countries. Thats why so many illegal immigrants try to sneek into this country looking for a better life.

That is my opinion. I'm too lazy to look for real facts.

Massive cock own you!

LOL!!!!!!!!!
What year are you living in?
1997 - 1998?
Because thats when i last owned a password site.. 1998.
Are you aware that we are now in 2003.

(post a tutorial on here how paysite owners can protect themselves against password sites. )

---> Sure! ... Purchase a password protection script.
Watch the traffic flow on your server if it spikes unusually on your paysite, then you have a password leak.

I mean what more can i say?

( Use your fraudulent past and present to help the adult community that you have ripped off in the past and continue to do in the present. )

- Yes i did run a password site in the past... yes i took advantage of free passwords floating around.

- No i did not hack any passwords myself. I usually copied the passwords off of other sites. I had a lot of people donating passwords to me though.

- Yes I probably hurt alot of people and paysite owners in the past... And Im sure my Karma will catch up to me, If it already hasn't.

- And I do not continue to rip people off in the present.
If you feel i do, then please explain how.

I how am I a tool?

Do you know me?

Who are you?

Take what shit elsewhere?

You obviously dont know me... because you have no idea what i have contributed in the past few years//

hehe...
Go on talking .... your getting no-where.
The Past has gripped your soul...

holy, come on,it cant be true :Graucho

Rene, when you are looking for a new office, thank me for contributing to the stability of your company!!

now if you faggots wasnt so hung up on policing the world and acting like you own the fucking planet, you might have time to do something about those thing..

But who fucking cares that americans are dying really ?? not very many besides americans and with that "we will controle the world and deside whats good and bad" attitued your country has who can blame us ??

so please keep up the good work!

LOL!!!!

Please explain why you did not answer any of my questions?

And why all the Anger towards me?

I think some idiot sent this shit to my email address in the form of a chain letter. Needles to say, it was deleted and I just gave myself 7 years of bad luck :(

MassiveCock Returns.....

FYI.. I didn't read any of this.... :1orglaugh

I agree. American society is bullshit. We need to get a good one like theTaliban had.

How many Americans starve to death each year?

ME MISSED YOU MASSIVECOCK!

Hey.. WHO'S THAT BEHIND YOU!! oh my god..

Do you believe in Jebus?

Hey Bro! How's it going?
What is Jebus?

I wanna move to whatever country this Turf guy lives in, cuz they must have it all figured out like utopia.


No time to pack a bag..... I'm there.

And Jebus layed his hands onto MassiveCock, and MassiveCock rose up and saw the light

...and the light was good. Very very good.


Can ah GET me an amen?

Fucking cool.

p00p, keep hiding behind GFY.. Let's do lunch some time.

Jebus is LIFE my brother, Jebus is life.

:thumbsup

i only have one question

how many people died running with scissors?

Hi

America is big shit, this is for fucking money, no more peoples sincere talk to each other about problem they have, just how to earn more money, money....they are all sick, and the worse thing is all world follow to this shit, no wonder why some many peoples looking psychiatry.

I'd like to know how many vampires have died while running with wooden stakes.

On this note, I got to bed and get rest for head, before needink the head examination for the psychiatry.


Dammit, I hope I don't dream of poop again.

How many people have drowned while swimming after eating a large meal and not heeding their mother's advice?

I'm thinking millions.




I wonder how many people have kept on with the fun & games right up until one of them loses an eye? Man that sucks when that happens.

red ryder bb gun causes most optical accidents


How many people really die from boredom?

Dunno.... but I'm near-death from that one myself at the moment.



But how many people have really died laughing?

I almost did once. Learned my lesson and never laughed again.


Do you think there are any statistics on how many people have died from embarrassment?

No idea.



My brother once crapped himself silly, does that count? Ya gotta wonder how many people do that these days.

Shit... I don't know?!

Do you need a pilots license to give a flying fuck?

5 people a year!
lol!