Tuesday August 5, 2008, 4:46 pm
They should apologize.

Tuesday August 5, 2008, 5:22 pm

Oh, yeah?

BFD. (Not on you, Michael, but this admittance is just a "mustard burp in the wind.")

Thank you for posting this.

Tuesday August 5, 2008, 5:42 pm
You betcha, Carole...too little, too late. Meaningless political pretense and posturing.

Tuesday August 5, 2008, 5:48 pm
The very least they could have did was issue the apology when the former slaves were still alive.

Tuesday August 5, 2008, 6:06 pm
Slavery can never be apologized. It would be to easy. To many people have suffered unbearable pains and humilations. Robbed from their dignity, freedom, culture and separated from their families. Banned in the most cruel circonstances to other countries, to be slaves ...

We can apology but not be forgiven.

A few weeks ago I visited the House of Slavery in Goree - Senegal.

From the 15th to the 19th century, it was the largest slave-trading centre on the African coast.

How can we apologize such a cruelty???

Tuesday August 5, 2008, 7:48 pm
Loooooooong overdue!

Wednesday August 6, 2008, 2:20 am
sand in you eyes ----- now they think of it? the time lapse is an insult on its own

Wednesday August 6, 2008, 4:38 am
"The resolution does not address the controversial issue of reparations. "
Of course not.
So the decendants of those having earnt a mint with slavery have decided to apologize to the decendants of those they exploited. Great. Super. Meaningless, hollow but super.
"Just stay off my wallet boy!!"

Hypocrits!

Wednesday August 6, 2008, 7:48 am
It's about time they got over that formality! Why they didn't do it decades ago is beyond me. Maybe they had to wait for the opposition in the south to die down/die off? Curiously enough, the African nations which *sold* their slaves to countries such as the US still haven't apologized to *their* former citizens, nor paid them even a shilling. Hell, they're *still* doing it over there, and no one is directing their ire eastward, are they? It's as if the US is/was the only nation that ever participated in the venture. How uninformed can people be, to make that assumption? As for reparations, do some in-depth study of history (read: NOT the internet, and NOT politically-slanted school textbooks), and you'll find that even though the payment was paltry by today's standards, reparations *were* made (and promptly spent). The problem is that everyone is convinced that either the original slaves should have saved the money so that their descendants could enjoy it, or that the US govt should be relegated to paying out again and again with each new generation (and, in a way, we do). To think of it another way: descendants of the Katrina disaster will likely be whining that the govt never paid *them* for what happened centuries ago, despite the survivors having received checks for $2000 each. I just hope that we can perhaps now begin to move on as a nation, and my descendants won't have to spend a month each year in school learning about how they are bad people because their ancestors made an unethical business deal with African slavers. A fool's hope, I know.

Wednesday August 6, 2008, 8:35 am
*Reparations* do not equal *hush money*.
*Reparations* should be made in the form of investments in education and de-ghettoisation. Of course money is spent more quickly than it is received. It's not just like that with those who received $2000 (wow, THAT much? Ouch!), it is like that with everyone.
Reparations must adher to what the name says: they shall repair sometihng - not bribe people...
But hey, what do i know..

Wednesday August 6, 2008, 8:45 am
I agree with all these comments, especially Andreas'. Also, what about the Chinese that built our railroads? Why did they take so long to apologize?

Wednesday August 6, 2008, 8:54 am
Ok, fairness is unfortunately not prerequisite to life on this planet. Healing begins with an apology. Let's look to the future and work on seeing each other as equals, brothers and sisters. Servitude and slavery are over now, lets just make sure it never happens again.

Wednesday August 6, 2008, 9:17 am
Dennis writes:

"It's about time they got over that formality! Why they didn't do it decades ago is beyond me."

This should have been done well over a century ago when slavery was abolished and those slaves were alive.

"I just hope that we can perhaps now begin to move on as a nation, and my descendants won't have to spend a month each year in school learning about how they are bad people because their ancestors made an unethical business deal with African slavers. A fool's hope, I know."

So very little African American history is taught in our society and school. It shouldn't be limited to just a month but should be a regular and equal part of american history. Limiting it to a month really doesn't do it justice.

Wednesday August 6, 2008, 10:40 am
Michael, I agree. However, as much as that needed to be done, the Native Americans have never been apologized to and won't. Now they want their reservations for oil, natural gas, gold, uranium, etc. They feel safe apologizing to the poor slaves as they are dead, but you won't see anything like that for Natives. They are still in poverty, dispicable medical aid, no employement, high suicide rates, drop out rates, alcohoism, drug abuse and nothing else for them to do on a Rez. The government still controls most reservations and make damn sure they never get their heads above water. Those with casino's are fighting to keep them to support tribal members and educational programs.

Wednesday August 6, 2008, 5:13 pm
As much as the Government wishes this were true,
saying "I'm sorry" doesn't make a thing go away.
This was, imho, a totally empty gesture and a waste
of time on the part of Congress.
As my dear friend Carole said,
BFD.
This should have happened in 1908, NOT 2008!
Thanks, Michael.
noted.

Wednesday August 6, 2008, 6:20 pm
I totally agree Sandy that the Native Americans have been screwed more than anyone else who's set foot on this soil. They were here before any of us were.

Wednesday August 6, 2008, 8:11 pm
My family has suffered severely over the last 35 years from the hands of shadow predators masquerading as Psychiatrists, Physicians, Social workers, Teachers, Government officials and a host of other Professions in order to enact fear and paranoia in their savage campaign to gain control of my family’s mind and behavior thru their State sponsored unethical Human Research Programs.

It is a conspiracy that is so monstrous that no one would want to believe it actually happened. These Individuals operates with total Impunity with Gestapo like powers and they hide within our Government’s Administrations throughout this Country.

Thru prayer and countless research I discovered what I believe to be the truth of what has happened to my family. Base on uncanny similarities of victims of a secret Government program, Congressional Records and testimonials that can be substantiated through the Freedom of Information Act, I believe that my family has been targeted for Human Research thru an elaborate unethical program that changes its name often called MKULTRA.

It all started in the latter part of the 60’s when the Drew daycare facility that cared for my oldest sibling Ward Johnson, convinced my mother to enroll him into Dr. Margaret Lawrence of Harlem Hospital program for kids with special needs simply because he wouldn’t play with other kids – which they claimed.

A host of social workers and Dr. Lawrence eventually convinced my mother to enroll him into a special boarding school call Childville to correct his “problem” of playing by himself because they inform her that the board of education would not accept kids that are considered anti-social.

She was instructed to hold him out of school at the age of 6 and that they will provide her with a special school that would accept him and correct his “problem” of not wanting to play with other children.

In the summer of 1970 after Ward turn 7 years old he entered into Childville, a division of the Jewish child care association of New York City - Our lives has never been the same ever since his admission into that dreadful institution. It was there she found out that Ward was a prodigious savant who had incredible abilities... A fact that Dr. Lawrence hidden from her.

Shortly after his enrollment into Childville, Ward started to exhibit severe personality changes that alarmed my mother that made her wanting to remove him from their so call “boarding school.” - It was then that the staff of Childville informed my mother that my brother no longer belong to her because she signed away her parental rights to BCW, when she enrolled him into their program and that he now belong to the New York State Foster Care System.

My mother tried to get help as she fought valiantly for her son but the rogue elements within our Government flexed their muscle and utilized every agency imaginable in the City of New York to strip away her rights as they participated in this covert unethical experimentation of my brother.

My family has been terrorized and abused by these demented officials and physicians who all swore an oath to uphold the law and to protect and serve and preserve a human life.

Suddenly problems started to occur within our household as we became victims of repeated break-ins, vicious rumors and sabotage of reputation.

This is about the time that they went after my brother Trevis through a clandestine operation within the elementary school (public school 23) he attended. They covertly administered drugs to him while making him feel like it was his fault for being “a bad little boy.”

My mother was arrested after she “rescued” Ward from Childville by refusing to return him after a weekend visit - My brother’s and I was place into the custody of BCW because of the fact that she refuse to allow Childville to retain the parental rights to my brother Ward.

My brother’s and I were injected with some type of medication while in the custody of BCW after my mother's arrest in april of 1974. After that we all were diagnose with different types of physiological problems. My white blood cells became very low, Trevis started developing problems with his left eye (white mass bumps) and swelling in his left breast and Sean lost all the hair over his entire body.

Shortly afterwards, our problems escalated within our household as the vandalism intensified and we became the victim of gang stalking, rumors, harassment by housing employees and even betrayal by close friends and family members.

My mother has now become a target of psychological warfare from the conspirators as they focus their attention upon her to keep her quiet and occupied with problems.

Numerous attempts of witchcraft have been used to keep her psychological captive and manageable for their sadistic plot they had in store for her and her family. The harassment grew more bizarre and severe every time she reached out for help from the proper authorities.

She later found salvation in her newfound faith in Jehovah God, and was able to function with some sense of normalcy despite the many persecutions she experienced daily in everyday life. She had to endure further heartache when the conspirators turn their attention on her youngest son Sean whom they damaged severely with their behavioral modification program.

Trevis was severely damage by these predators as he was drugged thru the board of education, Children Services and when they rail-road him into prison - Where they expose him to untold persecutions and mind – altering Drugs. All this was done covertly without the consent of my mother.

I became “alienated” from my family because of the escalating trouble that we was having in our household and I began to rebel against my mother which force me into foster care at the tender age of 16. Once there they work feverishly to get me on mood- stabilizing medication and even threaten to withhold my allowance if I refuse to comply with their pharmaceutical regiment that they had laid out for me.

I refused to take the medication and went on to graduated with honors and started working in the construction business at the age of 18 after I finish school. I now realize that God preserved me for a purpose when he allowed me to be place into foster care and protected me from the human research predators – much like he allowed Joseph to be sold into Egypt and use him to protect his family and his people in a time of distress. Satan had Joseph brothers sell him into slavery for wickedness but God allowed it to happen for righteousness, because he had a purpose for Joseph.

My mother life seems to always be “troubled” and “busy” as she fought for the rights for her family. She didn’t even have the time to look into the huge amount of heir’s property that her late cousin (Wavy Lackey) promised her in Covington, Georgia which ended up in the hands of a powerful southern attorney by the name of Pat Campbell and an illegitimate relative name Lester Lackey.

Was she recommended for this illegal program to distract her from her inheritance that her cousin promise her when he told her that he was going to leave her as the administrator of the Lackey Estates and train her sons in the family business?

Or was she just a victim of double jeopardy as she and my brother’s continue to be victimized and terrorized by numerous governmental agencies? Her problems took a turn for the worse when they turn their attention to my niece Geneva Johnson who was "legally" kidnap by family court Supervising Judge Susan K. Knipps and Children Services (ACS).

The Predators decided to go after my mother and try to give her a psych history in order to discredit her. They used my niece Geneva as a ransom to try to get my mother psychologically evaluated. They endangered the welfare of my niece and exposed her to untold horrors that any child shouldn’t have to endure. These individuals would go to any extremities to prove a point that doesn’t exist.

My brother Trevis started disclosing facts about what happened to him and wanted to take civil action against his predators. They found ways to make his case disappear and out-dated as they forced him into a residential home (Pilby) and continued their illegal experiments on him until the day that he died.

Was my brother murdered to keep him from talking about the years of ritual abuse and force medication that was done to him by rogue physicians operating with total impunity from someone within our Government?

Why did the Hospitals, NYPD, Paramedics, Social Workers and the Medical Examiners office demonstrate gross-negligence and deceit, leading up to the unusual events of my brother’s death?

Was this part of their “final solution” to rid themselves of members of my family… and if so, who’s next?

Who in our Government is allowing these Hitler like atrocities to take place on unsuspecting American Citizens violating every Human, Civil and Constitutional law of God and Man?

This is domestic terrorism of the worst kind and this is why this story must be made public and the guilty must stand trial for their crimes.

My family and countless others that the Government deems to be expendable may be the beginning of what some rogue officials have in store for America's future. Please don’t forget that this is still a government for the people and by the people. We must all work together to bring this story to the light to rid ourselves of this social cancer - Because today it’s my family that is suffering and tomorrow it may be yours. Please sign the Petition below to end all Illegal Human Research Programs in America.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/petition/293806954

Thursday August 7, 2008, 8:44 pm
I agree Michael and Sandy, They have never said sorry to the Native Americans and they never will, but its ok, for in my eyes I'm a better person than this and always will be. But I will always stand proud of who I'm that they can't take from me for yes I have Cherokee blood running through me. I don't want there stinken sorrys for they don't mean it anyway just more lies and deciet. the good old Gov. hua!!! Bite Me!! Thanks Michael.