NO CONSCIENCE: JOHNS HOPKINS AND IRAQ.

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JOHNS HOPKINS + IRAQ

Could it be that an institution is organizationally endowed with character traits that pertain to homo sapiens? That it could be sadistic, as a psychopath?

NO CONSCIENCE

A long time ago, I was involved in a debriefing of a client at the Office of the United States Attorney. In the middle of the debriefing session, the Assistant United States Attorney, a colleague who had attended law school with me, asked that I join him outside the debriefing room. He stared at me. Haltingly, he said, “Your client is devoid of a conscience.” I swiftly came to my client’s defense. I made arguments about my client being nervous, young, intimidated by the FBI agents, police detectives, and degree-holding lawyers. Worse of all, I pointed out, he was shackled to the floor.

Secretly, I had become concerned that the Assistant was paving the way to finding a means to renege on the agreement we had reached. I had begun to regret my professional judgement and to map out my next move. He read my mind. He assured me he wasn’t. I was aware that some prosecutors were careless in their judgement of nearly all, though many were not, and the colleague certainly wasn’t.

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

One department at the Johns Hopkins University now is telling us that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has resulted in the death of 655,000 Iraqis.

Not to be unappreciative: But is this Johns Hopkins University showing remorse for having been one incubator of the idea of invading a country that meant us (and had done us) no harm? Is it asserting that Johns Hopkins does possess a conscience? Or is it yet another grant--some grants to orphan children, wholesale, preferably ugly Arab and Muslim children, and some grants to count the numbers of their ugly Arab dead parents?

Orphan the children; do it with a blank stare, emotion-less, the stare of a psychopath, the stare of someone devoid of a conscience. Then do a study about it and publish it in The Lancet.