JUST STANDING THERE
Mayer, Milton
just standing there by milton mayer IT is my dolorous duty—especially dolorous at this season of merriment—to reveal that the following persons have established at the edge of the town of...
...I went up to the people and said, "What are you doing here...
...How long are you going to go on standing here...
...Who's paying you...
...The stooge also explained that if this was what the public wanted— the stooge was variously addressed as "General Stubbs," "General Creasy," etc.—the outfit owned and operated by Eleanor Roosevelt, Adlai Stevenson, Robert Hutchins, etc., could produce it, and was producing it, infinitely cheaper than any other mass extermination device the Congressmen might be interested in buying...
...My efforts to track down the actual ownership of this trickily devised limited liability corporation called "Army Chemical Corps" led me to Frederick...
...I said...
...The stooges, or hirelings, have been sent forth to try to raise public money (so impudent have the hidden villains become) to convince the selfsame public that what is going on at the edge of Frederick Town has an actual claim on public support...
...But they're being paid for it," I said...
...We're shareholders in this 'fort.'" "Along with Senators Humphrey and Douglas and Rev...
...Nowhere have I found any indication of the identity of the actual shareholders, whose names I have disclosed above...
...He was right about that...
...In addition, and in this same forbidden city at the edge of Frederick Town, these same persons are operating lab oratories for the mass breeding of micro-organisms and greenhouses for investigating chemical dusts that will not only destroy basic food crops, but sterilize the land itself—just in case anybody survives their cholera, their viruses, and their plague...
...Still less, "Is it useful...
...Get that?—some of the same possibilities . . . as do nuclear weapons.— "These gases create casualties before their presence can be detected by human senses...
...As gases they travel via the lungs, although a liquid droplet will penetrate the skin...
...At each end of the line there was a modest sign, big enough to be read by passing motorists, that read: VIGIL AT FT...
...Is this," said somebody at the edge of the group, "the 'germ warfare' that we used in Korea...
...Looks like we all are," said "Scott," "the way things are going...
...Voice: "But he wasn't wrong about our not having used it in Korea...
...Nobody," said "Scott...
...Doctor: "But General Rothschild of the U.S...
...This campaign for public funds is, of course, addressed to Congress, but the perpetrators decided that no decent Congressman would provide such public funds unless his constituents compelled him to...
...to wrap it all up, in a word, in that same American Flag defended in this same town of Frederick by Barbara Fritchie...
...Last summer we thought we'd stand here from the first to the fourth of July, but more people came on the fifth...
...Here is some of the testimony of the stooges: "In addition to our work in the nerve gases, we are seeking new toxic substances which will attack other vulnerable systems of the body such as the eyes and the mind . . . The nerve gases are so potent that they afford some of the same possibilities for widespread effect from small scale delivery as do nuclear weapons...
...or "Is it Christian...
...DETRICK—AN APPEAL TO STOP PREPARATION FOR GERM WARFARE...
...General Bliss said at the time, 'We have not employed it and probably never will/ " "Why not...
...Just standing there...
...I have studied the campaign literature...
...Voice: "Do you remember what President Roosevelt said in 1943...
...They're doing nothing like us...
...just standing there by milton mayer IT is my dolorous duty—especially dolorous at this season of merriment—to reveal that the following persons have established at the edge of the town of Frederick, Maryland, behind high walls, a secret institution for the sole purpose of putting millions of their fellow-men to an agonized death: Eleanor Roosevelt Adlai Stevenson Robert M. Hutchins Joseph L. Rauh, Jr...
...Look at those soldiers over there," said "Scott," indicating the uniformed men at the gates of the "fort...
...Otherwise we wouldn't be spending all these mil lions on it now and asking for more...
...We ask people to stand only two hours at a time...
...Army said in the June Harper's: 'We must reject once and for all the position stated by President Roosevelt.' That's the new Party Line—I mean National Policy...
...Since the first of July, 1959," said "Scott...
...A long time, looks like," said "Scott...
...Move over," I said, "make room for another shareholder...
...Waiting on the Lord," said one of them, a long lean man known, I was told, as "Lawrence Scott...
...I said...
...up to a year or so ago the operation itself, and not just the ownership, was cloaked in total secrecy, lest the good people of Frederick, not to say the good people everywhere else, rear up and riot...
...He said, 'I have been loath to believe that any nation, even our present enemies, could or would be willing to loose upon mankind such terrible and inhumane weapons.'" Voice: "That's what he said, all right...
...The Messrs...
...Well, I'm damned...
...But I found a line of people standing outside...
...But you can stand outside the main gate, on the corner of Seventh Avenue and Military Road...
...We exterminate the household...
...How long have you people been standing here...
...You say," I said, "that you're 'waiting on the Lord.' What are you waiting on the Lord for...
...Symptoms begin with respiratory troubles, salivation and perspiration, vomiting, cramps, involuntary elimination, and lead through convulsions to death...
...What do you think you're accom plishing...
...That's so," said "Scott," "you have me there...
...He said, 'It is extremely doubtful if it could be used with any success except in a localized and iso lated area, and then with a very minor degree of effectiveness.' " A voice farthest out on the edge: "He was wrong about its uselessness, eh...
...Edward Elson, the President's pastor...
...I said...
...Then they placed the actual management of the operation under a set of stooges, or von Brauns, methodically brutalized to do uncomplainingly whatever the actual shareholders required of them, and to do it, what is more, for any set of shareholders who might come along, American, Russian Communist, or German Nazi...
...But only recently...
...Just standing around doing nothing, and not being paid for it...
...Doctor: "Oh yes...
...thus the object of the campaign is to "soften up" the public to an acceptance of a cosmic deceit in which, as in Orwell, "health" means disease, "protection" means poisoning, and "security" mass murder...
...cool, too...
...Edward Elson, President Eisenhower's pastor at the National Presbyterian Church in Washington...
...partly, I suppose, as a common tax-dodge, but in larger part to cover it with the good name of the American Republic and the American Constitution...
...all of it...
...What sounds un-American to you...
...That we didn't use in Korea," said Doctor, slamming his glass on the table, "that the filthy, lying Commu nists said we used in Korea...
...It's a right smart windy corner at this season...
...I have been able, by means which I am not at liberty to disclose, to learn that in this same secret establishment these same ten persons have stockpiled mosquitoes infected with plague...
...young people, old people, medium people, men, women, and children...
...The stooges, who, having openly abdicated human responsibility, and on to whom, therefore, we should not permit the responsible shareholders to shift the guilt, were given the collective name "Army Chemical Corps," a designation contrived to persuade the yokels, of whom, I am afraid, there are many among us, that a hideous conspiracy against their fellow-men was (1) a scientific undertaking in the interest, as, of course, all science is, of the health and happiness of mankind...
...A likely story," I said to myself, and aloud: "Sounds un-American to me...
...The "cover" they are using is a cunning one, worthy of the most reprehensible "front" tactics of the Communists...
...One of the stooges' stooges, addressed as "Doctor," pointed out in the hall afterward that the household exterminator racket has always made fabulous profits on a miniscule investment...
...winter's hard for the older people...
...Least of all, "Is it American...
...The place is disguised as a fort and is called "Fort Detrick...
...Less than a minute of exposure is lethal...
...and (2) a branch of the honorable profession of American arms...
...said another voice, still further out on the edge...
...Oh, yes," said "Scott," brightening...
...This "Scott" purports to be an ordained minister of the Christian Gospel, as do several other of the just-standees...
...alone would disarm suspicion, as the Communists tried to disarm it by naming their front organizatitons after Jefferson, Lincoln, etc...
...It was now the first of December, 1959...
...Nothing," said "Scott...
...He was referring to the late husband of Eleanor Roosevelt, one of the shareholders of the disease factory at Frederick.] Doctor: "Oh, yes...
...Some local people come, too...
...Their very use of the initials "U.S...
...More and more college students are coming, though...
...They react with cholinesterase, so that nerve signals to the muscles are disrupted...
...Cadbury, Rauh, Fulbright, Elson, etc., have also developed there "to a remarkable state of technical perfection" (as they reported to a meeting of the Ameri can Medical Association) methods of infecting populations from the air with bacilli viruses and toxins...
...Chairman Henry J. Cadbury of the American Friends Service Committee Patrick Murphy Malin of the American Civil Liberties Union Senator Hubert Humphrey Senator Paul H. Douglas Senator William Fulbright Rev...
...You can't get in, of course—the owners have covered their own tracks so neatly that not even they can get in...
...and houseflies with cholera, anthrax, and dysentery...
...Besides," he said, "those 'Household Exterminators' only exterminate the rats...
...said "Scott...
...ticks with tularemia, relapsing fever, and Colorado fever...
...I said...
...You may have seen some of their campaign handiwork in some of our leading magazines and newspapers recently...
...Taxpayers...
...I said...
...But we're going to need still more when the breeze gets brisker...
...Along with them," said "Scott...
...First they associated themselves under the cognomen of "U.S...
...To forgive us," said "Scott...
...So we're still here...
...Just standing there...
...It is no more a fort than your Sister Kate, and less of a Fort, if it comes to defending Frederick Town, than Barbara Fritchie was...
...General Bliss answered that," said Doctor...
...Haven't you anything else to do...
...Not about that...
...At this point in the testimony, apparently lest one of the Congressmen be moved, as none was, to express his queasiness about lingering death, the stooge said: "If you get this much of the GA type gas—the amount of ink that appears on the point of my ballpoint pen here—and protective action is not taken in one-half to two minutes, you will be dead in ten minutes...
...Do you like it here...
...On top of it all, the actual shareholders set up the whole Satanic scheme as a public corporation...
...Doctor: "Oh, no...
...Who would ever look for depravity under so gentle, even impotent, a rubric...
...A Congressional committee actually heard testimony—from one of the stooges— on behalf of the operation and never once thought to ask, "Who's behind it all...
...Individuals and groups come from all over to stand here, more all the time...
...I said...
...No," said "Scott," "as a matter of fact, we haven't...
...of the Americans for Democratic Action...
...and young people's groups from the churches...
...or, "Who are its actual owners...
...But," he went on, "not always the same people...
Vol. 24 • January 1960 • No. 1
