Me and My Self
Self-born, Autogamous Unicorn
(in reply to this post - sorry still struggling with the "quote" function)
"A Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By the simple expedient of collecting and destroying all the beggars in Venezuela an end was put to leprosy in that country."(LRH - Science of Survival, p.170-171)
The paragraph cited above is just (another) one of LRHs outright (and historically careless) half-lies.
Although is true that people suffering leprosy were quarantined, it is absolutely false that they were "destroyed"!!! (even though it is sadly true that they were hunted and forcefully caught on the streets to be transferred to the hospital facilities ...)
Moreover, (and unless LRH considered Simon Bolivar to be a dictator?) the original idea goes as far as 1828 when the Libertador promulgated a decree for the creation of the first hospital for about 1000 leprosy patients, on the Providencia island (Zulia state).
Later on, in 1906, dictator Cipriano Castro ordered to build another such facility on another island, located in the Vargas department (Isla de Cabo Blanco), where late Dr. Jacinto Convit researched and discovered the vaccine which allowed him to eradicate definitively leprosy from this country.
They even had their own currency created.
As of today, still some of the recovered patients are alive and well.
Bolivar's alleged aim was in fact reported as "saving these people from indigence and from a continuous rejection they suffered by society".
More info:
Dr. Jacinto Convit's bio
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacinto_Convit
An article giving a brief summary of the whole evolution of leprosy containment,treatment and eradication in Venezuela
http://www.quepasa.com.ve/investigacion/lepra-el-mal-biblico-que-se-curo-en-venezuela/
https://www.academia.edu/22008361/L...da_cotidiana_bajo_la_mirada_de_Jacinto_Convit
So:
"Why" would LRH need to "point fingers" ("innocently" dropping those sentences as a side comment just at the end of that long paragraph ...) as to justify his own terribly genocidal "solution"?
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/scapegoatism
P.S. After some deliberation about whether it was appropriate to reply to that thread without formal "intro" (been lurking for a while and joined yesterday BECAUSE of that outrageous info I couldn't obviate) I just decided to merge the whole and let it flow.
Not yet ready for a thorough presentation, still stuck a decade ago in that Apollo thread - trying to figure out if the rest of TMT's Chronicles was finally posted ... anyway I also want to give much thanks from the bottom of my heart to many of you and especially to the creators and moderators of this Board.
Yes I am an ex-Scn. Thanks again for being around and persist. <3
(BTW a question: where is that "Guestbook" located? (if any) Read it mentioned somewhere but couldn't find it. Thanks in advance!)
"A Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By the simple expedient of collecting and destroying all the beggars in Venezuela an end was put to leprosy in that country."(LRH - Science of Survival, p.170-171)
The paragraph cited above is just (another) one of LRHs outright (and historically careless) half-lies.
Although is true that people suffering leprosy were quarantined, it is absolutely false that they were "destroyed"!!! (even though it is sadly true that they were hunted and forcefully caught on the streets to be transferred to the hospital facilities ...)
Moreover, (and unless LRH considered Simon Bolivar to be a dictator?) the original idea goes as far as 1828 when the Libertador promulgated a decree for the creation of the first hospital for about 1000 leprosy patients, on the Providencia island (Zulia state).
Later on, in 1906, dictator Cipriano Castro ordered to build another such facility on another island, located in the Vargas department (Isla de Cabo Blanco), where late Dr. Jacinto Convit researched and discovered the vaccine which allowed him to eradicate definitively leprosy from this country.
They even had their own currency created.
As of today, still some of the recovered patients are alive and well.
Bolivar's alleged aim was in fact reported as "saving these people from indigence and from a continuous rejection they suffered by society".
More info:
Dr. Jacinto Convit's bio
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacinto_Convit
An article giving a brief summary of the whole evolution of leprosy containment,treatment and eradication in Venezuela
http://www.quepasa.com.ve/investigacion/lepra-el-mal-biblico-que-se-curo-en-venezuela/
https://www.academia.edu/22008361/L...da_cotidiana_bajo_la_mirada_de_Jacinto_Convit
So:
"Why" would LRH need to "point fingers" ("innocently" dropping those sentences as a side comment just at the end of that long paragraph ...) as to justify his own terribly genocidal "solution"?
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/scapegoatism
P.S. After some deliberation about whether it was appropriate to reply to that thread without formal "intro" (been lurking for a while and joined yesterday BECAUSE of that outrageous info I couldn't obviate) I just decided to merge the whole and let it flow.
Not yet ready for a thorough presentation, still stuck a decade ago in that Apollo thread - trying to figure out if the rest of TMT's Chronicles was finally posted ... anyway I also want to give much thanks from the bottom of my heart to many of you and especially to the creators and moderators of this Board.
Yes I am an ex-Scn. Thanks again for being around and persist. <3
(BTW a question: where is that "Guestbook" located? (if any) Read it mentioned somewhere but couldn't find it. Thanks in advance!)