The Dane County Board executive committee's decision to indefinitely postpone any decision on the matter of Resolution 275 was covered as a news item in the Isthmus, the paper that finally published an article on Ned Kalin's revival of maternal deprivation and emotional torment as a means to create infant monkey "models" of human depression. You can read the front page article here: Motherless monkeys: UW-Madison to revive controversial primate experiments. Noah Phillips. 07/31/2014.
Doublethink is alive and well in the exalted towers of academia. The executive committee, four present, two absent,was presented with nearly two hours of comment from seventeen people; three people with a financial interest in the use of animals at the university were the only ones who spoke in opposition. The committee then deliberated. Note: indefinitely postponing a decision on an agenda item is intended to kill it. A vote against an item allows it to move out of committee and then be considered by another committee, just as a vote in favor would do. Indefinitely postponing a decision is a way to circumvent further discussion and undermines our democratic system of governance. This is a transcript of the executive committee's entire public deliberation. As one observer noted afterwards, "How very embarrassing for the board."
Chair, Sharon Corrigan: We just have a few minutes, but before we can continue, could we, to discuss it, is there a motion on the resolution? Is there a motion?
Supervisor Mary Kolar: Move to table, based on, uh, we've only heard, so...
Corrigan: The motion would be to postpone indefinitely?
Kolar: [Nods in agreement.] I move to postpone indefinitely.
Corrigan: Is there a second to postpone indefinitely?
Supervisor Dave Ripp: Second.
Corrigan: Is there discussion?
Supervisor Carousel Bayrd who represents the UW Research Park and lives a couple of streets away from Eric Sandgren: [Mumbles something unclear]
Corrigan: If there's no motion it would be the same impact. [Looks around, then back at Supervisor Kolar] Do you want to...
Kolar: Postpone indefinitely.
Corrigan: All those in favor?
All: Aye.
Corrigan: Opposed?
Corrigan: The motion is approved and it is postponed.
Afterwards, speaking to the Isthmus reporter, chief UW vivisection spin-doctor Eric Sandgren said: "Tonight was a victory for public discussion."
They spew this crap with a straight face and utter disdain for the truth. Unbelievable but true. War is peace.
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When will I stop being STUNNED at people's willingness to condone brutality, devastation, horror, torture, slaughter when there's a chance to make money? "Elected" officials...elected by whom?
Those few board members who were present who voted to table the resolution missed a unique opportunity to strike a blow for courage, empathy, compassion, decency, and pushing the ethical envelope just a little forward. Very few of us ever have that opportunity. These supervisors did, and took the cowardly way out, catering to financial interests of the university. They did not do their job.
U.W. may be reviving the horror show of maternal deprivation. The other U.W. the University of Washington in Seattle never really stopped these obscene protocols pioneered by Harry Harlow disciple Duane Sackett.
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