Originally posted by WajomaAs Marx stated, capitalism is a necessary evil that will alleviate mankind from the chains of labour, ie automation through technology will emancipate us hopefully from the wage slave mentatlity....But!!!...In itself capitalism is intrisically bad as it betters one persons life to the detriment of anothers.....
This isn't a capitalism issue. Capitalism is about property rights. Who's shark is it?
You want to discuss capitalism bring it to the debates board and I'll kick your ass.
Now you know the real reason for the wars in Iraq et al., economical harvesting.
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Four charged over body harvesting
From: Agence France-Presse
From correspondents in New York
February 24, 2006
A DENTIST and three other men were charged in New York today with illegally harvesting bones and organs from more than 1000 corpses, in a case likened by prosecutors to "a cheap horror movie".
The four defendants allegedly made millions of dollars selling unscreened body tissue taken from the bodies of people who never consented to be donors, including that of veteran BBC broadcaster Alistair Cooke.
"The amount of callousness involved here is incalculable," said Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes as he detailed how the men allegedly replaced the bones of their victims with PVC piping so that their theft would not be noticed at a funeral.
According to a 122-count indictment, the team forged death certificates and donor consent forms to create the appearance that the tissue was harvested legally.
Though transplant guidelines set age limits and health requirements for donors, the defendants falsified the records so that, in the case of Cooke for example, the stolen parts were listed as coming from a healthy 85-year-old who died of heart failure.
Cooke was 95 when he died in New York in March 2004 from lung cancer.
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At the same time, the accused would regularly toss gloves, aprons, and other evidence of their criminal handiwork into the bodies before sewing them back up, prosecutors said.
"What happened here ... is like something out of a cheap horror movie," Mr Hynes said.
"But for the thousands of relatives of the deceased whose body parts were used for profit, and the recipients of the suspect parts, this was no bad movie. This was for real," he said.
Among those named in the indictment was Michael Customariness, a former dentist who ran a company in New Jersey that sold human tissue for medical implants.
Also charged were a Brooklyn embalmer Joseph Vermicelli and two other men who worked for Mr Mastromarino.
The charges included enterprise corruption, body stealing and opening graves, as well as unlawful dissection.
Over a five-year period, the defendants allegedly harvested bones and organs from 1077 corpses and then sold them on to transplant companies for use in surgical procedures around the world.
On the open market, one body can bring in as much as $US250,000 for harvesting and transplant companies, Mr Hynes said.
Because the body parts were not properly screened, prosecutors said there was a serious risk of infection for transplant recipients.
Cooke, a nationally recognised broadcaster in Britain, was best known for his Letter From America program, which aired weekly on BBC domestic and World Service radio for over 50 years.
He was also well known in his adopted United States where he hosted the cultural television programs Omnibus and Masterpiece Theatre.