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Body Brokers Inside America's Underground Trade

by: mocassinman( 480Feedback score is 100 to 499) Top 1000 Reviewer
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This is one of the most shocking books I have read in recent years. It is getting close to Halloween but I never thought there were actual Gouls alive and operating today until I read this book Folks it appears they are very active and are working all around us. Standing next to use in the market,sitting beside us in church,eating near us in the resturant and these folks are making big money.

I ran accross this book in my research work to get people to stop digging in graves. The business is far more expansive and a  larger money maker than I realized,  and author Annie Cheney has done an excellent job exposing this illegal activity. Just recently you may have read about the woman in Port Huron,Michigan who attempted to put a partial burial corpse on eBay and a buyer Satan's Child bid $500. before the body was discovered and removed. EBay has a policy that you cannot sell body parts on eBay and as soon as  the Port Huron Police called  them they stopped the sale. However I notice that books,photos,maps and photos of burials were hot sales items listed on eBay near the other Guide I wrote on Indian Diggings. I couldn't believe that one, a cover of the National Geographic magazine with a full photo of a exposed burial right next to the Guide.The body for sale in Port Huron has been sent to Michigan State University for evaluation,note this is the same University that the Great Lakes Indian Youth Alliance demonstrated at in the 60't to get the bones of their relatives returned that had been taken in the name of research and science. I'll bet this Port Huron corpse ends up being remains taken from a Native Burial site. I hope I am wrong but the chances are 10 to 1 of being another Michigan Indian's relative and you will be lucky to get a good  honest answer from Michigan State or see the results printed anywhere.I know that some of the professors  there were involved in looting graves and having relatives who sold them on the secondary trade of Indian artifacts for years. They sold them at the Old Barn Auction House in Findley Ohio.I could name the persons involved.We in the Youth Alliance had our own people working undercover to expose the market.

The woman seller who had who had listed the Port Huron body said it was used for medical research and she got it from a friend. The most interesting thing about this business and other illegal trade is they always say they get the item from a friend. That is something like the Trader who was openly selling things he had taken from Indian graves in Northern Michigan at a flea market.  I confronted him.I said How can you ethically sell those items? He said,what do you mean. Obviously  he didn't understand what ethically meant. I said how can you take items from a dead person and sell them? He said,I always carefully put everything back after I get my trade items out of the grave nothing is disturbed.The guys in Canada said the same thing as if this justified their digging and robbing the corpse they don't even realize they are still Ghouls!!! and Grave Robbers,looters, and thieves of the worst type disturbing the final resting place of a fellow human being.

When they buried my Mother in the Dublin Cemetary the Township grave diggers at the Cemetary went and got drunk and let her grave sit open for several hours until my brother drove by and saw her grave was still open. He and my Nephew quickly filled it up themselves with number 2 shovels. We really should have sued the Norman Township but we don't believe in excessive legal action either. After reading this book I shutter to think what could have happened if My Brother and nephew hadn't stopped by and finished the job that day.

If you think all these words are just exaggerations  for a eye opener read the Book I just read it is Body Brokers Inside America's Unground Trade in Human Remains by Annie Cheney published by Broadway Books,New York 2006. The book is a 205 page easy read with facts of the massive illegal trade in body parts. Before you donate your body for anything you need to read this book. You might even be capable of selling your own body for science yourself before you die for $200,000.It would be similar to selling your blood to purchase up a tank of gas and at least you would benefit from the sale perhaps even get out of debt.At least you wouldn't need to worry about someone else doing it after you pass on.

According to the book is a very high demand and need for bodies and body parts and this drives the
body parts market. It seems to make more sense that the person who owns the body gets to sell it  for science and know what it will be used for before he /she passes.

You really need to think it over carefully before you do anything. My Dad was the Township Clerk in Norman Township for about thirty years. he was in charge of all the cemetary work.I used to help him dig graves with the number two shovels.It took us about 5 hours.

I had thought about getting cremated and discussed it with him before he died. He told me that he delivered bodies to a crematory in Grand Rapids Michigan and the workers were burning the bodies so fast they really didn't even get the ashes in the right urns.He said they didn't care as long as the urns were full.There was a horrible case in Atlanta, Georgia  a couple of years ago I believe where the Cemetary owners had bodies all over the place that they didn't bury or burn.Something like the U.S. Postal mail carrier in Maryland who decided to leave mail all over his house rather than carry it on the route.Unfortunately people have to be watched to do the right thing or as Anderson Cooper says in CNN to keep them honest. All the traders have been saying that on the trail for years.
They wouldn't have caught the Postal worker but he died and people found mail in his stuffed all over his house including the washer and dryer.I have two good mail carriers and one substitute carrier
who should be fired because he doesn't open every mail box  on the route and he leaves mail in the wrong boxes on a regular basis I had to call his supervisor the other day. so much for my old image through rain,snow,or hail.LOLOLOLOL

Annie undercover book will shock you with factual incident after incident of exactly what illegal body parts activity has been going on and hidden from us all these years. I cannot help but use her quote from the Bible that is in the forward of the book because it is soooooo true.

Wherever the corpse is,there the vultures will gather. Matthew 24:28

Perhaps you can explain to me in a email just what do the buyers Satan's Worshippers intend to do with the body? When I lived in Baldwin,Michigan one of the student's's,a child of a well known local business man dug up an old Black Settler's grave near the family homestead to get his skull and took it to the Baldwin High School and entertained the other students with it at his desk until the teachers and Principal took it from him? A group of Teens also broke into a mausleum in the oldesr cemetary and took body parts in Traverse City,Michigan when I lived there.

They were all into the Vampires,Goth,Satan, and hard Rock stuff. I taught some of these students how to drive in drivers Education.They would talk about some very unusual activities.The students in this clique seemed to excell in doing every thing just the opposit  and were very dangerous on the road. They were into drugs more than other students as well. You learn a lot about what is really going on in a Drivers Education Automobile.More about that later.


The Body Brokers Book book gives a price break down of each body part and the value much like
the eBay automotive price listing for car and truck parts.If eBay didn't have a policy against it I am sure the listings would expand from all over the world.

A partial price list of body parts follows from the book.

A Head is 550-900.

Head without brain 300. to 900.

brain 300 to 600.

Leg  700. to 1000.

Pelvis to toe $2,100. to 2,900.

And so on down the line..... get the book and get the full page list and part yourself out.LOLOLOL

Read it and I guarenteed you will be shocked it is a true horror story.

Thanks for reading my rambling.

Woody


Guide ID: 10000000002186324Guide created: 10/27/06 (updated 11/07/07)

 
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