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Broadband. Minnesota. Legislation. Government2.0. GPS. The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcoho. Archives de l' Ontario / Wikimedia Commons It was Christmas Eve 1926, the streets aglitter with snow and lights, when the man afraid of Santa Claus stumbled into the emergency room at New York City's Bellevue Hospital.

The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcoho

He was flushed, gasping with fear: Santa Claus, he kept telling the nurses, was just behind him, wielding a baseball bat. Before hospital staff realized how sick he was—the alcohol-induced hallucination was just a symptom—the man died. Stealth Propaganda « John Stossel.