URGENT! Monday-Daniel Troy & Congressman Hinche

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Of course that is the reason that he was put in that office in the

first place, so he could shield the drug companies, but I am posting

this anyway. F.

 

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Sat, 06 Nov 2004 15:00:06 -0000

Subject:[drugawareness] URGENT! URGENT! URGENT! Monday-Daniel Troy &

Congressman Hinche

 

 

We need you to write to Senator Bennett ASAP to urge him to vote for

this bill on Monday (see letter below) that would hold Mr. Daniel Troy

responsible for his actions within the FDA. This will be a HUGE set in

our work to set things straight at the FDA. Especially needed are

letters from those in

Senator Bennett's home state of Utah.

 

Few have shielded the big drug companies from litigation holding them

responsible for their actions better than Daniel Troy has done. He is

clearly the " Fox " guarding the " Hen House " in this national tragedy

caused by the SSRI antidepressants. He currently serves as lead

council for the FDA

after leaving Pfizer as one of their leading attorneys.

 

If you would like to see an excellent expose on Mr. Troy from the ABC

station

out of DC which aired just last night, you can go to:

 

http://www.wjla.com/abc7videopop.hrb?a=f & n=s & s=185257 &

file=http://video.wjla.com/wjla/medical1104.wmv

 

And if you would like a little background on Daniel Troy you can find that

information in one of the last e-newsletters we sent to you.

 

Within the next few days you will also find a petition posted on our

site at

www.drugawareness.org asking for the removal of Daniel Troy from his

office at

the FDA due to his misuse of his office. Please find a minute to sign it.

This man needs to be removed from the dangerous position he is in!

 

Ann Blake Tracy, Ph.D.,

Executive Director, International Coalition For Drug Awareness

Website: www.drugawareness.org

Author: Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? - Our Serotonin Nightmare

& audio tape on safe withdrawal: " Help! I Can't Get

Off My Antidepressant! "

 

Order Number: 800-280-0730

Office: 801-282-5282

 

 

Dear All,

 

We have just received word that key members of Congress are considering

Congressman Hinchey's amendment to the FDA appropriations bill (2005)

as I write this. As many of you already know, Hinchey's amendment is

already

currently a part of this bill. This amendment proposes to remove

$500,000 from

Daniel Troy's office to sanction him for misleading Congress about his

efforts to insulate drug manufactures from liability.

 

Because Senator Bennett of Utah is the Chairman of the Senate

Subcommittee considering this amendment, his position on the amendment is

critical. It is therefore imperative that all Utah residents and

concerned citizens contact Senator Bennett and urge him to Support

Hinchey's amendment.

 

Pasted below this email is a sample letter that you can sign and

either email or fax to Senator Bennett's office. Because inclusion of

this

amendment could be decided as early as this Monday, only emails, phone

calls

and faxes will reach the Senator in time to persuade him to support

this amendment.

 

Senator Bennett's phone number, fax number and email address are also

pasted below. If you have the time, please modify or add to the below

sample letter to tell Senator Bennett a bit about your own personal

tragedy related to SSRI drugs.

 

Only the stories of the families and survivors are likely to make a

difference now.

 

Also, please forward this message to everyone you know in Utah or

elsewhere. The more people that contact and write to Senator Bennett

immediately, the better.

 

Thanks much,

 

Jessica

 

Jessica Rae Dart, Esq.

Baum Hedlund, A Professional Corporation

Tel: 310-207-3233

Fax: 310-820-7444

JDart

www.BaumHedlundLaw.com

 

 

Senator Robert Bennett

 

431 Dirksen Building

Washington, DC 20510-4403

Phone: (202) 224-5444

Fax: (202) 228-1168

 

 

To email Senator Bennett, please log onto:

 

http://www.senate.gov/~bennett/contact/email_comment.html

 

SAMPLE LETTER:

 

November 5, 2004

 

Senator Bob Bennett

 

431 Dirksen Building

Washington, DC 20510-4403

 

Dear Senator Bennett,

 

I am writing to urge you to support Congressman Hinchey's amendment

to the FDA appropriations bill, 2005.

 

As a citizen and constituent who has been profoundly and irrevocably

effected by the failure of the FDA to require timely and adequate

warnings for

SSRI drugs, I call upon you to do the right thing and support this

amendment in full.

 

 

The Chief Counsel of the FDA, Mr. Daniel E. Troy, should not be

allowed to invoke the powers of the United States government to defeat

citizen

attempts to bring his former clients to justice. It is Mr. Troy's duty

as an FDA official to protect the FDA's mandate, not destroy it. That

mandate is to

protect citizens from unsafe food, drugs and other medical products by

regulating industry, not by serving as its promotional arm, legal

advocate, and lap dog.

 

Various government investigations have found (and are continuing to

find) that Daniel Troy has taken large amounts of money from the very

companies he is supposed to be helping the FDA to regulate. These

investigations have found (and are continuing to find) that Daniel

Troy has spent his time at the FDA doing everything in his power to

nullify peoples' rights under state law when that law is inconsistent

with the wishes of industry. For those of us who have lost a loved one

to an SSRI drug, there is simply no excuse for Daniel Troy's attempts

to shield SSRI manufacturers from public exposure and liability.

 

It is " public servants " like him who cause American citizens to lose

all faith in government.

 

Congress has never given the FDA the power that Daniel Troy is now

asserting on its behalf. He has just taken it and his acts betray his

utter

contempt, not only for our system of checks and balances, but also for

the very

people he is supposed to be servings as a public official. I urge you to

support Congressman Hinchey's amendment. This amendment is necessary

to prevent

Daniel Troy from continuing to use U.S. taxpayer money to do free

legal work for the very group of drug companies that have failed to

warn that their SSRI drug could kill my ____ (child, husband, wife, etc).

 

Sincerely,

 

 

 

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