FIGHT FOR YOUR HEALTH - AND YOUR LIFE

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FIGHT FOR YOUR HEALTH - AND YOUR LIFE

 

 

 

Elissa Meininger

July 13, 2006

NewsWithViews.com

 

 

 

" Any attack on freedom is the business of every American. We are the

land of the free and the home of the brave. It is time to stand up and

fight for our health. " --Byron J. Richards, author of Fight for Your

Health – Exposing The FDA's Betrayal of America

 

 

 

Most people think that The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was

created to protect the public from harm and to make sure that

manufacturers followed the law in developing, testing and marketing

their products. With the almost daily revelations about the corruption

in medical research and drug development that have been splattered

across the pages of the public press over the last year, a topic Dr.

Carolyn Dean and I first wrote about in our column, The Constant

Gardener – Does Art Imitate Life?, it is now dawning on people that

they can't believe everything they hear from the FDA about the safety

of the products it approves for sale in the marketplace.

 

According to figures posted on the FDA's website, the FDA regulates

products valued at a trillion dollars a year – a number that represent

25% of all consumer spending in America. These products include food,

drugs, medical devices, biologics (e.g. vaccines), animal feed and

drugs, cosmetics, radiation-emitting devices (e.g. cell phones), and

combination products (which combine two or more regulated products).

 

My first realization that the FDA's real mission was not to protect

the public from harm but apparently something quite different came in

May of 1992 when I read a copy of the FDA's Dietary Supplements Task

Force Final Report. In this report, from an agency that is supposedly

working diligently for you and me to make sure the products it

regulates are safe, and not to protect the drug industry's business

interests, FDA personnel concluded, in writing, that the FDA's mission

was to remove dietary supplements from the shelves as they represented

a " disincentive for patented drug research. "

 

Around the same time this task force report was published, FDA agents

conducted a flak-jacketed gunpoint raid into the patient-filled office

of famed nutrition expert, Jonathan Wright, MD, assaulting his

patients in an apparent effort to stop him from engaging in further

treatment, and at the same time confiscating his patient records for

what appeared to be the future prosecution of the

Harvard-and-University of Michigan-trained MD. Details of this raid

were covered in Dr. Dean's first column for News with Views called,

Kiss Your Vitamins Goodbye.

 

Had it wanted to, the FDA could not have done a better job of arousing

public opinion, first by announcing its intention to take dietary

supplements off our shelves (valuable products that millions depended

upon for their personal health), and then by assaulting patients in a

doctor's office while they were still hooked up to IVs getting vitamin

treatments. Since then, ordinary citizens across the country have

forged a mighty army committed to fighting for control of our medical

choices against government overseers who act like guardians of the

gate to protect the professional territories of certain select doctor

groups, big pharma and other large corporations that profit from our

being sick.

 

One of these freedom fighters, a board-certified clinical nutritionist

named Byron J. Richards, has just published an astounding book

entitled, Fight For Your Health – Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of

America. On page after page, Richards provides information about some

of the most egregious examples on the corruption of our medical

industry, illustrating how the FDA consistently looks the other way

when evidence of dangers to our health come to light. He also provides

ample evidence of how, under the blanket of national security as well

as under various international trade agreements like NAFTA and GATT,

the drug industry has been granted a free pass to expand its markets

without liability, while at the same time the manufacturers of natural

nutritional supplements have been subjected to all manner of

convoluted regulations geared to hinder their sales.

 

In fact, the thesis of Richards' book is that the FDA has essentially

betrayed us by acting merely as a tool to forward the agendas of these

other " stakeholders " instead of regulating products for the purpose of

protecting the public. As Richards, himself, states.

 

" The battle for control of your health is now under way. It is

time to understand the nature of the plan. The future well-being of

our citizens is at stake.

I draw my sword in the form of a book. "

 

Reading this book was a stunning experience for me. While I have read

extensively about the history of the development of the American

health care industry and have written and lectured on the subject for

many years, I've never encountered anyone who has grasped the

underlying issues more soundly than Richards has. What he has done is

not only pull together bits and pieces of information about often

shocking events that many of us are familiar with, but he has also

placed all this information into a much broader context. Thanks to

Richards, we now can see the FDA as nothing more than a bit-player in

a much larger picture which is only now just beginning to emerge, and

which has nothing to do with improving our health.

 

Health freedom fighters, who have long suspected there is a dark

underbelly of powerful corporate and political interests working

behind the scenes to direct our health care policies and laws, will be

pleased to see that Richards actually shines the light of day on many

such interests. Further, he backs his thesis with 30 pages of notes,

direct quotes and helpful details designed to show how our health care

system, as well as our political system, is actually orchestrated.

 

According to Richards, for over a century, thanks in part to the

leadership of several German chemical companies and others we now call

" globalists, our planet has seen the steady enactment of laws and the

adoption of regulations on a world-wide basis that advance various

corporate and political interests while at the same time establishing

ever more restrictive controls over the general public – laws and

regulations that are only now becoming obvious to anyone paying

attention. The result appears to be a steady, seemingly unstoppable

march toward corporate control of our political system, including

control over the choices that we as individuals can make over our

personal health care and medical treatment.

 

I am particularly glad to see that Richards devoted several chapters

to highlighting how the German chemical dye industry emerged into the

global corporate powerhouse IG Farben. Most people writing about

health freedom and the coming corporate-driven global control of food

and dietary supplements tend avoid this discussion. Instead, Richards

provides us with a great Cliffs Notes version of how Farben came into

being and how it became the " power behind the throne " during the

Hitler regime - including its building and running of a huge factory

using slave labor housed at Auschwitz. He also points out how in the

1990s, despite its so-called breakup after WWII, three of its most

powerful " daughter " companies, Bayer, Hoescht and BASF, laid out how

Codex would regulate dietary supplements to largely remove all but

basically useless dosage levels of dietary supplements from the market.

 

I think it is important for everyone to understand the IG Farben

history. Twenty three of Farben's executives were tried at the

Nuremburg War Crimes Tribunal but were given nothing more than a slap

on their wrists because the evidence linking them to the more

sensational medical crimes against humanity had been destroyed. Most

notably, Richards points out that Bayer executive, Fritz Ter Meer, who

was convicted of war crimes in 1948 and sentenced to only seven years

in prison, ended up released early and placed on the board of

directors of Bayer in 1955, where he was quickly made chair in 1956.

Ter Meer was a principle player behind the operation of the infamous

IG Farben factory next to the death camp at Auschwitz. He was also a

principle player behind the creation of the Codex Alimentarius

Commission later in 1962.

 

For a more detailed history of IG Farben, and Ter Meer's war crimes,

you can download a free copy of the book, The Crime and Punishment of

IG Farben by Joseph Borkin, of the U.S. Department of Justice, who was

responsible for the wartime investigation and prosecution of IG Farben

and associated cartels. Used bookstores also have copies of the book.

[Read]

 

Richards does not review how the German medical system was transformed

into a corporate-government partnership designed to control the German

population and to provide an endless supply of human guinea pigs for

the benefit of corporate-driven medical science experiments. I found

this omission to be an important one as he has correctly understood

the direction of current laws, regulations and policies in the United

States that are geared toward using our medical system as the vehicle

for conducting unwanted medical experiments on us as well as to track

and control our behavior. This legal apparatus is the same type of

legal structure the German system had up and running even prior to

WWII. However, this omission is easily remedied as the specifics of

this part of German medical history are covered in a paper entitled,

National Health Care: Medicine in Germany 1918-1945, written in

conjunction with an exhibit at the National Museum of Health and

Medicine in Washington, D.C.

 

As for the specifics of what is happening in America with the

corporatization of our medical system, Richards illustrates with his

every paragraph and footnote that a new public health plan is being

put in place that should alarm anyone and everyone who believes in

personal freedom. I have paraphrased the key elements of this new

public health plan, as well as his list of evidence, briefly below:

 

1. All personal health data is to be registered in a national

database owned by the government. Bar-coded drug labels and progress

of treatment are to be included.

2. Comprehensive " mental health " screening along with appropriate

medication will be dispensed for every child before he or she enters

school. All mental health data will also be in the national database.

The pilot project for this, Teen Screen, is already operating in 43

states.

3. An FDA-approved computer chip will be implanted in every

American as a requirement to receive health services. It will be

programmable, contain all personal health history, and tracking

capability via satellite. The Verichip is now being marketed as the

VeriMed Patient Identification System. Eighty hospitals and several

hundred doctors have already signed up.

4. Doctors'offices are to become part of a massive " clinical

trial " for dispensing of new, unproven drugs. This is the FDA's top

priority for the next five years. The program is called " Critical Path

to Personalized Medicine Initiative. "

5. Patients will not be legally able to sue for damages caused by

drugs. The FDA backs this Big Pharma protection.

6. The DNA of every citizen will be on file with the FDA.

Collection of this information will be in the guise of better safety

but will lead to more sophisticated ways of profiling of people for

social control.

7. International laws are being passed which allow multinational

corporations to own patents on life-science inventions related to

natural life processes as well as how nutrients and herbs work in the

body. (Ownership of these life-forms and processes gives control of

access to nutrients to corporate interests.)

8. The availability of beneficial nutritional supplements as a

health option will be gone. Big Pharma, with the help of governments

(including ours) is already targeting high-quality nutritional

supplements to get them off the market. Big Pharma is preparing to

take over this industry to protect its most profitable drugs. Part of

the goal is to patent what it can of the dietary supplement products

and to make them available by prescription only, as well as to jack up

prices for what little low quality and low dosage dietary supplements

remain on the over-the-counter market. Europeans are already seeing

this happen.

 

If I could wave my magic wand, I would make sure that every thinking

American had multiple copies of Fight For Your Health – Exposing the

FDA's Betrayal of America so they could give them to our public

servants to study. I would also make sure that these public servants

could see what folly our country is in, because we never have had a

federal agency standing up for the health and safety of each and every

one of us. The FDA should have been that agency, but in my view it has

truly betrayed us as Richards so clearly explains.

 

However, since I am not Cinderella's fairy godmother, the best I can

do is to urge you to buy copies of this great book to give to everyone

who you know, including your public servants, and follow the upcoming

articles its author, Byron Richards, will be contributing to

NewsWithViews.com

 

Resources:

 

1. Fight For Your Health - Exposing The FDA's Betrayal of America:

2. Byron Richards' Website.

3. Byron Richards' NewsWithViews.com Archives.

4. Support Health Freedom Now. Purchase books, videos and merchandise

to help finance the NWV website.

5. Death By Modern Medicine by Carolyn Dean, MD ND

6. For State, National and International Political Action.

 

© 2006 Elissa Meininger -

 

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Elissa Meininger became a noted health policy historian as well as a

political activist after almost dying from years of mercury poisoning

caused by mercury leaching from the " silver " dental amalgam fillings

in her teeth. Bedridden and unable to carry on a coherent

conversation, (and unable to obtain a diagnosis from any of the MDs

she had consulted), she turned to a traditional naturopath who had no

difficulty recognizing and explaining the source of the large array of

chronic problems from which she had suffered most of her life. This

diagnosis saved her life, but even today, such consultation remains

illegal in many states.

 

Committed to reforming the medical system, Elissa embarked over 20

years ago on an array of projects geared to bringing enlightened

medical treatment to the American people, including providing prepared

statements for various U.S. Congressional and White House Commission

hearings on health freedom legislation and policy, and testifying

numerous times before the Oklahoma state legislature.

 

She is the former Vice President of Friends of Freedom International

and former co-columnist, with Carolyn Dean, MD/ND, of many articles

posted on the NewsWithViews.com.

 

Currently, Elissa's health freedom political commentary can be heard

on the natural health radio show SuperHealth, broadcast weekly on

station KEBC (Information Radio 1340 AM) in Oklahoma City.

 

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