health freedom (was:breatheeasy tea (was: Lung detoxing/cleansing)

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Evie (Selkie) wrote:

 

It is not the Govts problem if people kill themselves because of bad choices

when the info is common knowledge on what could happen when used in any other

manner than what certain herbs are intended for.>

 

Oh baby, don't get me going. I wrote an essay about that, oh heck, I'll fish it

out of the blog archives for your entertainment and consideration...Here goes:

 

Amaria and Teamsteria, a fantasy essay on health freedom

 

An archived newsletter at http://jonbarron.org/ (June 21-2004) explains how the

AMA originated: as a trade union, to support allopathic doctors in their fight

against homeopaths and other natural healers.

That got my imagination going...

 

Imagine a country where the Union of Professional Chauffeurs is so powerful that

the use of private cars is outlawed and bicycles are severely restricted.

 

We'll call the place Teamsteria.

 

Most Teamsterians see nothing wrong with their society.

They agree with their government that driving is a serious, potentially

dangerous business. Of course nobody should be allowed to do it without

extensive training. Imagine the chaos if every Tom, Dick and Mary could get a

license. People might get hurt or even killed by insufficiently skilled drivers!

 

Some Teamsterians hate waiting for buses or cabs and prefer getting around as

they please on bicycles. They make the point that bicycles are healthier and

better for the Earth.

 

The authorities complain that bicycles interfere with the proper functioning of

car traffic. Every accident between a bike and a car is automatically blamed on

the bicycle and widely publicized to boot. Life is made harder for bicycle users

all the time. The chauffeurs' lobby would like them to be totally outlawed.

 

Some Teamsterian radicals propose that everyone should be allowed to get a

driver's license. They are considered a dangerous lunatic fringe.

 

To bolster its arguments the Teamsterian government points to the chaos and

carnage in the neighbouring country, Amaria.

 

In Amaria every private citizen over 16 is allowed to drive. Every year large

numbers of Amarians get killed or maimed in traffic accidents.

Amarians love being able to travel as they please, and consider the daily death

toll a price worth paying for the sake of freedom.

 

Amarians look upon their cab-bound neighbours with a mixture of pity and

contempt. They wonder why Teamsterians don't rise up and demand the freedom to

move around as they please!

 

However, in Amaria the government is in thrall to another professional union.

The Amarian Medical Association has convinced the public that care of the human

body is best left to a certain kind of professional. The kind that requires an

expensive industry. We are all familiar with it.

 

 

Amarians are free to kill themselves on the road, but the government decides

what they can put into their bodies.

Teamsterians are utterly appalled at the thought that control over their own

bodies could be any less than 100%.

 

Do some Teamsterians make wrong health decisions? Of course! Teamsterians

consider it a price worth paying for the sake of freedom...

 

Which society is crazier?

 

We are like the Amarians. Why do we all put up with it? How come health freedom

has never been an election issue yet?

 

P.S.: This essay is NOT meant to diss trade unions in general. I am a Solidarity

Forever gal.

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Dead on. I can very easily get on my soap box about this sort of stuff. I

shoulda been a politician......at least I wouldn't be worried about relying on

SSI eh?*note to self, next life go into politics, unless its regressive and the

potential for what happened to Julius Ceasar is a remote possiblity.

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Ieneke, maybe I post this to one of my groups?

 

Cindi