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The FDA’s Stealth War Against The
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Foreword:
The article below is admittedly long (it comes to twelve single spaced
printed pages) but it is of EXTREME importance to the future health of
you and your families. It is critical that you read and understand
exactly what the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is stealthily
attempting to slip past your awareness. Unless this is stopped by the
American people, your access to vitamins, minerals and other health
products will be severely limited or eliminated altogether! Codex Alimentarius—Latin for "food
rules"—was created out of the "overpopulation fears" of
the early 1960s. Shortly after the publication of Paul Ehrlich's 1962
ecoalarmist best seller, The Population Bomb, which predicted
that by the year 2000 half the people in the world would be starving,
the Rockefeller Foundation—which fanned the fears by promoting
Ehrlich's book—funded the startup of Planned Parenthood to curb
population growth globally, pushed to legalize abortion, and through the
Club of Rome, urged the United Nations to establish the rules necessary
to safeguard the world's food supplies. The United Nations Codex Alimentarius Commission [UN CAC]
was formed in 1962 as a trade commission whose job it would be to
regulate how multinational agricultural and pharmaceutical companies
produced food and nutritional supplements—and how those products would
be marketed globally. While David Rockefeller, head of the world's wealthiest
oil family and the unofficial overseer of the global central banks, was
primarily concerned about overpopulation and starvation, the world's
pharmaceutical giants saw an opportunity to use the ecoalarmists' food
supply fears to seize control of the health supplements industry. Pressured by Big Pharma, the UN added pharmaceuticals
and natural supplements to the Codex, ostensibly to establish
"universal standards" in the vitamin industry so that
consumers would be assured that supplements imported from Asia or Africa
would contain exactly the same ingredients as those manufactured in the
United States or Europe, thereby protecting the consumers who used them. For close to four decades lobbyists for the world's
pharmaceutical giants have been urging global lawmakers to classify
vitamins and all other natural supplements as toxins—as the UN CAC
does—so that herbs and vitamins could be regulated. Under Codex, UN CAC regulators would establish
ultra-low, nonprescription levels for all vitamins and herbal
supplements, and mandate that non-regulated supplements be sold in such
small dosages that a consumer would have to take several supplements to
get what is, today, considered the normal minimum daily requirement of
that nutrient. In July, 2005, UN CAC (pressured by Big Pharma to do so)
introduced the Codex Alimentarius Vitamin and Mineral Guideline
[VMG]. VMG greatly reduced the daily amount of common vitamins
that can theoretically be safely consumed (although consumers have been
safely consuming much, much higher doses of the same vitamins for the
past 50 to 60 years. When Nobel Prize winning researcher Dr. Linus Pauling
developed his nonprescription cardiac regime, it included approximately
4,000 mg of L-Lysine, 4,000 mg of vitamin C and 1,000 mg of vitamin
E—daily. The Linus Pauling heart therapy has been heralded by doctors
around the world one of the safest natural regimes to help prevent heart
attacks. Yet in July, 2005, the FDA arbitrarily decided that the
maximum safe dosage of vitamin E is 400 mg and that doses larger than
that could be toxic. And because it is found in so many food products
today, the FDA advised that those taking nutrient supplements should
limit their daily intake of vitamin C to 500 mg. Consumers who were
using the Pauling heart regime that reduced their consumption of these
supplements, would no longer be taking a "preventive dose" of
the Pauling regime to safeguard against heart attacks. They would simply
be "taking vitamins." Under Codex, L-Lysine—which is an amino acid—would
be even more stringently regulated since many in the medical community
believe the unregulated availability of any amino acid poses a
significant health risk to the public. In 1989 there were 1,500 cases of eosinophilia-myalgia
syndrome [EMS] in the United States that were linked to the amino acid
supplement L-tryptophan and 5-hydroxy-L-tryptophan. Thirty-seven known
deaths were linked to the supplement. The Center for Disease
Control [CDC] still insists that the number of those affected
was much higher. As a result, the FDA banned the over-the-counter sale
of L-tryptophan. An investigation by the FDA produced evidence that the
contaminated L-tryptophan all came from one source in Japan—Showa
Denko KK even though not everyone who took the Showa Denko supplement
got sick. Since 1989 several instances of a related disease,
eosinophilic fascitis, which the CDC believed was linked to L-tryptophan
but just took several years to materialize, surfaced. The CDC and the FDA insist that universal standards are
needed and must be mandated to prevent contaminated supplements from
getting into the country. At the time, the FDA ran tests on various
brands of L-tryptophan consumed by those who developed EMS, and
determined that consuming high doses of L-tryptophan—even that which
was not contaminated—posed a significant health risk. The FDA claims
that those ingesting "label" amounts of the amino acid risk
developing myofascial thickening and pancreatic fibrosis. At least, the
animal studies sited by the FDA produced those pathological results. Big Pharma's Prize On the other hand, ingested L-tryptophan increases
serotonin production—even in individuals who generate little or no
serotonin on their own. Logic suggests that doctors would be better
served to place manic depressive people—particularly teenagers who
generally had adverse reactions to Prozac and Paxil—on L'tryptophan
instead of the chemical drugs which are currently prescribed. However, Big Pharma has a problem. A month's supply of
Prozac, Ritalin, Zoloft or Paxil retails between $350 and $450. A 30-day
supply of L-tryptophan (before it was banned) was ten to fifteen bucks.
Compounding the dilemma for Big Pharma—L'tryptophan is a more
effective treatment for bipolarism with less negative side affects. If Big Pharma wins, and the health supplement industry
falls under FDA regulation, you will immediately see a new generation of
antidepressants with Prozac-sounding names at Prozac-selling
prices—but whose primary ingredient is L-tryptophan will replace the
chemical drugs now being used. Only, because it will be classified by
the FDA as a toxin, only a pharmaceutical company will be allowed to
wholesale it, and only a pharmacist will be allowed to dispense it. Consumers Battle Codex Under DSHEA, the law scientifically classifies
natural nutritional supplements as food items. As such they cannot be
regulated by the FDA which only has jurisdiction over manufactured or
"manipulated" products. For example the pit of apricots, peaches and plums
contain amygdalin—vitamin B17—a nitritoside. Amygdalin is a proven
cancer cell killer. While the FDA cannot regulate vitamin B17, it can
and does regulate the serum form of vitamin B17—Laetrile—because in
its serum form amygdalin has scientifically been manipulated from a
solid to a liquid. Laetrile, which is used to cure cancer in Mexico, is
banned in the United States. Why? Because within amygdalin is beta-cyanophoricglycoside.
The intact molecule is completely nontoxic. However within the molecule
is the element, hydrocyanide (hydrolyzed free hydrogen cyanide). Cyanide
is a poison. Ingested at sufficient levels, its lethal. Because
chemically, amygdalin contains cyanide, the FDA has been trying to ban
Vitamin B17 for decades. However, for reasons scientists have never been
able to figure out, when amygdalin is ingested by humans and reaches the
intestines, hydrocyanide is detoxified by the enzyme rhodanese and is
converted into relatively nontoxic thiocyanate molecules. Amygadalin, whether consumed as the nut within apricot,
peach or plum pits, or as apple seeds, grape pits, lima beans, millet or
wheat grass, is completely safe and nontoxic—taken in safe doses.
Remember, anything—even chocolate cake—can be toxic if consumed in
large enough "doses." The FDA, pressured to do so by the AMA, banned Laetrile
and is feverishly working to "protect" the American people by
classifying Vitamin B17 as a toxin. If this practice is implemented in
the United States through the backdoor of UN's Codex Alimentarius
Commission, Laetrile—under a brand new patent—will become one of the
leading, and most effective, cancer drugs in America. Then Big Pharma would infuse the stock market with new
life and those without prescription drug coverage would be forced to
wonder how to pay for the new miracle drug to sustain their own lives
when then apricot or peach pits in the fruit they buy in their local
supermarket has been declared a Class II substance. Does that mean that peaches, apricots and plums will
have to be pitted before they reach the produce department of your local
supermarket? Or that fresh fruit, because the seeds are construed to be
toxic, will become a taste of the past that will shortly become
available, pitted, and only in a can? Codex has already classifies apricot, peach and plum
pits as toxins. In fact, Codex has unscientifically classified all
herbal supplements and vitamins as toxins. The VMG has established ultra-low doses as the
"safe limits," arguing that massive doses of any vitamin is
unsafe unless prescribed by a licensed medical practitioner. Clearly, VMG violates both the spirit and the letter
of DSHEA. However, Big Pharma is pumping millions of dollars into
the campaign coffers of scores of irresponsible politicians who will
trade their souls for reelection. Add to that advocacy groups like the
National Nutritional Foods Association [NNFA] and the Council for
Responsible Nutrition [CRN] who have fallen prey to Big Pharma out
of fear—or greed—and have become the messengers of disinformation by
assuring their members that Codex is good for the American people
because it will protect them from unscrupulous profiteers in the natural
health good and supplements industry. Just who are the profiteers? When the European Union
adopted Codex in July, 2005 and allowed the World Health Organization to
curtail the nonprescription access to natural health supplements in
Europe, 75% of the inexpensive over-the-counter natural herb remedies
vanished from apothecary shelves by midsummer. The cheap nonprescription
vitamins were replaced with very expensive prescription versions of the
same vitamins. In Norway, for example, the Food Supplements
Directive saw the price of a 30-day supply of the immune-enhancing herb
Echinacea jump from $14 to $153. Zinc tablets, classified by VMG as a
toxin, leaped from $4 to $52 per bottle. And some "toxins,"
like Omega-3 and Omega-6 which are essential for good health, are simply
no longer available in the European Union. Health rights advocate John Hammell noted that you can
buy cigarettes in any apothecary in France, Germany, or Scandinavia, but
vitamin C—which is classified as a toxin—is now legally banned.
Hammell is convinced Big Pharma wants to keep people borderline
healthy—and borderline sick. Clearly, the profiteers are not the naturopaths,
herbalists and health supplement industry—it's the pharmaceutical
industry which realizes that many of the cures for the sicknesses that
are increasingly plaguing America today—like cancer, heart disease,
and diabetes—will come from the salves, elixirs and medicine capsules
of the 18th and 19th century apothacarists who treated their patients
with natural supplements, and not from the chemical laboratories of Big
Pharma who spend billions to synthesize the natural remedies of their
ancestors because the natural supplements, which were
"invented" by Dr. God, can't be patented. The AMA, which now sides with Big Pharma and the CAC,
formerly supported a myriad of clinical studies in which they observed
that most people do not consume the optimal amount of vitamins. In order
to avoid cardiovascular disease, colon and breast cancer, osteopenia,
fractures and several chronic diseases it said, "...it appears
prudent for all adults to take vitamin supplements." Today, the AMA supports the "scientific" views
of the UN CAC chairman Dr. Rolf Grossklaus who—with the help of the
pharmaceutical giant, Pfizer—established the "safe upper
limits" for the nonprescription intake of vitamins based on the
Nordic Ministries Council recommendations that has already swept clean
Europe's apothecary shelves of high potency vitamins and herbal
remedies. German scientist Gerd Stueckler summed it up when he
told the Codex committee that the real health risk to people
"...lies mostly in the lack of sufficient nutrients." He
concluded that "...the whole Codex Alimentarius endeavor is not
about protecting the world's health...It's about protecting the profits
of pharmaceutical companies and the profits of the health
industry." The FDA's Stealth Attack Davis' legislation, posing as a bill that's concerned
only about guaranteeing the safety of vitamins and herbal supplements,
is actually designed to provide Codex allies in Congress with the
ammunition they need to outlaw all nonprescription health supplements
based on the theoretical toxicity that Congress believes occurs from
unregulated overuse. (The human body is a miraculous devise that can
calculate how much of the vitamins in the body it will require, and
dumps the unneeded vitamins—with the exception of Vitamin A—from the
body through the bladder.) (Warning: taking extremely heavy doses of any nutrient
that exceeds what the digestive system can healthily assimilate is
dangerous. If the body can't rid itself of the excess, it will have a
toxic affect and, in some rare instances, "overdoses" of
vitamins can, and will, kill a person.) In this instance, however, we
are speaking of "normal" daily maximums established over the
past fifty years or so. Starting in the late 1950s the FDA, whose thinking was
dominated by the American Medical Association [AMA], began a covert
investigation of healthcare companies which utilized unorthodox
approaches and paid for medications not deemed to be acceptable by the
AMA. Throughout second half of the 20th century, the AMA dominated the
thinking not only of the medical community but the "medical"
thinking of the federal bureaucracy. The views of the FDA were the views
of the AMA. If the AMA didn't like certain medical procedures, practices
or medications they lobbied whomever they needed to curtail or outlaw
the procedure, practice or medication. Chelation therapy has been used by both medical and
osteopathic physicians since the 1980s to reduce or clear blockages in
human arteries to prevent heart attacks. The AMA lobbied against
chelation and pressured the health insurance industry not to cover the
procedure. At a cost of $85 to $125 per procedure—and the need for
three or more treatments each week—few people can afford the $255 to
$375 per week for up to 10 weeks and, for that reason, few "at
risk" people do chelation. However, when the health insurance industry began to
compare the cost of providing chelatin therapy—at about $3,750 for a
complete treatment—against the cost of a triple bypass at $85 to $125
thousand, most HMOs and PPOs will now pay for the procedures—but only
if the treatments are ordered by the insured's primary care physician. Since January, 2004 the FDA has mailed hundreds of these warning letters to Internet entrepreneurs all over the United States. Most of those targeted are not large companies with internal legal departments and lawyers on the payroll, or those with the funds to hire a major law firm to assist them. Most are family businesses. Not all of them are selling vitamins and herbal supplements although it appears the bulk of those singled out for scrutiny and harassment have been targeted for trivial violations of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. Some are family farms selling basic food items—like apples...or cherries.—items that no reasonable mind would construe as a regulated "drug." The AMA, using State and federal medical licensing
boards, threaten doctors who use procedures, like chelation therapy,
that the AMA opposes. When the licensing boards refuse to kowtow to the
AMA, the organization lobbies Congress—as they are once again to
legalize Codex. In what has been an undeclared war for much of the past century, most of the medical associations in the country spend exorbitant sums to fund slanderous media attacks against what the AMA and the FDA construe to be "quacks"—herbalists and naturopaths pretending, they claim, to be doctors. Depending on the effectiveness of the naturopathic treatment or the cure rate of the herbal remedy, allegations—and sometimes criminal charges—will be brought by the FDA against the practitioner or herbalist. |
On Oct. 28, 1998 the FDA went after www.apricotseeds.org
and the website's owner, Jason Vale for promoting apricot seeds as a
cancer cure. Vale was a walking billboard for amygdalin. Twelve years
earlier he had a deadly form of Ewing's Sarcoma—a nasty, fast
spreading cancer that kills 50% of those infected. After chest wall
surgery, chemotherapy and radiation treatment, Jason's parents tried
apricot seeds. The cancer went into remission. Vale became one of the
primary advocates of apricot seed therapy. Only on his website, Vale
forgot about the surgery and chemo, declaring that his chest tumors were
healed by the apricot seeds. Thousands of people flocked to Vale's website and bought
amygadalin. But thousands more went to other sites. To whittle down his
competition, Vale crossed the line from selling a natural supplement
(apricot seeds) to selling a manufactured supplement (serum Laetrile)
whose distribution is controlled by the FDA. Vale had ventured into the
realm of Big Pharma which was already testing synthetic Laetrile under
the brand names Sarcarinase, Nitriloside and Anitoxin which were
formulations of malonide, glyoxylide and parabenzoquinone that
reportedly promised the curative affects of amygadalin—without the
cyanide toxic side-effects. In their warning letter to Vale, the FDA said:
"This letter is in reference to your promotion and distribution of
the unapproved drug Laetrile in the form of your products: 'Apricot
seeds,' 'Vitamin B17,' and 'Amygadalin ampules.' Labeling for these
products makes therapeutic claims which cause the products to be drugs
as defined in Section 201(g) of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.
Labeling is now limited to the immediate product containers but includes
all promotional material including video tapes which you distribute with
your products." The letter, charging civil violations, started a five
year legal odyssey that ended in 2003 when Vale was convicted of
criminal violations of Section 201(g). In the civil trial that ended in
June, 1999 with a summary judgment against Vale and his company for
$631,585—most of which went to AOL for Vale's spamming AOL email
users. Instead of taking his lumps and giving up, Vale changed his
company name and continued selling apricot seeds even though the FDA
awarded an injunction in federal court that prevented Vale from engaging
in the sale or distribution of amygadalin—under any company name. This time, the FDA filed criminal charges. A jury found
him guilty on July 21, 2003. He was sentenced on June 18, 2004. Vale is
currently serving a 63 month sentence. He will serve an additional 3
years of supervised release when he completes his prison time. Because
all of his assets were seized to satisfy the $631 thousand judgment,
Vale was defended in his criminal trial by a public defender. After his
conviction, the court learned that Vale had earned over a half million
dollars from the sale of Laetrile that the government could not account
for. As a result, the court ordered Vale—who is penniless—to repay
the government $31,000 for his defense. What happened to Vale is nothing new. The FDA has been
the strong-arm of the AMA since its creation by Franklin D. Roosevelt
during the New Deal Era when the federal bureaucracy was being created. One of its first victims was a former coal miner and
oilman turned herbalist, Harry Hoxsey. His great-grandfather, John
Hoxsey, a horse breeder, watched a cancerous lesion on the leg of his
favorite horse heal after it ate on a particular clump of shrubs and
flowering plants in the Hoxsey pasture. John Hoxsey formulated a herbal
liquid, a salve, and a powdered form of the cancer-curing herbs.
Hoxsey's father—also John—a veterinary surgeon, used his
grandfather's remedy on horses. Then quietly, he began treating human
patients. When the formula was passed on to Harry he took his show on
the road, becoming an itinerant healer for a couple of years before
opening the first Hoxsey's Cancer Clinic in Dallas in 1924. That decision began the protracted battle between Harry
Hoxsey and the AMA. Hoxsey was arrested more times (for practicing
medicine without a license) than any other "medical quack" in
the history of the United States. But none of his patients ever
testified against him. Why? Because Hoxsey's treatment worked. In 1946 Mildred Nelson, a registered nurse, was
introduced to his name when her mother, Della Mae, went to Hoxsey's
Clinic to have her cancer treated. Believing he was a quack, Mildred
left her home in Jacksboro, Tennessee and went to Dallas to stop her
mother from wasting her money. Instead of dying, her mother's cancer
disappeared. Mildred became a believer—and Hoxsey's nurse. Mildred's
father, who was battling cancer in the eye socket, and had already lost
one eye to cancer, was also treated by Hoxsey. He became cancer-free and
lived until 1957 when he died from meningitis. The medical orthodoxy labeled Hoxsey as the "worst
cancer quack of the century." The AMA and the FDA branded his
elixirs and salves as "useless backyard weeds" and the
American Cancer Society added Hoxsey to its blacklist. In 1968—eight years after the FDA banned the sale of
all Hoxsey medications. FDA investigators would go to the homes of
Hoxsey's patients and seize their medications, telling them that the
elixir was worse than the disease, and would kill them before the cancer
did. Eminent botanist, James Duke, Ph.D, of the US Department
of Agriculture, testified that all of the Hoxsey herbs contain known
anti-cancer properties. All of the herbs in the Hoxsey
formulas—bloodroot, licorice, red clover, burdock root, stillingia
root, berberis root, poke root, cascara, prickly ash bark and buckthorn
bark—are cited in the book, Plants Used Against Cancer, a compendium
of medicinal plants by National Cancer Institute scientist Jonathan
Hartwell. After the FDA banned the Hoxsey formula, Dr. J.W. Fell
of the Middlesex Hospital in London developed a paste made from
bloodroot and applied to a malignant growth on a patient in the
hospital. Within two weeks Dr. Fell's paste destroyed the cancer
completely. Fell's team expanded the study, healing cancers of the nose,
external ear, and other external cancers—using the quack's bloodroot
salve. A group of 10 medical doctors visited Hoxsey's clinic
for a 2-day inspection tour in 1954, and examined hundreds of case
histories and interviewed scores of current patients. At the conclusion
of their investigation, the doctors released a report stating the clinic
"...is successfully treating pathologically-proven cases of cancer,
both internal and external, without the use of surgery, radium or
X-ray...Some of those presented before us have been free of symptoms as
long as 24-years, and the physical evidence indicates that they are all
enjoying exceptional health at this time. We, as a committee, feel that
the Hoxsey treatment is superior to such conventional methods of
treatment as X-ray, radium or surgery. We are willing to assist this
Clinic in any way possible in bringing this treatment to the American
public." That was not to be. The AMA buried the report. Hoxsey
remained a quack, and the FDA—pushed to do so by the AMA—succeeded
in banning the Hoxsey formulas from reaching the public six years later.
America would likely be cancer free today if we did not have the heavily
politicized FDA running the gauntlet for the bureaucrats in the AMA who
really don't want to see cures for any of the most profitable disease
since it will adversely affect the livelihood of their members who earn
above average incomes treating those who are suffering and dying from
those diseases. In addition to going after those whom the medical
community has labeled as quacks, the AMA supports quack-watch groups
like the National Council Against Heath Fraud. NCAHF ratchets up public
opinion against health care professionals who step across the great
orthodoxy divide as the group of doctors did by visiting the Hoxsey
Clinic. Doctors who recommending vitamins and natural supplements to
their patients instead of the usual regulated drugs, or those who
recommend chelation therapy or other unorthodox treatments—regardless
how effective the the alternative treatments may be —are also branded
as quacks. About one-third of all adults in America currently use,
or have used, some form of unconventional medical treatment. Many go to
chiropractors. Some go to massage therapists. Many pregnant women go to
midwives instead of medical obstetricians. The percentage of Americans
who use natural healing methods—and herbal medications—is increasing
dramatically much to the dismay of the AMA and its strong-arm enforcer,
the FDA—thus, the reason and the appeal by the AMA and the FDA for
Codex. And, of course, the very reason that the FDA is now resorting to
a new strong-arm tactic. Over the past two years the FDA has embarked on a new
ploy to intimidate natural health advocates—attacking and threatening
them with legal action or criminal prosecution for minor infractions in
labeling or advertising. In many cases, the FDA holds administrative
hearings that are equivalent to biased trials can virtually shut down
the operations of the offending natural health company. If the consumer
fights back, more times than not, the FDA will then pursue criminal
action. The letter (below) listed in its entirety, was sent to
Jeffrey Grimmer of Grimmer Enterprises in North Mankato, Minnesota by
the FDA last June. It begins: The King Family are fruit farmers in northern
Michigan—in the heart of the tart cherry growing district. They farm
300 acres and employ about three dozen people from the community. They
are, in every sense of the word, a family-owned and operated business.
Like thousands of Internet entrepreneurs around the country last year
and this, the King Family received a polite warning from the FDA earlier
this year advising them that by discussing potential health benefits of
Montmorency tart cherries on their website and in their promotional
literature, they violated the law, and because they did, the FDA
believes it can legally classify the cherries as a drug under Section
201(g)(l)(B) or the act USC 321(g)(I)(B), and place the cherries—and
the King Family—under the jurisdiction of the FDA. The King Family farm, like hundreds of family farms in
the country, is economically threatened by unfair and many times illegal
competition from overseas. and from the agri-giants in the United States
pushing down wholesale prices in order to bankrupt their independent
competition, is struggling for its existence. To survive, many of these
family farms have been forced to adopt direct marketing strategies
utilizing the Internet to bypass the wholesalers (who are usually owned
by the agri-giants) and sell direct to the public. But to do so, the
farmer must be able to sell the benefits of his product over those found
in the local supermarket. Fighting back as best they can over the Internet, the
King Family sent out a broadcast email in which they said: "...This
is a serious and unconstitutional abrogation of our right to freedom of
speech. We are being threatened with action if we do not cease
publishing scientific research abstracts on the Internet. It is very
disturbing that we are being asked to register cherries as a new drug
when cherries have been safely consumed for centuries, while at the same
time the same agency approved drugs such an Vioxx, Celebrex, and many
others for which there are now substantial reports that these drugs have
marked deleterious effects on people's health. We did not seek out, nor
wish to engage in a legal or mass media battle with any governmental
agency, but this is our legitimate, ethical and honest business
livelihood that is being threatened. As small, independent family
farmers, we do not have the resources nor lime to battle a federal
agency that we suspect is, more interested in protecting the private
interests of the pharmaceutical industry than it is in protecting public
health. We are left to reach only one conclusion about this: in order to
protect the profits of the pharmaceutical industry, the FDA is willing
to trample free speech rights, public health, and family farmers. We
request your assistance and input on this issue before it spins out of
control and has a negative and chilling impact on agricultural, public
health, and freedom of speech issues. The King Family
1-877-937-5464." The FDA is tackling more than just the family farm or
the one-man Internet health supplement entrepreneur. It will go after
any business owner who sells any products in which health-related claims
are made. In 1990 the FDA raided and ransacked 57-year old Sissy
Harrington-McGill's pet store—without the benefit of a search warrant
as required by the 4th Amendment —because literature McGill gave to
her customers claimed that vitamins help keep pets healthy. What is even more shocking is that when McGill's day in
court arrived, she exercised her 7th Amendment rights to demand a jury
trial. The federal judge denied her request, telling her he would decide
her case. McGill was convicted of violating the Health Claims Act—a
law that had not even been enacted when the FDA broke into her store,
was still not enacted when the judge sentenced her to 179 days in jail
and fined her $10,000; nor was it enacted 114 days later when the judge
was forced to free her from jail for breaking a law that did not exist.
In fact, the Democratically-controlled Congress in 1990 could not muster
the votes to enact the bill into law. McGill filed a lawsuit against the
FDA. Even though her constitutional rights were violated twice by the
FDA and once by a federal judge, it is not likely she will even see a
cash award. But the FDA succeeded in doing what it was trying to do—it
closed McGill's business because she mentioned the health benefits of
vitamins. In 1992 the unlocked office door of Dr. Jonathan
Wright's natural health clinic in Kent, Washington was kicked in by FDA
agents wearing kevlar vests who rushed into the waiting room with drawn
guns, shouting at the patients and office personnel to
"Freeze!" and "Put Up Your Hands!" What crime did Dr. Wright commit? The FDA had previously
banned a contaminated batch of Vitamin B pills found in another State.
Wright was not connected to that incident, nor had he ever sold
contaminated vitamins. The FDA knew that, but they decided that since
Dr. Wright—a M.D.—practiced nutritional medicine and preventative
health methodology, his clinic should be raided and checked out.
Wright's patients were treated like criminals. Wright's employees were
held at gunpoint while the FDA agents ransacked his office. Computers,
files, records, mailing lists, supplies, were all confiscated. About all
that was left were the carpets, pictures on the wall, empty file
cabinets and desks. No charges were ever filed against Wright or any of
his employees, but none of his files or equipment were ever returned.
The FDA accomplished what it set out to do—it closed down Wright's
nutritional medical practice. In May and September, 1993 approximately 40 natural
healing clinics, health food stores and independent vitamin
manufacturers had a "Wright-experience" as commando-garbed FDA
agents—sometimes accompanied by DEA and IRS agents—raided their
businesses. Seized by the FDA and/or DEA were any controlled substances
that could legally be prescribed by the medical doctors who operated the
clinics, vitamins, herbs and other nutritional supplements—including
shark cartilage which had become the latest health fad. The IRS seized
both personal and company financial records and bank accounts—and the
personal and corporate automobiles, office or home electronic
equipment—and anything else of value. The government very carefully
stripped the "suspects" of any means to raise funds that could
be used to hire lawyers. But, just as it was with Dr. Wright, no charges were
ever filed against any of the victims of the FDA's latest outrages.
Among those raided in September was Dr. Kurt Donsbach. the author of
several self-help nutrition books. His home was raided and his personal
checking account was arbitrarily seized. Tragically, long before the
passage of the Patriot Act, the Bill of Rights was been thumbed by the
unconstitutional federal enforcement agencies of the bureaucracy as it
enforced edicts emanating from the AMA. None of the seized items were
returned. The raids demonstrate not only an erosion of the
principles of the rule of law, but a federal bureaucracy that is no
longer controlled by the principles of democratic governance.
Continually, we see policy agencies of government are being controlled
and manipulated by the special interest groups that are legally allowed
to bribe elected officials by contributing large sums of money to their
reelection campaigns, thereby gaining political favors that should never
have been granted either by the politician or the bureaucratic minion
playing the inside-the-beltway favor game. One of the two most dangerous lobbies affecting the
American people today is the AMA. The mainstream, orthodox medical
community has a vested interest in codifying Codex Alimentarius as
quickly as possible—with or without the needed legislation ever being
proffered by Congress. Why? Because it is becoming increasingly clear that as they
realize what's going on, the American people have a problem with an
international agency of the UN limiting their ability to buy vitamin
supplements—and herbal remedies that have proven they work but are
banned not because they have adverse side affects but because the
pharmaceutical industry will lose money if more effective, safer and
cheaper nutrients will cure or alleviate medical problems experienced by
those who currently must rely on traditional medical practitioners who,
themselves, rely on surgery and chemical drugs—many with adverse side
affects as bad, or worse, than the medical problems they purport to
alleviate. For example, FDA-approved Lamisil™ tablets are designed to
treat mild to severe toe nail fungus infections. Is nail fungus a
life-threatening condition? Of course not. You simply have thick, ugly
toe nails. However, the side affects to using Lamisil™ can be life
threatening. The side affects include possible liver damage. Tell me,
which is worse? Liver damage or ugly toenails? So, why aren't the
commando-style FDA agents storming the local podiatrist's office?
Because Big Pharma created Lamisil™ and the FDA approved it. Need I
say more? Just Say No! (c) 2005 Jon C. Ryter - All Rights Reserved About the Author: Taken after written permission from Jon Christian
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