Medical Freedom and the FDA
International Medical Veritas Association


The New York Times said today, "The playwright Harold Pinter turned his
Nobel Prize acceptance speech on Wednesday into a furious howl of outrage
against American foreign policy, saying that the United States had not only
lied to justify waging war against Iraq but had also "supported and in many
cases engendered every right-wing military dictatorship" in the last 50
years. "The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant,
vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them,"
Mr. Pinter said. "You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite
clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for
universal good. It's a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of
hypnosis."

Mr. Pinter attacked American foreign policy since World War II, saying
that while the crimes of the Soviet Union had been well documented, those of
the United States had not. "I put to you that the United States is without
doubt the greatest show on the road," he said. "Brutal, indifferent,
scornful and ruthless it may be, but it is also very clever. As a salesman
it is out on its own and its most saleable commodity is self-love."

Mr. Pinter might just as well been talking about the medical industrial
complex and that part of the American government married to the
pharmaceutical business. Americans, through spiritually bankrupt ideas of
nationalism, can understandably turn a blind eye to what is done to
foreigners since "they" are not "we." But in doing so they have closed their
hearts (the spiritual organ of the heart only knows feelings of oneness and
can only stand to be in the presence of truth. Any and all falsehood or
separations from others translates into separations from one's own true
self, the living breathing being whose home is in the center of the heart).
What this unfortunately translates into is that Americans, and others around
the world, just have not a clue to what is being done to them and their own
children by these same ruthless, scornful and indifferent people.

In the name of medical arrogance and total control a huge wrong is
being done by pharmaceutically controlled medicine and people in the
millions are being slaughtered medically each year and scores more driven
into the living hell of diseases that can be prevented.

Below is an essay by a colleague of mine Dr. Carolyn Dean, with her
associate Elissa Meininger. Dr. Dean is the author of The Miracle of
Magnesium - and her work and personal presence in my life has been an
inspiration to me.

Medical freedom is going to be the defining issue for many of us in the
early part of the 21st Century. Dr. Dean speaks in a most grounded sense
about this issue and what we can begin to do about it.

Mark Sircus Ac., OMD
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HOW TO STOP FDA CENSORSHIP NOW!
Dr. Carolyn Dean, MD, ND and Elissa Meininger
December 1, 2005
NewsWithViews.com


Early in the 1990's, so many people were alarmed at how government was
taking over their lives, that several "third parties" emerged in an effort
to break the two-party political system. The big winner in the third party
sweepstakes that season was Ross Perot, the Texas billionaire whose shrill
voice and East Texas twang stood out like a beacon of hope to 19% of America's
voters. Whether you think Ross walked on water or thought he was just a big
jerk from Texas doesn't matter. His endorsement by 19% of the voters remains
a major statement of support from millions of ordinary people regarding
their disgust with government power. Ross's main message was that government
is supposed to be subservient to the people. In short, every American has
the right to say, "I am an owner of this country and these government people
work for me!"

Interestingly, most of the third parties back then promoted health freedom
platforms in an effort to either get government out of the health care
system altogether, or at least make sure that the citizens could regain
control over their own medical affairs.

When Bill Clinton was elected President and we saw Hillary's mammoth plan
for a government takeover of American health care system introduced two
years later, we also saw that it was rejected out of hand after little
debate. Hillary's idea was to put the government in charge of not only
controlling the sky-high costs of modern medicine but to make sure we all
had access whether we wanted it or not to pre-approved choices made by
government bureaucrats.

Sad to say, some elements of that original behemoth were incrementally
passed later, thanks to the usual cloakroom deals from both sides of the
aisle. One such loss of freedom was the selling of our most personal and
private information to high power data collectors who now make a living
selling this information to all comers. However, millions of Americans are
still doing what they can to protect our medical system from becoming a
no-choice, government-controlled, socialized modern medicine monster.

Some of the noisier elements of the health freedom movement, then as now,
are those of us who don't depend on modern medicine as our only road back to
health. We use natural healing methods and products that are generally
ignored by government bean counters who regularly pontificate about the
state of American health care. During the time of the great health care
reform debate regarding Hillary's plan, millions of us sent millions of
messages to our elected officials in Washington, urging them to pass the
Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994. We made it abundantly
clear we wanted to stop the FDA from conducting gunpoint raids on doctors'
offices and seizing millions of dollars worth of supplement products. The
FDA made it vividly clear that it intended to remove such products from the
market because they represented competition to synthetic drugs. Congress got
the message and passed DSHEA unanimously.

While DSHEA has been a tremendous success and we still have supplements on
our shelves, the problem is that FDA officials, thanks to backing from their
Big Pharma patrons, have never liked DSHEA and have never fully complied
with the law. In fact, while we citizens still function on the belief that
PUBLIC SERVANTS (and we capitalize those words on purpose) are servants of
the people, FDA officials don't seem to understand that they work for us.
Instead, they have creatively used the law to twist it to their own
purposes. In fact, there is even a book entitled, "FDA's Creative
Application of the Law" which discusses how the FDA re-interprets the law to
bring about changes in public health policy! YUP, YOU READ THAT RIGHT! The
FDA functions as its own policy making body without our permission and
apparently without any reprimands from Congress! [Read]

This is not news to the health freedom movement. We know it is standard
operating procedure for this agency to run amuck. We said as much in an
article we published several weeks ago on NewsWithViews.com entitled, "A
Call To Action to Protect Free Speech", in which we talked about a new bill
that was about to be introduced to rein in the FDA. And in this week's
column we would like to expand on that topic.

At issue is the fact that employees of the FDA don't think the agency has to
abide by the U.S. Constitution or the law in general, when it comes to
allowing manufacturers to make health claims about dietary supplements.
Worse yet, these same public employees don't think we should be allowed to
have truthful, scientific information about what these products can do for
our health even if some other arm of government produced it. May we repeat,
FDA EMPLOYEES ARE PUBLIC SERVANTS. THEY WORK FOR THE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA.

This new bill to curb the outrageous behavior of FDA employees is HR 4282,
Health Freedom Protection Act. It was officially introduced in Congress on
November 9th and now has ten co-sponsors with more on the way. The current
co-sponsors are, Ron Paul (TX), Peter DeFazio (OR), Dan Burton (IN), Walter
Jones (NC), Rob Bishop (UT), John J. Duncan (TN), Roscoe Bartlett (MD), Jeff
Miller (FL), Butch Otter (ID), and Tom Tancredo (CO).

If any of these co-sponsors happens to be your personal public servant in
the U.S. House, please send him a polite thank you note and tell him why it
is personally important to you that he is supporting this bill. If your
public servant in the U.S. House is not listed, then you have your work cut
out for you. Find the number to make your call to your public servant using
this URL. [Read]

Our Congressmen and Senators have a Winter Recess that usually begins around
the third week in December and ends sometime at the end of January. During
this time, they are frequently home in their districts, often holding public
meetings, and otherwise somewhat more available to you, their constituents.
This means that if you call your Congressperson's local office nearest to
your home, this will give you an opportunity to get to know the staff.

Phoning is now the most powerful way to get your message across, followed
up, if you would like, with e-mail and snail mail. As this campaign to pass
HR 4282 The Health Freedom Protection Act develops, there will be more
reasons for you to contact your public servant and his or her staff, because
it will take all of us constantly on the job to make sure our elected public
servants know the people they work for want to have access to REAL
information about the dietary supplement products they take and want FDA
employees given the message loud and clear.

If you are able to set up an appointment with your public servant while he
or she is home during the Winter Recess, be sure to bring others with you so
that he or she realizes that you are not alone in your concern about the
bill. In all cases, be sure to state why the bill affects you personally. If
you manufacture or sell these products be sure to mention that. If you have
health issues that have been improved by using these products and you depend
upon them to regain your health or remain healthy be sure to mention that as
well. Just being for "free speech" on principle isn't the same as needing
information about the products and using the products to help you maintain
health. It is critical that your public servant knows this is a life and
death matter to you.

In describing HR 4282 The Health Freedom Protection Act, here are some of
the things this bill will do when it is passed.

(1) amend the drug and health claim provisions of the Food Drug and Cosmetic
Act (FDCA) to permit truthful disease treatment claims for foods and dietary
supplements (presently FDA prohibits all such claims.

(2) prohibit FDA from preventing any who sell foods and supplements from
sending consumers government reports (and accurate quotes form government
reports) on nutrient-disease associations.

(3) prohibit FDA from preventing any who sell foods and supplements from
sending consumers scientific publications on nutrient-disease associations;

(4) limit FDA disclaimers on health claims to no more than three concise
sentences.

(5) require FDA to permit health claims to be made unless FDA proves there
to be no scientific evidence to support the claims and no disclaimer capable
of avoiding misleadingness;

(6) compel FDA to approve or disapprove health claim petitions within 100
days or the claims will be automatically allowed.

(7) require FDA to consider studies of the treatment effect of nutrients in
evaluation of nutrient-disease prevention claims.

(8) prohibit FDA from waiving conflicts of interest in its food advisory
panels considering health claims.

(9) reverse FDAs denial or restriction of the following nutrient-disease
association claims: (a) saw palmetto treating benign prostatic hyperplasia;
(b) omega-3 fatty acids and coronary heart disease; (c) omega-3 fatty acids
and sudden death heart attacks; (d) glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate
treating osteoarthritis; and (e) calcium reducing the risk of bone
fractures.

(10) prevent FDA from disallowing structure function claims that include
terms that refer to signs or symptoms of disease so long as the disease
itself is not mentioned.

(11) amend the deceptive advertising provisions of the Federal Trade
Commission Act (FTCA) to make all publications exempt from regulation by the
amendment to the FDCA also exempt from regulation by the FTC.

(12) prohibit FTC from regulating as advertising any truthful and accurate
summary of findings from peer-reviewed scientific publication.

(13) require FTC to give notice and an opportunity to cure to any company
suspected of engaging in deceptive advertising of a health benefit.

(14) prohibit FTC from commencing a deceptive advertising investigation of a
health benefit promotion unless FTC possesses proof by a preponderance of
the evidence that the ad is false and misleading.

(15) require FTC to prove that an ad is false and misleading and that it
actually misleads consumers before FTC may hold an advertiser guilty of
deceptive advertising.

If your public servant seems interested in co-sponsoring the bill, please
refer him or her to Rep. Ron Paul's office for more information.
www.house.gov/paul

And, most of all, stay tuned. >From what we are seeing, there is massive
public support for this bill starting to emerge and if things continue to go
as they are, passage of this bill may very well change the landscape of
health freedom significantly. Let's hope so.

ACT FOR HEALTH FREEDOM NOW:
Go to www.friendsoffreedominternational.org and purchase "Death by Modern
Medicine" and view and purchase the new movie on Codex and Free Trade called
"We Become Silent" by Kevin Miller. Proceeds from the sale of these products
are crucial to help fund our health freedom action. For state action go to:
www.nationalhealthfreedom.org.


© 2005 Carolyn Dean - All Rights Reserved
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Dr. Carolyn Dean is a medical doctor, naturopathic doctor, herbalist,
acupuncturist, nutritionist, as well as a powerful health activist fighting
for health freedom as president of Friends of Freedom International. Dr.
Dean is the author of over a dozen health books, the latest of which is
"Death By Modern Medicine".

Elissa Meininger, is Vice President of Friends of Freedom International and
co-founder of the Health Freedom Action Network, a grassroots citizens'
political action group. She is also a health freedom political analyst and
can be heard on the natural health radio show SuperHealth, broadcast weekly
on station WKY (SuperTalk AM 930) in Oklahoma City.

Website: www.deathbymodernmedicine.com
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