DEATH TRAP: HOW AMERICAN SELFISH GREED SHORTENS LIFE, PART 6
RE: THE RATH OF GOD ON THE DISEASE BUSINESS
ORIGINAL TITLE: "NO AMNESTY FOR THE MAKERS OF DEADLY DRUGS"
Protect Your Health! Act Now!
by Matthias Rath, M.D.

Largely unbeknownst to the American people, there is a war going on
that has claimed victims in every family.This war is escalating and
threatens every human life. It is a war being waged in the interests
of the multibillion-dollar pharmaceutical industry, which is not a
health industry, but rather an investment business built upon the
continuation and expansion of global diseases. Your health - and the
health of every person in America - is threatened in several ways:

1. The "business with disease" as the basis of the pharmaceutical
industry. The pharmaceutical industry is a multibillion-dollar
investment business that has orchestrated the largest fraud in human
history; it promises health, but in fact thrives on the continuation
of diseases.This fraud scheme is easily unmasked: Most pharmaceutical
drugs are designed to merely cover disease symptoms, but are not
intended to cure or eradicate diseases. As a direct result of this
multibillion-dollar fraud business, no cure has been found for
cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes or any other chronic
disease. On the contrary, these diseases continue in epidemic
proportions, killing about 5,000 - five thousand - Americans EACH
DAY. This compares to the annihilation of a city the size of San
Francisco - EACH YEAR!

2. The epidemic of dangerous side effects caused by pharmaceutical
drugs. The dangerous side effects of Vioxx, Celebrex, Lipitor and
Prozac are not the exception - they are the rule. Due to their
synthetic nature, most pharmaceutical drugs are toxic to our bodies,
causing organ damage and other serious side effects. According to the
American Medical Association, one million Americans suffer
disabilities from taking pharmaceutical drugs and more than 100,000
of them die as a result of this - EACH YEAR!

3. Legislation that protects the expansion of the deadly "business
with disease." For decades, drug companies have used their giant
profits to manipulate the public and influence legislation, including
that from the U.S. Congress and the White House. Now that the deadly
consequences of the pharmaceutical fraud business have been unmasked,
the survival of this industry depends on protectionist laws. The
current push of the Bush administration for so-called "Medical
Liability Reform" is not about protecting gynecologists and medical
doctors from liability lawsuits. The centerpiece of the proposed
medical liability legislation is to prohibit punitive damage awards
in liability lawsuits brought by injured patients against drug
companies!

This medical liability legislation is being used as a cover to grant
amnesty to drug manufacturers, protecting them from having to
compensate millions of patients for the harm their drugs have caused.
It is payback for the pharmaceutical industry, which was the largest
corporate sponsor of the Bush election campaign. The people of
America and their political representatives have to realize that the
proposed medical liability legislation is a "Trojan Horse"; passing
it means granting immunity to the drug makers, allowing them the
unrestricted expansion of their deadly "business with disease" at the
expense of patients. As the direct consequence of this law, tens of
millions of Americans will suffer disability and die from preventable
diseases within the next decades.

4. Withholding lifesaving information about the health benefits of
vitamins and natural therapies. A precondition for this "business
with disease" based on patentable synthetic drugs is the suppression
of effective and safe - but non-patentable and, therefore, less
profitable - natural therapies. For decades, the pharmaceutical
industry has strategically expanded its influence on medical
education with devastating results; it has deliberately blocked any
information about the essential role of vitamins and other
micronutrients in maintaining health - contained in every textbook of
biology, biochemistry and natural science - from entering medical
school teaching and medical practice. Through their strategic
influence, the pharmaceutical industry has established a global
monopoly on medicine. As a direct result, generations of medical
doctors have not received adequate training in nutritional and other
natural therapies. Doctors and patients alike have become victims of
the pharmaceutical industry's efforts to monopolize human health. As
a result, tens of millions of Americans have died unnecessarily over
the past decades because this lifesaving health information has not
been available to them.

5. Suppressing effective natural health therapies by law. Effective,
safe and non-patentable natural therapies threaten the very basis of
the pharmaceutical investment business.They target and correct the
underlying cellular deficiencies of today's most common diseases,
thereby preventing and eventually eradicating them. The elimination
of any disease inevitably destroys a multibillion-dollar drug market
for the pharmaceutical industry. Thus, the pharmaceutical industry
has launched a global campaign to protect its patent-based "business
with disease" by outlawing natural, non-patentable therapies at the
national and international level.This is the background for the Bush
administration's attack on the Dietary Supplement Health and
Education Act (DSHEA), the key legislation protecting the rights of
the American people for free access to natural therapies and to
freedom of health choice. If this fundamental human right to natural
health is taken away, the health of billions of people will be
compromised and tens of millions of them will pay the ultimate price
for generations to come.