Hi Gerry,
It`s good to hear from you. You always seem to "hit the mark" with your arrows. This time it is choosing the right person to seek aid from, whether it`s in Health Food stores, Doctors (MD.`s) or Naturopaths. And you are partially correct that we have surrendered some of our power to government agencies, but the rest of the story is, "It has been cleverly manoeuvred that way" by slick lobby groups purporting to represent good research, etc. Behind the whole ball of wax is the Pharmaceutical Cartel, who spin their web on all, as they have been doing for years. Congressional people , parliamentarians, members of the executive branches and even judges themselves, have been influenced one way or another. Money makes for good electons, trips, influence and so on...It`s sad but true, and we are in a non-perfect world...
Now it`s pay back time and as we awake from our Rip Van Wrinkle sleep of twenty years (or more-try 70!!!!) we find that the world has changed immensley and that we are being overwhelmed by legislation, government "protection for our own health and benefit", forced vaccinations ( if you want your child to attend school..." [ w/o telling the 'out' options], or the dramtic cruel prognosis "You have cancer. You will not survive beyond 3 months, possibly only 6 months at the most...' What can I do ,Doctor?' "you have to start your treatment immediately...." And what treatment is that, " Well, the only course open is a little/lot of this, and a little/lot of that"...(translation) Chemotherapy, radiation, surgery, drugs and more of the same, as long as you live..."Will you get it all?...'...etc., etc.
Gerry, I am not against doctors totally, but I am against those who blindly follow the AMA`s policies of pressure, threats, isolation, persecution, jail, and expulsion from the 'practice of medicine" as the AMA sees it. Now this would not be bad by itself if the AMA were only a Lobby Group (which it is ) or a spokes group for the MD.`s who choose to join it (which it is), but it also has become the semi-official power behind the scenes of the health movement in the USA & Canada) over the last 70 years or so. It has influenced everyone, politicians, doctors, people and has crept into just about every crevice of society by "lies, damned lies, and more lies" [A MarkTwian expression].
Today, when everyone is throughly convinced that the AMA`s message is valid, there suddenly is a terrific backlash brought about by better informed, thinking people who are disillusioned with the dismal results of chemotherapy, radiation, surgery and drugs ( I call it 'synthetic medicine"), and the food we take in with the lies of the food processors, which up our bellies and those of our children with "junk, damned junk and miore junk". Try to sail through a supermarket today to find "pure food", (or a scool lunch program), and it is virtually impossible. You know all this better than I do... Didn`t doctor Budwig warn us about the Food Prcessors? About unscrupulous doctors? About Government Agencies that are influenced? About the warped power of the Pharmaceutical Cartel? She left that world and went to do her own "saving" of terminally ill people. She has given us one of the best formula in the world for arthritis, heart infarction, strokes, cancer, diabetis, and other
life threatening dideases.We are grateful but the rest is up to us. Thank God for the Internet, although funny things do happen here, too, eh?
In this attack on herbs, "Pay day" has arrived and the Federal Agencies have the "Law" to uphold. No doubt we will hear, " I`m only doing my job [ read, 'duty'], buddy" if they even talk! When the German Officers said that at the end of World War Two, at the Nurembourg Trials, no one accepted this as a defense. They were hanged....Now this " slogan" is part and parcel of the langauge today in most government agencies.
Can we do anything about all this ? Yes, and no. Will we do anything about it? Yes, and no. It`s too bad that our electronic world has swept us up and we are too busy to pay attention. This list , however, does pay attention. We listen, we read, we try. We even feel deeply. That is where the strength is. And we have the truth of tradition and a long history that Herbs are good food and also for healing. Read Hippocrates , galen and all other great healers, past and present...
All we have to do is find good herbs and keep them away from the Bio-Generation (GMO processes), and/or grow a lot ourselves. And of course, we cannot use the word "cure" when taking herbs and talking about them--- the AMA saw to that~ or you will be Practicing Medicine without a License! And don`t try to tell someone what to take for this or that. That can be construed also as Practicing Medicine without a license! (even telling someone "to take an aspirin" can land you in court for "Practicing Medicine without a license.") Can you fight it? Yes, you can. In the courts and by "writing letters to the editors"of local and national newspapers , by writing to Congressmen and to anyone who will listen, like state legislators, City Councilmen, mayors, and even Big Paharmaceutical Companies, Food Processors , like Kellogs, Quaker oats, Gemneral Mills, etc.... Call, write and visit. When the publicity gets bad, Government Agencies and Food Processors will bend. The heat must be
hot before they move, but don`t count on this all the time.
With this FDA Raid incident in Holmes County, we really don`t have all the facts. But a Congressman can get them, because as I stated, a Federal Agency must answer to Congress or at least to their inquiry.
So Gerry, I agree with most of what you say because you have always been level headed and also very practical. Let`s hope more light is shed on this incident and that it becomes a valid point around which to rally. The United Nations, The Pharmaceutical cartel, The FDA, The USDA, and other US Agencies are trying to get Codex Alimentarius through to becaome the "Rule of the World", in the classification of food and HERBS. It is a paper thin disguise and this attack in Holmes County, Pennsylvania (?) is only the tip of the iceberg.
Thanks for reading this far...Good reading, good monitoring and good writing to Congresspeopel/Parliamentarians, and Good health to all, Mike Cinelli