First, a couple of interesting quotes:

"If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take,
their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls who live under tyranny."
Thomas Jefferson

   "Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an
underground dictatorship . . . To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others
will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic and have no place in a republic.
. . . The Constitution of this republic should make special privilege for medical freedom as well as religious freedom."
Dr. Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence

 "The thing that bugs me is that people think the FDA is protecting them. It isn't.
What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it's doing are as different as night and day."
Dr Herbert Ley, Former FDA Commissioner

The following article is not directly related to our dogs
but it is instructive since most of the drugs prescribed for our dogs are FDA approved.

The FDA Protection Racket

By Lanny Messinger

( September 27, 2003 )

Reproduced here by permission.

I remember listening to a news report in the 1970s about a man who was arrested for having a Volkswagen full of apricot pits.  As absurd as that sounds the FDA is still waging war against natural, God‑given remedies and the people who promote them. The latest casualty is Jason Vale who is currently in federal prison for selling and promoting apricot pits on his website.  Jason used apricot pits to successfully treat his own cancer.

Government statistics reveal that drugs approved by the FDA kill over 100,000 Americans every year!  The number of Americans killed by herbal remedies is 0.  Why then is the FDA aggressively attacking people who sell cancer herbs and other natural remedies?  The answer to this question was given by the most credible witness you could imagine‑Dr. Herbert Ley, former Commissioner of the FDA:

“The thing that bugs me is that people think the FDA is protecting them. It isn't.  What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it's doing are as different as night and day.

“First, it is providing a means whereby key individuals on its payroll  are able to obtain both power and wealth through granting special favors to certain politically influential groups that are subject to its regulation.  This activity is similar to the 'protection racket' of organized crime:  for a price, one can induce FDA administrators to provide 'protection' from the FDA itself.

“Secondly, as a result of this political favoritism, the FDA has become a primary factor in that formula whereby cartel‑oriented companies in the food and drug industry are able to use the police powers of government to harass or destroy their free‑market competitors.

“And thirdly, the FDA occasionally does some genuine public good with whatever energies it has left over after serving the vested political and commercial interest of its first two activities.”  [WORLD WITHOUT CANCER by G. Edward Griffin]

Dr. Herbert Ley became the Medical Director for the FDA in 1966.  In July of 1968 Dr. Ley was appointed head of the FDA.  He resigned in December 1969.

According to the FDA's own website “Ley also strongly castigated drug industry practices in general, warning them that 'unless there is a major change in the drug industry emphasis on sales over safety, the industry as we know it today may well be buried within the next several years in a grave it has helped dig inch by inch, over-promotion by over-promotion, bad drug by bad drug.'“

When Dr. Ley resigned, Secretary of HEW Finch praised him as a “gifted scientist and a dedicated public servant [who] coped strenuously with an unwieldy agency.”

Even the courts have exposed the FDA's fraudulent war on apricot pits and Vitamin B17 (aka “Laetrile” or “amygdalin” that is extracted from apricot pits). The FDA has forever claimed that laetrile is toxic.  In one court case they even went so far as to place a big sign in the courthouse lobby which stated:  “BEWARE OF LAETRILE!  IT IS TOXIC!”

However, in that very court case Dr. Bruce Halstead testified as an expert witness on toxicology that aspirin, sugar and salt were more toxic than Laetrile. His testimony caught the FDA attorneys with their pants down, because they had not realized that Dr. Bruce Halstead had been commissioned by the FDA to write the definitive book on toxic substances, the FDA's own “TEXTBOOK ON TOXICOLOGY”. Here's how that case ended:

Judge: “You are telling me that you have filed suit in this court that Laetrile is toxic, and you don't have a single witness or a shred of evidence to support such a suit?”

Attorney:  “That is correct, Your Honor.”

Judge:   “Then why have you filed such a suit?”

Attorney:  “ Because, Your Honor, Laetrile may be dangerous.”

Judge:  “Dangerous to whom?”

Attorney:  “Dangerous to the Federal Government, Your Honor.”

Judge:  “How could Laetrile possibly be dangerous to the Federal Government?”

Attorney:  “Because, Your Honor, the Government may lose control.”

Judge (angry):   “Case dismissed!”

Of course laetrile is only “dangerous” to the parasitic FDA officials whose salaries are funded by U.S. taxpayers and to the gargantuan pharmaceutical corporations who hire and plant FDA officials and make billions of dollars every year killing over 100,000 Americans with their man‑made poisons.  (It is important to note that this number does not include the hundreds of thousands of people who are not killed by these drugs, but who suffer the adverse side effects of these so‑called “medicines”; sometimes the side effects are worse than the disease and many FDA‑approved “medicines” and “food additives” are known to cause cancer!) But the fraud doesn't just stop there:  Laetrile, or vitamin B17, is contained in many natural foods that we eat every day, such as:

Grains:  brown rice, barley, flax seeds, millet, quince Legumes:  lentils, fava beans, garbanzo beans, lima beans, buckwheat

Berries:  blackberries, boysenberries, raspberries, strawberries

Nuts:  walnuts, almonds, cashews, macadamia nuts, pecans

Greens:  spinach, alfalfa sprouts, mung bean sprouts, beet greens

Other:  yams, brewer's yeast, bamboo shoots, grape seeds, apple seeds

Therefore, laetrile is a natural, God‑given substance provided in the very foods we eat.   “Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing.” (Ezekiel 47:12) However, according to the FDA we are all supposed to drop dead from eating almonds, rice and alfalfa sprouts.  In spite of this absurdity the FDA continues to foist their fraudulent propaganda upon the American people and persecute anyone who might pose a threat to their corporate profit “protection racket”.

The FDA and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) are predatory birds of a feather.  In the words of Dr. Gary Glum, “The FDA and the FTC are the leg‑breakers for the pharmaceutical cartels.”   There is no constitutional provision for FDA/FTC activities. The FDA and FTC are nothing more than mafia‑style, criminal organizations that are in a state of treason to We the People.  When it comes to health fraud, the FDA and FTC are the biggest culprits. (By the way, I have been eating apple seeds for many years‑‑whenever I eat an apple‑‑and I have never observed any negative reaction from eating them.)

[The court case quotes above were taken from Dr. Phillip Binzel's book ALIVE AND WELL.  This book is a must for cancer patients and those who do not wish to become cancer patients.]

Common Law copyright 2003 Lanny Messinger.

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