In a message dated 9/29/2001 11:51:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
> Subj:Re: CS>Rising to the Challenge? > Date:9/29/2001 11:51:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time > From: [email protected] (Marshall Dudley) > Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</A> > To: [email protected] > > > > > As is the case almost always, when a significant law is enacted that > restricts freedom of the people, there is usually a hidden agenda. There > is the real "hidden" reason, and the reason that is publicly stated. They > are rarely the same. > > In the case of the FDA, the stated reason was to protect the public. > However the FDA would never have been created without either a groundswell > of support from the public, or a big push from the pharms. It was the big > push by the pharms that supported the creation of the FDA. > > The pharms had only one interest then as now. They have never had an > interest in protecting the public. Instead their interest is to make people > purchase medicines that they hold patents on and can charge high prices > for. They did not want people able to cure themselves with inexpensive > non-patentable items. Then as now, a cured patient is a lost customer. > > Marshall > Marshall: I'll go one step further. The public now recognizes that biological terrorism is a real threat and is asking the government for protection. Despite the verifiable fact that both NASA and the military are familiar with the effective and low cost protection offered by CS, does anyone really think the public will every be advised to make and use CS? Perhaps tens of thousands of lives hang in the balance, and the government has NO answers. Now I ask you, even when many lives are on the line, who is the government prepared to protect, its citizens or big pharm? Roger
