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The FDA Lowers the Boom on
Citizens’ Rights
By Byron J Richards, CCN
July 13, 2006
An ominous tone is now set as the FDA
embarks upon its second hundred years. New drug labels, which
have been in development for years and are intended to improve
consumer safety, went into effect on June 30, 2006.
In typical FDA fashion, a program that should have helped
patients has been twisted. The FDA took this opportunity to
sneak disclaimer language on the new labels, seeking to prevent
patients from suing pharmaceutical companies if a drug injures
or kills.
Amazingly, the agency that exists solely to
protect consumers has just attempted to shoot down the most
basic rights of recourse granted by State law. This is an
appalling power grab by federal government to control states and
thwart individual rights.
A legal review of the FDA’s position shows it to be full of
holes. However, the rule of law is not something the FDA
takes seriously. The FDA has demonstrated a consistent pattern
of behavior that is above the law, disregarding the U.S.
Constitution and
federal court rulings against them.
The FDA sees itself as the final authority
on all health issues facing Americans. The agency does not
think Americans are intelligent enough to make health decisions
for themselves. Indeed, the agency is doing everything it can
to keep knowledge about safe and effective natural health
options from the public. In essence, the FDA thinks it is in
charge of all health-related thinking Americans should do, and
is therefore
justified in totalitarian authority.
Eighty percent of the American public doesn’t trust the FDA.
There is plenty to be suspicious about. The FDA routinely hides
and suppresses risk data regarding widely used drugs. The FDA’s
parent, the Department of Health and Human Services,
recently and very publicly scolded its child, telling the
FDA that it was quite lax in ensuring that drugs already on the
market are being adequately monitored for safety. To top it
off, a
new report shows that all studies done on antidepressants
indicate higher suicide risk, yet the FDA knew and allowed drug
companies to present statistical data in a way that watered down
the evidence. With such ineptitude and callous disregard for
human life, it is not surprising that the FDA would seek to
further protect drug companies from product liability.
The FDA is now working on bigger and better
ideas; they want to be involved in the development of the new
type of bio-tech drugs. That’s right,
the FDA plans on becoming a drug company. As I explain and
document in Fight for Your Health, the FDA is busy
designing the next generation of drug development tools. The
medications of today are poisons. They work by interfering with
function and seldom restore health, a crude technology. The
medications of the near future will be targeted to enter cells
and throw genetic switches, changing biological function in a
fundamental way. The FDA is currently designing the software
that will monitor and guide development of these powerful new
drugs.
What happens when one of the newly designed
FDA drugs starts killing people? Obviously, the FDA will be
sued for damages along with other companies involved in the
drug’s development, an intolerable event for the agency that is
above the law.
While such technology holds promise, it is
also far more risky than today’s medicine, and is already being
described as a modern day Russian Roulette. This became clear
when one of these new experimental drugs, TGN-1412, induced
life-threatening side effects within moments of injection, as
one young man’s head swelled to three times normal size
causing friends to describe him as “elephant man” This
formerly healthy twenty year old is lucky to be alive; he was in
a coma for three weeks, suffered liver and kidney failure, and
can barely walk. After four months of medical treatment he is
ready to go home, but will soon have
surgery to remove his damaged fingers and toes.
Just because modern technology enables us
to experiment with genetic function of cells doesn’t mean that
researchers actually know what they are doing. The FDA is
developing new technology to monitor cellular proteins; however,
this is no guarantee of safety. Americans will be exposed to
far more risky and powerful drug experiments than ever before.
The FDA wants to ensure that American citizens have no legal
right to recourse if they are injured. This is wrong.
I believe that the FDA needs to be broken
up into pieces that don’t have conflicts of interest. Drug
design is one entire operation. Drug approval is another.
Monitoring drugs after they are on the market requires a
separate government entity. Furthermore, drugs, food, and
nutritional supplements have no business being monitored by the
same agency. There is no objectivity when the agency receives
millions of dollars from drug companies, protects drug use,
intentionally negates science-based nutritional supplement
benefits, and allows significant adulteration of the food
supply.
Any true improvement will require
neutralizing the influence peddling of Big Pharma and
multinational agribusiness. Their financial favors control the
FDA and will be used to corrupt any new regulatory efforts. We
must also stop the FDA collusion with the German government in
the form of Codex rules that will undermine health options. The
FDA’s participation with Mexico and Canada in the
Trilateral Cooperation Charter is further evidence the FDA
is seeking to circumvent Congress and the American people,
beating to the drum of the Bush administration’s efforts to
establish a new North American Union
(Security and Prosperity Partnership).
Unless we establish government that is
truly a representation of the people, including government
agencies that are operating in sync with the will of the people,
there is very little hope of improving the quality of health for
Americans. A rogue agency, working secretly to establish
international agreements outside the view of Congress and the
American people, can hardly be trusted with our health. It is
time for the American people to stand up for our sovereignty.
In the short term,
Congressional oversight is needed.
Copyright © 2006 Truth In Wellness, LLC
Byron J. Richards,
Founder/Director of
Wellness Resources, is a Board-Certified Clinical
Nutritionist and nationally-renowned health expert, radio
personality, educator, and author.
Richards encourages
individuals to take charge of their health, stand up for their
health rights, and not blindly succumb to propaganda from the
vested-interests who profit from keeping Americans sick. Author
of
Mastering Leptin and
Fight for Your Health, Richards is now joining forces with
health freedom leaders in the U.S. and throughout the world.
Visit his
health blog for up to date happenings.
www.truthinwellness.com
As founder of Wellness
Resources, Inc. of Minneapolis, MN (since 1985), he has
personally developed 75 unique nutraceutical-grade nutritional
formulas.
www.wellnessresources.com
Charter Member of the International and American Associations of
Clinical Nutritionists (IAACN) (since 1991) Richards has
presented hundreds of educational classes to health
professionals and individuals who want to take charge of their
health!
E-mail: byron@truthinwellness.com
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