Big Pharma Juggernaut Rolls To Victory – Health Freedom Reels –
Part 1
Byron J. Richards, CCN,
December 11, 2006
Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson not only rolled over in
their graves, they had a stake driven through their coffins by
the departing 109th Congress. Big Pharma is now
fully in charge of the FDA. Therapeutic nutrition is now marked
for elimination from the free market. How did this happen?
What does it all mean? Why did the House Democrats, at 3:06
A.M., while Americans slept, stab our people in the back? It is
an ominous sign of things to come.
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As the lame duck session drew to a close,
it became clear that the Republican’s scorched-earth policy was
intended to make it difficult for the Democrats to get anything
done next year. They are hoping to regain voter confidence by
making Democrats look even worse than the Republican’s
near-total ineptitude, which is not a very tall order.
However, the Republicans and Democrats were
able to agree on several key points regarding your health:
health options for Americans should be curtailed and the
American public should be subjected to massive drug
experimentation. Thus, with little fanfare or reporting by the
general media, the Destroy Effective Supplements and Poison
Americans with Biotech Drugs Innovation Act of 2006 (S.666 and
HR.1832), was passed in the middle of the night, just as the
lame duck session came to a close.
Americans seem almost numb to the fact
that Big Pharma kills several thousand of us every week. Kudos
to the 109th Congress, those numbers will now
dramatically rise.
Big Pharma Now Runs the FDA
Yes, the fox is now officially in charge of
the henhouse. Over the objection of a small handful of Senators
Big Pharma couldn’t buy, Andrew von Eschenbach, M.D, was
confirmed to head the FDA. His clearly stated agenda is, and
always has been, speeding new and dangerous drugs onto the
market with little testing for safety or effectiveness. Von
Eschenbach would like to turn every doctor’s office in America
into a large clinical trial run by an FDA supercomputer, he
would like a computer chip in your arm, and your DNA in his
supercomputer – and if you don’t comply you soon won’t get
medical services (read Fight for Your Health: Exposing the
FDA’s Betrayal of America). The experiment, known as the
Critical Path Initiative, is now full steam ahead! Of course,
when Americans are injured and killed, von Eschenbach is pushing
heavily to make sure no one can
sue for damages.
Andrew von Eschenbach is up to his
eyeballs in
Big Pharma connections. As director of the National Cancer
Institute he perverted billions of taxpayer dollars away from
solid science on desperately needed cancer research and into the
coffers of his biotech and pharmaceutical pals, collectively
known as C-Change. Now, he actually wants to turn part of the
FDA into a drug company and even has a name for it, the Reagan-Udahl
Center for Biomedical Research. Big Pharma co-sponsors, Senator
Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and Mike Enzi (R-MT), are attempting to
fund his new FDA drug company with taxpayer money, which could
easily be funneled through the National Cancer Institute, into
the hands of his C-Change friends, and then used to pay for FDA
drug approvals (S.3807).
In other words, the American taxpayer will soon be slated to pay
for the development of all these new biotech drugs, and then pay
exorbitant drug prices for the “privilege” of being part of a
human experiment.
As temporary head of the FDA, von
Eschenbach proved he could adeptly cover for drug companies,
even when they blatantly lied to the FDA! Such was the case
with Trasylol, the Bayer heart bypass drug that
needlessly kills and causes permanent kidney damage, which,
thanks to von Eschenbach, is still on the market injuring
Americans this holiday season.
Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) was hot and heavy on the von
Eschenbach protection agenda for Big Pharma and had
placed a hold on his nomination over von Eschenbach’s
flagrant violations of law and the FDA’s cover-up of fraud
relating to the Ketek antibiotic. Von Eschenbach’s utter
disdain of Congressional oversight should be a major concern to
all Americans. On December 7, 2006, this is what
Grassley had to say:
People ought to be ashamed of saying Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach
has done a superb job in the position he is currently occupying
[acting head of the FDA].…That is an insult….In my interactions
with the Department of Health and Human Services and the FDA
these last 8 months, I have seen a complete and utter disrespect
for congressional authority and hence the law.…In Cedar Rapids,
IA, I have a family that lost an 18-year-old because of a drug [Ketek]
that was on the market then and which is not on the market
now….It seems to me that if you are concerned about the safety
of drugs, this information is important, and if you are going to
have it covered up in the FDA, you aren't protecting the
public.…This body [the Senate] should not walk hand in hand with
the executive branch and sit idly by as instances of abuse and
fraud continue to endanger the health and safety of American
people.
Following these frank and chilling statements of fact, the
opinions of Orrin Hatch (R-UT) were put forth to
quell the concerns just raised:
To me it is simply unconscionable that the Food and Drug
Administration, one of the best little agencies in Government,
has gone leaderless for such a period of time…I know Dr. von
Eschenbach well. He is a man of integrity….I urge my
colleagues--no, I implore my colleagues--to do what is right and
vote [for] this nomination….it is what the American people
deserve.
Such a character endorsement, coming from a man at the top of
Big Pharma’s payout list, is hardly an encouragement to anyone.
What is it that constitutes integrity in Hatch’s mind? And just
what is it that the American people deserve? These questions
were answered for us by
Grassley, in his follow-up testimony:
A vote for this nominee would be an endorsement of the
stonewalling, but, more importantly, the disrespect for Congress
he has shown by not cooperating with congressional
oversight.…Under Dr. Von Eschenbach, the FDA has not only
avoided transparency, it also has threatened those who are
trying to desperately expose the truth….
This started back in January with Ketek and our getting involved
in the oversight. There was fraud in this Ketek study….In June,
Dr. Von Eschenbach held a meeting of FDA staff involving this
drug I have been investigating, questioning how it was handled--Ketek.
FDA employees who were present say that he used a lot of sports
metaphors regarding being a “team player” and keeping opinions
“inside the locker room.” Basically, he said to not criticize
the FDA outside the locker room, “outside the locker room” being
his words. Apparently he stated that anyone who spoke outside
the locker room might find themselves “off the team”…
This nominee held this meeting in the midst of this ongoing
congressional investigation of this drug Ketek. He called the
meeting after a number of critical reports in the media about
the FDA's handling of Ketek. A number of FDA employees
interviewed by the committee were offended by his comments,
found them highly questionable, inappropriate, and potentially
threatening. I don't think there was any “potential”' about it,
they were meant to be threatening, and I agree with the
employees.
Leaders of an agency should not hold a meeting to suggest that
dissenters will be kicked off the team, particularly when the
lives of American people are at stake, when drugs are going to
be put on the line and they might not be safe. I can refer to
the death of an 18-year-old in Cedar Rapids, IA. His is the type
of action that shows the true stripes of the nominee….The way
the Food and Drug Administration under this nominee has handled
the investigation of Ketek shows the agency would like to keep
its business secret.
This gives us a very clear understanding of how Hatch defines a
“man of integrity.”
The Rise of the Hatch-et-man
In the gospel according to Orrin Hatch
(R-UT), the R now stands for regulation. It has been somewhat
difficult for him
taking large sums of money from the supplement industry and
Big Pharma at the same time; however, after 30 years of Senate
politicking Hatch-et-man has talking out of both sides of his
mouth down to a science. And unfortunately for the supplement
industry, he takes the most money from Big Pharma. He has even
been able to completely forget that Republican core values
center around less government regulation, not more – especially
when such regulation is totally unnecessary.
Under the false guise of consumer safety,
Hatch-et-man was clearly the driving force that ramrodded AER
(Adverse Event Reporting) legislation for dietary supplements,
without any testimony or hearings, through the Senate and the
House. The net effect of the legislation will be to remove
therapeutic nutritional supplements from the market, health
options millions of Americans count on to remain well. This is
a favor to Big Pharma, not the supplement industry.
Of course, Democrats love the smell of any
legislation smacking of increased regulation of health care,
thus they pounced on the bill, driving it through the House with
Democrats voting 134-4 to pass it. This is the first of many
bills the Democrats will endorse in the coming months to
undermine the supplement industry. Leading the charge against
health freedom will be the Big Pharma Democrat cartel. This
group is composed of the vitamin-hating Senator Dick Durbin
(D-IL), along with Rep. John Dingell (D-MI), Rep. Henry Waxman
(D-CA), Rep. Susan Davis (D-CA), Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA),
Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA),
and Senator Hilary Clinton (D-NY). These Big Pharma sponsors
are sure to pile on in the coming months.
Now there are those out there who think
Hatch-et-man is a friend of the supplement industry, based on
his long ago support of DSHEA. Well times have change.
Hatch-et-man wears a supplement industry suit and has a heart of
Big Pharma gold. His veins are icy cold, filled with a
synthetic FDA-approved blood.
Emboldened by his rise to power as a profit
broker between Big Pharma, the FDA, and the supplement industry,
Hatch-et-man actually started to publicly spill the beans.
Maybe all the idiots in the supplement industry that either
supported the AER legislation or did little or nothing to stop
it will start to wake up.
In his December 6, 2006
Senate testimony he tells us that he has spoken to Andrew
von Eschenbach to ensure that the FDA will more vigorously
pursue supplement companies. His AER legislation was crafted
with the help of over twenty meetings with the
supplement-despising FDA. He pays special thanks to David
Dorsey, a Senator Kennedy staffer, once a top FDA lawyer, who
was instrumental in drafting the bill, and his own Bruce Artim
who has now, but not surprisingly, moved on to a top position at
Eli Lilly.
Yes, our wonderful Big Pharma-sponsored
legislative system has now produced draconian
supplement-regulating legislation that could easily obliterate
natural therapeutic health options from planet earth, the true
competition to Big Pharma profits.
In Part 2 of this report I will explain how
Hatch-et-man accomplished the sell out of health options and
health freedom for Americans, with special help from traitors
within the supplement industry itself.
© 2006
Truth in Wellness, LLC - All Rights Reserved
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
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(since 1985), he has personally developed 75
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