Secret Police & Abhorrent Medical Possibilities

According to Answers.com, the definition of a police state is as follows:

police state
n.

A state in which the government exercises rigid and repressive controls over the social, economic, and political life of the people, especially by means of a secret police force.


Does this sound familiar? Under the Patriot Act, law enforcement officials are allowed to enter a home without ever telling the individual that they did so. They could even enter that person's home while they were there, for example, sleeping at the time.

Something else that I found especially relevant that few people seem to be aware of is that, a) our government considers it aceptable to use military personnel for medical experimentation because they are considered 'government property', and b) during times of war, anyone can be used for medical experimentation without their knowledge. The supposed rationale for this is that it is in the best interest of national security to keep the details private. Wait! Does that mean that this silly cooked up war in Iraq would allow our government to use private citizens for medical experimentation without ever even telling them about it?

Perhaps you are wondering how this ties in with the definition for a police state. Well, you gotta remember George HW Bush was on the Board of Directors for Eli Lilly and Donald Rumsfeld was CEO for Searle Pharmaceuticals among other pharmaceutical companies. Geo. HW Bush was the head of the CIA and even Donald Rumsfeld was, at one time, slated to be the head of the CIA. That is a huge pharmaceutical connection for a secretive police force. Donald Rumsfeld made huge sums of money out of the approval of Nutrasweet, something like $12 million. The Public Board of Inquiry and the FDA commissioner prior to Dr. Arthur Hayes had successfully blocked aspartame until further studies regarding tumors could be conducted. However, Rumsfeld was determined to see Nutrasweet approved by the FDA.

http://www.stevia.net/aspartame.htm

In January 1981 Rumsfeld told a sales meeting, according to one attendee, that he would call in his chips and get aspartame approved by the end of the year. On January 25th, the day the new president took office, the previous FDA commissioner's authority was suspended, and the next month, the commissioner's job went to Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes.

Transition records do not show why the administration chose Hayes, a professor and Defense Department contract researcher. In July Hayes, defying FDA advisors, approved aspartame for dry foods -- his first major decision. In November 1983 the FDA approved aspartame for soft drinks -- Hayes' last decision.

In November 1983 Hayes, under fire for accepting corporate gifts, left the agency and went to Searle's public-relations firm as senior medical advisor. Later Searle lawyer Robert Shapiro named aspartame NutraSweet. Monsanto purchased Searle. Rumsfeld received a $12 million bonus. Shapiro is now Monsanto president.

So let me get this straight. These people, entrusted with the health and well-being of their nation, have failed us miserably and are paving the way for things to be FDA approved that are not necessarily safe? (The tone of incredulity was for YOUR sake. None of this surprises me.) This is the same group of people who are allowed to enter our homes without ever telling us they were there under the Patriot Act. So if there is a war going on, say in Iraq or in Nicaragua, they could actually come into our homes and, theoretically, inject us with whatever the heck they wanted to inject us with and we would have no legal recourse? Excuse me? How did this get past us?

Oh yeah. We were attacked by people who had weapons of mass destruction that they were willing to use against us, so GWB submitted a 340+ page document within a month of the WTC disaster which basically took away all of our civil liberties. That was a slick work of art! I recently read that the Patriot Act was actually drafted during the Clinton administration although I cannot find the link right now. That would make sense! I have written technical documentation before and it would be impossible to adequately write and proof a document that lengthy in that period of time. So what were they doing, just waiting for the right moment to dust it off and present it to a weary Congress with insufficient time to satisfactorily read the whole thing from start to finish? This whole regime and their lack of morality scares me. We need to do what we can to hold these people accountable for their actions. More importantly, we need to make others aware of these things so that we can demand that our lawmakers change the laws to protect us rather than abuse us. My voice alone is not enough to effect a change. I need yours and others to join with my voice. I hope you will do what you can.


How Many More Mike Browns Are Out There?

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1109345-2,00.html

At the start of each presidential Administration, The Office of Personnel Management publishes a "Plum Book" which lists more than 3,000 positions a President can fill without considering the civil service rules. GWB has done more than most Presidents to put more political stalwarts in some of the most important government jobs and giving them genuine power.

Nowhere in the federal bureaucracy is it more important to insulate government experts from the influences of politics and special interests than at the Food and Drug Administration, the agency charged with assuring the safety of everything from new vaccines and dietary supplements to animal feed and hair dye. That is why many within the department, as well as in the broader scientific community, were startled when, in July, Scott Gottlieb was named deputy commissioner for medical and scientific affairs, one of three deputies in the agency's second-ranked post at FDA.

His official FDA biography notes that Gottlieb, 33, who got his medical degree at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, did a previous stint providing policy advice at the agency, as well as at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and was a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. What the bio omits is that his most recent job was as editor of a popular Wall Street newsletter, the Forbes/Gottlieb Medical Technology Investor, in which he offered such tips as "Three Biotech Stocks to Buy Now." In declaring Gottlieb a "noted authority" who had written more than 300 policy and medical articles, the biography neglectsthe fact that many of those articles criticized the FDA for being too slow to approve new drugs and too quick to issue warning letters when it suspects ones already on the market might be unsafe.

When you learn that Dr. Sid Gotlieb, another doctor but a cancerologist, admitted at a CIA hearing to having dispersed a large quantity of viruses in the Congo River (in Zaire) in 1960 for purposes of polluting it and contaminating the people who used the river for their water source, you SHOULD be outraged! After all, Dr. Sid Gotlieb was later named to head up the National Cancer Institute!