[Alternative Medicine Forum] Quackbuster's Newest Scam- Operation Cure-All

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" Misty L. Trepke " <mistytrepke

 

Thursday, July 10, 2003 9:33 AM

[s-A] [Alternative Medicine Forum] Quackbuster's Newest Scam-

" Operation Cure-All "

 

 

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> Misty L. Trepke

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> The Quackbuster's Newest Scam - " Operation Cure-All " ...

>

> Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen

>

> July 7th, 2003

>

>

>

> I need to make something clear. DO NOT, for a minute, think that

> the quackpot soldiers you see, like Stephen Barrett, and Robert

> Baratz, are running the whole quackbuster operation. They are not

> bright enough. They are the ones the quackbuster paymasters want us

> all to see. They're the front men. They've got their function, but

> it's only part of the game.

>

> I think the whole " Quackbuster " conspiracy, and I have documents

> that back up my thinking, is being run out of a conference room at a

> pharmaceutical advertising agency in New York City. It's there that

> all the decisions, and plans are made, about where to focus the

> campaign, who to attack, and what cards to play in each attack. It's

> there that the checks are written.

>

> Want some proof? It's coming. I'm working with P. J. (Joe) Lisa to

> re-publish his 1995 book " Assault on Medical Freedom. " The new book

> will have, some changes, and four new chapters, bringing the

> conspiracy up to date. The information Joe, I, and some others are

> gathering, although for the book, will be also for delivery to

> Attorney General John Ashcroft and some others. Joe Lisa has

> thousands of pages of documents. We think there's enough for a

> Justice Department RICO (racketeering) complaint.

>

> The quackbuster operation in North America is simply a scam devised

> around the time the American Medical Association lost a Federal

> Court Case to the Chiropractors in 1987. It's function is to

> eliminate, suppress, or hamper with, anything that competes with the

> sale of drugs and surgery. It's here to make sure that " treatment, "

> rather than " prevention, " or " a cure, " stays the " standard of care "

> in North American Health Care.

>

> The quackbusters have shifted focus. Today, I'm going to tell you

> what the new focus is, how it's being organized and run, and who

> has, and is going to be attacked, and why. In another newsletter

> I'm going to tell you how we, in the North American Health Freedom

> Movement are going to crush it.

>

> For them, it's all about pharmaceuticals controlling the North

> American Health market. For us, it's about getting real health

> care, right now.

>

> For years, quackbusting centered around the Federation of State

> Medical Boards (FSMB) operation. State Medical Board Members,

> Prosecutors, Investigators, Management, etc., were propagandized to

> believe that anything new in health care that wasn't drugs, or

> surgery, oriented, was health fraud. Their assignment, should they

> choose to take it (and not many of them did), was to terrorize MDs

> who embraced new things, and to attack non-MDs with " practicing

> medicine without a license. "

>

> But the North American Health Freedom Movement woke up one morning

> and decided to kick the crap out of them. Health Freedom Bills,

> defenses of practitioners, exposes, you-name-it tactics, all began

> to work. EVERYTHING we did worked very well. We're winning

> everywhere.

>

> The focus has been shifted since the quackbuster paymasters

> discovered that (1) Barrett, and company, just can't deliver the

> goods, anymore. And (2) Robert Baratz, the current President of the

> National Council Against Health Fraud (NCAHF). who was brought up

> from the minor leagues with high hopes, is turning out to be an

> amusing (for us) embarrassment (for them).

>

> Now, the quackbusters are using the FTC/FDA " Operation Cure-All " as

> their platform. Herein, I'll detail how I think they're doing it.

> In another newsletter I'll tell you how simple it will be to thwart

> them - one more time.

>

>

>

> What's this " Operation Cure-All " thing?

>

> Upper management at the FTC and the FDA think they put this plan

> together to stop internet health fraud. I'm sure they had the best

> of intentions. But don't be fooled, it's a quackbuster operation.

> Not one run by the stooges, like Barrett, or Baratz, or Sampson,

> this is an exercise of the REAL quackbusters - those funding the

> whole anti-health care, preserve the drug/surgery status quo,

> operation. The whole plan was, no doubt, written in the back room

> of a pharmaceutical advertising agency, for a fee that would stagger

> the imagination. It reeks of big Pharma thinking. Barrett, et al,

> are Keystone Kops in this venue.

>

> Timothy Muris, at the FTC, and Mark McClellan, at FDA, are the

> targets of a drug company funded scam to use their agencies to kill

> off upstart competitors of the drug industry. So far, they're

> unaware of this - so let's fix that.

>

> The majority of employees of the FTC, FDA and Operation Cure-All

> apparently don't know, either, they are being USED to attack the

> very upstart competition the drug companies fear the most -

> supplements (that keep people healthy - so they don't need

> drug " treatment " ), electro-medicine (that replaces drugs, without

> side effects), chelation (detoxification eliminates need for drugs),

> natural antibiotics (Like Colloidal Silver, Frankincense, Oregano

> Oil), and scientists and authors (like Hulda Regehr Clark PhD,

> Naturopath) who advocate a change in the way America delivers health

> care.

>

> What we'll probably have to do is to get a RICO/Civil rights, and

> Conspiracy to Violate Civil Rights, action, going against those

> controlling and manipulating it, and those FTC, FDA, and Operation

> Cure-All employees involved in the scam. We'll need to get Attorney

> General John Ashcroft involved in this, as well as FDA Internal

> Affairs, and the Inspector General at the FTC.

>

> So, what's " Operation Cure-All " up to? You can go to the self-

> promoting website " ://www.ftc.gov/opa/2001/06/cureall.htm " and read

> the sanctimonious words:

>

> " Operation Cure-All " Wages New Battle in Ongoing War Against

> Internet Health Fraud

>

> FTC, FDA and other law enforcement agencies move to stop Internet

> scams for supplements and other products that purport to cure

> cancer, HIV/AIDS and countless other life-threatening diseases. FTC

> also warns of risks associated with some supplements, including drug

> interactions. "

>

> Sounds good, but the worm in the apple is that the definition

> of " health fraud " is the one written in a conference room of a

> pharmaceutical advertising agency. They might as well have come out

> openly, and said " if it competes with big Pharma, it's health fraud,

> and we're against it. "

>

> The other REALLY bad thing about the FTC and the FDA is the huge

> amount of INTERNAL influence big pharma has on FTC and FDA

> thinking. When Dwight Eisenhower left the Presidency, one of the

> last things he did was to stop the revolving door between the

> Defense Department and Defense contractors. That has to happen with

> the FTC/FDA and big pharma - right now. Before America dies of a

> drug overdose.

>

>

>

> Here's how the scam works...

>

> Fact #1: The FTC/FDA system requires that claims about products

> must be based on " scientific proof. " In translation, that means

> that every claim, or suggested claim, must be double-blind studied

> in 30 to 50 cities (usually on the inner city poor), and

> the " studies " will cost somewhere between 200 to 400 million dollars

> each. Since herbals, and natural supplements, can't be patented,

> the FTC/FDA system has effectively given big Pharma a monopoly on

> approvals - since only big Pharma can afford the testing procedure.

>

> Gee, I wonder how that happened? Sarcasm intended.

>

> Fact #2: The FTC won't allow " testimonials. " To them, someone

> saying " I, and 300 of my friends did this thing, and all of us were

> cured of cancer, and here's our medical records to prove it, " is

> inadequate information. The reality of a " cure " is not in their

> vocabulary. It's still " unproven, " and, according to them, you

> can't tell anyone about it. Saving lives, by passing around

> information, is to them, a criminal act.

>

> The FTC/FDA' Operation Cure-All, doesn't want anything to do with

> reality. It gets in the way.

>

> So, when big Pharma sees that somebody is cutting a little too deep

> into, or just threatening the future of, their drug market, checks

> are written, and a meeting takes place in New York City. There a

> plan (a standard format plan) is made. And the execution begins on

> Monday.

>

> Here's how they do it.

>

> The quackbusters decide who they're going to hit. The advertising

> agency (which controls major drug advertising placement) writes up

> the stories that are going to be distributed to their " letter

> writing brigade. " The letter writers, following the guidelines,

> then write to the FTC, the FDA, and Operation Cure-All, to set a

> basis for the complaint. Then the ad agency writes stories, getting

> quotes from the likes of Barrett, Baratz, etc., on the victim. The

> stories are sent out to the media in which the advertising agency's

> drug clients advertise. The stories are printed in the media as

> though they were true.

>

> Once the stories hit the press, a second wave of letters goes out to

> the FTC, the FDA, and Operation Cure-All, to put pressure on upper

> management to act. Then more media is generated, this time with

> quotes from the quackbuster insider FTC employees to make it sound

> official that the FTC is interested. Once this happens, letters and

> phone calls go out from supposedly " irate consumers (quackbusters), "

> once again to the FTC, the FDA, and Operation Cure-All upper

> management, demanding to know why they aren't doing something.

>

> Then, letters and phone calls go out from supposedly " irate

> consumers (quackbusters) " to certain members of Congress demanding

> to know why the FTC, the FDA, and Operation Cure-All, aren't doing

> something.

>

> Within days, upper management of the FTC, the FDA, and Operation

> Cure-All, are deluged with questions from more media, and Congress.

> They see the issue as important, and act against the victim - even

> if their is little or no evidence.

>

> After this, some poor bastard is fighting for his life, while the

> plotters pop open a case of $1,000 a bottle champagne,

> congratulating themselves for another hit against their

> competitor.... And, more checks are written.

>

> This is, I believe, how the attack was organized against the Rife

> equipment manufacturers, Bob Barefoot Coral Calcium, SeaSilver, the

> Colloidal Silver proponents, etc... I have good reason to believe

> that EVERY ONE of the Operation Cure-All targets, right from the

> beginning, was arranged this way.

>

> For a sample of how it's done, click here for the petition, and

> here for the signers where the quackpots were attempting to stop the

> whole science of Homeopathy. They failed...

>

> So, why this new assault? Because the quackbusters are, basically,

> floundering. The old plan wasn't working.

>

>

>

> Why are the quackbusters floundering?

>

> The quackbuster operation in North America is floundering for a

> number of reasons.

>

> The number (1) reason is that the quackbusters underestimated the

> intelligence of the North American health consumer. Those consumers

> don't trust conventional medicine, anymore. Americans can sense

> when they are being lied to.

>

> (2) Americans have discovered " health, " and they've worked out for

> themselves that " health " and " medicine " aren't the same thing.

>

> (3) Americans have worked out that that expensive " health plan " is

> a big waste of money - because all it pays for is " medicine. " It

> doesn't pay for " health care. " Insurance companies, and the US

> Government have caught on - and are adding new billing codes (ABC

> Codes) to deal with reality and demand. The American consumer,

> right now, is buying " health " out of their discretionary income -

> and the total amount of that is more than half of the total US

> health dollar.

>

> (4) The North American Health Freedom Movement is kicking the crap

> out of the quackbusters whenever, and wherever, they meet on a

> battlefield.

>

> (5) The whole idea of restricting American's health care offering

> to drugs and surgery is un-American. Even conventional MDs are

> getting fed up with the idea that " nothing new should be used in

> medicine unless it's been approved by a failed MD working out of his

> basement in Pennsylvania. "

>

> (6) The people of New York State are waking up to the fact that

> right there, in their midst, is a cesspool of quackbuster activity.

> Not only New York City, but Buffalo. Plans are being made. Targets

> are being selected.

>

> (7) In the end, GOOD always triumphs over EVIL.

>

> We, in the North American Health Freedom Movement, need to destroy

> the quackbuster operation. For, Americans are suffering and dying.

> Nobody is going to fix this problem but us. We are the ones who

> understand what's happening. We also know what to do, and how to do

> it. So, let's do it.

>

> Stay tuned...

>

>

>

> Tim Bolen - Consumer Advocate

>

>

> This " Millions of Health Freedom Fighters - Newsletter " is about

> the battle between " Health and Medicine " on Planet Earth. Tim Bolen

> is an op/ed writer with extensive knowledge of the activities of a

> subversive organization calling itself the " quackbusters, " and that

> organization's attempts to suppress, and discredit, any, and all

> health modalities that compete with the allopathic (MD) paradigm for

> consumer health dollars. The focus of the newsletter is on the

> ongoing activities, battles, politics, and the victories won by

> members of the " Health Freedom Movement " against

> the " quackbusters " It details " who the quackbusters are, what they

> are, where they are operating, when they appear, and how they

> operate - and how easy it is to beat them... "

>

> For background information on the " Battle between Health and

> Medicine " go to: http://www.savedrclark.net/by_whom2.htm. A copy of

> THIS newsletter, and older ones, are viewable at the website

> http://www.quackpotwatch.org/default.htm.

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> For EVEN MORE interesting and related articles go to

> http://www.bolenreport.com

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