Fwd: A real person, not a statistic

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From Jon Rappoport's StratiaWire:

 

 

Thursday, March 13, 2003

 

 

A DEATH IN WALES, NOT A STATISTIC

 

MARCH 13. See if you can spot the truly outstanding fact in the

following

story.

 

The Western Mail, a newspaper in Wales---Mar. 12, " Coroner calls for

drug to

be withdrawn. "

 

" The world's best-selling anti-depressant should be withdrawn from

sale in

the UK, a coroner said yesterday after linking the drug to the death

of a

retired Welsh teacher.

 

" Geraint William added his voice to a growing body of health experts

concerned about a link between Seroxat [Paxil] and suicide after

hearing how

Colin Whitfield killed himself two weeks after starting a course of

the

drug.

 

" Mr. Williams will now call on the Department of Health to undertake

an

urgent inquiry into the controversial anti-depressant, which is

manufactured

by GlaxoSmithKline and prescribed to millions of people around the

world. "

 

The outstanding fact is: A CORONER IS CALLING FOR A DRUG TO BE

WITHDRAWN

FROM THE MARKET.

 

In the US, I doubt there is one medical examiner who has the balls to

suggest that a drug like Paxil should be cancelled. That is how

powerful a

hold the medical cartel maintains on public life.

 

In America, if one coroner at an inquest stood up on his hind legs

and said

that Paxil or Zoloft or Prozac should be outlawed, that coroner would

be

called insane by 100 psychiatric stooges in five minutes. A billion-

dollar

lawsuit would be filed against him.

 

Apparently in Wales not everyone has gone brain dead. There is still

an

independent flame burning. My hat is off.

 

In the US, a reporter is very fortunate if he can even find out that

a

suicide has taken a psychiatric drug. It's normally a state secret on

the

level of a new jet fighter's radar system.

 

No one in the US knows about the radar system, but the Chinese

already have

it. Well, in this case, the Chinese are Wales. And in this case, it's

a very

good thing that Wales knows what's really going on.

 

In the hinterlands, the medical cartel still has its struggles. There

are

people like this coroner who just speak their minds without waiting

for a

consultation with 12 lawyers, a PR goof, a pharmaceutical hit man,

and a

public health official.

 

The Wales story is hitting the fan, and Glaxo PR flacks are spinning

it like

mad. But their kind of PR only works in countries where the

population is

massively and deeply trained to knuckle under and go to sleep. In

other

words, almost everywhere. I hope to hell Wales in not one of those

places.

 

In Wales, a " retired schoolteacher " raises the image of a decent

fellow who

did his work for 30 years and then went out to pasture. People

say, " He took

a drug and killed himself? " It creates a troubling dissonance, and

people,

using their common sense, point to the drug right away as the culprit.

 

In America, we have the specter of a mass of 300 million residents

who are

homogenized into a coast-to-coast putty. " Oh yeah, another suicide.

Happen

every 25.6 minutes. What's Britney up to? "

 

Come on, Wales, hang in. Carry the torch.

 

JON RAPPOPORT www.stratiawire.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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