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Legacy of Donald Rumsfeld, Aspartame and Diane Fleming : by

Don Harkins and Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum

 

Legacy of Donald Rumsfeld, Aspartame, and Diane Fleming

 

As recently as Nov. 4, 2006, President Bush was

publicly praising 74-year-old Defense Secretary

Donald Rumsfeld for his service to the nation,

his wartime leadership and expressed his

“sincere†desire that the increasingly unpopular

Rumsfeld would continue as secretary of defense

until his term is over in 2008. But the president

was not sincere; he was lying. The day after the

election, “Rummy†announced he was stepping down

from the top spot in the Pentagon. As President

Bush was explaining why he lied to America about

Rumsfeld’s pending resignation at a

day-after-election press conference, he was still

praising Rumsfeld’s “accomplishmentsâ€. The

president failed to mention that Rumsfeld’s

Pentagon couldn’t account for “misplacing†nearly $3 trillion.

 

Chicago Tribune columnist Stephen J. Hedges more

accurately summed up Rummy’s “accomplishments†in

his Nov. 12, 2006 editorial, “Winter Comes for a

Beltway Lion: Rumsfeld rose and fell with his

conviction intact.†Hedges noted Rumsfeld’s

“accomplishments†are the result of his bet

that ill-equipped Arabs defending their homes

were no match for the technologically-superior

professional military under his direction. He was

wrong and history will remember him as the

defense secretary who failed in Iraq. Though the

end of the Rumsfeld story has yet to be written,

we can state with certainty that the thousands of

American soldiers and (at least) 700,000 Iraqi

and Afghani men, women and children

non-combatants who have been killed under his

authority since Sept. 11, 2001, are merely the

most recent examples of the murder and misery

this ruthless beltway bureaucrat has been

inflicting on our world since the late 70s.

 

 

 

 

On the way up

 

At age 29, Princeton educated wrestling champion,

navy pilot and presidential aid Republican Donald

Rumsfeld was elected by Illinois to the U.S.

House of Representatives in 1962. Rummy began

accumulating political contacts & shy;and power & shy;for the

next 14 years. After leaving the House, he held

several high-level executive posts during the

Nixon era and became the youngest defense

secretary in U.S. history under Gerald Ford. When

Ford lost the White House to Jimmy Carter in

1976, Rummy was unemployed in D.C. for the first

time since 1962. In 1978 Rummy’s career as a

public poisoner-for-profit began when he became

CEO of G.D. Searle, a small pharmaceutical

company. When Rummy took the helm, Searle was

being investigated by the U.S. Department of

Justice for attempting to defraud the FDA into

approving artificial aspartame as a safe

artificial sweetener when lab tests proved it was

a neurotoxic, carcinogenic drug. He was able to

pull political strings to get Searle out of legal

trouble and influenced President Reagan’s

appointment of Arthur Hull Hayes as FDA

Commissioner to politically approve the sale of

aspartame in 1981--over the objections of FDA

scientists, independent researchers and consumer safety advocates.

Monsanto bought Searle for $2.7 billion in

1985, and the Searle family walked away with

about $1 billion. Rumsfeld’s take was about $12 million.

 

 

Let him hear their cries

 

Since Rumsfeld “called in his markers†to achieve

aspartame approval in the 80s, millions of cases

of aspartame poisoning have been reported where

ever aspartame is found in foods, beverages and

medical preparations. According to FDA records,

adverse reactions to aspartame comprise about 80

percent of consumer complaints. The agency has

published a list of 92 symptoms of aspartame

poisoning which includes blindness, joint pain,

chronic fatigue, weight gain, sexual dysfunction,

mental illness and death. Its use is linked to

chronic illnesses such as cancer, diabetes,

lupus, multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer’s

disease & shy;illnesses that have become globally

pandemic since aspartame was approved. During

the 1980s when congressional hearings were being

held on the dangers of aspartame, Dr. H.J.

Roberts predicted that, if aspartame approval was

not reversed at that time, in five or 10 years

“aspartame disease†would be a global plague. By

2001, Dr. Roberts had published the 1,038-page

text “Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemicâ€

proving his prediction came to pass.

 

The testimonies of people who have suffered the

consequences of aspartame poisoning, a cluster of

symptoms most appropriately called “Rumsfeld’s

disease,†are as varied as they are numerous.

Aspartame is a multipotential carcinogen linked

to a variety of cancers; a teratogen linked to

birth defects; an abortifacient implicated in

untold numbers of pregnancies ending unexpectedly

and without explanation; a neurotoxin associated

with neurodevelopmental and behavioral disorders

in children and the development of central

nervous system complications in adults & shy;a list

that includes MS, fibromyalgia and various forms

of dementia; it reacts with other chemicals to

increase chemical sensitivity and; it reacts with

pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines to produce a

full spectrum of off-label reactions and adverse events.

 

It would take a several volumes to memorialize

the stories of those whose lives have been

adversely affected by aspartame. The fact that

all the components and end products of aspartame

are toxic to humans and the fact that Rumsfeld is

absolutely responsible for aspartame’s 25-year

reign of medical misery, demands our action.

Rumsfeld should be compelled to publicly defend

his decision to poison the world with aspartame

while in the court-ordered presence of those

whose lives have been destroyed by his chemical weapon of mass misery.

 

 

Athletes

 

Aspartame triggers an irregular heart rhythm,

interacts with cardiac medication, damages the

cardiac conduction system and causes sudden

death. A lot of aspartame-associated deaths are

in athletes whose running depletes magnesium

reserves--magnesium protects the brain and heart

from excitotoxins such as aspartame and

monosodium glutamate. Neurosurgeon Russell

Blaylock, M.D., author of “Excitotoxins: The

Taste That Kills†wrote the Athlete Alert on

Sudden Cardiac Death which explains the biochemical processes involved.

 

 

Poisoning American Fighting Men

 

Aspartame is made up of three components,

aspartic acid (an excitotoxin), a methyl ester

which immediately becomes methanol, then converts

to formaldehyde and formic acid, and

phenylalanine, (a neurotoxin as an isolate) The

molecule breaks down to diketopiperazine, a brain

tumor agent. Aspartame breaks down at 86 degrees

or moderate temperature. During the first Gulf

War, soldiers were drinking Rumsfeld poison by

the pallet load in diet sodas sitting in the 120

degree Arabian son. As stated previously,

aspartame (and its toxic byproducts) interacts

with all drugs and vaccines. Corporate-neutral,

non-government researchers explain that the

enormous volume they were exposed

to. Consumption of aspartame formaldehyde

cocktails is likely a factor in the epidemic

of of hot diet sodas consumed by Desert Storm

personnel interacted with the drugs, chemicals

and vaccines to which they were exposed.

Consumption of aspartame formaldehyde cocktails

is likely a factor in the epidemic of “Gulf War

Illness†tragically affecting hundreds of

thousands of Desert Storm veterans and their families.

 

Gulf War veteran, Geoffrey, reported

yesterday what they had to drink were aspartame

diet sodas and confirmed again the pallets were

piled one on top of the other in the hot sun for

weeks. He was young but his hair was gray as

happens because of aspartame mitochondrial damage

which helps you age. Aspartame addicts because of

the liberation of free methyl alcohol, which

causes chronic methanol poisoning. This affects

the dopamine system of the brain and causes the

addiction. He was still using it. His vision

was affected as expected because the methanol

converts to formaldehyde and formic acid in the

retina of the eye and destroys the optic nerve.

Prior to aspartame use he had not worn

glasses. From headaches and blood pressure

elevation to weight gain he is the typical

aspartame victim. He is dizzy most of the time,

and dizziness is #2 on the FDA list of 92

symptoms. He had no idea aspartame triggers

these problems. His son is in Iraq and he

planned to immediately warn him to abandon diet

pop and Wrigley’s gum. His best friend, a diet

pop addict, was just found dead in a chair. He

said, “I was fighting for my country, and I try

to help people, and my health has been

destroyed. " Just one of millions of cases of Rumsfeld Disease.

 

The pop companies knew. The protest of the

National Soft Drink Assn (now American Beverage)

is in the Congressional Record of 1985 and

explains aspartame breaks down at 86 degrees,

and that it violates the adulteration statute.

Coke and Pepsi knew the gun was loaded before

they shipped this venom to kill and maim the troops.

 

 

Who murdered Chuck Fleming?

 

Diane Fleming, a mother of three and a Sunday

school teacher with no criminal history, was

convicted of murdering husband Chuck Fleming and

sentenced to spend 30 and 20 years concurrently

in a Virginia prison. The autopsy shows Chuck

died of acute methanol poisoning after

experiencing chronic methanol poisoning for

years. The jury convicted Diane of poisoning her

husband with an unopened jug of

methanol-containing windshield cleaner, even

though it was analyzed and they found none to be

missing. Was the windshield wiper fluid found in

the Gatorade he drank because this is what was

alleged? Even the forensic toxicologist who gave

the affidavit admitted in December 2001, while

he was requested to perform certain tests

involving several bottles of Gatorade mixture,

which he had previously determined contained

methanol, and a bottle of windshield washer

fluid, he was not able to identify any. In fact,

he said the method he used did not have the

appropriate sensitivity necessary to identify

trace concentrations of windshield washer fluid

colorant in the Gatorade. He further stated he

could not definitively determine whether any

amount of windshield washer colorant was present

in the Gatorade mixture and, therefore, did not

issue a Certificate of Analysis. He then advised

Investigator Elizabeth Baker of the Chesterfield

County Police Department via telephone he would

not be issuing a report because no definitive

conclusions could be reached from the tests.

Chuck was a body builder who played basketball

about four times a week and used a lot of

aspartame-containing products. Several physicians

including Dr. H. J. Roberts reviewed Chuck’s

lifestyle, aspartame intake, and studied his

autopsy report. Dr. Roberts stated, “On the

basis of the prodigious amounts of aspartame

products he [Chuck] consumed and the finding of a

severe fatal metabolic acidosis, coupled with a

high concentration of methanol in the blood and

no other reasonable explanation, I concur with

the cause of death as methanol poisoning - in

this case due to considerable methanol

consumption in the form of aspartame products… If

the facts about this case that have been reviewed

are correct, it is my firm opinion that Diane

Fleming should be immediately freed from wrongful

imprisonment to rejoin her family…Furthermore,

the FDA should be so advised by the court, and

recommend that aspartame products be labeled as

an imminent health threat, and either so labeled or removed from the market.â€

 

Repeated attempts to intervene on Diane’s behalf

have not been able to secure her release from

prison. A Motion for Reconsideration before the

Virginia State Supreme Court was

rejected. Diane’s Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus was earlier turned

down.

 

There was complete shock Diane was ever

convicted in the first place since there was no

evidence. It was even admitted at the

trial what he drank couldn’t have killed

him. The jury was asked why they convicted her

and stated because Diane could show no

emotion. Of course, she couldn’t, she had been

given Zoloft because of her anxiety on being

indicted. Diane herself was using aspartame and

it interacts with Zoloft and makes you like a Zombie. She was drugged.

 

Not even the press could believe a person could

be convicted when there was no evidence. Alan

Cooper of the Richmond Times-Dispatch wrote the family and stated:

 

“The formal sentencing of Diane Fleming is

scheduled for April 25. I know of nothing else

in the way of additional investigation or

development. I expect her lawyer to again ask

the judge to set aside the conviction BECAUSE THE

EVIDENCE WAS INSUFFICIENT TO CONVICT HER.--------

I, and most of those in the courtroom, were

surprised that the jury convicted her.

 

“It was a most unusual case, the first poisoning

homicide trial I've covered in almost 30 years

and hundreds of cases as a reporter. I thought

the evidence showed that Ms. Fleming probably was

the one in the best position to poison her

husband, but there was nothing about a motive or

even where the methanol, the poisoning agent, might have come from.â€

 

Diane Fleming even today still cries about losing

her husband. You see her emotion when

interviewed for the aspartame documentary, “Sweet

Misery: A Poisoned World.†But because she was

drugged with aspartame and Zoloft, Rumsfeld

Disease claimed another victim, and she has been

in a cold prison cell for four years for a crime

committed by his approval of poison.

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Fierro

 

Virginia State Medical Examiner (ME) Dr. Marcella

Fierro has the authority to recommend that Diane

be released immediately based upon the forensic

facts revealed in the autopsy report as supported

by innumerable pieces of circumstantial evidence.

After making repeated promises to talk with Dr.

Roberts to discuss the possibility that Diane was

wrongfully convicted of murdering her husband,

Dr. Fierro, keep canceling. She was sent a copy

of the peer reviewed journal article by Dr.

Woodrow Monte: “Aspartame: Methanol and the

Public Healthâ€. Finally she shows up for the

meeting with Fleming’s attorney at the time,

Craig Cooley, Dr. Pearson (forensic

toxicologist), Dr. Pearson’s colleague from

toxicology, William Davenport and Warren Von

Schuch in March 2004. Again, she was given Dr.

Monte’s paper. When it was time for the

conference call with Dr. Roberts for which the

meeting was set up in the first place, she

refused. He had spent hours preparing irrefutable

evidence Fleming died from aspartame.

 

Dr. Fierro said she had done her own independent

research and there was no legitimate scientific

basis to conclude aspartame ingestion played any

role in Chuck's methanol poisoning. She advised

that no " referred " (peer reviewed) scientific or

medical journal had ever substantiated the

position Dr. Roberts and other citations

provided were taking. Yet she was holding a

scientific peer reviewed paper on the

subject. Even in the 1985 congressional record,

reporting the protest of the National Soft Drink

Assn, now American Beverage, they admitted

aspartame violated federal adulteration

statutes. Aspartame liberates free methyl alcohol, making approval illegal.

 

If Dr. Fierro had found some evidence to dispute

overwhelming evidence of methanol poisoning by

aspartame it would be reasonable that she would

have looked forward to talking to Dr. Roberts to

explain and put the issue to rest. But she was

afraid of talking to this world expert. Why?

 

Dr. Woodrow Monte said “Every molecule of

aspartame produces a molecule of methanol.†The

chronic methanol poisoning was documented on the

autopsy proving the fact. He was highly

addicted to it stockpiling it in the garage and

getting upset if the fridge wasn't always stocked

with diet pop laced with aspartame.

 

At the meeting Dr. Fierro commented Charles had

ingested methanol on two previous occasions, but

that his physicians had not picked it up because

they weren't looking for acute methanol

poisoning. This is ludicrous. He would have been

dead the first time. And how could she say on

two occasions when she didn't know Fleming? This

was obvious a coverup of the evidence of the

chronic methanol poisoning on the autopsy. This

leads to death, as in Chuck’s case, building up

over time from repeated non-lethal levels of

ingestion, such as those that science has proven

to occur with aspartame consumption. The autopsy

also showed pulmonary edema seen on other

autopsies of aspartame victims as well as a fatty

liver, as expected. And because aspartame

damages the cardiac conduction system and his

autopsy showed cardiomegaly or an enlarged heart

of unknown origin, this probably was the immediate cause of death.

 

Rather than expose aspartame and recommend

Diane’s conviction for murder be vacated, based

upon a scientifically-supported review of her

husband’s autopsy report, Dr. Fierro has chosen

to let an innocent woman sit in prison. Dr.

Fierro has a history of using her capacity as an

ME to influence the outcome of investigations for

political reasons. She was the ME who authorized

a revised autopsy report in the death of Vince

Foster in 1993. Foster was President Clinton's

Chief of Counsel. Dr. Fierro's alteration allowed

Foster's apparent murder to appear as a suicide.

Had the original entry location of the bullet

stood, the suicide conclusion would have been

hard to explain since people committing suicide

do not ordinarily shoot themselves in the back of the head.

 

Dr. Roberts wrote the Grievance Committee of the

Virginia Medical Board: : " I have seen the

letter sent to you by Betty Martini, and concur

with her concern about Diane Fleming whom I

believe has been falsely incarcerated. My

reasons were stated in two affidavits. As noted,

I have been actively interested in methanol

poisoning from aspartame products for more than

two decades, and have written extensively on the subject.

 

“This is a pro bono volunteered effort intended

to help an apparently innocent person. I do not

know Mrs. Fleming, but her plight deserves more

interest and consideration from this medical

examiner. I repeatedly made myself available to

Dr. Fierro for an interview/consultation, but she

refused to speak to me. Under the

circumstances, I also must question her indifference or bias. "

 

The continued investigation of Dr. Fierro keeps

showing a link to Senator Orrin Hatch.

Even in Commonwealth Currents, Sept 1999, there

was an article about Governor Jim Gilmore

announcing the establishment of the Virginia

Institute of Forensic Science and Medicine. In

the list of Board of Directors there they were

again, Marcella F. Fierro and Senator Orrin

Hatch. Senator Hatch knows exactly how deadly

aspartame is. A press release dated February 11,

l986 titled: " Hatch Says No To Committee

Hearings on Aspartame " . It states: " Senator

Orrin Hatch said that he is not alarmed over the

artificial sweetener aspartame, that an initial

reading of documents recently delivered to him

reveal no pre-approval issue that has not been

thoroughly aired before, and consequently " it

would serve no useful purpose to commit Committee

resources to this issue at this time. " Yet

Hatch knew the FDA wanted the manufacturer

indicted and both US Prosecutors were hired by

the defense team. He also knew Rumsfeld called

in his markers to get it approved when the FDA

said no. Why is Senator Hatch from Utah on this

Virginia Board? Since he has been trying to

protect the aspartame industry for years did he

confer with Fierro on this case. Is this the

real reason Dr. Fierro refused to talk with Dr.

Roberts. Once she had the evidence there would

be no way to deny it any further. Investigative

reporters should probe further. There are too many unanswered questions.

 

 

An ironic twist to the Rumsfeld legacy

 

A “jury†just found Saddam Hussein “guilty†of

crimes for which the punishment will be death by

hanging. His death will be delayed indefinitely,

however, as there will be an appeals process and

he will likely be tried for numerous other

crimes, including the alleged mass murder of some

30,000 Kurds in northern Iraq in the 80s. There

are photos and documents proving that, during the

Reagan era, Rumsfeld brokered the sales of

chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein & shy;the chemicals

Saddam allegedly used on the Kurds. Is it not

bizarre that Saddam’s downfall came with Rumsfeld

as his adversary and that Rumsfeld’s failure to

“win†in Iraq will be the final blot on his

public service career? Is it not our job to

deepen the poetry of this strange twist by using

Rummy’s final fall from grace as a platform upon

which to seek justice for all those ravaged, in

one way or another, by the weapon of mass misery

this man unleashed on the world 25 years ago?

 

Note:

For reasons that have yet to be fully understood,

Dr. Fierro and the Virginia’s Supreme Court have

not relented in the persecution of Diane Fleming

who, the evidence plainly shows, is innocent of

the crime of murdering her husband. She even

passed a lie detector test and the detective on

the case, Bob Skowron said: " Diane Fleming did

not poison her husband. I've sent a lot of

people to prison but no way could I sleep at

night if I was responsible for an innocent woman

being convicted. I would have stopped the

indictment but right at that time I got promoted

and taken off the case.†Absent a favorable

ruling from the court ordering Diane’s release,

with apologies, Rumsfeld will be getting away

with another murder. This time, instead of

soldiers being paid to wage Rummy’s private war

on humanity, a sweet, charitable Sunday

school-teaching mother of three will pay by

spending perhaps the rest of her life in a Virginia prison.’

 

To help with Diane’s legal defense, send donations to

David Hargett, Attorney

11545 Nuckols Road, Suite C

Glen Allen, Virginia 23059

 

To the media: Diane is becoming very ill and has

a lump in her leg. Medical neglect is the rule in

prison. We have to get this innocent woman out.

We implore you to follow the links below, do

whatever additional research you feel is

necessary and help us help Diane get back home

where she belongs. Call us anytime.

Dr. Betty Martini, Founder, Mission Possible Intl (770) 242-2599

Don Harkins, The Idaho Observer (208) 255-2307

 

 

 

Additional evidence in support of Rumsfeld’s treachery

 

Rumsfeld’s disease: A politically-induced

biochemical disaster of global proportions:

<<http://www.proliberty.com/20050805.htm>http://www.proliberty.com/20050805.ht

m>http://www.proliberty.com/20050805.htm

 

The FDA Board of Inquiry Report that revoked

Searle’s petition for aspartame approval:

<<http://www.wnho.net/fda_petition1.doc>http://www.wnho.net/fda_petition1.doc>

http://www.wnho.net/fda_petition1.doc

 

Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World:

Consumer advocate attorney James Turner explains

how Rumsfeld said he would call in his markers

and get aspartame on the market even though the

FDA had not only revoked the petition for

approval but even tried to have Searle, the

original manufacturer indicted for fraud under Title 18, Section

1001:

<<http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages/rumsfeld2.html>http://www.soundandfury.tv/p

ages/rumsfeld2.html>http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages/rumsfeld2.html

 

 

The entire Sweet Misery documentary DVD is

available from The Idaho Observer at

<<http://www.idaho-observer.com/>http://www.idaho-observer.com/>http://www.ida

ho-observer.com

 

FDA list of 92 aspartame-related symptoms with

links to published medical journal reports

describing them:

<<http://www.dorway.com/symptoms/>http://www.dorway.com/symptoms/>http://www.d

orway.com/symptoms/

 

Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic,

<<http://www.sunsentpress.com/>http://www.sunsentpress.com/>www.sunsentpress.c

om

 

Aspartame interacts with all drugs and vaccines

<<http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_interacts.htm>http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_in

teracts.htm>http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_interacts.htm

 

 

Case histories of aspartame adverse-events:

<<http://www.dorway.com/>http://www.dorway.com/>http://www.dorway.com/

 

Athlete Alert on Sudden Cardiac Death by Russell Blaylock, MD:

<<http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_msg_scd.htm>http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_msg_

scd.htm>http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_msg_scd.htm

 

 

The Diane Fleming story:

<<http://proliberty.com/observer/20030612.htm>http://proliberty.com/observer/2

0030612.htm>http://proliberty.com/observer/20030612.htm

 

 

Dr. Fierro’s role in the Vince Foster affair: The

Secret Life of Bill Clinton by Ambrose Evans Pritchard

 

Congressional

Record:

<http://www.wnho.net/congressional_record1.doc>http://www.wnho.net/congression

al_record1.doc

 

Aspartame, Methanol and the Public Health by Dr.

Woodrow Monte

<http://www.dorway.com/monte84.html>http://www.dorway.com/monte84.html

 

Mission Possible International,

<<http://www.dorway.com/>http://www.dorway.com/>http://www.dorway.com

and <<http://www.wnho.net/>http://www.wnho.net/>http://www.wnho.net

The Diane Fleming Story is also in the

Artificially Sweetened Times produced by the Idaho Observer

 

To contact Diane Fleming (you can only send 5

pages that will go on one 39 cent stamp):

Mrs. Diane Fleming

#311655

FCCW 8D 209A

Box 1000

Troy, Virginia 22974

(money can only be sent to her by money order with her number on it)