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Friday, October 15, 2004 commentary:

Pharmaceutical industry accused of crimes against humanity

before the ICC in the Hague

 

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A look at the history of war on planet earth reveals some

interesting facts related to the pharmaceutical industry. World War I

resulted in the deaths of millions of people. World War II killed tens

of millions of people -- not Americans, mind you, but Russians, who

ultimately received the greatest number of casualties. Other wars,

such as the Vietnam War, resulted in tens of thousands of American

deaths, and hundreds of thousands if you look at the total body count.

The war on Iraq has now has killed tens of thousands of people as

well, most of whom are Iraqi civilians. But there's another war that

is rarely mentioned in the history books that is killing an estimated

12 million people each year around the world. It is an economic war,

and a war of control. This war is being waged by the pharmaceutical

industry. Today, the industry is being blamed for causing the injury

and death of millions of people through the so-called " business with

disease " , and it is being accused of war crimes before the ICC, the

International Criminal Court, in the Hague. New charges and

accusations state that the pharmaceutical industry is committing

genocide and was built with the primary goal of controlling health

care systems around the world and systematically replacing natural,

non-patentable therapies with profitable, synthetic drugs and

patentable therapies that could be sold to patients at sky-high

prices. For those new to the argument about what's wrong with the

pharmaceutical industry, some of these charges might seem outlandish,

but in fact, the history of medicine, even in the United States, is

full of evidence that supports such a notion. Most people don't know,

for example, that the American Medical Association has twice been

convicted of conspiracy in the federal courts of the United States of

America. What kind of conspiracy? Conspiracy to suppress

non-conventional treatments, most notably chiropractic care. At the

turn of the 20th century and throughout the mid-century, the American

Medical Association was working very hard to control medicine and

outright ban or discredit any therapy that it could not control. In

fact, there were assassination attempts made on people who were

outspoken against the industry, including a man named Hoxsey, who was

a promoter of alternative cancer therapies made with medicinal plants

that cured cancer tumors. Certainly, Hoxsey was also a great salesman,

and he did himself more harm than good by taking on the persona of a

snake oil salesman, but there was much merit to his formulas as has

now been revealed by scientific analysis of the phytochemicals present

in the medicinal plant ingredients he used and advocated. Now, with

this accusation of crimes against humanity, U.S. Chief Prosecutor

Telford Taylor says, " The indictment accuses these men for visiting

upon mankind the most devastating and catastrophic war in human

history. " It is indeed a war against humanity, and it is a war waged

for the control of profits, because where there is money to be made,

there is power to be grabbed, and the only way the pharmaceutical

industry can grab power is by making sure that people don't have

access to or don't believe in alternative therapies that could prevent

chronic disease or treat disease in more affordable ways. My comments

on this action are as follows: For one, I think the term genocide is

misused here. Genocide, in my understanding, refers to an effort to

wipe out a specific population or culture. For example, an attempt to

exterminate one race would be considered genocide, and as far as I can

tell, the pharmaceutical industry doesn't target any particular race.

So I don't think genocide really applies here. I think the term is

misused in this context. However, the phrase, " a war against humanity "

is somewhat more credible, but still, I don't think that the

intentions of the pharmaceutical industry are to wipe out mankind or

to actually declare war on people. I think the pharmaceutical industry

is engaged in nothing more than economic conquest. It's all about

dollars and greed and profits, and not at all about trying to do evil

in the world. In fact, I believe that the people running the

pharmaceutical companies believe that they themselves are doing

tremendous good. This is the nature of evil -- people who are involved

in it often think that they are on an important mission to find the

cure for cancer, for example, and the only way to do that is to sell

more drugs, and generate more profits, and put that money back into

research in the hopes that someday they will find the cure. This is

all self-deception, of course, because it's not money that is lacking

for a cancer cure -- it's the myopic paradigms of conventional

medicine that stand in the way. And besides, cancer already has many

cures available if people would simply look beyond conventional

medicine and prescription drugs. So I don't think they are evil

people, and I don't think that they would consciously intend to harm

humanity. What I do think is that they are blinded by their greed.

They're going after profits no matter what the cost, and they are

justifying their actions by claiming they are doing research that

would someday cure certain diseases -- and that's a promise we know

will never unfold. The kind of psychological justification going on in

the minds of people who work at pharmaceutical companies is probably

very much like the justification that was going on in the minds of

Nazi soldiers who guarded the Berlin wall (and who shot people who

were attempting to cross the wall). These soldiers were just

" following orders " , which is much the same justification that

pharmaceutical company employees take home with them every single day.

They're just doing a job -- they're just making a salary and trying to

support their family. What people don't realize is that when they are

part of a machine that is, in one way or another, causing great harm

to humanity, they are in effect responsible for their role in that

outcome. Just because a person is a salaried employee and doesn't have

executive control over the company doesn't excuse the fact that they

are, in essence, enabling a system that trades health for profits,

that seeks to exploit the diseased and dying in our world in order to

generate shareholder value for investors. It doesn't excuse the fact

that this is an industry that has sought to systematically wipe out

and discredited alternative therapies in order to maintain control and

keep customers lining up at doctor's offices across the country and

around the world. Just because a person isn't a board member at a

pharmaceutical company doesn't excuse the fact that they are part of a

team that is pushing prescription drugs that haven't been proven safe

onto an unwary population. It doesn't excuse the exaggerations in the

marketing materials nor the number of deaths, injuries, birth defects,

neurological disorders, and other problems that are created by the

frequent consumption of prescription drugs. My point here is that

people who work in pharmaceutical companies are probably ordinary,

everyday people who have their own wishes and dreams and families,

and, at their core, attempt to do no evil. Nevertheless, they are part

of a system that is inevitably creating a highly destructive outcome.

It is impairing the quality of life for hundreds of millions of

people, and it is causing the premature deaths of countless others.

Whether you wish to call that a war against humanity or genocide is

certainly your decision. In my view, I just call it corporate greed.

 

 

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About the author:

Author Mike Adams is a holistic nutritionist with over

4,000 hours of study on nutrition, wellness, food toxicology and the

true causes of disease and health.

 

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a.. Pharmaceutical corporations and individual

executives have been accused of genocide and crimes of war before the

International Criminal Court in The Hague.

b.. For decades, the Pharma-Cartel has made every effort

to protect its global business with patented drugs and to ban the

dissemination of competing non-patentable health alternatives.

c.. The accused are guilty of the crime of genocide for

which they are liable to prosecution under Article 7 of the ICC Statute.

d.. 2. The accused systematically and deliberately

prevent the eradication of cardiovascular disease, cancer and other

diseases by obstructing and blocking the dissemination of life-saving

information on the health benefits of natural non-patentable therapies.

e.. More importantly, any effective treatment of any

disease ultimately leads to its eradication and to the destruction of

a multi-trillion-dollar market of pharmaceutical drugs.

f.. Secondly, the systematic application of toxic agents

in the form of chemotherapy causes an epidemic of new diseases in

cancer patients receiving these toxic substances.

g.. To cover up their crimes the accused disseminate the

false justification that their seizure of the oil resources would be

in the interests of and to the benefit of the Iraqi people.

h.. 2. Merck & Co., Inc., the Chief Executive Officer

Raymond V. Gilmartin, the other Executives and the Board of Directors.

i.. People are waking up to the fact that health is

their personal responsibility and that some commercial interests have

been profiting from disease and have consequently not had any

incentive to develop real cures.

j.. Having worked in the cancer healthcare field and

having survived ovarian cancer 22 years ago, I am well aware of the

connection between the drug companies and cancer.

 

Source:

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2003/06/23/pharmaceutical_corporations_accu\

sed_of_genocide_before_icc_in_the_hague.htm

 

 

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