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Here's a must-read article for anyone who believes in health freedom.

It's about the tyranny of the FDA and its recent threatening of cherry

growers who dared to publish scientific information emphasizing the

health benefits of cherries. They were threatened and censored as part

of the FDA's " de-education campaign " to keep the American people

ignorant about healing foods, herbs and nutritional supplements.

 

But even as the FDA tries to keep people in the dark, you can learn

the truth about what's really going on in today's impassioned

commentary. It's an article that dares to question the authority of

the FDA and calls for grassroots support of the Health Freedom

Protection Act that would end FDA tyranny.

 

Read it at:

 

http://www.newstarget.com/019366.html

 

 

 

 

FDA tyranny and the censorship of cherry health facts (opinion)

Posted Tuesday, May 02, 2006 by Mike Adams

 

n the past, I jokingly said that broccoli might someday be banned as

soon as the public begins to learn about the potent anti-cancer

chemicals found in the vegetable. That's because, as I jested, the FDA

wouldn't want people treating their own cancer with the anti-cancer

medicines found in cruciferous vegetables. But it seems that my joke

wasn't so funny after all, because the FDA is now threatening cherry

growers with raids to confiscate their cherries, haul them into court,

and put them out of business for doing one simple thing that the FDA

cannot stand to allow: The distribution of scientific information

describing the health benefits of cherries.

 

On October 17, 2005, the FDA sent warning letters to 29 companies that

market cherries. In these letters, the FDA threatened these companies

with legal action and told them they had to remove the scientific

information on their websites that described the health benefits of

the natural medicines found in cherries, such as the anthocyanins that

reduce inflammation for arthritis sufferers. According to the warped

FDA logic that now seems to be standard, when cherry growers post

scientific information about the health benefits of their cherries,

they magically transform their cherries into drugs and therefore, as

drugs, they must have FDA approval in order to sell them in the United

States.

 

The FDA says a cherry is a drug

 

Now, any normal, sane person would look at a cherry and say, " It's

just a cherry. " It's a natural fruit that people have been eating for

as long as anyone can remember. But the FDA, in light of the fact that

people are now discovering that cherries are actually good medicine,

looks at a cherry and says (paraphrasing), " No, it's a drug, and you

have to have our permission to market it, and if you continue to talk

about the health benefits of cherries, we will use our power to put

you out of business. "

 

I've often talked about the tyranny of the FDA and its campaign to

censor the scientific truth about the healing benefits of natural

foods, including cherries and many other items. This event

demonstrates perfectly well the sinister nature of the FDA, which

clearly intends to restrict the spread of knowledge about cherries and

thereby protect the profits of anti-inflammatory drugs that treat

joint pain. If Americans knew the true power of cherries to reduce

inflammation, you see, the sales of anti-inflammatory drugs might

plummet, and the criminal drug pushers who run organized medicine

today can't allow that to happen. Hence, censorship and oppression of

scientific information are the tactics used to keep the American

people ignorant and, therefore, controlled.

 

Because it's not just cherries that contain powerful medicine, you

see. It's blueberries, garlic, cabbage, onions, ginger, turmeric,

cinnamon, aloe vera, almonds and a thousand other natural foods and

medicinal herbs. If the public understood the true healing power of

these foods -- and the powerful medicines they contain -- conventional

medicine and all its drug-pushing participants would suddenly be

irrelevant and bankrupt.

 

That's what the drug pushers absolutely cannot allow to happen, and

that's why the American people must be kept ignorant at all costs,

even if it means engaging in book burning, armed raids on alternative

medicine clinics, and jackbooted censorship of simple truths that

might empower people to take charge of their own health. It is the

most insidious use of power by any federal agency because its aim is

ignorance, not education. It seeks to isolate people from information

that might save them in order to control them, and it is the same

tactic used by every evil regime in world history, including Nazi

Germany. It also makes the FDA the single greatest threat to the

health and safety of the American people, far outweighing the threat

of terrorism in terms of the number of people harmed or killed. (See

" Statistics prove prescription drugs are 16,400% more deadly than

terrorists " )

 

So I'm just curious; are cherry growers who distribute scientific

information now going to be arrested as cherry traffickers? Will

people start smuggling cherries across borders so that their customers

can benefit from the healing effects of these natural foods? Will the

FDA raid cherry orchards with guns drawn like it did Dr. Jonathan

Wright's clinic in Seattle many years ago? Will cherry growers be

arrested and tried on crimes of making health claims or illegally

marketing unapproved drugs?

 

These things were once thought of as being ridiculous. The very idea

that a natural food could be outlawed was once considered a joke. Now

it is one step closer to reality as this tyrannical organization, the

U.S. Food and Drug Administration, is censoring scientific information

on the health benefits of cherries and using its power to threaten

cherry growers into silence.

 

 

More nonsense from the FDA

 

Amazingly, the FDA doesn't claim to disagree with the scientific

information about cherries. Instead, it says that cherries " have not

been recognized as safe and effective when used as labeled. " And as

the Life Extension Foundation explains, the FDA's interpretation of

the law means that cherry growers are " engaged in criminal conduct by

relaying findings that have been published in peer reviewed scientific

journals. "

 

So now publishing information makes you a criminal even if that

information is scientifically sound and widely known to be absolutely

true. If this isn't a blatant violation of the First Amendment, I

don't know what is. Where's the Electronic Freedom Foundation on this

issue? Isn't this a clear case where the tyranny of the FDA should be

openly challenged by champions of Free Speech?

 

Cherries are now, according to the FDA, not recognized as safe and

effective when used " as labeled. " I'm just curious, what does the

label of cherries say about using it? Does it say, " Eat me? " Because

that's what we should all be saying to the FDA right now, as it is an

agency immersed in such absolute nonsense that even fools can see the

emperor has no clothes. To say a cherry is a drug and then threaten

cherry growers with drug crimes is something ripped right out of the

pages of 1984 and its Ministry of Truth. (See Wikipedia to learn more.)

 

In terms of genuine authority, the FDA is nothing short of an utter

joke and an embarrassment to the American people. Unfortunately, it

still has power, and it is exploiting that power to threaten cherry

growers with criminal prosecution for doing what people have done for

countless generations on this earth, which is to grow their own fruits

and eat those fruits while enjoying their many benefits.

 

Do not tolerate unjust authority

 

Gandhi once initiated the Salt March to Dandi (the " Salt Satyagraha " )

in defiance of the tyrannical salt taxation rules of the occupying

British government, and there he and his followers intentionally

violated the law by harvesting salt from the waters. It was a practice

that had been carried out for centuries by the people there, and one

that provides essential minerals for human health. Gandhi's defiance

may teach us something very important about modern times, and that is

that when a law is so unjust as to stand in violation of fundamental

human rights, it is not only the right, but the duty of individuals to

stand in firm opposition to that law and to challenge whatever

authority unjustly imposes that law upon the people.

 

The FDA operates today much like the occupying British in 20th century

India, oppressing the people, outlawing natural traditions like salt

harvesting in order to control a monopoly market, silencing dissent,

and threatening any organization or individual that challenges its

power. The FDA, as it exists today, is an organization of tyranny and

injustice that simply has no place in a free society.

 

That's why I believe it is time for growers of cherries, fruits,

vegetables and other healing foods to take a stand against the FDA.

Stand firm against oppression and censorship, and stand up for your

right to tell the truth about the healing benefits of your natural

products. The FDA's reclassification of cherry growers as criminals is

a violation of every system of law and ethics that we've known on this

planet. It is a violation of natural law, it is a violation of God's

law, and it is a violation of basic human rights, which include the

right to grow and eat food and share that food with your neighbors

along with information about what those foods can do to nourish them.

 

The FDA would like to imagine that it is the ultimate authority over

all things health related and that only it can approve what words we

might use to describe the fruits and vegetables we share with our

neighbors. And as such, the FDA is an entity of ignorance and evil

that actually seeks to de-educate the American people, and the day of

outing the criminals who currently operate the FDA is long overdue.

This is an agency whose decision makers need to be immediately

arrested and tried for their crimes against humanity. It is an agency

that demands wholesale reform from top to bottom and that must

eliminate its obvious conflicts of interest and its desire to protect

the pharmaceutical industry. It must be reformed with a new mission

that it should have been following all along: To protect the health of

the people it is supposed to serve.

 

End the tyranny of the FDA

 

If you're an American voter, one of the best ways to protect your

health freedom, which is clearly under assault by the Food and Drug

Administration as well as other disease-promoting interest groups, is

to support the Health Freedom Protection Act (HR4282). It is a bill

that will allow organizations like cherry growers to tell the truth

about their products, as long as that truth is based on sound science.

It would allow cherry growers, for example, to reference the published

scientific studies that report on the healing benefits of the

phytochemicals found in cherries.

 

It is a shame that in this country we even need such a bill, but we do

need it, because the level of censorship, oppression, and tyranny now

practiced by the FDA has reached its apex, and we must fight back with

legislation that ends the tyranny of the Food and Drug Administration

and reinforces our right to access information that can help us live

happier, healthier and longer lives. Support the Health Freedom

Protection Act (HR4282) by writing your representatives in Congress

and voicing your opinion. Also visit the Life Extension Foundation,

publishers of Life Extension Magazine, which contributed to this report.

 

Finally, refuse to live as a slave of conventional medicine and the

FDA for another day. Demand health freedom and settle for nothing less

than the ending of this age of medical tyranny that seeks to turn us

all -- you, your parents, your children and preschoolers -- into

ignorant, drug-induced consumers who will never know true freedom, nor

true health. Perhaps the greatest legacy that we can pass on to our

children is the ending of this medical McCarthyism and the unfolding

of a new golden age of health freedom. Stay active and informed, and

do not let ignorance and oppression prevail.

 

Action items

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article to them.

 

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