| Recently the FDA is trying to police the Internet and close down any alternative treatment websites. According to William Falloon the FDA wanted to set-up a rapid response team to identify, investigate and prosecute websites. As Falloon says, the FDA is seeking to establish an army of cyberspace storm troopers to enable it to shut down large numbers of websites quickly.They wanted to spend a million dollars a year on artificial intelligence computer robots that would scan the internet for phrases such as "prevents cancer" and "prescription drug" so the FDA could swiftly gather the infomration needed to prosecute. This would be hilarious if it didn't pose such a serious threat to our freedom of choice, freedom of speech and freedom of the Internet. I don't need the "nanny State" micromanaging my life and telling me, oh-so-kindly, that they know what's best. That is statism, if you like it, emmigrate to Beijing. This is what you get when you allow corrupt, out-of-control government bureacracies to have unlimited power to do whatever they want. The FDA is staffed with unprincipled tyrants who wield far more power than they should ever have. The FDA's history is one of serving the career goals and political interests of key officials. They know where their bread is buttered, and that is enforcing the agenda of man-made patentable drugs. In 1970 Dr. Charles Edwards, commissioner of the FDA said, "(It is) not our (FDA) policy to jeopardize the financial interests of the pharmaceutical companies." That's right Charles, the FDA protects the drug companies monopoly by sytematically suppressing any and all natural or unprofitable alternatives. Thirty years later, nothing has changed. |
| THE FEDERAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION |