We need a health care “Nuremberg…”
Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen
Shortly after South Carolina MD Jim Shortt was falsely accused of killing a female Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patient this year, supposedly by applying a Hydrogen Peroxide IV to get rid of viruses and bacteria, armed Federal, State, and local law enforcement agents, in almost a “Waco style” assault team, donned their body armor, their mirrored sunglasses, activated their Public Relations teams, and screamed and battered their way into Shortt’s West Columbia, South Carolina clinic. With guns and warrant on hand, they seized everything in sight.
Although medical literature clearly shows that Hydrogen Peroxide IV, to get rid of viruses and bacteria, has been around for over ninety (90) years, and records show that over a million treatments have been made, with NO DEATHS, ever recorded, the mere “allegation” of death, false that it was, and made by an elected official with no medical training, caused a massive assault by US law enforcement.
Now let’s get real here. It looks to me that US law enforcement has a “policy” here of “zero tolerance” for death by a faulty health treatment. If that’s the case, than I think we should be soon watching a humungous raid of Big Pharma giant Merck. For Merck, by US FDA investigation, has killed over 55,000 people with its Vioxx drug alone..
We learned from the US “Enron scandal,” that we must hold industry leaders personally responsible for their actions – and that criminal indictments are an absolute necessity.
Columnist Arriana Huffington wrote an excellent article published in the New York Times November 24th, 2004 called You Want A Moral Issue? How About Drugs That Don’t Kill?.
She was talking about Big Pharma giant Merck’s killing of 55,000 people with their deadly drug Vioxx. About that she said “there ought to be a special place in hell for corporations that show such a wanton disregard for human life.”
55,000 people died, and I haven’t heard a word from Attorney General John Ashcroft’s office about raids on Merck’s offices, pending arrests, property seizures, warrants, injunctions, seizures of products, bans on products sold in this country, etc.
Why not?
We lost 3,000 people in the attack on the World Trade Center towers in New York City September 11, 2001. We’ve lost another three thousand in the counter-attack on terrorism, including the massive assault in Iraq. That’s about 6,000 deaths total. Merck knowingly killed 55,000 people with Vioxx alone – and we haven’t even looked at what else these drug lords peddle – our FDA is so owned, and disabled, by Big Pharma, that investigations ARE NOT LIKELY.
Yet…
Using US law enforcement’s “guidelines” for “zero tolerance,” I fully expect, and DEMAND an immediate raid, guns drawn, body armor in place, mirrored sunglasses nosed, with full media alert, of EVERY Merck office worldwide.
We need immediate seizure of every Merck document ever initiated. We need an immediate seizure of every Merck product offered in the United States. Every Merck executive’s home needs a raid. We need to immediately ban every Merck product sold in the United States, pending investigation, and alert the medical profession.
You think I’m jesting? I’m not. Merck knows “the worst” is coming. One of my sources tells me that Merck, a few weeks ago, awarded its top 250 executives“golden parachute” retirement packages that would supersede the financial collapse of Merck.
And, it was those executives who were ultimately responsible for all those deaths. We can’t let them head for Argentina with submarines full of Art and gold…
We need a health care “Nuremberg…”
Stay tuned…
Tim Bolen – Consumer Advocate