You own the FDA - no kidding
We forget that government, in whatever form it manifests, is supposed to be an emanation of OUR will. Any agency of government has at one point been set up by US to take care of something we thought needed taking care of.
Tim Bolen, taking the FDA as an example of one of those government agencies, answers the question of ownership in a very interesting and direct manner. He also proposes what to do, when the FDA - or any other government agency for that matter - is not doing what it's been originally set up to do.
It really is all about ourselves (yes, that includes you as well) coming to realize that government is supposed to be controlled by US, instead of the other way around . . .
I Own the FDA...
Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen
August 19th, 2003
I'll bet you didn't know that I own the FDA. It's mine.It belongs to me because several years ago American citizens, just like you and me, figured out that we, as Americans, needed a Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to deal with some issues. We felt we needed an ongoing agency, under our control, to keep an eye on some particular things. So we created the FDA to do our bidding. We gave it a mission.
I'm sure you've already figured out, that it's YOURS too, if you're a US citizen.
Hmmm?
SO, if the FDA is MINE, and YOURS, how come, in some areas, it's not doing what WE want?
For instance, in the war between health and medicine, how is it that the FDA, an agency we own, and control, seems to be working for big pharma?
There's an easy answer. It involves a simple theory of law, and the people who practice this theory of law. There's no real name for this legal movement that I know of. But, it's sort of called...
"Don't Sue Yourself..."
The first people that introduced me to this simple legal philosophy meant that it was a mistake to sue a government agency that we, the people, own. It's like your right hand suing your left hand. That agency, no matter what it is, and has become, belongs to us. We set it up. We gave it it's mission. We monitor it. Or do we?
So the theory is, if an agency isn't doing what we want it to do, what we set it up to do, what we expect from it, then what's the problem? It can't be the agency - because that's us, "we the people." We own it. So what's wrong?
It must be rogue employees. Rogue employees within the agency we set up, abusing the power we gave them - to promote their own agenda.
Go After the "Rogue Employees," Not the Agency...
Got the idea?
If you owned your own company, and one of your employees was doing something wrong, would you write yourself a disciplinary letter? Would you sue yourself? Would you fire yourself? Of course not...
So, if the FDA belongs to you and I, then why would we sue ourselves? Why don't we go right to the problem? The employees who are doing wrong. Those who are abusing their power - using it for their own agenda.
So, in the war between health and medicine, who is it, exactly, at FDA that's in our way? What are their names? What is their connection to big pharma?
The Point?
The point is that the FDA is a huge agency, with a huge responsibility, that for the most part, grinds out it's function, quite well, day-after-day, year-after-year, doing exactly what "we the people" asked it to do.
If there is something wrong at FDA, like their rules about health claims on supplements, or their stand on new health treatments, let's deal with the employees who make up those rules. Let's deal with them harshly. Let's remind them who they work for.
Specifically...
Let's find out who it is, exactly, that is making rules we don't approve of at FDA. What person, what committee, what consultant, is making policy that we find repulsive. Names, dates, addresses, phone numbers, date of birth, financial interest in which big pharma...
We have Federal laws against Federal employees abusing their power for their own agenda. We have Federal agencies that deal with this type of crime, already in place. We have a complete check-and-balance system of government. Let's activate it.
I have a friend who went after the employees of a Federal agency he figured were doing wrong. He got sixty million bucks...
Stay tuned...
Tim Bolen - Consumer Advocate
This "Millions of Health Freedom Fighters - Newsletter" is about the battle between "Health and Medicine" on Planet Earth. Tim Bolen is an op/ed writer with extensive knowledge of the activities of a subversive organization calling itself the "quackbusters," and that organization's attempts to suppress, and discredit, any, and all health modalities that compete with the allopathic (MD) paradigm for consumer health dollars. The focus of the newsletter is on the ongoing activities, battles, politics, and the victories won by members of the "Health Freedom Movement" against the "quackbusters" It details "who the quackbusters are, what they are, where they are operating, when they appear, and how they operate - and how easy it is to beat them..."
For background information on the "Battle between Health and Medicine" go to: www.savedrclark.net. A copy of THIS newsletter, and older ones, are viewable at the website www.quackpotwatch.org.
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updated on Sunday October 9 2005URL of this article:
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