Policy Abuse Prevents Drug Peace
By Catfarmer

Agencies of political authority increasingly control the use, manufacture, distribution, and dispensation of pharmaceuticals and increasingly prohibit the use, manufacture, distribution, and dispensation of alternatives. Medicine no longer serves the patient primarily: medicine serves instead as a stealth venue into control of thoughts and actions, or a back door through which malicious invaders can potentially hack into a person's most intimate sanctuaries - body, mind and spirit. What could be more impractical than erecting a security fence of privacy rights against your trusted physician, and what chance do you have of preserving confidentiality or trust when your physician accounts primarily to governmental agencies rather than patients?

Public health contagion is an anti-social disease and an epidemic raging against medical freedom - individual health depends on individual decisions, and public policy prevents individual decision-making (more or less) on an equal wrongs basis. Government control of medicine leaves us all vulnerable to medication without representation since the vast majority of government officials ceased to represent the interests of ordinary folks a long time ago. Come to think of it, when did anyone elect politicians to concern themselves with private medical or purely personal decisions? Does a medical review board ensure the proper licensing and monitoring of politicians? Does an independent consumer advocacy board ensure the safety of the public against political malpractice? Why not? (Read the rest here)

Third Rail - Dilemma For The Pirates
By Ed Henry

The United Nation's Chief Weapons Inspector, Hans Blix, has finally screwed up enough courage to condemn the U.S. invasion of Iraq—a year after the fact. Now he tells us that the invasion was illegal. Where was he when we were relying on him to tell us that there were no "weapons of mass destruction" pointed at us? Where were these strong statements when it would have counted, when he had everyone's attention, when it would have meant something more than today's back page news?

Could it be that otherwise good minds and responsible people bend to political pressure and bend to the point that they just can't say "no" to their sponsors or authority figures? Are they afraid to go against stronger wills? Do they lack the courage to take on authority? Are there subjects that are simply taboo? What ever happened to the idea that the truth would win out and set us free? (Read the rest here)

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