Severe criticisms have been leveled against FDA since its inception as the Bureau of Chemistry in 1906. Harvey W. Wiley, M.D., the first head of the Bureau, resigned in disgust in 1912. 

"Dr. Wiley resigned because the fundamental principles of the Pure Food Law have been strangled; because he has been powerless to punish the manufacturers of misbranded and adulterated drugs." 

-Rocky Mountain News, March 21, 1912 

He felt so strongly about what he witnessed he wrote a book: _The History of a Crime Against the Food Law: The Amazing Story of the National Food and Drugs Law Intended to Protect the Health of the People, Perverted to Protect Adulteration of Foods and Drugs_ 

Dr. Wiley knew the value of whole foods; knew the repercussions of "junk" foods; knew even back then what the future held. Just think--we've been eating these chemicals for 65 years! No wonder our medical establishment specializes in crisis medicine--our food and health is in crisis! He describes the dilemma most aptly in his treatise on depravity: "If the Bureau of Chemistry had been permitted to enforce the law as it was written and as it tried to do, what would have been the condition now (1929)? No food product in our country would have any trace of benzoic acid, sulphurous acid or sulphites...no soft drink would contain caffeine...no bleached flour would enter interstate commerce...Our food and drugs would be wholly without any form of adulteration. The health of our people would be vastly improved and their life greatly extended...The manufacturers of our food supply would (provide) whole ground, unrefined cereal flours and meals. The resistance of our people to infectious diseases would be greatly increased by a vastly improved and more wholesome diet...The cause of a wholesome diet would not have been put back for fifty or a hundred years...and this History of a Crime would never have been written." -Harvey W. Wiley, M.D., _History of a Crime_, 1929, pgs.401-402. 

In 1927 the Bureau of Chemistry became the Food, Drug and Insecticide Administration; then in 1930 became the Food and Drug Administration. Criticism and charges of fraud continued among its ranks and among government overseers. 

"The activities of...so-called health food lecturers have increasingly engaged our attention...(we are fighting) the good fight against dried vegetables, mineral mixtures, vitamins and similar products." 

-Dr. George Larrick, FDA Commissioner, Minutes of the Proprietary Association Convention, 1949, White Sulphur Springs, Virginia (as reported by Omar V. Garrison in _The Dictocrats_, ARC Books, New York, 1970, pg. 30) 

"The Committee wishes to express its particular concern with the current state of FDA- industry relationships...these are found not to be based upon common understanding, trust and respect, but rather upon fear, questioning of basic motives, and lack of opportunity for discussion before drastic action is taken on violations, many of them minor and not related to health hazards...there is a distinct feeling within the present Committee that FDA has used recommendations of the earlier Committee to obtain considerably expanded staff and budget, but (FDA has ignored) important recommendations which..the expanded staff and budget would be able to achieve." 

-1962 report of the Second Citizens Advisory Committee to FDA (appointed by U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare) 

"The Food and Drug Administration is charged by Congress with an onerous responsibility--that of protecting the nation's health. Instead of shouldering this heavy responsibility, we find the agency engaged in bizarre games of cops and robbers. Instead of a guardian of the national health, we find an agency which is police-oriented, chiefly concerned with prosecutions and convictions, totally indifferent to individuals' rights, and bent on using snooping gear to pry and invade citizens' right of privacy. 

"If the Food and Drug Administration would spend a little less time and effort on small manufacturers of vitamins and milk substitutes and a little more on the large manufacturers of...dangerous drugs...the public would be better served." -Senator Edward V. Long, 1965 hearing of the Senate Subcommitt on Adminsitrative Practice and Procedure. 

"People think the FDA is protecting them--it isn't. What the FDA is doing and what people think it's doing are as different as night and day." Dr. Herbert Ley, Commissioner of the FDA, _San Francisco Chronicle_, January 2, 1970 

TODAY'S JUDGES AGREE 

Over FDA's 65-year history, numerous lawsuits and litigation have focused on their practices and policies. Judges involved in these lawsuits often comment on the outlandish logic used by FDA. 

"The FDA's broad definition...subverts Congressional purpose..." "...it defies common sense to say that a substance can be a food additive when there is no (other) food to which it is added..." 

"Distorts the plain meaning of the provision..." 

"The only justification for the Alice-in-Wonderland approach is to allow the FDA to make an end run around the statutory scheme..." 

"Contrary to the intent of Congress..." 

-Judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit in the _Traco Laboratories_ case, January 1993 

"It apparently is FDA's view that if a company makes a claim that milk helps prevent rickets, milk suddenly becomes a drug." 

-Federal Judge Lowell Jensen, District Court, San Francisco, in the _Nutricology_ case, September 23, 1993 

FDA'S FRIENDS, THE DRUG COMPANIES 

As a stockholder, would you tolerate blatant bias? If you knew your corporation was favoring one group over another, jeopardizing the lives and health of your family and friends, would you put up with it? Even after countless hearings, reports witnesses and lawsuits, FDA continues to favor and forgive an industry with a long, long history of death and disability. Follow along as we listened to those who know firsthand. 

Senator Long: "Did you notice a tendency (by FDA) to spend a great deal of their time going after a little manufacturer rather than some of the large ones?" 

Witness: "I have definitely noticed that...when a small company is purchased by a large company, the needling attacks...stop." 

Senator Long: "The merchandise becomes alright then?" 

Witness: "Becomes sacrosanct." 

-1966 Senate Subcommittee hearings as reported in Omar Garrison's _The Dictocrats_, ARC Books, New York City, 1970, pg. 64 

"(It is) not our (FDA) policy to jeopardize the financial interests of the pharmaceutical companies." 

-FDA Commissioner Charles C. Edwards in testimony before the House Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations, 1970, as reported in "Who Blocks Testing of Anti-Cancer Agent," _Alameda (California) Times Star_, August 3, 1970 

"The FDA...(is) actively hostile against the manufacture, sale and distribution of vitamins and mineral as food or food supplements. They are out to get the health food industry and drive the health food stores out of business. And they are trying to do this out of active hostility and prejudice." 

-Senator William Proxmire, _National Health Federation Bulletin_, April 1974 

"I never have and never will approve a new drug to an individual, but only to a large pharmaceutical firm with unlimited finances." 

-Dr. Richard J. Crout, Director, Bureau of Drugs, FDA, quoted in the _Spotlight_, January 18, 1982 

"...the task force considered many issues in its deliberations including: to ensure that the existence of dietary supplements on the market does not act as disincentive for drug development..." 

-_FDA Dietary Supplements Task Force Final Report_, pgs. 2 and 71, June 1992, released June 1993 

"...pay careful attention to what is happening (with dietary supplements) in the legislative arena...if these efforts are successful, there could be created a class of products to compete with approved drugs that are subject to less regulation than approved drugs...the establishment of a separate regulatory category for supplements could undercut exclusively rights enjoyed by holders of approved drug applications." 

-David Adams, FDA Deputy commissioner for Policy before the Drug Information Association Annual Meeting, July 12, 1993, _D-C-A Tan Sheet 11_, July 19, 1993 

"During the eight years I was an investigator with the Texas Attorney General's Office, I had numerous occasions to work with the FDA on cases involving potential health fraud. I repeatedly saw cases against large corporations...go unchallenged...instead, the agency chose (to pursue) cases against alternative health care providers and minor companies...Chinese herbalists, health food stores, and chiropractors were among their favorite targets..." -Marion Moss, former investigator, Texas Attorney General's office, writing in _New Times_, Seattle, Washington, 1992 

A LITTLE INCEST 

"Since 1965, federal executive orders and implementing regulations have prohibited employees from engaging in outside activities that are not compatible with the full and proper discharge of the duties and responsibilities of their government employment. The prohibition includes activities that involve the acceptance of a fee or anything of value in circumstances in which acceptance may result in or create the appearance of conflict of interest or that may result in the appearance using public office for private gain." (United States General Accounting Office, GAO/GGD-92-34 Employee Conduct Standards, February 1992). Despite this, FDA has a documented history of conflict of interest. 

"A General Accounting Office (GAO) study of FDA in 1975 revealed that 150 FDA officials owned stock in the companies they were supposed to regulate." -Barry Lynes, _The Healing of Cancer_, Marcus Books, Box 327, Queensville, Ontario, L0G 1R0, Canada, 1989, pg. 22 

"In 1964, Congressman Melvin Laird (Wisconsin), demanded from FDA data concerning the number of FDA officials who left the agency to take their next job with FDA-regulated industry. FDA responded that one in ten (83 of 613) who left FDA between 1959 and 1964 had done so." 

-Omar Garrison, _The Dictocrats_, ARC Books, New York, 1970 

"A study conducted by the US Congress in 1969 revealed that 37 of 49 top FDA officials who left the agency moved into high corporate positions with the large companies they had regulated." 

-Barry Lynes, _The Healing of Cancer_, Marcus Books, Box 327, Queensville, Ontario, L0G 1R0, Canada, 1989, pg. 22 

PROTECTORS OF PUBLIC HEALTH? 

While FDA attacks and condemns purveyors of alternative nutritional therapies, it overlooks and allows dangerous toxic chemicals to be ingested by the citizens. What do you think would happen if 14,100 people reported that a certain product caused them to behave in an unusual manner and that 500 people had attempted to kill themselves after using it? If you assumed the product would be removed from the market, you would be wrong. 

As of June, 1991, 16,899 cases of adverse reactions from the use of Prozac, a commonly- prescribed anti-depressant, have been reported, with over 100 lawsuits filed against Eli Lilly, the manufacturer of the drug. The drug continues to this day to be prescribed widely. 

Chris Wallace (ABC News): "How often do you take legal action against a drug company for misleading advertising?" 

Mr. Feather (FDA): "There has not been legal action through the courts since about 1974." 

Wallace: "Fifteen years?" 

Feather: "Yes." 

Wallace: "You have ...30,000 cases a year of advertising, and you haven't taken one case of legal action in 15 years?" 

Feather: "That's right." 

-Primetime Live transcript, ABC News, Show #110, October 15, 1989 

"In 1963, (FDA) conducted a prosecution against Dr. Steven Drovic who had produced...Krebiozen...a non-toxic substance...useful...in the treatment of cancer. The trial lasted 289 days, the jury heard 288 witnesses...the jury found the defendant not guilty of 240 charges which FDA had brought against them..." 

-Martin J. Walker, _Dirty Medicine_, Slingshot Publications, BM Box 8314, London, WCIN 3XX, UK, pgs. 17-18 

"If there is any plausible excuse for the Gestapo-like tactics used in a raid on a Kent (Washington) alternative medicine clinic last week, it had better be forthcoming and fast. King County police officers, drafted by agents in the Food and Drug Administration, kicked in the door of (the) clinic with guns drawn. There are serious questions not only about the raid's tactics but its motivation. It must be kept in mind that (the clinic) had filed suit against the FDA..." 

-Lead editorial, Seattle-Post Intelligencer, May 11, 1992 

"A study by UCLA researchers published in _Annals of Internal Medicine_ in 1992 found that 92% of 109 drug company advertisement violated FDA regulations. Sixty-one percent were inaccurate, misleading and even dangerous." 

-_Wall Street Journal_, June 1 and July 31, 1992 

"The problem of misleading advertisements is real...injury or death may occur because physicians have been persuaded to prescribe (inappropriate) products..." -FDA Commissioner David Kessler, in _Annals of Internal Medicine_, commenting on the above UCLA study [Editor's note: Despite the words of Dr. Kessler, to date, no legal action (or raids) have occurred in the cases noted by _Annals_ and Dr. Kessler himself.] 

"V.E. Irons went to prison for a year after FDA accused him of making 'unscientific claims that his food supplements were beneficial to health." -Martin J. Walker, _Dirty Medicine_,Slingshot Publications, BM Box 8314, London, WCIN 3XX, UK, pgs. 17-18 

"Mrs. Sissy Harrington-McGill (owner, Solid Gold Pet Foods, El Cajon, California) in 1990 was sentences to 179 days in prison and fined $10,000, in a case brought by FDA for allegedly mislabeling natural dog food." 

-_FDA vs The People of the United States_, documented on pg. 11 of a 47-page report available from the Jonathan Wright Legal Defense Fund, Box 368, Tacoma, Washington, 98401 

LIES, DAMNED LIES AND STATISTICS 

Need we say more? 

"Dean Burk, PhD, of the National Cancer Institute (head of their Cytochemistry Section and 32-year veteran at the agency) declared in a (May 30,1972) letter to (congressman Louis Frey, Jr.) that high officials of the FDA, AMA and ACS (American Cancer Society), were deliberately falsifying information, literally lying...and in other ways thwarting potential cancer cures to which they were opposed." 

-Barry Lynes, _The Healing of Cancer_, Marcus Books, Box 327, Queensville, Ontario, L0G 1R0, Canada, 1989, pg. 22 

"During Congressional hearings on vitamins, FDA introduced a supposedly "independent" poll entitled _A Study of Health Practices and Opinions" conducted by 'National Analysis' of Philadelphia to show that American citizens are misinformed about vitamins. Every question in the "independent poll" was written by FDA officials." -Omar Garrison, _The Dictocrats_, ARC Books, New York, 1970 

"Despite the government's (FDA) multimillion dollar prosecution which included falsified testimony, later confessed by the government, the four defendants (including Dr. Stephen Druovic and Dr. Andrew Ivy) were acquitted...the jury went to extraordinary lengths to say it believed Krebiozen had merit and should be tested, based on the positive, well-documented testimony it had heard." 

_David Rorvik, "A Defence of Unorthodoxy", _Harper's Magazine_, June 1976 

"The Food and Drug Administration report, _Unsubstantiated Claims and Documented Health Hazards in the Dietary Supplement Marketplace_, released July 29, 1993 at a House Subcommittee hearing on dietary supplements, should be immediately withdrawn and FDA should apologize to the Congress and the public for its release. This false and misleading document is so riddled with inaccuracies that it lacks any evidentiary value and raises serious questions about the motives of those who are responsible for its preparation." 

"FDA has knowingly submitted false information to Congress...it has willfully violated the presumption of accuracy and impartiality traditionally granted the agency. The report conclusively proves FDA's animosity to dietary supplements." "The Clinton Administration must take immediate steps to discipline those who have participated in the preparation and submission of this misleading document..." -_False and Misleading: Unsubstantiated Claims and Documented Health Hazards in the Dietary Supplement Marketplace_, A Staff Report to Senator Orin G. Hatch, October 21, 1993, pg. 1 

DID SOMEONE MENTION SAFETY? 

Do you realize the FDA does no testing of pharmaceuticals? They are wholly dependent on the word of the manufacturer, who does the preliminary testing and may or may not give FDA all the facts. When a pharmaceutical company lies about testing, and it results in deaths and disability, the company may be fined and ordered to do community service. It amounts to a slap on the hand. The company is free to continue its business unencumbered by the laws that are supposed to protect us. 

"Safety should be the overriding concern for FDA in regulating dietary supplement..." -FDA Commissioner David Kessler, _Dietary Supplements Task Force Final Report_, May 1992, pg. 1, released May 1993 

"GAO (General Accounting Office) found that of the 198 drugs approved by FDA between 1976 and 1985...102 (or 51.5%) had serious postapproval risks...the serious postapproval risks...(included) heart failure, myocardial infarction, anaphylaxis, respiratory depression and arrest, seizures, kidney and liver failure, severe blood disorders, birth defects and fetal toxicity and blindness." 

-FDA Drug Review: Postapproval Risks 1976-1985, GAO/PEMD 90-15, pg. 3 Annual Deaths From: 

Approved Drugs (1)................60,000 - 140,000 

Food Contamination (2)...........................9,100 

Aspirin (3)......................................................90 

Compared To: 

All vitamins (4). .............................................0 

Uncontaminated amino acids (4)....................0 

Commercial herbs (4)......................................0 

1. Classen, et al., "Surveillance of Adverse Drug Events," JAMA, 1991 2. Centers for Disease Control 

3. FDA Fact Sheet, July 1971 

4. American Association f Poison Control Centers (data for years 1983-1990 as published in _American Journal of Emergency Medicine_) 

"With respect to vitamin and mineral products, the primary recommendation of the Task Force was that FDA should establish through rulemaking for each vitamin and mineral a safe daily intake level." 

-FDA Commissioner David Kessler, Dietary Supplements Task Force Final Report, May 1992, released May 1993 

SO, SAFETY'S NOT AN ISSUE?... 

LET'S PERSECUTE THOSE VITAMIN QUACKS ANYWAY! 

By now, you might have the impression that FDA's sole purpose is to guarantee the survival and profit of pharmaceutical companies by reducing the health food supplement industry to a pile of ashes. The following will show you just how low the FDA will go. 

"My first encounter with (FDA agent) George Daughters was in San Francisco in...1944, where I was lecturing at the Women's Club. During intermission I went into the supply room and found George Daughters holding one of my sons--then about eight--on his lap...(he was asking him) 'How much money does your daddy earn? Does your daddy take these vitamins? Where do you go to school? At what hotel do your mommy and daddy live?'...later I learned that Daughters was one of the team who arranged to ransack my hotel room..." 

-Lelord Kordel, in an epilogue to _The Dictacrats_, Omar Garrison, ARC Books, New York, 1970 

"FDA agents accompanied by a U.S. Marshall arrested naturopathic doctor William Abt in the middle of his Detroit public lecture on nutrition. They explained to reporters that Dr. Abt 'sold vitamins, herbs and seasoning.' They told the media that they had followed Dr. Abt for a year making concealed recordings of his lectures." -_Detroit Free Press_, March 10, 1962 

"The use by FDA of other agencies in their war against vitamins is illustrated by the example of the Cardiac Society, a non-profit group of several hundred heart patients formed in the 1960's. The group of several hundred heart patients formed in he 1960's. The group promoted...vitamin E...When the Society started a buyer's club for vitamin E, FDA came down on them...the Postal Service...(returned)...all mail addressed to the Society...stamped 'Fraudulent." 

-Martin J. Walker, _Dirty Medicine_, Slingshot Publications, BM Box 8314, London WCIN, 3XX, U.K. 

"...access was also given to a file kept under lock and key in the desk of the head of the fraud division of the California Food and Drug Branch, Mike Bogumill. This file revealed there had been a special meeting...in May 1984...in Sacramento...Present at this meeting were: California Food and Drug Branch, U.S. FDA, Board of Medical Quality Assurance (California medical licensing board), U.S. Postal Service, Federal Trade Commission, National Council Against Health Fraud...an effort to launch attacks against chiropractors, nutritionists, vitamin companies...chelation therapy, homeopathy, naturopathy, alternative cancer remedies, and so on." 

-P.J. Lisa, _The Great Medical Monopoly Wars_, International Institute of Natural Health Sciences_, Box 5550, Huntington Beach, CA 92615, pgs. 12 and 14 

"The Pharmaceutical Advertising Council (PAC) and the United States Food and Drug Administration have just announced a unique program...to warn the public about the dangers of quack medical products..." 

-From an October 22, 1984 letter signed jointly by Frank Young, FDA Commissioner and Roger O'Neill, president of PAC, on PAC/FDA letterhead 

"...attached is a list of companies...who have donated money to the PAC/FDA anti-quackery program..." 

Beecham Laboratories Merck Sharpe and Dohme 

Bristol Meyers Company Organon, Inc. 

Burroughs Wellcome Co. Pennwalt Co. 

Carter Wallace Inc. The Proprietary Association A.H. Robbins Hoechst-Roussel Pharmaceuticals Hoffman-LaRoche Inc. 

Rover Group Janssen Pharmaceutical 

Sandoz Jeffrey Martin Inc. 

Schering Corp. Johnson & Johnson 

Squibb Knoll Pharmaceutical 

Sterling Drug, Inc. Lederle Laboratories 

Stuart Pharmaceuticals McNeil Company 

Syntex Corporation Warner Lambert Company 

-from a November 15, 1985 letter on PAC/FDA letterhead signed by John Chusid, coordinators, PAC/FDA anti-quackery program 

HUMANITARIANISM AT THE FDA 

Despite compelling scientific evidence, despite decades of usage in other countries, despite countless successes and few failures, the FDA still continues to deny the public access to nutritional therapies, and persecute and imprison qualified physicians who choose to use them. In 1993, the FDA finally did accept the claim of folic acid for prevention of neural tube defects; too late for millions of children born with these preventable birth defects. In the meantime, our friends and loved ones die of other preventable and treatable diseases, thanks to the FDA's campaign against natural substances. 

"Women who take over-the counter multivitamin pills early in pregnancy sharply reduce the risk of having a baby with (neural tube defect which) affect 4000 babies a year. Neural tube defects include anaecephaly (missing brain)...and spina bifida..." -_New York Times_, November 24, 1989, pg. 1, (reporting on an article published in the _Journal of the American Medical Association_, same date 

"Several studies, conducted in the United Kingdom and the United States, have shown that multivitamin use is associated with decreased risk of neural tube defects, including both anacephaly and spina bifida." 

-_Nutrition Reviews_, 1990;48 (1):15, (January) 

"This study has established the specific role of folic acid in the prevention of neural tube defects." 

-Medical Research Council (UK), Vitamin Study Research Group, _Lancet_, 338(8760):131- 137, 20 July 1991 

"The Centers for Disease Control has recommended daily vitamin supplements containing folic acid for women who have given birth to a child with neural tube defect. The guidelines were released because of...evidence...that folic acid can reduce the possibility (of recurrent) neural tube defect." 

-_Medical Tribune_ 1991,:32(17):4 (August 22, 1992) 

"The Food and Drug Administration is proposing note to authorize the use of the label and labelling of foods, including dietary supplements, of health claims relating to an association between folic acid and reduction of risk of neural tube defects." -Proposed Rules published in the _Federal Register_, November 27, 1991. "The Food and Drug Administration said...it will require all makers of bread and grains to add folic acid to products labeled 'enriched' in an attempt to reduce birth defects in the United States." -_The New York Times_, October 10, 1993 

"Treating only terminal cancer patients, the Rand (anti-cancer) vaccine produced objective improvement in 35% of 600 patients while another 30% demonstrated subjective improvement. FDA stopped the vaccine's use in a federal court hearing where neither the cancer patients nor their doctors were allowed to testify." -Barry Lynes, _The Healing of Cancer_, Marcus Books, Box 327, Queensvile, Ontario LOG 1R0, Canada, 1989, pg. 21 

"On July 17, 1985 agents of the FDA and Harris County Sheriffs Office entered (Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski's) clinic and seized 11 filing cabinets containing past and current medical records...despite many apparent successes in the treatment of usually incurable cancers, (Burzynski's) antineoplaston therapy remains unrecognized by the AMA, the National Cancer Society...as of March 1992, FDA had not brought charges...nor returned the clinic property..." 

-Meg Smith, The Burzynsky Controversy in the United States and Canada, _Canadian Journal of Sociology_, 1992; 17(2):133 

FREEDOM OF THE PRESS, FDA-STYLE 

Are you getting the impression we are living in a medical police state? Freedom in America includes the right to choose and the right to be informed. FDA is working very hard to make sure our medical choices are limited to chemicals; and to ensure this, they are censoring information we need to make intelligent choices. 

"Two days before the San Mateo Times (California) was to print a serialization of nutrition pioneer Lelord Kordel's book, the general manager of the Times received a call from FDA San Francisco District Director McKay McKinnon, objecting to the publication. McKinnon explained that FDA was not in sympathy with Kordel's view on nutrition." -Omar Garrison, _The Dictocrats_, ARC Books, New York, 1970, pgs. 120-122 

The agency requests comments on whether it should consider all third-party endorsements that imply a nutrient in a food has an effect on a disease...to be health claims..." (It is illegal to public "health claims" unless FDA "approves" - editor). "Examples of...(third party) labeling endorsement programs that FDA has considered to be implied health claims include programs...sponsored by the American College of Nutrition, the American Heart Association, the American Medical Association (campaign against cholesterol), and the American Medical Women's Association..." (FDA hearby proposes to make endorsements by even these professional groups illegal...unless FDA approves! - editor) -FDA Proposed Rules, _Federal Register_, November 27, 1991, pgs. 60, 554-60. 

"In December 1991, Dr. John Vanderveen, Director of the Division of Nutrition at FDA Office of Nutrition and Food Science called the managing editor of The Journal of the American College of Nutrition inquiring about an article critical of the FA. He asked that a copy of the article be sent to him, and material favorable to the FDA be published. He was told it was not the Journal's policy to make articles available prior to publication. Vanderveen then threatened the Journal's editor and its executive director Mildred Seelig, M.D., M.P.H., stating that if the Journal did not follow FA's recommendation, FA 'would come down very hard on the American College of Nutrition.'" -_Food Chemical News, April 277, 1992 

"It was in 1936 that I copyrighted _Cancer, Its Cause and Control_. They (FDA) forced me to spend a whole year in jail...When I heard everything was ready to put out a third edition, they notified me in no uncertain terms that 'Unless you stop...we will snatch you...and do a lobotomy on you.'" 

-Emerson Hartman, _Cancer News Journal_, 1977 

THE ULTIMATE TYRANNY 

"When books are burned, the ultimate tyranny has happened." -John Steinbeck 

"On August 22, 1956, FDA supervised the burning of all Dr. Wilhelm Reich's scientific books, journals, pamphlets. and 'all documents' concerning his scientific experiments as part of an injunction obtained against him because FDA disagreed with his theories." 

-Aubrey Westlake, M.D., _The Pattern of Health_, Shambala Publications, Berkeley, California, 1973, pgs. 59-62, (backed up by a variety of other historical sources) 

WOULD YOU BUY A USED CAR FROM THIS AGENCY NOW? 

"If you buy that, I've got some Florida swampland I'll sell you." -Anonymous.