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Why we should bar smokers from taxpayer-funded health care coverage Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

But there is a valid point in the libertarian argument: we are supposed to be living in a free society, and in a free society, shouldn't people be trusted to make their own decisions? It's not right, the argument goes, for the government to act like the parents of individuals and force people to avoid certain products or ingest other products according to whatever health standards the government has set up.

Natural Health Solutions Mike Adams See book keywords and concepts

Just ask yourself, "What kinds of health choices should I be able to make if I lived in a free society?" In a free society, you would be able to do these five things: 1. Buy prescription drugs from any country you wanted, without being arrested as a criminal by the FDA 2. Visit your doctor and discuss nutrition, homeopathy and herbs without being looked at like you're some kind of idiot 3. Sell nutritional supplements and tell the truth about how they support human health without being persecuted by the FDA 4.

Too Profitable to Cure Brent Hoadley, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

Paraphrasing Thomas Jefferson, "every good democracy must have a citizenry that is willing to stage a revolution periodically in order to rid itself of those looking to abridge the rights of a free society." Are you too sick to stand up for your rights? Chapter 15 CURES-They ARE Preventable We love the science, but don't think that it is a good business model. - Eli Lilly Corporation To interpret the quote above, consider that in the case of 18 million Americans with diabetes, a cure would effectively kill a $132 billion/year industry.

Natural Health Solutions Mike Adams See book keywords and concepts

But when it comes to health, medicine, and nutritional supplements, the system under which we live today is more like the Dark Ages than a system of freedom. Want proof? Just ask yourself, "What kinds of health choices should I be able to make if I lived in a free society?" In a free society, you would be able to do these five things: 1. Buy prescription drugs from any country you wanted, without being arrested as a criminal by the FDA 2. Visit your doctor and discuss nutrition, homeopathy and herbs without being looked at like you're some kind of idiot 3.

The Fair Tax: Why it's good for you and good for America Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

That's not the kind of activity that should be going on in a free society. Since America is supposed to be a free society, we should have a simple, Fair Tax system that leaves it up to consumers to decide how much tax they wish to pay. By simply adjusting their level of consumption, they can choose how much they wish to contribute to public funding.

Why we should bar smokers from taxpayer-funded health care coverage Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

But there is a valid point in the libertarian argument: we are supposed to be living in a free society, and in a free society, shouldn't people be trusted to make their own decisions? It's not right, the argument goes, for the government to act like the parents of individuals and force people to avoid certain products or ingest other products according to whatever health standards the government has set up.

Why Doctors are Idiots: 150 Years of Disatrous Advice on Children's Health (satire) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Satire and humor have important functions in any free society: They reveal what's wrong in a hilarious light, simultaneously entertaining us while encouraging us to challenge our own ideas and, perhaps, come up with new, better solutions for future generations. Political cartoons, stand-up comedians and satire pieces like this one all play a role in getting people to think more carefully about the issues at hand.

Big Brother U.S. Government Subpoenaed Amazon.com to Obtain Book Purchasing Records of Customers Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Shared power is essential in any free society. But today's U.S. federal government has long since abandoned any ideas of shared power. Today, it steamrolls over the People of this country, tapping their phone lines without warrants, searching them without probable cause, arresting and imprisoning them but not charging them with any crime, arbitrarily adding their names to "no fly" lists used by commercial airlines, and engaging in other serious transgressions. This example of the U.S. government attempting to acquire customer records from Amazon.

Police state USA: Student assaulted and tasered by police for asking John Kerry the wrong question Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

That alone is a dangerous situation, since the balance of power in a free society actually depends on a government fearing the people! When the people fear their government, that government has complete power over the people. And our government in particular has used fear as a weapon of mass terror against the American people for several decades now. The U.S.

FDA seizes $71k in herbal tea products as campaign of censorship against nutritional supplements continues Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Today, it is very clear that we are NOT living in a free society. Freedom of speech is simply not allowed for anyone selling food, herbs or nutritional supplements of any kind. Simply stating obvious truths -- like "vitamin C cures scurvy" or "chocolate makes the brain feel happy" -- is enough to land you in federal prison courtesy of the pharmaceutical thugs running the Fraud and Drug Administration.

The Fair Tax: Why it's good for you and good for America Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Since America is supposed to be a free society, we should have a simple, Fair Tax system that leaves it up to consumers to decide how much tax they wish to pay. By simply adjusting their level of consumption, they can choose how much they wish to contribute to public funding.

Natural Health Solutions Mike Adams See book keywords and concepts

In a free society, you would be able to do these five things: 1. Buy prescription drugs from any country you wanted, without being arrested as a criminal by the FDA 2. Visit your doctor and discuss nutrition, homeopathy and herbs without being looked at like you're some kind of idiot 3. Sell nutritional supplements and tell the truth about how they support human health without being persecuted by the FDA 4. Freely read and learn about alternative and natural therapies for curing diseases like cancer without the campaign of fear and disinformation propagated by organized medicine 5.

Think we live in a free society? Think again: If the FDA had its way, the information you are reading right now would be banned from publication, and this author would have long since been arrested for telling the truth about natural medicine. Make no mistake: The FDA has declared war on the health of the American people and the health freedom movement.

More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease Kevin Trudeau See book keywords and concepts

We think we live in a free society with the free flow of information and ideas. We used to laugh at the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany or Red China and how the government would lie to its people through the news media. We used to think that America was transparent in the free flow of information. This is categorically untrue. When you travel to other parts of the world people in other countries know that we Americans are in fact being lied to through the media. What you see on TV, what you hear about in the news, is not the truth.

The Cleveland Clinic battles with McDonald's over fast food in hospitals Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Because if people want to destroy their own health in their own homes, that's certainly their free choice -- we still live in a free society. But if they're going to go to a hospital or a place of public education, they should not be tempted with foods that we now know directly promote chronic disease.

More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease Kevin Trudeau See book keywords and concepts

Lawana Blackwell My definition of a free society is where it is safe to be unpopular. —Adlai Stevenson If you want to lose weight, it is absolutely imperative that you eat a substantial breakfast. The facts are clear. The vast majority of people who are thin eat breakfast, the vast majority of people who are overweight eat no breakfast or a very light breakfast. People who are overweight generally have a slow metabolism. In order to get your metabolism moving, one of the most important things you can do is eat a substantial breakfast.

The media assault on Mexico's alternative cancer clinics Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

In a truly free society, patients would be able to seek out alternative treatments, and naturopaths wouldn't be arrested for actually helping people heal. Check out the Burzynski story to see an example of modern-day suppression of cancer cure research. Want to see how the cancer sham is really perpetrated in this country? Read my related article, State-sponsored medical terrorism: Texas authorities arrest parents, kidnap their teenage daughter, and force her through chemotherapy against her will.

FDA tyranny and the censorship of cherry health facts (opinion) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The FDA, as it exists today, is an organization of tyranny and injustice that simply has no place in a free society. That’s why I believe it is time for growers of cherries, fruits, vegetables and other healing foods to take a stand against the FDA. Stand firm against oppression and censorship, and stand up for your right to tell the truth about the healing benefits of your natural products. The FDA’s reclassification of cherry growers as criminals is a violation of every system of law and ethics that we’ve known on this planet.

Why organized medicine wants to outlaw nutrition and turn healers into criminals Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Thank God we live in a (relatively) free society where the internet still operates and people have access to independent information. As people are increasingly finding out that prescription drugs actually kill you, while vitamins, nutrients, and plant-based supplements actually save your life, organized medicine had to go to Plan B. Plan B is to outlaw nutrition, which is what the European Union Food Supplements Directive is all about. Let's take this one step further here. Let’s assume they succeed in outlawing this nutrition.

Orwellian new Copyright Bill HR2391 would criminalize skipping commercials, destroy Fair Use Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

These laws should never exist in a free society. These are the laws of a police state... one that seems to be ever more quickly creeping up on Americans in the post-9/11 era.

Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About Kevin Trudeau See book keywords and concepts

And you thought we lived in a free society. You thought that we had equal protection under the law. You thought that the Constitution said that every citizen is entitled to the due process of law. Well, wake up and smell the roses. I want you to know why I am as mad as hell, and not going to take it anymore. When I decided to write this book the Federal Trade Commission simply came in and ORDERED me not to put specific product information in this book! You are reading this right. The Federal Trade Commission came in and, in my opinion, stripped me of my First Amendment right.

Vaccination The Issue of Our Times Peggy O'Mara See book keywords and concepts

The US should follow these examples. In a free society such as the US, there should be inherent checks and balances in order to allow free choice to the individual in matters that concern his or her personal welfare. Nothing else works quite as well. Notes 1. Editorial, Modern Medicine (May 1983): 57-62. 2. Personal communication. 3. K. K. Eaton, "Incidence of Allergy—Has It Changed?" Clinical Allergy 12 (1982): 107-110. 4. D. J. Atherton, "Breastfeeding and Atopic Eczema," British Medical Journal287 (17 September 1983): 775-776. 5. N. R. Butler and J. Golding, eds.

20 Years of Censored News Carl Jensen See book keywords and concepts

Unsurprisingly, the impact of this media monopolization of information on a free society continues to be ignored by the mass media itself. In 1982, when media expert Ben Bagdikian completed research for his book, The Media Monopoly, he found that 50 corporations controlled half or more of the media business. By December 1986, when he finished a revision for a second edition, the 50 had shrunk to 29. About a half year later, when he wrote an article for EXTRA!, the number was down to 26.

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