Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Freedom of Speech
Next is, of course, freedom of speech. This is something we often take for granted. In many countries around the world, if someone wrote what I'm writing, they would be arrested and thrown in jail. The very fact that I am able to speak these words and publish these essays demonstrates the level of freedom we still enjoy in the United States of America. Of course, protecting that right is a constant struggle, and that's why we have organizations like the Electronic Freedom Foundation working hard to make sure that freedom of speech remains fully intact. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 But barring any such discovery, I will continue to educate people on why the FDA is so dangerous, not merely to Freedom of Religion, but also to freedom of speech, health freedoms and even the freedom to save your own life using the system of medicine of your choice.
The FDA has done more to suppress the freedoms of the American people than any enemy combatant, terrorist group or "axis of evil." The real enemies to a free America are right here at home. It's time we recognized this serious threat and took action to eliminate it through desperately-needed reforms.
End FDA tyranny. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The Republican argument that banning drug advertising on television would be "unconstitutional" tells us all just how quickly and easily some Republicans have forgotten what the Constitution really says. freedom of speech does not protect the right to harm (and ultimately kill) American citizens through a mass campaign of false advertising that promotes deadly products to people who are being tricked into thinking they really need them. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I believe in Freedom of Religion just as I do freedom of speech. But I don't believe in giving a group of doctors and drug pushers the exclusive right to claim their particular beliefs are the one true "science," to the exclusion of all else, especially when their so-called science is really just another competing system of beliefs founded on circular logic ("Drugs are safe because they are subjected to scientific scrutiny in studies specifically designed to show that drugs are safe." |
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 All made possible by Free Speech on the Internet
The internet is making all of this possible, and it’s freedom of speech that provides the environment in which all of this can take place. So whatever you do in 2006 to improve your health, make sure you also continue to support the internet.
Support freedom of speech and citizen journalism, support the web sites that are bringing you the information that helps you improve your life, and support the companies in the nutritional industry that are providing these incredible life-saving, disease-reversing products. |
Greg Critser
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 Examining a range of eighteenth-century newspapers and their publishers, including Benjamin Franklin, Troy told the court that "Colonial Americans plainly viewed the freedom of speech as protecting far more than just political speech." He did not dwell on one countervailing fact: That this lack of distinction between commercial and public speech was likely because most Colonial newspapers were primarily vehicles for advertising, hardly the impartial beacons that modern papers are expected to be. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Support freedom of speech and citizen journalism, support the web sites that are bringing you the information that helps you improve your life, and support the companies in the nutritional industry that are providing these incredible life-saving, disease-reversing products. These are companies like New Chapter, which is doing some pioneering work, and the Amazon Herb Company, which is bringing powerful disease-reversing rainforest herbs to the United States and elsewhere. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The only freedoms we're really fighting for are freedoms like the one I'm exercising here, freedom of speech. This is the one freedom that is the most powerful of all, because it is the freedom that can protect all the other freedoms, and, ultimately, our children. It can protect us from the criminals running our nation. Criminals like those at the FDA.
Legalize hemp and make long-term prescription drug use illegal
Now, if we had honest leaders in this country, prescription drugs would be illegal, at least for long-term use, and hemp would be legal. We could grow hemp for industrial use. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| That's what freedom of speech is all about. It doesn't mean that you have to agree with everything I say, or that I have to agree with everything you say. It means that we respect each other's right to voice our opinions, even if we disagree. Especially if we disagree, actually. We let the conversation take place, so that individuals can be exposed to many different views, and then decide on their own what they wish to believe. It's a remarkable freedom, and it's crucial that we preserve that freedom. It's one of the best things about living in the United States today. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 I will attack anyone who tries to suppress my freedom of speech. I will attack anyone who tries to slander or defame me. I know the drug companies are spending tens of millions of dollars trying to put negative PR against me and trying to get people to stop buying and reading my book. They cannot succeed. Over five million people now have purchased the book. Virtually everywhere I go people come up to me, hug me, and thank me for the information in the book. |
| There is no freedom of speech or freedom of expression in the world when it comes to health. Like it was in Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia, if a person says something that the government, in its supreme infinite wisdom, deems detrimental to society, that person will be severely ridiculed, debunked, discredited, attacked, and in many cases persecuted and prosecuted beyond the wildest imaginations of even
15 the most ardent conspiracy theorists. Therefore, this disclaimer must be put forth. It is irrelevant if I believe these words. |
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 This encroachment on the freedom of speech will no doubt continue because the drug companies, the FDA, and all the promoters of conventional medicine realize that as long as people are free to tell the truth on the internet, they cannot win their war of oppression, disinformation, and censorship. They must ban health information from appearing on the internet if they are going to complete their domination of the health consumer.
If they succeed, then someday it may not only be illegal to sell broccoli sprouts; it might also be illegal to state that broccoli sprouts actually prevent cancer! |
| The best way to accomplish that is to ban nutritional supplements, censor freedom of speech about health and nutrition, and attack and discredit alternative therapies that give people a choice. That's the goal of the FDA, the drug companies, and various so-called "quack skeptics" who operate with the sole purpose of censoring anything that doesn't conform to conventional medical protocols.
Unlock your freedom with the internet
What is the number one tool for defending health freedom and expanding our freedoms? It's the internet. |
| They did include what I think is the most important amendment, however: the First Amendment. freedom of speech. Without that, you wouldn't even be able to read this information right now, and you would be living under a regime of complete tyranny with no chance of ever learning the truth. |
| We value religious freedom and freedom of speech, but what about health freedom? What about the freedom to choose whatever health practitioner you think will do the most good in improving your level of health? What about the freedom to learn information about natural solutions for health problems—things that can help you heal without causing harm? |
| First, we need to learn to exercise and protect our health freedoms with the same vigor we use to protect our freedom of speech and freedom, of religion as discussed in chapter 4. Then, we need to take this new-found understanding of the information around us and start learning the natural health solutions that are available to all of us, starting with chapters 5 and 6 of Natural Health Solutions.
Chapter 4:
Health Freedom
Where's the health freedom in this "free" society?
America is supposed to be a country that values freedom. |
| I believe in freedom of speech and I believe that the information speaks for itself in terms of credibility. That's why I include additional resources throughout this book. It is my mission to share information that genuinely helps people.
If you want the very best information—that is, the most politically charged information that I refuse to even make public—check out www.NaturalHealthReport.com. |
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| Of course, protecting that right is a constant struggle, and that's why we have organizations like the Electronic Freedom Foundation working hard to make sure that freedom of speech remains fully intact.
If you think about it, there are countries like China where you wouldn't dare speak your mind, because you'd be incarcerated or assassinated. There are countries like Iran, where bloggers are put in jail because the Iranian government does not like their blogs. |
Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey
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 Might not one of the causes be the fact that we take lively, curious, energetic children, eager to make contact with the world and to learn about it, stick them in barren classrooms with teachers who on the whole neither like nor respect nor understand nor trust them, restrict their freedom of speech and movement to a degree that would be judge excessive and inhuman even in a maximum security prison, and that their teachers themselves could not and would not tolerate? |
Peter Rost
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 It was as if everyone had forgotten that we live in a democracy with freedom of speech and other basic rights.
Pfizer could have chosen to fire me regardless—and take the fight when I filed a civil suit, but they chose not to do that. There was something Pfizer might have been really nervous about. Two weeks prior to my invitation to Capitol Hill, I informed Pfizer that I had provided truthful information to the FBI, the FDA's Enforcement Division and the New York State Attorney's office, based on internal Pfizer documents. Now, if they did something to me they might violate U.S. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 John: Yes, well, they do not want us to have freedom of speech. They do not want us to have any freedom at all, and they are working very hard on moving us in the direction of microchipping everybody, which is why I need people to go see Aaron Rouseau's film, "From Freedom to Fascism." It is playing in theaters now in some parts of the country, and we need a grassroots effort to talk to the theater owners to ask them to book the film.
Mike: Yes, that is right. Sometimes it is hard for these independent films even to get into distribution.
John: Everyone needs to watch the trailer at www. |
Sue Palmer
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 Defenders of freedom of speech on the Internet are even more voluble than critics of media censorship, so there's a long way to go in finding a sensible balanced approach. There's also enormous reluctance among the vast majority of decent people to become involved in this debate. While parents worry about what children are seeing on TV and what they may encounter on the Internet, the fear of being thought prudish or ultra-right-wing holds most of them back from speaking up in public. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| That's why I'm also a huge proponent of citizen journalism, online blogging and freedom of speech in all its forms.
#13: Better treatment of animals
Another thing to love about America is the (relatively) humane treatment of animals in this country. Now, I'm not saying we have a perfect record, and there are many areas that need improvement, especially in the beef and chicken industries (just visit PETA.org if you want to see some examples), but by and large we tend to treat animals better in this country than in almost any other country in the world. |
Robert Whitaker
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 Their lawyers argued that forced drugging, whether achieved by injection or by slipping it into the patients' food, was a form of medical assault and battery, constituting "cruel and unusual punishment" and a violation of their constitutional rights to due process and freedom of speech. The patients' rallying cry was: "We need love and food and understanding, not drugs."8
That was not a message that mainstream psychiatry was eager to hear. The patients' political activities and their lawsuits stirred the wrath of psychiatrists to no end. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 The intent is to put a product or service that competes with the favored special interest off the market, or to reach its quotas, or to punish a company for exercising freedom of speech, or to gain publicity for the USPS.
STEP 4 - A threatening correspondence is mailed to the target company's chief operating officer or statutory agent, which outlines the intended prosecution by the USPS and demands that the company sign a "consent decree," which will put the product off the market and likely the company out of business. |
E. D. Hirsch
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 The standard set by the Supreme Court for judging when freedom of speech may lawfully be limited. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., illustrated the point by arguing that no one has a constitutional right to shout "Fire!" in a crowded theater when no fire is present, for such action would pose a "clear and present danger" to public safety. (See First Amendment.) closed primary A type of direct primary limited to registered party members, who must declare their party affiliation in order to vote. |
Joseph Glenmullen, M.D.
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 He's writing about First Amendment rights, freedom of speech, on the Internet." "What did you say?" "I said no way. I was really upset." "Is that the end of it?"
"No. My name may appear in the article along with a lot of other people's."
"When is the article being published?"
"I don't know. Sometime in the next few days."
"Good grief!"
Seth's company was a large defense contractor headquartered in the
Boston area. "The fact that we work on government contracts I presume will make the revelations more sensational," said Seth. |
Larry Trivieri, Jr.
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 How does this constitute interest in patients' or dentists' health, permit freedom of speech and opinion, advance the science of dentistry, or allow dentists, in the ADA's own words, to 'know the potential hazards and symptoms of mercury exposure'? |
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