The Quackbuster's Newest Scam - "Operation Cure-All"...
Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen
July 7th, 2003
I need to make something clear. DO NOT, for a minute, think that the
quackpot soldiers you see, like Stephen Barrett, and Robert Baratz, are
running the whole quackbuster operation. They are not bright enough. They
are the ones the quackbuster paymasters want us all to see. They're the
front men. They've got their function, but it's only part of the game.
I think the whole "Quackbuster" conspiracy, and I have documents that back
up my thinking, is being run out of a conference room at a pharmaceutical
advertising agency in New York City. It's there that all the decisions, and
plans are made, about where to focus the campaign, who to attack, and what
cards to play in each attack. It's there that the checks are written.
Want some proof? It's coming. I'm working with P. J. (Joe) Lisa to
re-publish his 1995 book "Assault on Medical Freedom." The new book will
have, some changes, and four new chapters, bringing the conspiracy up to
date. The information Joe, I, and some others are gathering, although for
the book, will be also for delivery to Attorney General John Ashcroft and
some others. Joe Lisa has thousands of pages of documents. We think
there's enough for a Justice Department RICO (racketeering) complaint.
The quackbuster operation in North America is simply a scam devised around
the time the American Medical Association lost a Federal Court Case to the
Chiropractors in 1987. It's function is to eliminate, suppress, or hamper
with, anything that competes with the sale of drugs and surgery. It's here
to make sure that "treatment," rather than "prevention," or "a cure," stays
the "standard of care" in North American Health Care.
The quackbusters have shifted focus. Today, I'm going to tell you what the
new focus is, how it's being organized and run, and who has, and is going to
be attacked, and why. In another newsletter I'm going to tell you how we,
in the North American Health Freedom Movement are going to crush it.
For them, it's all about pharmaceuticals controlling the North American
Health market. For us, it's about getting real health care, right now.
For years, quackbusting centered around the Federation of State Medical
Boards (FSMB) operation. State Medical Board Members, Prosecutors,
Investigators, Management, etc., were propagandized to believe that anything
new in health care that wasn't drugs, or surgery, oriented, was health
fraud. Their assignment, should they choose to take it (and not many of
them did), was to terrorize MDs who embraced new things, and to attack
non-MDs with "practicing medicine without a license."
But the North American Health Freedom Movement woke up one morning and
decided to kick the [censored] out of them. Health Freedom Bills, defenses of
practitioners, exposes, you-name-it tactics, all began to work. EVERYTHING
we did worked very well. We're winning everywhere.
The focus has been shifted since the quackbuster paymasters discovered that
(1) Barrett, and company, just can't deliver the goods, anymore. And (2)
Robert Baratz, the current President of the National Council Against Health
Fraud (NCAHF). who was brought up from the minor leagues with high hopes, is
turning out to be an amusing (for us) embarrassment (for them).
Now, the quackbusters are using the FTC/FDA "Operation Cure-All" as their
platform. Herein, I'll detail how I think they're doing it. In another
newsletter I'll tell you how simple it will be to thwart them - one more
time.
What's this "Operation Cure-All" thing?
Upper management at the FTC and the FDA think they put this plan together to
stop internet health fraud. I'm sure they had the best of intentions. But
don't be fooled, it's a quackbuster operation. Not one run by the stooges,
like Barrett, or Baratz, or Sampson, this is an exercise of the REAL
quackbusters - those funding the whole anti-health care, preserve the
drug/surgery status quo, operation. The whole plan was, no doubt, written
in the back room of a pharmaceutical advertising agency, for a fee that
would stagger the imagination. It reeks of big Pharma thinking. Barrett, et
al, are Keystone Kops in this venue.
Timothy Muris, at the FTC, and Mark McClellan, at FDA, are the targets of a
drug company funded scam to use their agencies to kill off upstart
competitors of the drug industry. So far, they're unaware of this - so let's
fix that.
The majority of employees of the FTC, FDA and Operation Cure-All apparently
don't know, either, they are being USED to attack the very upstart
competition the drug companies fear the most - supplements (that keep people
healthy - so they don't need drug "treatment"😉, electro-medicine (that
replaces drugs, without side effects), chelation (detoxification eliminates
need for drugs), natural antibiotics (Like Colloidal Silver, Frankincense,
Oregano Oil), and scientists and authors (like Hulda Regehr Clark PhD,
Naturopath) who advocate a change in the way America delivers health care.
What we'll probably have to do is to get a RICO/Civil rights, and Conspiracy
to Violate Civil Rights, action, going against those controlling and
manipulating it, and those FTC, FDA, and Operation Cure-All employees
involved in the scam. We'll need to get Attorney General John Ashcroft
involved in this, as well as FDA Internal Affairs, and the Inspector General
at the FTC.
So, what's "Operation Cure-All" up to? You can go to the self-promoting
website "://www.ftc.gov/opa/2001/06/cureall.htm" and read the sanctimonious
words:
"Operation Cure-All" Wages New Battle in Ongoing War Against Internet Health
Fraud
FTC, FDA and other law enforcement agencies move to stop Internet scams for
supplements and other products that purport to cure cancer, HIV/AIDS and
countless other life-threatening diseases. FTC also warns of risks
associated with some supplements, including drug interactions."
Sounds good, but the worm in the apple is that the definition of "health
fraud" is the one written in a conference room of a pharmaceutical
advertising agency. They might as well have come out openly, and said "if it
competes with big Pharma, it's health fraud, and we're against it."
The other REALLY bad thing about the FTC and the FDA is the huge amount of
INTERNAL influence big pharma has on FTC and FDA thinking. When Dwight
Eisenhower left the Presidency, one of the last things he did was to stop
the revolving door between the Defense Department and Defense contractors.
That has to happen with the FTC/FDA and big pharma - right now. Before
America dies of a drug overdose.
Here's how the scam works...
Fact #1: The FTC/FDA system requires that claims about products must be
based on "scientific proof." In translation, that means that every claim,
or suggested claim, must be double-blind studied in 30 to 50 cities (usually
on the inner city poor), and the "studies" will cost somewhere between 200
to 400 million dollars each. Since herbals, and natural supplements, can't
be patented, the FTC/FDA system has effectively given big Pharma a monopoly
on approvals - since only big Pharma can afford the testing procedure.
Gee, I wonder how that happened? Sarcasm intended.
Fact #2: The FTC won't allow "testimonials." To them, someone saying "I,
and 300 of my friends did this thing, and all of us were cured of cancer,
and here's our medical records to prove it," is inadequate information. The
reality of a "cure" is not in their vocabulary. It's still "unproven," and,
according to them, you can't tell anyone about it. Saving lives, by passing
around information, is to them, a criminal act.
The FTC/FDA' Operation Cure-All, doesn't want anything to do with reality.
It gets in the way.
So, when big Pharma sees that somebody is cutting a little too deep into, or
just threatening the future of, their drug market, checks are written, and a
meeting takes place in New York City. There a plan (a standard format plan)
is made. And the execution begins on Monday.
Here's how they do it.
The quackbusters decide who they're going to hit. The advertising agency
(which controls major drug advertising placement) writes up the stories that
are going to be distributed to their "letter writing brigade." The letter
writers, following the guidelines, then write to the FTC, the FDA, and
Operation Cure-All, to set a basis for the complaint. Then the ad agency
writes stories, getting quotes from the likes of Barrett, Baratz, etc., on
the victim. The stories are sent out to the media in which the advertising
agency's drug clients advertise. The stories are printed in the media as
though they were true.
Once the stories hit the press, a second wave of letters goes out to the
FTC, the FDA, and Operation Cure-All, to put pressure on upper management to
act. Then more media is generated, this time with quotes from the
quackbuster insider FTC employees to make it sound official that the FTC is
interested. Once this happens, letters and phone calls go out from
supposedly "irate consumers (quackbusters)," once again to the FTC, the FDA,
and Operation Cure-All upper management, demanding to know why they aren't
doing something.
Then, letters and phone calls go out from supposedly "irate consumers
(quackbusters)" to certain members of Congress demanding to know why the
FTC, the FDA, and Operation Cure-All, aren't doing something.
Within days, upper management of the FTC, the FDA, and Operation Cure-All,
are deluged with questions from more media, and Congress. They see the
issue as important, and act against the victim - even if their is little or
no evidence.
After this, some poor [censored] is fighting for his life, while the plotters
pop open a case of $1,000 a bottle champagne, congratulating themselves for
another hit against their competitor.... And, more checks are written.
This is, I believe, how the attack was organized against the Rife equipment
manufacturers, Bob Barefoot Coral Calcium, SeaSilver, the Colloidal Silver
proponents, etc... I have good reason to believe that EVERY ONE of the
Operation Cure-All targets, right from the beginning, was arranged this way.
For a sample of how it's done, click here for the petition, and here for
the signers where the quackpots were attempting to stop the whole science of
Homeopathy. They failed...
So, why this new assault? Because the quackbusters are, basically,
floundering. The old plan wasn't working.
Why are the quackbusters floundering?
The quackbuster operation in North America is floundering for a number of
reasons.
The number (1) reason is that the quackbusters underestimated the
intelligence of the North American health consumer. Those consumers don't
trust conventional medicine, anymore. Americans can sense when they are
being lied to.
(2) Americans have discovered "health," and they've worked out for
themselves that "health" and "medicine" aren't the same thing.
(3) Americans have worked out that that expensive "health plan" is a big
waste of money - because all it pays for is "medicine." It doesn't pay for
"health care." Insurance companies, and the US Government have caught on -
and are adding new billing codes (ABC Codes) to deal with reality and
demand. The American consumer, right now, is buying "health" out of their
discretionary income - and the total amount of that is more than half of the
total US health dollar.
(4) The North American Health Freedom Movement is kicking the [censored] out of
the quackbusters whenever, and wherever, they meet on a battlefield.
(5) The whole idea of restricting American's health care offering to drugs
and surgery is un-American. Even conventional MDs are getting fed up with
the idea that "nothing new should be used in medicine unless it's been
approved by a failed MD working out of his basement in Pennsylvania."
(6) The people of New York State are waking up to the fact that right
there, in their midst, is a cesspool of quackbuster activity. Not only New
York City, but Buffalo. Plans are being made. Targets are being selected.
(7) In the end, GOOD always triumphs over EVIL.
We, in the North American Health Freedom Movement, need to destroy the
quackbuster operation. For, Americans are suffering and dying. Nobody is
going to fix this problem but us. We are the ones who understand what's
happening. We also know what to do, and how to do it. So, let's do it.
Stay tuned...
Tim Bolen - Consumer Advocate