Article 20555 of alt.conspiracy: Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa Subject: Part 2, U.S. Government Poisons Generations of Americans Message-ID: <1993Feb16.203533.29405@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Followup-To: alt.conspiracy Keywords: U.S. Government Poisons Generations of Americans Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: UVA. FREE Public Access UNIX! Lines: 146 The principles of nature are indomitable, despite modern industry's assault upon nature from every front. The emporers of Big Business are poisoning our Earth, while they concomitantly poison all life forms, from the simplest organisms to the human species. Unless we now begin to unmask and combat these shadow dictators -- the true culprits who are causing the myriad diseases which have long since been decimating our high-tech societies -- our children of the 21st Century and beyond shall be doomed to live brief lives besieged by illnesses, a state-of-affairs which is now beginning to plague our industrial society, despite their corporate mass media's smokescreen concealing their culpability. [transcript of a tape-recorded speech given by V.E. Irons, at the age of 89, before a convention of the National Health Federation]: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * (continuation) V.E. IRONS: We've got a Food Law. We're the only country in the World that has a Food Law. What I want to show you is that we have NO SUCH THING as a Food Law to protect the consumer. All the Food Law has EVER done is to protect the processers, the manufacturers and the chemical industry. Because they NEVER would allow Dr. Wiley to fully enforce it. I'm going to read his own words. He says: "I am now convinced that the freedom which belongs to every private American citizen can be used more fruitfully in rallying public opinion to the support of pure food and drugs than could the limited activity left to me in the position which I have just vacated. I propose to devote the remainder of my life -- with such ability as I have at my command and with such opportunities as may arise -- to promotion of the principles of civic righteousness and industrial integrity which underlie the Food and Drug Act, in the hope that it may be administered in the interest of the People-at-large instead of that of a comparatively few mercenary manufacturers and dealers. Page 94. On page 95 ..... By the way -- how was he able to get the Food Law through? Because THE NATION Magazine, THE WORLD Magazine, THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS and a whole lot of newspapers backed him up thoroughly in everything he was doing. They backed up his "poison squad". He had a "poison squad" which were young college boys who agreed to take these poisons for a certain length of time, but they were permitted to quit it whenever they wanted to. And he proved all of his contentions. Now, he thought he had a lot of trouble. Just imagine, he only had to deal with just a few adulteraters -- just a few processers then. Today, we have THOUSANDS of them. And here's what THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS said when he resigned: "If the People exhibited the same persistence in looking after their interests that illegimate business displays in looking after its interests, the things of which we complain would soon be brought to an end and prosperity, like a tidal wave, would flood the land. For twenty years, at least, the food poisoners of the country have waged war on Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, and since the passage of the Pure Food Act in 1906, they have trebled efforts to have him discharged. These Borgias of Business have won, because the circumstances attending Dr. Wiley's recent resignation make it practically, in effect, a dismissal. 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 and foods, and because the powers of his position have been nullified by EXECUTIVE ORDER -- not by the United States Congress, but by executive order. Now he goes on to explain certain decisions. Now understand this. The Bureau of Chemistry, of which he was the chief, was actually under the Agricultural Department at that time. He goes on to show how the Agricultural Department .... he names the men, James Wilson, Frank McVay, Secretary of the Treasury, and Charles Nagle, Secretary of Commerce and Labor rescinded his decisions, numbers 45, 65, 95 and 98 -- rescinded them all in favor of the manufacturers. And here's what he says: "This decision, directly contrary to many Federal courts, promulgated by the three secretaries charged with the duty of making rules and regulations for carrying the law into effect, is the most astonishing exhibition of illegality ever perpetrated. No higher act of open contempt of judicial findings has ever been made by anyone whose duty it is to follow the courts' decisions. It would have been bad enough as an attempt at construing the meaning of this law prior to judicial opinion. In the face of the facts, it is a flagrant contempt of court." In other words, they didn't try to decide before the court decided. They waited until the court had decided, and THEN set the decisons aside. What are you going to do when the executive won't obey? "All of the interests which were engaged in adulterating and misbranding foods were greatly heartened by this victory. If one class of misbranders and adulterers could receive immunity by executive order, why not apply the same principles to all forms of adulteration and misbranding. The dikes that held the swelling flood of adulterations and misbrandings of our beverages were broken down and the waves of food adulterations swept over and devastated the country." I just want to show you what he was up against -- what you're up against. And it's ten times worse now than it was then. [JD: And it's a hundred times worse now than it was when this speech was made.] He says "the following violations of law" ..... Now these are actual things that he was trying to fight: "The following violations of law were permitted and protected by this crowd: the use of benzoate of soda as a preservative of food, the use of sulfur dioxide and sulfite as bleaching agents and as food preservatives, the use of saccharin as a sweetener in foods, up to an amount not exceeding three-tenths of a gram, and the free and unrestricted use of alum in food products. It is a striking comment also, regarding the attitude of Congress and the People-at-large, that no steps have ever been taken, from 1911 to 1928, to correct these outrages upon the American People and to attempt to restore the law to its power and purpose, as enacted. Administration after administration has come and gone, and these abuses still persist." Now, they finally decided to establish this Remson Committee directly under the Department of Agriculture, not under Dr. Wiley. In other words, they were coordinating the Committee under as much power as could be [wielded against Dr. Wiley]. Now they listened to this Remson Committee, which was a bunch of scientists, like the many of them we have today who are PAID by food processers to get certain findings. And they got them! (to be continued) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To penetrate the smokescreen of mass-media fraud is to learn of the staggering realities and the resultant emergencies festering beneath the surface of public awareness. If WE fail to tell the American People -- who, then, will tell them? And what will be the price to be paid by all of us for the delusions of the TV-mesmerized majority? Please post the episodes of this ongoing series to computer bulletin boards, and post hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. John DiNardo