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Pharmaceutical industry accused of crimes against humanity before the
ICC in the Hague
Thursday, August 19, 2004 by: Mike Adams

Key concepts: crimes against humanity, pharmaceutical industry and
corporate greed.

A look at the history of war on planet earth reveals some interesting
facts related to the pharmaceutical industry. World War I resulted in
the deaths of millions of people. World War II killed tens of millions
of people -- not Americans, mind you, but Russians, who ultimately
received the greatest number of casualties. Other wars, such as the
Vietnam War, resulted in tens of thousands of American deaths, and
hundreds of thousands if you look at the total body count. The war on
Iraq has now has killed tens of thousands of people as well, most of
whom are Iraqi civilians.

**But there's another war that is rarely mentioned in the history
books that is killing an estimated 12 million people each year around
the world. It is an economic war, and a war of control. This war is
being waged by the pharmaceutical industry. Today, the industry is
being blamed for causing the injury and death of millions of people
through the so-called "business with disease", and it is being accused
of war crimes before the ICC, the International Criminal Court, in the
Hague.**

**New charges and accusations state that the pharmaceutical industry
is committing genocide and was built with the primary goal of
controlling health care systems around the world and systematically
replacing natural, non-patentable therapies with profitable, synthetic
drugs and patentable therapies that could be sold to patients at sky-
high prices. For those new to the argument about what's wrong with the
pharmaceutical industry, some of these charges might seem outlandish,
but in fact, the history of medicine, even in the United States, is
full of evidence that supports such a notion. Most people don't know,
for example, that the American Medical Association has twice been
convicted of conspiracy in the federal courts of the United States of
America.**

**What kind of conspiracy? Conspiracy to suppress non-conventional
treatments, most notably chiropractic care. At the turn of the 20th
century and throughout the mid-century, the American Medical
Association was working very hard to control medicine and outright ban
or discredit any therapy that it could not control.** In fact, there
were assassination attempts made on people who were outspoken against
the industry, including a man named Hoxsey, who was a promoter of
alternative cancer therapies made with medicinal plants that cured
cancer tumors. Certainly, Hoxsey was also a great salesman, and he did
himself more harm than good by taking on the persona of a snake oil
salesman, but there was much merit to his formulas as has now been
revealed by scientific analysis of the phytochemicals present in the
medicinal plant ingredients he used and advocated.

**Now, with this accusation of crimes against humanity, U.S. Chief
Prosecutor Telford Taylor says, "The indictment accuses these men for
visiting upon mankind the most devastating and catastrophic war in
human history." It is indeed a war against humanity, and it is a war
waged for the control of profits, because where there is money to be
made, there is power to be grabbed, and the only way the
pharmaceutical industry can grab power is by making sure that people
don't have access to or don't believe in alternative therapies that
could prevent chronic disease or treat disease in more affordable
ways.**

My comments on this action are as follows: For one, I think the term
genocide is misused here. Genocide, in my understanding, refers to an
effort to wipe out a specific population or culture. For example, an
attempt to exterminate one race would be considered genocide, and as
far as I can tell, the pharmaceutical industry doesn't target any
particular race. So I don't think genocide really applies here. I
think the term is misused in this context.

However, the phrase, "a war against humanity" is somewhat more
credible, but still, I don't think that the intentions of the
pharmaceutical industry are to wipe out mankind or to actually declare
war on people. I think the pharmaceutical industry is engaged in
nothing more than economic conquest. It's all about dollars and greed
and profits, and not at all about trying to do evil in the world. In
fact, I believe that the people running the pharmaceutical companies
believe that they themselves are doing tremendous good.

This is the nature of evil -- people who are involved in it often
think that they are on an important mission to find the cure for
cancer, for example, and the only way to do that is to sell more
drugs, and generate more profits, and put that money back into
research in the hopes that someday they will find the cure. This is
all self-deception, of course, because it's not money that is lacking
for a cancer cure -- it's the myopic paradigms of conventional
medicine that stand in the way. And besides, cancer already has many
cures available if people would simply look beyond conventional
medicine and prescription drugs.

So I don't think they are evil people, and I don't think that they
would consciously intend to harm humanity. What I do think is that
they are blinded by their greed. They're going after profits no matter
what the cost, and they are justifying their actions by claiming they
are doing research that would someday cure certain diseases -- and
that's a promise we know will never unfold.

The kind of psychological justification going on in the minds of
people who work at pharmaceutical companies is probably very much like
the justification that was going on in the minds of Nazi soldiers who
guarded the Berlin wall (and who shot people who were attempting to
cross the wall). These soldiers were just "following orders", which is
much the same justification that pharmaceutical company employees take
home with them every single day. They're just doing a job -- they're
just making a salary and trying to support their family.

What people don't realize is that when they are part of a machine that
is, in one way or another, causing great harm to humanity, they are in
effect responsible for their role in that outcome. Just because a
person is a salaried employee and doesn't have executive control over
the company doesn't excuse the fact that they are, in essence,
enabling a system that trades health for profits, that seeks to
exploit the diseased and dying in our world in order to generate
shareholder value for investors. It doesn't excuse the fact that this
is an industry that has sought to systematically wipe out and
discredited alternative therapies in order to maintain control and
keep customers lining up at doctor's offices across the country and
around the world.

Just because a person isn't a board member at a pharmaceutical company
doesn't excuse the fact that they are part of a team that is pushing
prescription drugs that haven't been proven safe onto an unwary
population. It doesn't excuse the exaggerations in the marketing
materials nor the number of deaths, injuries, birth defects,
neurological disorders, and other problems that are created by the
frequent consumption of prescription drugs.

My point here is that people who work in pharmaceutical companies are
probably ordinary, everyday people who have their own wishes and
dreams and families, and, at their core, attempt to do no evil.
Nevertheless, they are part of a system that is inevitably creating a
highly destructive outcome. It is impairing the quality of life for
hundreds of millions of people, and it is causing the premature deaths
of countless others. Whether you wish to call that a war against
humanity or genocide is certainly your decision. In my view, I just
call it corporate greed.

About the author: Mike Adams is a natural health researcher and author
with a passion for teaching people how to improve their health He has
authored more than 1,500 articles and dozens of reports, guides and
interviews on natural health topics, impacting the lives of millions
of readers around the world who are experiencing phenomenal health
benefits from reading his articles. Adams is an honest, independent
journalist and accepts no money or commissions on the third-party
products he writes about or the companies he promotes. In 2007, Adams
launched EcoLEDs, a manufacturer of mercury-free, energy-efficient LED
lighting products that save electricity and help prevent global
warming. He also founded an environmentally-friendly online retailer
called BetterLifeGoods.com that uses retail profits to help support
consumer advocacy programs. He's also the CEO of a highly successful
email newsletter software company that develops software used to send
permission email campaigns to subscribers. Adams also serves as the
executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a non-profit
consumer protection group, and enjoys outdoor activities, nature
photography, Pilates and adult gymnastics. Known as the 'Health
Ranger,' Adams' personal health statistics and mission statements are
located at www.HealthRanger.org

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Comments from readers:

Excellent article, and hats off to whoever is presenting this case
before the ICC!
- miraculae USA

You've hit the nail, right on the head!
Apathy, and greed are the real issues, behind this problem.
If everyone in this world listened to their consciences, and did what
was right, without worrying about the consequences, then everything
would be fine.
Hey wait a second... This sounds like a bible sermon to me! Isn't that
the markings of what a Christian should be? Always doing what you know
is right, regardless of the outcome? Willing to lay your life down, to
help others?
Great article!
- William Bonner Surrey Canada

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