Protesting Injustice One Member at a Time
Oppression Is An American Tradition: Daniel Hauser is the latest case
By: Rich Bergeron
Oppression in America has never been something unique to any racial divides or divisive cultural differences. Yet, these have been the central themes of resisting injustice for so many decades since the success of the Civil Rights movement. Because of brave souls like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. we are now surrounded by daily reminders that we can no longer discriminate on creed or color. This justice did not come free or overnight by any means. It came as a result of folks who stood up for their rights at places like Selma, Alabama and were met with the sharp teeth of determined police dogs, heavy police brutality, and the steady stream of highly pressurized water screaming out of fire hoses at them as they assembled peacefully in protest.
For those who think that oppression in America has gone the way of those old, tired, and now unconstitutional and illegal discriminatory measures, you couldn't be more wrong. Discrimination is still happening in many forms to many different Americans individually and by class. Even a black president in Barack Obama has not prevented discrimination in the creating of legislation, as Obama passed the Children's Health Care Initiative off the backs of a whole class of American consumers: smokers. During the campaign, Obama constantly described his plans to focus more on taxing the rich and relieving the middle and lower class of the burden of outrageous taxes, but when he got into office one of the first things he did was to put a big new tax on cigarettes, which more poor people smoke than any other class of Americans.
Another more recent case of discrimination is ongoing. Daniel Hauser is a 13-year-old kid from Minnesota who is being oppressed by a judge into conforming to the accepted treatment mandated by medical doctors for Cancer: chemotherapy. Chemo has been used for decades, and its design is to kill the whole body slowly in order to ultimately kill the cancer. Much damage is done in the process, but there is very little in the way of rebuilding and rehabilitation drugs for the recovering cancer patient. Things are often never the same, which is what happened to my mom when she died about 14 years after her treatments for Hodgkin's Disease, which she suffered as a teenager. She died when she was 35, and I was just short of seven years old at the time.
Daniel Hauser's family says the 13-year-old is actually a medicine man. Though it sounds nutty to a general public who considers their "primary care physician" the only "medicine man" in their lives, Native American medicine men are notorious for utilizing natural cures proven over the course of thousands of years of natural human evolution away from the ills of synthetic, urbanized society. Indeed, if his stalwart resistance to traditional medicine proves to be a success, Daniel will be more than just a medicine man by label or bestowing of that title on him by some obscure tribe chief somewhere.
Hauser recently ran away from home with his mother to avoid the imposition of the court's decisions on his own course of action or inaction in the face of his struggle with cancer. It brings up a whole host of arguments, and it shines a spotlight on how the government can still interfere with our daily lives and take action to try to force us to do what we don't want to do. This is the very definition of oppression. If it can happen to smokers through the Children's Health Care program, and if it can happen to a 13-year-old boy who just wants to face his illness on his own terms, it can really happen to anyone. The more we stand aside and let these type of injustices continued unchecked, the more damage we do to the once vaunted power of the people to change the course of history.
If you maybe agree with the judge in the Hauser case, perhaps you should consider another similar story. Billy Best ran away from home to avoid chemo before running away from home to avoid chemo was cool. He inspired a lot of folks to follow the same path and resist chemo as an option, which adults can freely do without courts getting involved. I have been to one of Billy's mother's regular support group meetings for cancer victims, and I have heard the stories of survivors who took the same natural treatments he did. Billy cured himself with Essiac Tea and a Canadian homeopathic remedy called 714X. Because of Billy Best my family reclaimed a victim of cancer from the clutches of death after batting 0-2 in two other cases (my mom and my uncle who died of a brain tumor).
My cousin Katie recovered from her cancer after doctors gave her just 3 weeks to live.She took 714-X, which the National Cancer Institute has looked at but will not validate in any way, perhaps for fear of the widespread financial damage it could do to an industry dependent on the overhead that comes with such complicated and involved tests and treatment that is traditionally used in this country. About six weeks after one doctor told Katie over the phone that she was just going to go to sleep one day and never wake up, a thick pus ooozed out of her ear while she was riding in the family car. Sort of like your car's AC system dumping a whole mess of water on your shoes on a hot day when you turn a fast corner. Except, in this case it was a good thing. You can read the rest of the story here. Suffice it to say Katie made a complete recovery and is still alive today and healthier than ever.
Daniel Hauser is actually reported to possibly be with Billy Best on the run somewhere from the overzealous justice system in Minnesota that would force him to undergo harsh treatment he wants nothing to do with:
An alert issued to police departments around the country said mothe...
Best has denied the mother and son are with him, and natural treatment most certainly cured him. He doesn't just say that. I met a boxing coach in New Hampshire once who took Essiac Tea alone to beat esophageal cancer. I've taken 714x myself, as well, since it is also a preventive. I have been sick only a handful of times over the years since I took 3 scattered cycles of the all-natural remedy. It is designed to be an immune system booster, and it was that and more for me. I lost more than 30 pounds the first time I took it, and each time I was compelled on the 5th day to exercise like a madman, which didn't stop until the stuff was long out of my system. It is truly an underestimated product, and the doc who created it, Gaston Naessens, is nothing short of an under-appreciated and unheralded visionary who deserves a Nobel Prize:
The case of Daniel Hauser is just the latest case of government oppression. It goes beyond just an isolated incident and a coincidental controversy when you consider what George Bush did to fatten the health care system during his presidency. Look around and think about how many pharmaceutical pills you see advertised on television, and take note of what you don't see ads for: OxyContin and Vicodin. These have become hugely popular street and party drugs. We are an addicted nation, and pharmaceutical or "medicine cabinet" drugs are running rampant, destroying the next generation one snorted, booted, or swallowed "Oxy" at a time. Bush did enough to destroy this country's rep around the world with the Iraq war, but even that conspiracy has not been fully elucidated. Back when it all started I called his assembled cabinet "The War Dream Team." The reason I connect the warmongering of Bush and the pharmaceutical industry and street drugs is because I think Afghanistan's natural Opium supply ended up along the way in some pharmaceutical products in America. The military reportedly seized the poppy crop when we first went into that country, and there is no indication of what was done with the confiscated opium as a result. Whatever happened to it, the U.S. and Afghan officials have allowed the Opium industry to thrive in recent years, which also raises an eyebrow. Is the drug industry just too lucrative for the Afghan and U.S. government to stamp it out when the profits from poppy trade could potentially help pay some of the costs for the country's long term protection? It's a question worth asking.
But, I digress. The point I'm trying to make is that not everything is as it seems. And the government does not always have everyone's best interests in mind when it makes mandates in the name of protecting the general public or individuals from supposed harm.
Fighting injustice can have a drastic physical and mental effect on a person, especially when it seems there is no way to get yourself out of the situation without a protracted legal battle. It can be an unforgiving struggle to beat back the authorities and reclaim your right to tell your story, raise your concerns, and turn the tide back against your oppressor. Personally, I find that getting new motions from the opposition on the two cases I'm personally involved in tends to get my heart rate up immediately. The stress is palpable when you have to be your own lawyer.
Attorney David Grossack's Citizens' Justice Manual explains how we are all subject to symptoms of oppression if we do not take steps to fight back and become part of the solution:
"The mechanisms for this are quite simple. The stress of living in highly regulated societies, with a predatory legal system results in a population which reflects the mental conditions of wounded, exploited, and bullied people. Moreover, we are tracked and watched through computers, and increasingly the entire industrialized world is being videotaped and monitored constantly. This is the beginning of a dehumanization process to which will alienate us from our individual nature and reduce us to cogs of production wheels in their factories, offices, and other companies."
I think David puts it lightly. In my opinion there is a greater catastrophe at hand considering so many who are not subject to authority who are still useless to the struggle to improve our society and keep our country free. These people who end up "off the grid" so to speak, get easily distracted by the very tools used for generations and thousands of years throughout history to calm the masses: sedatives like opium and other addicting drugs and concoctions, although some condemned drugs are not so bad in my opinion and might be more useful than we now know or acknowledge. Folks in this category often get lost in meaningless cliques that further no societal interest and pride themselves on actually doing nothing and getting paid for it or surviving despite not contributing anything of value to their community.
Then there are the millions of people who fall for the daily stream of propaganda spouting from their TV sets. These people do nothing to further any debate and just take everything that's shoveled out to them. It is no wonder so many Americans have decided they would rather get their news from Jon Stewart on Comedy Central than follow any 24-hour news network religiously. These stations cover the same tired stories over and over again, fawning over politics and political and financial "talking heads" who are paid in many cases to lie to the American people. Even in the advent of "iReport" on CNN and "uReport" on Fox News, we're still getting processed news without getting to the heart of any real issues and the real people behind them in most daily news cycles.
If we continue to take the network news approach to understanding issues like Daniel Hauser's fight to be free to choose his own cancer remedy, we'll continue to be shaped by the people who pay the most money to get the most favorable coverage. Don't think for a moment any major network is immune from showing favoritism to the medical establishment. How much do you think comes into CNN and Fox from pharmaceutical commercials? Chemotherapy and radiation are connected at the hip with the pharmaceutical industry. Listen to all the side effects these drugs on TV tell us to watch out for and "ask your doctor" about. I wrote a funny article about a new drug proposed by George Bush once:
http://www.deadbrain.com/news/article_2005_06_04_0227.php
I jokingly cited one of the side effects as "mild to moderate death," but it looks like that isn't so funny anymore now that we know several pharmaceutical pills have killed people, inspiring class action lawsuits in many cases. Consider the most common side effect associated with the top anti-depressant drugs: SUICIDAL THOUGHTS! How is this kind of approach helping anyone? We now need new drugs just to handle the side effects of other drugs. At some point we have to ask our doctors what the heck they are trying to push down our throats and why.
The problem is too many people don't inquire for themselves about what's best. They listen to the status quo or go with the trend. They drink the brainwashing Kool Aid given to them every time. They fall for the slick advertising and the fast-talking physician pushing the latest "happy pill." Few take the time to really explore the "alternative," which is a word that in many cases is looked upon in a negative frame of mind. Yet, anything seems like a better deal compared to chemo. Consider all other technology around us and the leaps and bounds in electronics we've seen between the inventions of the Walkman and the I-Pod. So why can't medicine improve the way we treat cancer after so many years of subjecting kids and adults alike to the same kind of harsh chemo and radiation? These are brutal treatments, cruel and unusual punishment in some cases of rigorous cycles of strong chemo/radiation that do nothing but kill the patient before the cancer can.
The real solution may be right under our noses. Check out the following video series I digitized from a videotape. This is the story of a man named Harry Hoxsey, who died in 1974 after a long career advocating a treatment for cancer now known as "The Hoxsey Treatment." This documentary is the most important thing you will ever watch on health care. It contains so much history and interesting information about the history of health care and cancer treatment as we know it:
At some point we have to admit that these kinds of treatments are only discouraged by practicing traditional medical doctors because they can't be patented and mass marketed with huge overhead and controlled by the powers that be in today's medical system. If it doesn't line their pockets, most doctors won't tell people to take it. This is the grand price of a capitalist health care system and the main reason why health care is still thriving despite the recession.
At some point we have to realize that if this happens to Daniel Hauser in Minnesota today, it can happen to me where I live tomorrow. That's the bottom line. Get involved, speak out, and don't stop until you achieve the desired effect. Do not let yourself be oppressed. It will only add more stress to your life that can be overcome by fighting against injustice and contributing something in the way if inspiration to the next guy who comes along and figures out that if he speaks out and fights back he might not get shafted.
Stay tuned for another blog tomorrow when I discuss the latest ruling by Judge "God" (Sarah Evans Barker) in Indiana where she lives up to her new nickname and proves a universal truth I've discovered about people who try to hide the truth: they will always at some point do something to incriminate themselves and/or make themselves look really stupid.
Oppression in America has never been something unique to any racial divides or divisive cultural differences. Yet, these have been the central themes of resisting injustice for so many decades since the success of the Civil Rights movement. Because of brave souls like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. we are now surrounded by daily reminders that we can no longer discriminate on creed or color. This justice did not come free or overnight by any means. It came as a result of folks who stood up for their rights at places like Selma, Alabama and were met with the sharp teeth of determined police dogs, heavy police brutality, and the steady stream of highly pressurized water screaming out of fire hoses at them as they assembled peacefully in protest.
For those who think that oppression in America has gone the way of those old, tired, and now unconstitutional and illegal discriminatory measures, you couldn't be more wrong. Discrimination is still happening in many forms to many different Americans individually and by class. Even a black president in Barack Obama has not prevented discrimination in the creating of legislation, as Obama passed the Children's Health Care Initiative off the backs of a whole class of American consumers: smokers. During the campaign, Obama constantly described his plans to focus more on taxing the rich and relieving the middle and lower class of the burden of outrageous taxes, but when he got into office one of the first things he did was to put a big new tax on cigarettes, which more poor people smoke than any other class of Americans.
Another more recent case of discrimination is ongoing. Daniel Hauser is a 13-year-old kid from Minnesota who is being oppressed by a judge into conforming to the accepted treatment mandated by medical doctors for Cancer: chemotherapy. Chemo has been used for decades, and its design is to kill the whole body slowly in order to ultimately kill the cancer. Much damage is done in the process, but there is very little in the way of rebuilding and rehabilitation drugs for the recovering cancer patient. Things are often never the same, which is what happened to my mom when she died about 14 years after her treatments for Hodgkin's Disease, which she suffered as a teenager. She died when she was 35, and I was just short of seven years old at the time.
Daniel Hauser's family says the 13-year-old is actually a medicine man. Though it sounds nutty to a general public who considers their "primary care physician" the only "medicine man" in their lives, Native American medicine men are notorious for utilizing natural cures proven over the course of thousands of years of natural human evolution away from the ills of synthetic, urbanized society. Indeed, if his stalwart resistance to traditional medicine proves to be a success, Daniel will be more than just a medicine man by label or bestowing of that title on him by some obscure tribe chief somewhere.
Hauser recently ran away from home with his mother to avoid the imposition of the court's decisions on his own course of action or inaction in the face of his struggle with cancer. It brings up a whole host of arguments, and it shines a spotlight on how the government can still interfere with our daily lives and take action to try to force us to do what we don't want to do. This is the very definition of oppression. If it can happen to smokers through the Children's Health Care program, and if it can happen to a 13-year-old boy who just wants to face his illness on his own terms, it can really happen to anyone. The more we stand aside and let these type of injustices continued unchecked, the more damage we do to the once vaunted power of the people to change the course of history.
If you maybe agree with the judge in the Hauser case, perhaps you should consider another similar story. Billy Best ran away from home to avoid chemo before running away from home to avoid chemo was cool. He inspired a lot of folks to follow the same path and resist chemo as an option, which adults can freely do without courts getting involved. I have been to one of Billy's mother's regular support group meetings for cancer victims, and I have heard the stories of survivors who took the same natural treatments he did. Billy cured himself with Essiac Tea and a Canadian homeopathic remedy called 714X. Because of Billy Best my family reclaimed a victim of cancer from the clutches of death after batting 0-2 in two other cases (my mom and my uncle who died of a brain tumor).
My cousin Katie recovered from her cancer after doctors gave her just 3 weeks to live.She took 714-X, which the National Cancer Institute has looked at but will not validate in any way, perhaps for fear of the widespread financial damage it could do to an industry dependent on the overhead that comes with such complicated and involved tests and treatment that is traditionally used in this country. About six weeks after one doctor told Katie over the phone that she was just going to go to sleep one day and never wake up, a thick pus ooozed out of her ear while she was riding in the family car. Sort of like your car's AC system dumping a whole mess of water on your shoes on a hot day when you turn a fast corner. Except, in this case it was a good thing. You can read the rest of the story here. Suffice it to say Katie made a complete recovery and is still alive today and healthier than ever.
Daniel Hauser is actually reported to possibly be with Billy Best on the run somewhere from the overzealous justice system in Minnesota that would force him to undergo harsh treatment he wants nothing to do with:
An alert issued to police departments around the country said mothe...
Best has denied the mother and son are with him, and natural treatment most certainly cured him. He doesn't just say that. I met a boxing coach in New Hampshire once who took Essiac Tea alone to beat esophageal cancer. I've taken 714x myself, as well, since it is also a preventive. I have been sick only a handful of times over the years since I took 3 scattered cycles of the all-natural remedy. It is designed to be an immune system booster, and it was that and more for me. I lost more than 30 pounds the first time I took it, and each time I was compelled on the 5th day to exercise like a madman, which didn't stop until the stuff was long out of my system. It is truly an underestimated product, and the doc who created it, Gaston Naessens, is nothing short of an under-appreciated and unheralded visionary who deserves a Nobel Prize:
The case of Daniel Hauser is just the latest case of government oppression. It goes beyond just an isolated incident and a coincidental controversy when you consider what George Bush did to fatten the health care system during his presidency. Look around and think about how many pharmaceutical pills you see advertised on television, and take note of what you don't see ads for: OxyContin and Vicodin. These have become hugely popular street and party drugs. We are an addicted nation, and pharmaceutical or "medicine cabinet" drugs are running rampant, destroying the next generation one snorted, booted, or swallowed "Oxy" at a time. Bush did enough to destroy this country's rep around the world with the Iraq war, but even that conspiracy has not been fully elucidated. Back when it all started I called his assembled cabinet "The War Dream Team." The reason I connect the warmongering of Bush and the pharmaceutical industry and street drugs is because I think Afghanistan's natural Opium supply ended up along the way in some pharmaceutical products in America. The military reportedly seized the poppy crop when we first went into that country, and there is no indication of what was done with the confiscated opium as a result. Whatever happened to it, the U.S. and Afghan officials have allowed the Opium industry to thrive in recent years, which also raises an eyebrow. Is the drug industry just too lucrative for the Afghan and U.S. government to stamp it out when the profits from poppy trade could potentially help pay some of the costs for the country's long term protection? It's a question worth asking.
But, I digress. The point I'm trying to make is that not everything is as it seems. And the government does not always have everyone's best interests in mind when it makes mandates in the name of protecting the general public or individuals from supposed harm.
Fighting injustice can have a drastic physical and mental effect on a person, especially when it seems there is no way to get yourself out of the situation without a protracted legal battle. It can be an unforgiving struggle to beat back the authorities and reclaim your right to tell your story, raise your concerns, and turn the tide back against your oppressor. Personally, I find that getting new motions from the opposition on the two cases I'm personally involved in tends to get my heart rate up immediately. The stress is palpable when you have to be your own lawyer.
Attorney David Grossack's Citizens' Justice Manual explains how we are all subject to symptoms of oppression if we do not take steps to fight back and become part of the solution:
"The mechanisms for this are quite simple. The stress of living in highly regulated societies, with a predatory legal system results in a population which reflects the mental conditions of wounded, exploited, and bullied people. Moreover, we are tracked and watched through computers, and increasingly the entire industrialized world is being videotaped and monitored constantly. This is the beginning of a dehumanization process to which will alienate us from our individual nature and reduce us to cogs of production wheels in their factories, offices, and other companies."
I think David puts it lightly. In my opinion there is a greater catastrophe at hand considering so many who are not subject to authority who are still useless to the struggle to improve our society and keep our country free. These people who end up "off the grid" so to speak, get easily distracted by the very tools used for generations and thousands of years throughout history to calm the masses: sedatives like opium and other addicting drugs and concoctions, although some condemned drugs are not so bad in my opinion and might be more useful than we now know or acknowledge. Folks in this category often get lost in meaningless cliques that further no societal interest and pride themselves on actually doing nothing and getting paid for it or surviving despite not contributing anything of value to their community.
Then there are the millions of people who fall for the daily stream of propaganda spouting from their TV sets. These people do nothing to further any debate and just take everything that's shoveled out to them. It is no wonder so many Americans have decided they would rather get their news from Jon Stewart on Comedy Central than follow any 24-hour news network religiously. These stations cover the same tired stories over and over again, fawning over politics and political and financial "talking heads" who are paid in many cases to lie to the American people. Even in the advent of "iReport" on CNN and "uReport" on Fox News, we're still getting processed news without getting to the heart of any real issues and the real people behind them in most daily news cycles.
If we continue to take the network news approach to understanding issues like Daniel Hauser's fight to be free to choose his own cancer remedy, we'll continue to be shaped by the people who pay the most money to get the most favorable coverage. Don't think for a moment any major network is immune from showing favoritism to the medical establishment. How much do you think comes into CNN and Fox from pharmaceutical commercials? Chemotherapy and radiation are connected at the hip with the pharmaceutical industry. Listen to all the side effects these drugs on TV tell us to watch out for and "ask your doctor" about. I wrote a funny article about a new drug proposed by George Bush once:
http://www.deadbrain.com/news/article_2005_06_04_0227.php
I jokingly cited one of the side effects as "mild to moderate death," but it looks like that isn't so funny anymore now that we know several pharmaceutical pills have killed people, inspiring class action lawsuits in many cases. Consider the most common side effect associated with the top anti-depressant drugs: SUICIDAL THOUGHTS! How is this kind of approach helping anyone? We now need new drugs just to handle the side effects of other drugs. At some point we have to ask our doctors what the heck they are trying to push down our throats and why.
The problem is too many people don't inquire for themselves about what's best. They listen to the status quo or go with the trend. They drink the brainwashing Kool Aid given to them every time. They fall for the slick advertising and the fast-talking physician pushing the latest "happy pill." Few take the time to really explore the "alternative," which is a word that in many cases is looked upon in a negative frame of mind. Yet, anything seems like a better deal compared to chemo. Consider all other technology around us and the leaps and bounds in electronics we've seen between the inventions of the Walkman and the I-Pod. So why can't medicine improve the way we treat cancer after so many years of subjecting kids and adults alike to the same kind of harsh chemo and radiation? These are brutal treatments, cruel and unusual punishment in some cases of rigorous cycles of strong chemo/radiation that do nothing but kill the patient before the cancer can.
The real solution may be right under our noses. Check out the following video series I digitized from a videotape. This is the story of a man named Harry Hoxsey, who died in 1974 after a long career advocating a treatment for cancer now known as "The Hoxsey Treatment." This documentary is the most important thing you will ever watch on health care. It contains so much history and interesting information about the history of health care and cancer treatment as we know it:
At some point we have to admit that these kinds of treatments are only discouraged by practicing traditional medical doctors because they can't be patented and mass marketed with huge overhead and controlled by the powers that be in today's medical system. If it doesn't line their pockets, most doctors won't tell people to take it. This is the grand price of a capitalist health care system and the main reason why health care is still thriving despite the recession.
At some point we have to realize that if this happens to Daniel Hauser in Minnesota today, it can happen to me where I live tomorrow. That's the bottom line. Get involved, speak out, and don't stop until you achieve the desired effect. Do not let yourself be oppressed. It will only add more stress to your life that can be overcome by fighting against injustice and contributing something in the way if inspiration to the next guy who comes along and figures out that if he speaks out and fights back he might not get shafted.
Stay tuned for another blog tomorrow when I discuss the latest ruling by Judge "God" (Sarah Evans Barker) in Indiana where she lives up to her new nickname and proves a universal truth I've discovered about people who try to hide the truth: they will always at some point do something to incriminate themselves and/or make themselves look really stupid.
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