To: shero who wrote (2772 ) 12/7/1998 9:05:00 PM From: Maurice Winn Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 3702
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness are not for cancer sufferers. TNT is denied to people who would pay, are fully informed, mentally competent, definitely going to die from glioma and might want to use it. The USA moans about human rights in China. From a freedom point of view, human rights, individuals having control of themselves, which mean the same thing, it is amazing that Americans tolerate the FDA usurping their decisions on their own life. The USA should concern itself with human rights in the USA before they bother lecturing China which is perfectly capable of running their country without gratuitous advice from immoral USA politicians. The FDA knows that their confiscation of the person's decision making will result in that person dying. It amazes me that government agents are happy to deny somebody the means to perhaps survive. Against that person's will. I suppose they just love power over others, which is a common human trait. It is amazing that it is considered constitutional. It is more important to the FDA to control people than that individuals live. One can only hope that many of them suffer the diseases and die in frustration at being denied treatment. That might make them think about it from the victim's viewpoint. No life, no liberty and no pursuit of happiness is allowed in the USA if it conflicts with the FDA's wishes. And Jack Kevorkian's trial could result in No life, no liberty, no pursuit of happiness and no relief of suffering if he is convicted. I'm pleasantly surprised to find there is something we agree on Shero! I'd happily swap 10 reverse splits for freedom from the FDA protecting me against myself. On insider information, companies should release information fairly, not to mates. But I don't think it is illegal for us to repeat rumours or actual reality here in a public forum. The pass-it-on illegality would be if somebody passed it on to their brother, who told their cousin, who got their friend to buy stock before the information was public. By reporting "inside information" here, it immediately become public information, not inside information. Same as if you put it on the front page of the New York Times. But even more so because more people have immediate access to this forum that to the NY Times. Meanwhile it's great to see TNT into Phase II trials. It seems immoral to not give anyone the right to use the product if they want to, can pay, and can find a willing medical practitioner to do it. I couldn't say to somebody, "Sorry, you don't fit my criteria, so you'll just have to die in a few weeks". I don't understand how FDA people can do that. If charlatans promise some cure with no basis for claims, then they could be prosecuted for fraud, same as in any other industry. Maurice