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		December 6, 1996   #12



	by:  Doug Fiedor    fiedor19@eos.net



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DAVID THE DICTATOR

	David Kessler is a man with two professions.  

He is both an attorney and a physician.  But evidently, 

he couldn't decide which profession to practice.  So, 

he accepted a position in government -- as head of the 

Food and Drug Administration -- where he could tell 

the rest of us what to do.

	As head if the FDA, Kessler quickly made a 

name for himself in Washington.  He became known 

as one of the most overzealous bureaucrats in government.

	Like other federal regulatory agencies, the FDA is 

structured under the Communist Politburo style of 

government.  There is a chairman/dictator, a small board 

of advisors, and thousands of workers.  No person in the 

organization is elected.  Therefore, no person in the agency 

has any direct responsibility whatsoever to the citizens of 

the United States.

	In the Kessler FDA, the workers informed the board 

of advisors, the board of advisors "advised" the chairman, 

and the chairman played dictator and went about doing 

exactly as he pleased.

	During his tenure at FDA, many issues -- including 

drugs, vitamins, medical devices, implants, and even food 

labeling -- were ultimately decided by Kessler alone.  

Oftentimes Kessler would rule in direct opposition to the 

research evidence at hand, paying closer attention to the 

politically correct than the scientifically proven.

	For instance, he personally started a vendetta against 

the tobacco industry, which is none of his business.  Yet, he 

feared targeting the Nation of Islam, which has been selling 

potentially bogus AIDS test kits around the country.

	Dr. David Kessler's activism has done little or nothing 

at FDA to benefit the average American citizen.  On the 

contrary, he has done more than his part to increase medical 

costs throughout the country.

	Some people are not suited for positions of authority.  

Dr. David Kessler has repeatedly demonstrated that he is one 

such person.  So, as he cleans out his desk and gets ready to 

leave Washington, all many of us in the medical community 

have to say is, David, "It's been a pressure!"  And, "Don't 

let the door hit you on the way out."



WALK YOUR STREETS

	Last Sunday, the "Washington Post" editorial staff 

again used their paper to instruct us on how we should 

properly behave in society.  This time their subject was 

handguns.

	In their tirade to ban any concealable handgun as 

a "Saturday night special," The Post writes:

	"You would think that state and federal lawmakers 

might see the value of banning at least the worst of these 

handguns or insisting on certain safety features to avoid 

accidents.  But all too often the lawmakers have cowered 

in the face of the gun industry's strongest political 

accomplice, the National Rifle (and Handgun and Assault 

Weapon and Anything With a Trigger) Association.

	"As a result, handguns of all kinds flow freely in the 

marketplace subject to less safety regulation than toy guns, 

fireworks, hair dryers or just about any other product that 

must meet consumer-product standards."

	Now folks, we know that is quite an exaggeration -- 

editorial liberty, it's called.  The far left never has worried 

much about letting a little thing like facts get in the way of 

a good liberal rant.  Because, surely, a newspaper as big as 

The Washington Post must have noticed all of the federal 

laws, rules and regulations pertaining to firearms.

	Funny thing about an inanimate object like a 

handgun, though.  They do not do anything!  A small one 

has been used as a paper-weight in this office for years.  

It just sits there, holding down the papers, and never 

bothering anyone.

	It takes the direct action of a human to make it 

function improperly.

	By the way, how in hell do you make a "safe" 

gun?  What good would it be?  Any gun is safe if you 

leave it alone or use it properly.  And, like many other 

potentially dangerous things in life, it can also be a 

lifesaver when it's needed.

	Many inanimate objects are inherently dangerous.  

Perhaps the Post would have us ban them all.  Oops.  

Never mind.  They're getting to that, aren't they. . . .



ERROR, ERROR, ERROR

	There was a major error -- the same error -- in 

two editions of "Heads Up."  This was a big error, and it 

should not have occurred.

	Sam Donaldson of ABC news was said to be a 

Canadian citizen.  He is not.  Donaldson's biography 

says he was born in Texas.

	So, Sam Donaldson may be a liberal, but he's 

our liberal.

	This was brought to our attention the first time 

we wrote that.  At that time, the information was checked 

in the file, and we said it was correct.  Well, we should 

have done more checking.  Further research proved we 

were wrong.

	Now, it really doesn't matter where the 

information came from.  I used it, and it was incorrect.  

Therefore, it is my mistake as the writer.  For that 

I apologize.

	-- Doug



A PROPER USE FOR POT

	The people of Arizona and California recently 

approved the use of marijuana for medicinal reasons.  

And, marijuana has been shown to benefit people with 

certain physical afflictions.  Now, the strict 

authoritarians in Washington are throwing a fit.  

They think they're smarter, and know better, than all of 

those voters they are supposed to be serving.

	Besides, if they don't take a firm stand on this 

issue, if it doesn't look like they're putting an abrupt 

halt to any and all legal use of marijuana, it may look 

like they're loosing control.  And that's the ultimate 

aphrodisiac in Washington, you know:  Power!  Control 

over us.  So already, they're scheming to overrule the 

will of the good people of both states.

	Using typical Prohibition style rhetoric, some 

labeled it a first step in a well-orchestrated, well-

funded plan to legalize drugs in America.  Senator Kyl 

said that the ballot measure "begins a road to 

destruction of people's lives in this country."

	Huh?  It seems as though we have heard almost 

those exact words somewhere before.  Anyone remember 

the movie "Reefer Madness"?  That was an anti-pot movie 

from the early 50s which was so preposterous it ended up 

becoming kind of a comical cult film in the 70s and 80s.  

Yup, that evil weed is going to be the downfall of us all!

	Seriously folks, most "illegal" drugs have a proper 

use in medicine.  Marijuana is only one such useful 

medication.  Heroin is another.

	There are two major issues needing public 

discussion here.  First, where in the Constitution does 

the federal government get authority to interfere with 

the interaction between physician and patient?  And 

second, where in the Constitution is there authority to 

stop American citizens from using drugs of any kind?  

	Perhaps we should remember that alcohol is 

also used as a drug.  It took a Constitutional Amendment 

to ban the sale of alcohol.  How can marijuana -- or any 

drug, for that matter -- be different?



RUSH TO REGULATE

	Remember Slick Willie campaigning as a champion 

of smaller government?  What a scam!  All that time, 

Ozone Head Al's people were fiendishly working in secret 

to really stick it to us.  And so they have.

	On the day before the election, the Environmental 

Protection Agency submitted 1,200-pages of rules and 

regulations to the White House which would drastically 

increase the burden and cost of the Clean Air Act on most 

areas of the country.

	The new standards call for reducing smog by 

another one-third.  And, they now want to limit all of 

the fine "dust" and "soot" particles in the air.  To do 

this, they will be coming after our cars again, as well 

as motorcycles, lawnmowers, chain saws, barbecues, 

wood burning stoves, fireplaces and whatever else 

we've got.

	Remember now, they already got to the 

air-conditioning. . . .  This time they're coming after 

the stuff that helps keep you warm.

	You see folks, EPA makes all these regulations 

arbitrarily.  Their background "science" is mostly done 

by computer modeling -- garbage in and garbage out.  

Then they use the garbage out to make rules and 

regulations (read law).

	In a small study in the Northern Kentucky area, 

we found that trucks, airplanes and trains together burn 

more fuel in the area than automobiles.  Yet, 

automobiles are heavily regulated.  When was the last 

time anyone saw a catalytic converter on jet aircraft or 

eighteen wheelers?  All hell would break loose if EPA 

went after the aircraft and trucking industries.  These 

industries are organized.  We citizens are not.  So, we 

catch it!

	Ozone, by the way, precedes man on this earth.  

So does "soot" in the air.  Any lightening storm 

produces ozone.  Any wind storm puts particles of dust 

and dirt into the air.  Active volcano's supply tons of 

ash per minute -- ash which often circles the earth for 

months, distributing the particles all over the planet.

	Even trees are an important source of volatile 

organic compounds.  And along with sunlight, trees are 

key components of ground-level ozone, or smog.  The 

new EPA standards are so low that many of the nation's 

forests will just barely conform -- if no humans drive 

through them or fly over them, that is.

	So, EPA thinks it can stop nature?  Nope!  All 

they will be doing is making life miserable for American 

citizens.

	Last year Congress passed legislation that 

empowers it to "veto" regulations promulgated by 

executive agencies.  The new ozone rules may be the 

first test of that power.  The problem is, the 

Congressional veto would have to go through Congress 

like a normal bill -- and Clinton could veto it!

	Obviously, it's time for massive amounts of cards 

and letters, folks.  The only way "We the People" can 

counter this gross misuse of power is to turn up the 

political heat and keep it up until they beg for mercy.  

So, call and write all three of your Members of Congress 

and "inform" them of your opinion.

	Again, when we look to our Constitution for the 

federal government's authority to regulate these things, 

we find none.  Congress created its own authority.  Then 

Congress handed this authority off to unelected 

bureaucrats in a federal agency for arbitrary disposition.

	This is a direct violation of our Constitution.  

Think not?  Read the very first sentence in the body of 

the Constitution.

	Anyway, the EPA's actions have not made any 

real scientific sense for years.  It's time we call for 

Congress to abolish the EPA.



TOWARD TAILPIPE TYRANNY

	Below is a letter to the editor of the Kentucky 

Post written by a well published Northern Kentucky 

author and journalist.  This was in reply to an 

editorial by the paper on emissions testing for 

automobiles.  The letter is reprinted herein with the 

permission of the author.  -- Ed.

	"In reply to your editorial, Toward Tailpipe 

Tests, November 13, I submit that in describing the 

approaching oppression of tailpipe testing by the EPA, 

you have taken the assumption that EPA mandates are 

some sort of inevitable happening and we, the simple 

masses have no control over the power of the EPA.  

A second assumption that should not go unchallenged is 

that tailpipe emissions in Greater Cincinnati actually 

have some impact on our environment.

	"While it is true that we need to address certain 

looming problems in our environment such as dwindling 

availability of landfill sites and cleaning up toxic waste, 

these problems don't give the EPA carte blanche to 

invade our lives at every level.  It is the height of 

arrogance for EPA bureaucrats to think that they have 

the authority to govern without the consent of the 

governed.  But, with the aid of the media, which 

consistently displays zero curiosity about any 'facts' 

spewed by the EPA, they do govern.  And the muscle 

they use to assure our lemming-like conformity is to 

threaten that if we don't obey the EPA edicts, their 

buddies at the Department of Transportation will cut 

off our highway funds.

	"Say WHAT?

	"The same logic would apply if a schoolboy is 

told that if he doesn't take a Geography course, the Math 

teacher will flunk him.

	"For another clue that EPA warnings of global 

warming, ozone depletion and greenhouse effects are 

unadulterated fraud, see what they do when you ask them 

for a little scientific backup.  Invariably their response is 

to either ignore the question or to lay down a barrage of 

insults upon the questioner, accusing him of wanting to 

poison the air, foul the water or just about any other 

despicable crime they can dream up.

	"Save the environment.  That is truly a noble 

sentiment, bound up in emotion and moral superiority.  

And to question the motives and morals of those who wave 

it above their heads as they trample upon our freedoms is 

to risk political suicide.  The next time you see an 

environmental group beating up on someone questioning 

the arrogance of the EPA, run, not walk to your dictionary 

and look up the definition of  "tyranny."  The EPA is a 

living example of what we get when a good thought is 

carried to evil ends."

	-- Craig M. Brown



MORE CIA AND DRUGS

	As reported here previously, drug smugglers 

under protection of the CIA sold tons of illegal drugs 

within the United States.  Since our report, government 

minions at the Washington Post, Associated Press and 

the Los Angeles Times denied that allegation for the 

CIA, saying no evidence is available.  But that is far 

from the truth.

	The latest report comes from the November 22nd 

Wall Street Journal in an article by Staff Reporter 

Jose de Cordoba.

	Cordoba reports that "a Miami grand jury 

indicted the former head of a Central Intelligence 

Agency-sponsored Venezuelan antidrug unit on charges 

he smuggled cocaine into the U.S."  Yup, the CIA 

operative, Gen. Ramon Guillen, was accused of shipping 

as much as 22 tons of the stuff here.

	Oh.  And incidentally, it was also reported that 

officials admitted that CIA officials working with 

General Guillen approved the smuggling of a ton or so 

of cocaine into the United States -- Guillen puts it at 

4,100 pounds.  The CIA officials said they just wanted 

to gather "intelligence" on where the cocaine would go.  

Sure!  But that is not in CIA's job description.  The CIA 

has zero policing powers or law enforcement 

responsibilities within the United States.

	Anyway, lest anyone become confused here, where 

that ton or two of CIA smuggled cocaine went was directly 

to our American neighborhoods!  And, it made a few 

illegal drug dealers rich along the way.

	So, the general got busted because he sent us a little 

more (twenty tons) cocaine than what was reported to be 

officially approved by the CIA.  That's their public story, 

anyway.  We'll probably never know what really happened.

	Folks, there are a few inconvenient questions that 

we might ask here -- although it's doubtful that anyone 

in Congress will have the cajonies to answer:

	For instance, why is the CIA allowed to smuggle 

tons of cocaine into the U. S. for sale illegally on the 

streets, but an ill American citizen cannot smoke a joint 

for medicinal reasons?  And, what the hell was Customs 

and the FBI doing all this time?  One would think that 

they might notice a couple of extra tons of cocaine 

hitting American streets (the DEA was said to be involved 

with the CIA in part of this deal).

	And doesn't it seem strange that the CIA knows 

exactly where to sell off that much cocaine?  Legally, it 

is a felony for the spooks to know of an illegal 

enterprise in progress and not tell the Department of 

Justice.  So, when do we start seeing CIA officials sent 

to prison?  Yeah, right!  

	It's that "national security" thing again, folks.  

Darn convenient, that!



BAGS OVER HILLARY

	There is a rather humorous tongue-in-cheek 

campaign beginning on Prodigy and the Internet to "bag 

Hillary."  It seems that, after her well publicized 

comment last week about how she "might as well put a 

bag over her head," a few thousand people are aiming to 

oblige her.

	So . . . they are urging everyone to mail a bag to 

Hillary at the White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.  

Washington, D.C.  20001.

	For "Heads Up" readers on the Prodigy system, 

check out the news bulletin boards under Whitewater for 

discussion.



ONE FOR US

	Last month, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals 

ruled in support of the Fifth Amendment.

	A California man, Loren C. Troescher, stood up 

to the IRS, and refused to become a witness against 

himself in a tax case.  When the IRS served him with 

a summons, he refused to supply information.

	Representing himself in court, Loren Troescher 

argued that he had a Fifth Amendment right to not 

incriminate himself.  The IRS argued that there was a 

"Tax Crime Exemption" to the Fifth Amendment.  The 

district court agreed with the government, so Troesher 

appealed -- this time using an attorney.

	Judge Stephen Reinhardt's opinion for the Ninth 

Circuit Court of Appeals states in part:  "Troescher 

argues that the district court erred in rejecting his 

assertion of the Fifth Amendment's privilege against 

self-incrimination.  We agree, and therefore vacate the 

order and remand to the district court for 

reconsideration in light of this opinion." (U.S. v. 

Troescher, No. 95-55609)

	Now, before anyone tries to actually use this 

Court opinion against the IRS, it should be understood 

that the IRS seldom follows court rulings with which it 

does not agree.  In other words, the IRS does as it 

pleases!  It accepts no Constitutional -- and, often not 

even Congressional -- restrictions on its activities.

	Because of this, we should inundate 

Representative Rob Portman and Senator Bob Kerry, 

co-chairmen of the new Commission on Restructuring the 

Internal Revenue Service, with our letters and complaints.  

Congress is directly responsible for the blatantly 

un-Constitutional activities of the IRS.  Now it is the 

responsibility of us citizens to demand significant changes.

	All agencies of government, including the IRS, 

must be forced to honor and follow the Constitution.  

They're asking for your comments now, so tell them.

	Send comments to the Commission care of:  Rep. 

Rob Portman, 238 Cannon House Office Building, 

Washington, D.C. 20515.



NEW SHOPPING LIST

	The do-gooders are at it again.  This week, 

television executives have agreed to rate shows based 

on their suitability for kids of different age groups.  

Hey folks, aren't parents supposed to do that?

	The TV moguls say they will devise a rating system 

similar to the motion-picture industry.  Sure.  Except, they 

forgot something:  There's no ticket-taker for the TV set.  

There is no adult to say "no, you are not old enough to 

watch this."  That's the job of the parents.

	They're going to program the rating codes into 

a "V" chip, you say?  Yeah, that will work about one 

week.  The un-programming of the V-chip will probably 

be the first set of instructions ever studied by every kid 

in every junior high in the country!  They've got e-mail 

nowadays, you know.

	Years back, before the motion picture industry 

rated films, anyone with the price of admission could 

enter just about any movie theater.  There were few, if 

any, age restrictions.

	Back then, there was also a very popular 

monthly church publication which rated movies as per 

suitability of content.  The movie column was rather 

descriptive, too, in that it outlined exactly what may be 

offensive in each movie.

	Unbeknownst to the parents, that column turned 

out to be a wonderful "shopping list" for the young teens 

of the day.

	The new TV rating system will too.



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