“This commentary is in response to the Medicine at Gunpoint article published earlier, which revealed that conventional medicine is now resorting to kidnapping and the enlistment of gun-toting law enforcement personnel to ‘persuade’ a mother that her infant son should be treated with toxic pharmaceuticals and surgical procedures. Read that story bfore you read this editorial. So let me get this straight. In the United States today, if you don’t submit to the harmful drugs and surgery of conventional medicine, you will be: 1. Condemned as a criminal. 2. Have your child stolen from you. 3. Be hunted down by armed cops if you try to rescue your child. 4. Receive a bill from the hospital for medical services you refused to authorize. 5. Be sued by collections organizations and have your credit ruined if you refuse to pay the bill. And the irony in all of this? If the woman had been uninsured, I believe the hospital would have thrown the baby out on the street.” (07/02/06)