“Our Health Freedom is threatened again. It’s been going on for centuries, this struggle between healers and bureaucrats. Even back in the age of Henry the 8th the surgeons of London got a law passed effectively outlawing their herbalist competitors by granting themselves a monopoly, and, a couple years later, after many herbalists were brought before the courts, the King had to intervene, obtaining Parliamentary approval for what is now known in the Common Law as The Herbalists Charter, to protect traditional methods of healing and allow their practice ‘without suit, vexation, trouble, penalty or loss …’ As recently as the start of the Twentieth Century, one state Supreme Court noted, ‘The state has not restricted the cure of the body to the practice of medicine and surgery — allopathy, as it is termed … that would be to limit progress by establishing allopathy as the state system of healing, and forbidding all others. This would be as foreign to ours system as a state church for the cure of souls. … To restrict all healing to that one kind -— to allopathy, excluding homeopathy, osteopathy and all other treatments -— might be a protection to doctors in surgery and medicine; but that is not the object of the act, and might make it unconstitutional, because creating a monopoly.’ Just such a monopoly was created. For convenience, we can call it the Big Pharma Cartel.” (04/28/07)