From: Sandy V George [ohana9@juno.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 2:09 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Re FDA Self Imposed Powers

Dear Sirs, In my view and experience, as an individual
who takes responsibility for my own health care and who
makes conscious choices about same - I resent and abhor
the self imposed powers of the FDA - when our rights to
free choice are removed from us so that we can be controlled
by those who have ulterior motives, this is the beginning of 
the end - as has been shown over the past year from world
events.   When our personal powers to make conscious choice
for and about our lives from every aspect are removed, only
chaos remains - greed cannot be monitored by any laws, 
regulations or decrees, this has to be done on a personal basis.
Under the present FDA regulations, the cover up and protection
of many dishonest proved practices in substance use is alarming.   
The cause for the increase of illness world wide, is totally dis-
regarded by those who knowingly push dishonestly produced 
products under the protection of the FDA, for the sake of fueling
the big money machine, boggles the mind - I give here and example.
That petroleum products, are for the most part, the base for baby
products, is only the tip of the iceberg, when it has been proven by
research that petroleum based products is one of the major primary causes
for cancer and poison to the body:  this alone shows that the FDA
regulations are a joke !!!!!   

The fact that those who practice the olde true and proven alternative
methods for healing/educating are forcibly stopped from doing so, 
to promote the continued escalation of monitory gain under the guise 
of main stream health care and protection, is more than a disgrace, it 
is actually very funny.  

There is dishonesty everywhere and it will be  "a given"  as long as 
there are human beings who want to take advantage of  their fellow man,
so whether it is the FDA, you or I,  the only way through this negative
human behavior and the corner into which we have gotten ourselves, is to
give back to each of us, our right to be responsible 
for our lives and being responsible for self.  The more you tell a 
human being that he/she cannot do, be - is the more they will do,
be - therein lies the rub.   This is why Governments' job is to govern 
not control:  if this message could be gotten through to those elected 
by us, the general public,  who voted ? them in to their positions of 
office to do our bidding, and we took our responsibility for keeping
them honest, tied to their platform speeches, and actively/vocally
monitored their behavior, dealings etc., we would then be fulfilling 
our duty to our Government, Country and lives as responsible citizens.  
It is so easy to vote a person into office, release our responsibility
for doing so, and then blame them when things go wrong - it is our 
duty to keep them straight and honest at all times, if this were to 
happen then our world would be in very different state and we 
would not be where we find ourselves at this time.

So in my view the less regulations that are imposed on society is 
the better off we will all be - yes there will always be those who
will abuse this right, and this will enforce each and every one of
us to take responsibility for our space on this planet !!!!    I hope 
that this piece is read, digested and acted upon, and put along 
with the many other similar expressed feelings which you will no 
doubt be receiving or have already received, before we get ourselves into
a deeper mess than we are, already experiencing.   It is time for radical
change, and if this change is not brought into the main stream 
of life,  then there will be hell to pay, and what we have endured for 
the past year will be a very small slice of the cake we are baking in a
very hot oven !!!!!
Sincerely
Sandy