Pro Murder 2 – Fixer & Hitman

Donald Rumsfeld, one of Washington’s top fixers, was made CEO at the G.D.Serle corporation to get the artificial sweetener Aspartame approved by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration). It had already been rejected twice. Reports of dangerous side-effects had been turning up and G.D.Serle’s research papers, which were “the shoddiest ever seen anywhere.” Some of the work was judged to be criminally fraudulent. Serle was on trial for attempting to fool authorities with false reports when Donald was planning his attack to defeat the FDA. He revealed his strategy candidly, “We’re not going to do it scientifically this time, we’re going to do it politically.”

Politically, not scientifically = with power, not truth.

When Donald joined newly elected Reagan’s staff, he hand-picked Arthur Hull Hayes, Jr to be the new commissioner of the FDA. Hayes went against the recommendations of the FDA scientists and even snubbed his own advisory council’s recommendation to deny approval for aspartame. He approved it anyway. And the rest is just profit and pain. Profit for a few, pain for the many. Hello obesity, diabetes and brain tumors, some of the effects of aspartame according to G.D.Serle’s own incomplete research—that they tried to bury—as well as reports from independent researchers.

Donald proved that scientific authority can be bought to act politically rather than scientifically, medically or morally. The experts follow the dictates of money as prescribed by the structure of our money-oriented society. That’s it. That’s the whole deal. Science, truth, morals, justice, empathy, right and wrong or good and bad doesn’t matter. Nothing but the quest for profits matters. Donald’s service to a large corporation prove this with deadly clarity.

Thousands of people have already died, thousands more have contracted ailments and 100s of thousands have grown obese since the introduction of aspartame in soft drinks and other food products (6 000 +) in the 1980s. One of the reports that G.D.Serle stopped and tried to bury showed that baby mice fed with aspartame developed holes in their brains. Searle claimed that the test was stopped because of inadequate procedures and added that there was no convincing evidence that this artificial sweetener affects the brain. One of the FDA toxicologists, Dr. Adrian Gross, testified in Congress (Aug.1, 1985, Congressional Record SID835:131) that at least one of Searle’s own studies “has established beyond ANY REASONABLE DOUBT that aspartame is capable of inducing brain tumors in experimental animals /—-/ the cancer causing potential of aspartame is a matter that had been established WAY BEYOND ANY REASONABLE DOUBT.”

Those who tend to believe Searle’s claim of aspartame’s innocence will also tend to believe that the 40% increase in brain tumors since the introduction of aspartame is merely a coincidence. Another coincidence shows diabetes increasing to pandemic proportions since aspartame hit the market after having maintained a stable level of occurrence for 20 years. Please add the explosive increase in obesity as another coincidence.

It would appear as though D. Rumsfeld, the Searle corporation and Arthur Hull Hayes, Jr were willing to fatten, sicken and kill 100s of 1000s of people for money. Truth be told, that’s not the choice these people were making. They were, like thousands of their peers still are, blind to all considerations beyond money. Make the deal! Make the profit! Nothing else matters.

That’s their truth. Fiction tells us that super hitmen kill people for money. Reality tells us that well-manicured, prestigious professionals can be much deadlier. Arthur Hull Hayes, Jr, for instance, held degrees in philosophy, politics, economics, medicine and pharmacology. He was assistant professor of medicine and pharmacology at Cornell University,  a director of clinical pharmacology at the Penn State University Medical School, Commissioner of the FDA, dean of New Your Medical College and president of EM Pharmaceuticals Inc. That’s quite a list of merits for a well-paid hitman.

Donald R. and aspartame prove, ”way beyond any reasonable doubt,” that experts can be bought and indoctrinated. That’s the way a money-oriented system does things. It buys experts as easily as a teenager buys a soda laced with aspartame.

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”All wars are different and the same
different ways to destroy, kill and maim
different places, different names
the winners die in flags
the losers die in shame.
They’re killed with steel and fire,
with greed, lies and hate.
The truth gets scrubbed with money
and filed under fate.”

Dartwill Aquila

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