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The Underbelly of ME/CFS Politics Revealed
THE ONE CLICK STORY http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/
The Underbelly of ME/CFS Politics Revealed CONTENTS Foreword by Martin J. Walker Introduction The One Click Smear Campaign Ellen Goudsmit, Psychologist Police Raid and Arrest - Jane Colby of TYMES Trust and the Countess of Mar et al Legal Comment Conclusion FOREWORD BY MARTIN J. WALKER Following the publication in 1993 of my book Dirty Medicine, which was mainly about the newly emerged Campaign Against Health Fraud, I was subjected to a series of dirty tricks, lawyers' letters and biased newspaper references to my work. Of course, when I reported these to anyone or tried to convince people of the veracity of my case, it was often seen as an extension of either my conspiracy theories or my more personal paranoia. Twelve years on, with the war against Iraq, with thousands of deaths caused by pharmaceutical drugs, with such scandals as the gathering number of children taken into care by social services for the flimsiest of reasons and with the campaign by vested interests to force through GM crops in Britain, it is possible that we are all somewhat wiser about the nature of conspiracies. You would not have to be politically na=EFve, however, to be shocked and surprised by the case of Jane Bryant and Angela Kennedy. It involves the psychiatric community, undoubtedly one of the most powerful networks in the contemporary developed world, pharmaceutical company agents, including one in particular who has spent the past decade harassing activists and professionals committed to alternative health, and, more unusually, it involves the police. I well remember the years of investigation into the Metropolitan Police, the drug squad, the porn squad and then the robbery squad. There was always a sense during those enquiries that the truth would emerge and that, on a broader level, new regulations and codes of practice would evolve which would combat such institutional corruption. In a similar way, more recently, revelations of the corruption of pharmaceutical companies and the science of corporate organisations have generated an awareness in society of conflicts of interests, which should lead to change. The one real difference between then and now, however, is that then the government were willing to listen and the media invariably enjoyed playing an investigative role, while now the government is deeply complicit in spin, and sadly investigative journalism is a dying art. What has been happening within the world of ME for at least 20 years is worthy of investigation at the highest level, ending in a Royal Commission or a Judicial Inquiry. It involves the creation of fake illness categories in order to hide a massive number of seriously ill patients; the infiltration of voluntary sector patient groups by pharmaceutical and insurance agents; the abuse of social research methods, particularly epidemiology; lies, propaganda, media spin and stealthy misinformation campaigns against activists. With the case of Jane Bryant and Angela Kennedy, and the arrival of four heavily-protected police officers on Bryant's doorstep one morning in April 2005, the covert nature of this conspiracy changed. For the first time, the State showed its hand clearly in what had up until then been an argument within the ME community. Jane Bryant was charged with 'harassment', ironically under a law introduced to protect lone women from stalkers. With the law being used to aid stalkers and with the State and the NHS prosecuting, the battle to do away with dissent in the ME community has revealed itself as public policy. And when Jane was told by a senior police officer that, while she might not have broken any laws by campaigning for people with ME, she should have 'moderated her language', we know that we have stumbled into the contemporary equivalent of 1984. Martin Walker August 2005 Martin Walker is the author of 'Skewed'. In 'Skewed', Martin Walker takes a penetrating look at the 'emerging illnesses': Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS), Gulf War Syndrome (GWS), Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). You may obtain a copy of 'Skewed' from Cygnus Books at http://www.cygnus-books.co.uk/ |
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