Llewellyn King reports on Robert Miller's hunger strike

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The State of the Union

February 4th, 2013

“How does the citizen petition his or her government? How do you get your message through?”

http://www.whchronicle.com/2013/02/the-state-of-the-union/ (00:00 – 02:45)

 

[SickOfSickness]

Thanks to Llewellyn.

 

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He's right; ordinary folk have no way of petitioning govt even to protect intrinsic rights let alone for somthing like Ampligen.

 

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A Drug Goes Down in a Perfect Storm

By Llewellyn King

Published February 12, 2013 – 10:28 pm

Miller and the drug are at the heart of a perfect storm involving bureaucratic procedures, corporate ineptitude and a community of patients who have no Washington presence and therefore no strident voice.

Instead of a lobby, there are individuals — many of them very sick — who form a rag-tag pressure group, a small irregular army, who speak out on behalf of what is believed to be a million CFS sufferers in the United States....

Miller’s hope is that as a result of his hunger strike the National Institutes of Health can be persuaded to conduct its own trials as they can and do sometimes. But even if they do, it will be years before the FDA will rule again. “It has cost us 10 years,” Courtney Alexander, Miller’s wife, said.

More: http://www.whchronicle.com/2013/02/a-drug-goes-down-in-a-perfect-storm/