THE CREATION OF A FASCIST NHS
Enforced Regulation and The Censorship of Alternative Self-Healing Options in
Britain
During 1993 The BMA published a report (1) which the SAFF at the time clearly
warned was the first salvo in a campaign by the Medical Monopoly to discredit,
limit and bring under their control the burgeoning alternative health-care
scene. This BMA report dishonestly and biasedly misrepresented Alternative
Healing and pressed for practitioners to be outlawed or brought within the
control of the Medical Monopoly. The motivation for all this is not really one
of protecting or healing patients but of circumscribing and gathering together
one of the greatest powers over the individual that can be obtained, the gift of
his life and death. If that had not been the case natural healers would not have
posed such a threat to the church and the establishment. This was the major
thrust of the BMA's 1993 report, as explained on the jacket of the publication
itself.
'How are these (alternative) therapies regulated? Are therapists registered with
an appropriate body, and how do you know if they are competent to
practise?.....(this report contains)... a series of practical recommendations to
protect the patient from possible harm'
The government's current (2008) White Paper, 'Trust, Assurance and Safety, The
Regulation of Health Professionals ' is the successful end result of 15 years
inexorable pressure by the Medical Monopoly to rob you of YOUR healing options.
Because this attack on Alternative Healing and Freedom of Choice appears to be
coming from a secular rather than a sectarian source the public are being lulled
into a false feeling of security over these exceedingly crucial rights to
self-help. But if you look back into history you will see that this is not the
first attempt to deprive free-thinkers of choice. In the middle ages the
Churches' attack on occultism occurred as part and parcel of an attempt to
retain a monopoly of power over the people during a period in which much social
and civil unrest was occurring. It resulted in random victimisations which were
excused away by having a modus-operandi built around them.
The existing healing system had evolved then over thousands of years through a
line of self-taught Cunning Men/Women and was undoubtedly seen as a threat to
the church at all levels because not only did it short circuit the monopoly on
healing which those in power in the Church required in order to control the
lives of the people (compare the interference in the third world in the 19th
century via medical missions, many of which are still ongoing in the hinterlands
of Africa) , but the Old Healing worked in contradistinction using philosophies
such as The Doctrine of Signatures and Hermetic Laws which were entirely
antipodean to Theological doctrine of the time.
Thus peasants who were healed by Cunning Healers had first hand evidence of the
practical successes and genuineness of the pagan cosmos which didn't do
Christianity any good.
It was, of course, easy to re-interpret Natural Healing practices (often based
on the spiritual quality and actions of plants) as demonic/satanic and so
cunning healers were, totally unjustly, often victimised. However Cunning
Healers provided an essential social function in those days; in particular they
naturally and automatically married effective herbal medicine with a concomitant
psychotherapeutic treatment for each patient. A successful method which modern
medicine in its obsession with over-specialisation has rent assunder. Yet
historically it often appears to onlookers that there WAS a justification for
the Church's action, for these healers using 'magic' which was 'suspect'. No one
who really knows about Hedge-Witches can think that is true. I can make a long
list of the modern 'scientific' medical breakthroughs which were simply
re-packaged age-old Cunning Healer wisdom. Penicillin for example, is a major
illustration of this - mouldy bread poultice was used by natural healers for
centuries before sci ence rediscovered it as a wonder antibiotic of modern
medicine. Witches staunched bleeding using spiders' gossamer a natural styptic.
etc. etc.
By selectively ignoring the many successful results of Alternative Healing
governments allow apologists to suggest that in essence they were correct to act
when they did against 'archaic and mediaeval healing practices', just as the BMA
is trying to do again today, hundreds of years later.
Another major point here is that medical knowledge in the possession of the
Cunning Healers was on a par with or often exceeded officially sanctioned
medical knowledge and so suppressing the Cunning Healers was a recipe for
disaster and unrest in society by depriving ordinary folk of access to proper
health services.
The very same situation occurred during the 15c in England when in 1423 the
English Guild of Physicians (the forerunner of the BMA/GMC) demanded the
outlawing of Natural Healers. In 1540 parliament gave them what they wanted and
created the College of Surgeons monopoly. The deleterious effects of this Xist
monopoly were so pernicious that within two years (a very short space of time
for changes to register in those days) the King was forced to completely revise
the law , for the vast majority of the population had been left without any
recourse to medical treatment whatsoever, not being able to afford the charges
of the Medical elite. The very same situation is occurring today in the NHS.
Over-charging for health services is pushing people into trying alternative (and
often much less expensive ) healing methods based on esoteric doctrines which
the BMA decries - yet which have been shown to work during hundreds of years of
empirical useage.
The new government regulations unfortunately WILL become law because they are
adopting a softly softly approach and are beguiling the type of therapists who
love to wear white overalls and sport letters after their names in a pastiche of
'professionalism'. But the SAFF warns all free-thinkers once again that this is
just one plank of several different Xist strategies to diminish their freedom of
choice over their own health-care.
An acquaintance of mine recently attempted to adopt a child - apart from the
usual checks any reasonable person would expect he and his wife were asked to
undertake a medical examination the result of which was that he was, horror of
horrors, 1% (one percent!) 'overweight' compared with the parameters for obesity
set down by the GMC and was told that he could not be allowed to foster a child
unless he agreed to undertake a dietary regime.
The philosopher Hegel maintained that all principles and ideologies are of
necessity circular and eventually become that which they originally were
designed to replace.
Thus we see the astonishing sight of a socialist government working with state
registered 'healers' to move speedily and inexorably towards a kind of Body
Fascism where the measurement of bone-structure, racial characteristics, genetic
'abnormalities' , dietary enforcement, mental and learning capacities, enforced
life-style modification of individuals and the production of a homologated
European 'super-race' have become a real and very worrying reality.
You have been warned.
John Freedom, Mortlake, Lammas 2008
(1) (Complementary Medicine- New Approaches to Good Practice, Publ: Oxford
University Press; isbn:9780192861665 )
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