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Billy Best (photo: Patrick Whittemore)
Why is it that the legal system and religious right insist upon keeping people alive? When people wish to exercise their right to die, when those with dangerous illnesses wish to turn away from court orders for high-impact treatment, why can’t they?
In the matter of the law and government institutions, it comes down to the tax dollars associated with your social security number. That’s what you are to them. Social security is a tax in and of itself. You might need low interest loans to pay it, and payday loans with no faxing would qualify, but you must pay the tax. Interestingly, applying for a number is voluntary, but the tax is mandatory. From the standpoint of organized religion, cut through the sanctity of life rhetoric and get to the tithing and meme spreading nitty gritty. I haven’t even mentioned the medical and senior care industries, which are big business for America. You need to stay alive because it’s good business, brass tacks. Got it?
But what about the Essiac?
But before I continue this rant for too long, let’s take a look at Billy Best. He is a cancer survivor who fled from the prospect of painful chemotherapy, and now he is involved in the case of Danny Hauser, the young man who has been ordered by Minnesota courts to undergo chemo. Billy relied on diet changes and the herbal remedy essiac, and he’s been cancer free for nearly 14 years. Now he wants to help Hauser survive on his own terms.
The story so far for Best and Hauser
Dave Wedge writes for the Boston Herald that Best is ready to “do anything” to help the 13-year-old Minnesota runaway Danny Hauser, and that offer apparently includes hiding him from the authorities.
“I would hide the kid out,” Best said of Hauser, “But I have had no contact with him.” The nationwide search for Hauser continues, as it did for Best back in 1995 when he faced a similar situation.
Flight
Doctors maintain that chemotherapy is the critical element in Danny Hauser’s potential recovery. Indeed, numerous medical experts attest to the 90 percent success rate of chemotherapy when combating Hodgkins lymphoma. Best had the same diagnosis back in 1995, but he turned to the use of essiac over chemo. He claims it is what cured him, along with a change in diet.
Billy Best, 31, went to Minnesota to support the Hauser family during their court battle. As a result, he has been named in the arrest warrant that has been written for Daniel Hauser’s mother, Colleen. The police warrant names Colleen Hauser and the Hauser’s lawyer as possible traveling companions for Daniel during his flight.
Oh my sparrow it’s too late
Your body limp beneath my feet
Your dusty eyes cold as clay
You didn’t hear my warning- Neko Case, “Maybe Sparrow”
They’ll get their money, one way or the other
“I told them if they needed any help, either in the country or to get out of the country, I would. But I never got back to them on it. And they’re gone now,” Best said. He claims he has “nothing to hide” and has not been questioned by police as yet.
As I’ve said, Best has been in Hauser’s position. When he was 16, he was diagnosed with Hodgkins lymphoma. He underwent five chemo treatments before telling his parents he’d had enough. Then the Boston boy fled to Texas, apparently in an effort to cross the U.S.-Mexico border. Television cameras invaded the Best family’s life and local authorities attempted to label Billy Best’s parents unfit so that Billy could be taken into protective custody.
“I had already lost so much weight and my hair and there’s a taste that comes with it. It’s a metal taste in your mouth,” he said. “You start falling apart. I was listening to my body and I didn’t think I could handle another one.”
Enter the essiac
Billy Best swears by the healing properties of essiac. He claims it helped him beat his cancer, which has not relapsed. Now he hopes Daniel Hauser can find the same healing.
“When I found out about it, I just started crying because it brings you right back to the pain,” Best said of Hauser. “I was hoping it would help him seeing someone who’s been exactly where he’s been and gotten through it.”
Our lives are unique and valuable. No organization on Earth should be able to dictate what we do with our bodies. Part of honoring life’s sanctity is having the power to make that choice. No government should place undue restraint upon our pursuit of liberty. Low interest loans and payday loans with no faxing is but a small token of the financial freedom we can exercise. In the case of Daniel Hauser, his choice is life-defining. Perhaps essiac is a viable option, perhaps it isn’t. Until the medical establishment agrees to study findings, there won’t be definitive evidence. Until then, the establishment will preach chemotherapy… because if we bring people to the brink of death, they’ll have less energy to resist. Swallow the pill. Trust the voice of authority. You pay for it, one way or the other.
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Hey, if Essiac can work better than chemo for Hodgkins, then they ought to look into it. Granted, do herbs, plants, and candles work better than some prescriptions? No. You aren’t going to beat a major infection with tea. However, herbal remedies and others do sometimes work. A hot toddy does wonders for a cold, let me assure you. Granted, a hot toddy makes you feel good regardless if you’re sick or not. (I think we all know what the central ingredient is, and it’s rated at about 100 proof.) There’s a lot of medical treatments that don’t get looked into, and it has a lot to do with whether or not some pharmaceutical company is going to be able to get the patents and the subsequent billions in revenue for it.