Did Daniel Hauser Flee to Mexico for Nemenhah Tribe Medicine?

Flee to Mexico for alternative treatments

If you’ve seen the Michael Moore documentary “Sicko,” you’ve seen a vision of an American healthcare system in crisis. Dominated by bureaucracy, people die waiting for approval of life-saving surgeries. I’m reminded of Sean Hannity, foaming at the mouth over the prospect of socialized medicine: “You know, if you go to Canada, you’ll see! Nobody gets the surgeries they need because the lines are too long! Go there and die, liberal dogs!”

Or something like that. Yet when you live in a country where it takes faxless payday loans for the instant cash to bribe the desk clerk to even get you into the ER if you didn’t enter with your head in your hands, “Sleepy Hollow”-style… you know there’s something wrong.

That’s why the Nemenhah Tribe sends them to Mexico

The laws are much more wiggle room when it comes to “untested” medical treatments. That’s why Billy Best fled there in 1995; that may very well be where Daniel Hauser is headed now, in case the police are wondering. Hauser – possibly Best – are members of the Nemenhah Tribe.

Now reports indicate that law enforcement believes Colleen Hauser and her son Daniel may indeed by on the way to Mexico, but not via Texas as Billy Best attempted. They may be looking to pass through San Diego and over the border into Tijuana.

As the national media and I have been reporting, 13-year-old Daniel Hauser has Hodgkin’s lymphoma. There is a tumor growing in his chest for which a Minnesota court has ordered chemotherapy treatment. Instead of heeding the order, Colleen and Daniel Hauser have disappeared, and Billy Best may have been involved.

Turning a Sleepy Eye toward reason

Police officials from Daniel Hauser’s hometown of Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, believe the boy may be planning to meet in Mexico with members of the Nemenhah Tribe at a clinic for alternative treatment that may or may not involve the herbal remedy essiac. Speaking for her son’s beliefs before their disappearance, Colleen Hauser said that introducing toxic substances into the body – which is exactly what chemotherapy does – is against their religion.

Mrs. Hauser, I urge you to make your medical decisions based upon scientific evidence. Religion has no scientific brain to stand on, and faith by its very definition is based upon belief in “things unseen.” Decide as a logical, thinking human being. If essiac works – and there is anecdotal evidence that it does - then choose as your mind dictates. Teach your son how to make well-informed decisions.

Cloudpiler: aka Runs with the Felons

Phillip “Cloudpiler” Landis probably has a hand in this. He founded the Nemenhah Tribe about 10 years ago. According to the AP, he refers to himself as a medicine chief. So long as initiates pay $250 to join and a $100 annual fee, they too can enjoy the kind of treatments Landis used to supposedly cure his own cancer: diet, herbs and time in a sweat lodge. Native American groups bristle at the mention of this man and his smorgasbord sampling of the native traditions that tickled his fancy.

Oh, Mexico – it sounds so simple

Web sites like Alternative-Cancer.net say that laws in Mexico make alternative clinics that have sprung up there particularly attractive to Americans who desire treatments they can’t get en los Estados Unidos. Unfortunately, these treatments aren’t always scientifically proven to work. In addition to diet, high heat and herbal remedies that attempt to “train the immune system” to fight off cancer – treatments favored by the Nemenhah Tribe – Mexican clinics also favor various oxygen therapies.

Drs. Fine and Howard, taking a break

Alternative-Cancer.net claims that Tijuana clinics vary in size range from one-man to full-on hospitals. In theory, the doctors there know how to “use conventional and alternative therapies together” because of the more forgiving regulations. Supposedly they also know which alternative treatments are best for which maladies. I can’t attest to their training, but I’d bet faxless payday loans and instant cash that I wouldn’t seek out their services. But others should have the freedom to do so if they wish, including Daniel Hauser of the Nemenhah Tribe.

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