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GUNS, DRUGS, AND EUGENICS 269thing in food that is known to cause cancer. Aspartame also is blamed forthe increase in diabetes as it not only can precipitate the disease but alsostimulates and aggravates diabetic retinopathy and neuropathy, which,when interacting with insulin, can cause diabetics to go into convulsions.Dr. Betty Martini worked in the medical field for twenty-two years.She was the founder of Mission Possible International, working with doctorsaround the world in an effort to remove aspartame from food, drinks,and medicine. She gave this account of how pharmaceutical interests overcameclaims of public welfare:“Donald Rumsfeld was CEO of Searle, that conglomerate that manufacturedaspartame. For sixteen years the FDA refused to approve it, notonly because it’s not safe but because they wanted the company indictedfor fraud. Both U.S. prosecutors hired on with the defense team and thestatute of limitations expired. They were Sam Skinner and William Conlon.Skinner went on to become secretary of transportation, squelchingthe cries of the pilots who were now having seizures on this seizuretriggeringdrug, aspartame, and then chief of staff under President Bush’sfather. Some of these people reached high places. Even Supreme JusticeClarence Thomas is a former Monsanto attorney. (Monsanto bought Searlein 1985, and sold it a few years ago.) When [John] Ashcroft became attorneygeneral [in 2001, Larry] Thompson from King and Spalding Attorneys(another former Monsanto attorney) became deputy under Ashcroft.However, the FDA still refused to allow NutraSweet on the market. It is adeadly neurotoxic drug masquerading as an additive. It interacts with allantidepressants, L-dopa, Coumadin, hormones, insulin, all cardiac medication,and many others. It also is a chemical hypersensitization drug, so itinteracts with vaccines, other toxins, other unsafe sweeteners, like Splendathat has a chlorinated base like DDT and can cause autoimmune disease.It has a synergistic and additive effect with MSG. Both being excitotoxins,the aspartic acid in aspartame, and MSG, the glutamate, people werefound using aspartame as the placebo for MSG studies, even before it wasapproved. The FDA has known this for a quarter of a century and donenothing even though it’s against the law. Searle went on to build a Nutra-Sweet factory and had $9 million worth of inventory. Donald Rumsfeldwas on President Reagan’s transition team and the day after [Reagan] took