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Medical Freedom Quote by Dr. Benjamin Rush [link to healthfreedom.info (secure)]

"Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an underground dictatorship....To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic and have no place in a republic....The Constitution of this republic should make special privilege for medical freedom as well as religious freedom."

The quote above is often attributed to one of the Founding Fathers of the Republic, Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signatory of the Declaration of Independence. But is this exactly what he wrote?

These words do encapsulate Dr. Rush's viewpoint on medical freedom. However, no one has actually found this exact quote in any of his many writings.

It appears that this paraphrase has evolved over time long after Dr. Rush's death in 1813.

The quote below was taken from Dr. Rush's introductory remarks to a course lecture at the University of Pennsylvania on November 3, 1801. He was describing 24 “causes which have retarded the progress of our science” and this was one of the causes that he listed.

However, Dr. Benjamin Rush did state:

#22 -- “Conferring exclusive privileges upon bodies of physicians, and forbidding men of equal talents and knowledge, under severe penalties from practicing medicine within certain districts of cities and countries.

"Such institutions, however sanctioned by ancient charters and names, are the Bastilles of our science.”

The Bastille fortress in France epitomized the tyrannical imprisonment of people who exercised politically incorrect free speech (aka, censorship). Originally, if the king did not like something a person said he would imprison the person without a trial or without what we would term "due process". Voltaire spent nearly a year behind bars at the Bastille for his writings.

In our world today would not "Bastilles of our science" be interpreted as "fake science"? Or to paraphrase virologist Dr. Judy Mikovits, "Propaganda maskerading as science". The new "king" is now the unholy marriage between government and corporations.

James Madison wrote in the Federalist Papers that when legislative, judicial and executive powers are accumulated in the "same hands" or in one person--such as a king--it is the very definition of tyranny. [@50%] [link to healthfreedom.info (secure)]