It’s About the Pain, Stupid

It’s About the Pain, Schmuck – regarding the Testimony of Terry Lynn Knight, patient of Dr. Ali Shaygan; Alex DeLuca; Addiction, Pain and Public Health website; 2009-05-02. [Revised same day: changed subject, overly aggressive paragraphs deleted, other minor edits.]

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See also:
Govt. Acknowledges Misconduct in US v Shaygan – DeLuca, 2009-03-29

I just this evening received and read this testimony regarding a patient of Dr. Ali Shaygan, recently persecuted in your name, on your nickle, for no good reason. By all honest accounts, Dr. Shaygan was exceptional only in his compassion and dedication to the art of medicine and to his patients.

This letter, duly filed in U.S.A. v Ali Shaygan, is the testimony of one of Dr. Shaygan’s patients. It concludes:

I beg you, Judge Gold, to not only impose sanctions on the Federal Prosecutors and DEA agents, but to impose criminal charges for their wrongdoing. [To] deliberately and maliciously – and without regard for the LAW THEY ARE CHARGED TO UPHOLD – fabricate stories to make a case – this is the worst kind of injustice.

I urge you all to read this account, written by a fellow citizen, a person just like you. Read about how Federal police agents, paid by you, intimidate sick people.

While you worry yourself sick about your personal family finances, ponder a moment on the bloody gall of your Dept. of “Justice” in their relentless pursuit of innocent physicians ministering to patients guilty only of being ill. A police state living large at your expense.

How phat are you feeling, my fellow Americans? Phat enough to indulge in doctor-bashing to the literal point of wiping out docs willing to treat chronic pain? Perhaps you (we) are simply too stupid, too hateful and selfish, to survive.

While my colleagues in the mainstream anti-drug-war movement focus fixedly on cannabis, as if marijuana users were the only or even primary victims of global prohibition, opioid therapy for non-cancer chronic pain has been virtually eliminated in this country (and also in the Third World). As in “Not for YOU or YOUR kid or YOUR grandma.”

Oh what a lovely drug war. Medical marijuana – rah rah rah.

You or someone you love will be in a car crash, or will get cancer, or will suffer some chronic, painful and debilitating illness. Not IF, friends; WHEN. Duh.

And WHEN you or yours get injured, or get cancer, or some ongoing, painful chronic medical condition, your primary care physician may VERY LIKELY NOT treat you with the potent analgesic medications most appropriate for your condition, because she is very rightly afraid of ending up like Dr. Shaygan.

And Dr. Shaygan WON one of the most stunning victories in War on Doctors history.

And it IS our fault. This is our Government, they do our bidding, my fellow greedy, sad, short-sighted Americans. I fear our willingness to see our fellow citizens suffer and die will be our destiny.

Apparently Americans hate ill people way more than we love liberty. You love hating “addicts” and locking “them” up more than you love your own damn sick parents and children.

Maybe we all deserve the pain. If we are too stupid or hateful to understand that aspirin kills way more people than opioids, and that there are a whole lot worse things for you and your damn Federal cops to worry about than if maybe your neighbor is getting too much pain relief (sheesh!) – if you are that effin stupid and selfish then maybe you deserve the chronic pain which YOUR government has already imposed on you and your children as the defacto law of the land.

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