A Letter to My Children Written by John and Michele Erb Posted on www.spofamerica.com by johnmichelle - 1 Aug 2006 2:14pm (Info and activism links are below 'Letter')

I look around me and I see a world falling apart: Wars, famine, poverty, pollution and human suffering at an all time high, and I am sorry. My children, I am sorry that the world you are growing up in is not one where you can live in playful innocence. You are having too learn much too early about the failures of the society that you have been born into. When I held you as babies I made a promise to protect you from harm, to surround you in an environment of justice, and stability, and health. I find I am failing that promise. Four years ago, when your Mother and I found out that government sponsored fluoride had already poisoned one of you when you were not even 7 years old, we were inspired to do what we could to protect you. The book we wrote was meant to put an end to the poisoning. Not just by fluoride, but by Monosodium Glutamate, and Aspartame, man made chemicals that have contributed to illness around the world. I had great expectations for this knowledge. I remembered what I had learned in school: that the media and governments were all dedicated to protecting the public. By putting the book and several reports in their hands, surely these beneficial agents would act quickly to protect the people from poisoning. But my children, the reality is far different. The establishment is designed for one thing: to ensure its own survival. There exists in this world a Status Quo; that being that the people with the money and the power do everything to ensure that they remain the people with the money and the power. Anyone with information or ideas that could threaten their highly profitable endeavours must be silenced, blacklisted, or branded as a crackpot. Some of you were forced to go into a school system where you learned this first hand. The teachers were not there to inspire you to follow your own dreams and talents, they were there to enforce a state approved curriculum that teaches you that your life is only worth the dollar amount someone will pay you by the hour. If you do not follow the school paradigm you threaten any chance you have of college and financial success. Financial success being of course the only path to happiness. So they would have you believe. But the truth of it is far different. If only you knew that hard work and money only spurs you on to more work to get more money. That in the end the wealthy may turn out to be more miserable than the poor. When Grandfather Harold, and Grandmother Margaret did volunteer work in many third world countries teaching people self-sustainable agriculture, they saw children having more happiness in a day, than many of you have in months. Children laughing and singing and playing, without the need of high priced toys or technological contraptions. Families remained close for generations, instead of the alienation that seems to be driving a wedge between parents and teenagers of the western world today. The media argues that it wants to keep us informed. But what it is doing with its 24 hour reports of misery and sadness is to fill us with a sense of fear and hopelessness. If the big governments cannot stop the killing and horrors, what can we do. We are taught to feel powerless. We are not allowed to feel a day of happiness, for they make sure we hear about the negative things happening a half a world way to take any smile you have away. The only happiness we are allowed to pursue is that of shopping and consuming. I have spent three years fighting the Status Quo. The top government offices I have met with have only acted to protect the corporations that our information would damage, the top media members who interviewed me were not allowed to bring this knowledge to the public for the damage it would do to their advertisers. And so it is that millions more children are born with Autism, ADHD, obesity and diabetes that didnŐt have to. When we wrote the book, I had hoped the selling of it would bring financial wealth. A wealth we could use to start a Cancer treatment facility using natural hormones and methods proven to cure tumorous cancers. Money we could use to start an Autism treatment center to reverse much of the damage done to the brains of these individuals. Money to be used to educate the world on better methods of nutrition and health practices that would end our dependence on multinational pharmaceutical companies. But the media kept our message from being heard, and the big bookstores refused to carry such a controversial book. But money is not everything, and there is still much I can do without it. Two years ago, I had taken a report to Washington about five hundred medically published studies that used MSG to create obese rodents for study to the office of Senator Tom Harkin. He is the chairman of the Food and Agricultural committee. The report shows experiments dating back thirty years, and done in over 20 countries, giving absolute proof of the dangers of MSG. The U.S. government response was to quicken the pace of a new Bill: The Consumer Responsibility Act will make it impossible for an individual to sue a company whose ingredients have been proven to cause obesity. The lesson I learned is that the majority of laws passed are for the benefit of the Lobby groups and the corporations they represent. The world is a big place, with plenty of problems, but I intend to tackle one of them. Your Mother and I know from our research that not only does MSG in food cause obesity and diabetes, but Autism and ADHD as well. One in a hundred children in the western world is being born with Autism. This epidemic has to stop. I do not want you to have to worry about your children being born with ADHD, Autism, obesity or diabetes. So I am fulfilling my promise that I made to you as babies cradled in my arms. I am going to use all my strengths, skills, knowledge and abilities to have MSG removed from the tables of the Earth. I will work to have the United Nations declare the addition of MSG in food to be illegal. In this way I hope to protect you, and your children as well, from a food additive whose sole purpose as a flavour enhancer is to addict us and make us eat more. Today is Tuesday, August 1st, 2006. I begin my crusade today. I will wage this battle daily, and keep you informed of the progress of my journey. My father told me that the best thing you can do, is to make the world a little better than it was when you found it. I intend to do just that. For your sake, and the sake of your children. This is a FatherŐs Love

John and Michele Erb are authors of the book THE SLOW POISONING OF AMERICA ERB WEBSITE You can own it for $24.95+$5 shipping or read it thru password/online access for one year $9.95. (no financial affiliation to thinkscapes.com) They encourage grassroots activism as the necessary force to bring about change: ERB BLOG WE CAN'T QUIT... AND WE MUST HELP THEM... AND HELP OURSELVES... NOW!!! DO IT! >:O) EMAIL YOUR HEARTFELT DEMANDS TO CONGRESS ...a Congress now painfully aware that they have failed the American people in every way. Other relevant links: NATUROPATH MSG SITE RENSE ARTICLE ON MSG Some see this as a battle between pure goodness and pure evil: 'INTENTIONAL COPPER DEFICIENCY' THEORY