Published Articles

Monday, June 21, 1999

On June 23, 1995, a swarm of armed men invaded the Mason, West Virginia medical office of Dr. Danny R. Westmoreland. With their guns drawn, the intruders ordered everyone, including a nine-year-old child, to stand against a wall while the office was ransacked. The marauders were agents of the federal "health police," and they had violated the sanctuary of Dr. Westmoreland's office - which is also his home - and terrorized patients at gunpoint in order to execute a search warrant against the physician.

Federal Assault

Keyword(s): politics, public policy, socialized medicine


Friday, June 4, 1999

Thank you for your kind introduction. It's my pleasure to have the opportunity to address this distinguished audience of physician colleagues and fellow scientists in Doctors for Disaster Preparedness (DDP). I want to talk about the issue of scientific integrity in public health and firearm research. This is a topic like many others in which you have only heard one side of the story.

The AMA/CDC/NCIPC Propaganda Axis 

Keyword(s): gun control, guns, public health, public policy


Saturday, May 1, 1999

Under the present developing system of medical care - i.e., managed care and HMOs (corporate socialized medicine), physicians today (including neurosurgeons) are subject to cost-effective analysis or economic credentialing-the methodology by which hospitals and health care networks (particularly HMOs) use utilization review data about physician medical practices (not to determine quality as claimed, but more accurately, to monitor financial impact).

Keyword(s): socialized medicine


Monday, March 8, 1999

Your March 3 editorial "Health Care Industry Wearing Blinders," brings to light much that is transpiring today in health care delivery - from "cowardly" public relations responses at the state legislature to "cynical" radio ads by the managed care industry.

The public outcry you described and the horror story testimonials aired in WMAZ's All About You, managed care series - all support my contention that we are headed in the wrong direction, toward more corporate socialized medicine, to the detriment of patient care.

Keyword(s): health care policy, HMO, MSA


Tuesday, March 2, 1999

People of the decaying Roman Empire enjoyed their peace and prosperity too much to quibble over losing a few liberties in exchange for security, Dr. Miguel A. Faria. Jr. said Monday.

Speaking at the monthly meeting of the Republican Women of Bibb County, Faria said the United States appears headed down the same path. Moral decay runs rampant through society, and people aren't coming forward to express outrage over moral and ethical lapses, such as the ones underscored in the recent accusations against President Clinton.

Keyword(s): public policy


Thursday, February 18, 1999

The one-worlders are a determined and persistent lot. It's a pity they lack vision. Like lemmings, they are rushing full speed to trade God-given, inalienable rights for those granted at the whim of the world's corrupt politicians.

Their latest brainchild is a purported loophole in the United States Constitution. The text reads:

Keyword(s): politics, U.S. Constitution


Wednesday, February 3, 1999

The column last Thursday by a trial lawyer about suing gun manufacturers is greatly self-serving.

If Don C. Keenan wants to help America's children, he should immediately direct his foundation to sponsor nationwide gun safety programs in schools, as we have done very successfully in Bibb County, rather than propose yet another way for trial lawyers to enrich themselves in the name of conducting a moral pseudo-crusade for the children.

Keyword(s): gun control, guns, public policy


Tuesday, December 1, 1998

Warning! If you have high blood pressure, consult your physician before reading Medical Warrior. Dr. Miguel Faria writes with such fervor and conviction about the looming dangers of a health-care system dominated by big government, big business, and big labor that people with medical problems may wish to read something far less provocative.

Keyword(s): socialized medicine


Sunday, May 3, 1998

Thomas Jefferson once admonished us that "the natural progression of things is for liberty to yield and for government to gain ground." In this, as in his many other admonitions to posterity, he was immensely correct. Georgia was one of several states like Colorado, Texas, and California to implement a fingerprint requirement for obtaining a driver's license. A recent report in The American Sentinel (issue #613; Editor: Lee Bellinger, P.O.

Keyword(s): freedom


Monday, March 16, 1998

During President Clinton's first term, a vigorous offensive was launched under the name "Health Security Act of 1993," the goal of which was to deliver into the hands of the federal government the entire health care system of the United States. Fortunately, that undertaking was defeated, thanks to the resistance of the American people who made it clear that they did not want the central government exercising such comprehensive dominion over something so crucial as health care. However, though our adversaries appeared to fall back in defeat, we see in Dr.

Keyword(s): socialized medicine