In defence of Grünenthal
Posted by Ivo Cerckel on June 26th, 2009
Government is the problem, always, everywhere …
Whereas the British thalidomide monsters are appealing directly to the British prime minister, Gordon Brown, and the newly appointed British minister for health, Andy Burnham, to apologise in writing to every thalidomide monster (1),
the active wing of the German thalidomide monsters continues to harass thalidomide’s manufacturer Grünenthal GmbH, owned by the Wirtz family, in Stolberg, Aachen. (2)
And the only motive the Germans can give is that Grünenthal is a billionaire.
As Ayn Rand said:
ENVY is regarded by most people as a petty, superficial emotion and, therefore, it serves as a semi-human cover for so inhuman an emotion that those who feel it seldom dare admit it even to themselves . . . . That emotion is: HATRED of the good for being the good.
This hatred is not resentment against some prescribed view of the good with which one does not agree . . . . Hatred of the good for being the good means hatred of that which one regards as good by one’s own (conscious or subconscious) judgment. It means hatred of a person for possessing a value or virtue one regards as desirable. (3)
To repeat,
thalidomide was developed by the Nazis probably, as an antidote to nerve gas, said The Sunday Times on 08 February 2009.
The article went on to say:
If, as their research suggests, thalidomide was first developed by scientists working in wartime Germany, it could have implications for the liability of the German government. (4)
Government is the problem, always, everywhere …
As Alan Greenspan, former chaitman of the US of A central bank, and before that an associate of Ayn Rand, reminds us today in the Financial Times
the process of “creative destruction”,the private sector market competition , is essential to rising standards of living. (5)
Government faces, of course, no competition. It is indestructible, so they think …
Ivo Cerckel
honestmoney@maktoob.com
NOTES
(1)
Beatles legends Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr asked to support Liverpool thalidomide campaign
Jun 25 2009
by Staff Reporter, Liverpool Echo
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-entertainment/the-beatles/the-beatles-news/2009/06/25/beatles-legends-paul-mccartney-and-ringo-starr-asked-to-support-liverpool-thalidomide-campaign-100252-23970844/
SNIP
At the event Ricky appealed directly to the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, and the newly appointed Minister for Health, Andy Burnham, to apologise in writing to every Thalidomide victim and their families and to recognise the need for meaningful compensation.
(2)
von Stefan Müller vor 8 Stunden
Es überlebten in Deutschland bis heute etwa 2800 Conterganopfer. Familie Wirtz sollte sich bei diesen Opfern entschuldigen. Das wäre ein wichtiger erster Schritt. Zudem sollte sie alle Gesprächsangebote von Betroffenenverbänden endlich annehmen. Warum will die Milliardärsfamilie Wirtz, dass der Steuerzahler für alle Kosten der Contergangeschädigten aufkommt?
UNDER
Der Tag, an dem die Contergan-Opfer Sieger sind
Von Marlon Gego | 24.06.2009, 21:00
http://www.az-web.de/lokales/euregio-detail-az/948426?_link=&skip=&_g=Prozess-um-Boykottaufruf-von-Contergan-Opfern.html
(3)
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/envy-hatred_of_the_good_for_being_the_good.html
(4)
From The Sunday Times February 8, 2009
Thalidomide ‘was created by the Nazis’
The damaging drug may have been developed as an antidote to nerve gas
Daniel Foggo
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article5683577.ece
(5)
Inflation – the real threat to sustained recovery
By Alan Greenspan
Published: June 25 2009 15:49 | Last updated: June 25 2009 15:49
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e1fbc4e6-6194-11de-9e03-00144feabdc0.html
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June 26th, 2009 at 09:53
If I use the word “monster”,
this is, like Ayn Rand in other contexts,
for the reason which makes you afraid of it …
June 26th, 2009 at 10:30
If, as government alleges,
it is part of the solution,
not of the problem
why did it not jail my father, Henri (Hendrik?) Cerckel, a MEDICAL DOCTOR?
The warning on thalidomide came on April 30- May 1, 1960 at a Dusseldorf congress of neurologists.
I was born in February 1962, that’s twenty months later.
Hence the Belgian government has decreed that,
although I have all the symptoms of a thalidomide monster,
I’m just an ordinary monster,
not a thalidomide monster.
June 26th, 2009 at 10:33
How dare I complain about Belgium being devoid of the rule of law?
Belgium is a demokracy, you know …
In 1962, a Belgian woman was found not guilty of murdering her thalidomide baby. There was much celebration in Liège when she and her co-accused – her mother, sister, husband and the family doctor – walked free.
(Thalidomide: 40 years on
Friday, 7 June, 2002, 14:43 GMT 15:43 UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2031459.stm )
June 26th, 2009 at 10:58
My father not having been jailed led to the suicide of my mother (1977) and of my two brothers (1986 and 2007) (I’m the eldest of four children). Me two serious comas and fractures. Miraculously, I’m still here to tell it. For how long, I don’t know …