From: "Dr. Betty Martini,D.Hum." <Bettym19@mindspring.com>
Subject: Legacy of Donald Rumsfeld, Aspartame and Diane Fleming : by
Don Harkins and Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum

Legacy of Donald Rumsfeld, Aspartame, and Diane Fleming

As recently as Nov. 4, 2006, President Bush was
publicly praising 74-year-old Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld for his service to the nation,
his wartime leadership and expressed his
“sincere” desire that the increasingly unpopular
Rumsfeld would continue as secretary of defense
until his term is over in 2008. But the president
was not sincere; he was lying. The day after the
election, “Rummy” announced he was stepping down
from the top spot in the Pentagon. As President
Bush was explaining why he lied to America about
Rumsfeld’s pending resignation at a
day-after-election press conference, he was still
praising Rumsfeld’s “accomplishments”. The
president failed to mention that Rumsfeld’s
Pentagon couldn’t account for “misplacing” nearly $3 trillion.

Chicago Tribune columnist Stephen J. Hedges more
accurately summed up Rummy’s “accomplishments” in
his Nov. 12, 2006 editorial, “Winter Comes for a
Beltway Lion: Rumsfeld rose and fell with his
conviction intact.” Hedges noted Rumsfeld’s
“accomplishments” are the result of his bet
that ill-equipped Arabs defending their homes
were no match for the technologically-superior
professional military under his direction. He was
wrong and history will remember him as the
defense secretary who failed in Iraq. Though the
end of the Rumsfeld story has yet to be written,
we can state with certainty that the thousands of
American soldiers and (at least) 700,000 Iraqi
and Afghani men, women and children
non-combatants who have been killed under his
authority since Sept. 11, 2001, are merely the
most recent examples of the murder and misery
this ruthless beltway bureaucrat has been
inflicting on our world since the late 70s.




On the way up

At age 29, Princeton educated wrestling champion,
navy pilot and presidential aid Republican Donald
Rumsfeld was elected by Illinois to the U.S.
House of Representatives in 1962. Rummy began
accumulating political contacts­and power­for the
next 14 years. After leaving the House, he held
several high-level executive posts during the
Nixon era and became the youngest defense
secretary in U.S. history under Gerald Ford. When
Ford lost the White House to Jimmy Carter in
1976, Rummy was unemployed in D.C. for the first
time since 1962. In 1978 Rummy’s career as a
public poisoner-for-profit began when he became
CEO of G.D. Searle, a small pharmaceutical
company. When Rummy took the helm, Searle was
being investigated by the U.S. Department of
Justice for attempting to defraud the FDA into
approving artificial aspartame as a safe
artificial sweetener when lab tests proved it was
a neurotoxic, carcinogenic drug. He was able to
pull political strings to get Searle out of legal
trouble and influenced President Reagan’s
appointment of Arthur Hull Hayes as FDA
Commissioner to politically approve the sale of
aspartame in 1981--over the objections of FDA
scientists, independent researchers and consumer safety advocates.
Monsanto bought Searle for $2.7 billion in
1985, and the Searle family walked away with
about $1 billion. Rumsfeld’s take was about $12 million.


Let him hear their cries

Since Rumsfeld “called in his markers” to achieve
aspartame approval in the 80s, millions of cases
of aspartame poisoning have been reported where
ever aspartame is found in foods, beverages and
medical preparations. According to FDA records,
adverse reactions to aspartame comprise about 80
percent of consumer complaints. The agency has
published a list of 92 symptoms of aspartame
poisoning which includes blindness, joint pain,
chronic fatigue, weight gain, sexual dysfunction,
mental illness and death. Its use is linked to
chronic illnesses such as cancer, diabetes,
lupus, multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer’s
disease­illnesses that have become globally
pandemic since aspartame was approved. During
the 1980s when congressional hearings were being
held on the dangers of aspartame, Dr. H.J.
Roberts predicted that, if aspartame approval was
not reversed at that time, in five or 10 years
“aspartame disease” would be a global plague. By
2001, Dr. Roberts had published the 1,038-page
text “Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic”
proving his prediction came to pass.

The testimonies of people who have suffered the
consequences of aspartame poisoning, a cluster of
symptoms most appropriately called “Rumsfeld’s
disease,” are as varied as they are numerous.
Aspartame is a multipotential carcinogen linked
to a variety of cancers; a teratogen linked to
birth defects; an abortifacient implicated in
untold numbers of pregnancies ending unexpectedly
and without explanation; a neurotoxin associated
with neurodevelopmental and behavioral disorders
in children and the development of central
nervous system complications in adults­a list
that includes MS, fibromyalgia and various forms
of dementia; it reacts with other chemicals to
increase chemical sensitivity and; it reacts with
pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines to produce a
full spectrum of off-label reactions and adverse events.

It would take a several volumes to memorialize
the stories of those whose lives have been
adversely affected by aspartame. The fact that
all the components and end products of aspartame
are toxic to humans and the fact that Rumsfeld is
absolutely responsible for aspartame’s 25-year
reign of medical misery, demands our action.
Rumsfeld should be compelled to publicly defend
his decision to poison the world with aspartame
while in the court-ordered presence of those
whose lives have been destroyed by his chemical weapon of mass misery.


Athletes

Aspartame triggers an irregular heart rhythm,
interacts with cardiac medication, damages the
cardiac conduction system and causes sudden
death. A lot of aspartame-associated deaths are
in athletes whose running depletes magnesium
reserves--magnesium protects the brain and heart
from excitotoxins such as aspartame and
monosodium glutamate. Neurosurgeon Russell
Blaylock, M.D., author of “Excitotoxins: The
Taste That Kills” wrote the Athlete Alert on
Sudden Cardiac Death which explains the biochemical processes involved.


Poisoning American Fighting Men

Aspartame is made up of three components,
aspartic acid (an excitotoxin), a methyl ester
which immediately becomes methanol, then converts
to formaldehyde and formic acid, and
phenylalanine, (a neurotoxin as an isolate) The
molecule breaks down to diketopiperazine, a brain
tumor agent. Aspartame breaks down at 86 degrees
or moderate temperature. During the first Gulf
War, soldiers were drinking Rumsfeld poison by
the pallet load in diet sodas sitting in the 120
degree Arabian son. As stated previously,
aspartame (and its toxic byproducts) interacts
with all drugs and vaccines. Corporate-neutral,
non-government researchers explain that the
enormous volume they were exposed
to. Consumption of aspartame formaldehyde
cocktails is likely a factor in the epidemic
of of hot diet sodas consumed by Desert Storm
personnel interacted with the drugs, chemicals
and vaccines to which they were exposed.
Consumption of aspartame formaldehyde cocktails
is likely a factor in the epidemic of “Gulf War
Illness” tragically affecting hundreds of
thousands of Desert Storm veterans and their families.

Gulf War veteran, Geoffrey, reported
yesterday what they had to drink were aspartame
diet sodas and confirmed again the pallets were
piled one on top of the other in the hot sun for
weeks. He was young but his hair was gray as
happens because of aspartame mitochondrial damage
which helps you age. Aspartame addicts because of
the liberation of free methyl alcohol, which
causes chronic methanol poisoning. This affects
the dopamine system of the brain and causes the
addiction. He was still using it. His vision
was affected as expected because the methanol
converts to formaldehyde and formic acid in the
retina of the eye and destroys the optic nerve.
Prior to aspartame use he had not worn
glasses. From headaches and blood pressure
elevation to weight gain he is the typical
aspartame victim. He is dizzy most of the time,
and dizziness is #2 on the FDA list of 92
symptoms. He had no idea aspartame triggers
these problems. His son is in Iraq and he
planned to immediately warn him to abandon diet
pop and Wrigley’s gum. His best friend, a diet
pop addict, was just found dead in a chair. He
said, “I was fighting for my country, and I try
to help people, and my health has been
destroyed." Just one of millions of cases of Rumsfeld Disease.

The pop companies knew. The protest of the
National Soft Drink Assn (now American Beverage)
is in the Congressional Record of 1985 and
explains aspartame breaks down at 86 degrees,
and that it violates the adulteration statute.
Coke and Pepsi knew the gun was loaded before
they shipped this venom to kill and maim the troops.


Who murdered Chuck Fleming?

Diane Fleming, a mother of three and a Sunday
school teacher with no criminal history, was
convicted of murdering husband Chuck Fleming and
sentenced to spend 30 and 20 years concurrently
in a Virginia prison. The autopsy shows Chuck
died of acute methanol poisoning after
experiencing chronic methanol poisoning for
years. The jury convicted Diane of poisoning her
husband with an unopened jug of
methanol-containing windshield cleaner, even
though it was analyzed and they found none to be
missing. Was the windshield wiper fluid found in
the Gatorade he drank because this is what was
alleged? Even the forensic toxicologist who gave
the affidavit admitted in December 2001, while
he was requested to perform certain tests
involving several bottles of Gatorade mixture,
which he had previously determined contained
methanol, and a bottle of windshield washer
fluid, he was not able to identify any. In fact,
he said the method he used did not have the
appropriate sensitivity necessary to identify
trace concentrations of windshield washer fluid
colorant in the Gatorade. He further stated he
could not definitively determine whether any
amount of windshield washer colorant was present
in the Gatorade mixture and, therefore, did not
issue a Certificate of Analysis. He then advised
Investigator Elizabeth Baker of the Chesterfield
County Police Department via telephone he would
not be issuing a report because no definitive
conclusions could be reached from the tests.
Chuck was a body builder who played basketball
about four times a week and used a lot of
aspartame-containing products. Several physicians
including Dr. H. J. Roberts reviewed Chuck’s
lifestyle, aspartame intake, and studied his
autopsy report. Dr. Roberts stated, “On the
basis of the prodigious amounts of aspartame
products he [Chuck] consumed and the finding of a
severe fatal metabolic acidosis, coupled with a
high concentration of methanol in the blood and
no other reasonable explanation, I concur with
the cause of death as methanol poisoning - in
this case due to considerable methanol
consumption in the form of aspartame products… If
the facts about this case that have been reviewed
are correct, it is my firm opinion that Diane
Fleming should be immediately freed from wrongful
imprisonment to rejoin her family…Furthermore,
the FDA should be so advised by the court, and
recommend that aspartame products be labeled as
an imminent health threat, and either so labeled or removed from the market.”

Repeated attempts to intervene on Diane’s behalf
have not been able to secure her release from
prison. A Motion for Reconsideration before the
Virginia State Supreme Court was
rejected. Diane’s Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus was earlier turned down.

There was complete shock Diane was ever
convicted in the first place since there was no
evidence. It was even admitted at the
trial what he drank couldn’t have killed
him. The jury was asked why they convicted her
and stated because Diane could show no
emotion. Of course, she couldn’t, she had been
given Zoloft because of her anxiety on being
indicted. Diane herself was using aspartame and
it interacts with Zoloft and makes you like a Zombie. She was drugged.

Not even the press could believe a person could
be convicted when there was no evidence. Alan
Cooper of the Richmond Times-Dispatch wrote the family and stated:

“The formal sentencing of Diane Fleming is
scheduled for April 25. I know of nothing else
in the way of additional investigation or
development. I expect her lawyer to again ask
the judge to set aside the conviction BECAUSE THE
EVIDENCE WAS INSUFFICIENT TO CONVICT HER.--------
I, and most of those in the courtroom, were
surprised that the jury convicted her.

“It was a most unusual case, the first poisoning
homicide trial I've covered in almost 30 years
and hundreds of cases as a reporter. I thought
the evidence showed that Ms. Fleming probably was
the one in the best position to poison her
husband, but there was nothing about a motive or
even where the methanol, the poisoning agent, might have come from.”

Diane Fleming even today still cries about losing
her husband. You see her emotion when
interviewed for the aspartame documentary, “Sweet
Misery: A Poisoned World.” But because she was
drugged with aspartame and Zoloft, Rumsfeld
Disease claimed another victim, and she has been
in a cold prison cell for four years for a crime
committed by his approval of poison.





Dr. Fierro

Virginia State Medical Examiner (ME) Dr. Marcella
Fierro has the authority to recommend that Diane
be released immediately based upon the forensic
facts revealed in the autopsy report as supported
by innumerable pieces of circumstantial evidence.
After making repeated promises to talk with Dr.
Roberts to discuss the possibility that Diane was
wrongfully convicted of murdering her husband,
Dr. Fierro, keep canceling. She was sent a copy
of the peer reviewed journal article by Dr.
Woodrow Monte: “Aspartame: Methanol and the
Public Health”. Finally she shows up for the
meeting with Fleming’s attorney at the time,
Craig Cooley, Dr. Pearson (forensic
toxicologist), Dr. Pearson’s colleague from
toxicology, William Davenport and Warren Von
Schuch in March 2004. Again, she was given Dr.
Monte’s paper. When it was time for the
conference call with Dr. Roberts for which the
meeting was set up in the first place, she
refused. He had spent hours preparing irrefutable
evidence Fleming died from aspartame.

Dr. Fierro said she had done her own independent
research and there was no legitimate scientific
basis to conclude aspartame ingestion played any
role in Chuck's methanol poisoning. She advised
that no "referred" (peer reviewed) scientific or
medical journal had ever substantiated the
position Dr. Roberts and other citations
provided were taking. Yet she was holding a
scientific peer reviewed paper on the
subject. Even in the 1985 congressional record,
reporting the protest of the National Soft Drink
Assn, now American Beverage, they admitted
aspartame violated federal adulteration
statutes. Aspartame liberates free methyl alcohol, making approval illegal.

If Dr. Fierro had found some evidence to dispute
overwhelming evidence of methanol poisoning by
aspartame it would be reasonable that she would
have looked forward to talking to Dr. Roberts to
explain and put the issue to rest. But she was
afraid of talking to this world expert. Why?

Dr. Woodrow Monte said “Every molecule of
aspartame produces a molecule of methanol.” The
chronic methanol poisoning was documented on the
autopsy proving the fact. He was highly
addicted to it stockpiling it in the garage and
getting upset if the fridge wasn't always stocked
with diet pop laced with aspartame.

At the meeting Dr. Fierro commented Charles had
ingested methanol on two previous occasions, but
that his physicians had not picked it up because
they weren't looking for acute methanol
poisoning. This is ludicrous. He would have been
dead the first time. And how could she say on
two occasions when she didn't know Fleming? This
was obvious a coverup of the evidence of the
chronic methanol poisoning on the autopsy. This
leads to death, as in Chuck’s case, building up
over time from repeated non-lethal levels of
ingestion, such as those that science has proven
to occur with aspartame consumption. The autopsy
also showed pulmonary edema seen on other
autopsies of aspartame victims as well as a fatty
liver, as expected. And because aspartame
damages the cardiac conduction system and his
autopsy showed cardiomegaly or an enlarged heart
of unknown origin, this probably was the immediate cause of death.

Rather than expose aspartame and recommend
Diane’s conviction for murder be vacated, based
upon a scientifically-supported review of her
husband’s autopsy report, Dr. Fierro has chosen
to let an innocent woman sit in prison. Dr.
Fierro has a history of using her capacity as an
ME to influence the outcome of investigations for
political reasons. She was the ME who authorized
a revised autopsy report in the death of Vince
Foster in 1993. Foster was President Clinton's
Chief of Counsel. Dr. Fierro's alteration allowed
Foster's apparent murder to appear as a suicide.
Had the original entry location of the bullet
stood, the suicide conclusion would have been
hard to explain since people committing suicide
do not ordinarily shoot themselves in the back of the head.

Dr. Roberts wrote the Grievance Committee of the
Virginia Medical Board: : "I have seen the
letter sent to you by Betty Martini, and concur
with her concern about Diane Fleming whom I
believe has been falsely incarcerated. My
reasons were stated in two affidavits. As noted,
I have been actively interested in methanol
poisoning from aspartame products for more than
two decades, and have written extensively on the subject.

“This is a pro bono volunteered effort intended
to help an apparently innocent person. I do not
know Mrs. Fleming, but her plight deserves more
interest and consideration from this medical
examiner. I repeatedly made myself available to
Dr. Fierro for an interview/consultation, but she
refused to speak to me. Under the
circumstances, I also must question her indifference or bias."

The continued investigation of Dr. Fierro keeps
showing a link to Senator Orrin Hatch.
Even in Commonwealth Currents, Sept 1999, there
was an article about Governor Jim Gilmore
announcing the establishment of the Virginia
Institute of Forensic Science and Medicine. In
the list of Board of Directors there they were
again, Marcella F. Fierro and Senator Orrin
Hatch. Senator Hatch knows exactly how deadly
aspartame is. A press release dated February 11,
l986 titled: "Hatch Says No To Committee
Hearings on Aspartame". It states: "Senator
Orrin Hatch said that he is not alarmed over the
artificial sweetener aspartame, that an initial
reading of documents recently delivered to him
reveal no pre-approval issue that has not been
thoroughly aired before, and consequently "it
would serve no useful purpose to commit Committee
resources to this issue at this time." Yet
Hatch knew the FDA wanted the manufacturer
indicted and both US Prosecutors were hired by
the defense team. He also knew Rumsfeld called
in his markers to get it approved when the FDA
said no. Why is Senator Hatch from Utah on this
Virginia Board? Since he has been trying to
protect the aspartame industry for years did he
confer with Fierro on this case. Is this the
real reason Dr. Fierro refused to talk with Dr.
Roberts. Once she had the evidence there would
be no way to deny it any further. Investigative
reporters should probe further. There are too many unanswered questions.


An ironic twist to the Rumsfeld legacy

A “jury” just found Saddam Hussein “guilty” of
crimes for which the punishment will be death by
hanging. His death will be delayed indefinitely,
however, as there will be an appeals process and
he will likely be tried for numerous other
crimes, including the alleged mass murder of some
30,000 Kurds in northern Iraq in the 80s. There
are photos and documents proving that, during the
Reagan era, Rumsfeld brokered the sales of
chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein­the chemicals
Saddam allegedly used on the Kurds. Is it not
bizarre that Saddam’s downfall came with Rumsfeld
as his adversary and that Rumsfeld’s failure to
“win” in Iraq will be the final blot on his
public service career? Is it not our job to
deepen the poetry of this strange twist by using
Rummy’s final fall from grace as a platform upon
which to seek justice for all those ravaged, in
one way or another, by the weapon of mass misery
this man unleashed on the world 25 years ago?

Note:
For reasons that have yet to be fully understood,
Dr. Fierro and the Virginia’s Supreme Court have
not relented in the persecution of Diane Fleming
who, the evidence plainly shows, is innocent of
the crime of murdering her husband. She even
passed a lie detector test and the detective on
the case, Bob Skowron said: "Diane Fleming did
not poison her husband. I've sent a lot of
people to prison but no way could I sleep at
night if I was responsible for an innocent woman
being convicted. I would have stopped the
indictment but right at that time I got promoted
and taken off the case.” Absent a favorable
ruling from the court ordering Diane’s release,
with apologies, Rumsfeld will be getting away
with another murder. This time, instead of
soldiers being paid to wage Rummy’s private war
on humanity, a sweet, charitable Sunday
school-teaching mother of three will pay by
spending perhaps the rest of her life in a Virginia prison.’

To help with Diane’s legal defense, send donations to
David Hargett, Attorney
11545 Nuckols Road, Suite C
Glen Allen, Virginia 23059

To the media: Diane is becoming very ill and has
a lump in her leg. Medical neglect is the rule in
prison. We have to get this innocent woman out.
We implore you to follow the links below, do
whatever additional research you feel is
necessary and help us help Diane get back home
where she belongs. Call us anytime.
Dr. Betty Martini, Founder, Mission Possible Intl (770) 242-2599
Don Harkins, The Idaho Observer (208) 255-2307



Additional evidence in support of Rumsfeld’s treachery

Rumsfeld’s disease: A politically-induced
biochemical disaster of global proportions:
<<http://www.proliberty.com/20050805.htm>http://www.proliberty.com/20050805.htm>http://www.proliberty.com/20050805.htm

The FDA Board of Inquiry Report that revoked
Searle’s petition for aspartame approval:
<<http://www.wnho.net/fda_petition1.doc>http://www.wnho.net/fda_petition1.doc>http://www.wnho.net/fda_petition1.doc

Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World:
Consumer advocate attorney James Turner explains
how Rumsfeld said he would call in his markers
and get aspartame on the market even though the
FDA had not only revoked the petition for
approval but even tried to have Searle, the
original manufacturer indicted for fraud under Title 18, Section
1001:
<<http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages/rumsfeld2.html>http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages/rumsfeld2.html>http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages/rumsfeld2.html


The entire Sweet Misery documentary DVD is
available from The Idaho Observer at
<<http://www.idaho-observer.com/>http://www.idaho-observer.com/>http://www.idaho-observer.com

FDA list of 92 aspartame-related symptoms with
links to published medical journal reports
describing them:
<<http://www.dorway.com/symptoms/>http://www.dorway.com/symptoms/>http://www.dorway.com/symptoms/

Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic,
<<http://www.sunsentpress.com/>http://www.sunsentpress.com/>www.sunsentpress.com

Aspartame interacts with all drugs and vaccines
<<http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_interacts.htm>http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_interacts.htm>http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_interacts.htm


Case histories of aspartame adverse-events:
<<http://www.dorway.com/>http://www.dorway.com/>http://www.dorway.com/

Athlete Alert on Sudden Cardiac Death by Russell Blaylock, MD:
<<http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_msg_scd.htm>http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_msg_scd.htm>http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_msg_scd.htm


The Diane Fleming story:
<<http://proliberty.com/observer/20030612.htm>http://proliberty.com/observer/20030612.htm>http://proliberty.com/observer/20030612.htm


Dr. Fierro’s role in the Vince Foster affair: The
Secret Life of Bill Clinton by Ambrose Evans Pritchard

Congressional
Record:
<http://www.wnho.net/congressional_record1.doc>http://www.wnho.net/congressional_record1.doc

Aspartame, Methanol and the Public Health by Dr.
Woodrow Monte
<http://www.dorway.com/monte84.html>http://www.dorway.com/monte84.html

Mission Possible International,
<<http://www.dorway.com/>http://www.dorway.com/>http://www.dorway.com
and <<http://www.wnho.net/>http://www.wnho.net/>http://www.wnho.net
The Diane Fleming Story is also in the
Artificially Sweetened Times produced by the Idaho Observer

To contact Diane Fleming (you can only send 5
pages that will go on one 39 cent stamp):
Mrs. Diane Fleming
#311655
FCCW 8D 209A
Box 1000
Troy, Virginia 22974
(money can only be sent to her by money order with her number on it)