Award, Attorney Jonathon Amort

A job is a longtime friend of all of us in this room. In recognition of your beacon of freedom and truth that spans a quarter of a century. You have written critically acclaimed First Amendment books and professional papers that are the foundation for protecting the liberties of each of us. Throughout history, the world has depended upon a precious few people to win and preserve our great civil rights to life, to liberty and the health freedom. You have been the beginning of the end for the FDA speech suppression by celebrating triumphs over government censorship and five victories in federal courts. More than any other attorney in the history, United States. In these troubled times of injustice and suppression, you have torn down the walls of censorship and had become the freedom man. You have inserted yourself in the struggle of right against wrong and good against evil. And we Americans are better off for it. You're grounded in thoughtfulness and knowledge, giving us an informed patriotism. We salute your courage, achievements and your vision. You, Jonathan W e Morde, have truly made a difference for hundreds of millions of Americans. We hereby acknowledge you as a courageous warrior and as a humanitarian par excellence. Jonathan.

Well, thank you very much, Dr. Salmon. Thank you. Cancer Control Society, I'm honored. It's a great privilege. I appreciate very much those thoughtful words, and I hope to deserve them. The purpose of my talk is to discuss the state of liberty in America, the extent to which health freedom exists here, whether health, freedom is on the run, being chased by federal and state bureaucrats. The question we have to ask ourselves is, are we becoming increasingly less free? Is our freedom of choice, freedom of informed choice, being sacrificed to achieve the ends of politicians who wish to protect certain industry incumbents from competition? I think the answer to those questions you'll see is quite, very much yes. We are losing our freedom. And we are losing our freedom because of a historic anomaly that has destroyed the very foundation of representative democracy in this country. At the time of the founding of the Republic. In 1787. The framers of the Constitution and all of those who influence the political thinking of the time.

Adhered to the view expressed by Baron Montesquieu in the spirit of laws in the 17th century, that the accumulation of power, legislative, executive and judicial power and single hands was the very definition of tyranny. That free governments could not co-exist with that sort of tyranny. Indeed, George Washington, in his inaugural address, his first inaugural address, warned to beware of insidious encroachment