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Please replace my previous message with this corrected version:

Hello List Members,

Since division among the people is what allows powerful, corrupt, ruthless

vested financial interests to have their way at the expense of everyone's

true best interest, I'd like to remind everyone of what I've said all along.

The isolation of oxygen therapy from complementary alternative therapies and

politics does not serve the true best interests of oxygen therapy, list

members, health or truth--whatever other benefits it may provide.

Likewise, the isolation of alternative therapies in general from the

political ramifications affecting them does not best serve the alternative

therapies, list members, health or truth.

The division of knowledge into separate categories always runs into problems

because the demarkations between categories are arbitrary and artificial,

and allow adherents of one category to proceed without benefit of

understandings held by adherents of other categories. Who can say where

politics directly affecting alternative therapies leave off and other

politics begin, when medical politics exists within a larger political

context? It is the self-same contempt for truth and disregard for the total

well-being that allows corrupt vested interests to suppress less profitable

superior therapies in favor of more profitable inferior ones, or to profit

from undermining the total well-being in any other way. Personally, I have

a hard time isolating any part of knowledge from the rest, and feel we

exclude any area to the detriment of our understanding.

I would point out that we all have a delete button and free will. Yes, I

acknowledge that things can sometimes get out of hand, human nature being

what it is. I don't profess to have all the answers. I do have some clear

feelings and perceptions and want to share them with you. I also am open to

hearing your perspectives on these things.

I was troubled by the split of oxyplus from oxylist, even though I reveled

in the freedom of the new forum. You may remember I appealed to oxyplus

members to post to the oxylist whenever the subject would allow, the reason

being that since oxylist had a far larger membership than oxyplus, and

almost all oxyplus members were also oxylist members anyhow, this would

allow the maximum number of people to benefit from the information being

passed.

I now make the same appeal to MedPolPlus members--Please post to oxyplus

whenever the subject matter allows, as this will afford the maximum number

of people an opportunity to benefit from the information being passed.

I'd like to call attention again to what Jim said in his current post on

this subject:

" Tangerine and everyone,

I thought I made it clear that your posts were not a problem because they

were directly health related. What I continue to object to are controversial

issues which have nothing to do with health! This includes Vietnam, Clinton,

or any other subject whose presence here serves no purpose other than to

incite argument & waste bandwidth. "

Two things here:

1) MOST of the " political " discussion that has been posted on oxyplus seems

to be okay with Jim, and

2) SOME of it is not.

As to the part that is not, I must admit to some puzzlement as to what Jim

is referring to. The closest I have been able to come to it is Nick's reply

to Tangerine of December 8, in which MOST of his commentary seems to be

directly related to government persecution of oxygen therapy, and the part

that is not seems indirectly related and germaine to the discussion.

In any case, please make an effort to post to the largest membership

possible under the existing circumstances. A lot is at stake and we don't

help our overall situation by dividing the energy.

Most sincerely,

Green