Kim Powers
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6/27/2008 7:30:20 AM
Kim Powers article albatross mag animal rights activist in hands of cancer research
Kim Powers article albatross mag animal rights activist in hands of cancer research
27/06/2008 By kp
Kim Powers article albatross mag animal rights activist in hands of cancer research Hello i'm Kim Powers, singer songwriter,animal rights activist and since December 13th 2007 a cancer patient.Cup syndrome to be exact (carcinoma unknown primary tumor).Have you ever heard of that?I hadn't. Its the 27th June 08 and i'm sitting with my girlfriend at the swimming pool in Solothurn Switzerland.I don't really share her optimisum that the sun will eventually shine down on me today, but who knows what miracles can happen. When i think back to that chilly November 07 morning , i was standing at 'the gates of hell' Novartis at 7.30am,taking part in a demo for Animal rights and Liberation from the laboratories of the Pharma industry worldwide with a couple of dozen equally determind individuals.I say individuals because today its extremely dangerous to belong to an animal rights organisation.Slowly these organisations are being criminalised as terrorists,and the members imprisoned.USA, UK, Denmark,Sweden and of late Austria are imprisoning members without evidence or trial (enough said).Its enough if there's a threat to the financial security of a company or shop (fur shops, fur farms, factory farming,Animal breeding companies, Research and animal testing labs eg.)... At this demo i had a quick argument with a professor ,he was shouting at me '"you bloody idiot, my wife has just died of cancer and you want to stop research, you bloody bastards if we had done more research maybe she would still be alive". My reply was "if you didn't test on animals maybe you would have had the cure 30 years ago.We are not monkeys, mice,rats,rabbits or any other animal on the planet, we are human ". The police looked on and let the two of us exchange our sympathy for eachother.I felt then that these words came from deep within my heart.But you don't really know how strong your beliefs are until they are tested to the maximum. Who would have dreamed that the next month the shit would hit the fan and i'd be confronted with cancer research myself. Here is a very short account of what happened, for more in depth information you can visit my video diary,which is in English. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/kim-powers-diary-of-cancer-cup-syndrome-patient On the 10th December i went into hospital in Solothurn Switzerland for the first of two planned operations.I arrived wearing my' Animal Liberation Front' shirt, i felt i was walking into the Pharma mafia itself, the nurses were so friendly and offered me painkillers and sleeping tablets for the first night.My instant reaction was to tell them i wasn't there to swallow all of their pharma shit, if i can't sleep a week then i'll sleep when i get home again.I felt that i had to inform them all that they are thoughtlessly taking part in the murder and torture of millions of animals for no other reason as PROFIT,and prescribing drugs that have very dangerous side effects and counter only the symptoms. I wasn't going to let them poison me, it was against every thing i believed, how can a so called medicine be of benefit when its based on such negativity ?If you grow a vegetable in contaminated soil it will contaminate the consumer, maybe it will stop the hunger but you will damage your body. I now realise that if i had taken all of those sleeping pills, i would have been too stoned to be able to think clearly and stand up to the coming events. Three days later ,i was informed that the first tumor was a very bad carcinoma metastasis. My doctor wanted me to go to see the "experts" and professors at the Bern Insel hospital.On my visit there i was in the so called "info hour",where a gathering of professors and doctors go through the whole patient background, then i was taken to a small examination room where around 12 of them stand there while the Professor grabs hold of my head and moves it in different positions.He t
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