How about this picture? 82 y/o Noel L Smith, MD, of Manhattan, NY, with 57 years of experience as a general surgeon and family practitioner, is led handcuffed into a courtroom for indictment as a drug pusher. Naturally, the prosecution and law enforcement is only after confiscating his assets from his 57 years of practice taking care of New York’s citizens. Once they have searched his office and home, forfeited all of his savings and assets, they will probably leave him alone, totally ruined and shamed. Our government has become so evil.

Led by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr, with the New York City Police Department, the Business Integrity Commission, the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor, and the New York Strike Force Tactical Diversion Squad conspiring, nine people were indicted for conspiring to distribute controlled substances. This action against doctors alone is government misuse of the law, which they are now commonly doing to achieve promotions and pay their salaries. Money is now their God, and ethics or morals are no longer a player.

The “drugs” he allegedly distributed “illegally” were oxycodone, Adderall, Klonopin and Suboxone—all FDA-approved legal drugs that doctors are allowed to prescribe. But the real conspirators wrote in their DEA press release that these were “illicit prescription drugs”. Now “illicit” means illegal or forbidden by law. They are just playing on the propaganda against drugs now. No FDA-approved drug prescribed by a doctor to a patient is “illicit”.

Now all the government has been able to say is that five of the other defendants presented to Dr. Smith as patients. But then they supposedly sold the pills. Some of those defendants were also charged with identity theft for allegedly impersonating other individuals to obtain more pills.

All they could say against Dr. Smith was that he “was allegedly prescribing controlled substances in a ‘manner inconsistent with public health and safety,’” But Dr. Smith, with 57 years of experience, had a doctor/patient relationship and trusted his patients, not expecting them to be criminals and drug-pushers. They were the criminals, not him. But the government can’t confiscate those individuals’ assets like they can the doctor’s. And usually these street dealers don’t have anything to confiscate to even make it worth the government’s while.  So the eight others indicted will simply be used to pressure Dr. Smith to take a plea, or act as witnesses against him in trial.  That’s the DOJ protocol now, that they even train their agents to do.  Illegal or not, today it doesn’t make a difference. The government can do whatever it wants, including break the law, to convict their target.

On Feb 9, 2023, the New York Board of medicine placed a restriction on Dr. Smith. He was ordered to surrender his DEA certificate and was precluded from prescribing, administering, dispensing, or ordering any controlled substances in New York State.

We must end this targeting of good, compassionate physicians for the looting of assets that the government agents now use as their major income. We must end government abuse of the law. How do we do that?  First, we must remove immunity from government officials. If they break the law to convict an innocent person, they should be held accountable like any criminal. We must make following the letter of the law the principle of the DOJ. And finally, we must recognize the fact that drugs do not cause addiction and repeal the Controlled Substance Act. The answer on how to do this is right here on Doctorsofcourage.org. Join the fight, or you could be next.

Doctors are not policemen, and policemen should not be playing doctor!