After reading the cry for help Dr. Janet Parker, D.V.M. sent in November 2008 to the United Nations on behalf of “Medical Whistleblowers,” it seems that appointing someone else on the Pharmaceutical companies’ side to the Senate would be a step in the wrong direction.
Paul G. Kirk, Jr. is the likely pick of Gov. Patrick and is being endorsed by the Kennedys even though there is opposition by many concerned that his loyalty to Hartford Financial Services would be a serious conflict of interest. Kirk has also spent some of his career lobbying for the Pharmaceutical companies Hoechst Marion Roussel and Aventis.
Dr. Parker’s letter to the UN describes an un-just and un-safe system for Whistleblowers that have bravely taken a stand only to be assaulted, forced out of the workplace, and possibly murdered. She personally was raped and harassed when she tried to push the murder investigation of Assistant United States Attorney Tom Wales. Wales was murdered during an investigation of an enterprise that takes advantage of vulnerable people through fraud. Dr. Parker’s concerns lie with the almost non-existent safety system for whistleblowers because of loyalties and political influence of the people in power.
Giving Kirk a free pass to D.C. will only hinder the process of establishing any kind of safe avenue for these witnesses of fraud and greed to come forward with their testimony.
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