(FinalCall.com) - The Bush administration’s determined campaign against the legitimacy of the new International Criminal Court is clearer after examining a criminal complaint of "genocide" and "mass murder" filed this past June 14 at the Hague, Netherlands court. The complaint—filed on behalf of "The People of the World"—names Mr. Bush and certain members of his staff as defendants.

Dr. Matthias Rath, a physician /scientist and member of the New York Academy of Sciences, brought the charges, with the support of a host of international scientists, physicians and other professionals. Dr. Rath is noted for his discovery of the connection between vitamin C deficiency and lipo-protein (a), a new risk factor for heart disease. His research findings were published in the American Heart Association’s journal, Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, and is most renown today for his continued development of natural and herbal drugs as the major remedy to most diseases and sickness.

One part of his complaint centers on pharmaceutical genocide, which uses, as precedence, the 1947 Nuremberg trials, when more than 20 corporate officials of the then-drug-mega-giant and petrochemical conglomerate IG Farben were convicted of using the company’s influence to bolster Adolph Hitler, the Nazi regime and World War II.

In summary, the defendants were convicted of "committing crimes against humanity, including mass murder, plundering and other crimes," according to the findings of the tribunal. IG Farben was dismantled into three daughter companies, namely Hoechst, Bayer and BASF. Today, each company is larger than the parent.

Since death by drugs and disease is most rampant in Africa, and America and Britain, according to reports, push two-thirds of all patented drugs to the world, Mr. Bush has been criticized as trying to dress up an already tarnished relationship between the U.S. and Africa, which has nonetheless yielded trillions of dollars in profits for "big business."

Pres. Bush recently promised $15 billion to fight AIDS on the continent. In early July, he made a surprise five-day visit to Africa and spoke confidentially to several of the continent’s leaders, while by-passing the annual convening of the African Union (AU) where more than 40 nations met in Maputo, Mozambique.

On July 4, before the convening of the AU, South Africa’s President Thabo Mbeki hosted the Southern Regional African Development Commission, comprised of the 14 southernmost African countries which are the most devastated from HIV/AIDS cases in excess of 23 million people. They were seeking a regional approach to the epidemic.

At this conference, Mr. Mbeki was handed a full disclosure of the complaint—at a time when he and other leaders have become skeptical of western medicine and approaches to the scourge of Africa. Equally controversial is South Africa’s decision to manufacture their own low-cost AIDS vaccines in strong contravention to the will of the pharmaceutical giants of the West.

In the complaint, Dr. Rath’s group contends that "the accused are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions of people who continue to die from cardiovascular disease, cancer and other diseases that could have been prevented and largely eliminated long ago."

The companies named are charged with what is termed the "Business with Disease" industry. The document states: "The pharmaceutical industry offers ‘health’ to millions of patients—but does not deliver the goods. Instead, it delivers products that merely alleviate symptoms while promoting the underlying disease as a precondition for its future business. The lives of 6 billion people and the economies of most countries in the world are held hostage by criminal practices of this industry."

Not only do many of these patented drugs fail to eliminate many curable diseases, but evidence is introduced to show that natural drugs and herbs are opposed by these drug giants. Legislation is on the horizon, internationally, to restrict the use of natural drug/herbs. The World Trade Organization’s food and drug regulatory board is pushing to make all but the smallest doses of vitamins illegal to purchase without a prescription worldwide. U.S. Democratic Senator Dick Durbin has introduced Senate Bill 722, entitled the "Dietary Supplement Act of 2003," which aims to legislate out of existence the sale of almost all vitamin supplements above a certain potency, except by prescription. Under "people protection," herbs could then be patented and profited from by pharmaceutical giants.

Members of the Bush administration named in the complaint are Vice President Richard Cheney; Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld; U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft; Tom Ridge, Secretary of Homeland Security; and U.S. Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice.

Secretary of State Colin Powell was not named, while British Prime Minister Tony Blair was included on the list, along with some of the world’s largest petrochemical and pharmaceutical giants. Among the companies named in the suit, with their CEOs, are Pfizer Inc.; Merck & Co; GlaxoSmithKline PLC; Novartis AG; Amgen Inc.; ExxonMobil Corp.; and British Petroleum.

In general, the complaint names two major fields of criminal behavior: (1) Crimes perpetrated by the pharmaceutical "Business with Disease" industry, including the crime of genocide and other crimes against humanity and (2) Crimes related to the 2003 war against Iraq and the international escalation towards a world war, including crimes of war and aggression, as well as their crimes against humanity.

"These two fields of crime," states the complaint, "are directly connected because they are committed in the name and interest of the same corporate investment groups and their political stakeholders."