I am a chiropractor currently working in Lima, Peru. We are a small but determined group of principled chiropractors who are frustrated by the spineless efforts of the ICA to defend and promote what it basically stands for -- subluxation-based, pure chiropractic. We as a group, and myself personally, are fed up with the efforts, or lack there of, of a supposed 'international' organization when it comes to supporting subluxation correction chiropractic on an international level. We welcome and applaud the efforts of the WCA and its stand when it comes to the principle of chiropractic.

The ICA has recently shown time and again that it has no real intention of taking a strong stance when it comes to attempts made by other organizations, governments, or other professions for that matter to degrade, lessen, and limit the scope and accessibility of chiropractic. I find that to be unacceptable.

It is the fundamental job of any organization to act when called upon. The ICA, in my opinion, has failed in every which way when it came time to actually put into use what they have said for all these years and what they are mandated to do...to defend and promote subluxation based, wellness chiropractic.

The recent vote to continue support of the WFC is unexplainable and I am sure you have had many comments about that situation so I will not expand. The more recent news of talks between the ICA and ACA and the possible merger of the two is even more disturbing. B.J. must be rolling in his grave at even the thought. I don't know which direction the ICA is taking but I definitely don't want to be on the deck of a sinking ship. The merger of any two fundamentally different entities can only lead to a catastrophic conclusion.

We are on the front lines down here in the battle to get chiropractic recognized and legislated. It will obviously take some time before any type of regulation exists but we want to make sure that when it does, it is chiropractic the way B.J. would have wanted.