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Compulsory Vaccination in Prince George’s County: Just the Beginning?

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

November 22, 2007

By now you probably know that the State’s power to intimidate and violate the rights of parents and the bodies of their children was manifsted very clearly – and deeply chillingly – on November 19, 2007 in Prince George’s County, Maryland, at the insistence of a State’ Attorney, Glen Ivey, who understood vaccination well enough to protect his own children from the dangers of Hepitits B vaccine, a dangerous and unnecessary “treatment” for a sexually transmitted disease administered, often with disastrous results, to new born infants as well as toddlers and pre-pubertal children.

I spoke recently with an expert on the demographics of the Wasington DC area who share the following with us: Prince George’s County, Maryland, is one of the largest Afro-American counties in the US and is a very low income area. Many parents there are under-employed and under-informed about their waiver rights. The debacle at the Court House was surreal. The seriousness of the event appeared to escape the officias enforcing the where the presiding Judge, C. Philip Nicholse, overserving the unhappiness of the children being forcibly vaccinated noted, “It’s cute. It’s like their parents dragging them off to church.” Cute? Children being assaulted without recourse against the will of their parents without full disclosure of their rights to a waiver? Not my idea of cute, but then, I’m not really big into health fascism.

Prince George’s country receives $63 per child per day. If the figures widely reported in the press are correct and 2300 children were being barred from attending school because they were not vaccinated, then Prince George’s County, a large and very poor school district, was costing itself $144,900 PER DAY by denying these children access to its schools and services. Of course, instead of making money by attacking the immune and nervous systems of their students, they could have simply re-examined their Pharmo-centic policy of requiring dangerous, unnecessary and ineffective drugging of their students, or at least informing their parents of the rights they had available to refuse vaccination for their kids AND have them attend school anyway.

Somehow, 2300 free vaccinations seems like a good bargain, even for double vaccinations for the approximately 900 children whose records the school had lost but whom they inisisted on vaccinating again for their own administrative and financial convenience. At no time of which I am aware did the Judges or State’s Attorney make it clear to parents what recourse they would have if their children suffered vaccine injury because of this forced vaccination and what steps they would personally take to take care of those children whose nervous systems, immune systems or other body parts were adversely impacted by vaccinations their parents did not want them to have.

Here is the eye-winess report of the Director of the Vaccine Information Center, Barbara Loe-Fisher who is herself the mother of a vaccine injured child. Faced with dogs and guns, Ms. Loe-Fisher retreated from the perimeter which she had unwittingly crossed. As you read her account, you will learn of other assaults on children whose parents do not want them exposed to dangerous and ineffective medical procedures. Please be prepared for more of same.

The police power of the state is being geared up to serve the economic needs of Big Pharma while Big Pharma is working hand in glove to prepare for the gathering momentum in the assault on our freedoms with a pharmaceutical bent: think Avian Flu, for example. Remember that dozens of new vaccines are in the pipeline: vaccines for smoking, for more sexually transmitted diseases, for HIV/AIDS, for cancer. And each of them is dangerous, unproven and highly profitable ONLY if they are administered on a hige scale to virtually all of the population.

The scenario is clear: some “emergency” or “pandemic” is declared – not necessarily because of any real threat, of course, and Americans are lined up to receive their shots exactly the way the 2300 economically productive kids in Prince George’s County were lined up (“It’s cute.”) Those who resist may well be threatened with, or taken to, the detention centers which are standing empty around the United States, there to be held for indefinite periods of time, perhaps forever, until they accept that vaccination. The laws permitting this type of compulsory “treatment” are already in place. The Patriot and Bioshield Acts have set the stage. Will Americans allow the curtain to be rung up on the drama of a national re-enactment of last week’s tragegy in Prince George’s County? If not, we need to act now.
Click here , http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=21835, to tell Congress that we Americans are NOT willing to have our bodies assaulted with “treatments” that we do not chose for ourselves and our children.

Now, Barbara Loe-Fisher’s highly informative and frightening eye-witness article:

November 19, 2007

National Vaccine Information Center

Police with Dogs: Vaccinating Kids in Maryland
by Barbara Loe Fisher

“In Germany, they came first for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up
because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t
speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came
for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then
they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.” – Martin
Niemueller
I watched them bundled up against the cold winter air on Saturday,
November 17, 2007, with their children and the letter from the State of
Maryland threatening them with imprisonment or fines of $50 a day for
failing to show proof their children had gotten a chickenpox or hepatitis
B shot. Confused, angry or scared but mostly resigned, they were working
mothers and fathers trudging toward the courthouse to face the Judge
ordering them to get vaccinated or go to jail. Patrolling the scene was a
SWAT team of policemen with dogs.

There were a few vaccine safety and informed consent advocates who showed
up to witness what happened at the Prince George’s County Courthouse,
among them Washington D.C. Attorney Jim Moody and autism activist Kelli
Ann Davis, of SAFEMINDS and Charles Frohman, representing the American
Association of Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) [and the Natural Solutions Foundation REL]
as well as several Moms with children who developed autism after vaccination.

The U.S. media turned out but they were kept behind barricades and denied
access into the building, as were the advocates and other members of the
general public. There was no public oversight on what was happening to
the parents and children inside.

I listened to or spoke with several mothers leaving the building with
their children and learned the sad truth about what was happening behind
the closely guarded, closed doors of the Courthouse. The parents were not
being asked questions about their child’s medical history or whether the
children had experienced health problems after previous vaccinations. The
parents were not being given information about vaccine side effects or
how to monitor their children for signs of vaccine reactions. They were
not given forms for religious and medical exemptions to vaccination
allowed in Maryland….

Apparently, the children were being re-vaccinated with not just hepatitis
B and chicken pox vaccines, the two new vaccines added to the Maryland
school requirement list, but also with other required vaccines for which
the public school system could find no record. One mother told me her
children were up- to-date on their shots but the school system lost the
records and she had to give her children all the required vaccines on the
spot or face jail or fines.

My son, Chris, who became learning disabled after suffering a serious
reaction to a fourth DPT shot in 1980, traveled with me to Maryland
carrying a camera. After growing up watching his Mom work to change
one-size-fits-all vaccine policies that were responsible for his vaccine
reaction, Chris recently decided he wants to help NVIC put a face on what
it means to be vaccine injured in America and what it means when
Americans do not have the right to freely exercise informed consent to
vaccination.

Chris set up his camera as I talked with a mother hundreds of yards from
the front of the Courthouse door. I was about 12 inches inside a row of
large cement balls that apparently were erected as a barrier to prevent
terrorist attacks. I did not know I wasn’t supposed to be talking with
this Mom inside the barrier. She was telling me about how she wasn’t
given any information about vaccines before her children were injected
with three vaccines.

All of a sudden, out of the corner of my eye I saw an armed guard with a
dog emerge from the Courthouse and walk toward us. I got a sick feeling
in the pit of my stomach. It was the dread that any citizen of any
country in any century has ever felt when an armed guard with a dog
starts advancing. As if we were common criminals or terrorists, he yelled
and gestured to us to move behind the stones.

We moved without a word. And the sick feeling in the pit of my stomach
told me we were being shown the power of the State wielded by that armed
guard with the dog, just as parents inside the Courthouse were being
shown the power of the State wielded by doctors with syringes.

There has been talk this past week about whether or not U.S. vaccine laws
are, indeed, laws or whether they are simply recommendations that do not
have the force of law behind them. Because the enactment of public health
laws was not defined in the U.S. Constitution as a federal activity, in
1905 the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the power of the states to pass
public health laws requiring citizens to be vaccinated or re-vaccinated.
http://biotech.law.lsu.edu/c ases/vaccines/Jacobson_v_Massachusetts.htm

There is now more than 100 years of case law reinforcing the U.S. Supreme
Court decision and the right of states to exercise police power to
enforce vaccine laws. The post-911 enactment of the Homeland Security
Law, the Model State Health Emergency Powers Act and Bioshield I and II
makes it clear that the State will use police power to enforce quarantine
or vaccination whenever the State chooses to wield that power.

The method of punishment for not obeying U.S. state vaccine laws is up to
the state legislatures which make the laws. Today, many state
legislatures have turned over vaccine law-making to unelected government
health and education officials, who may enlist state attorneys and judges
in the court system to enforce punishments. One of the punishments which
many states have chosen when children have not received all state
mandated vaccines is to bar children from attending school unless they
file and the State approves exemptions to vaccination outlined by the
State.

The National Vaccine Information Center receives calls and emails every
week from parents who are being harrassed by government officials about
filing a religious exemption to vaccination or cannot find a doctor to
write a medical exemption. Maryland has a very strictly worded religious
exemption that requires the parent to be opposed to all vaccines in order
to obtain it.

Those parents, who do not vaccinate their children and do not either make
arrangements with the State to homeschool them or successfully file a
state-approved exemption, are in violation of another state law: truancy
laws. Failure to send your child to school in Maryland between the ages
of 5 and 16 is a misdemeanor punishable by fines and jail time or both.
This is the law which the Maryland government officials moved to enforce
when they enlisted the help of State’s Attorney Glenn Ivey (D) and Judge
C. Philip Nichols to turn parents of unvaccinated children into
criminals.

In one news report, Judge Nichols was quoted as observing that the
children looked unhappy waiting in line for their vaccinations. He is
quoted as saying “It’s cute. It looks like their parents are dragging
them to church.”

The big difference between being dragged into a Courthouse to get
vaccinated and being dragged to church is that an hour of prayer rarely
results in catastrophic brain injury or death. I still wonder how many of
those children, who were injected with multiple vaccines in the
Courthouse, are having vaccine reactions today. Their parents, many of
whom are uninformed about how to recognize vaccine reactions, will never
know what happened to their children if they regress into chronic poor
health after the shots they were forced to get on Saturday.

We know that attacks on the religious and philosophical exemptions to
vaccination in America are on the increase and are being led by vaccine
patent holders like Paul Offit, M.D. and others who want to force
vaccination.

In 1996, a sixteen year old Milwaukee boy was handcuffed, stripped and
jailed overnight because he hadn’t shown public school or county health
authorities proof that he had gotten a second MMR shot. In 1997, I made a
presentation to the National Vaccine Advisory Committee defending the
moral right to exercise a conscientious belief exemption to vaccination
and predicting what would happen if Americans did not win that freedom.

What happened in Maryland this weekend is a final wake-up call for
America.

Dozens of new vaccines are being rushed to market in the next decade and
most will target children and adults for mandated use. Limiting the power
of the State to force vaccination is all that stands between the people
and tyranny.

There is only one way we will be free in the future: the laws must be
changed so that every state allows a conscientious belief exemption to
vaccination. Parents in Texas, after working with Parents Requesting Open
Vaccine Education (PROVE) to educate the Texas legislature about the need
for a conscientious belief exemption, got that exemption added in 2004
(www.vaccineinfo.net ). NVIC provided information and strategic support
for PROVE’s seven year effort to secure strong informed consent and
privacy protections in Texas vaccine laws but it was Dawn Richardson,
Rebecca Rex and the people of Texas who got the job done.

Is this the America you want for yourself and for the future? If not, take action now: contact Congress, http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=21835, to tell your elected Congressmen and women know they need to protect us and the US by protecting the Constitution.

Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima

Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation

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How to Kill Health Freedom: Hit ‘Em High, Hit ‘Em Low

Monday, April 30th, 2007

Health Freedom Threats: Hit ‘Em High, Hit ‘Em Low!

Right now the American Public is being whipsawed: first the dangerous FDA CAM Guidance (Complimentary and Alternative Medicine/Modalities) which threatens to turn all health practices into medicine which only physicians could practice and the foods and supplements supporting natural health into unlicensed drugs – and, yes, there is a real danger to your health freedom despite a good deal of internet chatter to the contrary!) and now the sudden advancement of Senator Ted Kennedy disastrous bill, S 1082 (“the FDA Revitalization Act of 2007”, plus the identical House bill) from Committee to the floor of the Senate for a vote in the immediate future without public hearings.

It would be easy to succumb to “health freedom vigilance fatigue”, which is, I believe, exactly what the intended effect is supposed to be. There is even speculation that Senator Kennedy moved this bill forward so rapidly BECAUSE the American public responded so vigorously to the CAM Guidance and are presumed to be preoccupied with it. (By the way, we have already sent xxx comments on this dangerous extension of the law by the Office of Policy and Planning and the public comment period has been extended to May 29, giving us lots more time to get lots more comments in.) But, while we were busy with that assault, it looks like the Big Pharma folks decided to sneak this one through. And, by the way, although the Senate version is up for an immediate vote, it is the members of the House who will either vote it up or down ultimately so giving these elected officials your direction is critical NOW.

Who cares? You do. Kennedy’s dreadful bill could get the FDA into the business of not only regulating drugs and medical devices, which is does now very, very badly, but also into the business of licensing and selling them, too. Contained in the same bill is the opportunity for this agency (already thoroughly corrupted by its dependency on lucrative “user fees” from drug companies which provide a substantial portion of the FDA’s operating budget now) to increase these fees and, thus, increase its unsavory, unethical and all-too-often deadly reliance on the drug companies’ financial support of an agency which is mandated to be their watch dog but which has become their lap dog. This bill increases the financial incest between the regulated and the regulators. Given the corruption of the FDA and the fact that mainstream medicine-document reality that properly prescribed drug are the principal killers in every developed country in the world, this bill threatens to make a disastrous situation even more fatally toxic.

The FDA is already the governmental marketing branch of Big Pharma. What ever has possessed Senator Kennedy to make matters worse? Although there is are small sops to consumer well-being like forbidding advertising of new drugs until they have been in use for two years, the provisions of this bill are, in general, significantly hostile to FDA agency health and US public health. Read about S 1082, then take action.

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Now for the report on today’s Codex Working Group on Production, Processing, Marketing and Labeling of Organic Foods
April 29, 2007 Ottawa, Ontario

What do you think? Should the definition of “organic” include crops grown with a fertilizer produced by surface-mining a rock (environmental degradation, non renewable resource) from Chile (non local resource), pulverizing it, (environmental degradation), soaking it in water to dissolve the nitrates out and crystallizing it after evaporation (highly processed material) and then applying that to soil where is absorbed very rapidly so that soil microbes do not get a chance to act on it and turn the nitrate into a mineral source from organic biomass?

The debate between Chile (the major producer of inorganic natural sodium nitrate) and everybody else was hot, heavy and highly emotional. Damage to the soil (Thailand), better options closer to the soil (EU), lack of organic integrity (Norway), rejection by the public (Switzerland) and a host of other arguments ranged passionately against Chile’s position that although it was derived from a ground-up rock from far away, it should be organic anyhow until, finally, the Chairwoman decided that despite lack of consensus the recommendation would be made to the full Codex Committee on Food Labeling to not allow Chile’s sodium nitrate to be used as an organic fertilizer. Chile was very unhappy with this decision, of course.

Then, in almost the next breath, New Zealand’s proposal that the use of synthetically derived ethylene gas be permitted to ripen kiwi fruits was approved. Hmmmm. You cannot use a synthetic fertilizer (although plants need nitrogen to grow) but you can use a synthetic gas to ripen fruits since plants make a small amount of it shows a wild inconsistency. There was no more consensus (what ever that means) for the first decision than there was for the second but the deal was apparently done before the discussion took place.

IFOAM, the International Federation of Organic Agricultural Movements, tried using science to make the point that Chile’s fertilizer was not OK but did not bother to even try to do so for the use of a synthetic gas to ripen a supposedly organic fruit. What the hot debate was about on ethylene was whether the approval should be put in paragraph 82 or table 4 or section 3 of table 2 or……

Net result: it is OK to ripen kiwi fruit synthetically and pretend that they are organic. Stay tuned next year for permission to ripen all tropical fruits that way since, as Brazil said, the process of gas ripening makes the tropical fruit trade economically viable. But does that make the fruit organic? Not in my book.

Tomorrow the Codex Committee on Food Labeling begins its formal work. There are several really dangerous provisions up for discussion (all supported by the US through the FDA, of course. But there are a growing number of countries that are not so sure about the wisdom of just following the multinational’s best friend around the block any more. I will keep you posted. Stay tuned.

Yours in health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation

Guest Blog from Ralph Fucetola, JD. Please read and share widely.

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

Today, Saturday, April 28, 2007, the Working Group on the Proposed Draft Amendment for the Labeling of Prepackaged Food will meet in the Ottawa Congress Center, Ottawa, Canada. On Sunday, April 29, the Working Group for the Production, Processing, Labeling and Marketing of Organically Produced Foods will meet. Both meetings are a single day long each year. Both sort out thorny issues n dry as dust terms. But that dust, like the rest of Codex, contains the seeds of the future health of the planet within it. Each Working Group meets for a one day meeting held each year before the start of the Codex Committee on Food Labeling which is hosted by Canada in Ottawa annually.

After the meeting tomorrow I will fill you in on what takes place. What is going on at Codex is vitally important to your health and your planet. BUt what is going on at Codex is also going on at home, too.

Ralph Fucetola, a regulatory lawyer, has written a beautiful guest blog which follows. Please read it and pass it along to everyone in your circle of influence. It is a really important piece. By the way, Big Pharma’s agenda knows neither national borders nor compassion for the vulnerable. Senator Kennedy’s new bill shows neither sense nor respect for your rights. The FDA Guidance shows neither respect for your health nor your health freedom.

We, the people, are neither amused nor hoodwinked and are once again standing and roaring that we control our freedoms, we, not merchants and not politicians, and certainly not bureaucrats or doctors.

Here is Ralph’s Guest Blog:
A Natural Solutions Foundation Guest Editorial

www.vitaminlawyernews.com
FDA CAM DRAFT GUIDANCE INFORMATION
Docket No. 2006D-0480 – http://www.fda.gov/OHRMS/DOCKETS/98fr/E7-3259.htm

1. Guest Blog for NSF – 04/28/07
2. FDA CAM Threat Assessment – 04/26/07
3. Comments to FDA regarding CAM draft Guidance – 04/06/07

A Natural Solutions Foundation Guest Blog Entry
See: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php/?p=367

Don’t be Duped: Multiple Assaults Need Multiple Responses

Our Health Freedom is threatened again. It’s been going on for centuries,
this struggle between healers and bureaucrats. Even back in the age of Henry
the 8th the surgeons of London got a law passed effectively outlawing their
herbalist competitors by granting themselves a monopoly, and, a couple years
later, after many herbalists were brought before the courts, the King had to
intervene, obtaining Parliamentary approval for what is now known in the
Common Law as The Herbalists Charter, to protect traditional methods of
healing and allow their practice “without suit, vexation, trouble, penalty
or loss…”1 As recently as the start of the Twentieth Century, one state
Supreme Court noted, “”The state has not restricted the cure of the body to
the practice of medicine and surgery — allopathy, as it is termed… that
would be to limit progress by establishing allopathy as the state system of
healing, and forbidding all others. This would be as foreign to ours system as
a state church for the cure of souls… To restrict all healing to that one
kind — to allopathy, excluding homeopathy, osteopathy, and all other
treatments — might be a protection to doctors in surgery and medicine; but
that is not the object of the act, and might make it unconstitutional, because
creating a monopoly.” 2

Just such a monopoly was created. For convenience, we can call it the Big
Pharma Cartel. It has money and powerful friends in government – who often
play bureaucratic “musical chairs” among agencies, big companies and
universities. They use that power to harass, jail and even kill their
competitors. We honor the memory of doctors Wilhelm Reich and Dinshah Darius,
among other victims of this witch hunt (as we honor the memories of those
earlier victims of witch hunts who were often Wise Women and Healers.).

In America, after decades of sporadic and arbitrary attacks on health food
stores, holistic doctors and alternative practitioners, a powerful groundswell
of public opinion surged in the early 1990s. People demonstrated at FDA
offices around the country, converged on Washington, flooded Congress with
letters and faxes. Those were heady days, when the political establishment
first took note of what has come to be called the Health Freedom Movement. The
result was congressional passage, without any negative votes, of the Dietary
Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA). That law was supposed to
protect the right of nutrient purveyors to make truthful and not misleading
claims about the nutritional benefits of their products for the normal
structure and function of the body.

This did not, however, stop the attempts of cartel and its friends in power.
Numerous times since then efforts have been mounted in the media, through
cartel-financed schools and journals, and in the government, to discredit all
dietary supplements and all Complementary and Alternative Modalities (CAM).
The usual process includes fake science, smear and innuendo. In recent years,
add to that, very sophisticated attacks on web sites offering products or
information about nutrition and CAM.

The battle is being fought in each state, where now discredited
“quackbusters” attacked doctors wanting to practice advanced CAM
techniques; in the federal government where important therapies that can
benefit many people, such as the responsible use of silver in health 3, are
under attack; and on the international level where “harmonization” means
reducing our Freedom to some bland bureaucratic “minimum daily
requirement.” On the international level Codex Alimentarius, the World Food
Code, is the chief bureaucratic mechanism to undermine organic standards,
prevent people from knowing what foods are genetically modified – and which
are not – and otherwise make the Big Pharma Cartel agenda international
policy. Regional bureaucracies, such as the EU, NAFTA and the ominous North
American Union play an important role in imposing the harm of harmonization.
4

Recently, even the Journal of the AMA, JAMA, included a highly suspect
“meta-analysis” of carefully chosen “studies” to claim that taking
vitamins could be bad for your health! This article was strongly criticized
by Life Extension Foundation5 and others in the field, but the mass media
covered only the fake science, not the response. Literally tens of thousands
of good scientific studies prove the value of supplementation. It has been
suggested that those who trust the AMA and FDA should certainly not take any
vitamins, especially the mega doses many of us have used for decades. Then in
a few years, we’ll see who is still around to continue the argument!

Yes, at each turn, the attacks of the cartelists and bureaucrats have been met
with stiff public resistance. The attempt to water down organic standards gave
rise to a tidal wave of protest. The original FDA “structure and function”
regulation in 1999 was successfully opposed and the final rule was rather more
friendly to nutritional products. The public outcry in each of these cases was
similar to what is happening now with the FDA’s surreptitiously promulgated
CAM draft Guidance (“issued” on December 26th; no public notice until
February 26th; initially only a short comment period). The grassroots of the
Health Freedom Movement caught fire when the people learned that FDA’s
bureaucrats, under the guise of “just restating the law” were actually
setting the basis for handing over our supplements and alternatives to the Big
Pharma Cartel. 6

But the song continues, and big government representative Ted Kennedy, has
just introduced S-1082, a bill that may gut our Health Freedom. Curiously, we
had heard this bill was dead before submission and would not be submitted. As
soon as the current public outcry reached a very high level, along comes the
senator, with a bill intended to divert attention from the other
anti-supplement bills, Codex, the NAU and the anti-CAM guidance.

It is time to Kill the Kennedy Bill in Committee! While we won’t be diverted
from our vigilance of the FDA anti-CAM maneuver, it is important to react to
these other assaults on Health Freedom. We would like to see this bill killed
in committee. Better to knock it out in congressional committee than allow it
to waste our time. While comments directed at the FDA over its anti-CAM draft
guidance was the proper response, as required by the Federal Register notice,
this back-door effort by the senior senator from Massachusetts should be met
with a flood of messages to the chairman and the members of the oversight
committee that must approve the bill before it goes before the entire Senate.
That will be our strategy in the coming weeks. Of course, if we cannot stop it
in committee, it may be necessary to attempt constructive engagement with the
committee and senators, to amend the bill to protect supplements. Just this
step, according to postings on April 28th on the blog at Mercola.com, has been
suggested by leading nutrition attorney Jonathan Emord JD.

All of these multiple assaults are, of course, connected. They are connected
in philosophy, proponents and beneficiaries. Their proponents refuse to allow
us the freedom to make our own choices, deeming that their political power
gives them the authority to decide for us. We have had enough of such
deciders. They have given us a medical system that kills hundreds of
thousands each year. We reject the philosophy that “the leader is always
right;” that we should just shut up and take all the prescriptions Big
Pharma sells. We know that the cartel that benefits from all these rules and
regulations has plenty of money and jobs to bribe politicians and bureaucrats.
None of that matters when the people are alerted and vigilant! We assert our
“Right to heal and be healed.” 7 We will not be duped by false leaders,
naysayers and nitpickers. We are “mad as hell and won’t take it anymore!” The
time has come to assert thatfundamental right. We need, in both law and
fact, for this basic human right to be respected. We need an end to the power
of the cartel and its bureaucratic allies. And all this will come to pass
using the tools of modern communication, which will prove, I believe, in the
end, more powerful than cartels and politicians.

It does, however, depend on you. You need to support organizations like the
Natural Solutions Foundation, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org, which shows continuing
leadership and, in fact, broke the FDA anti-CAM guidance story. Like everyone
else who unmasks the face of the Big Pharma Objective, they are currently
being smeared and defamed through disinformation and innuendo. Don’t be duped
by disinformation any more than you are by bad science. It’s up to you to see
through to the core of truth and to make your voice heard. It is time to
dream of a world where each person has the right to heal and be healed. That
is the dream we need to have, for our dream to come true.

Ralph Fucetola JD
www.vitaminlawyer.com

Notes

1. See the Charter at http://home.earthlink.net/~lifespirit23/herbcharter.htm

2. North Carolina’s Supreme Court in State v MacKnight, 42 S.E. 580, 1902 at p
582.
3. See: www.silverfacts.com
4. See Dr. Laibow’s Nutricide at www.globalhealthfreedom.org
5. See: http://www.lef.org/featured-articles/consumer_alert_020307.htm
6. See “Take Action” at www.healthfreedomusa.org
7. See: http://www.lifespirit.org/wiltondec.html

Sabotage?

Saturday, April 7th, 2007

Could It Be That All The Problems Are Coincidence?

A couple of days ago The Natural Solutions Foundation sent out an Action Alert telling you that the FDA is at it again. Their “Proposed Guidance on CAM” will classify all natural therapies as “Medical Practices” so only licensed physicians will be able to practice them. Then the supplements and products used in those practices become “untested drugs” which are, in the US and elsewhere, illegal. Not only that, I can tell you as a physician that deviations from “practice guidelines” or “treatment algorithms” are increasingly cause for doctors to have their licenses pulled so few doctors will offer those modalities.

The Comments page , (http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/healthfreedomusa/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=7185) I set up for you to use to send your comments electronically to the FDA during the public comment period (which ends on April 30) was working perfectly and, at last count, 11,030 people had sent comments to the FDA using that page.

And then the emails began coming in that said things like, “When I click the “submit” button, I get an ‘Error 404’ message.” and “When I clicked on the link in your email, I got a “Page no longer available” message and similar emails.

Connect the Dots!


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On March 14 of this year our site, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org, was “locked” by our hosting company hours after we made it known that the huge number of drug-related deaths which are the leading cause of death in every developed country in the world fit in perfectly with the explicitly stated genocidal agenda of multinational and international organizations from the Council on Foreign Relations to the World Health Organization. We pointed out that this fits perfectly with the apparent underlying Codex agenda (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php/?p=322), coming as it does straight from Nazi Germany. (Check out the Nutricide Video on our home page, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org if you haven’t seen it! Email that link, too.)

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A temporary page telling people what happened after our site went down was mounted by our webmaster. Within hours his server and all of his sites were off the Internet because of a concerted, organized and illegal attack on our site and his hosting server. When he took our temporary site down, the attack ceased almost instantly and his sever and sites were back on line within minutes.

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Our Action Alert on the proposed New York legislation (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php/?page_id=351) which will limit access to nutrients and supplements in that state was number 1 in Google’s ranking on the topic one day and suddenly disappeared from the Internet search engine altogether overnight!

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More than 11,000 people have responded to our urgent request that they file their objections to this latest FDA end run around DSHEA (the 1994 law which says that supplements and herbs are foods and, as such, are presumed to be safe). Our Action Alert emails on the topic have been widely circulated and people are using this opportunity to create another uproar like the one that prevented Congress from taking away our right to supplements in 1994 and brought us DSHEA!

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I Can See the Picture!

I think it is reasonable to conclude that our vigorous response and success is not particularly welcome to the FDA and their friends. And that means that we need to intensify our successful response right now! We only have until April 30, 2007 to let the FDA know that We, the People, want our health products, our health freedom and our self determination. The FDA also needs to know that we want Public Hearings on these issues and that we are willing to make our will loud and clear.

Here’s Your Part

You have been doing a great job of sending your comments to the FDA and circulating this information to your circle of influence. It may be hard to take in but if this “Guidance” goes through, there will be no more legal natural health and wellness modalities. There will be no more natural health and wellness products.

Our nutrients, if we are permitted any, will look very much like the low potency, no impact nutrients permitted in Europe under the Codex-Compliant European Food Supplements Directive (using any other nutrients in any other dosages is a crime). Our herbs, if we have any, will look very much like the very, very short list of herbs permitted ONLY FOR TRIVIAL COMPLAINTS in Europe under the European Medicinal Herbal Products Directive (using any other herbs for any other reasons is a crime). In other words, Big Pharma, like Big Brother at the end of George Orwell’s chillingly prophetic “1984” will have won.

We are That Close!

We are that close to loosing natural medicine. We are that close to loosing our health freedom.

It is imperative that you submit your comments to the FDA. If you value your health or your freedom (or both) you have only a narrow window of opportunity to raise your voice with all the other voices shouting for our right to make our own health decisions.

Use this link to access the page where you can submit your comments : http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/healthfreedomusa/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=7185
If there is a problem wit the link, write to me with your information at dr.laibow@gmail.com and I will personally make sure that your comments are submitted to the FDA. Every one of them!

After you have submitted you comments, the next step is critical. Spend some time contacting all of the people in your circle of influence and, with a short note at the top of the email, explain how dangerous this threat is, how short the window of opportunity is and what the consequences will be if the FDA and Big Pharma succeed this time around. Please include the makers and sellers of your vitamins, minerals, etc. as well as the practitioners whom you know in your emails. Ask people, practitioners, health food stores, organizations and companies to alert their customers, patients, suppliers, friends, etc. We need millions of responses and we CAN get them if we all work together on this.

Oh, and please, don’t forget to write to me to let me know if you have any further problems with the links or the sites. We will fix them if you do.

Actually, I take heart from these attacks: if we were not effective, there would be no need for sabotage!

Remember, the FDA’s goal is simple: through a “Guidance” about the regulation of “CAM” (which they conveniently define as “Complementary and Alternative MEDICINE” instead of “Complementary and Alternative Modalities” the FDA hopes to serve the interests of Big Pharma by eliminating all CAM practices and products. ALL of them.

Criminalizing Natural Health

The FDA is using a legal ploy to make all natural health criminal in either one way or another. You can’t engage in it if you are not a physician and you cannot use the products even if you are. That’s very similar to the laws recently introduced in Australia (5 year prison sentence for using, providing to another person or teaching the use of nutrients) and India (illegal to practice or teach acupuncture, energy healing, sound therapy, etc., etc.). Neither law passed but they will be back in Parliament again. It’s the same process: marginalize, then criminalize all competition to the deadly, expensive and oh-so-useful drugs!

In your email to your circle of influence, please remember to Include a link to the Natural Solutions Foundation website (www.HealthFreedomUSA.org ). Tell them that we are protecting their health freedoms and ask them to lend their support to the health freedom battle which threatens to criminalize natural health! Let them know that when you click on this link, http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/healthfreedomusa/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=7185, your comments will be automatically registered on the FDA site.
5,000,000

That’s our goal. Two weeks, five million comments to the FDA, all asserting our fundamental right to control our own health. Manufacturers, distributors, health food stores and natural practitioners pay close attention: the FDA is in the process of regulating your business out of existence. By April 30. If you value your work and your livelihood, ACT NOW!

Here’s that critically important link:

http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/healthfreedomusa/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=7185

We are collectively doing a GREAT job. That’s the reason efforts to silence us crop up. We are not silent because we are right: our health and our freedom is worth speaking out for and we are doing it!

We ARE the Ones We Have Been Waiting For!

Oh, yes. One other thing: The lawyer who wrote this comments document did it for free. Our other legal consultants work for free. I work for free. General Stubblebine works for free. Our wonderful volunteers and Board Members accept no compensation. Everyone else who is providing services wants to be paid for the work they do for us. And rightly so, by the way. So don’t forget to feed the health freedom kitty by making a tax deductible donation (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=189) or shopping at our all-organic store! Thanks for all your wonderful support.

Yours in health and freedom,

Dr. Rima

Rima E. Laibow, MD

Medical Director

Natural Solutions Foundation

www.HealthFreedomUSA.org

dr.laibow@gmail.com