Archive for November, 2007

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

US Government Allows Human Exerimentation on Americans

Friday, November 16th, 2007

November 15, 2007

Here is the relevant Code and the exemptions to the “restrictions” passed by Congress in April 2000 which permits deadly experimentation on US citizens without informed consent.

From the U.S. Code Online via GPO Access
[wais.access.gpo.gov]
[Laws in effect as of January 23, 2000]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 23, 2000 and December 4, 2001]
[CITE: 50USC1520a]

TITLE 50–WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE

CHAPTER 32–CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WARFARE PROGRAM

Sec. 1520a. Restrictions on use of human subjects for testing of
chemical or biological agents

(a) Prohibited activities

The Secretary of Defense may not conduct (directly or by contract)–
(1) any test or experiment involving the use of a chemical agent
or biological agent on a civilian population; or
(2) any other testing of a chemical agent or biological agent on
human subjects.

(b) Exceptions

Subject to subsections (c), (d), and (e) of this section, the
prohibition in subsection (a) of this section does not apply to a test
or experiment carried out for any of the following purposes:
(1) Any peaceful purpose that is related to a medical,
therapeutic, pharmaceutical, agricultural, industrial, or research
activity.
(2) Any purpose that is directly related to protection against
toxic chemicals or biological weapons and agents.
(3) Any law enforcement purpose, including any purpose related
to riot control.

(c) Informed consent required

The Secretary of Defense may conduct a test or experiment described
in subsection (b) of this section only if informed consent to the
testing was obtained from each human subject in advance of the testing
on that subject.

(d) Prior notice to Congress

Not later than 30 days after the date of final approval within the
Department of Defense of plans for any experiment or study to be
conducted by the Department of Defense (whether directly or under
contract) involving the use of human subjects for the testing of a
chemical agent or a biological agent, the Secretary of Defense shall
submit to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the
Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives a report
setting forth a full accounting of those plans, and the experiment or
study may then be conducted only after the end of the 30-day period
beginning on the date such report is received by those committees.

(e) “Biological agent” defined

In this section, the term “biological agent” means any micro-
organism (including bacteria, viruses, fungi, rickettsiac, or protozoa),
pathogen, or infectious substance, and any naturally occurring,
bioengineered, or synthesized component of any such micro-organism,
pathogen, or infectious substance, whatever its origin or method of
production, that is capable of causing–
(1) death, disease, or other biological malfunction in a human,
an animal, a plant, or another living organism;
(2) deterioration of food, water, equipment, supplies, or
materials of any kind; or
(3) deleterious alteration of the environment.

(Pub. L. 105-85, div. A, title X, Sec. 1078, Nov. 18, 1997, 111 Stat.
1915; Pub. L. 106-65, div. A, title X, Sec. 1067(4), Oct. 5, 1999, 113
Stat. 774.)

Codification

Section is comprised of section 1078 of Pub. L. 105-85. Subsec. (f)
of section 1078 of Pub. L. 105-85 amended section 1523(b) of this title.
Subsec. (g) of section 1078 of Pub. L. 105-85 repealed section 1520 of
this title.
Section was enacted as part of the National Defense Authorization
Act for Fiscal Year 1998, and not as part of Pub. L. 91-121, title IV,
Sec. 409, Nov. 19, 1969, 83 Stat. 209, which comprises this chapter.

What’s in Vaccines?

Friday, November 16th, 2007

November 15, 2007

Here is a brief precise of the contents of vaccines. Source: the website of the CDC:

…vaccines also contain other toxic substances which can cause serious side effects themselves. The following ingredients are actually listed on the CDC website with this introductory statement: “Many things in today’s world, including food and medicines, have chemicals added to them to prevent the growth of germs and reduce spoilage.”
Additional ingredients antibiotics, aluminum gels, formaldehyde, monosodium glutamate (MSG), egg protein, and sulfites, aluminum (which when combined with silicon deficiency and fluoride, results in the neurofibrillary tangles seen in Alzheimer’s disease – REL], formaldehyde, MSG (a potent neurological ‘excitotoxin’ which, like aspartame, can cause seizures, brain tumors, etc.), egg protein, Thirteen of the vaccines currently available are cultured on aborted human fetal tissues

Ethyl-mercury (contained in the preservative thimerosol) is also present. Mercury is a highly toxic heavy metal, known to cause cancer, and serious neurological diseases, including, in my belief, autism. Mercury is 1,000 times more toxic than lead, and is second only to uranium as the most toxic metal. If children receive all recommended vaccines, they will receive many times the [fictional] “allowable safe limit” for mercury in the first two years of life”

In addition, squalene, a response enhancer or adjuvant, is present in many modern vaccines and is highly irritating to the immune system. Use in vaccines like “Vaccine A”, or Anthrax vaccine in Gulf War I soldiers is believed by many to be a primary cause, along with depleted uranium, of the devastating condition known as “Gulf War Syndrome”.

Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org

Maryland Menaces Children, Parents Over Vaccination

Friday, November 16th, 2007

November 15, 2005

A Maryland Court has threatened thousands of children with imminent harm, and threatened to abrogate parental rights in a massive assault on both parents and children in Maryland.

In an article by Nelson Hernandez, a Washington Post Staff Writer, it was revealed that the State is attempting to coerce parents to expose their children to potential harm through its powers of intimidation and sanction.
This kind of intimidation to enhance State control of health decisions appears to be accelerating.
Only strong Health Freedom Advocacy will prevent the complete take over of our bodies.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation

Sign up for Health Freedom Alerts and take action to protect your rights now. www.HealthFreedomUSA.org

Wednesday, November 14, 2007; Page B01

The parents of more than 2,300 Prince George’s County students who failed to get needed vaccinations could face fines of $50 a day and up to 10 days in jail if their children do not meet the state’s immunization requirements, county officials said yesterday.
The threat of legal action is a last resort after months in which Prince George’s has struggled to get its 131,000 students immunized for chicken pox and hepatitis B, as mandated by the state. More than 2,300 students have not been immunized and have been barred from attending schools, almost two months after a Sept. 20 deadline for meeting the requirement.
“We can do this the easy way or the hard way, but it’s got to get done,” Prince George’s State’s Attorney Glenn F. Ivey (D) said at a news conference in Upper Marlboro. “I’m willing to move forward with legal action.”
School officials have made calls, sent letters and conducted home visits to make arrangements for free appointments for the needed shots. But often the students’ addresses and phone numbers have been outdated, making contacting them difficult. Other students have received the vaccines but failed to get the necessary booster shots.
The school system turned to the justice system as a final option and received the backing of Circuit Judge William D. Missouri, the county’s administrative judge, and Circuit Judge C. Philip Nichols Jr., who handles juvenile matters.
“This is an educational crisis,” said R. Owen Johnson Jr., chairman of the school board. “This is a public health and a children’s rights issue.”
Nichols and Ivey sent another round of letters to the families still out of compliance. Nichols’s letter ordered the parents to show up at Prince George’s Circuit Court for a court hearing and a free vaccine; Ivey’s letter warned that “unexcused absences by your child may subject you to a criminal charge.”
They expect almost 1,700 children to show up Saturday with their parents for the first in a series of Circuit Court hearings on the matter. School officials said the parents would receive a verbal reprimand from the judge and be ordered to have their children immunized in the courthouse. The students would then be allowed to return to school.
Parents who do not appear could face fines of $50 for each day they fail to get their children immunized after being charged. They also could serve up to 10 days in jail. Ivey said he hoped charging parents would not be necessary.

“The goal is to get kids in school, not to put parents in jail,” Ivey said.
Missouri said he looked forward to talking to the parents who had not gotten their children immunized, to understand why.
“I’d like to know exactly what the reasons are because the reasons may be able to be addressed without ratcheting it up to this point,” he said.

Schools officials said they were sorry the crisis had gone this far, but that it needed to be solved immediately.
“This has really, really been a difficult time for us,” said Betty Despenza-Green, the school system’s chief of student services. “It hurts us when any child is out of school because he needs to be immunized, and so we felt we needed to be creative. We need those students immunized. We need them in schools.”
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Letters, We Get Letters

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

November 15, 2007

Here are some of the letters we have been getting recently. They have not been edited but their authors’ names have been omitted. If you have a question or a comment you would like to share with the Natural Solutions Foundation, please feel free to send it along to the Natural Solutions Foundation at dr.laibow@gmail.com. We WILL answer you although it may take a little time since we are staffed by volunteers. If the matter is urgent, please say so in the subject line and we will give our email priority.

Thanks for writing! Keep those cards and letters coming!

Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.orgwww.GlobalHealthFreedom.org

November 11, 2007
Dear Dr. Laibow:

I can tithe my time and feel this is very important-

I want to screen your videos for health professionals in the Body Mind field here in [writer’s home town]-

I am a licensed psychologist who works as an alternative healer/energetic therapist-
Our western health system is fascist and in shambles!

You are my hero! You go girl!
Contact me at [phone number redacted]
DM

I answered:

Dear DM:
Since I am in Germany at the Codex meeting calling you would be difficult BUT I am deeply grateful for your offer of help and your enthusiastic support.
I would be delighted if you would make sure that the professionals in your area are informed and, even more important, activated. You are quite right about our system and, since they are caught in the middle of it psychologically, culturally and personally, it is hard to see it until your eyes have been focused on the reality – and it is especially helpful if a peer assists in changing the cognitive framework.
I think the best place to start is a meeting with a brief introduction to the fact that the FDA is hell bent for leather on getting the economic competitors to drugs out of the way (giving people the opportunity to learn about the FDA Cam Guidance which will allow the FDA to define CAM as MEDICINE, thereby making the practice of natural techniques the province of licensed physicians ONLY, then discussing the other threats (what is your State doing to support or attack your activities?) and then an introduction to the Codex would be a pretty dense information flow for the first meeting. What should emerge from that is a determination to
1. learn more – please have our website available for people to go to:
2. do more – if people are energized to spread the word to colleagues and patients they can become a positive and effective force for protecting mind body practices
3. arrange another meeting with colleagues, patients, friends, etc. At that meeting, a screening of my nutricide lecture (available on “Nutricide: the DVD” , a discussion of the implications of the Codex process (including HARMonization) and how it fits into the US suppression of natural health, gathering signatures on the legal challenge to HARMonization, the Citizens Petition, having a computer available in the room so that people can go to our site and sign up for the Health Freedom Alert (and make donations to our Foundation if they are so inclined) right there and a group decision on the next steps for your community would be a great “two step process” all on its own.
Please contact Kathy Greene to let her know that you would like an organizer’s kit. And stay in close touch!
Thanks for your support!
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima

Dear Dr. Laibow:
This [Codex threat] sounds like a worthwhile message, but I don’t really understand it.
> Can you, perhaps, explain it in terms that are simpler and more direct
> — and without quite so much detail?
WD

and we answered:

Dear WD:
Your email to Dr. Laibow was sent to me for response. Thank you for taking the
time to communicate.

Now, how can we make the message simpler?

In common law countries like the US, you are free to do whatever is not
specifically forbidden by law. In “code” countries, like most EU countries,
you can only do what is permitted by law.

Codex Alimentarius – the World Food Code – arose from part of the Napoleonic
Code and with its various approved lists and guidelines attempts to control
all foods, including supplements. It goes even further, though, led by a
chairman who has a personal interest in a “risk analysis” company in Germany.
Codex wants to treat supplements as though they were industrial toxins,
subjecting them to a “risk analysis” that would forbid all that have a
demonstrable impact (for good or ill). Without considering bio-individuality.
At the same time, of course, no such analysis is required for genetically
modified or irradiated foods or drugs (drugs are allowed to have “risks”

If you want to remain free to control your own food and healthcare, we need
your help. It’s that simple.

For Natural Solutions,

Ralph Fucetola, JD, Trustee
The Vitamin Lawyer.com Consultancy
http://www.vitaminlawyer.com
http://vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com
All Rights Reserved . . .

November 11,2007:

Dear Dr. Laibow:
Thank you very much for the update on what is going on regarding the attempted implementation of Codex Alimentarius. It has been an on-going battle to stave off the loss of our health freedoms ever since CODEX was adopted in the U.N. in the early 1960’s. Under the guise of uniform standards for all nations of the world for health and nutritional products, CODEX actually is designed to make it very difficult and expensive for the average person to have affordable access to herbs, vitamins, nutritional supplements and other health promoting products. The more people become healthy and don’t need pharmaceutical drugs, the less money the drug companies can make. It’s all about money. If we are all sick and have long-term degenerative diseases and are all on drugs, what a financial boon for big Pharma. Lately, the FDA has been trying to even prevent information from being published and distributed about historic and traditional benefits that have been known for centuries regarding natural herbs and other natural therapies and supplements. People should not be taking this sort of thing lightly but rather should be alarmed. The FDA has lost sight of it’s true purpose of keeping food & medicine safe and have instead become the pawn of the drug companies to squelch competition from the natural health sector so Big Pharma can have ALL the Pie. Luckily, more and more people are waking up to what is going on and are willing to do something about it like you have been. Thank you! Your efforts are very much appreciated! On Nov 11, 2007 10:16 PM, Vicki Knapp wrote:
Dear Dr. Laibow: Thank you very much for the update on what is going on regarding the attempted implementation of Codex Alimentarius. It has been an on-going battle to stave off the loss of our health freedoms ever since CODEX was adopted in the U.N. in the early 1960’s. Under the guise of uniform standards for all nations of the world for health and nutritional products, CODEX actually is designed to make it very difficult and expensive for the average person to have affordable access to herbs, vitamins, nutritional supplements and other health promoting products. The more people become healthy and don’t need pharmaceutical drugs, the less money the drug companies can make. It’s all about money. If we are all sick and have long-term degenerative diseases and are all on drugs, what a financial boon for big Pharma. Lately, the FDA has been trying to even prevent information from being published and distributed about historic and traditional benefits that have been known for centuries regarding natural herbs and other natural therapies and supplements. People should not be taking this sort of thing lightly but rather should be alarmed. The FDA has lost sight of it’s true purpose of keeping food & medicine safe and have instead become the pawn of the drug companies to squelch competition from the natural health sector so Big Pharma can have ALL the Pie. Luckily, more and more people are waking up to what is going on and are willing to do something about it like you have been. Thank you! Your efforts are very much appreciated! VK

We responded:

Dear VK:
And Thank YOU! Our effectiveness is in the fact that our associates (those on our email list) are wonderful, decent people who have a dream of what America can become again! They know that our health freedoms are an important part of that dream! Every time we ask that people send out messages to Congress, Wash DC gets blasted with tens of thousands of emails- much more than they are used to getting- and they know that our group is WATCHING!! The grassroots groups are growing and spreading the word, and hopefully, soon, we will be able to get millions of emails to Wash DC. Dr. Rima has tremendous energy! (It helps to be wearing skates if you are with her when she is lobbying in Congress!) So keep spreading the word, and if people are interested, get us their email addresses so we can keep them up to date, and stay focussed on that future we all hope to see!
Kathy Greene for Dr. Rima Laibow

November 11, 2007

Dear Dr. Rima:
First, I want to thank you for your dedicated work to fighting for
Health Freedom. I read most of your report about how “the team”
seems to be back sliding. What infuriates me is the fact that ANY
foreign regulation will attempt to control the nutrient
quality/quantity of our foods and supplements. Any attempt will
prove along the lines of genocide. Believe me, God in heaven will
call on those who will be awakened and this WILL be resisted and
overcome. He has had you fight this good fight, but please be
assured that you are not alone in this. His unconditional and
everlasting LOVE will sustain you and provide you with the relief you
will need when you think you just may be utterly alone. You are not
alone, Dr. Rima, and I felt led to just let you know this. Hang in
there, we are here fighting along side of you even if we are just in
the shadows. God Bless!
FF

We responded:

Hi FF!
What a nice letter! And yes, Dr. Rima has been doing a marvelous job of leading this crusade for health freedom! But our effectiveness is in our numbers and that includes people like YOU who happily send those thens of thousands of emails to Congress making the Powers that Be aware that we are all WATCHING! So keep spreading the news about Codex, et als., and when you meet people who wish to know more, get us their email addresses so that we can keep them up to date and so that we are soon sending MILLIONS of messages to Wash DC. That’ll keep em in line!!!!
Kathy Greene for Dr. Rima Laibow

Date: Nov 11, 2007 9:10 PM

Dr. PR sent a copy of a letter to another health freedom organization with two questions for them. We are glad he shared them with us, too:
Dear Sir/Ms:

1) As a member of the [another health freedom group], before I forward [Natural Solutions Foundation’s] email to my Distribution List, I kindly request that you comment on it and on one of its links:

Here in Codex Land: Codex Report No. 3, Nov. 11, 2007

2) The only person I ever hear from about what’s going on at the Codex nutrition deliberations is Dr. Laibow. Why don’t I ever hear from the [other organization] about what’s going on at the Codex nutrition deliberations?

Sincerely yours,

PR, PhD

We answered:
Thanks for letting us know about your questions. The reason you hear from the Natural Solutions Foundation when we attend Codex meetings is that we know that every one can’t be here, but everyone needs to know what is happening at Codex since it impacts us all so strongly.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima

we responded:

This same correspondent started his communication to us this way:

Dear Dr. Laibow:

Asking Health Freedom supporters to send petitions to Schneeman is doing them a great disservice – it makes them think that they are doing something useful. It’s like asking asking civilized people to send a petition to Hitler to shut down the extermination camps and making them think that such actions would be helpful to his victims. Schneeman is a bureaucratic lowlife and nutritional Neanderthal who has done everything possible in her power to subvert nutritional freedom. It’s incredibly naive, even self-destructive, on your part to think she would be amenable to ANY number of petitions from health freedom supporters – they end up in her wastebasket as fast as they arrive. YOU ARE DIVERTING PRECIOUS CITIZENRY RESOURCES FROM MUCH MORE USEFUL ACTIONS, such as petitions to CONGRESSMEN asking them to clamp down on her criminal Codex actions on behalf of Big Pharma. Unless you change your petition approach to a more productive direction, I will reluctantly conclude that your
Health Freedom efforts will likely come to naught.

Sincerely yours,

PR, PhD

to which we replied:

Dear Dr. R.,
You have totally missed the point of the Citizens Petition, I am afraid. We are not petitioning Schneeman, nor are we petitioning Scarbrough. We are using our First Amendment Right to Petition for Redress to institute a legal challenge to the illegal “Harmonization” with Codex being carried out by the FDA. The process that we are involved in right now is called “Exhausting our administrative remedies” and renders the case, as they say in law, “Ripe” for further action.
So I beg to differ with you and actually wonder why you did not think to ask about the reason we have chosen this action before blasting us for not doing it in a way that made sense to you. Our health freedom actions are, in fact, well conceived and carefully planned with lawyers and expert strategists. No one is perfect and we could be making a mistake but, in fact, we are not.
Thanks for your input and your passion, though. I hope that you will continue to use it as a supporter of what we, alone among other health freedom organizations, are doing: solving the problem on multiple fronts.

Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima