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PUSHING BACK – “NO MANDATORY VACCINATIONS”
Says US Government
No Forced Vaccine Action Step
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27275
3 Weeks to Save Health Freedom:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3262
You know that push back works. We are finding out together just how well it works! Last week, the US Government made it clear that, whether they want to or not, they have to respond to our demands. We are not home yet, but we sure have pushed the mandatory vaccine crew back quite a way.
We don’t want mandatory vaccines. We don’t want incarceration. What we do want is the right to control our own lives and health choices We’ve been telling the US Government, Governors and State Legislators exactly that with more than 1.3 million emails to that effect… so far.
Last week, Secretary Sibelius of Health and Human Services (home of FDA and CDC), along with Dr. Fauci of the National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases went on record (CSpan) responding to our insistent, persistent demand for self sheilding rather than mandatory pandemic vaccination. Of course, they did not mention us by name but they were clearly repsonding to our email campaign demanding the right to own our own bodies. They said all vaccinations would be voluntary – and we don’t believe them for a minute. Here’s why, and here’s what we need to do.
‘Ministry of Truth’ Spins Lies,
a la 1984
Note that in the following quotes from official documents, published in 2005, “quarantine” applies to people who have not yet become ill while “isolation” applies to those who have already developed the disease.
The benign-sounding, but very ominous, term “provisional quarantine”, by the way, is defined on p. 41 of 42 CFR 70_71.pdf as “detention on an involuntary basis of a person or group of persons reasonably believed to be in the qualifying stage of a quarantinable disease until a quarantine order has been issued or until the [CDC – REL] Director determines that provisional quarantine is no longer warranted.”
NOTE: As you read through the following quotes authorizing the CDC to quarantine you on a “voluntary” basis if you do not take the pandemic vaccine on a “voluntary” basis, I suggest you insert the word “involuntary” in front of every place that “quarantine” appears – REL
Now that the US Government has declared that vaccines will be “voluntary”, you need to understand that in an Orwellian inversion, “voluntary vaccination” will actually be mandatory vaccination which would work like this:
FEDERAL QUARANTINE:
* The US Government could, like any good politician, simply reverse this “campaign promise” and, to put it simply, lie. This would neither be uncommon nor unexpected. The only protection against this would be legislation such as the legislation we have proposed in our No Forced Vaccination Action item and which Dr. Ron Paul is considering introducing. Enthusiastic support for this legislation will help collect enough spponsors and supporters to pass.
* WHO’s International Health Regulations (IHR) are legally binding upon all 194 signatory countries, including the US. If WHO advises mandatory vaccination under the IHR, the US would be obligated to reverse its current stand and require mandatory vaccination for the Swine Flu, Level 6 Pandemic. US Legal exemptions for self shielding, but not for medical conditions, would, we believe, trump this requirment since we believe legal action by the US BEFORE mandatory vaccination is invoked would give the US legal authority to allow self shielding without violating international law. http://www.who.int/features/qa/39/en/index.html, whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2008/9789241580410_eng.pdf
* Executive Order 13375 permits federal isolation and quarntine of individuals to prevent transmission of numerous diseases including “influenza that can cause a pandemic”. Under this April 1, 2005 EO signed by George W. Bush, and the following regulations, anyone violating a quarantine order can be punished by a $250,000 fine and a one year prison term while organizations may be punished by a $500,000 fine….” http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13375 , 42CFR70_71-1.pdf p.3
* Under §§361-368 of the Public Health Services Act (42-USC 264-271), the government can “make and enforce regulations as are necessary to prevent the introduction, transmission or spread of communicable diseases from foreign countries into the United States and from one State or possession into another….especially when combined with vaccination….” 42CFR70_71-1.pdf p.3
* Section 70.9 of the Public Health Services Act (42-USC 264-271) allows the government to establish vaccination clinics and charge a user fee for that vaccination [unless you are a Medicare B recipient] introducing “…health strategies such as vaccination.” Records must be carefully kept although “the Director may waive or modify these requirements in the event of a public health emergency.” That means that, as in the military’s use of experimental vaccines, records do not have to be kept. Since all vaccine makers and those who administer them are specifically exempt from any liability, there is, from their point of view, perhaps no reason to keep records – REL 42CFR70_71-1.pdf p.3
* “Persons subject to provisional quarantine may be offered medical treatment, prophylaxis, or vaccination as the Director deems necessary to prevent the transmission or spread of disease. Medical treatment prophylaxis, or vaccination will typically occur in a hosptial setting but may occur in other settings as the Director deems necessary.” “Medical treatment, prophylaxis, or vaccination may occur in a hospital or other settings, including homes [Empahsis added – REL] as the Director deems necessary,… on a voluntary basis….provided that persons who refuse remain subject to quarantine until the period of incubation and communicability have passed.” 42CFR70_71-1.pdf p.13, 14 [Empahsis added – NOTE: this gives additional weight to our demand for home self-shielding – REL]
* “Medical treatment, prophylaxis, or vaccination shall occur on a voluntary basis, provided that persons who refuse remain subject to provisional quarantine.” [Empahsis added – REL] 42CFR70_71-1.pdf p.13
* “The length of quarantine shall not exceed the period of incubation and communicability” which for influenza is given as “1-4 days following exposure” and another “5-14 days following onset of illness”. 42CFR70_71-1.pdf p.14
NOTE: you can be held in “provisional quarantine” indefinitely although the quarantine itself is not to exceed the period of inclubation and communicability of the disease. Imagine, for a moment,that you are in a detention center and someone else develops a cold, cough or fever. You ALL could then be held in povisional detention for another period, and another and another…. since:
* The person in quarantine “may refuse examination, medical monitoring, medical treatment, prophilaxis or vaccination, but that if they choose to do so they remain subject to quarantine“ [Emphasis added] 42CFR70_71-1.pdf p.15
* Once Pandemic Emergency powers are invoked, you could be given the “choice” to accept a flu shot or not. If you do, whatever the consequences are, you can sue no one, and no one is liable for your damages (or death). If you “choose” not to accept the “voluntary” flu shot, you will very likely then be faced with provisional quarantine, which equals incarceration/quarantine/detention for as long as the government chooses to detain you.
Despite the legalism, I would call that mandatory vaccination, wouldn’t you?
Isn’t this just a “perfect storm”: those who submit to the vaccination have no redress and those who refuse are subject to indefinite detention.
STATE QUARANTINE:
All 50 States have legislation allowing medical exemptions for conventional vaccines. Nearly all have religious exemptions and some have philosophical exemptions. Pandemic vaccines do not, however, fall under those laws. Public health laws vary from state to state but most have adopted some version of the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act (MSEHPA) which allows the 44 states and the District of Columbia which have passed some or all of this statute to:
– Take control of all roads leading into and out of cities and states
– Seize homes, cars, phones, computers, food, fuel, clothing, firearms and alcoholic beverages for their own use (without liability)
– Arrest, imprison, forecibly examine, vaccinate and medicate citizens without consent (without liability) [Emphasis added – REL]
The MSEHPA allows/requires the Governor of the State to declare a pandemic health emergency once the federal government has done so. At that point, citizens who refuse medical examination or treatment, even if there is no evidence of contamination, will be incarcerated either under a felony or a misdemenor charge (varies by State). This incarceration is for an indefinite period. What this means to you is that you will be ‘disappeared’ without recourse, legal right of appeal or control over your body or your fate.
Under the Constitution of These United States, all matters not specifically designated as government functions are left to the States and the People. Public health is not mentioned in the Constitution so it is a State matter. Thus, the MSEHPA literally OVER RIDES the Federal actions so the fact that the CDC Director would allow you an appeal (which might or might not be granted and might or might now lead to your release if granted) has no meaning if your incarceration is in a State facility. But this also means that your State can pass the legislation that we have proposed in our No Forced Vaccination Action item, http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27275 restoring your right to control your own destiny and your control over your children’s bodies. And, by the way, so can the Federal Government, which is why Ron Paul is considering introducing this legislation.
Every time you submit one of our No Forced Vaccination Action Items, the Governor of your state recieves it. So do your State legislators. And your Federal legislators. And the Secretary of Health and Human Services. And the Secretary of Department of Homeland Security. And the White House.
That means that they, both State and Federal decison makers, are hearing our roar. But the roar has to be loud enough to make it clear that we will not be vaccinated against our will, not even for a phony pandemic which apparently, at least in the minds of WHO (June 11) and HHS (April 25) required a declaration of “Pandemic Emergency)” despite the fact that:
* The first alleged Swine Flu death occurred on April 14, 2009 in Mexico
* Baxter applied for the patent for its version of the vaccine in 2007
* Novartis’ Swine Flu vaccine was removed from the market in Feb, 2009
* “Swine Flu” is diagnosed wrong 90% of the time because its symptoms are indistinguishable from normal seasonal flu
* Swine Flu lab diagnosis is highly inaccurate
* Swine Flu cases are no longer being counted, per a WHO directive, [since diagnosis is so poor – REL]
* Swine Flu has caused far fewer deaths than the normal seasonable flu
* Not one person has been proven, through established forensic methods, to have ever died FROM Swine Flu although some may have died WITH Swine Flu (the fact is, even this is unclear)
On April 29, Alex Jones released the following important information:
Homeland Security Issues Alert on
Mandatory Quarantine Procedures
BATF and FBI to forcibly detain Americans despite only 7 confirmed swine flu deaths in Mexico
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
The Department of Homeland Security has sent out an alert to health care providers outlining how BATF, FBI, and U.S. Marshals will be called upon to impose mandatory quarantines in the event of a widespread swine flu outbreak in the U.S.
According to the report, “DHS Assistant Secretary Bridger McGaw circulated the swine flu memo, which was obtained by CBSNews.com, on Monday night. It says: “The Department of Justice has established legal federal authorities pertaining to the implementation of a quarantine and enforcement. Under approval from HHS, the Surgeon General has the authority to issue quarantines.”
The memo states, “U.S. Customs and Coast Guard Officers assist in the enforcement of quarantine orders. Other DOJ law enforcement agencies including the U.S. Marshals, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives may also enforce quarantines. Military personnel are not authorized to engage in enforcement.”
However, a separate Defense Department planning document, DOD_Pl_Implementation_Plan_August_2006_Public_Release.pdf, on dealing with pandemics states that the Pentagon will use the forces at its disposal to assist in “quarantining groups of people in order to minimize the spread of disease during an influenza pandemic” and aid in “efforts to restore and maintain order.”
As we reported yesterday, so-called “involuntary isolation” is already being enforced in certain areas of the United States. The state’s health director in North Carolina, Dr. Jeffrey Engel, said that authorities were already involuntarily isolating patients who may have the swine flu virus. He refused to divulge the location of where the victims were being quarantined.
News reports such as this one from MSNBC are prevaricating around the contention that quarantines are a normal event that Americans should be comfortable with. In reality, there has only been one case of “involuntary quarantine” in the U.S. in the last 45 years.
“In 2007, Andrew Speaker, an Atlanta lawyer, was quarantined inside a hospital in Denver on suspicion of having extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis. It turned out that the CDC was incorrect and Speaker had a milder form of the disease,” states the CBS report.
The MSNBC report also falsely claims that quarantines will solely be handled on a state/local level, when in reality, Bush’s executive order 13375 outlines a federal response, and the DHS memo lists numerous federal authorities that will have powers of quarantine.
In addition, the Bush administration’s National Strategy For Pandemic Influenza (Pandemic-Influenza.pdf) released in November 2005, states that the federal government will impose “quarantines” and “limitations on gatherings”.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/homeland-security-issues-alert-on-mandatory-quarantine-procedures.html
Is this the most important of the crises facing us? I believe so. Can you have an impact on the outcome of this crisis? I know so. We already are having that impact. My estimate is that we need about 10 emails for every one already sent. You can make that happen!
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Health Freedom Action eAlert
August 9, 2009
Three for Liberty Campaign: We Have Three Weeks Before Congress Reconvenes!
The Natural Solutions Foundation Has Identified 3 Key Issues Impacting Our Liberty.
Here’s what you can help us accomplish:
1) Protect our right to Self-Shield – NOT be required by laws already in place to take the “swine flu” jab.
2) Reverse the FDA/FTC violation of our right to learn and share the benefits of supplements and herbs.
3) STOP the enactment of (sic) “Food Safety” bill, HR 2749, which allows the FDA to declare martial law, invade your home, degrade your food supply and forbid you to save seeds or grow clean, wholesome foods.”
Visit the Three For Liberty Campaign to Take Action on All Three Now!
Three for Liberty: The Campaign:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3209
The 3 Printable Leaflets:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3241
During the next three weeks, while:
* Congress is on its August Recess and you can easily visit your Congressmen and women in their home districts to explain why you want the right to self shield, rather than be forced to take a vaccine or be incarcerated
* The dangerous Swine Flu vaccine is being tested on children and pregnant women* NOT for safety, but for dosage, and has not yet been deployed on a mandatory basis
* The Senate has not yet voted on the total give-away of our food supply to the very forces that are killing us with dangerous and unsafe food, Agribiz
* Every Member of Congress can be educated about the importance of HR 3394 and 3395 in protecting both our health, our health freedom and our Constitutional right to free speech
Right now, you have an outstanding opportunity to act decisively and powerfully to speak for Liberty, and protect her – and yourself. The next three weeks, while Congress is on recess, can be the time when we, the net roots of health freedom, act in such compelling numbers that we do, indeed, protect our health and our freedom from the forces that are trying to overwhelm both of them.
* Vaccine “testing” began yesterday at St. Louis University although the FDA said on July 23, 2009 that it would approve the Swine Flu vaccine for general use BEFORE safety tests were completed – and this for a disease which is “less severe than the seasonal flu.”
Reality check: while you are being reassured that vaccination will be voluntary, two facts bear recalling:
1. As we have previously documented, in 2005 the World Health Organization gave itself the authority to dissolve sovereign governments and take control should there be a “pandemic”. That determination did not stipulate a real pandemic, any pandemic will do.
That declaration states, ” Under special pandemic plans enacted around the world including the USA, in 2005, national governments are to be dissolved in the event of a pandemic emergency and replaced by special crisis committees, which take charge of the health and security infrastructure of a country, and which are answerable to the WHO and EU in Europe and to the WHO and UN in North America.”
This suggests very strongly that the faux pandemic was orchestrated disease or no disease and therefore represents a serious threat to liberty as well as to the social order.
2. Although HHS Secretary Sibelius, Dr. Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and other government officials repeated on CSPAN today that there will be no forced flu vaccinations, the situation is a bit more complex: If Pandemic Emergency powers are invoked, you could be given the “choice” to accept a flu shot or not. If you do, whatever the consequences are, you can sue no one, and no one is liable for your damages (or death). If you “choose” not to accept the “voluntary” flu shot, you will very likely then be faced with incarceration/quarantine/detention.
Despite the legalism, I would call that mandatory vaccination, wouldn’t you?
You Are the Key.
You Decide to Mobilize All of Your Contacts on These Three Key Issues and We Are Unstoppable
The Issues:
1. Swine Flu Vaccination: Big Pharma wants you vaccinated. The US government wants you vaccinated. Baxter, Novartis, Glaxo-Smith Kline, and Sanofi Pasteur executives are members of the advisory group that on July 13th recommended mandatory H1N1 vaccination of everyone in all 194 countries that belong to the WHO.
The plans for the final globalization of the planet needs you to be vaccinated.*
You, of course, do not need to be vaccinated for a trivial disease which has been inflated into a Level 6 Pandemic by the agency which can then take command of the political power of the world.
But here in the US, you have already sent 1.3 MILLION emails to Congress, State Legislators, Governors, Secretary Sibelius of HHS, Secretary Napolitano of DHS and the White House demanding the right to self shield.
Think for a moment what actually happens if, in addition to submitting an email for each member of your family, you mobilize your circle of influence to do the same, and they spread this populist demand further still? What happens is that we get what we demand: the right to NOT take a vaccine for Swine Flu if we don’t want it AND the right not to be incarcerated if we reject the vaccine.
*”USNORTHCOM is the global synchronizer – the global coordinator – for pandemic influenza across the combatant commands” Brig. Gen. Robert Felderman, deputy director of USNORTHCOM’s Plans, Policy and Strategy Directorate: (See Gail Braymen, USNORTHCOM contributes pandemic flu contingency planning expertise to trilateral workshop, USNORTHCOM, April 14, 2008, Also see USNORTHCOM. Pandemic Influenza Chain Training (pdf) (Chossudovsky, 2009)
2. End FDA/FTC Gag Rule on Health and Food: Dr. Ron Paul has given us two new bills that go to the heart of the FDA/FTC violation of our right to learn, and to share, what benefits food components like supplements and herbs can give us.
These bills need to be supported by asking your members of Congress to become co-sponsors and return our Constitutional Rights to us.
3. Prevent Total Industrialization of US Food Supply: The House has passed HR 2749, which allows the corrupt and deadly FDA to declare martial law, invade your home, degrade your food supply and forbid you to save seeds or grow clean, wholesome foods.
For more reasons to oppose HR 2749, see: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3289
We know these outcomes are important to you. The Natural Solutions Foundation has prepared 3 helpful Resource Documents at http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3241to serve as talking point papers when you visit your Congressmen and women during the recess, to share with those whom you are mobilizing, to serve as information points for letters to the editor, to share with the people who shop in your health food store, etc.
Resources for the
Three For Liberty Campaign
Liberty Needs Us Now:
Protect Against FDA / FTC, Food Fascism, First Amendment Violations and Swine Flu Vaccines
We need all of our “Mouse Warriors” to act today!
Three for Liberty:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3209
3 Leaflets for the 3 For Liberty Campaign
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3241
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Share These Three Health Store Leaflets for Three Weeks to Save Health Freedom
As Mark Twain is alleged to have opined, “No Man’s Life Liberty or Property is Safe…While the Legislature is in Session” – and certainly no person’s health freedom and food freedom are safe either. Well, Congress is not in session at the moment, and we have about three weeks to educate our representatives while they are home. And as you may have noticed in the media, they are hearing these freedom truths from their constituents!
Please attend any “town hall meetings” held by your representatives and let them know that your personal health freedom is as important an issue the “health care” debate, which is really mostly about who will pay for conventional medical treatment, and how will it be rationed. To the contrary, we’re concerned about Natural Solutions, so we need to concentrate on protecting people from toxic drugs (including vaccines) and from toxic foods as well. Our agenda is not the same as the agenda being portrayed on the mass media. The 3 Leaflets have bullet point information for you to use in educating your representatives about our Health Freedom Agenda.
Thus, the focus of our Three for Liberty Campaign, http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3209, our Three Weeks Campaign, needs to be educating decision makers, but also educating the concerned public – people who “get it” and understand that Health Freedom is Our First Freedom and people who CAN “get it” if you help them in that process. Therefore, we invite you to help us, by printing the three Health Food Store Leaflets attached to this blog entry and posting them at your local health food store, food co-op or similar commercial or public venue and posting them. Please print and copy as many as you can. Please re-post them on the Internet. We need to make these posters GO VIRAL!
More about the Three Weeks Campaign: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3209
Please use the links below to support each of the three themes of the campaign.
1. Stop the Fake “Food Safety” (sic) Bill in the US Senate!
One Page Leaflet Link: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3241#1
Action Item: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714
2. Support Self-Shielding in the Event of a Pandemic
One Page Leaflet Link: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3241#2
Action Item: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27275
3. Support the Natural Solutions 2009 Legislative Agenda;
Support Dr. Ron Paul’s Health Freedom Proposals
One Page Leaflet Link: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3241#3
Action Item: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27732
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Index –
Introduction to This Issue
Three Actions; Three Weeks
Follow the Action on Twitter
Threats to Freedom: Pandemic Panic
Silver Solutions
Our Three For Liberty Campaign,
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3209, is designed to make it easy for you to act quickly and easily on the biggest threats to your liberty and your health. Take the action steps we’ve set up for each of these issues!
And print the health food store / community center leaflets we’ve set up, copy and post them widely!
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Gag Rule on Swine Flu options is a perfect example of FDA violation of our rights. I am not allowed to tell you that Nano silver, Vitamin C, MSM, and other immune boosters and enhances are good for dealing with Swine Flu and coming out the other side of it, quite literally.
www.Nutronix.com/naturalsolutions
You probably know that the FDA currently literally forbids telling you truthfully that anything other than vaccines and Tamiflu or Relenza can “treat” the Swine flu. That type of gag regulation is exactly what Ron Paul’s two bills are designed to eliminate. But until they do, all I can do is tell you that IF I could exercise my First Amendment rights as a free American, I would tell you about the fantastic effectiveness and safety record of nano silver and colloidal silver in dealing with all pathogens.
Meanwhile, it is clear that the forces arrayed against our health freedom will not rest until they either destroy those freedoms or we win this enormous war.
Of course you know where you can obtain the same Silver Solution we use, and help the Foundation at the same time:
www.Nutronix.com/naturalsolutions
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Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
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A Message from Dr. Rima at the Valley of the Moon™
[Note from Ralph: let’s not forget that Natural Solutions involve more than educating decision makers about our health and freedom, as important as that is. Dr. Laibow and Gen. Stubblebine certainly haven’t forgotten, which is why they are in Panama coordinating the development of the Foundation’s Eco Demonstration project there, when they are not traveling to Codex meetings and other international appearances. So while we are all focusing on our Three Weeks to Save Food and Freedom Campaign — see: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3209 I thought I’d forward this letter that Dr. Rima posted on the project forum. My explanatory notes are in brackets.]
Whew! What a whirlwind!
Yesterday evening Magnus [from Norway] and Gail arrived at Valley of the Moon – Gail had gone to Panama City for other business but, as it happened, Magnus’ arrival was perfectly timed. They over-nighted in Panama and traveled to the Highlands where Dave and Barb [two other VotM volunteers] were ready to greet them along with, of course, Bert and me.
Then a lovely dinner with nothing but the caramelized onions from Gail [Gail is an awesome cook who has produced the most amazing organic meals for VotM guests; she also coordinates the Natural Solutions Marketplace]. The Teriaki Salmon and the salad were our contribution. Oh, yes, the home-pickled beets were Gail’s too. During the meal, we found ourselves with a computer companion: it was 10 PM Eastern, time for the Volunteer call. This call was attended by Ralph, via phone and the rest of us around the table! After catching up, we finished dinner with an enormous amount of fun and laughter, and then cleaned up as a group, rather than leaving it all to one or two people. Very nice experience, great group. This is how community happens.
Today Dave got up very early, went to the town of David to get the Portapotty, which filled up most of the back of the pick up truck, the wheelbarrows and some other necessaries like the generator that our good friend here in town lent to us.
Yesterday the cement mixer got towed up up a very unlikely road for a cement mixer (a ‘1 bag job’ they tell me, which requires filling and using, emptying and refilling 150 times, give or take) and did not tip over although Dave tells me that was no easy feat. Thank goodness for the combined experience of these people!
We have provided them with organic food and, when we are in Panama City tomorrow, will provision them with more.
Today, after a breakfast of hen’s eggs from our own hens (we got 6 today, a world’s record for our hens in one day) we tried to get off to the Coffee Finca to avoid the rain and the fall of darkness. Off they went, in the truck, bathroom behind them looking for all the world like an overgrown blue plastic ticket booth, but no one sells tickets to the activities from here!
Dave and Barb will come back here to pack up their clothes and then the adventure begins: camping out on the finca; photos to follow! We’ll also be video recording the work, for our Food Freedom eJournal — http://www.foodfreedomejournal.org.
We are getting ready to open the Natural Solutions Seminar and Wellness Center and that means another volunteer opportunity in late September. If that calls to you, please contact us! dr.laibow@gmail.com (please put “VotM Volunteer” in the subject line).
It is a wonderful thing to see this group come together.
Oh, I nearly forgot: yesterday Dave and Barb were at the finca and said that the trenches for the foundations and footings had nearly been dug. The [indigenous Noble-Bugle] children, he said, were thrilled to have new homes and the adults, usually even more reticent than the very reticent children, simply shone with pleasure and enthusiasm about their new community “long house” home. That was a wonderful thing to hear recounted, see the glowing eyes of Dave and Barb and know that more lies in store for these people.
It touched our hearts.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
[A note of explanation: When the Foundation purchased the Valley of the Moon All Natural Coffee Finca (with funds donated specifically for that purpose) there were no sanitary facilities and only a primitive hut for the coffee harvesters. Last season we installed latrines and running water. This season our Volunteer Interns are building a community long house, respectful of the Noble-Bugle traditions, for the harvesters to use when they are on the land. You can support this project by purchasing our coffee with your donations: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=1130]
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Dr. Ron Paul Introduces Health Freedom Bills!
You can support these bills here:
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As of September 1, 2009 over 91,000 emails sent to Congress!
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August 1, 2009 Announcement
Dr. Ron Paul, health freedom’s friend in Congress, introduced two important bills yesterday that, if passed, would rein in the excessive interference in advanced health products by the FDA and FTC.
Here is the Life Extension Foundation’s description of the bills:
HR 3395: The Health Freedom Act. This bill removes FDA’s power of prior restraint over all nutrient-disease relationship claims. Under the bill, the FDA may not prohibit any statement concerning a nutrient affecting a disease (including treatment effects) from being made in the market and may only act against a statement once made if it possesses clear and convincing evidence that the statement is false. Presently the FDA blocks an enormous quantity of truthful information concerning the effects of nutrients and foods on disease from reaching consumers. That barrier is removed by the Health Freedom Act, but the Act preserves the power of the government to prosecute those who communicate falsehood. The essential purpose of the First Amendment is to disarm the federal government of the power to impose a prior restraint on speech. The FDA has imposed a prior restraint for decades to the health detriment of the public. Passage of the Health Freedom Act will restore constitutional governance by reasserting the supremacy of the First Amendment over the Food and Drug Administration.
HR 3394: The Health Information Protection Act. This bill prevents the Federal Trade Commission from taking action against any advertiser that communicates a health benefit for a product unless the FTC first establishes based on clear and convincing evidence that the statement made is false and that its communication causes harm to the public. Presently, the FTC reverses the Fifth Amendment burden of proof on the government when it charges advertisers with deceptive advertising and then demands that they prove their speech true based on contemporaneously held documentation or be deemed to have advertised deceptively. The Fifth Amendment requires that FTC bear the burden of proving advertising deceptive. It may not constitutionally shift the burden to the advertiser to prove its statements not deceptive. The First Amendment requires that FTC not act against speech unless the speech is probably false. It may not constitutionally accuse a party of false advertising yet lack proof that the advertising is false and condemn advertising based on an absence of documentation concerning the truth of the statement rather than the presence of evidence establishing the falsity of the statement.
These bills go to the heart of the issue of valid health claims for nutrient products: how do companies substantiate the claims they are making. Essentially the bills apply Constitutional principles to the making of claims, which are a type of speech, and are therefore protected from excessive bureaurcratic burden.
In this context it is useful to see what then Justice Sandra Day O’Connor wrote for the Supreme Court majority in the leading health claim free speech case, Thompson v. Western States Medical Center – 01-344, decided on April 29, 2002 – 535 U.S. 357 –
“If the First Amendment means anything, it means that regulating speech must be a last – not first – resort.”
“We have previously rejected the notion that the Government has an interest in preventing the dissemination of truthful commercial information in order to prevent members of the public from making bad decisions with the information.”
“Even if the Government did argue that it had an interest in preventing misleading advertisements, this interest could be satisfied by the far less restrictive alternative of requiring each …to be labeled with a warning that the [product] had not undergone FDA testing and that its risks were unknown.”
The basic rule, announced by the case, to determine constitutionally permitted government restrictions on Commercial Speech (speech that makes or is about an offer for a transaction) is a Two Prong Test: the first prong is to ask two questions: (1) is the speech in question about unlawful activity and (2) is the speech misleading. If “no” to both, the speech is entitled to protection unless the Government can carry its burden and prove (1) the governmental interest involved is “substantial”, (2) the regulation must “directly advance” the governmental interest and (3) the regulation of Commercial Speech cannot be “more extensive than is necessary to serve that interest” (quoting Central Hudson v Public Service, 447 US 557, at 566).
Dr. Paul’ s bills make it clear that the government has the burden of proof if it seeks to restrict what marketers say about their health related products. In this way, his bills preserve the Constitutional protections for Commercial Speech.
You can support these bills here:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27732