Today’s Blog comes to you from the Natural Solutions Foundation President, Major General Albert N. Stubblebine III (US Army, Ret.)
Hello. 300 years before Christ (or thereabouts) Sun Tzu wrote the greatest treatise on winning a war ever written. He said there are only a few Principles of War: follow them and you win, violate them and you loose.
The first is Mass: numbers will carry the day. The more of us who communicate our position, the stronger each one of us becomes since we have grass roots support by people who vote, lots of people who vote. Another Principle is Offense . You never, never win a war by sitting on your hands and accepting the pabulum of inane responses by people who are supposedly responsible to you for their actions.
I know that many of you are writing to your Congressmen and women, http://tinyurl.com/c5jmw, and receiving empty, meaningless or even irrelevant letters in return. This is not acceptable. Democracy demands dialogue. Like you, I wrote to my Congressional Delegation and, like some of you, I received an absolutely empty letter in return. Please let me know who the Congressmen and women are who are abusing our trust in this way and the Natural Solutions Foundation will publish a list of those non-communicators.
I had written to my Representatives urging their strong opposition to Susan Davis’ disastrous HR 3156 because it represents a potential danger of massive proportion to the health and health freedom to the population of the United States. Of course, there are other major threats, too. SA 1379, attached to the Defense Spending Bill, is a serious threat to our health and nutrient access as well. As it happened, the letter I received was about HR 3156. It might just as well have been about any of the other bills we urge you to oppose.
In this case, I received an email back thanking me and telling me that HR 3156 was in Committee and “I will take your views into account when considering this bill”. There was no substantive information or indication of a position on the issues in the reply I received. Not acceptable!
Many of you have told us you are getting the same unacceptable letters from your Congressmen and women. The natural tendency is to throw up your hands in disgust and not write again. Wrong. That means that you have allowed yourself to be fobbed off by a meaningless letter and you accepted it. That is not how we win the battle and not how we win the war. Rather, what you need to do is go back to the email engine on our site, http://tinyurl.com/c5jmw, and write a letter demanding a real answer and telling your Congressman or woman that he or she works for you and needs your vote in the next electoral cycle. Therefore, you need a straight answer and a vigorous protection of your rights and interests in this electoral cycle. You can also remind your Congressperson that he/she needs to win the primary in order to secure re-election and that you are an active member of your community who will remember and share the interactions which you have with your Congressional Delegates. If you do not get straight answers to straight questions and get mealy-mouthed verbiage instead of straight talk, you will let other people know that this is not a trustworthy person to send to Congress again.
Corporate interests have declared war on Health and Health Freedom. This is a war that we must win! Inactivity won’t win it nor will allowing a ridiculous letter to pacify you.
Yours in health and freedom,
Major General Albert N. Stubblebine III
President
PS: Thanks for your outstanding email response demanding a Congressional Codex Briefing. More than 16,000 emails have been sent to Congress in the last two days by our supporters. Since Congress counts each one as the opinion of 13,000 voters, that’s a whole lot of people saying, “Protect our Health Freedom, Congressman!” Keep up the good work! ANS
Bill 05130. That number should scare you witless. Don’t go looking for it in the Library of Congress legislative site. You won’t find it there. But if you search Australia’s pending legislation and find it, you are looking at what WILL happen here in the US if we do not mount the most effective grass roots campaign in history.
Here is what Bill 05130 will do if passed (and it has had 1 reading in the Australian Parliament so far):
A 5 year jail term for anyone using, importing or providing anything not approved by the TGA (Australian FDA).
A 5 year jail term for anyone using, importing or providing any food like substance, even if it has a history of use by people for health purposes, which is not approved by the TGA (Australian FDA).
A long time health activist, when I was explaining about Codex Alimentarius, who is well into her 70’s, shrugged and said as I was telling her about the prohibition on nutrients at effective doses, “Well, we will always have veterinary medicine. I am not worried since I can always get what I need from that direction even if it is illegal!” True. But if Australian-style “health freedom” comes to visit our fair shores, this nice little old lady will be wearing prison lingerie and an orange jump suit.
Australia’s TGA and our own FDA (and, most importantly, the people and industries pulling the strings) have no commitment to health and no love of freedom. You and I do, of course, but unless we make up with audibility of our opinions what we lack in dollars for lobbying and marketing, we will follow Australia into the arid and deadly wasteland of preventable suffering and premature death because of toxic food and a total ban on immune-supporting and life giving legal nutritional supplements and herbs.
SHAME ON THEM! IS BIG PHARMA SO GREEDY THAT THERE IS ONLY ENOUGH PIE FOR HER SO EVERYONE ELSE STARVES TO DEATH! SHAME ON THEM!
Can’t happen here? Why not? Because you and I won’t let it happen here! Nothing but an activated and outspoken grass roots movement can stop this runaway waggon.
So here are the steps which urgently need to be taken by you and then passed on to others:
1. Start a meetup and use it to grow the grassroots. You can let people know you are organizing a meetup and they can use the meetup link to find you. Need help? Email me at info@healthfreedomusa.org
2. Tell Congress to attend the Codex Briefing on September 20, Room 2220 Rayburn. Most members of Congress have no clue about Codex. We’ll let them know what Codex is really all about.
3. Please give generously. If you have, thanks. We are approaching the half way mark in our 30 day fundraiser and we have not yet made 50% of our goal. Please make it possible to keep fighting for your health and your health
freedom.
4. Send out emails to everyone you know and direct them to www.HealthFreedomUSA.org ask them to join the mailing list.
Listen! Can’t you hear the sound of the grass [roots] growing by the hour? I can! I feel like a gardener!
Yours in health and the freedom to make things grown,
Dr. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
“Nutraceuticide”: The Death of Nutritional Medicine
To understand why Codex equals the death of nutritional medicine, let me introduce you to a new word: Nutraceutraceuticid, (new truh sue tih side):
1. The death of individuals and populations through intentional restriction of vital nutrients to sub-clinical doses in the presence of a massively adulterated food supply
2. The death of the nutritional health profession through limitation of supplemental nutrients to a small number of ultra low dose materials with no biological effect in the presence of a massively adulterated food supply
3. The termination of natural health options and strategies by criminalizing the means and materials necessary for those strategies
Nutriceuticide is rapidly being put in place by Codex Alimentarius (Latin for “Food Rules”) which classifies nutrients as toxins from which we need protection (!) inappropriately using Risk Assessment (a branch of toxicology) to determine permitted nutrient doses so low that, by design, they have no impact on any human being.
Codex ratified the restrictive Vitamin and Mineral Guideline July 4, 2005 (Rome) which, when globally enacted, is expected to result in the death of at least 3 billion people according to the World Health Organization and Food and Agriculture Organization (WHO/FAO) estimates. At the same time, clean, unadulterated food (free of pesticides, exogenous growth hormones, veterinary drugs, irradiation and genetic modification) will be unavailable and actually illegal! Information which includes health benefits associated with nutrients would be forbidden.
Although the US is currently protected by laws which prevent us from “HARMonizing” with standards like these, these protective laws are under significant legislative attack. Equally chilling, clinically effective doses of nutritional supplements will no longer be legal once the United States is “HARMonized” with Codex Alimentarius.
Created in 1962 as a UN trade commission, Codex Alimentarius sets World Trade Organization (WTO) trade sanction-enforced global standards for everything ingested: crops, animal food, animal feed, processed food, nutrients, water, etc. These regulations clearly serve the interests of multinational Bigs: Big Pharma, Big Agribiz, Big Chema, Big Biotechna and Big Medica.
Codex permits pesticide and toxin residues which are incompatible with human health and longevity, mandates food irradiation, antibiotic and hormone treatment of food animals (and Monsanto rBGH in all dairy cattle world wide), while declaring that nutrients are toxins. As toxins, they are restricted to daily dosages determined by Risk Assessment (toxicology) to have no impact on any human, no matter how sensitive. These nutrient restrictions (in conjunction with an adulterated food supply) serve to guarantee a steady market for pharmaceuticals. Nutritional strategies for health will be both unavailable and illegal.
If Codex implementation is permitted to take place, it spells the death of nutritional health strategies.
What can we do?
1. Write Congress with a personalized letter telling them why you treasure your health freedom and how they need to support it.
2. Organize your friends and visit your Congressional delegates. Tell them to oppose the pro-illness legislation before them (and the many more to follow). Write them a follow up letter after you see them.
3. Help everyone you know to take steps 1 and 2 above. Use the internet! It works.
4. Listen to FREE US/FREE US!, the Voice of Health Freedom ™ live every Wednesday 7 -8 PM (Eastern) on Internet radio If the time isn’t good, for you, listen on the archives when the time is ripe. But please do listen.
And don’t forget to support the Natural Solutions Foundation. We depend on your donations to protect your health freedoms.
We need you and your enthusiasm: your health depends upon it.
Yours in health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
One of wonderful priviledges I enjoy is that you write to me with your questions, suggestions, ideas, priase, discontents and tell me your actions. I read every single email and respond to each one although sometimes I get behind, so if there is a delay, bear with me: right now I have over 3000 unread emails on my computer but I plowing through them! I want to share something terriffic with you today. Bruce wrote a letter to Susan Davis, the Representative from California District 53 who has introduced the health-hostile HR 3156. I want to share this letter with you: you will find it at the end of this section of today’s blog.
If you remember the blog I published Treating Our Congressional Offices With Effective Communication I suggested some effective letter writing concepts including telling your Congressional delegate what you are concerned about in your own words, making it clear why it matters to you and making your point clearly.
Bruce took time to write a letter, clearly not his first, which I want to share with you to inspire you to write directly and strongly to your Congressional delegates. You can read about the bills to support and oppose and use our email engine to send your letters. I have received several emails saying something like, “I really wanted to send the emails about these bills but I don’t want to write 6 letters. Can’t you just write them for me and make it easy for me?” Well, yes, of course I can but there are two problems to this: 1. Congress pays a whole lot more attention to individualized emails than to bulk emails and 2. YOUR story, your point, your truth does not get shared with Congress! And, believe it or not, Congress actually listens to an avalanche of voices speaking their own truth. Enough voices, enough truth and we become a deafening chorus of power. Form letters dilute our effort. So, here’s a suggestion: write one letter for all of the bills to be opposed. Then customize it for each of the bills that you are writing about. Change the number, change the particular reason that it is a bad idea to correspond to that bill. Telling your story in each one of them is OK because it IS your story or your reason for treasuring both your health and your health freedom.
Even better, of course, is for you to visit the members of Congress who represent you in their home offices and tell them your story. Click on
So here are two grass roots action strategies for our struggle to protect and preserve our health freedoms against all comers: yours letters and your visits to Congress. Congress does not underestimate the importance of these acts, neither should we. And when you do visit your Congressmen and women, drop me an email at rima.laibow@healthfreedomusa.org to let me know whom you have visited and what his/her response was to your visit and your position on the bills and issues.
Here is Bruce’s letter to Susan Davis:
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Dear Representative Davis;
There are times-obviously-when people of good intentions disagree with each other.
This is one of those times. Actually, disagree, is too ‘light’ a word for what I feel and think.
I am outraged beyond belief at your introduction of H.R. 3156. I have written you before regarding the deaths and illnesses associated with prescription drugs which have a definite and documented history of the harm. HR 3156 appears misdirected. It comes at a time when the side effects emanating from properly prescribed and ingested prescription drugs result in the needless death of more than 100,000 Americans annually.
WHERE is legislation that would adequately protect the public from unsafe over-the-counter or prescription drugs? Relatively troublesome drugs like Vioxx and Bextra have been returned to pharmacy shelves with black box warnings that put the burden on consumers to check for potential side effects.THERE IS NO SUCH HISTORY ASSOCIATED WITH HERBS !!!!!!!!! I dare you to show where there has been any ‘adverse effect’ as defined in your bill that is SPECIFICALLY attributable to a ‘herb or botanical’. There is NONE. And since ‘botanical’ means “The seed of a plant or tree, regarded as the means of reproduction, together with its envelope” are you going to have growers of tomatoes reporting to the ‘Secretary’?
Add to that the provision which specifies “‘‘(3)(A) For purposes of clause (A) or (B) of subparagraph (1), the Secretary shall consider a dietary supplement or dietary ingredient as presenting an unreasonable risk of illness or injury if the Secretary determines that the risks of such product outweighs its benefits, as indicated by a relative weighing of the known and reasonably likely risks of the product against its known and reasonably likely benefits. In the absence of a sufficient benefit, the presence of even a relatively small risk of a serious adverse health effect to a user may be considered by the Secretary as unreasonable.”
WHERE are the checks and balances? I don’t need the ‘Secretary’ telling me what I can and can’t ingest of a herb or botanical. This is nothing but a clever disguise at trying to have the U.S. conform to the EU standards which are being challenged in ourt. AND it has been shown that the ‘toxilogical studies’ used in such testing in the EU(and the Euro.Parliament doesn’t have a say in the EU which is why the EU Constitution got shot down-“taxation without representation” ) are those used for chemicals NOT ‘herbs and botanicals’. AND all of this is the result of ‘bio-pharma’ companies in Europe lobbying the EU. Don’t we have enough problems here in the U.S. with pharmaceutical companies without adding fuel to the fire? Simply stated why are you introducing legislation for which there is not a problem?
An excellent example of the harm such wording ‘herbs and botanicals’ will cause is what has happened regarding kava kava. The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) issued just a similar warning, asking physicians to report adverse reactions associated with kava kava supplements, an anti-anxiety herbal product. The public was also warned to report any side effects and the FDA warning was published in newspapers and on TV news reports. Later, published studies cleared kava kava from any suspicion, but the damage had been done. The public backed away fom kava supplements based upon the bulletin issued by the FDA, and today kava farmers in the South Pacific have plowed up their fields. A $25
million product was destroyed by FDA meddling. The same destruction could result from the passage of HR 3156. Your legislation appears to have been written without adequate prior evidence that vitamin, mineral or herbal products pose a mortal or serious risk to humans. One wonders at your motivation. And this clause “(B) A determination by the Secretary under clause (A) with respect to the risk of a product may be made on the basis of any science-based evidence of risk, without THE NEED TO PROVE that the substance has actually caused harm in particular cases.” is ludicrous. IF ‘science based’ testing was without chance of error, maybe, but the ‘out’ of ‘no need to prove’ gives the type of power to the ‘Secretary’ that dictators have; are you now saying you approve of dictatorial actions on the part of government without the need to prove such actions are needed?
Be assured I will let ALL of San Diego know what this legislation will do and whose legislation it is. And I will work diligently to make sure that the
Senate never let’s this legislation see the light of day as worded.
Bruce (Last Name)
(Address)
Don’t forget to listen to FREE U.S./FREE US! Wednesday 7-8 PM Eastern at www.FICAA.com and tell your friends about the Voice of Health Freedom!
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.
Who said that?
Thomas Jefferson.
The same guy who said:
If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.
What is CODEX ALIMENTARIUS but an attempt of the state (government) to impose tyrannical measures upon the people, in the interest of corporations?
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Again, that was Jefferson.
Wonder if he was a psychic.
What would Tom J. tell us to do in the face of this tyranny? Oppose it by using the means of democracy to defend our inalienable rights. How?
Visit your Senators and Representatives in their district offices while they are home this August and tell them that your health freedom is vitally important to you. Urge them to vote in your best interests since they work for you!
Take your friends and visit with your elected representative, not an aide. Print out our legislative guide so you will have the numbers of the bills handy in your discussion.
“Oh, they won’t listen to us!” you may say. WRONG! I just came back from a lengthy interview with a $20,000 per month lobbyist who said, “It’s not like it was 15 years ago when Congress only listened to lobbyists and corporations. Now the single most powerful force is constituents in the home offices telling Congressmen that they care and that they have friends who vote, too. In fact, there is nothing more powerful!”
Take this advice to heart and take Tom J. with you in your heart when you make that appointment and take your friends along to direct your Congressman or woman to protect you against all threats to your health and health freedom, domestic and foreign!
Simply put, visit them and tell them specifically how you want them to vote. Take the bill names and numbers with you and use the August recess that Congress is in right now to your advantage. Make a relationship with your Congressional delegation members and let them know just how much you care about this issue. Remember, when the people roared in 1994, DSHEA was passed with unanimous Congressional assent: 100% of Congress understood that if they got on the wrong side of this one, they would be out of a job, come the next election.
We did it then with Thomas Jefferson to guide us. We can do it again the same way.
Yours in health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation