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NAIS in Sheep’s Clothing
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The Natural Solutions Foundation has been warning about the coming of Codex to our food supply, with its degradation of every aspect of our food freedom and quality for quite some time. We are so concerned about this food and freedom issue that we are creating the innovative Valley of the Moon(TM) Eco Demonstration Project, www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org, in Volcan, Panama, to teach farmers and non farmers alike how to reclaim the production of food. But meanwhile, the US is loosing its food freedom and its freedom all at the same time.
HR 2749, and its sister bill which the Senate will consider when it reconvenes in September brings it all back home. The article below is long, detailed and vitally important to you and your family. This is not simply a technical bill for technocrats. This is real life food slavery for you and for your family unless we act now.
HR 2749 takes giant steps forward in bringing what none of us want to see into being. HR 2749’s sister bill must NOT pass in the Senate if you value the health that comes from food, value your freedom to grow and source the type of clean, unadulterated food you value and if you do not want to see, eat and be, a global food slave. To date, as I write this, some 876,996 emails have been generated to tell Congress to safeguard, not destroy, our health and our food supply, as well as our freedom. It is imperative that we make sure that the Senate understands that this is not a request, it is a demand. If you have not generated emails to stop this invasion of the Constitution, your health freedom and your food and pets, do so now.
The article below focuses on just one aspect of that program, the National Animal Identification System or NAIS.
There has been a long and powerful battle in the US against NAIS, a regulatory and chipping system which would place extraordinary burdens on small farmers, raising costs of “traceability” and farming practices so high as to drive them out of business, leaving the field to the industrial giants, the Codex Criminals who want food produced cheaply enough to make them even richer – and care nothing about health, safety or the future of either food or your family.
HR 2749, passed under great pressure by the House of Representatives on July 31, 2009, just as it went on August recess, is a disastrous bill for food, for freedom and for farmers. It is a disastrous bill for you. If you keep pets, it is a disastrous bill for them, too.
When we gained successful push back when Congresswoman Rosa Delaurio (CT-D) agreed not to fund NAIS in Committee, we knew that the issue would be back around. And here it is.
Please take the Action Step in our Three for Liberty Campaign, http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3262, right now, once for each member of your family. Then let every single person you know or can reach that it is urgent that they do the same IF they believe in their right to clean, unadulterated food, do not want Codex’ international globalization standards implemented, want to support small and organic farmers, do not want their pets chipped (yes, their pets!) with devices which have been shown to cause cancer, do not want the FDA to be able to declare martial law (!) and seize property in cases of food contamination and want to be able to grow their own gardens without having to adhere to Codex standards, complete with PIN number!
This is not the United States we believe we live in. This is global food fascism, nothing more and nothing less. Don’t let it happen. It really is up to us.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
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Welcome to the Global Plantation: HR 2749 Authorizes International Take-Over of Domestic Food Production
© Doreen Hannes 2009
Published by permission of the author
HR 2749 AUTHORIZES NAIS and OTHER INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS
Congressional staffers have been telling people that HR 2749, the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009, does not authorize the National Animal Identification System (NAIS). Many organic groups have agreed with them. However, this is misleading. Though HR 2749 does not name “the” National Animal Identification System, it still authorizes the program. It also does not state that it legally authorizes Good Agricultural Practices, or GAP, partially comprising Codex guidelines on traceability and food safety, and the OIE’s Guide to Good Farming Practices including auditing, certification and inspections, disincentives for not participating in the form of fines, penalties, and loss of access to market, but it does. Is it possible that Congress was not aware of what it voted on? The bill was changed three times in a 24-hour period before passing the House 283-142 on July 30, 2009.
Are these assertions about HR 2749 wild and unsubstantiated? Proving them is fairly easy—just understand “Good Agricultural Practices” (GAP), how the agencies of the World Trade Organization operate within member countries to achieve them and what comprises the actual jurisdiction of the FDA and USDA. A brief explanation follows, along with substantiating quotes from HR 2749.
First we look to jurisdiction in HR2749….
“Nothing in this Act or any amendment made by this Act shall be construed to alter the jurisdiction between the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, under applicable statutes and regulations…” (p.3&4)
Then, tossing our preconceived notions to the wind and looking to law instead, we find that congressional testimony of the FDA on establishing a single food safety agency and a myriad of other sources including the FAO (Food and Ag Organization of the UN), the FDA statements on the Bioterrorism Act of 2002, and many books on food law affirm that FDA has jurisdiction over live food animals:
“FDA is the Federal agency that regulates 80 percent of the nation’s food supply-everything we eat except for meat, poultry, and certain egg products, which are regulated by our partners at USDA. FDA’s responsibility extends to live food animals…”(Cfans Director, March 2004 Congressional hearing)
So then what is the authority of the USDA? It is over agricultural disease, animals in the slaughter channel or transport, marketing (like grading of eggs and certification of processes) and the end product of many (but not all) food animals; meat. This is why NAIS always had to be “about disease” because the USDA couldn’t run it otherwise! The exemption section on USDA regulated products is a dust up. Most people think the USDA has authority over live food animals, but it is the FDA after all. They surrender “cow, sheep or goat for milk production”, but the FDA retains authority of the fluid milk and when the animal is no longer productive for milking, it’s into the slaughter channel (under USDA) or out to pasture (back to FDA) anyway!
“Livestock and poultry that are intended to be presented for slaughter pursuant to the regulations by the Secretary of Agriculture under the Federal Meat Inspection Act or the Poultry Products Inspection Act are exempt from the requirements of this Act. A cow, sheep, or goat that is used for the production of milk is exempt from the requirements of this Act.” (p.5 of HR2749)
HR 2749 is 160 pages (July 29 version) and contains the following references to international standards and guidelines (emphasis added for clarity) (all page numbers refer to the PDF file):
“(B) INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS.—In issuing guidance or regulations… the Secretary shall review international hazard analysis and preventive control standards that are in existence on the date of the enactment of this Act and relevant to such guidelines or regulations to ensure that the programs…..are consistent……with such standards.” (p. 35)
“CONSISTENCY WITH INTERNATIONAL OBLIGATIONS.—The Secretary shall apply this paragraph consistently with United States obligations under international agreements.” (p. 81)
“The Secretary shall issue regulations to ensure that any qualified certifying entity and its auditors are free from conflicts of interest. In issuing these regulations, the Secretary may rely on or incorporate international certification standards.” (p. 82)
This means that there will be a layer of auditors, certifiers and inspectors over every aspect of food production in this country and that these inspectors and certifiers will be trained in ISO (International Standards Organization) management program certification. The ISO has been working with Codex Alimentarius on Food Safety Standards and, in particular, a technical standard for Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) which is a consortium of the seven largest food retailers in the world, and that is ISO22000:2005. All traceability (read NAIS) falls under the purview of Codex, the OIE (World Animal Health Organization) and the IPPC (International Plant Protection Convention) for global trade agreements.
The following excerpt from HR 2749 shows the fully interoperable global network already in existence regarding food and its production:
“Development of such guidelines shall take into account the utilization of existing unique identification schemes and compatibility with customs automated systems, such as integration with the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) and the International Trade Data System (ITDS), and any successor systems.” (p. 142)
So it is clear that international standards and guidelines are implicit in this legislation. Note the usage of the command form SHALL. This isn’t a ‘might’, ‘may’ or in anyway a voluntary issue on the part of the Secretary. Then there is the section on Traceability. This is a code word in the National Animal Identification System and when one reads Sec.107 of this bill, it describes specific components of NAIS down to 48-hour trace-back, which cannot even be fantasized about with out individual animal identification.
“…..the Secretary shall issue regulations establishing a tracing system that enables the Secretary to identify each person who grows, produces, manufactures, processes, packs, transports, holds, or sells such food in as short a timeframe as practicable but no longer than 2 business days.” [note that it says “grows”] (p. 70)
and…
“……use a unique identifier for each facility owned or operated by such person for such purpose…” (p. 69)
So we have PIN (Premises Identification Number) and 48-hour traceback harmonizing with international standards and guidelines along with this:
“….‘‘(C) COORDINATION REGARDING FARM IMPACT.—In issuing regulations under this paragraph that will impact farms, the Secretary ‘‘(i) shall coordinate with the Secretary of Agriculture; and ‘‘(ii) take into account the nature of the impact of the regulations on farms.” (p. 71)
Now that I’ve killed you with legalese, it’s time to let you find out just what these international standards and guidelines mean to those engaged in agriculture in this country.
“GOOD AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES”
Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) are not a standard in and of themselves. They are a combination of standards and guidelines set forth by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. (FAO), through both the OIE (World Animal Health Organization) and Codex Alimentarius (Food Code) and IPPC to meet the certification and auditing side of the international trade aspects of the standards set forth. The OIE and Codex are charged with setting global standards and guidelines for the member countries of the WTO to meet and satisfy the SPS (Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary), TBT (Technical Barriers to Trade) and Equivalency agreements of the WTO for participation in international trade. Both the OIE and CODEX have guidelines for traceability that, with the passage of HR2749 into law, would be written into regulations governing all interstate commerce within the boundaries of the United States. The components of traceability are the pillars of NAIS that many of us have become so familiar with in the course of the battle over the past several years. Those being 1) Premises Identification 2) Animal Identification and 3) Animal Tracking. You can’t have traceability under international standards without having those three components.
One of the main issues in the implementation of these standards and guidelines within a member nation of the WTO is that they must have a legal framework through which to regulate and enforce these guidelines and standards. HR 2749 would meet the criteria for that legal framework by way of the excerpts from the bill above.
In the OIE’s “Guide to Good Farming Practices” the management of a livestock facility are clearly spelled out. Some of these recommendations that would become defacto law in the US under agency rule-making on passage of HR2749 (GGFP delineates international guidelines for food safety at the farm level) are:
– For each animal…Require and keep all commercial and health documents enabling their exact itinerary to be traced from their farm or establishment to their final destination…
-Keep a record of all persons entering the farm…..
-Keep medical certificates of persons working with the animals……
-Keep documents proving the water you give to the animals meets specific criteria
-Keep samples of all feed given to the animals
-Keep all documents from official inspections
-Keep records of treatment and procedures on all animals (castration, disbudding, calving, medications, etc.)
-Prevent domestic animals (cats and dogs) from roaming in and around livestock buildings
-Place all these documents at the disposal of the competent authority (Veterinary Services) when it conducts farm visits.
Some of the other guidelines and standards that would come into play after the implementation of traceability for all agricultural products would be : (from FAO COAG/17 “Development of a Framework for Good Agricultural Practices”) “the adoption and implementation of international standards and codes for which Codex food safety standards and guidelines have been designed, and the associated capacity building, training, development and field implementation in the context of the different production systems and agro-ecozones. These include: Enhancing Food Quality and Safety by Strengthening Handling, Processing and Marketing in the Food Chain (214A9); Capacity Building and Risk Analysis Methodologies for Compliance with Food Safety Standards and Pesticide Control (215P1); Food Quality Control and Consumer Protection (221P5); Food Safety Assessment and Rapid Alert System (221P6); and Food Quality and Safety Throughout the Food Chain (221P8).”*
To be certified as meeting the requirements of “GAP”, which is synonymous with being in compliance with international standards and guidelines, we can check out GlobalGAP.org. This is “the” certifying methodology for international trade in ag products. Here are a few excerpts from their 122-page general regulations booklet that has links to checklists for those who would be certifiers and auditors under the principles of GAP. This is an organization, not a governing body under WTO agreements, but working with nations and businesses to meet the criteria regarding these GAP practices for international trade. Here is a bare minimum of excerpts from their regulation document:
-(ii) Developing a Good Agricultural Practice (G.A.P.) framework for benchmarking existing assurance schemes and standards including traceability. (iii) Providing guidance for continuous improvement and the development and understanding of best practice. (iv) Establish a single, recognised framework for independent verification.
-Production Location: A production unit or group of production units, covered by the same ownership, operational procedures, farm management, and GLOBALGAP (EUREPGAP) decision-making activities.
-Within the context of GLOBALGAP (EUREPGAP) Integrated Farm Assurance this means tracing product from the producer’s immediate customer back to the producer and certified farm.
-Within the context of GLOBALGAP (EUREPGAP) Integrated Farm Assurance this means tracking product from the producer to his immediate customer.
In simple English, which appears to be highly lacking in all these guidelines, it means NAIS for everything, and for anyone who wishes to be engaged in agriculture….Remember the “grows” phrase from the earlier excerpt from HR2749. Now let’s look at some of the ‘exception’ clauses in HR2749. This bill is a terrifically crafty piece of legislation that is designed to cloud the reader’s understanding of the impact of the law being proposed in it. All of the exception clauses give the exception under this Act so long as you are ready to be regulated under a different Act. We’ll just look at a couple of these clauses to allow you to get the gist of the lack of exception available through the exceptions….
“EXCEPTIONS”
Farms- A farm is exempt from the requirements of this Act to the extent such farm raises animals from which food is derived that is regulated under the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products Inspection Act, or the Egg Products Inspection Act.
‘‘(I) such an operation that packs or holds food, provided that all food used in such activities is grown, raised, or consumed on such farm or another farm under the same ownership;
‘‘(II) such an operation that manufactures or processes food, provided that all food used in such activities is consumed on such farm or another farm under the same ownership; (pages9 and10)
Thus, if you grow everything you feed and consume everything you grow, and use no minerals or salts that you don’t mine yourself, you may be exempt. Or, in plain English, don’t even try to make a living in agriculture if you won’t comply with these rules.
One more exception to contend with here is:
‘(A) DIRECT SALES BY FARMS- Food is exempt from the requirements of this subsection if such food is–
‘(i) produced on a farm; and
‘(ii) sold by the owner, operator, or agent in charge of such farm directly to a consumer or to a restaurant or grocery store. (page 71)
This sounds good. However, there are several problems with this that are not evident without some knowledge of how things are done in the traditional avenues open for market to growers. First of all, cattle, whom you may recall as the primary target of the NAIS Business Plan, are often sold either at auction barns or via potload to feedlots. It is illegal to sell beef directly from the farm to consumers in every state that I know of. People often will sell a calf ready to butcher in halves or quarters to people and deliver the calf to the slaughter facility for the consumer, but this is far from the normal route of commerce in cattle or other species of meat animal. Even if you can securely wedge your operation into this particular exemption, they get you later via the record keeping section of this bill:
‘(E) RECORDKEEPING REGARDING PREVIOUS SOURCES AND SUBSEQUENT RECIPIENTS- For a food or person covered by a limitation or exemption under subparagraph (B), (C), or (D), the Secretary shall require each person who produces, receives, manufactures, processes, packs, transports, distributes, or holds such food to maintain records to identify the immediate previous sources of such food and its ingredients and the immediate subsequent recipients of such food.
‘(F) RECORDKEEPING BY RESTAURANTS AND GROCERY STORES- For a food covered by an exemption under subparagraph (A), restaurants and grocery stores shall keep records documenting the farm that was the source of the food.
‘(G) RECORDKEEPING BY FARMS- For a food covered by an exemption under subparagraph (A), farms shall keep records, in electronic or non-electronic format, for at least 6 months documenting the restaurant or grocery store to which the food was sold.’ (pp. 74-75)
So being exempt means you are required to keep records. Keeping required records means you could be required to release those records. So how exempt can a person get under this legislation? Especially when the slaughter facilities will all be regulated unless the USDA already regulates them?
PENALTIES AND FINES
Then of course, as with any law, there are the fines and penalties. These are from $20,000 to $1,000,000 per violation. (p. 122)
NO JUDICIAL REVIEW
There is also the change under the seizure section that takes away judicial overview…(double quotations indicate amending language)
…….procedure in cases under this section shall conform, as nearly as may be, to the procedure in admiralty; except that on demand of either party any issue of fact joined in any such case shall be tried by jury, “”and except that, with respect to proceedings relating to food, Rule G of the Supplemental Rules of Admiralty or Maritime Claims and Asset Forfeiture Actions shall not apply in any such case, exigent circumstances shall be deemed to exist for all seizures brought under this section, and the summons and arrest warrant shall be issued by the clerk of the court without court review in any such case””…… (p. 116)
So we can just throw out that pesky Fourth Amendment to the Constitution and while we’re at it, let’s get rid of probable cause as well via this wording from page 117:
by striking ‘‘credible evidence or information indicating’’ and inserting ‘‘reason to believe’’;
There are many other dangerous aspects to HR 2749, like seizures, quarantines, and licensing and whistle blower provisions, but this should leave no doubt that this bill will indeed affect farms and has the potential to affect even home food production if an agency decides to apply the international risk analysis schemes to that venue. This bill opens a huge regulatory nightmare that is only evident when one knows what the international guidelines and standards consist of in regard to agriculture. Understanding those, it is highly unlikely that they will issue regulations that keep things as they are now.
Now, the questions that everyone involved in agriculture, meaning everyone who eats, must ask themselves are these:
Can regulating, fining and destroying the freedom of people to grow food create food safety?
Have the impacts of so-called “Free Trade” on this nation been beneficial for the citizens of this country?
Have food safety concerns increased or decreased since we have begun to import more food under these trade agreements?
And ultimately, does the US Constitution provide for the voidance of the Bill of Rights to participate in global trade?
My copy of the Constitution clearly does not allow for any law to void the Bill of Rights which is unalienable and Constitutionally guaranteed. It’s time to let our Federal representatives know in no uncertain terms, that everything to do with governance ultimately comes down to the consent of the governed, and we will not consent to being run by international agencies.
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My deep thanks to Paul Griepentrog, who helped in going through the legislation and many of the ramifications and amendments to current law under this Act.
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This powerful “push back” effort has results; powerful results. For example, this past week, officials from the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) took to the mass media to assure people that the coming “swine flu” vaccine will be “completely voluntary.” While we do not believe this uninsurable, unproven drug will be truly voluntary, prior to your more-than-a-million messages to decision makers demanding respect for your rights, these same people were openly planning for mass, involuntary inoculations. “Push back” works! More of your accomplishments for Health Freedom can be found at: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=195
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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!
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org
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]
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org
[Dr. Laibow and Gen. Stubblebine are still in Italy after the Codex meeting and this is what she just posted at the NSF-Panama Yahoo!Groups Forum. rf]
Hi,
I am 40 minutes outside of Rome on a magnificent Organic farm. We did not expect to spend the whole week here, but that is what happened. Long story. Suffice it to say that the “big heirloom, organic seed guy” that we came to meet, buy seeds from, visit the production facilities/farm of, etc, decided not to meet with us despite the fact that we had an appointment going back many weeks.
Not sure what that is about, but I will tell you that as soon as I started to talk with him on the phone about the fact that Monsanto is buying up heirloom and organic seed companies like crazy (I happen to know that is happening in Europe at the same frenetic rate that it is happening in the US), he got off the phone about as quickly as he could, not even stopping to consider whether he was suddenly no longer even slightly courteous. So we are coming home without the Italian heirloom seeds I was hoping for.
Never the less, we have accomplished a great deal here at the lovely farm and gotten some valuable ideas for VotM!
Codex Reports are up on our Health Freedom Blog – if you haven’t read them, please do.
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3041
So is my YouTube video about Codex’s pretensions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyo_VjJSVFo
One of the things afoot is that we WILL be pushing to take the Codex “seat” accorded to “HEALTH FREEDOM” away from the totally mute, totally inert organization which has, and hogs, it. This has to do with food, friends, global growing rights.
And the VotM Eco Demonstration project is ABOUT reclaiming the production of food for all of us.
I just shot two videos, one called “Food On the Hoof” and the other on Organic Standards which we will be posting soon.
Oh, by the way, if you are planning on coming to help build the new cabins for the Noble Bugle families who live on our coffee finca and pick your magnificent Valley of the Moon Coffee (www.ValleyoftheMoonCoffee.org), here is some
information that we have been sending out to people who are interested:
Dear __________,
Dr. Rima told me that you are interested in our August Panama Internship Program.
Let’s stay in touch since the plans won’t be finalized until Rima and Bert return to Panama next week. [We’ll be back on the 13th in Panama City, back on July 14 in Volcan unless we have an appointment with the new President and Vice President of Panama — which is still being worked on even as I write – REL]
Have you joined the NSCC forum and filled out the skills data base?
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NSCC/join
And how about the Internship program page: http://www.natsol.org
[Links to: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=2946 ]
And, of course, http://www.naturalsolutionsfoundation.org
Ralph Fucetola JD, NSF Trustee
ralph.fucetola@usa.net
973-300-4594
All rights reserved .
What else? Well, food and freedom are getting closer and closer: food is the battle ground that Henry Kissinger said it was in 1974. I suppose Genghis Khan said the same thing on the steppes of Mongolia: every conqueror know that: control the food, you control (or eliminate) the people.
The Russians knew that when they “pursued a scorched earth policy” in Finland. So did Sherman on his deadly “March to the Sea”.
Valley of the Moon is about
Freedom
Teaching
Food Freedom
Freedom
Teaching
Reclaiming the Production of Food
Freedom
Teaching
Natural Health
Freedom
Teaching
Community
Freedom
Teaching
Sustainability
Freedom
Teaching
Community Building/Local Economy
Freedom
Teaching
http://www.FoodFreedomeJournal.org
Did I leave anything out? Oh, yes! JOY! The joy of creating, sharing,
spreading, offering and loving.
I really miss being home in Panama. You know, Gen. Bert and I have traveled all over the world, pretty much, and lived in a lot of places, some of them really, really beautiful. I regard Panama as my home, though, and I look forward to having you feel the same way. Getting back home where our Seminar / Wellness Center is nearly ready is going to be so wonderful!
On a more troublesome note, the “kill the offshore investment options/havens” crowd are at it again.
As Ralph says over and over, the IRA/401 money in the US is the last pool of “real” money left and “they” want control of it.
Last October, there was talk by Pelosi of turning that money into Treasury Bonds with a 3% return “guaranteed” by the US Government’s sound fiscal policy (Wanna buy a bridge, anybody?)
Well, they stopped talking about it for a while, but they are back at it. We believe that moving your IRA or, if you can, your 401 retirement fund NOW while you still can is a sound move.
As many of you know, I have invested what was left of my 401 in the Valley of the Moon Corp.
When we first proposed the program, it was not possible to secure a BIC with 401 or IRA funds so they were a simple loan. Now, through our continued research, it is, indeed, possible to use those funds to secure a full or partial BIC, meaning that you can then build your home on your buildable lot if you have a full BIC (or not, as you prefer) and be a full or partial participant using your BIC status to do so.
This was a real breakthrough.
Please go to our website, http://www.HealthFreedomUSA.org/?page_id=2002, click on the Sustainable IRA Webinar tab and spend an hour with Ralph taking this highly informative course. Then call him at 973-300-4594 to discuss your particular situation.
The direct link for the Sustainable IRA is: http://www.vitalconnectionuniversity.com/moodle/course/view.php?id=95
Let’s be frank: we have a lot, A LOT, of people on this forum (and on our eAlert) who are holding back to see what happens next. I can understand that. We also have some deeply committed people who have actually committed money either as a loan, as an IRA investment or both.
Bert and I have invested every penny we have, and then quite a bit more in getting to where we are. You can certainly see/feel/experience our commitment, along with Ralph’s, especially if you come visit us.
But we need people to do what those other pioneers have done: IF you want to live in/work in/ profit from the Valley of the Moon, and you are holding back to see what happens, consider this: if everyone does that, and we do not have the necessary seed funding, how do you anticipate that that will happen?
Your donations are tax deductible in the US (NOT your IRA/401K), your BIC can be assigned and both BICs and investments pay interest at the Banco National de Panama prime rate.
So we are at the point where you need to make funds available so that we can make it happen collectively. It is that simple. This is how we will “discover, develop, demonstrate and disseminate” Natural Solutions!
Lots of people have come to visit and many of them have made strong verbal commitments. We are waiting for them to follow through with the money to buy the land to build the house(s) that Jack and Jill and Sam and Sally live in…
Contact me. Contact Ralph. As the spiritual says, for those of you who have not already bought your ticket, “Get on Board, Little Children, There’s Room for Many a More!”
Warmly,
Rima
Dr. Rima E. Laibow, MD
Natural Solutions Medical Director