FDA Accepts Petition to "Stay the Shot" - Citizens Petition Demands Safety Testing First
Published August 31, 2009 @ 07:37PM PT
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
Media Release
"After holding emergency petition from doctors & health freedom groups for nearly 2 weeks, FDA today issued docket number... Petition demands no "Swine Flu" H1N1 Vaccine approval without safety testing..."
Washington, August 31, 2009 - Prominent natural health personality Gary Null PhD, joined by renowned doctors such as Rima E. Laibow MD and Tedd Koren DC, along with NGOs (nongovernmental organizations) including Natural Solutions Foundation, Foundation for Health Choice and the Institute for Health Research, submitted an emergency Citizens Petition to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on August 17, 2009. Because the public health issues are so serious, the Petition demands an immediate Stay of any government approval of the "Swine Flu" H1N1 Vaccine without safety testing.
The Petitioners further demanded strict warnings regarding the potential dangers of this uninsurable, untested and unproven vaccine which contains dangerous adjuvants such as Mercury, Aluminum and Sqaulene, a substance whose toxicity when injected is well known and which has never before been approved for use in the United States. Injected squalene, in fact, has been denied clinical tests in the US because the FDA reviewers felt that it was too toxic even for testing as part of a vaccine.
After sitting on the emergency Petition for nearly two weeks, FDA today issued a docket number, accepting the filing both under 21 CFR 10.30 (Citizen Petition) and 21 CFR 10.35 (Stay of Action). The Docket Number is FDA-2009-P-0418.
Citizens' Petitions are grounded in the First Amendment Right to Petition the government for redress of grievances. The Administrative Procedures Act and various agency regulations provide formats for Citizen Petitions and many Agency regulatory actions are initiated as a result of such petitions.
Several legal actions have been brought in Federal Court in various states by concerned citizens over the past few weeks, seeking to enjoin forced vaccinations with the untested H1N1 pandemic vaccines. Last week one federal judge denied a bid for a temporary restraining order, but giving the plaintiffs two weeks to submit further evidence of potential harm. Other pending legal actions are awaiting hearings.
These other actions, while meritorious, have serious legal flaws which the current Citizens Petition avoids, increasing its chance of success. Taking the initial step of engaging the Agency through a Citizens Petition instead of immediately seeking judicial intervention, as the Petitioners here have done, meets the requirement of Federal Law that Petitioners must "exhaust administrative remedies" before seeking relief in Court. While accepting the filing under the "Stay of Action" regulation, the FDA has indicated that it will not treat the application as an "emergency" which permits the agency to take 180 days to respond, well beyond the targeted time frame for the implementation of widespread vaccination with the untested vaccine, either through compulsory or voluntary vaccination. The Petition asks that no vaccine be approved without adequate safety testing. On July 23, 2009, FDA announced its intent to approve pandemic H1N1 vaccine in the absence of any safety testing. Current tests are for dosage response and employ vaccines which lack squalene and other adjuvants, or immune irritants such as aluminum.
Maj. Gen. Albert N. Stubblebine (US Army, Ret.), President of Natural Solutions Foundation remarked, "The FDA just does not get it! Delaying public hearings and failing to take into consideration the considerable dangers of the untested pandemic vaccine shots is simply not acceptable. This is neither an example of "transparent government", nor "change in which we can believe". The Courts will have to determine if the FDA has the authority to act in this manner."
The Citizens Petition will be posted at the government's www.Regulations.gov web site within the next few days. In the meantime, a copy has been posted at www.HealthFreedomUSA.org/?p=3314
Ralph Fucetola JD, Counsel to the Natural Solutions Foundation and primary author of the Petition amplified General Stubblebine's comments:
"For over one hundred years, since the case of Jacobson v Commonwealth, the Federal Courts have been available to challenge inappropriate FDA approval of dangerous drugs, including vaccines. We are confident that Federal judicial authority will tell the FDA that it cannot approve the vaccines without safety testing. No drug can be approved unless there is significant scientific agreement that the benefits outweigh the foreseeable risks. Without safety testing there can be no rational risk/benefit analysis.
"Remember the 1976 ‘Swine Flu' vaccine fiasco and the near unleashing of a world-wide Avian Flu pandemic earlier this year by a drug company vaccine ‘accident.' Unleashing an untested vaccine on the world is tantamount to engaging in a terrorist act that will result in just the pandemic the authorities claim they want to avoid.
"I know there are Federal Judges with the courage to stop this headlong rush to disaster. Unlike the FDA with its drug-company-employee revolving door policy, the Federal Courts are not afraid to confront failures of the Agency to adhere to the law. We will know in a few days if the Courts will ‘Stay the Shot' since, in the words of the Supreme Court in the 1905 Jacobson case, ‘...if it be apparent or can be shown with reasonable certainty that ... vaccination... would seriously impair ...health or probably cause ...death.' the Courts will act."
Dr. Rima E. Laibow, MD, the Natural Solutions Foundation's Medical Director emphasized the seriousness of the dangers from the H1N1 vaccines:
"Never before has squalene been approved for use in a drug in the United States. But once before, when it was allowed in certain military vaccines, more than 60,000 soldiers were hospitalized because of being injected with it in a condition widely known as "Gulf War Syndrome". A Federal Court, in 2004, forbade its involuntary use by United States troops (Doe v Rumsfeld, Civil Action No. 03-707 USDC for District of Columbia).
"This new vaccine has, literally, 1,000,000 times more squalene than that experimental military vaccine, known as "Vaccine A" had. The attempt to rush this dangerous vaccine into the bodies of the public without safety testing is a violation of US law, regulation and medial ethics and must be condemned."
The Foundation and its allies promise further action to "Stop the Shot!" They urge all concerned persons to go to the following web page to register their support for the Citizens Petition: http://www.HealthFreedomUSA.org/?p=3312
Donations to support this action may be made at:
http://www.HealthFreedomUSA.org/?p=189
Natural Solutions Vaccine Portal:
http://www.HealthFreedomUSA.org/?p=3085
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Media Announcement: Citizens Petition tells FDA - STOP the "Swine Flu" Vaccine Rush to Approval
Published August 17, 2009 @ 06:44PM PT
Media Announcement:
Citizens Petition tells FDA -
STOP the "Swine Flu" Vaccine Rush to Approval
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
From: Ralph Fucetola JD
Natural Solutions Foundation Counsel
Health Freedom Citizens Petition tells FDA:
STOP the "Swine Flu" Vaccine Rush to Approval
Action Item to Support "Stop the Shot" Citizens Petition:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27791
August 17, 2009 - Led by such health freedom luminaries as Gary Null, PhD, Human Nutrition & Public Health Science, Rima E. Laibow, MD, Medical Director of the Natural Solutions Foundation, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org, and Dr. Tedd Koren, DC of Citizens for Health Choice, we filed a formal Citizens Petition to the FDA today expressing our serious concerns about the approval of dangerous Swine Flu vaccines BEFORE ANY SAFETY TESTING IS COMPLETED. A Citizens Petition, unlike an internet petition, is a formal statement of grievance which challenges the government's actions, asks for specific protection and redress, as provided for by the Constitution of These United States:
"Pursuant to the Constitution of the United States of America, First Amendment, Right to Petition for Redress of Grievances the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), 21 U.S.C. §§ 321 et seq., and the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), 5 U.S.C. § 553(e), to amend the FDA's rules respecting the safety, effectiveness and availability of vaccines said to be useful for swine flu (A-H1N1-09)..."
The goal of this regulatory intervention is to stop FDA's headlong, dangerous and unjustified rush to approve the so-called "swine flu" vaccination, even before safety testing has been completed. If FDA fails to act on our Petition in a timely fashion, a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) can be sought from the Federal Courts to stop the alleged "emergency" approval process.
The Petition details, in ten pages of carefully structured and well supported reasoning, the legal and factual basis for a formal stay of the approval process, citing issues of transparency and science-based decision making, which the President claims to be the hallmarks of his Administration. The FDA has failed to follow statutory and case law requirements for the emergency approval of these un-insurable, untested and unproven vaccines which have been recently cited for their potential dangers to health and safety here and abroad.
Within the next couple days, when a formal Docket Number is issued, Natural Solutions Foundation will set up an Action Item to allow the public to express support to "Stay the Shot", Stop the Swine Flu Vaccine rush to approval. That link will be posted here.
FDA requires a snail-mail copy of a signed document to issue a Citizens Petition docket number. You can track the progress of the document sent today with this US Postal Service tracking number: EO 964 064 326 US.
Here is what the Petition demands:
(a) The first action sought is an emergency Temporary Stay of the pending Vaccine approval applications. The applications should be denied. Petitioners request a Public Hearing. Petitioners are in immanent peril of irreparable harm if the Temporary Stay is not granted immediately.
(b) Additionally, the Petitioners petition the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and/or the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to open and accept public comments and include, as part of any approval of the Vaccines, requiring strong warnings to the public of each age groups, geographic location and any other relevant demographics, that a process be developed for individuals to opt out of any mandatory program and that clear instructions be given on the risk and benefits of the vaccine:
"This Vaccine has not undergone FDA safety or efficacy testing and its risks are unknown in all age groups. This Vaccine contains ingredients previously rejected for use in the United State and/or never evaluated by the FDA which have been shown in animal studies to cause significant adverse biological response when injected."
(c) Furthermore, the Petitioners petition the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and/or the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to recommend to all implementing agencies, such as State Departments of Health that the Vaccines not be subject to any legal mandate requiring their use by any class of persons in order for such persons to receive government services, or to work in particular employments, or to travel or to attend any public places or for any other purpose.
(d) The Petitioners petition the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and/or the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to recommend to all implementing agencies, such as State Departments of Health that these un-insurable, unproven and untested Vaccines not be subject to any legal mandate, whether direct or indirect, perceived or actual, requiring their use by any class of persons in order for such persons to receive government services, such as schooling, or to work in particular employments, such as first responders or health care workers, or to travel or to attend any public places or for any other purpose.
(e) The Petitioners petition the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and/or the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to recommend voluntary Self-Shielding at home in preference to vaccination or removal to FEMA or other relocation facilities in the event of a Declared Pandemic Emergency.
Read the full text of the Petition is here:
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=3314
The petitioners believe that halting these approvals is literally a matter of life and dealth since the new vaccines are made with adjuvants based on injected oil-in-water preparations based on squalene which are known to cause profound, chronic inflammatory response throughout the body, leading to ailments similar to those known was "Gulf War Syndrome". These adjuvants, or immune system irritants, are so toxic that they have been rejected for testing in the US previously and no vaccine containing them has ever been approved in the US.
For more information, please sign up for the Natural Solutions Foundation's Health Freedom Action eAlerts, http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=187.
Tax deductible donations to support this legal challenge to the FDA's rush to approve these vaccines are gratefully acknowledged and may be made here, http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189.
Yours in health and freedom,
Ralph Fucetola, JD
Counsel and Trustee
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
Three for Liberty Campaign Three Action Items; Three Weeks to Save Health Freedom
Published August 03, 2009 @ 12:36PM PT
Natural Solutions Foundation
The Voice of Global Health Freedom™
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
Three for Liberty Campaign
Three Action Items; Three Weeks to Save Health Freedom
Action Items at: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=3209
Action eAlert at: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=3230
Direct Links to the Action Items:
1. The House of "Representatives" passes draconian (sic) food safety bill... now its the Senate's turn to hear from us!
Take Action Here: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714
2. And mass forced vaccination comes closer... Demand your Right to Self-Shield!
Take Action here: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27275
3. BUT... Dr. Ron Paul offers a prescription to Congress: two new bills, HR 3394 and 3395 - regulate the regulators and promote Free Health Speech!
Take Action here: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27732
Note: the first two Action Items have been revised. If you submitted them before, along with one for each member of your family or household, we urge you to do so again since, once revised, they count as new items. These actions could save your life, assuming we all act together to speak the power of our collective truth to legislative power.
Are you the one? Are you the one person who makes the difference? Are you the one person who alerts your neighbors like Paul Revere and defeats the forces threatening our lives, our liberty and our sacred honor?
If you are, then you are mounted up and ready to ride - only this time, it's a freedom mouse that will carry your message to your neighbors and to the heavens because we need both your neighbors and the support of the Universe to make sure that our cause, our just cause, survives.
We are talking about literal survival here: if our food is poisoned we will not survive. If our bodies are poisoned, we will not survive. Health Freedom is Our First Freedom!
In three weeks, if we don't act NOW, the evil (sic) Food Safety bill will pass the Senate; vaccines will be mandated and Dr. Paul's important bills will not move forward. On the other hand, if we act NOW, our Push Back will make all the difference!
"Liberty is to the collective body what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society." - Thomas Jefferson
Thank you!
Natural Solutions Trustees:
Maj. Gen. Bert Stubblebine (USA ret.) - President
Dr. Rima E. Laibow, MD - Medical Director
Ralph Fucetola JD - Counsel
Dr. Ron Paul Introduces Health Freedom Bills in Congress!
Published August 01, 2009 @ 07:12AM PT
Dr. Ron Paul Introduces Health Freedom Bills!
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.
You can support these bills here:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27732
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
Ralph Fucetola JD
Natural Solutions Foundation Trustee
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=3226
Will Govt Ever Change is Policy of Vaccination Lies and Cover-ups?
Published July 27, 2009 @ 09:18AM PT
Demand your Right to Self-Shield instead of submitting to the jab:
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=2752
Last month the Secretary of "Health and Human Services" Kathleen Sebelius issued a declaration under the bioterrorism laws to provide "liability protections for pandemic countermeasures" including vaccines... well, OK, so what's new? Vaccine pushers have been exempt from liability since the early '80s.
That's when Congress [except for a certain Good Doctor there] ever supine to the drug company's needs, took away our right to sue for vaccine induced injuries. Instead the govt set up the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program which has paid out over $2 billion for death and injury of thousands of children. Where does that money come from? Not from the drug companies' bloated, monopoly coffers, but rather from a special tax paid by each person forced to buy vaccines - a tax to protect drug company profits from selling poison.
The "declaration" it turns out bears rather closer scrutiny for what it also says, and doesn't say, about the vaccines themselves.
You can read the Secretary's bureaucratize at:
http://frwebgate4.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/TEXTgate.cgi?WAISdocID=622806444691+35+1+0
But what is said about the vaccines that are now to be given without liability for the harm they will do is both brief and instructive. The Secretary says: "Whereas, vaccination may be effective to protect persons from the threat of 2009 H1N1 influenza..."
Note the rhetoric; it uses the rubric "MAY" be effective... instead of the standard drug law statement that vaccines "are safe and effective." My colleague, Jim Turner Esq. of Swankin and Turner (www.swankin-turner.com) remarked to me, as we discussed this with Dr. Rima E. Laibow (www.HealthFreedomUSA.org), "To be adjudged "safe and effective" a drug (including vaccine) must have benefits that outweigh the risks..."
So, Madame Secretary, are you telling us, by your very loud silence, that you don't know if the no-liability, uninsurable vaccine is safe? You are certainly telling us you don't know for sure that it is "effective!" President Obama: PLEASE read the RFK Jr article linked below and do what you've promised: let the truth out! Protect our children!
What is going on here with the Pandemic (Weaponized) Vaccine Panic? What is the govt's real agenda?
The last "swine flu" vaccine killed hundreds and no pandemic developed. Maybe people, in general, refusing the killer vaccine in '76 is the reason that flu never became pandemic.
The advanced healthcare theory is the vaccine itself "chooses" which strain of seasonal flu becomes epidemic and it was another experimental pandemic vaccine in 1918 that tiggered that pandemic disaster. Enough people who receive the vaccine always shed a concoction of viral particles that cause the spread of disease.
Rather than vaccines helping the situation, those who receive the vaccine become a present danger to public health! Certainly a threat to the unvaccinated majority.
Saying "NO!" to voluntary or mandated vaccination, it seems, is good for your health, and that of the community.
And holding vaccine makers and pushers liable for the foreseeable harm they cause is the opposite of what our misguided govt is doing...
Ralph Fucetola JD
PS - Think the govt doesn't lie when its alleged "scientists" do a risk/benefit analysis? You need to read this extraordinary article on the mercury vaccine danger cover-up by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Here is a teaser: ""My gut feeling?" [the govt doctor] said. "Forgive this personal comment - I do not want my grandson to get a thimerosal-containing vaccine until we know better what is going on." But instead of taking immediate steps to alert the public and rid the vaccine supply of thimerosal, the officials and executives at Simpsonwood spent most of the next two days discussing how to cover up the damaging data..."
http://www.infowars.com/vaccinations-deadly-immunity/
PS#2 - Remember to demand your Right to Self-Shield instead of submitting to the jab:
Food Safety, Food Freedom and Real Change
Published July 17, 2009 @ 07:40PM PT
Change for the better empowers the people to meet their own needs and wants as locally as possible. Is Congress about to give a great blow to local food production by giving into Big Agra interests and force the industrialization of all food production -- forcing family farms, natural, home gardeners with surpluses and other local food sources to meet Agra-Biz industrial standards or go out of business?
While Self-Shielding in the face of manufactured pandemics and weaponized vaccines got our attention; while Codex Alimentarius further degraded the food supply... Congress was planning its own surprise: the forced-industrialization-of-farming bills, such as HR 875 & 759, have been replaced by a new "fast-tracked" (sic) "Food Safety" bill - HR 2749 - that threatens food, health and freedom. It is in reality, a "martial law food control bill" -- see: http://farmwars.info/?p=1145
For these other Health Freedom issues, see the July 7, 2009 eBlast from Natural Solutions Foundation: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=3048 for information about Weaponized Vaccines and to http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=3041 for information about the annual Codex Alimentarius ("world food code") meeting.
From discussions with a Congressional office I am hopeful that the (sic) "Food Safety" bill is not likely to be voted for a couple weeks, so there is still time to push-back. The legislative aide told me that Congress is so focused on the bill regarding health care costs that it is not likely that the alleged "food safety" issue will come to the floor soon.
And, as you know, push-back works.
For example, we've been urging Congress to defeat all (sic) "Food Safety" bills since they do not really address the threats from huge factory farms and feed lots and threaten local production, but we also set up an Action Item so over a hundred thousand people -- so far -- could tell their own federal legislators to protect family farms, home food production, food co-ops, etc.
See: No HARMonization White Paper: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=2394
Our original proposed amendment: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=2246 *
And, apparently, they heard at least part of the message. Those who support HR 2749 are touting the (slight) "farmer protection" added to the bill to get it out of committee:
"Are Small Farms Protected?
"The legislation is doing a bunch of things for food safety, most notably
giving the FDA mandatory recall authority. This has been a major sticking
point for previous iterations of this legislation in the House, because House
reps more than senators represent small fiefdoms inside large rural states.
These districts wide recalls will disproportionately harm smaller businesses
and processors versus their larger partners. In a sense, FDA recalls and fees
would represent a regressive tax.
"This is an extremely valid concern given the FDA's proclivity for influence
from industry. However, this bill was able to climb out of committee in the
House because it properly addressed small growers and farmers markets.
Specifically, Section 107 of the bill which stipulates ‘Traceability
Requirements' on most farms makes an exemption for farmer's markets (more
or less):
‘(4) EXEMPTIONS-
‘(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 restaurant.
"Traceability is a huge issue and this bill seeks to establish a new electronic
system for tracking that will be vetted over the course of a couple years.
The exemption for small farmers is good but poorly defined. We hope this
vague language about exemptions gets tightened up as the bill moves forward.
It would be a pity to see this single exemption allow major agribusiness
farmers off the hook."
http://nutritionwonderland.com/2009/06/food-safety-enhancement-act-hr-2749/
This is not the protection we want for local food production. But it is a start. We are concerned that the word "farm" could be construed too narrowly. What about religious communities, nonprofits, co-ops, community and family gardens that produce surpluses... Real protection is needed for local, natural production.
This is not a bill that we expect progressive congresspeople to support, and we certainly don't support what has been called a "martial law food control bill."
We need to redouble our efforts to get Congress to listen!
Here is the action item -
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714
Remember to follow us on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/healthfreedomus and http://www.twitter.com/drlaibow - whenever we post a new blog, the link appears on twitter!
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* The language was modified later, and this later language was sent to Congress many thousands of times:
"The citizens ascribing to this Petition therefore hereby request that the
Food Safety Modernization Act be defeated, or that it, or any substitute for
it, such as H.R. 759, be amended to exclude organic and natural agriculture,
family farms and ranches, and natural or organic food products, including
dietary supplements, through a rule of interpretation, as follows:
"Rule of Interpretation
"No provision of this act shall be deemed to apply (a) to any home,
home-business, homestead, small farm organic or natural agricultural activity,
(b) to any family farm or ranch, or (c) to any natural or organic food
product, including dietary supplements regulated under the Dietary Supplement
Health and Education Act of 1994."
"We also note the language of the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 USC sec 203 (s)
(2) which provides, "(2) Any establishment that has as its only regular
employees the owner thereof or the parent, spouse, child, or other member of
the immediate family of such owner shall not be considered to be an enterprise
engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce or a part of
such an enterprise..."
"Language such as this would be helpful to allay our concerns."
Health Freedom Advocates Condemn WHO “Swine Flu Pandemic Level 6” Vaccine Panic
Published June 13, 2009 @ 06:49PM PT
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org
MEDIA RELEASE
Health Freedom Advocates Condemn WHO “Swine Flu Pandemic Level 6” Vaccine Panic;
Call for Laws to Protect the Right to Self-Quarantine (Self-Shield)
June 13, 2009 – Chiriqui, Panama - Natural Solutions Foundation President, Maj. Gen. Bert Stubblebine (USA Ret) condemned the World Health Organization’s Pandemic Declaration of June 11, 2009, stating:
“We are deeply concerned that WHO has set the so-called ‘Swine Flu Pandemic Level’ at ‘Level 6’ — the highest pandemic level in over 40 years. We are very suspicious of WHO’s recent actions in ‘changing the rules’ of what constitutes a pandemic to force the low pathogenicity, genetically manipulated ‘Swine Flu’ into the ‘pandemic’ category. Our concern is this rushes world governments into ill-conceived and potentially dangerous forced vaccination programs with what we consider a ‘weaponized’ pandemic vaccine for a non-life-threatening disease.
“In order to make this disease fit the definition of a global pandemic, WHO changed the definition from ‘a life-threatening disease which spreads between humans, and to which they have little or no immunity” to ‘a minor disease which spreads between humans, and to which they have little or no immunity’. Since the consequences of a declared Level 6 pandemic are primarily economic and political, we see this as a decision mediated by those considerations, not public health ones.
“Who benefits from this WHO action? The Drug industry and those who want to alter the nature of society profoundly so that they can continue to control it.”
The Foundation’s Medical Director, Rima E Laibow, MD, has overseen the issuing of a new White Paper on Self-Quarantine (also called ‘Self-Shielding’) as a reasonable alternative to the dangerous and unwise policy of a choice between mandated vaccinations or involuntary quarantine, as currently provided for in both Federal and State legislation.
The White Paper, entitled “Stay Home - Stay Alive: Your Right to Self-Quarantine” has been published on the Foundation’s Health Freedom Blog, the highest blog ranking on Google devoted to Health Freedom as our first freedom. It includes links to professional advice on preparing for pandemic conditions. The Twitter.com #hashtag for the White Paper is: #selfquarantine
The White Paper can be accessed as a public service at: http://www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org/?p=2752
The right to self-shield is enshrined in the Common Law and in numerous International documents, such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which asserts, “No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home … Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference…”
Reacting to WHO’s unprecedented declaration, considering that the “Swine Flu” has infected less people world-wide than the ordinary annual flu kills in the United States alone, the Natural Solutions Foundation is leading a growing group of international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) – including the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) — which are seeking to educate decision makers and the public regarding the viability of self-shielding in the event of a true pandemic emergency.
Foundation Counsel, Ralph Fucetola JD, proposes a new Federal Statute that would, “In the event of a Pandemic Emergency, as defined by International, National, Regional, State or Local authorities, provide that nothing in federal law or regulation shall be interpreted by any agency of the United States, or any Court thereof, to forbid self-shielding or self-quarantine at home, nor shall any Federal funds, or materials, supplies, and support materials purchased with Federal Funds be expended to remove any person involuntarily from his or her home while self-shielding or under self-quarantine.”
He continued, “State and Federal laws that can force involuntary quarantine need to be amended to secure for people the right to quarantine or self-shield in their own homes, rather than government relocation centers, as that will be the safest place to be in the event of an actual pandemic.”
Dr. Laibow says about the practice of self-quarantine, “Self-shielding (or quarantine) during the early to late stages of a natural pandemic is a highly conservative, traditional medical response to infectious disease. This right is all the more important in the face of a manifestly manipulated ‘pandemic panic’ being used to ‘push’ dangerous vaccine shots. The threat of an uninsurable ‘weaponized’ vaccine should frighten the public into demanding immediate legislative protection for their right to self-quarantine and we call upon our legislative representatives to act forthwith to protect this important civil right.”
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Further Information:
dr.laibow@gmail.com
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org
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Tell your legislators and other decision makers that you demand protection for your right to self-quarantine (self-shield):
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27275
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