Support Ron Paul’s Health Freedom Protection Act, H.R. 2117

Tell Your Congressmen and Women to Co Sponsor the Health Freedom Protection Act, H.R. 2117

The FDA is on a rampage against dietary supplements. Preventing reasonable and factual health claims, the FDA is using its immense power to fuel the pharmaceutical profit picture at the expense of the lives and health of hundreds of thousands of Americans each year. The rights of Americans to learn about natural products through truthful, science-based health claims is routinely stifled to the detriment of health and health freedom in the United States.

This bill shifts the burden of proof onto the FDA whenever the agency wants to deny the public the benefit of health claims information about Dietary Supplements.

H. R. 2117 allows reasonable health claims, with proper disclosure language, “unless the Secretary determines that — `(i) there is no scientific evidence that supports the claim; and `(ii) the claim is inherently misleading and incapable of being rendered non misleading through the addition of a disclaimer.” Thus, even “a scintilla” of scientific evidence would allow the making of claims that Dietary Supplements may be of benefit to individuals. The requirements of the bill are consistent with the law that already governs the agency’s position, announced in 2004, “FDA intends to apply a standard for substantiating claims for dietary supplements that is consistent with the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) standard for dietary supplements and other health related products of ‘competent and reliable scientific evidence’.”

Current FDA policy, in violation of US Case Law, is to deny truthful claims which do not relate to either structure or function. All other truthful health claims are currently forbidden by the FDA. This bill would greatly enhance public access to truthful and not misleading health information, in keeping with the US Supreme Court’s dictum in Thompson v. Western States Medical Centers and presents a clear opportunity to enhance legal protections for Dietary Supplements and natural remedies.

Urge your Congressmen/women to press for passage of H. R. 2117 and to introduce sister legislation into the Senate. This Health over-regulation of safe food substances to what should properly be considered their main task, protecting people from dangerous drugs and medical devices.

Please use this opportunity to encourage your Representatives to work with other congresspeople to join as cosponsors and your Senators to introduce sister legislation and get behind the Health Freedom Protection Act.

Rima E. Laibow, MD, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org” href=”http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/”>www.HealthFreedomUSA.org

Is the US Dangerously Low on Food Reserves?

Larry Matlack, President of the American Agriculture Movement (AAM), has raised concerns over the issue of U.S. grain reserves after it was announced that the sale of 18.37 million bushels of wheat from USDA’s Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust.

“According to the May 1, 2008 CCC inventory report there are o­nly 24.1 million bushels of wheat in inventory, so after this sale there will be o­nly 5.73 million bushels of wheat left the entire CCC inventory,” warned Matlack.  “Our concern is not that we are using the remainder of our strategic grain reserves for humanitarian relief. AAM fully supports the action and all humanitarian food relief.  Our concern is that the U.S. has nothing else in our emergency food pantry. There is no cheese, no butter, no dry milk powder, no grains or anything else left in reserve.  The o­nly thing left in the entire CCC inventory will be 5.73 million bushels of wheat which is about enough wheat to make about 1/2 of a loaf of bread for each of the 300 million people in America.”

The CCC is a federal government-owned and operated entity that was created to stabilize, support, and protect farm income and prices. CCC is also supposed to maintain balanced and adequate supplies of agricultural commodities and aids in their orderly distribution.

“This lack of emergency preparedness is the fault of the 1996 farm bill which eliminated the government’s grain reserves as well as the Farmer Owned Reserve (FOR),” explained Matlack.  “We had hoped to reinstate the FOR and a Strategic Energy Grain Reserve in the new farm bill, but the politics of food defeated our efforts.  As farmers it is our calling and purpose in life to feed our families, our communities, our nation and a good part of the world, but we need better planning and coordination if we are to meet that purpose.  AAM pledges to continue our work for better farm policy which includes an FOR and a Strategic Energy Grain Reserve.”

AAM’s support for the FOR program, which allows the grain to be stored o­n farms, is a key component to a safe grain reserve in that the supplies will be decentralized in the event of some unforeseen calamity which might befall the large grain storage terminals. A Strategic Energy Grain Reserve is as crucial for the nation’s domestic energy needs as the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.  AAM also supports full funding for the replenishment and expansion of Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust.

The May 1, 2008 CCC Inventory report may be reviewed here: http://www.fsa.usda.gov/Internet/FSA_File/wid2a.pdf.

Federal Judge Rules That Connecticut Police Can Bar High I.Q. Scores

A Federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by a man who was barred from the New London, CT. police force because he scored too high on an intelligence test.

In a ruling, Judge Peter C. Dorsey of the United States District Court in New Haven, CT., agreed that the plaintiff, Robert Jordan, was denied an opportunity to interview for a police job because of his high test scores. But he said that that did not mean Mr. Jordan was a victim of discrimination.

Judge Dorsey ruled that Mr. Jordan was not denied equal protection because the city of New London, CT. applied the same standard to everyone: anyone who scored too high was rejected.

Mr. Jordan, 48, who has a bachelor’s degree in literature and is an officer with the State Department of Corrections, said he was considering an appeal. ”I was eliminated on the basis of my intellectual makeup,” he said. ”It’s the same as discrimination on the basis of gender or religion or race.”

Left Coast Public School Breeds Revolutionaries

Shasta High School, in Redding California, published its last issue of the Volcano, the student newspaper, with an image on the front page of a student burning the American flag and an editorial inside defending the practice.

Chief of Police Shoots Himself While Teaching A Concealed Weapons Class

Dave Hansen, the Police Chief in Riverdale, Utah, shot himself in the ankle while teaching a class to qualify for a concealed-weapons permit. The Chief’s gun went off in a conference room at Riverdale Police Headquarters.

Chief Hansen was waving a loaded pistol and being careless, according to two students who were attending his class. “We were told the gun is the chief’s personal sidearm, but it looked to me like he didn’t know anything about the gun,” Lewis Walker said.

Bart Ulm, another student seeking certification to carry a concealed weapon, said he was surprised Chief Dave Hansen was using a loaded gun to show how it worked.

“Right then, I was very leery, because there’s no need to have live ammo in a gun in the class. But I figured he’s the Chief, so he must know what he’s doing,” Ulm told the Standard-Examiner of Ogden.

Hansen held the Glock 40 under a table to disassemble it when a bullet fired, Walker said. The Chief cried, “I’m hit,” and fell over. Hansen was taken to McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden for surgery and released Monday.

“If you ask me, he’s really stupid,” Walker said. “His state certification to teach concealed-weapons classes should be taken away from him. This was totally gross negligence.”

Are You Aware That The Saudis Are Boycotting American Products?

Shouldn’t we return the favor?

We can take control of our own destiny and let these giant oil importers know who Really generates their profits, their livings.

How about leaving American Dollars in America and reduce the import/export deficit?

An appealing remedy might be to boycott their Gas.

Every time you fill up your car, you can avoid putting more money into the coffers of Saudi Arabia. Just purchase gas from companies that don’t import their oil from the Saudis.

Nothing is more frustrating than the feeling that every time I fill up my tank, I’m sending my money to people who I get the impression want me, my family and my friends dead.

Do you think it might be of interest to know which oil companies import Middle Eastern oil and which do not?

These Companies Import Middle Eastern Oil:

Shell 205,742,000 barrels
Chevron/Texaco 144,332,000 barrels
Exxon /Mobil 130,082,000 barrels
Marathon/Speedway 117,740,000 barrels
Amoco 62,231,000 barrels

CITGO oil is imported from Venezuela which is run by Dictator Hugo Chavez who hates America and openly avows our economic destruction! (We pay Chavez’s regime nearly $10 Billion per year in oil revenues!)

The U.S. currently imports 5,517,000 barrels of crude oil per day from OPEC. If you do the math at $95 per barrel, that’s over $524 million PER DAY ($191 BILLION per year!) handed over to OPEC, many of whose members are our confirmed enemies!!!!!

Here Are Some Large Companies That Do Not Import Middle Eastern Oil:

Sunoco 0 barrels
Conoco 0 barrels
Sinclair 0 barrels
BP / Phillips 0 barrels
Hess 0 barrels
ARC0 0 barrels
Maverick 0 barrels
Flying J 0 barrels
Valero 0 barrels

Murphy Oil USA, sold at Wal-Mart, is from South Arkansas and USA owned.They give scholarships to all children in their town who finish high school and are legal US citizens.

(This information is available from the U.S. Department of Energy and each company is required to state where they get their oil and how much they are importing.)

To have a real impact, we need to reach literally millions of gas buyers. With the help of the internet, it’s really simple to do. Now, don’t wimp out on me.

I am asking each reader to send this article to ten people and ask those people to do the same and so forth. We will reach millions of people very quickly.

Again, all you have to do is send this article to 10 people. How long would that really take you?

The Neville Chamberlain Award for 2008 Goes to…

Sen. Charles Schumer’s June 3 commentary “Russia Can Be Part of the Answer on Iran” offers an excellent illustration of why the Democrats are no longer a party that can be safely entrusted with America’s foreign policy.

Sen. Schumer offers three reasons for dismantling the antinuclear missile defenses the U.S. is constructing: (1) the weapons are “ineffective”; (2) the primary threat they are intended to defend against — an Iranian nuclear attack — is “hypothetical and remote”; and (3) they drive Vladimir Putin to “apoplexy” because they strengthen “the relationship between Eastern Europe and NATO,” thereby mocking “Mr. Putin’s dream of eventually restoring Russian hegemony over Eastern Europe.”

Sen. Schumer offers no evidence of the missile defenses’ ineffectiveness, and if they were known to be ineffective, Mr. Putin would hardly care about them. As for the Iranian nuclear threat, by implausibly dismissing it as “remote,” he weakens his own case for taking action to prevent it. In fact, of course, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadenijad has publicly threatened to use nuclear weapons when available to destroy Israel. This is “remote”?

Most remarkable is Sen. Schumer’s suggestion that in pursuit of Russian cooperation in a boycott of Iran, we should not only assist in the restoration of Russian hegemony over Central Europe, but even “make Russia whole” for the cost of sanctions by paying its government, currently basking in a sea of oil revenues, some “$2 billion to $3 billion a year” — a figure Sen. Schumer observes is “about what we spend in Iraq each week.”

Less than two decades ago the friends of liberty throughout the world celebrated the fall of the Iron Curtain. Is America now to assist in the reversal of that event in a bootless endeavor to secure Russia’s “cooperation” on Iran — when by the senator’s account Russia has no independent interest in such cooperation?

Aside from the removal of Iran’s nuclear weapons capacity by military means, antimissile defense offers the only hope of staving off Mr. Ahmadenijad’s nuclear blackmail. As for Sen. Schumer’s dismissal of the cost of bribing the Russians to cooperate by comparing it to the cost of fighting the Iraq war: What ever happened to the honorable slogan worthy of a great nation, “Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute”?

David Lewis Schaefer
Professor of Political Science
College of the Holy Cross
Worcester, Mass.

Close but No Cigar!

Tired of High Gas Prices?

I had an idea. American Indian tribes are exempt from State and Federal taxes. That’s why they sell cigarettes at a lower price. They are not paying sales tax or tobacco tax.

Well, why can’t they sell gasoline?

Just eliminating the sales tax on $4.00 gasoline would lower the price 24 cents to 30 cents a gallon. That is significant.

What if they could eliminate the Federal gas taxes as well? Now, we are talking about a substantial reduction!

We know our elected representatives are not going to repeal the gas taxes. Maybe we can do it ourselves.

Contact your local tribal council and ask for the business manager. Give him this idea and see what he thinks about it.

I think it is very important that the tribe charge a normal markup. Charging an excessive profit would negate any goodwill that could be built. Eliminating any tax that the tribe is exempt from paying will do the trick. The tribe could build tremendous goodwill in the community and provide money for the tribe that does not come from our taxes.

Spread the word. Let’s see what can happen!

How Long Do We Have?

About the time our original thirteen States adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh , had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:

“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.”

“A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.”

“From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.”

“The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years”

“During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:

1. From bondage to spiritual faith;

2. From spiritual faith to great courage;

3. From courage to liberty;

4. From liberty to abundance;

5. From abundance to complacency;

6. From complacency to apathy;

7. From apathy to dependence;

8. From dependence back into bondage”

Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:

Number of States won by: Democrats: 19 – Republicans: 29

Square miles of land won by: Democrats: 580,000 – Republicans: 2,427,000

Population of counties won by: Democrats: 127 million – Republicans: 143 million

Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Democrats: 13.2 – Republicans: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: “In aggregate, the map of the territory Republican won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country. Democrat territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare…” Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the “complacency and apathy” phase of Professor Tyler’s definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation’s population already having reached the “governmental dependency” phase.

If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal’s and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.

Everyone must realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.

We Live In The Land Of The Free, Only Because Of The Brave!