Corporate Avenger
10-10-2001, 05:45 AM
Americans were once vigilant protectors of liberty, but then life became stressful and confusing and we weren’t sure who we were any more, so we let others speak for us. We yawned in front of TVs when talk of “globalization and harmonization” replaced calls for “global harmony.” We watched from overstuffed couches as multinational corporations began taking over global markets. We were so sure that American citizens were safe from outside intrusion that we dozed while our leaders signed Mutual Recognition Agreements as part of GATT and NAFTA, thereby giving up America’s right to refuse to “harmonize” with international safety standards. The news filled our TV screens, but not our consciousness.
Now we may lose access to vitamins even though the Dietary Supplement Health & Education Act of 1994 was supposed to secure our right forever. You see, while we slept, supplements became a global issue and un-elected U.S. bureaucrats signaled to the world that Americans were willing to “harmonize” U.S. supplement laws to conform to restrictive international standards.
Our problem began years ago when the U.N. authorized the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization to develop a universal food code, “Codex Alimentarius.” The Codex Commission came under the influence of the pharmaceutical cartel and instead of focusing on food safety, it used its power to promote worldwide restrictions on vitamins. Meanwhile our U.S. Codex Delegation not only stood by, but made matters worse. In Bonn in 1996, for instance, Dr. Yetley of our FDA illegally seconded a motion to shift deliberations on herbs out of Codex, where at least they were considered foods (consistent with US law), to a secret panel at WHO that treats herbs as drugs, leaving them open to “prescription only” status.
Now multinational interests are pressuring our federal agencies to impose “Upper Limits” on vitamins. If our government succumbs and sets these arbitrary safety standards, we will lose our right to opt out of Codex because we will have in effect agreed that this is a safety issue.
Codex cannot control us directly. Statute 19USC 3512 safeguards our domestic laws from outside interference by stopping anyone from forcing us to conform to standards that conflict with existing U.S. law unless Congress consents. Unfortunately, Codex can circumvent this law because if we refuse to harmonize, the World Trade Organization’s Dispute Settlement Body can impose crippling trade sanctions on numerous industries unrelated to supplements. This immense pressure would force Congress to change our laws. In fact, Congress has already “harmonized” under threat of WTO sanctions and this Achilles Heel is why Rep. Ron Paul introduced the American Sovereignty Restoration Act (HR 1146) to pull us out of the UN.
Americans are citizens of the world and we have defended the rights of others in global forums. Now we must defend ourselves as we witness the erosion of our own freedom. When we see powerful players forcing our leaders to act in ways that threaten the rights that Americans have historically died to preserve, we must remind them of their duty to safeguard our way of life. If we do not raise our voices above the clamor of multinational commercial interests, we will be silenced forever. Then, who will speak for freedom?
SIGN OUR PETITION http://garynull.com/asp/Petition.asp View Codex File
Thomas Jefferson and Dr. Benjamin Rush, George Washington's personal physician & a signer of the Declaration of Independence, both foresaw that the government might attempt to control medicine:
"Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an underground dictatorship... To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic and have no place in a republic... The Constitution of this republic should make special privilege for medical freedom as well as religious freedom."--Dr Benjamin Rush
"If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls who live under tyranny."--Thomas Jefferson
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When the government fears the people, you have liberty. When the people fear the government, you have tyranny." --Thomas Jefferson
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Red 86 GT
"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism, because it is a merger of State and corporate power."
Benito "Il Duce" Mussolini
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the first"
Albert Einstein
Now we may lose access to vitamins even though the Dietary Supplement Health & Education Act of 1994 was supposed to secure our right forever. You see, while we slept, supplements became a global issue and un-elected U.S. bureaucrats signaled to the world that Americans were willing to “harmonize” U.S. supplement laws to conform to restrictive international standards.
Our problem began years ago when the U.N. authorized the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization to develop a universal food code, “Codex Alimentarius.” The Codex Commission came under the influence of the pharmaceutical cartel and instead of focusing on food safety, it used its power to promote worldwide restrictions on vitamins. Meanwhile our U.S. Codex Delegation not only stood by, but made matters worse. In Bonn in 1996, for instance, Dr. Yetley of our FDA illegally seconded a motion to shift deliberations on herbs out of Codex, where at least they were considered foods (consistent with US law), to a secret panel at WHO that treats herbs as drugs, leaving them open to “prescription only” status.
Now multinational interests are pressuring our federal agencies to impose “Upper Limits” on vitamins. If our government succumbs and sets these arbitrary safety standards, we will lose our right to opt out of Codex because we will have in effect agreed that this is a safety issue.
Codex cannot control us directly. Statute 19USC 3512 safeguards our domestic laws from outside interference by stopping anyone from forcing us to conform to standards that conflict with existing U.S. law unless Congress consents. Unfortunately, Codex can circumvent this law because if we refuse to harmonize, the World Trade Organization’s Dispute Settlement Body can impose crippling trade sanctions on numerous industries unrelated to supplements. This immense pressure would force Congress to change our laws. In fact, Congress has already “harmonized” under threat of WTO sanctions and this Achilles Heel is why Rep. Ron Paul introduced the American Sovereignty Restoration Act (HR 1146) to pull us out of the UN.
Americans are citizens of the world and we have defended the rights of others in global forums. Now we must defend ourselves as we witness the erosion of our own freedom. When we see powerful players forcing our leaders to act in ways that threaten the rights that Americans have historically died to preserve, we must remind them of their duty to safeguard our way of life. If we do not raise our voices above the clamor of multinational commercial interests, we will be silenced forever. Then, who will speak for freedom?
SIGN OUR PETITION http://garynull.com/asp/Petition.asp View Codex File
Thomas Jefferson and Dr. Benjamin Rush, George Washington's personal physician & a signer of the Declaration of Independence, both foresaw that the government might attempt to control medicine:
"Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an underground dictatorship... To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic and have no place in a republic... The Constitution of this republic should make special privilege for medical freedom as well as religious freedom."--Dr Benjamin Rush
"If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls who live under tyranny."--Thomas Jefferson
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When the government fears the people, you have liberty. When the people fear the government, you have tyranny." --Thomas Jefferson
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Red 86 GT
"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism, because it is a merger of State and corporate power."
Benito "Il Duce" Mussolini
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the first"
Albert Einstein