Posted on 05/01/2010 8:31:43 AM PDT by truthfinder9
Mike Adams Natural News April 30, 2010
Of all the sneaky tactics practiced in Washington D.C., this recent action by Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA) is one of the most insidious: While no one was looking, he injected amendment language into the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009 (H.R. 4173) that would expand the powers of the FTC (not the FDA, but the FTC) to terrorize nutritional supplement companies by greatly expanding the power of the FTC to make its own laws that target dietary supplement companies.
Congressman Henry Waxman wants to give the FTC even more powers by allowing the FTC to write its own laws without Congressional approval.
This is a little-known secret about the FTC and the nutritional supplements business: The FTC routinely targets nutritional supplement companies that are merely telling the truth about their products. Some companies are threatened by merely linking to published scientific studies about their products.
For example, here’s an important article that describes how to FDA criminally extorts money out of supplement companies: http://www.naturalnews.com/024567_health_the_FDA_websites.html .
The FTC does much the same thing. They target a particular company that’s having success in the natural products marketplace, then they accuse that company of “inferring” that their products have some health benefit. From there, the FTC demands that the company engage in paying a massive fine to the FTC, which the FTC calls “consumer redress” even though none of the money actually goes to the consumers.
If you try to fight the FTC, they haul you into their own special “FTC courts” which are not public courts where you have the benefit of a jury, but rather they are courts where the judges are actually FTC employees and you have no rights. You are essentially guilty until proven innocent, and virtually no one has been found innocent by the FTC.
If the King says you’re guilty, then you’re guilty
The FTC also forces you to sign a “consent decree” which involves you admitting to committing crimes that you have actually never committed. These crimes include the “criminal misrepresentation of a product” by, for example, explaining that walnuts help support healthy cholesterol levels or that cherries ease symptoms of inflammation.
Using these methods, the FTC has extorted tens of millions of dollars out of nutritional supplement companies. More importantly, it has terrorized the industry and put several companies out of business, denying the American public access to products that could improve their health and prevent disease.
Waxman wants the FTC to have even more power over your vitamins
Now Congressman Henry Waxman wants to give the FTC even more powers by allowing the FTC to write its own laws without Congressional approval. This would allow a rogue agency to simply invent any new law it wants, such as requiring nutritional supplement companies to spend hundreds of millions of dollars “proving” the efficacy of a vitamin before they can sell it.
This will allow the FTC to utterly circumvent DSHEA — the law passed in 1994 that provides basic protections to vitamin and supplement manufacturers. This will result in an FTC war on vitamins and supplements that would no doubt see this rogue agency attempting to destroy the entire industry and imprison the founders and executives of all the top supplement manufacturers.
This is how bad things have become in America today: The criminal CEOs of drug companies are allowed to commit felony crimes, engage in routine price fixing fraud and fix their research with fraudulent clinical trials, yet the FTC and FDA do nothing. But when an honest nutritional supplement company says something like, “Walnuts are good for your heart,” they get threatened with imprisonment or have their entire life savings stolen away from them by the FTC through a series of “fines.”
NaturalNews.com and the Alliance for Natural Health are protesting this deceptive action by Henry Waxman — a lifelong opponent of natural medicine who is trying to covertly inject this expansion of FTC powers into the Finance Reform Bill.
This petition is being organized by the Alliance for Natural Health (http://www.anh-usa.org), a health freedom organization we strongly support here at NaturalNews.
The FTC is already a loose cannon. We don’t want to now hand it nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire industry.
Protect your health freedoms or you will lose them! The U.S. Congress is literally just one vote away from granting the FTC dangerous new powers to destroy the natural products industry. A vote could take place as early as this weekend.
Attorney Jonathan Emord had this to say about this issue:
“The provision removing the ban on FTC rulemaking without Congressional preapproval contained in H.R. 4173 invites the very same irresponsible over-regulation of the commercial marketplace that led Congress to enact the ban in the 1980s. FTC has no shortage of power to regulate deceptive advertising; this bill gives it far more discretionary power than it needs, inviting greater abuse and mischief from an agency that suffers virtually no check on its discretion.”
You need to see this video I interviewed Jonathan Emord recently at the Health Freedom Expo in California. Watch Jonathan talk about global censorship of health freedom in the YouTube interview.
I know the audio quality is a little poor (we were at the Health Freedom Expo, and there’s a lot of background noise), but Jonathan Emord’s words are so important for you to hear that I wanted to share this video with you anyway.
Jonathan Emord is also the author of an important new book called Global Censorship of Health Information. The book exposes the truth behind what Emord calls state-sponsored drug monopolies.
An authoritarian socialist in the White House brings out all that’s worst in our home-grown petty tyrants.
I do NOT WANT unelected people making LAW. Period. Doesn’t our constitution have something to say about that? Appointed jerks given this kind of power, to make law and collect ransom? And WHO IS ACCOUNTABLE for where this ransom money goes? Does it go to the treasury? To the coffers of Waxman’s campaign fund? Where?
is wax just nuts or on something
All these bigger and ever more powerful agencies are just the Democrats’ way of creating jobs. More mindless robots hired to become more mindless bureaucrats. Bloated Washington, D.C. expands. The rest of us die.
Old pig-snout face
Once Obama Care takes effect denial of procedures and medicines will be common place, this will cause people to turn to alternative approaches and to thier utter suprise, they will work and word will spread. Big Pharma cannot have this, they know it’s coming, they have to AND EVENTUALLY will ban all natural supplements with the next two years. You will not be able to buy vitamin C tablets without a prescription (just an example but true, it’s already going on in Europe).
I’ve said this before, Big Pharma is pushing extremely hard to have all supplements outlawed. The are trying to use the FDA and now even the FTC. These congressman, on both sides, remember McCain proposed the last bill two months ago that would have basically eliminated natural supplements from the market, are bought and paid for.
The reason is simple, people are discovering more and more than real health comes from supplements and natural things not toxic big pharma nonsense.
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Is he the Mayor of Whoville?
Absolutely a brilliant picture.
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Of all the sneaky tactics practiced in Washington D.C., this recent action by Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA) is one of the most insidious: While no one was looking, he injected amendment language into the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009 (H.R. 4173) that would expand the powers of the FTC (not the FDA, but the FTC) to terrorize nutritional supplement companies by greatly expanding the power of the FTC to make its own laws that target dietary supplement companies. “
This wreaks of McCain’s ‘reaching across the isle’.
A few weeks ago McCain introduced a bill to do just what is described above, then pulled out of it when he got some heat. (It’s an election year, don’t ya know!)
Senator John McCain proposes unbridled FDA control over dietary supplements
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2461069/posts
AZ-Sen. 2010: Hatch, McCain reach (bipartisan) agreement on dietary supplements (FLIP FLOP ALERT)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2468947/posts
The National Socialist Party is trying to take away even more of our freedoms.
It’s all about government control over people.
I think you are right. I halfway expect the next thing they’ll target are the QiGong, yoga, etc. methods of maintaining fairly good health with no drugs or supplements involved. China did it with a form of QiGong called Falun Gong—imprisoned and sometimes killed practitioners.
I don’t like all this regulation, but I kind of feel that this is to some extent ‘chickens coming home to roost’.
I know someone who has consistently supported ‘health care reform’, and would like to see physicians and medicine ‘controlled’ by the government. This person makes a living by selling relatively expensive supplements and telling everyone how much better they are than what you can buy at the store. The claims are just not true. I’d love to see how they feel now that their own democratic party is passing legislation that could negatively effect their personal livelihood, instead of someone else.
Actually, pure cherry extract has helped my gout inflammation.
Crap! I'm probably gonna get fined now or sumpin'.
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