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First Health Care, Next the Food Supply
The American Thinker ^ | November 17, 2010 | Michael Geer

Posted on 11/17/2010 2:09:17 AM PST by Scanian

Just because the duck is lame doesn't mean it can't still do terrible damage to American freedom. Our new Congress, especially the new House, isn't yet seated, and this current Congress can still wreak terrible havoc on our rights if not stopped.

Case in point: Senate Bill 510, believed to be coming to the floor Wednesday, November 17 (pending). This is the food safety version of ObamaCare. Reading the thing will make your head hurt for all its cognitive dissonance. Trying to winnow out its complexity and hidden empowerments is stultifying.

Introduced by Dick Durbin of Illinois, the bill has moved through the usual phases of amalgamation and deal-making. The monstrosity advancing to the floor on Wednesday is not so much "food safety" as it is the decadence of the rights of small farmers, hobbyist food producers, garden-variety farmers markets, and your average small producer of foodstuffs. Under the rubric of safety, this Senate proposes a bill that establishes such new and sweeping powers over how you and I produce and consume foodstuffs that even the Pew Charitable Trusts are calling S510 a clear and present danger. National Health Freedom says,

"It is a dangerously broad regulatory bill giving extensive discretionary power to the FDA over the entire food supply chain without proper checks and balances to avoid abuse of power;

"It would impose one-size-fits-all-regulations on thousands of small and mid-sized farmers, small-scale local farms and food producers, and would drastically burden, to extinction, basic natural and organic food suppliers, thus endangering the lives of Americans who depend on local wholesome foods..."

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


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KEYWORDS: codex; dickdurbin; food; foodsafety; geneticallyaltered; gmo; lameduck; notfoodsafety; senatebill510
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To: eCSMaster

Then they need to vote no and revisit earmarks in January, right?


41 posted on 11/17/2010 4:22:05 AM PST by Nickname
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To: eCSMaster

Also, they have tried that rider trick before and the public caught onto the scam.

People pay a helluva lot more attention now than they used to...the tricks need to be brought out into the open and there will be heavy blowback.


42 posted on 11/17/2010 4:24:49 AM PST by Scanian
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To: Scanian

They will wait until we are out Christmas shopping to do the balance of dirty work...hoping that we are not paying attention.


43 posted on 11/17/2010 4:25:07 AM PST by elephant
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To: Scanian

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2628432/posts?page=12#12

Under S.B. 510’s House counterpart bill, H.R. 2749 (Section 133b, “Authority to Prohibit or Restrict the Movement of Food”), sponsored by Congressman Dingell, the Secretary of Health and Human Services will have the power to prohibit all movement of all food within a geographic area.

12 posted on Wed Nov 17 06:38:33 2010 by Java4Jay

. . .

And I think this is the House vote:

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll680.xml

. . .

But it still has to go back to the House for reconciliation, right? And can it be stopped there?


44 posted on 11/17/2010 4:25:20 AM PST by Nickname
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To: Scanian; onyx; STARWISE; holdonnow; Dog; maggief; Liz; hoosiermama; penelopesire; NautiNurse

I’ve sent this to Rush and Drudge. We need to bombard them with this info. I’ll be calling my senator’s offices this morning. I’ll be damned if ANYONE is going to mess with my vegetable garden. ON MY PROPERTY. Liberty and property are so intertwined - we mustn’t allow them to go any further.


45 posted on 11/17/2010 4:27:40 AM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: Red_Devil 232

Thanks for the ping RD.

This is disgusting! >:-(


46 posted on 11/17/2010 4:29:28 AM PST by sneakers
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To: SE Mom

Great!

Moreover, there is no doubt in my mind that Rush’s staff lurks here. Maybe Rush himself, if he has the time.

And there are other hosts who do the same.

We can get them foaming at the mouth about this if we play it right.


47 posted on 11/17/2010 4:36:28 AM PST by Scanian
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To: SE Mom

BTW....

Never forget that most government employees can barely control their own BM’s let alone “control” our private activities.

There are just too many of us and not enough of them. What they want is the Capability and the Legal Right to do it-—so they can take aim selectively at individuals and groups that they don’t like.

You can see such bias in the Justice Dept.


48 posted on 11/17/2010 4:40:03 AM PST by Scanian
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To: Nickname

The trick has to be stalling it for 6 1/2 weeks.

Making a big enough stink might do it.

This is exactly the kind of stealthy crap that has made Congress so hated by the public and cost the Dems 60+ seats.


49 posted on 11/17/2010 4:42:26 AM PST by Scanian
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To: SE Mom; LucyT; mojitojoe; null and void; Nachum; kristinn; TommyDale; Protect the Bill of Rights

ACTION ALERT ping!


50 posted on 11/17/2010 4:44:51 AM PST by maggief
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To: Scanian
Time to hit the phones again and let our senators think about such freedom-hating legislation.

Agreed yet I am met with supreme discouragement. One of our two Senators (Rat) resigned and will be replaced by a Republican conservative. The other one does not respond and will probably be trounced in 2012 so is not concerned with the will of the people. What to do? Phone calls and letters had no effect regarding Obamacare and surely will not affect their vote on this.

51 posted on 11/17/2010 4:44:56 AM PST by Lion Den Dan
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To: Scanian

The problem, as I see it: Everybody says they will resist when the govt actually comes to their doorstep.
Maybe they will resist. Maybe not.
But that’ll be too late.
“Molon labe” sounds real brave and noble, but it’s becoming the battle cry of the complacent. They think the odds are on their side, and the battle will never get around to their doorstep.
Uncle Sam is a dead man walking. If you’re not resisting yet, with all the examples of tyranny to be seen, you’re not ever going to resist.
And you know if you do, the 0bama administration is seriously arguing that the govt should be able to kill you at its sole discretion. Referenced here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2627736/posts


52 posted on 11/17/2010 4:47:06 AM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (Starve the beast. Save the liver!)
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To: Lion Den Dan

How about the House? There seems to be a House version that passed but there needs to be reconciliation (apparently-—a lot unclear about this.)

If you have a decent rep or even a dirtbag lib, let them hear your mouth.

Can’t hurt.


53 posted on 11/17/2010 4:47:43 AM PST by Scanian
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To: Scanian


"Public officials should not be chosen
if they are lacking in experience, training,
proven virtue, and demonstrated wisdom.
"
        Sam Adams


54 posted on 11/17/2010 5:04:13 AM PST by Diogenesis ('Freedom is the light of all sentient beings.' - Optimus Prime)
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To: dynachrome; cripplecreek

Please ping the INFIDELS and COMRADES!


55 posted on 11/17/2010 5:07:54 AM PST by rockabyebaby (We are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo screwed!)
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To: Diogenesis

We’re going off the rails on 0’s Crazy Train!


56 posted on 11/17/2010 5:07:56 AM PST by Scanian
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To: Lion Den Dan

You could call Orrin Hatch’s office. I think he’s getting nervous about 2012.

Let him know that 2010 was just round one and that you’ll donate time making remote calls and financial resources to his primary opponent should he vote for this bill.


57 posted on 11/17/2010 5:12:55 AM PST by Nickname
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To: Scanian

I thought this passed the house in May?


58 posted on 11/17/2010 5:17:17 AM PST by EBH ( Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter's stomach, is an absolute.)
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To: Scanian

If this passes, for the first time in my life I’ll grow a garden.

I double-dog DARE them to try to stop me!


59 posted on 11/17/2010 5:23:05 AM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: Scanian
They have already admitted that killing off the old and infirm “would help the economy”. What better way to do that than a famine?

Of course, the GOP will dutifully side with them in the spirit of non partisanship.

60 posted on 11/17/2010 5:23:37 AM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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