Waxman sneaks anti-vitamin amendment in 2 Wall St reform bill

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Congressman Waxman

sneaks anti-vitamin amendment into Wall Street reform bill

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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_h…

 

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.

 

 

A d v e r t i s e m e n t

 

 

 

 

 

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.â€

 

 

Your help is urgently needed to halt

this madness

 

Join NaturalNews.com and the Alliance

for Natural Health to protest 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.

 

Click here to sign the

online petition now.

 

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.

Read their announcement and call to action on this bill right here: http://www.anh-usa.org/congressman-…

 

Your help is urgently needed. I don’t send

out a lot of “urgent call to action†articles and emails, but this is

one that definitely demands our collective attention. Please call,

fax or email your representatives in Washington and strongly

voice your opposition to any expansion of powers of the FTC over

dietary supplements.

 

 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.â€

 

 

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 this YouTube interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbJS…

 

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

(http://www.amazon.com/Global-Censor…). The book exposes the truth behind what Emord calls state-sponsored

drug monopolies.

 

Click here to protect

your health freedom now.

 

P.S. For your amusement, did you know that

Henry Waxman looks exactly like Admiral Ackbar from

the Star Wars motion pictures? See for yourself: http://totallylookslike.files.wordp…