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Historically, the ruling elite have ALWAYS tried to foist unpopular legislative

measures through congress during the SUMMER when the largest possible number of

people are on vacation and spending more time outdoors, not paying attention to

what is going on right under their noses.

 

This summer is certainly no exception. Don't expect me to save you from whats

going on, I'm just one person. I need ALL of you to get far more actively

involved in this effort by taking action, by doing public speaking, by mass

forwarding this alert.

 

PLEASE REDOUBLE your efforts to educate your fellow vitamin consumers to the

immense threat posed by CAFTA (Central American Free Trade Agreement) to our

future access to dietary supplements and to the ongoing existence of our country

which will be plunged into a hemispheric equivalent to the EU Dictatorship if we

sit idly by and LET this happen.

 

WHAT JUST HAPPENED IN WASHINGTON

 

At the Senate Finance Committee hearing that I just attended in Washington,

Senator Conrad from North Dakota held up a huge chart showing our $617 Billion

trade deficit. We're witnessing a NAKED EFFORT to crush the dollar, to DESTROY

our country and we can't sit idly by and just LET it happen- but it WILL if we

just sit on our hands because we must OFFSET the power wielded over our elected

officials by multinational PAC donations- and we can ONLY do that by speaking

out.... LOUDLY, and IMMEDIATELY! It sickens me that both the Senate and House

passed CAFTA out of committee given that it obvioiusly extends the failed

policies of NAFTA, but our reality is that they HAVE.

 

We can't let our country be turned into a mere SECTOR of a global dictatorship

much as is happening to the UK as its being subsumed deeper and deeper into the

morass of the EU. Read Conrad's testimony, but keep in mind that what he's

saying about the threat posed to the sugar beet growers in his state extends to

ALL of us as more and more jobs are being outsourced to the third world:

http://conrad.senate.gov/~conrad/releases/05/06/2005607946.html Our

manufacturing and agricultural bases are being destroyed. We can't let this

continue.

 

The Rockefellers have made it very clear that they intend to FORCE the creation

of a carbon copy of the EU Dictatorship in our hemisphere via CAFTA and FTAA,

and its up to US to STOP THEM!! They've made their intentions clear via their

book

INTEGRATING THE AMERICAS- THE FTAA & BEYOND

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0674014847/qid=1119119562/sr=2-1/ref=pd_b\

bs_b_2_1/002-1531051-4622459

 

 

CAFTA WAS VOTED OUT OF COMMITTEE IN BOTH SENATE & HOUSE LAST WEEK

 

Last week, despite our best efforts which included my hand delivering an the

info sheet expressing our concerns to every member of the Senate and meeting

with as many as I could, on Monday the Senate Finance Committee passed CAFTA out

of Committee, and on Wednesday it made it through the House Ways and Means

Committee.

 

The text as deliberated in committee now returns to the President who makes

changes which reflect concerns expressed in the markup hearings which just took

place. This means that sometime later this month or in July we can expect a vote

to take place on the House and Senate floors in which the allowed numbers of

hours of debate will be strictly limited by Fast Track rules, and they'll have

to vote it up or down.

 

Fast track rules limitting the number of hours of debate make it challenging to

kill trade agreements such as this, and its going to take a huge amount of very

hard work on all of our parts if our concerns will even be ADDRESSED in the

debate.

 

 

NOT EVEN HATCH OR HARKIN ARE HELPING US

 

Not even Senators Hatch or Harkin are focused on the threat lurking in the form

of the SPS (Sanitary Phytosanitary Measures) language buried deep inside this

trade agreement which would force harmonization of our dietary supplement laws

to restrictive emerging Codex vitamin standards. When I was in Washington,

although I tried, I was unable to get appointments with their aides to discuss

this concern, and we're going to just have to keep trying.

 

The SPS Agreement is part of the WTO Trade Agreement, and we're more firmly

bound to it via SPS language contained simultaneously in NAFTA, CAFTA, and FTAA.

Passage of CAFTA and FTAA would broaden and deepen its scope, roping us in.

 

 

(see http://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/15sps_01_e.htm#ArticleIII)

 

Article 3 of the SPS Agreement reads:

 

" To harmonize sanitary and phytosanitary measures on as wide a basis as

possible, Members SHALL base their food safety measures on international

standards, guidelines or recommendations. "

 

(Codex sets the international standards for Food Safety including vitamins &

minerals, soon to be expanded to include the full spectrum of other supplements)

 

Then see the applicable text in CAFTA on SPS:

http://www.ustr.gov/Trade_Agreements/Bilateral/CAFTA/CAFTA-DR_Final_Texts/Sectio\

n_Index.html

Section 6: CAFTA requires members to form an SPS Committee for the purpose of

insuring ongoing harmonization under the terms of the SPS Agreement in the WTO.

 

 

WHAT YOU CAN DO

 

By Monday I will have gotten a new alert on the Consumer Alerts section of Life

Extension Foundation's website http://www.lef.org LEF has something called

" Capital Advantage " which facilitates the sending of form letters to members of

Congress with one mouse click.

 

I'll have a new set of directions on their site by then to replace the

instructions their currently which were intended to impact the markup hearing in

the Senate that just took place.

 

If you'd like to utilize a form letter immediately, you can take the one below,

and fax or email it to members of Congress, getting their contact info from

http://www.house.gov and http://www.senate.gov

 

Kill CAFTA For the Following Reasons

Senators____________________________

 

And Congressman ______________________________

 

I Urge Your Opposition to CAFTA for the following reasons:

 

The WTO, NAFTA, CAFTA and FTAA trade agreements all contain the SPS (Sanitary

Phytosanitary Measures) agreement. Article 3 of SPS states:

 

" To harmonize sanitary and phytosanitary measures on as wide a basis as

possible, Members SHALL base their food safety measures on international

standards, guidelines or recommendations. "

 

This makes the supposedly voluntary Codex Alimentarius standard for vitamins and

minerals MANDATORY for all WTO member nations.

 

Passage of CAFTA and FTAA would broaden and deepen the scope of the SPS

agreement, forcing harmonization of not only our dietary supplement laws to

mindless international standards, but it would lead to the creation of a

supranational body similar to the EU in our hemisphere, and we oppose this clear

threat to US sovereignty.

 

When the draft text of CAFTA was first made available on January 28th, 2004 the

Governors of all 50 States discovered that they were bound by the 2,400 page

agreement- being specifically listed in chapter 9. A third have since rescinded

their support of CAFTA.

 

Last fall, a WTO tribunal outlawed Utah's ban on gambling, opening the door to

millions of dollars in penalties against all states with anti-gambling

restrictions. Antigua had charged that Utah's ban on gambling violated America's

obligation not to discriminate against foreigners providing recreational

services.

 

CAFTA includes hundreds of pages of grants of vague authority to foreign

tribunals. It wouldn't take long for an activist foreign judge to read his own

interpretation into language such as the SPS agreement and force changes to US

laws including the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act.

 

In addition to these concerns, NAFTA never lived up to the numerous promises

made about it, and our Trade Deficit is worse now than ever, contributing to the

weakening of the dollar. There is no reason to expect CAFTA or FTAA do anything

more than to FURTHER this negative trend, and lead to the destruction of our

nation, and our economy.

 

WTO tribunals have ruled against the USA in 42 out of 48 cases, many of which

were very costly to our economy. Since joining the advent of NAFTA, our trade

deficit has ballooned to $617 Billion. CAFTA continues this failed policy,

threatening to destroy our country. I therefore ask you to vote NO on CAFTA and

on FTAA.

 

Signed________________________________

 

Address__

 

City_________________________________State____Zip____________

 

 

For Health Freedom,

John C. Hammell, President

International Advocates for Health Freedom

556 Boundary Bay Road

Point Roberts, WA 98281-8702 USA

http://www.iahf.com

jham

800-333-2553 N.America

360-945-0352 World

 

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