FW: URGENT ! Most Recent CAFTA/CODEX Info URGENT !

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How much should I really care about something...

If it is true what a great civil and human rights leader once said, that our

lives begin to end the moment we become silent about things that matter and

freedom has already begun to atrophy because of our inaction. Then slowly our

sovereign rights will fade away as surely as the ink on an old declaration is

removed by time, and the pursuit of happiness, the promise of equality, of

personnel choice are surely chipped away by complacency and over time will

become barely visible in the world around us.

 

Is this America? More importantly, is this the America you want for your

children?

 

Please write your House of Representatives right now to stop CAFTA. This is

urgent. CAFTA is being silently pushed thru by the Bush administration right

now. It's bad for America and American workers, but it also serves to

immediately threaten your access to ALL minerals, vitamins, and food supplements

and I truly mean ALL minerals, vitamins, and food supplements. CAFTA has among

other problems reminiscent of NAFTA the power to threaten your legal access to

all forms of alternative medicine as well. Please read thru this lengthy email

as best as you can to come up to speed on this issue. Right now our entire

government seems to be turning against the people of this great nation in a

media quiet support of this destructive piece of legislation. Use the web site

below to write your congressional representative right now and use the proposed

letter below to make your voice heard. Thank you for your support and attention

and please pass this on as far as possible.

 

http://www.house.gov/writerep/

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Dear Congressman______________________

 

 

In 1994 vitamin consumers generated the largest volume of mail to Congress on

any issue in the HISTORY of Congress when we passed the Dietary Supplement

Health and Education Act of 1994.

 

Today, CAFTA threatens to undo all of our hard work, and to set the USA up for

harmonization to an excessively restrictive global trade guideline for vitamins

and minerals just finalized on July 4th 2005 at the 28 General Session of the

UN's Codex Alimentarius Commission.

 

The seeds of our health freedom destruction are sewn inside Section 6 of CAFTA

where members are forced to form a Sanitary-Phytosanitary Measures (SPS)

Committee for the purpose of insuring ONGOING HARMONIZATION of our laws under

the terms of the SPS Agreement in the WTO Trade Agreement. (See

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

n_Index.html

 

If you examine Article 3 of the WTO's SPS Agreement you will read the following

words: " 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 standard for food safety, and they intend to fill

in the blanks on allowed potencies at levels even LOWER than RDAs- see

http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/_docs/ANHWebsiteDoc_145.doc

 

Vitamin consumers drove many congressmen out of office who failed to vote for

DSHEA in '94.

Any member of Congress who fails to heed our concerns about CAFTA and votes for

this unconstitutional trade agreement anyway, despite how it sets us up for

harmonization to Codex, and despite its continuing the failed policies of NAFTA

which gave us our present $617 Billion trade deficit risks being driven from

office. IAHF will be posting a list of any member of Congress who ignores our

concerns. We urge you to watch Kevin Miller's excellent documentary on this

issue at http://www.welltv.com

 

Signed____________________

Address____________________________

 

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Also you can view this movie on the serious problem the Bush administration is

trying to sneak by us

http://iahf.com/wbs-weba.mp4

 

Or you can read whats below...

 

We have a lame duck President in his final term who can't run for reelection and

he's awash in Pharma PAC $$$ we have virtually no influence at CODEX, yet have

FAR MORE influence at CONGRESS. We may not be ABLE to stop CODEX, but we CAN

keep it from coming HERE. Please check out this website

http://choiceamericanetwork.blog.com/235753/, if you haven't, in addition to the

following e-mail. It may actually take a while to get in as I think the powers

that be are trying to jam or limit who sees this information. Thanks to all of

you who are taking action and are passing this information along.

 

 

 

Becky Gibbons

 

becky

 

 

 

 

CAFTA is NAFTA on steroids! " That's how one experienced trade attorney

describes the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA).

 

 

 

And CAFTA is on the move. This morning, the U.S. Senate Finance Committee

endorsed CAFTA, sending it to the full Senate for a vote which will likely take

place in two days. The vote will be close, but pro-CAFTA forces believe they

have enough votes to get it passed by the Senate. If they do, they will claim

" momentum " and get the U.S. House to vote on it soon thereafter.

 

 

 

The pro-CAFTA forces aren't really for true free trade. They are for global

managed trade...because that is what CAFTA (like NAFTA) really is. Think about

it. Why does it take over 1,000 pages to define free trade?

 

 

 

We've had over 10 years of NAFTA so we should know what to expect with CAFTA.

Again, " CAFTA is NAFTA on steroids! "

 

 

 

CAFTA fits hand-in-glove with the world-government agenda to make the U.S. just

another client state. How?

 

 

 

Consider: CAFTA article 10.16.3 places the United States under the jurisdiction

of international tribunals supervised by the United Nations.

 

 

 

Consider: CAFTA article 10.5.2(a) states that these international tribunals

must use " customary international law " as established by the " principle legal

systems of the world " when deciding cases.

 

 

 

Welcome to the United Nations' world court system!

 

 

 

And then there's the unconstitutional granting of " fast track " authority to the

president. Article I, section 8, clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution gives

Congress the sole authority to regulate international trade. But CAFTA, like

NAFTA, treats the U.S. Constitution as a relic.

 

 

 

We already suffer from the World Trade Organization and its international

bureaucrats. CAFTA will add another layer of unaccountable world elites who

will tell us what we can and cannot do.

 

 

 

Even the French understand the critical importance of national sovereignty.

They recently rejected the proposed constitution of the European Union.

Remember that the E.U. started as a trade agreement in 1957, and now it is a

regional supra government.

 

 

 

NAFTA. CAFTA. And then the Union of the Americas.

 

 

CODEX TEXT APPROVED IN ROME JULY 4, 2005

 

THE ONLY WAY TO STOP CODEX IN THE USA IS TO TAKE ACTION NOW AND STOP CAFTA

 

 

The nightmare scenario which IAHF first warned the world about in 1996 came true

today at the 28th General Session of the Codex Alimentarius when the global

trade guideline for vitamins and minerals was RATIFIED (with nary a whimper of

protest from US Codex Manager Dr.Ed Scarbrough, our traitorous delegate.) (See

Press Release below my comments by Diane Miller who is in Rome.)

 

 

SEE WHAT TO DO BELOW: WE MUST KILL CAFTA TO STOP CODEX FROM COMING HERE:

 

 

THE SHELL GAME CONTINUES------> CODEX RATIFIED AN EMPTY SHELL

 

 

What Codex ratified was a FRAMEWORK with the blanks on allowable potencies to be

filled in next November at the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for

Special Dietary Use Meeting in Bonn.

 

 

How they intend to fill in those blanks, however, is highly predictable given

that the World Health Organization's " Nutrient Risk Assessment Project " is being

" led " by an FDA employee: Christine Lewis Taylor, a dietician who firmly

believes that taking any nutrient above RDA levels merely " enriches the urine. "

 

 

The Pharma Dominated vitamin trade associations have conned their vitamin

company and health food store members into thinking that " SOUND SCIENCE " would

be used to fill in the blanks on allowable potencies, and that a " victory " was

won when a move to scrap RDAs as the basis for filling in the blanks was

replaced by a move to base them on " scientific " risk assessment instead.

 

(See CRN Press Release http://www.crnusa.org/PR04_110204jointCodex.html)

 

 

But just how " scientific " is it in FACT when they're only looking at presumed

" RISKS " while ignoring BENEFITS? The Pharma Dominated trade associations have

conned their members into believing that the END POINT of the Codex risk

assessment would be the " SUL " S or " Safe Upper Levels " generated by the US

National Academy of Sciences. These numbers aren't much different from the

potencies that vitamin companies are currently allowed to sell in the USA so

vitamin companies have easily bought into this LIE.

 

 

The awful REALITY, however is that the SULs are only the STARTING point for this

most unscientific risk assessment, because the fine print calls for them to be

further watered down til by subtracting junk science derived " nutrient risk

factors " and junk science derived numbers from some mythical " average diet "

which doesn't in fact exist, you end up with a the numbers generated by the

German Federal Institute of Risk Assessment show in this table, which as you can

see in some cases are even LOWER than the RDAs:

http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/_docs/ANHWebsiteDoc_145.doc

 

 

The UK based Alliance for Natural Health sees all of this, and in an effort to

head it off commissioned the Dutch based HAN Foundation to do a PROPERLY

SCIENTIFIC risk assessment which takes into account the BENEFIT of dietary

supplements, which the so called World Health Organization is outrageously

IGNORING completely:

http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/index.cfm?action=news & ;ID=174

 

 

Judging from what just happened in Rome, however, no vitamin consumer in America

can count on Codex paying the least bit of attention to the HAN Foundation's

findings however when Codex meets next in November. We have to assume the worst-

that they'll fill in the blanks on allowable potencies exactly the way the FDA

would want them to, which is of course just the way the German government would

like as seen in the table above.

 

 

WHY WE MUST KILL CAFTA ON THE HOUSE FLOOR- HOW CAFTA TIES IN WITH CODEX

 

 

CAFTA VOTE - ANYTIME AFTER CONGRESS RECONVENES ON JULY 11th

 

 

WE MUST NOT ALLOW CAFTA AND CODEX TO OVERRIDE DSHEA

 

 

 

The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) Treaty will require the U.S.,

a member of the World Trade Organization, to revise our food laws and

regulations based on Codex decisions. CAFTA would force harmonization of our

dietary supplements and regulations to international standards, overriding the

DSHEA Act of 1994.

 

 

The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) and the even-broader Free

Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) are both modelled after the North

American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). These agreements are typical bureaucratic

monstrosities of managed trade that masquerade as free trade and would expand

NAFTA to include first Central America and then the rest of the Americas in an

economic union. True free trade would take a few pages of written text to

enact (eliminate these barriers to trade and these tariffs, etc.); all three

of these agreements encompass thousands of pages of bureaucratic textual garbage

sprinkled liberally with rules, regulations, and special-interest benefits.

 

 

Buried in the language of CAFTA is Section 6 that would require of all its

members that they form a Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary (SPS) committee for the

purpose of insuring ongoing harmonization under the terms of the SPS Agreement

in the World Trade Organization (WTO). You can find that text at the following

website:

 

 

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

n_Index.html .

 

 

If you then look at Article 3 of the WTOs SPS Agreement, you will read the

following words: " 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. " (emphasis added) And as

you all know by now, Codex sets the international standards for food safety

including vitamins & minerals.

 

 

So, CAFTA, which is set for a vote in the House of Representatives any time

after they reconvene July 11th, 2005, is another critical link by which

health-freedom haters hope to bypass the Dietary Supplement Health and Education

Act of 1994 and obligate the United States and Canada by treaty to harmonize to

the harshly restrictive Codex vitamin-and-mineral standards. They cannot be

allowed to succeed, and we at the NHF completely oppose these two treaties that

would put a knife in the back of our health freedoms.

 

 

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~CAFTA has already passed the Senate in a 54 to 45 vote on July 1st, 2005.

~Legislators have just recessed for one week, reconvening July 11, 2005.

~IMPORTANT- For House consideration, when they return, the Senate Bill 1307

(click here http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c109:3:./temp/~c109OjRqbt:: to

view bill), ratifying CAFTA, can be voted on without going to committee. It is

on the House calendar and may be brought up at any time.

 

 

 

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CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES. URGE THEM TO VOTE AGAINST CAFTA NOW.

 

 

YOUR LETTERS WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE. THE VOTING IN THE HOUSE WILL BE CLOSE. WE

MIGHT ONLY HAVE ONE WEEK TO FLOOD THEIR OFFICES WITH CAFTA OPPOSITION LETTERS.

 

 

PLEASE JOIN IN THIS EFFORT AND CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES.

 

 

 

Contact any member of the House of Representatives via

http://www.house.gov/writerep/

 

LETTER TO USE:

 

 

Dear Congressman______________________

 

 

In 1994 vitamin consumers generated the largest volume of mail to Congress on

any issue in the HISTORY of Congress when we passed the Dietary Supplement

Health and Education Act of 1994.

 

 

Today, CAFTA threatens to undo all of our hard work, and to set the USA up for

harmonization to an excessively restrictive global trade guideline for vitamins

and minerals just finalized on July 4th 2005 at the 28 General Session of the

UN's Codex Alimentarius Commission.

 

 

The seeds of our health freedom destruction are sewn inside Section 6 of CAFTA

where members are forced to form a Sanitary-Phytosanitary Measures (SPS)

Committee for the purpose of insuring ONGOING HARMONIZATION of our laws under

the terms of the SPS Agreement in the WTO Trade Agreement. (See

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

n_Index.html

 

 

If you examine Article 3 of the WTO's SPS Agreement you will read the following

words: " 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 standard for food safety, and they intend to fill

in the blanks on allowed potencies at levels even LOWER than RDAs- see

http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/_docs/ANHWebsiteDoc_145.doc

 

 

Vitamin consumers drove many congressmen out of office who failed to vote for

DSHEA in '94.

Any member of Congress who fails to heed our concerns about CAFTA and votes for

this unconstitutional trade agreement anyway, despite how it sets us up for

harmonization to Codex, and despite its continuing the failed policies of NAFTA

which gave us our present $617 Billion trade deficit risks being driven from

office. IAHF will be posting a list of any member of Congress who ignores our

concerns. We urge you to watch Kevin Miller's excellent documentary on this

issue at http://www.welltv.com

 

 

Signed____________________

Address____________________________

 

 

 

If you try to watch the anti Codex anti CAFTA documentary " We Become Silent " on

Kevin Miller's Website at http://www.welltv.com and get an error message when

you try to load it, thats because he's being buried with traffic thats exceeding

the bandwidth of the site.

 

 

The hosting company has threatened to shut his site down if this continues and

hasn't even offered to let him purchase additional bandwidth. This is the only

site where the documentary loads instantaneously, however.

 

 

But if you go to watch it and get an error mssg because its overloaded, IF YOU

HAVE A HIGH SPEED CONNECTION you can now also try these additional sites to

watch it:

 

 

http://iahf.com/wbs-weba.mp4

 

 

http://www.alliance-natural-health.org and

 

 

http://www.friendsoffreedominternational.org

 

 

Kevin has done yeoman's work to produce this video, and now he's stone broke &

maxing out credit cards just to feed his family. Please place orders to receive

a copy of the video with him to help him get the funds needed to be able to

start making copies, he needs about $1500. just to produce a glass master and to

get rolling- but we need to get this documentary out to every health food store

in the world, and to every innovative vitamin company and alternative

practitioner- PRONTO.

 

 

Please order your copy now for $24.95 (inc. Shipping) by sending a check made

out to:

Natural Healing Intl.

2011 Bradley Rd.

W. Lake, OH 44145 USA

 

 

If you can place an order of 10 copies or more, you can get a price break by

calling Kevin Miller at 440-871-9982 or by emailing him at

kevinmiller If you can make a donation that would help him get into

mass production quicker, please do as this is a true grass roots effort folks,

the life you save could be your own or that of a loved one.

 

 

Those of us who are on the front lines in this battle know how hard Kevin has

been working in all of our behalf to produce this superb documentary under

enormous pressure and we all owe the guy a huge debt of gratitude because

without his hard work, we wouldn't have a peg to hang our hats on.

 

 

We are getting word out to the Chair of the Codex meeting and to every delegate

in an effort to get them to watch it, and we're working on putting together some

Emergency Press Conferences with one or more celebrities to call more widespread

attention to it prior to the Codex meeting which runs from July 4-9 in Rome. If

we can get a high profile press conference, it could give Codex pause- the goal

would be to get our would be masters to realize they're overreaching and to slow

way down or run the risk of provoking a HUGE global BACKLASH against

globalization in an overall sense.

 

 

Many have wondered why I don't urge communication with US Codex Delegate Ed

Scarbrough. The reason is he's a cog in the executive branch of our government.

We have a lame duck President in his final term who can't run for reelection and

he's awash in Pharma PAC $$$ so we have no leverage over Scarbrough, an

unelected bureaucrat who in 2000 threw me off the US Delegation while ignoring

my requests that he remove Yetley of FDA who had clearly violated the law. We're

going to try to get him and all delegates to watch " We Become Silent " but we

have virtually no influence at CODEX, yet have FAR MORE influence at CONGRESS.

We may not be ABLE to stop CODEX, but we CAN keep it from coming HERE, but ONLY

if our message is not diverted and diluted by those groups who in OUR view are

encouraging an ineffective course of action.

 

 

If we don't kill CAFTA/ FTAA we won't stop Codex from coming here. Washington

Post indicates CAFTA vote will be very tight, could come down to just ONE VOTE

in the House, so our voice can REALLY make a difference!!!

 

 

ONE HOUR OF YOUR TIME TODAY CAN MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE! CALL AND EMAIL YOUR REP

AND EVERYONE YOU KNOW TODAY.

 

IAHF

556 Boundary Bay Rd.

Point Roberts WA 98281

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