Supplement Wars Update: New Zealand feels the Boot

June 26, 2004

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Dastardly Doin's Down Under: Action Plan for New Zealand HF

Fighters.... Rest of World Take Notice

IAHF Webmaster: Whats New, Asia, New Zealand/Australia...What to Do,

Codex

IAHF List: [New Zealanders go directly to

http://www.healthcharter.org.nz/ or skip directly to Action Plan

Below]

EVERYONE REGARDLESS OF COUNTRY: PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!! WE MUST HELP

OUR FRIENDS IN NEW ZEALAND- THEIR BATTLE IS OUR BATTLE- HERE IS WHY:

See article MASSIVE MULTINATIONAL ASSAULT on ALTERNATIVE MEDICINES

http://joevialls.altermedia.info/subliminalsuggestion/vitamins.html

In 2003, under totally false pretenses the Australian so

called " Therapeutic Goods Agency " (their FDA) yanked 1,363 different

product lines off Australian health food store shelves without a

single solitary product assay to demonstrate that any of these safe

products were the least bit dangerous.

This was a full scale nuclear strike against consumers right to

access the dietary supplements of their choice, and it was generated

under the cover of a fiasco called the " Pan recall " wherein the

largest supplement manufacturer in Australia, Pan Pharmaceuticals,

was stripped of its manufacturing site license and totally shut down

just because an OTC motion sickness drug they were selling called

Travacalm caused some problems.

Travacalm's active ingredient, dymenhydranate, is a known

hallucinogen- and its effects have been thoroughly described on

websites which recreational drug users peruse.

An appropriate TGA response to the Travacalm problem would have been

to pull all products containing dymenhydranate off the market and to

ban them completely, but because motion sickness drugs similar to

Travacalm are manufactured by a slew of politically powerful

multinational pharmaceutical companies which use the TGA and its

international counterparts as trade associations to suppress the use

of dietary supplements- that reasonable course of action was not

followed.

What happened instead was truly nauseating: the shut down of Pan was

used to fuel a massive media circus condemning allegedly " unsafe "

dietary supplements- and its against THIS BACKDROP that the tiny

island nation of New Zealand is fighting as I type this for its very

SURVIVAL as a sovereign nation.

I have come to truly admire New Zealand and its people. They're

ruggedly independent, and to them, their hulking gigantic neighbor is

about as popular as a parahna in a hot tub.

Some of you may think that what's happening in Australia and New

Zealand is " irrelevant " to you because you live in Canada, or

America, or Europe- but if you think that, you're not seeing the

globalists game clearly enough and I urge you to keep reading.....

THE JOINT THERAPEUTIC TREATY (JTA) MUST BE URGENTLY OPPOSED BY

VITAMIN CONSUMERS IN NEW ZEALAND.... AND ALL OVER THE WORLD!

Where one of us is in chains, NONE of us are free. Yesterday I spoke

with Kenneth McIver, an alternative practitioner in New Zealand, and

a board member of the New Zealand Charter of Alternative Health

Practitioners.

He's filled me in that its IMPERATIVE that everyone in New Zealand

write to, fax, email and call the LABOR MPs on the list below,

because any day now the NZ Parliament will get around to voting on

whether or not to RATIFY the Joint Therapeutic Treaty (JTA) with

Australia, which would create ONE set of regulations (Australia's

mindless pharmaceutical regs which allowed the Pan debacle to occur)

for BOTH countries.....

Fortunately for the Kiwis on the IAHF list, the Opposition Parties of

New Zealand have been refusing (thus far anyway) to ratify this

Treaty, so at least until now, it does not yet have the force of law

inside New Zealand, but that could change, and if it does, New

Zealand vitamin consumers will be in SERIOUS trouble. [sEE ACTION

PLAN BELOW!!]

WAKE UP CALL FOR VITAMIN CONSUMERS WORLD WIDE!!

Last summer, in total violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and

Freedoms (Canadian equivalent to the US Constitution), Canada's

vitamin regulations were forcibly harmonized to Australian law while

most Canadians paid no attention, falsely believing they'd won a

health freedom " victory " in 1997 with the " third category. "

Trueman Tuck of Friends of Freedom in Canada

http://www.friendsoffreedom.org/ has been making a valiant effort to

push bill C-420 through Parliament, but it doesn't look as though

they have time to get it through because a Canadian election will be

held in the near future this summer. FoF also has a legal effort to

overturn the illegal regs, however. If you're in Canada, I urge you

to send the action letters on the FoF website in to your MPs and also

to forward this alert to vitamin consumers world wide, especially if

you have friends or family in New Zealand.

Americans can't ignore Canada's having harmonized its vitamin law to

Australia's because Canada is our northern flank- and with the FTAA

breathing down our necks in our hemisphere threatening to be a carbon

copy of the EU Dictatorship, we can't afford to ignore whats going on

around us because " harmonization " of the laws is occurring world wide

via many means- including, but not limited to CODEX.

Americans should never forget that at the recent Codex meeting in

Montreal of the Committee on Food Labeling, the US Codex Delegate

stabbed our nation in the back by wrongly turning his back on the

South African proposal which could have blown Codex wide open and

which was in sync with US vitamin law. Thus none of us can afford to

be complacent about anything happening in the world today on the

health freedom front and ALL of us must donate to the Alliance for

Natural Health's lawsuit to overturn the EU Food Supplement Directive

via http://www.alliance-natural-health.org due to the political clout

wielded by the EU at CODEX. As goes the EU, so goes the WORLD- but we

must see the Global Chessboard fully.... which brings me back to the

DASTARDLY DOIN's DOWN UNDER: ACTION PLAN FOR ALL KIWIS TO MOVE ON

NOW!!!

Yes its True Australian Harmonisation will destroy Natural Therapies

and Small Businesses.

By Signing the " Joint Therapeutic Agency " (JTA Treaty) The N Z

Government will

give away to Australia The " Regulation of Therapeutic Products. "

Your Government will effectively " Destroy Free Access by New

Zealanders " to

Dietary Supplements and Therapeutic Products from world wide sources.

Over 6,000 products will be banned or locked out of the New Zealand

market.

Forcing up to 200 small business to close.

Up to 95,000 New Zealanders involved in manufacturing, importing,

supplying,

distributing, marketing, retailing and direct selling will loose

their jobs.

To find out more and what action you can take

Surf to :- www.healthcharter.org.nz

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Health Freedom

— Action Plan —

Government Attack on the Freedom of Health Choice

Dietary Supplements Outlawed?

The Joint Therapeutic Treaty (JTA) will outlaw New Zealanders access

to thousands of dietary supplements (at least 6,000 safe healthy

dietary supplements will no longer be available).

New Zealand's global access to new and innovative products will be

repressively restricted by the JTA Treaty, effectively banning new

products.

The cost of dietary supplements under the JTA Treaty will escalate

and in some instances production costs will more than double.

Loss of thousands of Jobs?

Thousands of New Zealanders (up to 95, 0000 in the healthcare

industry) involved in manufacture, export, distribution and retailing

of safe healthy dietary supplements will be forced out of business.

Employees will lose their jobs because of excessively high JTA Treaty

registration and compliance cost by an Australian dominated

bureaucracy that restricts free trade in safe healthy dietary

supplements.

Safe Dietary Supplements?

New Zealand Medsafe, in their submission to the Parliamentary Health

Select Committee, without scientific proof and a reliance on tabloid

newspaper articles, set out a table that when analysed indicated that

under a half of a percent of the available dietary supplements were

perhaps unsafe. Medsafe maintained that dietary supplements must be

regulated in the same way as inherently unsafe prescription

pharmaceutical medicines are regulated by the Australian Therapeutic

Goods Authority. The facts are that in twenty years dietary

supplements have not been the cause of a single death in New Zealand

(in the same period there were 100,000 prescription drug deaths in

New Zealand Public Hospitals). Medsafe has not taken any steps to

rectify this unnecessary death situation.

Your government is giving away your basic human right to take care of

your own health and the health of your children and loved ones.

Your government is determined to give away your right to Freedom of

Health Choice and self determination

Your Government has totally ignored its own Health Select Committee

recommendations and is ready to sign the JTA Treaty surrendering

health sovereignty to the Australian controlled Joint Therapeutic

Agency Treaty.

To preserve your Health Freedom of Choice you need to take action

TODAY and to encourage EVERYONE you know to take action TODAY.

Photocopy this Action Plan and distribute to all your contacts.

Take action TODAY — Tomorrow will be too late

Action steps:

Members with internet access should go to the Charter website and

download the Government Members List .csv file, which also includes

email addresses. This file should import into most Address Books and

is very convenient for Mail Merging and forwarding a number of emails.

www.healthcharter.org.nz

Forward letters to Government Members of Parliament.

Be sure to include the date and your return address

Be formal and polite but firm.

Include a formal salutation such as the following.

" Rt. Hon John Doe MP

Dear Sir or Dear Madam "

as the case may be.

Next include a heading. Use your creative talents to create a heading

that highlights your opinion.

Some examples:

Save Our Supplements.

NO Lock Out of Dietary Supplements and Health Care Products.

Vote No to the JTA Treaty.

Say No to Aussie Rules.

Support New Zealand Small Health Businesses.

Preserve New Zealand's Health Sovereignty.

Protect New Zealand's Health Freedom of Choice.

Do Not Sell Out Our Health to Australian Domination.

Australia to Dictate New Zealand Health-NO WAY!

What should you say?

The most important and attention grabbing statement for members of

parliament is;

I will not vote for you or your Party if you support the JTA Treaty.

Next important;

Describe who you are and individualise your letter

Use one of the following as a guideline and modify the content.

I am a practitioner with a large number of clients who rely on my

practice for their primary corrective and preventative health care.

I am employed in the health sector and the JTA Treaty will be

detrimental to my continued employment.

I work full time (or part time) with dietary supplements and the JTA

Treaty will force me out of work.

I run a small business and the JTA Treaty will ruin my business.

My family and I rely on access to a wide range of dietary supplements

to maintain our health status. Our extended family and friends also

rely on dietary supplements.

I am a student and I am totally opposed to any infringement on my

Freedom of Choice in Health Care.

I am a solo parent and rely on natural healthcare to keep my family

healthy.

I am a voting New Zealander and am passionate and determined in

regards to my human right of freedom of choice and self determination

in health care.

I am a…(one of the above)……………..and the JTA Treaty will remove my

right of access to my cultural and Traditional Medicines.

I am of Maori descent and the JTA Treaty will deny me the right to

access Traditional Maori Medicine.

I am of Maori descent and the JTA Treaty illegally contravenes my

rights as sealed under the Treaty of Waitangi

I am (a Pacific Islander -Chinese – Indian – Philippino – Malaysian,

etc the JTA Treaty will deny me the right to access Traditional

Medicine of my choice.

Be creative and add any other pertinent information.

Caution: Do not fall into the trap of arguing individual aspects of

the JTA Treaty.

The main effort must be to get the message across that a large

segment of the New Zealand electorate is opposed to the JTA Treaty.

The Last Paragraph is most important:

Most important

I require your reply stating how you will vote on the JTA Treaty

within the next seven days.

Special Note:

Above all your letter needs to be polite, but firm. Your main message

needs to that your vote is at risk. This is the main message that

parliamentarians understand.

If you do not receive a reply in seven days.

Forward another letter strongly requesting a reply.

Important:

Do not forget to sign your letter. Double check for spelling or

grammatical errors. Make sure your letter is dated.

Make sure that your letters are addressed to individual members of

parliament by name.

Members of parliament do not take any notice of form letters; this is

why your letters must be individualised to be effective.

Effective Methods:

Out of all the ways to communicate with Members of Parliament a

letter is the most effective.

A letter forwarded to members of parliament does not require a

postage stamp if addressed to;

Freepost Parliament

PO Box 18888

Wellington

Fax the Members of Parliament

Sending a fax is the next most effective method. Unfortunately a

large number of faxes can tie up the members fax machine and office

staff and be very annoying. Faxes do however get attention and can be

very effective, especially a large number of faxes.

Email

Sending emails is the easiest and most convenient method.

Unfortunately emails can be easily

deleted or if the subject line of a number of emails are all the same

diverted to the recycle-rubbish bin.

However if enough emails are forwarded they must have an impact.

The main object of the — Health Freedom Action Plan — is to get the

message across to Members of Parliament that there is a large section

of the population that will be adversely effected if they vote in

favour of the JTA Treaty.

So what is the best method to get your message across?

The simple answer — All Of The Above.

So start writing today. The future of your health, your family's

health and the health of generations not yet born are at risk from

the JTA Treaty.

This Government has been guilty of enacting a number of legislative

changes without adequate consultation with electors. They need to be

informed that they have gone too far. With your assistance we just

may obtain a more open approach to the creation of useful and

supportable legislation. We need a democratic government that takes

notice of the wishes and aspirations of the people.

Spread the Word

Inform clients, Neighbors, friends and all contacts including Talk

Back Radio, about the negative effects of this Treaty and that the

Government and the Ministry of Health are bulldozing this Treaty

through Parliament and only their action can stop it.

To recap some main points

The Health Select Committee will report back to Parliament on May

25th.

It is not known as to how soon Government will take action on the JTA

Treaty, but it is understood that Government is committed to adopting

the Treaty regardless of the high level of opposition by New Zealand

electors.

Under the JTA Treaty

Australia will have absolute and total control over the health of all

New Zealanders.

The Freedom of choice and self determination in health will be

abolished.

Practitioner Only remedies will be no longer available.

6,000 or more health products will no longer be available.

Small health related businesses will be forced to close.

96,000 thousand jobs will be at risk.

Do not submit to the chains of Australian domination.

TAKE ACTION TO DAY

The above action plan is presented by The New Zealand Charter of

Health Practitioners Incorporated for the " Health Freedom of Choice

for all New Zealanders. "

First Name

Last Name

E-mail Address

Business Street

Business Fax

Hon Rick

Barker MP

rbarker