Waxman sneaks anti-vitamin amendment into 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

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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.”

 

 

 

 

 

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.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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…