Health freedom alert:: Congressman Waxman sneaks anti-vitamin amendment into Wall Street reform bill

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Health freedom alert:

Congressman Waxman sneaks anti-vitamin amendment into Wall Street

reform bill

(NaturalNews) 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.

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.

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 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

Emord recently at the Health Freedom Expo in California. Watch

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

Emord's words are so important for you to hear that I wanted to share

this video with you anyway.

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...