FTC Attacks Consumer Rights

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The beginning of the purge?============http://www.dc1pages.com/dc1freedom/index.php?option=com_content & view=article & id=46 & Itemid=71FTC Attacks Consumer RightsIf successful, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) attack on Daniel Chapter One® will limit health care consumers’ rights – by Daniel Chapter One® attorney James S. Turner• The consumer rights to information, choice, safety and redress (the right to be heard) are all under attack by the Federal Trade Commission complaint against Daniel Chapter One®. Presented to Congress as the Consumer Bill of Rights by President Kennedy in March of 1962, these rights form the backbone of wellbeing for individual consumers and for success of the American market economy. To the extent that the FTC approach to Daniel Chapter One® succeeds, individual consumers seeking to improve their health and the health of American society as a whole will suffer important losses.• Information. The FTC says consumers may only receive health information from producers and sellers that the FTC has determined is proven by the “science” it selects. No historical knowledge, consumer experience, or traditional practice satisfies FTC demands. FTC recognizes only expensive double blind “studies” as support for health claims. Daniel Chapter One has asked its lawyers, and its lawyers have agreed, to challenge this policy as violating Daniel Chapter One’s rights under the U.S. Constitution.• Choice. By depriving consumers of the right to hear sellers’ knowledge about health aspects of their products, the one-size-fits-all FTC health information standard deprives consumers of access to health approaches that they might choose if they could hear what the seller knows. If FTC had enforced this standard against Daniel Chapter One® over the past thirty years, hundreds of people currently describing how Daniel Chapter One products improved or even saved their lives might not be here to speak to us today.• Safety. The FTC standard forces individual consumers to use highly toxic chemical products whose benefits, according to its “science,” outweigh their toxicity. The FTC says this while regulators acknowledge that they routinely reverse their approvals for many of these dangerous products. FTC, with no staff scientists or science capability, relies on old, selective science and “quackbusters.” From both old and new science, including genetics, we know that biochemical individuality makes one person’s potential poison another’s possible cure.• Redress. The Constitution allows individuals to make potentially risky choices for themselves. The FTC does not. Instead, the FTC makes highly risky choices for consumers who have no way to object. Government and business fight the consumer rights battle between themselves. Consumers have no voice. Most businesses sign an agreement to say only what the FTC permits, because their overriding goal is to sell products. Daniel Chapter One’s goal is to help people honestly, and they need the help of consumers to take this stand.If the FTC has its way with Daniel Chapter One®, consumers will be denied useful information, blocked from possibly lifesaving choices, forced to use dangerous products and have nowhere to complain about their treatment. This outcome stems from well intentioned regulators attempting a herculean job – making people’s decisions for them – with minuscule resources. It is time we relieved them of the responsibility for running the lives of people who are perfectly capable of making their own choices. One benefit of this approach will be to bring the government back into line with the Constitution and the Consumer Bill of Rights.You can help us by making a contribute to the Daniel Chapter One® Legal Defense Fund at www.danielchapteronefreedom.com You may purchase James S. Turner’s new book, "Voice of the People" through The Transpartisan Imperative in American Life at www.DaVinciPress.org or call (805) 685-4405. =====In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.