FW: Tipping Towards Health Freedom PART III

[Guest guest]

PART III

 

Be Well,

Marcia Elston http://www.wingedseed.com

http://www.aromaconnection.org

" Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot. " Hausa Saying from

Nigeria

 

Part III

Grateful to the FDA

When a dictator or a corrupt organization finally

over-reaches beyond public tolerance, people react and take corrective

action. This time the FDA, which has allowed itself to become a handmaiden

to exactly the wrong forces and abandoned its watchdog role for a lapdog

one, has gone way too far.

What was obviously intended to be merely a bureaucratic

exercise to position the FDA for its (final?) push against competitors to

pharmaceutical profits has created a wonderful opportunity for our side. In

fact, their blatant over-reaching has created the opportunity for a

widespread and powerful public dialogue and debate about who owns your body

and who gets to make your health decisions. That is why the Natural

Solutions Foundation's comments call for public hearings and why we will be

pressing for Congressional oversight and reform. agree with them, submit. It

is also why we urge you to not just submit your own comments but to inform

your contact base and motivate as many people as you can to also submit

their comments.

Where Do Your Comments Go?

When we checked the FDA website to see if our comments were

being posted, we noted that the site was last updated on March 16, 2007 and

that there were very few comments posted. At that time over 60,000 comments

had been submitted through our site alone but there were only 17 comments

posted.

Our Foundation's attorney and I made a conference call (I am

in Thailand right now) to the FDA's Receiver of Dockets to learn more about

this surprising situation. A very helpful supervisor told us that their

system was overloaded and that the 9 people assigned to the task of dealing

with comments were overloaded, too. She admitted that the FDA site was not

able to handle the comments and finally gave us a dedicated email address to

which our comments now go. That means that every comment submitted through

our site now actually reaches the FDA. According to her, written comments

are not tabulated but are, instead, merely made available for reading in the

FDA reading room. Only electronic comments count and the only way that we

know of to get them into the system reliably right now is to use our

website, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org

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Worth Pondering

One could certainly ponder why this agency with a massive

responsibility for public interface does not have sufficient staff and

internet capacity to process public comment.

It would appear that the FDA might not eager to hear that

the American public

 

* Values their own decision making

* Believes that they own their bodies

* Trusts the pharmaceutical-free ( " CAM " ) modalities that 75%

or more Americans regularly use!

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Those who are able to buy the FDA's bland description of this

document as 'a mere restatement of the law' are, at best, naive or misguided

and at worst interested in lulling you to sleep so that you will not take

action.

Fortunately, we are awake and aware so the regulatory arm of the

Pharmaceutical industry, also know as the FDA, can't slip this one over on

us.

The Natural Solutions Foundation, by the way, is proud to

have been the first health freedom organization to catch on to this

particularly dangerous document and ring the alarm bells. That's why so many

people trust us and, why, during this period, our supporters have increased

more than 6 fold!

And, because of what we are doing together to alert them,

the American public has something effective to do with their outrage: share

this information widely, make sure everyone in your circle of contacts --

everyone!-- knows about this " Guideline " and takes action BEFORE the

deadline. Right now, nearly 100,000 people have submitted their comments to

the FDA saying that health and health freedom belong in their own hands and

calling for public hearings on the mishandling of this issue by the FDA.

 

Experienced Washington hands tell us that there is a " tipping point "

at which the FDA backs off on this kind of approach. We passed that tipping

point when we roared out to Congress that taking away our supplements was

NOT fine with the American people. They backed off and instead passed the

1994 Dietary Supplements Health and Education Act (DSHEA) by unanimous

Congressional Consent! In fact, the stronger we are in protecting our

rights, the quicker the Pharma bullies and their " enforcer " , the FDA, back

off. Yes, they come around again, but then, as Jefferson said, " The price of

liberty is eternal vigilance " .

If you motivate 15 people to send their comments through

the site (so we know they get to the FDA), we'll have nearly 1.5 million. If

your doctor, nutritionist, acupuncturist, health food store owner,

supplement manufacturer, and so on tells the people who come to them about

this, they can swell those numbers considerably. (If you are a person with a

practice or customers involved, you can, too.) In other words, it's really

up to each of us to make sure the tipping point is reached before the April

30 deadline.

Unlike a regular " grocery store petition " or an email one,

for that matter, these comments are targeted, focused, provided for by law

and are supposed to be taken into account by the regulatory agency receiving

them. Absent our comments, we have no leg to stand on should the FDA fail to

listen to he " vox populi " , the voice of the people. With those comments, the

tipping point can be reached and we can make our collective voices count to

make sure that the health freedom tipping point is reached!

I want to change the topic slightly for a moment more of

your time:

 

First, the Open Integrative University of Complementary Medicine

(OIUCM) will be holding their World Congress of Integrative Medicines

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there (as I was honored to do last year) and would like to invite all of you

to come participate in what is truly a remarkable event on every level.

While you are there, please let me know that you are a Natural Solutions

Foundation supporter so I can thank you in person!

 

Second, a reminder: the health freedom battle can only be fought if

we have your continuing activism and support. Here are some support options

and I hope you will take them all!

 

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purchases count for health freedom. Every purchase supports the Natural

Solutions Foundation on, on most items, your purchase is 40% tax deductible

because it is supporting a tax exempt organization! Right now, this is

virtually the only way to claim a tax deduction for your supplement

purchases. It's our way of saying " Thanks for your support! "

 

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already made a recent donation, thanks! If not, now would be a great time

since the battle is raging hot and heavy and there is a huge amount of work

to be done.

* Please become a source of information. The mainstream media

is not a source of information so we have to inform each other. Forward

emails like this, take the action steps recommended in them and let your

contacts know that you are concerned about health and health freedom.

 

* Please get involved and get your community involved. Contact

us to find the best ways to use your unique talents and resources to make

health freedom not only a household word, but a household reality!

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Thanks for your devotion and your activism. Please feel free to

email us with thoughts, comments, suggestions and ideas. This is YOUR

battle, after all. It's YOUR health and health freedom that's at stake.

 

Yours in health and freedom,

Rima E. Laibow, MD

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1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipping_Point

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