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Politicians Ignoring Citizens Call for Freedom of Food and Natural Health Products
Who will speak for the citizens of the United States if not our elected officials? Last year, anyone concerned about their health and access to nutritious food and natural medicine watched in horror as the government passed landmark legislations that will give them unconstitutional jurisdiction over essential items for a healthy life.
It seems that all the petitions, calls, e-mails and letters have fallen on the ears of individuals who refuse to hear and with mouths that are too cowardly to speak up. The following article reveals why “in the case of millions of Americans who passionately want to manage their own health without government interference, who want access to the full range of nutritional supplements and unlimited access to alternative practitioners, there is dead silence in Washington.”
~Health Freedoms
The Naked Fear Of Health Freedom
Usually, when politicians discover a large voting bloc that has no champion, they move in like gold prospectors with a fever in their heads. Tap that bloc; mine it; use it.
However, in the case of millions of Americans who passionately want to manage their own health without government interference, who want access to the full range of nutritional supplements and unlimited access to alternative practitioners, there is dead silence in Washington.
Why?
First, few politicians are willing to challenge the agenda of the pharmaceutical companies (drug everybody from cradle to grave). Second, these health-freedom advocates are radical decentralists—which means they know how it feels to be denied the right to take care of their own bodies. They have met the enemy and they know how it operates on a very personal level.
There is no chance politicians will be able to finesse these voters or make empty promises to them or wow them with “task forces” created to “study problems.” Health-freedom folks are too smart for any of that nonsense.
They want unbridled freedom. They want, for example, to be able to say no to vaccines for their children without having to walk the gauntlet of officials who try to dissuade and intimidate and threaten them.
They want to find alternative treatments for cancer in many cases, and cancer happens to be one of those tightly guarded provinces, where big money and big government insist on radiation, chemotherapy, and surgery, come hell or high water.
If politicians courted health-freedom people, they’d be exposing themselves to vicious attacks from the medical/government axis and its media dupes.
They’d be opening the door to the notion that people can really choose their own solutions, despite “the best science” and the authoritarian pronouncements of doctors, who are modern priests in white coats wielding hypnotic power.
In other words, FREEDOM would become the top issue and the trumping issue all the way across the board—and very few politicians of either party want to step out into that world.
It’s too raw, too real, too much about naked choice.
That’s why, even as States try to nullify ObamaCare, you don’t hear conversation about how the Dept. of Health and Human Services is poised to compose a list of permitted medical treatments and will eventually outlaw alternative options.
See if you can find, even among the most conservative legislators recently elected to office in the Republican landslide, any who speak up about health freedom.
Good luck.
It remains a taboo in the halls of Congress.
This means that individuals will have to carry the burden themselves. They will have to speak out and keep speaking out. They will have to challenge government repression on the most fundamental level. They will have to make this issue electric.
In doing so, they will be accused of everything under the sun. They will be called anti-science Luddites, and religious crazies, and even killers of their own children.
Notice that I’m not advocating the wholesale rejection of modern medicine; I’m saying every individual has the right and the freedom to choose to how to manage his own health. Period. That right takes precedence over anyone’s idea of science or “best evidence.”
On that basis, the fight can be won, in the long run. On any other basis, defeat is certain.
I have lobbied for the formation of a PR agency, funded by nutritional companies, that would widely disseminate information about the health benefits of supplements and the false science behind many conventional medical treatments—and the response has been zero. These companies have no stomach for such a campaign. They, too, fear health freedom, in their own way. They continue to exist in a twilight zone of hope and fantasy. “Maybe the government will ignore us and let us go on doing business.”
In 1994, when I ran for a Congressional seat in the 29th District (Los Angeles), on a platform of health freedom, I gained profound knowledge about who would come out of the woodwork to offer help and who would stay in the shadows. The results, in that regard, were quite sobering. One or two nutritional companies supported me. The rest stayed away.
When the inessentials are stripped away and you are talking about sheer freedom, and when people realize this is your sole concern, they tend to retreat and find other things to do. On the one hand, they will admit that their own health is a top concern, but they won’t come out and fight for the right to pursue it according to their own dictates. It’s a strange landscape.
Call me crazy, but I believe a presidential candidate, fully funded, who argued vigorously and widely for health freedom (and other freedoms), could win an election, even in this day and age.
But we are not about to test that hypothesis, because the fear of health freedom is too deep.
And this tells us something.
It tells us we are in the right pew. We are mining a red-hot idea. We’re discovering a lever and a fulcrum that could move the nation.
Back in 1994, I saw passion about politics that far exceeded anything I’d ever run into before. The health-freedom supporters who emerged from their homes were battle-tested veterans in a war that, out of media range, had been going on for decades. They carried a revolutionary spirit of outrage. They weren’t opting for New Age rainbows and pastel prophecies. They had a spirit toward which the Founders would have tipped their hats.
I’ve learned it’s never too late for freedom, because freedom is not part of ordinary time. It’s stands above the passage of events. It is. It’s waiting.
The current trigger is this shuck-and-jive ObamaCare program. This sanctimonious share-and-care sop. Behind it is the plan to force all Americans into a straitjacket of pharmaceutical insanity.
That’s what’s up the road.
But we can take other roads.
If we will.
Neither mainstream political party will ever admit that the government/pharmaceutical axis is a perfect example of a fascist operation. Neither party will ever state, in clear terms, that every citizen has the right to define and follow his own dictates in managing his health. They are afraid to touch that electric core.
But we aren’t.
And that is where hope resides.
By Investigating Journalist Jon Rappoport
http://www.thenhf.com/article.php?id=2694
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We need to get the word out. PREVENTATIVE medicine is the most effective. Most people will only turn to alternative medicine after they have lived an unhealthy lifestyle, developed a life threatening disease and gone through the ineffectivness of conventional therapies.
Our abilities to stay healthy are being threatened. If there is enough of us, some polititian will take notice. We need to build our network through the internet and social media.
Our government has seen fit to deprive us the right to make informed decisions by allowing Monsanto and their ilk to convince them that truth in labeling is not important. Thus our products which contain GMOs and hormone enhanced components go un-identified on our grocery store shelves while Monsanto claims that the cost of proper labeling would place an undue burden on the manufacturer.
Meanwhile, in the other corner, “Big Pharma” has convinced our congress and the FDA that strict regulations are needed on the organic foods and supplements industries.
I personally will vote against anyone who refused to support “Truth in Labeling”.
Nice article. Right on.
The answer lies in taking total responsibility for your own health and finding ways to minimize risks that could cause accidents and ill health. Spread the word, yes. Keep doing what we are doing in making different choices than what is presented. So what if they won’t apy for your health care or give you something that makes you sicker? Don’t accept it any more. Make better choices. I have gone without health insurance for 10 years and am healthier than I have ever been because I have made better choices in diet, lifestyle and attitude. If no one needed doctors or drugs because they took responsibility for thier own health there would be no problem, right? We don’t need to get upset. Just grow a garden, exercise, get clean water, take whole food supplements and trace minerals (mineral salt), find a good absorpable calcium and magnesium supplement in the right ratio 1:4 and have a spiritual orientation and connection with nature. Teach your children to do the same. Eliminate as many electronic devices as possible, t.v. and the new especially which create the illusion of fear and lack of control Don’t buy into it. Create the life of your dreams and show others that it is possible by your example. There are no “victims” only participants in life. So, make your life what you want including good health starting now. Also, quit complaining. We have no one to blame but ourselves for not doing this sooner! I have been a dietitian and seen the downhill slide. We fell into it because of our love of junk food. So, change. Cultivate a love of nutritious, wholesome, organic food again. Find time to exercise no matter what, even if it is walking. All of this will heal you. You don’t need doctors, insurance or drugs anymore. Be patient and remember you didn’t get sick over night. Allow time for healing. naturally.
I am a homeopath and have studied health and disease for 11 years and that previous advice by Laurie is one of the best ideas I have heard.
Steve.
It is a constant that advertisements offer coupons for the NON-food, for example: In the circulars stuffed into the Sunday paper all that is offered coupon-wise are discounts on junk food. They are offered all the time, not just in circulars but in daily ads. Sugar, m.s.g.-filled, gmo NON-health foods are always cheaper. Rarely does a grocer ever offer a coupon for our veggies? We also have cheap perfumed products for body, hair care and cleaning products packed with poison. Our reps may ignore us, and indeed we need to get them to hear our voices. Let’s keep up our faith that things will change.
$$$$ that is all some care about. It is an outragous the amount of Americans that feel there is no other choice but to medicate. That they are forced to live with dis-eases that are completely curable.
Stand together, stand strong and do not budge and we will succeed. Americans are thirsty for knowledge. They are thirsty for health, motivation and hope. Let’s provide it the best we can.
Thank you for making a difference. Thank you all for reading and responding and believing in the truth.
Bill, I couldn’t agree more. Makes me wonder what kind of “regulations” the supplement companies recently purchased by “Big Pharma” will be under. Do you think they will be anymore truthful on those labels? There’s rumor ‘they’ (who are ‘they’?) are going to outlaw growing your own food as well. I wish they would hurry up and do it, start enforcing the “no backyard garden” law…THAT might wake a few more people up and we could move this issue from the internet & gym into a serious political realm.
Amerika Inc. is now a fascist nation in the mold of Mussolini’s Italy, where government and corporate power has come together to form the most oppressive regime possible – and is virtually invicible.
We are seeing only the beginning of it, and I have no idea any longer what the solution is. A korporate-fascist oligarchy will NOT listen to the citizens because it doesn’t have to – it will only continue to steal and oppress.
I grew up with bullies, and that is what the new Korporate-Fascist oligarchy is – bullies who feel they are entitled to EVERYTHING and to control EVERYONE for their own benefit.
I learned early on that the ONLY thing a bully understand is a punch in the face – repeatedly.
Make of that what you will…
Pam…this has already happened. A man in Georgia I believe has been growing a 2 acre back yard garden for 15 hrs. The authorities came by and asked if his garden was registered and shut it down and filed something against him. His land laid barren until he got it registered. He then planted again and the authorities are pursuing the complaint anyway to the tune of $5000. He is fighting it.
I have been reading great articles like this one for months on different websites and always come away with the question “who is going to organize a campaign against this destruction of our rights?”
It has to be the people and we are those people. We need someone who is skilled at doing this. We cant wait for our elected politicians obviously…they r too afraid. I wrote my senator a kazillon times about S510. She wrote me back and said she absolutely didn’t agree with the bill but couldn’t do anything about it. What haappened to the protests of the 60′s and 70′s. Why aren’t we in the streets protesting!
In the 60′s and 70′s BIG BROTHER was watching, but now we have allowed them to numb our brains and turn us into pharmaceutical zombies with the poiliticians (national and global)covering their “kickbacks”. The government knows everything we do by tracking internet, postal mail, social “security”, our jobs – or lack thereof, even our recreation. Who among us has the knowledge, organizational skills, legal knowledge and guts to stand up and say ENOUGH is ENOUGH? I am absolutely against the government passing laws against what “We the people” are entitlted to. We all abviously agree on the same thing, but once again where and how do we start?
I personally will vote against anyone who refused to support “Truth in Labeling”
What label should we require on “government”?
o I refuse to investigate “terrorism” by covering up the events of 9/11
o I will continue to kill my Citizens by backing up a corrupt and murderous HHS
o I do NOT represent the people of the USA but I represent a GLOBAL POWER GRAB, MONEY and UN Agenda 21
Right on!
One punch is to TOTALLY reject the “Medical Industry” Don’t visit a conventional “doc” unless they carry you in unconscious. This means PREVENTIVE care provided by YOU.
I had to laugh at the line “Who will speak for the citizens of the United States if not our elected officials?”
It’s those officials who have purposely caused the problems!! If people think they have a choice when they go to the polls to vote then they should think again. Take a look behind the scenes at who is financing both parties and you’ll find it’s the same people!! They can never loses an election. They choose their Presidents (puppets), like they always have, who are prepared to push through their agenda. This tactic is used around the world and is the reason for all the chaos. The people have to speak out for themselves and are doing more and more.
It is interesting to read what is really going on in North America. I am a Canadian and we are having similar issues up here with our Federal Government. Just before Christmas they passed a bill we have been fighting for 20+ years that now takes away our civil rights when it comes to creating and manufacturing herbal remedies. If Health Canada finds out (via hiring new university graduates as “health police”) they can come in and seize a business, all assets and computers and equipment, store it somewhere for years. They freeze bank accounts forever, and hold people hostage for 12+ hours while doing so. And the media is silent while all of this is happening. Check out this link: http://www.nhppa.org and see for yourselves. This is a North American problem for sure – most likely global – and no amount of letter writing to our Senators here in Canada has stalled any of this. They rename the bills, hoping to keep us off their trails. What I find totally insidious is their hiring of new grads as “health police” to spy on and inform on everyday Canadian citizens. I am totally aghast at what has happened so far this century with our governments north and south of the 49th Parallel. What will it take for “we the people” to rise up as one? “If not now, when?”