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Topics in this digest:
1. Keep Pounding Senate Finance Committee On CAFTA
From: "Stardora" <stardo***@b*****.net>
2. Fw: Codex Action Alert-Tell A Friend
From: "Stardora" <stardo***@b*****.net>
3. Fw: CAFTA Made it Out of Senate Finance Committee- Goes to House Ways
& Means Comm Tomorrow
From: "Stardora" <stardo***@b*****.net>
4. Fw: See Liberty Committee's Alert on CAFTA- Additional Very Solid Information-
Send Their Form Letter in Too
From: "Stardora" <stardo***@b*****.net>
Message: 1
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 11:55:41 -0400
From: "Stardora" <stardo***@b*****.net>
IAHF List:
I just called the Senate Finance Committee office in
Washington DC and its very important we intensify our
opposition to CAFTA due to the harmonization language
it contains which forces harmonization of our dietary
supplement laws to restrictive Codex standards.
All they did today was they had opening remarks- then
they adjourned. Tomorrow will be the bigger day, so
there is still time for us to lob in our 2 cents
worth.
Please take the following actions and urge everyone
you know to "pile on"- we need to hear the sounds of
bones breaking on this one folks cause its EAT or be
EATEN & its way better to be PISSED OFF than to be
PISSED ON, so speak up NOW while you still have the
CHANCE to be heard because these PAC $$ addicted
Senators need to be reminded that we even EXIST out
here:
WHAT TO TELL 'EM WHEN YOU CALL:
"I'm a dietary supplement consumer, and I am very
concerned about language buried inside of CAFTA and
FTAA which broadens and deepens the scope of the WTO's
SPS (Sanitary Phytosanitary Measures) Agreement.
Article 3 of the SPS in the WTO Agreement reads "To
harmonize sanitary and phytosanitary measures on as
wide a basis as possible, Members SHALL base their
food safety measures on international standards,
guidelines or recommendations."
This threatens to force harmonization of the Dietary
Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 to
mindlessly restrictive UN Codex standards which would
block my access to vitamins and minerals within the
therapeutic range, for starters, then other dietary
supplements as Codex expands.
It is evident to me from the book INTEGRATING THE
AMERICAS- THE FTAA & BEYOND by the Rockefeller
Foundation that this effort to expand NAFTA throughout
our hemisphere poses as much of a threat to our
national sovereignty as the EU currently does to the
sovereignty of each of its member countries.
From a fiscal standpoint, it makes no sense to
continue the failed policies of NAFTA which have
caused our $617 Billion trade deficit unless you have
abandoned your oath of office completely and are
trying to crush the doller to usher in a hemispheric
wide currency. I don't want to live under a world
government, I want to live in the America that used to
exist but which Congress is clearly attempting to
destroy on behalf of multinational corporate interests
who have no use for our constitution or Bill of
Rights.
Congressman Paul wrote an article correctly
identifying CAFTA as an unconstitutional threat to our
sovereignty.
http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2005/tst060605.htm
The Constitution clearly grants Congress alone the
authority to regulate international trade. The plain
text of Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 is
incontrovertible.
Neither Congress nor the President can give this
authority away by treaty, any more than they can
repeal the First Amendment by treaty. This
fundamental point, based on the plain meaning of the
Constitution, cannot be overstated. Every member of
Congress who votes for CAFTA is voting to abdicate
power to an international body in direct violation of
the Constitution.
Unless you vote AGAINST CAFTA and also oppose FTAA
with every fiber of your being, you can rest assured I
will oppose your political career as long as there is
a breath left in my body, because if you vote for
CAFTA, I will consider you to be threatening MY
LIFE!!!"
WHO TO CALL TO TELL THIS TO:
(Call the Capital Switchboard # 202-225-3121 and ask
to be connected to each of these people, and after
you're done talking with each one ask to be
reconnected to the switchboard so you can be connected
to the next one):
REPUBLICANS:
Charles Grassley, IA
Orrin Hatch, UT
Trentt Lott, MS
Olympia Snowe, ME
Jon Kyl, AZ
Craig Thomas, WY
Rick Santorum, PA
Bill Frist, TN
Gordon Smith, OR
Jim Bunning, KY
Mike Crapo, (pronounced "CRAY-PO") ID
DEMOCRATS
Max Baucus, MT
John D. Rockefeller,IV, WV
Kent Conrad, ND
Jeff Bingaman, NM
John Kerry, MA
Blanche Lincoln, AR
Ron Wyden, OR
Charles Schumer, NY
ALSO- Keep sending in this form letter where you can
also add your own comments
http://capwiz.com/lef/mail/oneclick_compose/?alertid=7739691
SNOWBALL THIS ALERT- IF CAFTA MAKES IT OUT OF
COMMITTEE TOMORROW (WEDNESDAY JUNE 29th) they're going
to bring it to the Floor of the Senate on FRIDAY, then
it goes before the House Ways and Means Committee and
to the Floor of the House after the week long July 4th
recess)
Donations Needed:
Donations are needed to Send John Hammell back to
Capital Hill for more lobbying on this issue.
See address below or donate via paypal at
http://www.iahf.com (paypal button on top of scrollbar
inside the site)
We have no leverage with the unelected bureaucrats at
CODEX, but we DO have leverage with members of our
congress and we CAN keep Codex from coming here, IF we
work together and OVERCOME the challenges of
organizing people during the summer when folks are on
vacation.
The elements of coersion ALWAYS make moves like this
against us during the summer, we just have to work
that much HARDER to stop them!
PLEASE SNOWBALL THIS ALERT!!
For Health Freedom,
John C. Hammell, President
International Advocates for Health Freedom
556 Boundary Bay Road
Point Roberts, WA 98281-8702 USA
http://www.iahf.com
jham@...
800-333-2553 N.America
360-945-0352 World
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 12:54:06 -0400
From: "Stardora" <stardo***@b*****.net>
Dear Natural Health Leader,
Thank you for sending a letter to the head of the U.S. Codex delegation.
Because of your action, the pressure is mounting to
keep the international trade of vitamins, herbs, and minerals open and free.
We have already sent over 22,000 letters to Dr.
Scarborough and our members of Congress, telling them to apply the principles
of our law, DSHEA, to international dietary supplement
standards.
Now it's time for one last push.
The next meeting of the Codex Alimentarius Commission is less than two
weeks away, on July 11th, and we need to make sure that
the will of the American people is fresh in the minds of the U.S. delegation.
That's why we need you to tell your friends and
family about our action alert.
Tell a friend. Forward this email to your colleagues, family and friends
with a note urging them to take action. We've made
it easy to send a message. It only takes 60 seconds to protect our health rights
-simply visit www.citizens.org or >>click here to
send a letter today!
Word of mouth is the most powerful way for you to spread the word about
Codex. Please take the time to tell as many people as
possible. With a strong, united voice we can insure that the trade of vitamins,
herbs, and minerals stays open and vibrant.
Thank you,
Patrick McGrath
Associate Director
Citizens for Health
612-879-7583
pmcgra***@c*****.org
ps. Your donations make Citizens for Health possible. To keep the Voice
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 15:47:56 -0400
From: "Stardora" <stardo***@b*****.net>
& Means Comm Tomorrow
| | > IAHF Webmaster: Codex Emergency, Breaking News, Whats New, What to Do
>
> IAHF List: CAFTA was passed this morning in the Senate Finance Committee
> by voice vote (so we can't find out how they voted) and it will be taken
> up at 10 am tomorrow morning in the House Ways and Means Committee.
>
> You can watch tomorrow's hearing on C-Span or over the link from the House
> Ways and Means Committee website at
> http://waysandmeans.house.gov/media/graphics/video.htm
>
> If it makes it out of committee tomorrow, the soonest it could go to the
> floor in either the House or Senate would be July 11th when congress
> reconvenes after July 4th recess, however it would probably be after that
> because A) they have to line up the votes, and B) it first has to go to
> the Rules Committee which would take a day or two. The Washington Post has
> stated that this battle could be decided in the House by as close a margin
> as ONE SINGLE VOTE, so our voice ACTUALLY MATTERS!
>
> It is IMPERATIVE that we KEEP THE PRESSURE ON and try to KILL CAFTA
> because it and the FTAA threaten to expand the scope and reach of the
> WTO's SPS Agreement, Article 3 of which would force harmonization to
> Codex.
>
> The list of committee members can be accessed here
> http://waysandmeans.house.gov/members.asp You can send email to any
> member of the House of Representatives via http://www.house.gov/writerep/
>
> WHAT TO SAY WHEN YOU CALL: (See list of names below)
>
> "As a vitamin consumer I am very concerned by the threat of globalization.
> CAFTA would expand the scope and reach of the WTO's SPS Agreement, Article
> 3 of which forces harmonization to restrictive UN CODEX standards for
> vitamins and minerals. Please watch the video "We Become Silent" narrated
> by Dame Judy Dench at http://www.welltv.com which fully addresses this
> threat.
> Additionally, I am sending you email which more fully addresses my
> concerns"
>
> THEN EMAIL THEM THIS:
>
> "I'm a dietary supplement consumer, and I am very concerned about language
> buried inside of CAFTA and FTAA which broadens and deepens the scope of
> the WTO's SPS (Sanitary Phytosanitary Measures) Agreement.
>
> Article 3 of the SPS in the WTO Agreement reads "To harmonize sanitary and
> phytosanitary measures on as wide a basis as possible, Members SHALL base
> their food safety measures on international standards, guidelines or
> recommendations."
>
> This threatens to force harmonization of the Dietary Supplement Health and
> Education Act of 1994 to mindlessly restrictive UN Codex standards which
> would block my access to vitamins and minerals within the therapeutic
> range, for starters, then other dietary supplements as Codex expands.
>
> It is evident to me from the book INTEGRATING THE AMERICAS- THE FTAA &
> BEYOND by the Rockefeller Foundation that this effort to expand NAFTA
> throughout our hemisphere poses as much of a threat to our national
> sovereignty as the EU currently does to the sovereignty of each of its
> member countries.
>
> From a fiscal standpoint, it makes no sense to continue the failed
> policies of NAFTA which have caused our $617 Billion trade deficit unless
> you have abandoned your oath of office completely and are trying to crush
> the doller to usher in a hemispheric wide currency. I don't want to live
> under a world government, I want to live in the America that used to exist
> but which Congress is clearly attempting to destroy on behalf of
> multinational corporate interests who have no use for our constitution or
> Bill of Rights.
>
> Congressman Paul wrote an article correctly identifying CAFTA as an
> unconstitutional threat to our sovereignty.
> http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2005/tst060605.htm The Constitution
> clearly grants Congress alone the authority to regulate international
> trade. The plain text of Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 is
> incontrovertible.
>
> Neither Congress nor the President can give this authority away by treaty,
> any more than they can repeal the First Amendment by treaty. This
> fundamental point, based on the plain meaning of the Constitution, cannot
> be overstated. Every member of Congress who votes for CAFTA is voting to
> abdicate power to an international body in direct violation of the
> Constitution.
>
> Unless you vote AGAINST CAFTA and also oppose FTAA with every fiber of
> your being, you can rest assured I will oppose your political career as
> long as there is a breath left in my body, because if you vote for CAFTA,
> I will consider you to be threatening MY LIFE!!!"
>
> WHO TO CALL TO TELL THIS TO:
>
> (Call the Capital Switchboard # 202-225-3121 and ask to be connected to
> each of these people, and after you're done talking with each one ask to
> be reconnected to the switchboard so you can be connected to the next
> one):
>
> HOUSE WAYS & MEANS COMMITTEE (VOTES THURSDAY)
>
> Members of the 109th Congress
> Bill Thomas, CA Chairman
> E. Clay Shaw Jr. , FL
> Nancy L. Johnson, CT
> Wally Herger, CA
> Jim McCrery, LA
> Dave Camp, MI
> Jim Ramstad, MN
> Jim Nussle, IA
> Sam Johnson, TX
> Phil English, PA
> J.D. Hayworth, AZ
> Jerry Weller, IL
> Kenny C. Hulshof, MO
> Ron Lewis, KY
> Mark Foley, FL
> Kevin Brady, TX
> Thomas M. Reynolds, NY
> Paul Ryan, WI
> Eric Cantor, VA
> John Linder, GA
> Bob Beauprez, CO
> Melissa A. Hart, PA
> Chris Chocola, IN
> Devin Nunes, CA
> Charles B. Rangel, NY
> Fortney Pete Stark, CA
> Sander M. Levin, MI
> Benjamin L. Cardin, MD
> Jim McDermott, WA
> John Lewis, GA
> Richard E. Neal, MA
> Michael R. McNulty, NY
> William J. Jefferson, LA
> John S. Tanner, TN
> Xavier Becerra, CA
> Lloyd Doggett, TX
> Earl Pomeroy, ND
> Stephanie Tubbs Jones, OH
> Mike Thompson, CA
> John B. Larson, CT
> Rahm Emanuel, IL
>
> ALSO- Keep sending in this form letter where you can also add your own
> comments
> http://capwiz.com/lef/mail/oneclick_compose/?alertid=7739691 Sending
> this in will help especially if it makes it out of committee tomorrow. The
> Washington Post stated last week that CAFTA could be decided in the House
> by a close a margin as ONE SINGLE VOTE.
>
> Other organizations are encouraging people to either communicate directly
> with US Codex Delegate Ed Scarbrough, or to urge the President and
> Congress to rein him in and to demand that he oppose ratification of the
> Codex vitamin standard.
>
> IAHF views their approach as senseless given that Codex could easily
> ratify anyway OVER our objection just via the power wielded by the EU
> alone, but beyond this, we view it as a political impossibility to rein in
> Scarbrough given that he's an unelected bureaucrat with a track record of
> violating the law on this Codex issue and given that he's a cog in the
> machinery of the executive branch of our government serving directly under
> a lame duck President who is awash in Pharma PAC Money and who we have
> very little influence over because he can't run for reelection.
>
> Given the closeness of the CAFTA battle in Congress, and given that we
> have zero influence over the unelected bureaucrats at CODEX while we DO
> have influence over Congress, under these circumstances we feel that we're
> recommending the course of action where we have the best political chance
> to succeed. If Codex does get sent back to step 5, it won't be due to
> anything our movement has even done, it would be due to language changes
> requested by Australia, Venezuela and especially CHINA.
>
> Please take action TODAY and forward this alert.
>
> IAHF needs donations to send John Hammell back to Washington to lobby on
> this issue. We can't stop Codex AT CODEX because we have no political
> influence over the unelected bureaucrats who will be making the decisions
> there, but we CAN stop codex from coming here by killing CAFTA/FTAA.
> >
> For Health Freedom,
> John C. Hammell, President
> International Advocates for Health Freedom
> 556 Boundary Bay Road
> Point Roberts, WA 98281-8702 USA
> http://www.iahf.com
> jham@i*****.com
> 800-333-2553 N.America
> 360-945-0352 World
>
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 21:06:17 -0400
From: "Stardora" <stardo***@b*****.net>
Send Their Form Letter in Too
| | > June 29, 2005
>
>
>
> "CAFTA is NAFTA on steroids!" That's how one experienced trade attorney
> describes the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA).
>
>
> And CAFTA is on the move. This morning, the U.S. Senate Finance Committee
> endorsed CAFTA, sending it to the full Senate for a vote which will likely
> take place in two days. The vote will be close, but pro-CAFTA forces
> believe they have enough votes to get it passed by the Senate. If they
> do, they will claim "momentum" and get the U.S. House to vote on it soon
> thereafter.
>
>
> The pro-CAFTA forces aren't really for true free trade. They are for
> global managed trade...because that is what CAFTA (like NAFTA) really is.
> Think about it. Why does it take over 1,000 pages to define free trade?
>
>
> We've had over 10 years of NAFTA so we should know what to expect with
> CAFTA. Again, "CAFTA is NAFTA on steroids!"
>
>
> CAFTA fits hand-in-glove with the world-government agenda to make the U.S.
> just another client state. How?
>
>
> Consider: CAFTA article 10.16.3 places the United States under the
> jurisdiction of international tribunals supervised by the United Nations.
>
>
> Consider: CAFTA article 10.5.2(a) states that these international
> tribunals must use "customary international law" as established by the
> "principle legal systems of the world" when deciding cases.
>
>
> Welcome to the United Nations' world court system!
>
>
> And then there's the unconstitutional granting of "fast track" authority
> to the president. Article I, section 8, clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution
> gives Congress the sole authority to regulate international trade. But
> CAFTA, like NAFTA, treats the U.S. Constitution as a relic.
>
>
> We already suffer from the World Trade Organization and its international
> bureaucrats. CAFTA will add another layer of unaccountable world elites
> who will tell us what we can and cannot do.
>
>
> Even the French understand the critical importance of national
> sovereignty. They recently rejected the proposed constitution of the
> European Union. Remember that the E.U. started as a trade agreement in
> 1957, and now it is a regional supra government.
>
>
> NAFTA. CAFTA. And then the Union of the Americas.
>
>
> We strongly urge a "no" vote on CAFTA. Tell your U.S. senators to reject
> CAFTA.
>
>
> To send your messages, go to
> http://capwiz.com/liberty/issues/alert/?alertid=7774311&type=CO
>
>
>
> Kent Snyder
> The Liberty Committee
> http://www.thelibertycommittee.org
> For Health Freedom,
> John C. Hammell, President
> International Advocates for Health Freedom
> 556 Boundary Bay Road
> Point Roberts, WA 98281-8702 USA
> http://www.iahf.com
> jham@i*****.com
> 800-333-2553 N.America
> 360-945-0352 World
>
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