November 15, 2007
Here are some of the letters we have been getting recently. They have not been edited but their authors’ names have been omitted. If you have a question or a comment you would like to share with the Natural Solutions Foundation, please feel free to send it along to the Natural Solutions Foundation at dr.laibow@gmail.com. We WILL answer you although it may take a little time since we are staffed by volunteers. If the matter is urgent, please say so in the subject line and we will give our email priority.
Thanks for writing! Keep those cards and letters coming!
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.orgwww.GlobalHealthFreedom.org
November 11, 2007
Dear Dr. Laibow:
I can tithe my time and feel this is very important-
I want to screen your videos for health professionals in the Body Mind field here in [writer’s home town]-
I am a licensed psychologist who works as an alternative healer/energetic therapist-
Our western health system is fascist and in shambles!
You are my hero! You go girl!
Contact me at [phone number redacted]
DM
I answered:
Dear DM:
Since I am in Germany at the Codex meeting calling you would be difficult BUT I am deeply grateful for your offer of help and your enthusiastic support.
I would be delighted if you would make sure that the professionals in your area are informed and, even more important, activated. You are quite right about our system and, since they are caught in the middle of it psychologically, culturally and personally, it is hard to see it until your eyes have been focused on the reality – and it is especially helpful if a peer assists in changing the cognitive framework.
I think the best place to start is a meeting with a brief introduction to the fact that the FDA is hell bent for leather on getting the economic competitors to drugs out of the way (giving people the opportunity to learn about the FDA Cam Guidance which will allow the FDA to define CAM as MEDICINE, thereby making the practice of natural techniques the province of licensed physicians ONLY, then discussing the other threats (what is your State doing to support or attack your activities?) and then an introduction to the Codex would be a pretty dense information flow for the first meeting. What should emerge from that is a determination to
1. learn more – please have our website available for people to go to:
2. do more – if people are energized to spread the word to colleagues and patients they can become a positive and effective force for protecting mind body practices
3. arrange another meeting with colleagues, patients, friends, etc. At that meeting, a screening of my nutricide lecture (available on “Nutricide: the DVD” , a discussion of the implications of the Codex process (including HARMonization) and how it fits into the US suppression of natural health, gathering signatures on the legal challenge to HARMonization, the Citizens Petition, having a computer available in the room so that people can go to our site and sign up for the Health Freedom Alert (and make donations to our Foundation if they are so inclined) right there and a group decision on the next steps for your community would be a great “two step process” all on its own.
Please contact Kathy Greene
Thanks for your support!
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Dear Dr. Laibow:
This [Codex threat] sounds like a worthwhile message, but I don’t really understand it.
> Can you, perhaps, explain it in terms that are simpler and more direct
> — and without quite so much detail?
WD
and we answered:
Dear WD:
Your email to Dr. Laibow was sent to me for response. Thank you for taking the
time to communicate.
Now, how can we make the message simpler?
In common law countries like the US, you are free to do whatever is not
specifically forbidden by law. In “code” countries, like most EU countries,
you can only do what is permitted by law.
Codex Alimentarius – the World Food Code – arose from part of the Napoleonic
Code and with its various approved lists and guidelines attempts to control
all foods, including supplements. It goes even further, though, led by a
chairman who has a personal interest in a “risk analysis” company in Germany.
Codex wants to treat supplements as though they were industrial toxins,
subjecting them to a “risk analysis” that would forbid all that have a
demonstrable impact (for good or ill). Without considering bio-individuality.
At the same time, of course, no such analysis is required for genetically
modified or irradiated foods or drugs (drugs are allowed to have “risks”
If you want to remain free to control your own food and healthcare, we need
your help. It’s that simple.
For Natural Solutions,
Ralph Fucetola, JD, Trustee
The Vitamin Lawyer.com Consultancy
http://www.vitaminlawyer.com
http://vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com
All Rights Reserved . . .
November 11,2007:
Dear Dr. Laibow:
Thank you very much for the update on what is going on regarding the attempted implementation of Codex Alimentarius. It has been an on-going battle to stave off the loss of our health freedoms ever since CODEX was adopted in the U.N. in the early 1960’s. Under the guise of uniform standards for all nations of the world for health and nutritional products, CODEX actually is designed to make it very difficult and expensive for the average person to have affordable access to herbs, vitamins, nutritional supplements and other health promoting products. The more people become healthy and don’t need pharmaceutical drugs, the less money the drug companies can make. It’s all about money. If we are all sick and have long-term degenerative diseases and are all on drugs, what a financial boon for big Pharma. Lately, the FDA has been trying to even prevent information from being published and distributed about historic and traditional benefits that have been known for centuries regarding natural herbs and other natural therapies and supplements. People should not be taking this sort of thing lightly but rather should be alarmed. The FDA has lost sight of it’s true purpose of keeping food & medicine safe and have instead become the pawn of the drug companies to squelch competition from the natural health sector so Big Pharma can have ALL the Pie. Luckily, more and more people are waking up to what is going on and are willing to do something about it like you have been. Thank you! Your efforts are very much appreciated! On Nov 11, 2007 10:16 PM, Vicki Knapp
Dear Dr. Laibow: Thank you very much for the update on what is going on regarding the attempted implementation of Codex Alimentarius. It has been an on-going battle to stave off the loss of our health freedoms ever since CODEX was adopted in the U.N. in the early 1960’s. Under the guise of uniform standards for all nations of the world for health and nutritional products, CODEX actually is designed to make it very difficult and expensive for the average person to have affordable access to herbs, vitamins, nutritional supplements and other health promoting products. The more people become healthy and don’t need pharmaceutical drugs, the less money the drug companies can make. It’s all about money. If we are all sick and have long-term degenerative diseases and are all on drugs, what a financial boon for big Pharma. Lately, the FDA has been trying to even prevent information from being published and distributed about historic and traditional benefits that have been known for centuries regarding natural herbs and other natural therapies and supplements. People should not be taking this sort of thing lightly but rather should be alarmed. The FDA has lost sight of it’s true purpose of keeping food & medicine safe and have instead become the pawn of the drug companies to squelch competition from the natural health sector so Big Pharma can have ALL the Pie. Luckily, more and more people are waking up to what is going on and are willing to do something about it like you have been. Thank you! Your efforts are very much appreciated! VK
We responded:
Dear VK:
And Thank YOU! Our effectiveness is in the fact that our associates (those on our email list) are wonderful, decent people who have a dream of what America can become again! They know that our health freedoms are an important part of that dream! Every time we ask that people send out messages to Congress, Wash DC gets blasted with tens of thousands of emails- much more than they are used to getting- and they know that our group is WATCHING!! The grassroots groups are growing and spreading the word, and hopefully, soon, we will be able to get millions of emails to Wash DC. Dr. Rima has tremendous energy! (It helps to be wearing skates if you are with her when she is lobbying in Congress!) So keep spreading the word, and if people are interested, get us their email addresses so we can keep them up to date, and stay focussed on that future we all hope to see!
Kathy Greene for Dr. Rima Laibow
November 11, 2007
Dear Dr. Rima:
First, I want to thank you for your dedicated work to fighting for
Health Freedom. I read most of your report about how “the team”
seems to be back sliding. What infuriates me is the fact that ANY
foreign regulation will attempt to control the nutrient
quality/quantity of our foods and supplements. Any attempt will
prove along the lines of genocide. Believe me, God in heaven will
call on those who will be awakened and this WILL be resisted and
overcome. He has had you fight this good fight, but please be
assured that you are not alone in this. His unconditional and
everlasting LOVE will sustain you and provide you with the relief you
will need when you think you just may be utterly alone. You are not
alone, Dr. Rima, and I felt led to just let you know this. Hang in
there, we are here fighting along side of you even if we are just in
the shadows. God Bless!
FF
We responded:
Hi FF!
What a nice letter! And yes, Dr. Rima has been doing a marvelous job of leading this crusade for health freedom! But our effectiveness is in our numbers and that includes people like YOU who happily send those thens of thousands of emails to Congress making the Powers that Be aware that we are all WATCHING! So keep spreading the news about Codex, et als., and when you meet people who wish to know more, get us their email addresses so that we can keep them up to date and so that we are soon sending MILLIONS of messages to Wash DC. That’ll keep em in line!!!!
Kathy Greene for Dr. Rima Laibow
Date: Nov 11, 2007 9:10 PM
Dr. PR sent a copy of a letter to another health freedom organization with two questions for them. We are glad he shared them with us, too:
Dear Sir/Ms:
1) As a member of the [another health freedom group], before I forward [Natural Solutions Foundation’s] email to my Distribution List, I kindly request that you comment on it and on one of its links:
2) The only person I ever hear from about what’s going on at the Codex nutrition deliberations is Dr. Laibow. Why don’t I ever hear from the [other organization] about what’s going on at the Codex nutrition deliberations?
Sincerely yours,
PR, PhD
We answered:
Thanks for letting us know about your questions. The reason you hear from the Natural Solutions Foundation when we attend Codex meetings is that we know that every one can’t be here, but everyone needs to know what is happening at Codex since it impacts us all so strongly.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
we responded:
This same correspondent started his communication to us this way:
Dear Dr. Laibow:
Asking Health Freedom supporters to send petitions to Schneeman is doing them a great disservice – it makes them think that they are doing something useful. It’s like asking asking civilized people to send a petition to Hitler to shut down the extermination camps and making them think that such actions would be helpful to his victims. Schneeman is a bureaucratic lowlife and nutritional Neanderthal who has done everything possible in her power to subvert nutritional freedom. It’s incredibly naive, even self-destructive, on your part to think she would be amenable to ANY number of petitions from health freedom supporters – they end up in her wastebasket as fast as they arrive. YOU ARE DIVERTING PRECIOUS CITIZENRY RESOURCES FROM MUCH MORE USEFUL ACTIONS, such as petitions to CONGRESSMEN asking them to clamp down on her criminal Codex actions on behalf of Big Pharma. Unless you change your petition approach to a more productive direction, I will reluctantly conclude that your
Health Freedom efforts will likely come to naught.
Sincerely yours,
PR, PhD
to which we replied:
Dear Dr. R.,
You have totally missed the point of the Citizens Petition, I am afraid. We are not petitioning Schneeman, nor are we petitioning Scarbrough. We are using our First Amendment Right to Petition for Redress to institute a legal challenge to the illegal “Harmonization” with Codex being carried out by the FDA. The process that we are involved in right now is called “Exhausting our administrative remedies” and renders the case, as they say in law, “Ripe” for further action.
So I beg to differ with you and actually wonder why you did not think to ask about the reason we have chosen this action before blasting us for not doing it in a way that made sense to you. Our health freedom actions are, in fact, well conceived and carefully planned with lawyers and expert strategists. No one is perfect and we could be making a mistake but, in fact, we are not.
Thanks for your input and your passion, though. I hope that you will continue to use it as a supporter of what we, alone among other health freedom organizations, are doing: solving the problem on multiple fronts.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
