WOW! You have touched my heart!
I bring you the problems and challenges in the Health Freedom struggle via radio shows, emails and blogs and you create the solution! Fifteen Thousand, Seven Hundred and Ninety Seven people have taken the time and the effort to tell Congress what is important to you, that you want a Congressional Hearing and you are very, very, VERY serious about protecting your health freedoms.
Now, multiply that number by the “correction factor” Congress applies to grass roots activities: every letter or fax = the voice of 13,000 people! You shared the opinions of 20, 233, 500 people with Congress. You told them that all of us want our health freedoms intact and that it is important to us to make sure that Congress knows enough about Codex to work hard to protect us from it. That’s what your voice can do when it is part of a full throated chorus of political opinion from us, not from the professional speech makers.
I told you that Health Freedom is expensive and asked you to help float the Natural Solutions Foundation financial boat since we have no other means of support. We said that we needed to raise $10,000 in thirty days. Today, on Day 18, your help and support has brought us $6385! Many of you understand how important this battle is to our very liberty itself. So you have joined the Health Freedom 400, by giving $25 or more to sustain the Natural Solutions Foundation. I offer each of you who has taken a stand for Health Freedom and health liberty a heartfelt and personal “Thank you!” To those of you still waiting to become part of this funding drive, right now would be a really, really good time to join the ranks of the Health Freedom 400. Please do not to wait for anymore time to pass before you click here to become a member of the Health Freedom 400, https://staging.drrimatruthreports.com/donate.
Thank you for your enduring support!
I told you that we needed grassroots action to get Congress to the [then scheduled] Congressional Briefing next week. Just counting those of you who used this site to , email Congress, http://tinyurl.com/c5jmw, alone, by midday Saturday (9/10/05) you had contacted nearly every Congressional Office to urge your Congressmen and women to attend our Codex Briefing. That’s not counting people who used other sites, phones, etc!
When I told you two days ago that the Congressional Briefing had been pulled out from under our firmly planted shoes, and asked you to email Congress to urge them to hold a Congressional Codex Briefing, you did that, too! In fact, since 10 AM Saturday morning (9/10/05) when I announced the “change in plans” with an email telling you what had happened, you have gone back to the computer and made those (virtual) wires hum! I am thrilled to tell you that 15,795 of you have written to Congress that health freedom is extremely mportant to you!
That’s a lot of grass roots and every one makes the basis of our Health Freedom movement stronger.
And remember when I brought you the problem that health freedom supporters are everywhere but we needed to find one another so we could get together? I suggested we use meetup.com, http://healthfreedom.meetup.com, to help us do that? Well, we now have a Health Freedom meetups in Los Angeles, one in Croton on Hudson NY, one in Seattle WA, one in North Carolina and people waiting to join meetups near their homes in Pennsylvania, Long Island, etc. So if you are interested in meeting with others who care about health freedom, go to http://healthfreedom.meetup.com and organize a meetup or join one.
Set the time and the location to be convenient to you and then meetup. Email me at info.healthfreedomusa.org and let me know you are having a meetup and I will email you materials to help organize and streamline the meeting. Keep me posted! Let’s use meetup as our electronic appointment book to find and share this immense task with others who understand what is at stake!
I am deeply honored to be in this struggle with you all because you are so responsive and persistent that we CAN win our health freedom!
Yours in health and determined freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Bill 05130. That number should scare you witless. Don’t go looking for it in the Library of Congress legislative site. You won’t find it there. But if you search Australia’s pending legislation and find it, you are looking at what WILL happen here in the US if we do not mount the most effective grass roots campaign in history.
Here is what Bill 05130 will do if passed (and it has had 1 reading in the Australian Parliament so far):
A 5 year jail term for anyone using, importing or providing anything not approved by the TGA (Australian FDA).
A 5 year jail term for anyone using, importing or providing any food like substance, even if it has a history of use by people for health purposes, which is not approved by the TGA (Australian FDA).
A long time health activist, when I was explaining about Codex Alimentarius, who is well into her 70’s, shrugged and said as I was telling her about the prohibition on nutrients at effective doses, “Well, we will always have veterinary medicine. I am not worried since I can always get what I need from that direction even if it is illegal!” True. But if Australian-style “health freedom” comes to visit our fair shores, this nice little old lady will be wearing prison lingerie and an orange jump suit.
Australia’s TGA and our own FDA (and, most importantly, the people and industries pulling the strings) have no commitment to health and no love of freedom. You and I do, of course, but unless we make up with audibility of our opinions what we lack in dollars for lobbying and marketing, we will follow Australia into the arid and deadly wasteland of preventable suffering and premature death because of toxic food and a total ban on immune-supporting and life giving legal nutritional supplements and herbs.
SHAME ON THEM! IS BIG PHARMA SO GREEDY THAT THERE IS ONLY ENOUGH PIE FOR HER SO EVERYONE ELSE STARVES TO DEATH! SHAME ON THEM!
Can’t happen here? Why not? Because you and I won’t let it happen here! Nothing but an activated and outspoken grass roots movement can stop this runaway waggon.
So here are the steps which urgently need to be taken by you and then passed on to others:
1. Start a meetup and use it to grow the grassroots. You can let people know you are organizing a meetup and they can use the meetup link to find you. Need help? Email me at info@healthfreedomusa.org
2. Tell Congress to attend the Codex Briefing on September 20, Room 2220 Rayburn. Most members of Congress have no clue about Codex. We’ll let them know what Codex is really all about.
3. Please give generously. If you have, thanks. We are approaching the half way mark in our 30 day fundraiser and we have not yet made 50% of our goal. Please make it possible to keep fighting for your health and your health
freedom.
4. Send out emails to everyone you know and direct them to www.HealthFreedomUSA.org ask them to join the mailing list.
Listen! Can’t you hear the sound of the grass [roots] growing by the hour? I can! I feel like a gardener!
Yours in health and the freedom to make things grown,
Dr. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
The good news is that we have written to 297 members of Congress to tell them we want them to attend the Congressional Codex Briefing , http://tinyurl.com/c5jmw, at noon on September 20, 2005, Room 2220 Rayburn. The bad news is that we have written to only 297 members of Congress to tell them that we want them to attend the briefing.
We are definitely on the right track and if you have sent your emails, thank you. And if you have sent the information out to your circle of influence, thank you for that, too. And if you are about to start a meetup, http://healthfreedom.meetup.com, (a local group of people who share you interest in health and health freedom and meet in a convenient spot like a Starbucks) I thank you deeply.
Grass roots is the name of the game. Numbers is the name of the grass roots game. Numbers will do it. Period. Thousands of emails and calls to the Congressional Switchboard, 202-224-3121, will get Congress to the Codex Briefing. Just thinking about it will not.
I have to tell you that I was thrilled to see that we are working the system so vigorously and so well. We are on the right track, to be sure. But, sad to say, Congress still needs more prodding. There are a whole lot of Congressional offices which have nowhere near the necessary 100 emails and calls yet.
We are building a movement to take back our health autonomy and our health freedom. We will NOT allow anyone to take away our right to make our own health choices.
And, by the way, for those of you who have supported our fund raising drive, once again, I thank you profoundly. Once the total for today is added, we will top the half way mark. Won’t you please add your donation to the others that sustain and support the Natural Solutions Foundation today? Every penny goes for the work of health freedom, there is no fat, only working muscle in this part of the body politic.
Yours in appreciation, health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
I just received a really nice email from a lady in Asheville, NC who said that when she contacted one of her Congressmen, Senator Burr, she was told that there was no Codex problem since “ThenNational Institute of Medicine will take care of us”! Holy Jumpin’ Gehosephat! Senator Burr apparently swims around in a cognitive stew with pieces of information brushing his nose and getting swatted away without ever being processed or digested.
Senator Burr and his prickly ilk are exactly the people who need to be at the Congressional Codex Briefing on September 20 at noon in Room 2220 Rayburn. How do we get them there? You tell them you want them to attend the Codex Briefing! If enough of you say it, they will get the idea and they will show up. We’ll tell them what Codex really is and what it means.
I was told today by a Washington insider that if just 100 people in each state email Congress , http://tinyurl.com/c5jmw, or call the Congressional Switchboard at 202-224-3121 Congress would see the groundswell and get themselves and their senior aides (very important) to the Codex Briefing. Just 100 in each state! We have supporters in every single state. This is an achievable goal!
I ask you to please take the responsibility seriously to let your Congressional Delegation know that you want them to attend this briefing. And share the task with your circle of influence by email so that they can go to http://tinyurl.com/c5jmw and do the same.
And, at the health freedom meetup, http://healthfreedom.meetup.com, you start (hint, hin!) you can help everyone else to do the same. If you are ready to start a meetup, go to http:/healthfreedom.meetup.com, sign up and we’re off! Contact me at info@healthfreeomusa.org for organizing materials, etc.
Thanks for your help!
Yours in activated health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Have you set up your local meetup yet for September 13, 2005 at 7:30? Yes? Congratulations! No? Well, now would be a really good time to do that. It’s really easy and will put you in touch with others who feel the same way you do about health freedom. Here’s how: Go to our meetup page, and start a meetup. Why? Because protection our health freedom is going to take a lot of us and meetup.com is a perfect way for us to find each other.
What to do at the meetup? The purpose of our first Health Freedom Meetup is to
1. Get to know each other around health freedom
2. Help everyone there to notify Congress to attend the Congressional Briefing on Codex on September 20, 2005 at noon, Room 2220 Rayburn
3. Enlist everyone to notify their circles of influence about the Congressional Briefing so that Congress gets a lot of input on this Briefing
4. Have a discussion about local action that you can take to raise awareness about health freedom in your community
5. Make realistic plans to carry out one project in your community which can inform other people about the issue.
The perfect meetup would have a computer (Starbucks are often configured for wireless) to allow people to send their request to their Congressmen to attend the Congressional Codex Briefing,
No computer? No worry. The meetup (computer or no) is a wonderfully effective means to getting your personal convictions up and running as a general item of social awareness to protect our rights to natural health and clean, unadulterated food.
Contact me at info@healthfreedomusa.org and I will email you materials to make your meetup easier to organize including Action Steps, Talking Points, Members List, membership forms, etc. I have postponed my local HealthFreedomMeetup so that I can be available to you by phone or speaker phone to say “Hi” and offer support. If you are running a meetup we can schedule a call. That would be terrific!.
Being a Meetup organizer costs $20 bucks a month, but I suggest you share the cost with the folks who come. If that’s not comfortable for you, the Natural Solutions Foundation will help you work it out. Just email me at info@healthfreedomusa.org and we’ll make it work. There is no way we are going to let $20 stand in the way of your community meetup! No way, no how! This is too important!
Awake, aware people standing up and making themselves heard: that’s how we will keep, and expand, our health freedom. Don’t believe it? Look at DSHEA, the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 which was passed by unanimous Congressional consent in 1994 when no Congressman in the country dared to oppose what was clearly the will of the people. We did it then, we can do it now. Before the population of this country rose up in clear political action saying, “Don’t you dare touch my health freedoms!” Congress was getting set to ban them all together. Congress was told in no uncertain terms that they could do that but it would end their political careers. They backed off.
Sounds good to me re: Codex and any restriction on natural health options. How about you? If you like the idea of a bunch of foreign bureaucrats telling you that you can’t have nutrients at clinically effective doses because they have declared nutrients to be toxins (!) but you have no choice but to eat contaminated foods ( e.g. , deadly banned pesticides, hormones, veterinary drugs and antibiotics, irradiation, etc), then, by all means, do not organize a meetup. If, on the other hand, that does not appeal to you, here’s your opportunity to make yourself heard!
See you at the First Health Freedom Meetup, September 13, 7:30 PM!
Yours in health and popular support of freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
PS: “Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. — Edmund Burke