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Friends,

The AMA is winning. Big money, hundreds of lobbyists and lawyers and 100 years of experience makes it's mark.

Walt

Comments?
Misty L. Trepke
http://www.searching-alternatives.com

Dastardly Doin's Down Under: Action Plan for New Zealand
HF Fighters.... Rest of World Take Notice. THE SAME SORT OF THING
IS A FOOT IN THE USA

Dear Frank

You are entirely correct in that we had all better react. A
similar move is afoot here in the US. The plan here is to make all
natural medicines meet FDA testing regulations that prescription
drugs have to meet. That will effectively remove them from the
market as they natural material can not be patented here in the
states so no one is going to do that expensive research that anyone
else can latch on to and sell or undercut them in the market. That
move will effectively ban them.

Here is a regurgitation of an article I posted earlier on the same
type of thing destine to happen here in the USA. It is already in
the works and in congress.

Hello,

Take a look at these pages. The Government is taking aim at the
supplement industry again and this time the seem to mean business.
If they succeed we will lose the natural materials and how much
further can the other goodies we are using to sustain ourselves with
be behind them? Please write congress and oppose the new bill. I
have written my representatives. I am looking for other groups
where I can post this message. Please repeat this warning and urge
anyone or group you know of that use supplements to petition
congress to preserve our ability to economically access these
gifts from God. Don't let them slip this one by under the radar, as
they are currently attempting to do.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/schroder5.html
http://www.puritan.com/house/actionalert.asp?
xs=4751FC7310674E0B860F1F730E9AC575&sc=0&edid=
http://capwiz.com/nnfa/issues/alert/?alertid=4089036

If you live in New York might I suggest that you please write Ms.
clinton some hate mail (election wise) in the hopes she will feel
the threat to her re-election prospects if she proceeds as one of
the prime movers of this bill which she is at the present time.
Everyone, PLEASE let your representatives know that we will hold
them accountable if they support such sneaky activity.

Be aware that the AMA and drug industry are powerful lobbies and
this is in their interest so we must act now to protect our access.
There was an issue of JAMA entirely dedicated to supplements 3-5
years ago where they lamented that supplements were the number two
form of self paid, elective medicine in America. They even admitted
in that article that many of the natural, (and therefore, UN-PATENT-
ABLE) materials WORK BETTER OR AS WELL AS AND ARE SAFER THAN
PRESCRIPTION DRUGS. They seemed to perceive that as an even
greater threat with several suggestions on how to suppress vitamins
and herbal materials in the public sector.

They proposed to lobby congress to do exactly this type of move in
that article to deny us access to them and drive that business to
the traditional medical community and prescription drugs. Please, I
am not condemning JAMA rather the authors of the articles. JAMA has
carried several very good articles on the useful nature of natural
supplements. That's what makes the new laws so egregious. The AMA
and pharma-chemical industry are despicable and will use any forum
they can to press their agenda. Today it is the congress and they
will legislate the materials you depend on out of your hands if you
don't react NOW! Please don't let them get away with it.

Thank you for your time and PLEASE HELP!

Mark (grgeek)

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Date: 29 May 2004 01:31:02 -0000
From: "IAHF.COM"
Subject: Dastardly Doin's Down Under: Action Plan for New Zealand HF
Fighters.... Rest of World Take Notice

IAHF Webmaster: Whats New, Asia, New Zealand/Australia...What to Do,
Codex

IAHF List: [New Zealanders go directly to
http://www.healthcharter.org.nz/
or skip directly to Action Plan Below]

EVERYONE REGARDLESS OF COUNTRY: PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!! WE MUST HELP
OUR FRIENDS IN NEW ZEALAND- THEIR BATTLE IS OUR BATTLE- HERE IS WHY:

See article MASSIVE MULTINATIONAL ASSAULT on ALTERNATIVE MEDICINES
http://joevialls.altermedia.info/subliminalsuggestion/vitamins.html

In 2003, under totally false pretenses the Australian so called
"Therapeutic Goods Agency" (their FDA) yanked 1,363 different
product lines off Australian health food store shelves without a
single solitary product assay to demonstrate that any of these safe
products were the least bit dangerous.

This was a full scale nuclear strike against consumers right to
access the dietary supplements of their choice, and it was generated
under the cover of a fiasco called the "Pan recall" wherein the
largest supplement manufacturer in Australia, Pan Pharmaceuticals,
was stripped of its manufacturing site license and totally shut down
just because an OTC motion sickness drug they were selling called
Travacalm caused some problems.

Travacalm's active ingredient, dymenhydranate, is a known
hallucinogen- and its effects have been thoroughly described on
websites which recreational drug users peruse.

An appropriate TGA response to the Travacalm problem would have been
to pull all products containing dymenhydranate off the market and to
ban them completely, but because motion sickness drugs similar to
Travacalm are manufactured by a slew of politically powerful
multinational pharmaceutical companies which use the TGA and its
international counterparts as trade associations to suppress the use
of dietary supplements- that reasonable course of action was not
followed.

What happened instead was truly nauseating: the shut down of Pan was
used to fuel a massive media circus condemning allegedly "unsafe"
dietary supplements- and its against THIS BACKDROP that the tiny
island nation of New Zealand is fighting as I type this for its very
SURVIVAL as a sovereign nation.

I have come to truly admire New Zealand and its people. They're
ruggedly independent, and to them, their hulking gigantic neighbor
is about as popular as a parahna in a hot tub. Some of you may think
that what's happening in Australia and New Zealand is "irrelevant"
to you because you live in Canada, or America, or Europe- but
if you think that, you're not seeing the globalists game clearly
enough and I urge you to keep reading.....

THE JOINT THERAPEUTIC TREATY (JTA) MUST BE URGENTLY OPPOSED BY
VITAMIN CONSUMERS IN NEW ZEALAND.... AND ALL OVER THE WORLD!

Where one of us is in chains, NONE of us are free. Yesterday I spoke
with Kenneth McIver, an alternative practitioner in New Zealand, and
a board member of the New Zealand Charter of Alternative Health
Practitioners.

He's filled me in that its IMPERATIVE that everyone in New Zealand
write to, fax, email and call the LABOR MPs on the list below,
because any day now the NZ Parliament will get around to voting on
whether or not to RATIFY the Joint Therapeutic Treaty (JTA) with
Australia, which would create ONE set of regulations (Australia's
mindless pharmaceutical regs which allowed the Pan debacle to occur)
for BOTH countries.....

Fortunately for the Kiwis on the IAHF list, the Opposition Parties
of New Zealand have been refusing (thus far anyway) to ratify this
Treaty, so at least until now, it does not yet have the force of law
inside New Zealand, but that could change, and if it does, New
Zealand vitamin consumers will be in SERIOUS trouble. [SEE ACTION
PLAN BELOW!!]

WAKE UP CALL FOR VITAMIN CONSUMERS WORLD WIDE!!
Last summer, in total violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and
Freedoms (Canadian equivalent to the US Constitution), Canada's
vitamin regulations were forcibly harmonized to Australian law while
most Canadians paid no attention, falsely believing they'd won a
health freedom "victory" in 1997 with the "third category."

Trueman Tuck of Friends of Freedom in Canada
http://www.friendsoffreedom.org/ has been making a valiant effort to
push bill C-420 through Parliament, but it doesn't look as though
they have time to get it through because a Canadian election will be
held in the near future this summer. FoF also has a legal effort to
overturn the illegal regs, however. If you're in Canada, I urge you
to send the action letters on the FoF website in to your MPs and
also to forward this alert to vitamin consumers world wide,
especially if you have friends or family in New Zealand.

Americans can't ignore Canada's having harmonized its vitamin law to
Australia's because Canada is our northern flank- and with the FTAA
breathing down our necks in our hemisphere threatening to be a
carbon copy of the EU Dictatorship, we can't afford to ignore whats
going on around us because "harmonization" of the laws is occurring
world wide via many means- including, but not limited to CODEX.

Americans should never forget that at the recent Codex meeting in
Montreal of the Committee on Food Labeling, the US Codex Delegate
stabbed our nation in the back by wrongly turning his back on the
South African proposal which could have blown Codex wide open and
which was in sync with US vitamin law. Thus none of us can afford to
be complacent about anything happening in the world today on the
health freedom front and ALL of us must donate to the Alliance for
Natural Health's lawsuit to overturn the EU Food Supplement
Directive via http://www.alliance-natural-health.org due to the
political clout wielded by the EU at CODEX. As goes the EU, so goes
the WORLD- but we must see the Global Chessboard fully.... which
brings me back to the

DASTARDLY DOIN's DOWN UNDER: ACTION PLAN FOR ALL KIWIS TO MOVE ON
NOW!!!

Yes its True Australian Harmonisation will destroy Natural Therapies
and Small Businesses.

By Signing the "Joint Therapeutic Agency" (JTA Treaty) The N Z
Government will give away to Australia The "Regulation of
Therapeutic Products."

Your Government will effectively "Destroy Free Access by New
Zealanders" to Dietary Supplements and Therapeutic Products from
world wide sources.

Over 6,000 products will be banned or locked out of the New Zealand
market.

Forcing up to 200 small business to close.

Up to 95,000 New Zealanders involved in manufacturing, importing,
supplying, distributing, marketing, retailing and direct selling
will loose their jobs.

To find out more and what action you can take
Surf to :- www.healthcharter.org.nz
or scroll down for Health Freedom Action Plan

To Opt-out from this mail list Send a Completely Blank email with
"unsubscribe" (without the quotes, in the subject line to ;
healthch@ihug.co.nz Our automatic robot will totally ignore any
other email with words typed in it.

Health Freedom

- Action Plan -

Government Attack on the Freedom of Health Choice

Dietary Supplements Outlawed?

The Joint Therapeutic Treaty (JTA) will outlaw New Zealanders access
to thousands of dietary supplements (at least 6,000 safe healthy
dietary supplements will no longer be available).

New Zealand's global access to new and innovative products will be
repressively restricted by the JTA Treaty, effectively banning new
products.

The cost of dietary supplements under the JTA Treaty will escalate
and in some instances production costs will more than double.

Loss of thousands of Jobs?

Thousands of New Zealanders (up to 95, 0000 in the healthcare
industry) involved in manufacture, export, distribution and
retailing of safe healthy dietary supplements will be forced out of
business. Employees will lose their jobs because of excessively high
JTA Treaty registration and compliance cost by an Australian
dominated bureaucracy that restricts free trade in safe healthy
dietary supplements.

Safe Dietary Supplements?

New Zealand Medsafe, in their submission to the Parliamentary Health
Select Committee, without scientific proof and a reliance on tabloid
newspaper articles, set out a table that when analysed indicated
that under a half of a percent of the available dietary supplements
were perhaps unsafe. Medsafe maintained that dietary supplements
must be regulated in the same way as inherently unsafe prescription
pharmaceutical medicines are regulated by the Australian Therapeutic
Goods Authority. The facts are that in twenty years dietary
supplements have not been the cause of a single death in New
Zealand (in the same period there were 100,000 prescription drug
deaths in New Zealand Public Hospitals). Medsafe has not taken any
steps to rectify this unnecessary death situation.

Your government is giving away your basic human right to take care
of your own health and the health of your children and loved ones.

Your government is determined to give away your right to Freedom of
Health Choice and self determination

Your Government has totally ignored its own Health Select Committee
recommendations and is ready to sign the JTA Treaty surrendering
health sovereignty to the Australian controlled Joint Therapeutic
Agency Treaty.

To preserve your Health Freedom of Choice you need to take action
TODAY and to encourage EVERYONE you know to take action TODAY.

Photocopy this Action Plan and distribute to all your contacts.

Take action TODAY - Tomorrow will be too late

Action steps:

Members with internet access should go to the Charter website and
download the Government Members List .csv file, which also includes
email addresses. This file should import into most Address Books and
is very convenient for Mail Merging and forwarding a number of
emails.

www.healthcharter.org.nz

Forward letters to Government Members of Parliament.
Be sure to include the date and your return address
Be formal and polite but firm.
Include a formal salutation such as the following.
"Rt. Hon John Doe MP Dear Sir or Dear Madam"
as the case may be.

Next include a heading. Use your creative talents to create a
heading that highlights your opinion.

Some examples:

Save Our Supplements.
NO Lock Out of Dietary Supplements and Health Care Products.
Vote No to the JTA Treaty.
Say No to Aussie Rules.
Support New Zealand Small Health Businesses.
Preserve New Zealand's Health Sovereignty.
Protect New Zealand's Health Freedom of Choice.
Do Not Sell Out Our Health to Australian Domination.
Australia to Dictate New Zealand Health-NO WAY!

What should you say?

The most important and attention grabbing statement for members of
parliament is; I will not vote for you or your Party if you support
the JTA Treaty.

Next important;

Describe who you are and individualise your letter

Use one of the following as a guideline and modify the content.

I am a practitioner with a large number of clients who rely on my
practice for their primary corrective and preventative health care.

I am employed in the health sector and the JTA Treaty will be
detrimental to my continued employment.

I work full time (or part time) with dietary supplements and the JTA
Treaty will force me out of work.

I run a small business and the JTA Treaty will ruin my business.

My family and I rely on access to a wide range of dietary
supplements to maintain our health status. Our extended family and
friends also rely on dietary supplements.

I am a student and I am totally opposed to any infringement on my
Freedom of Choice in Health Care.

I am a solo parent and rely on natural healthcare to keep my family
healthy.

I am a voting New Zealander and am passionate and determined in
regards to my human right of freedom of choice and self
determination in health care.

I am a.(one of the above).......and the JTA Treaty will remove my
right of access to my cultural and Traditional Medicines.

I am of Maori descent and the JTA Treaty will deny me the right to
access Traditional Maori Medicine.

I am of Maori descent and the JTA Treaty illegally contravenes my
rights as sealed under the Treaty of Waitangi

I am (a Pacific Islander -Chinese - Indian - Philippino - Malaysian,
etc the JTA Treaty will deny me the right to access Traditional
Medicine of my choice.

Be creative and add any other pertinent information.

Caution: Do not fall into the trap of arguing individual aspects of
the JTA Treaty.

The main effort must be to get the message across that a large
segment of the New Zealand electorate is opposed to the JTA Treaty.

The Last Paragraph is most important:

Most important

I require your reply stating how you will vote on the JTA Treaty
within the next seven days.

Special Note:

Above all your letter needs to be polite, but firm. Your main
message needs to that your vote is at risk. This is the main message
that parliamentarians understand.

If you do not receive a reply in seven days.

Forward another letter strongly requesting a reply.

Important:

Do not forget to sign your letter. Double check for spelling or
grammatical errors. Make sure your letter is dated.

Make sure that your letters are addressed to individual members of
parliament by name.

Members of parliament do not take any notice of form letters; this
is why your letters must be individualised to be effective.

Effective Methods:

Out of all the ways to communicate with Members of Parliament a
letter is the most effective.

A letter forwarded to members of parliament does not require a
postage stamp if addressed to;

Freepost Parliament
PO Box 18888
Wellington

Fax the Members of Parliament

Sending a fax is the next most effective method. Unfortunately a
large number of faxes can tie up the members fax machine and office
staff and be very annoying. Faxes do however get attention and can
be very effective, especially a large number of faxes.

Email

Sending emails is the easiest and most convenient method.

Unfortunately emails can be easily

deleted or if the subject line of a number of emails are all the same
diverted to the recycle-rubbish bin.

However if enough emails are forwarded they must have an impact.

The main object of the - Health Freedom Action Plan - is to get the
message across to Members of Parliament that there is a large
section of the population that will be adversely effected if they
vote in favour of the JTA Treaty.

So what is the best method to get your message across?

The simple answer - All Of The Above.

So start writing today. The future of your health, your family's
health and the health of generations not yet born are at risk from
the JTA Treaty.

This Government has been guilty of enacting a number of legislative
changes without adequate consultation with electors. They need to be
informed that they have gone too far. With your assistance we just
may obtain a more open approach to the creation of useful and
supportable legislation. We need a democratic government that takes
notice of the wishes and aspirations of the people.

Spread the Word

Inform clients, Neighbors, friends and all contacts including Talk
Back Radio, about the negative effects of this Treaty and that the
Government and the Ministry of Health are bulldozing this Treaty
through Parliament and only their action can stop it.

To recap some main points

The Health Select Committee will report back to Parliament on May
25th.

It is not known as to how soon Government will take action on the JTA
Treaty, but it is understood that Government is committed to
adopting the Treaty regardless of the high level of opposition by
New Zealand electors.

Under the JTA Treaty

Australia will have absolute and total control over the health of
all New Zealanders.

The Freedom of choice and self determination in health will be
abolished.

Practitioner Only remedies will be no longer available.

6,000 or more health products will no longer be available.

Small health related businesses will be forced to close.

96,000 thousand jobs will be at risk.

Do not submit to the chains of Australian domination.

TAKE ACTION TO DAY

The above action plan is presented by The New Zealand Charter of
Health Practitioners Incorporated for the "Health Freedom of Choice
for all New Zealanders."

First Name
Last Name
E-mail Address
Business Street
Business Fax

Hon Rick
Barker MP
rbarker@ministers.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 472 8036

Tim
Barnett MP
tim.barnett@parliament.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 470 6773

Hon David
Benson-Pope MP
dbenson-pope@ministers.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 499 7393

Georgina
Beyer MP
karen.gibson@parliament.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 472 6268

Hon Mark
Burton MP
mburton@ministers.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 495 8465

Hon Chris
Carter MP
ccarter@ministers.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 472 8034

Dr Ashraf
Choudhary QSO
gunda.tente@parliament.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 473 6358

Rt Hon Helen
Clark MP
pm@ministers.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 473 3579

Clayton
Cosgrove MP
clayton.cosgrove@parliament.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 470 6922

Hon Dr Michael
Cullen MP
mcullen@ministers.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 495 8442

Hon David
Cunliffe MP
michelle.tingey@parliament.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 471 2360

Lianne
Dalziel MP
lianne.dalziel@parliament.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 473 6372

Helen
Duncan MP
helen.duncan@parliament.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 472 7036

Hon Harry
Duynhoven MP
harry.duynhoven@parliament.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 472 8052

Hon Ruth
Dyson MP
marie.davis@parliament.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 470 6784

Russell
Fairbrother MP
office@fairbrother.net.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 472 8013

Hon Taito Phillip
Field MP
tpfield@ministers.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(09) 276 4799

Martin
Gallagher MP
martin.gallagher@parliament.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 473 6358

Hon Phil
Goff MP
pgoff@ministers.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 495 8444

Hon Mark
Gosche MP
mark.gosche@parliament.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 470 6785

Ann
Hartley MP
ann.hartley@parliament.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 499 0967

Hon George
Hawkins MP
ghawkins@ministers.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 495 8464

Dave
Hereora MP
dave.hereora@parliament.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 472 7036

Hon Marian
Hobbs MP
mhobbs@ministers.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 495 8467

Hon Pete
Hodgson MP
phodgson@ministers.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 495 8449

Hon Parekura
Horomia MP
parekura.horomia@parliament.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 495 8475

Darren
Hughes MP
jo.goss@parliament.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 472 2010

Hon Annette
King MP
aking@ministers.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 495 8445

Luamanuvao Winnie
Laban MP
nari.auelua@parliament.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 473 6372

Janet
Mackey MP
eastcoast.mp@xtra.co.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 470 6779

Moana
Mackey MP
pam.lobb@parliament.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 473 6358

Hon Steve
Maharey MP
smaharey@ministers.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 495 8443

Nanaia
Mahuta MP
tainuielectorate@xtra.co.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 470 6781

Hon Trevor
Mallard MP
tmallard@ministers.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 495 8448

Hon Damien
O'Connor MP
doconnor@ministers.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 472 8054

Mahara
Okeroa MP
richie.harris@xtra.co.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 473 6372

David
Parker MP
sue@davidparkermp.gen.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 473 1562

Mark
Peck MP
mark.peck@parliament.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 470 6923

Jill
Pettis MP
lyn.crossley@parliament.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 472 2010

Lynne
Pillay MP
lynne.pillay@parliament.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 470 6928

Mita
Ririnui MP
mariane.davies@parliament.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(07) 577 6006

H V Ross
Robertson MP
ross.robertson@parliament.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 471 2235

Hon Dover
Samuels MP
dsamuels@ministers.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 471 0811

Hon Jim
Sutton MP
isutton@ministers.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 495 8447

Hon Paul
Swain MP
pswain@ministers.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 495 8466

Hon John
Tamihere MP
tamakimakaurau@xtra.co.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 472 8032

Hon Judith
Tizard MP
jenny.stevens@parliament.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 495 8470

Hon Margaret
Wilson MP
mwilson@ministers.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 495 8460

Dianne
Yates MP
janina.pawlak@parliament.govt.nz
Freepost Parliament PO Box 18888 Wellington
(04) 473 1562
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