urgent by April 30th or all our cures lost (info, too)

First it just looked like they were going to just regulate vitamins,
etc., but it goes WAY farther than that... this is the countdown, folks...
http://www.newstarget.com/021792.html
http://www.newstarget.com/021789.html

Comments and feedback to FDA only until April 30th.

If the FDA has its way, even vegetable juices will be regulated as
"drugs." Massage props and hot rocks will be classified as "medical
devices," and the entire nutritional supplements industry will be
destroyed, wiped off the slate, and replaced by a stronger-than-ever
pharmaceutical monopoly that has already taken over virtually the
entire U.S. government.

This is an urgent action item. You still have until April 30 to post
comments with the FDA or write your representatives, and you can join
hundreds of thousands of other readers who are taking a stand right
now to stop this medical tyranny in its tracks. Contact details and
web links are printed in the story.

A new FDA "guidance" document, published on the FDA's website, reveals
plans to reclassify virtually all vitamins, supplements, herbs and
even vegetable juices as FDA-regulated drugs. Massage...

AND

A careful reading of the new CAM Guidelines published by the Food and
Drug Administration reveals that items used in religious ceremony are
now subject to being regulated as drugs or medical devices. Holy
water, annointing oils, prayer beads, rosaries and even religious
paintings or sculptures can now be classified as drugs or medical
devices and essentially outlawed by the FDA.

Sound absurd? It is absurd. But read the article yourself to get the
details. Essentially, ANY object to which a therapeutic value is
claimed can be classified as a medical device. So if a church says
that prayer beads have a therapeutic effect on a person, the FDA
suddenly deems those prayer beads to be medical devices.

ANY oil or water to which a therapeutic value is claimed is considered
a "drug." Holy water, for example, which is often described as
imparting a therapeutic effect upon those who consume it or come into
contact with it, is quite clearly considered a "drug" by the FDA and
could easily be regulated as such.

It's not what's in the water that counts, it's the claims attributed
to it. Any object can be instantly transformed into a "medical device"
by simply stating that it has some sort of therapeutic effect on a
person. As a result, YOUR religious practices could be regulated by
the FDA, and any person in your church who uses objects in healing,
enhancing or providing therapeutic benefits to other individuals could
be arrested for "practicing medicine without a license."

Don't believe me? Read the story yourself. This is actually 100% in
agreement with the FDA's openly-stated position on "alternative"
medicine. (Anyone who disagrees with this assessment hasn't read the
relevant FDA regulations and guidelines.)

Health: New FDA guidelines threaten religious freedoms; Holy water
could be regulated as "drugs" and rosaries as "medical devices"
The FDA has a long history of attacking and suppressing health
freedoms (see our article, Tyranny in the USA: The true history of FDA
raids on healers, vitamin shops and supplement companies)...

> Don't believe me? Read the story yourself.

The funny thing is, I've been subscribed to health
discussion groups for years, and it seems that every
year (perhaps more than once per year), someone
posts something where they claim that all of our
supplements will be banned in the near future. This
was certainly alarming the first time I heard it,
but now that it's been about 10 times, I find it
all rather difficult to believe... of course, that's
just what the FDA wants! :-)

Can you imagine all the lawsuits this would cause?
And the FDA would certainly loose -- they couldn't
even keep ephedra off the market.

And do you think the general public is going to
allow vitamins to be made illegal? Or massages? :-)

Marc

In a message dated 4/13/2007 8:33:23 PM GMT Standard Time, [hidden email]
writes:

First it just looked like they were going to just regulate vitamins,
etc., but it goes WAY farther than that... this is the countdown, folks...
_http://www.newstarghttp://www.newhttp_
(http://www.newstarget.com/021792.html)
_http://www.newstarghttp://www.newhttp_
(http://www.newstarget.com/021789.html)

Comments and feedback to FDA only until April 30th.

If the FDA has its way, even vegetable juices will be regulated as
"drugs." Massage props and hot rocks will be classified as "medical
devices," and the entire nutritional supplements industry will be
destroyed, wiped off the slate, and replaced by a stronger-than-dest
pharmaceutical monopoly that has already taken over virtually the
entire U.S. government.

This is an urgent action item. You still have until April 30 to post
comments with the FDA or write your representatives, and you can join
hundreds of thousands of other readers who are taking a stand right
now to stop this medical tyranny in its tracks. Contact details and
web links are printed in the story.




PAUL UK REPLIES - PITY THEY ARE NOT SO QUICK TO REGULATE MOBILE PHONES AND
THE LIKE !






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--- In [hidden email], "Marc Martin" <marc@...> wrote:
IF this is a false alarm, lucky us. However, if, as you suggest, the
idea is to make us think this is "the boy who cried wolf," then do you
want YOUR flock of vitamins to be lost?  

> Can you imagine all the lawsuits this would cause?
> And the FDA would certainly loose -- they couldn't
> even keep ephedra off the market.

The Life Extension Foundation was able to win a case against the FDA.
Now think of how many others, doctors, small companies, do not have
the resources to fight the FDA in court.
Now think of how many things they have successfully suppressed. Rife,
tryptophan, laetrile, to mention just a few.
 
> And do you think the general public is going to
> allow vitamins to be made illegal? Or massages? :-)

Indeed I do think that the general public (I agree with the new term
"sheeple") will allow anything to be taken from us. Just take a look
at America today. People are overwhelmed by stress and media
misinformation. The general public allows deceptive advertising and
massive pollution of food supply. They allow toxins in almost every
food in the grocery and feed them to their children. The general
public allows mass medication of themselves, their kids and
grand-parents. The general public allows election fraud. The general
public follow directions given by "authorities" who have been proven
liars.

So, yes, I DO, unfortunately, think that the general public would
allow vitamins to be made into prescription items and for anything
over-the-counter to be diminished into uselessness.

Thank you for reminding me how painfully depressing the general public
is :-(