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Tyrannical FTC Threatens Christian Church with
Imprisonment for Selling Dietary Supplements
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unlawful activity that is taking place here in the US by our
own so called government - right in front of the majority of
seemingly blinded eyes. Thus, we want to do our part to
assure that at least all of you will not be in that group.
I printed this article on the 14th from a newsletter that I
receive. I didn't get it read until this morning.
There is real significance and importance to this timing since
just this week we learned that a close personal friend was
attacked both as a business and personally by the Federal
Trade Commission within this last week. Their business
involves innovative energy technologies that is providing
solutions to most of the worlds energy problems. His
credit card would not go through last Thursday a week ago and
this was the first indication that something was not right.
Upon checking with the bank that issued the card, he was told
that the FTC had frozen the account. Upon further
checking he learned that, that was not all they froze. They
also froze not only their business accounts which
contained hundreds of thousands of dollars but also he and his
wife?s personal accounts as well. This was on Thursday
of last week and needless to say payroll and everything else
was impossible to meet for their employees the next day.
There were no court papers served until last Monday, a
holiday. It turned out to be a temporary restraining order
that prevents him from selling any of his companies products.
He was ordered by the Judge to be in court yesterday for a
deposition which included turning over all of the confidential
records of the business. This is not constitutional or
lawful. Depositions can only be ordered after a suit has
been filed. Depositions are a part of the discovery
process. I don?t yet know what happened yesterday but it is
possible that he refused to comply and may in fact be in jail
right now. Also, the judge refused him to be represented
by the attorney of his choice, who happened to be an attorney
that has been successful in winning lawsuits perpetrated by
the FTC. By the way the FTC could not produce even one
complaint that had been filed regarding my friends business or
technologies. The only thing mentioned as to the reason
for their attack was that a well known scientist had presented
a document that gave his, 'paid, expert witness, opinion',
that one of the patented technologies the company is selling
is scientifically impossible to work as designed. Of
course, this is untrue since there are thousands of the units
out in the public and around the world that are working every
day.
The significance of passing this article along is simply that
after hearing directly from my friend what is going on with
him, this article is repeating everything that we had just
heard from him two days ago. The only difference being
the church and herbal products that they are selling. So
now we all know of three totally separate entities (a church,
a technology business, and the health food industry) being
wrongly targeted by the FTC because of their own apparent
agenda. Who will be next? Will it be you or someone that
you personally know? You can be sure that their plan is
to continue attacking others who are innocent and defenseless.
God is the only one who can defend from these kinds of attacks
which come directly from Satan.
Would you please join me in praying for these innocent victims
and ask that God would send Jesus and his angels to stand in
the gap between the offensive FTC and their other planned
targets? Our friend will be in court next Monday the
26th. The purpose of this hearing is for the judge to
determine if there is enough evidence to issue a permanent
restraining order and trial or decide that the charges are
frivolous and drop them. Just pray that the judge is
honest, for if she is the charges will be dropped.
Please fee; free to pass this along to those you would like to
be informed. Please remove my name and e-mail address if
you forward it.
Thanks for your time and may God bless you and your family and
friends.
J
NaturalNews.com printable article
Originally published January 13 2009
Tyrannical FTC Threatens Christian Church with
Imprisonment for Selling Dietary Supplements
By Mike Adams, NaturalNews Editor
(NaturalNews) The FTC has unleashed a new assault against both
dietary supplements and religious freedoms by targeting a
Christian church for termination. Through exclusive interviews
and conversations with health freedom attorney Jim Turner
(http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Podcas...), NaturalNews has learned that the church Daniel Chapter One (www.DanielChapterOne.com) has been targeted by the FTC for destruction.
Throughout 2008, the FTC has been on a free speech rampage,
sending threatening demands to 130 companies selling dietary
supplements. It has specifically targeted organizations
selling anti-cancer dietary supplements. The typical FTC legal
assault involves the sending of a threatening letter to the
company or church being targeted, where FTC demands to:
Organizations that refuse to meet the FTC's demands are
threatened with the following:
On that last point, it's important to note that the FTC is now
functioning as both Judge and Jury, as it has set up its own
"private" FTC court in Washington D.C., where the
right to a trial by jury does not exist, and the FTC's own
appointed judges render decisions against the accused (the
dietary supplement companies) without using any
commonly-accepted legal standards whatsoever. It is
essentially a military court where you are considered guilty
until proven innocent.
In its threatening letters sent to dietary supplement
companies, the FTC demands that the principals of such
companies appear in their own private FTC court to face
charges. Failure to appear is considered an admission of
guilt, causing your company to be shut down by the FDA while
you're arrested and brought up on yet more federal charges.
Out of approximately 130 companies that have been targeted and
threatened by the FTC, only 10 have so far refused to sign the
so-called "consent decree" documents put forth by
the FTC, which require company principals to admit to
committing crimes they did not commit (crimes such as
"selling unapproved drugs" which are really just
fruit extracts or herbal supplements, for example).
This is a very similar situation to what the FDA is doing in
its own campaign of tyranny against natural health companies.
NaturalNews has previously documented the FDA's operation of a
criminal extortion racket that's very similar to the FTC's
actions. Read the details here: http://www.naturalnews.com/024567.html
Too terrorized by the FTC to speak out
NaturalNews has spoken to many companies targeted by the FTC.
Nearly all of them have been too terrorized by the FTC to be
willing to go on the record with an interview. Although they
have all told me privately that they believe they are being
targeted by a criminally-operated FTC waging an anti-health
witch hunt, they are too afraid of winding up in prison to go
on the record with their views.
This fact alone should cause serious concern for anyone
reading this. Since when was America a country of secret
regulatory police who terrorized the business community into a
state of silent fear? The FTC is clearly using tactics of
terror and tyranny to silence the very companies and
individuals it is targeting for termination. (And by
"termination," I mean the termination of their
freedoms and their businesses, not assassination. Not yet,
anyway.)
Only three companies have agreed to go on the record with
NaturalNews and voice their opposition to the FTC's campaign
of tyranny. Daniel Chapter One is one of them. They are
devoutly refusing to abide by the FTC's demands, and they're
challenging the very premise of the FTC's authority.
With the help of health freedom attorney Jim Turner, the
principals of Daniel Chapter One are claiming the FTC has no
authority over churches and non-profit organizations.
Furthermore, they are claiming the FTC has no authority to
restrict truthful free speech about dietary supplements.
It is this second point that is relevant to ALL health
supplement companies, for if Daniel Chapter One is successful
in this challenge, it could help spell an end to the
regulatory carpet bombing of the dietary supplement industry
that's now being masterminded by the FTC.
Is the FTC engaged in regulatory terrorism?
I believe these actions by the FTC can only rightly be called
a form of regulatory terrorism against the American People. In
its quest to destroy the nutritional supplements industry, the
FTC is pulling out all the stops, relying on instruments of
oppression and tyranny that have historically been used by the
secret police of the former Soviet Union, for example, or even
Nazi Germany.
In doing so, the FTC is attempting to destroy a body of
knowledge about anti-cancer remedies, thrusting the American
people into an era of nutritional illiteracy that would put
them at the sole mercy of the conventional cancer treatment
industry (which promotes poison, surgery and radiation as its
primary modalities, all of which earn considerable profits for
powerful corporations).
The FTC, you see, is not merely demanding that companies
remove all text from their websites that might imply an herb
could be useful for preventing cancer; they are also demanding
that the websites of these companies may not link OUT to other
websites that contain such information (such as
NaturalNews.com, for example). Thus, the FTC is creating a
system of regulatory-enforced illiteracy that's destroying the
availability of truthful information on the internet, even
while our nation remains in a state of health care collapse
that desperately needs a natural health solution.
It is in this way that the FTC is driving America towards a
total collapse of both health care and its finances. A sick,
nutritionally illiterate population denied the right to even
learn about nutritional approaches to preventing cancer is
doomed to suffer unprecedented increases in degenerative
disease. This is the curse the FTC has placed upon the
American people in its question for total domination of the
dietary supplements industry.
Will Bibles be banned next?
The Bible recommends numerous medicinal herbs for the
treatment, prevention and even the cure of degenerative
diseases.
This well-known fact is documented at great length by famed
ethnobotany researcher Dr. James Duke, author of several books
on Biblical herbs. Dr. Duke is a former researcher for the
U.S. Agricultural Research Services (ARS). He is the creator
of the ARS database of phytochemicals that remains the single
most authoritative source on plant-based medicines that has
ever been created.
But under FTC regulations that are in place right now, anyone
selling Bibles in the same store as the herbal supplements
mentioned in the Bible could be arrested, imprisoned and
permanently put out of business. Their Bibles could be
confiscated, their herbs destroyed and their lives ruined
because they dared to sell the herbs mentioned in the Bible.
The Bible, you see, could be considered an "illegal
marketing document" if sold beside the very herbs it
recommends.
This brings me to the Daniel Chapter One church, where Jim and
Trish Feijo have been traveling the world, engaged in their
ministry of human compassion, helping to uplift the peoples of
various nations (across multiple continents). As part of their
sharing of God's gifts to the world, their church sells
dietary supplements, many of which contain powerful
anti-cancer phytochemicals. They also have a radio show where
they empower listeners with relevant information about
spiritual and nutritional enlightenment.
They have never had a single health complaint filed against
them by customers of their anti-cancer products, nor has the
FTC produced any evidence whatsoever showing that Daniel
Chapter One has made any false statements about their
products. Every single description and statement about dietary
supplements on the DanielChapterOne.com website is factually
true.
The FTC isn't challenging the facts of the statements. It is
not the FTC's position that Daniel Chapter One is making false
statements at all. Rather, the FTC's claim is that Daniel
Chapter One is making true but illegal statements about
dietary supplements.
Got that? Telling the truth in America is illegal if you
happen to be selling products that threaten the profits of the
drug companies (which the FTC routinely protects in waging its
campaign against the dietary supplement industry).
Notably, if you are a drug company selling toxic, patented
chemicals, you can lie all you want! The FTC outright ignores
the monopolistic practices of the pharmaceutical industry.
Breaking up monopolies, of course, is supposed to be one of
the primary functions of the FTC! But when it comes to Big
Pharma, a national monopoly on pharmaceutical distribution and
pricing is not merely tolerated, it is in fact enforced by
this rogue federal agency that now works as the regulatory hit
men of the drug trade.
That's an honest description. These assaults on dietary
supplement companies (and churches) closely resemble the work
of hit men. But instead of working for an illegal drug cartel
selling banned chemicals, these FTC thugs work for a legal
drug cartel selling FDA-protected chemicals!
What happens if the FTC continues its campaign of regulatory
terrorism against the dietary supplements industry?
Where might this all end up if the FTC campaign of regulatory
terrorism isn't stopped?
Imagine a nation where government-paid secret police spy on
ordinary Americans to see who might be talking about herbs,
vitamins or dietary supplements. Those who dare to utter the
wrong words find their names and social security numbers
entered onto a Watch List of "pharmaceutical
resisters." The Watch List grows, and before long, the
government regulatory goons begin calling it a list of
"homegrown terrorists."
Those who deal in banned medicines (like herbal teas, vitamin
C or cherry fruit concentrates) are arrested on site and
imprisoned. Health food stores are shut down at gunpoint. All
functional foods are banned, and Whole Foods has its shelves
stripped of everything but fresh produce (all the produce must
be irradiated to destroy the natural medicine they contain,
too).
The Internet becomes a wasteland of nutritional illiteracy
where only "approved" websites are routed through
key ISPs. Any website discussing nutrition or herbs is
considered to be in violation of FTC regulations. Its owners
are arrested and considered "prisoners of war" due
to the fact that their names are already on the Watch List of
"homegrown terrorists." They're shipped off to
secret military prisons in Cuba and tortured until they either
repent their beliefs or are killed by the torture.
The FTC boosts its firearms budget and begins staging armed
raids on vitamin shops, shooting up the inventory and
"accidentally" catching vitamin shop owners in the
line of fire. Herbs being shipped into the United States are
seized at the border like illegal drugs, and a booming black
market economy sees the widespread smuggling of medicinal
herbs into the United States by Mexicans, South Americans and
even Canadians!
Rates of degenerative disease accelerate; the nation becomes a
cesspool of disease and chemical contamination. A new set of
laws, written wholly by the drug companies themselves, is
passed that prohibits any speech about dietary supplements
(including advertising) and criminalizes the possession of
medicinal herbs, homeopathic remedies, plant extracts and
vitamins of any kind. Meanwhile, all prescription drugs are
approved for OTC
(over-the-counter) purchase, followed by new pharmaceutical vending machines that pop out pills in exchange for your cash or credit card.
All herbal books are pulled out of public libraries and burned
in the streets. The possession of such a book becomes a felony
crime. A new age of nutritional McCarthyism is unleashed upon
America, and health book authors who dare to write about the
benefits of nutrition are hunted down and arrested (or just
killed).
Another new law demands that all Bibles be revised to remove
any references to the "illegal" herbs it recommends.
Churches that cite references to the herbs in the Bible are
assaulted and shut down, their pastors arrested and imprisoned
for committing crimes against the State.
The teaching of herbal remedies is banned in all public
schools with the help of influential western scientists who
claim "God does not belong in the classroom" and
that since the Bible teaches herbs, any teaching of herbs in
the classroom is, in effect, the teaching of religion.
This is the future the FTC is pushing us towards.
It's not even very difficult to image. Just extrapolate the FTC's current campaigns of oppression and tyranny against the industry, and you easily imagine much of this coming true.
Unless, of course, the FTC is stopped.
Apartheid. Hitler. Stalin. Mao. Pol Pot. The FTC and FDA.
These are the memorable mass criminals of the 20th and 21st
centuries. They all have one thing in common: The insatiable
quest for power at the expense of the lives of fellow human
beings.
I believe that if the FTC were given unlimited power, there is absolutely no doubt it would become a Nazi-like regime of uncompromising intolerance, outlawing all speech that opposed its own views and terminating the lives of its enemies. But the FTC's days are numbered, I believe. Its tyrannical actions against the natural health industry are an extension of the Bush Administration's Big Pharma push, and with the Bush criminals on their way out of the White House, all that's about to change. Or at least, we hope. (If Obama brings a new set of criminals into the White House, we probably won't see much change, and the seeming appointment of Dr. Sanjay Gupta to U.S. Surgeon General certainly doesn't hint at good things for the natural health industry under an Obama administration...)
What you can do right now to put a stop to this
The FTC is at war with the American People. It is waging a
campaign of destruction against herbal knowledge in America,
attempting to erase the memory of herbal wisdom from the minds
of American consumers.
In waging this war, the FTC is destroying family businesses, destroying the dietary supplements industry and destroying the natural health options of health-conscious consumers. The FTC must be stopped if we hope to protect our families and children from this growing regulatory threat in Washington. In essence, we must save our nation from the FTC (and the FDA, for that matter).
What can you do to stop the FTC? Here's a short list of things
you can do right now:
? Support Daniel Chapter One (www.DanielChapterOne.com)
by purchasing their anti-cancer products. Their 7 Herb Formula
is a powerful medicinal recipe that kills cancer cells and can
help your body prevent and even reverse cancer: http://dc1pages.com/danielchapterone/in...
? Support Citizens for Health (www.Citizens.org).
They are one of the health freedom organizations that's
actually engaged in good work.
? Complain to the FTC! What's hilarious about the FTC's
website is that it provides a way for you to complain about
everybody EXCEPT the FTC! What we really need in this country
is a new office run by the People that has oversight power
over the FTC and FDA, and we would complain to them. (What
happened to America, anyway? When did the people just
surrender all their power to Big Government tyranny?) In the
mean time, here's the FTC's page of contact details: http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/contact.shtm
If you want to complain directly to the FTC, the best option is probably to just send them a physical letter (in the mail). They can be reached at:
Federal Trade Commission
Consumer Response Center
600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20580
Be sure to include a copy of this article, just to remind 'em
that you're informed. They'll attack this article, of course,
claiming it's "anti-FTC propaganda." That's exactly
what Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot said, too. The rebels that
fought tyranny in those historical scenarios were quickly
labeled terrorists and imprisoned or just outright shot. In
fact, you can expect the FTC to attempt to find a way to
silence NaturalNews. This is one of the reasons we have never
sold nutritional products, by the way. Doing so would put us
in a position of extreme regulatory vulnerability with the FTC
criminals.
More importantly, complain to your lawmakers in Washington.
Call, fax, email or write your elected representatives in
Washington. Let 'em know what you think about the FTC's
attacks on churches and its campaign of tyranny against the
dietary supplements industry.
Support Ron Paul's Health Freedom Protection Act, which will
be reintroduced in the House this Spring. If passed, it would
finally legalize factually true speech about dietary
supplements, allowing health supplement companies to
accurately describe the health benefits of the products they
offer to the public.
Listen to the exclusive interview I conducted with health
freedom attorney Jim Turner. You can listen here: http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Podcas...
(Health Ranger Show #67).
Sign the NaturalNews Health Revolution Petition that's
scheduled to be announced later this month. If you're not
already subscribed to NaturalNews, join our free email
newsletter here: www.NaturalNews.com/readerregistration.HTML
Forward this article to someone you know, and link to this
article from your blog or website. Digg it, too, and help
spread the word about how the FTC is destroying America's
freedom of speech, freedom of religion and dietary supplements
industry.
Where is the mainstream media on this story?
Have you noticed, by the way, how the mainstream media remains
mysteriously absent on reporting this story?
It should be one of the biggest stories in America today. The
FTC is waging a war of attrition against the dietary
supplements industry? The FDA is engaged in an extortion
racket that targets supplement companies? Yes, these events
are happening right now. And, mysteriously, the mainstream
media hasn't covered this story in the least.
You can decide for yourself why that might be the case. I
already happen to know the REAL reason, but I'm not going
there in this story. Perhaps we'll cover that later.
Someone conducting an all-out investigative report on this FTC
story deserves a Pulitzer Prize, no doubt. But this story
cannot possibly run in any mainstream newspaper or magazine,
because it would be canned before it ever saw the light of
day. NaturalNews remains one of the very few places where you
can still get honest news reported by intelligent people who
don't have a corporate-sponsored agenda driving their
editorial decisions.
I earn no money from this article, and I remain a volunteer
writer for NaturalNews. There is nothing for sale in these
words. This is in no way commercial speech. It is FREE Speech.
That is precisely what puts this article out of the
jurisdiction of the FTC and FDA. It is the only reason why
this website has survived the campaigns of tyranny and
illiteracy waged by these two organizations.
And I can guarantee you this: NaturalNews will out-live both
the FTC and the FDA. Their days are numbered, and the People
will yet be victorious in their quest to take back the power
that has been stolen from them by Washington tyrants and
bureaucrats.
We are on the verge of a popular revolution in America today.
The People are fed up with Washington at every turn, and they
ready for real change. Remember this: Both the FTC and FDA are
but one paycheck away from total collapse. When the U.S.
government goes belly up and can no longer pay its soldiers,
bureaucrats and tyrants to keep up the appearance of
authority, the entire system will dissolve within days,
leaving a landscape of disillusioned patriots, hungry for
freedom and ready to embrace new ideas on how to structure a
sustainable society.
Mark my words: the USA experiment is drawing to a close. It
had a great start (the Constitution and Bill of Rights are
both sacred documents, in my opinion), but after enough time,
the tyrants managed to grab power anyway. Today, the USA is a
failed experiment of runaway power, runaway debt, consumerism
and greed. When this experiment comes to an end, the FTC and
FDA will go with it, and the people of this great land will
finally be set free to control their own destiny, to create a
new USA (or whatever it might called) where liberty reigns
supreme over tyranny and the sovereign citizen is one again
recognized as the source of all political power.
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