NOTES ON CODEX AND THE STRUGGLE AHEAD

JUNE 29, 2005. I want to present an overview here of what is coming
down the pipeline.

I'm not trying to focus on all the details.

Through the actions of Codex, and the European Food Directive people,
and the FDA, and the WTO, and by virtue of the various other free-trade
treaties in the works, we are seeing a global squeeze play on
nutritional supplements.

These converging vectors are offered as "consumer protection against
dangerous and unworkable nutrient products." That is, of course, a lie.

As the squeeze play continues, we are going to be faced with a
situation in which we need to DO SOMETHING.

In fact, doing something has been necessary now for a few years, at the
very least.

I'm talking about a massive rebellion.

One which will be felt where it counts.

The plan from above is to cut off our access to supplements at the
potencies we want, and to curtail altogether the sales of many, many
supplements.

There may be arguments about how this plan from above is going to be
enacted against us. Some people say this, and other people say that.

Some people claim that WTO can do this but can't do that.

Some people say the FDA will do this but won't do that.

We all need to understand that debates about exactly how the heavy
hitters are coming at us is, at first, less important than the fact
that they HAVE been coming at us for a long time.

It does no good to pretend that, because of certain details in the
Codex rules, because of the current law on supplements in the US,
because of pending suits, we are going to sail blithely and
successfully through small loopholes and remain unscathed.

It's going to come down to a massive rebellion for us.

It's already come down to that.

I now want to talk about the USA. Some of you will recall that, in the
early 1990s, there arose the Health Freedom movement. It was a huge
response to efforts by the FDA to limit our free access to all
supplements across the board.

The result, such as it was, was the DSHEA law. It kept the FDA off our
backs. There is some argument about how solid and water-tight that law
actually was. But it seemed to succeed.

The law was passed because millions and millions of letters were sent
to people in Congress demanding health freedom.

I assure you that, after the upcoming Codex deliberations in Rome in
the next few weeks, unless Codex is forced to delay its final verdict
on supplements, we in the US are going see a new level of PR directed,
through the press, against supplements.

And this wave is going to carry through to the point where, in the US,
somebody in Washington is going to pull levers. Somebody is going to
try to lower the boom.

What form will this manipulation take? Will it be a new law? Will it be
an amendment tacked on to a bill? Will the FDA restructure its own
regulations to "improve enforcement of DSHEA?"

I don't know.

And WHEN will this new manipulation occur? A few weeks after Codex
renders its final verdict? A few months? A year?

I don't know.

But it's going to happen.

We have a problem.

On the one hand, we know from experience in the 1990s that a massive
popular push, in the form of phone calls (flood the lines), emails (jam
the email boxes---this method wasn't available in the mid 1990s),
faxes, and personal visits to Congressional offices DID HAVE AN EFFECT.

It only had an effect because the push was so huge.

But in that case, there came a point where people could tell their
representatives to vote yes on DSHEA. The message was simple.

On the other hand, now we are in more cloudy waters.

Yes, I know a new free-trade treaty, CAFTA, is now moving through
Congress, and a gigantic protest against it is worthwhile.

But I'm talking about the manipulators in the US enacting a final
solution to free access to supplements. A direct death blow.

We don't know the form that final solution will take, and therefore we
don't know how to keep our message simple.

People in the Congress, if they respond favorably to their own
constituencies at all, need precise instructions. They need black and
white. They need vote no on that, vote yes on this.

So I want to put some minds to work here.

Do we need a law suit? A new law? A White House edict (I sure hope not)
against upcoming FDA regulations? All of the above?

Once we accept and admit that the axe is going to come down---once we
realize that it's going to happen---THEN we have to get down to
specifics. We have to predict. We have to find inside information.

For example, it may be true that Codex and FDA and WTO will leave a few
loopholes open, but will it really be EFFECTIVE to try to drive through
those holes? Will it work?

We are past abstractions. We are about pragmatic outcomes.

It's my considered opinion that ten million faxes to Congress right now
that say KEEP ALL OUR SUPPLEMENTS AVAILABLE are going to fall on deaf
ears.

I'm not saying don't do it, but these basically ignorant and
unsympathetic and sold out types in Congress need, at the very least, a
very exact message that they can carry out.

That's why I want to put some minds to work.

I want to hear from groups who have already formed to control what
Congress (and the FDA) will try to do to torpedo us. What is your
specific plan? Why do you think it will win? How do you think the
government is going to come at us?

Over the years, I've taken other actions. Those were (and are) directed
at shifting public opinion on the matter of the FDA itself. Getting
more and more people to realize that the FDA is a criminal agency, a
RICO crime in progress. And I've exposed a number of crimes of the drug
industry and allied organizations---e.g, WHO and CDC.

This has worked, to a degree, because many other people have been doing
the same thing, too.

But if this comes down (and it will), on the issue of free access to
supplements, to a US government action to deliver a knockout blow, the
enormous rebellion will require something more and different.

We're talking end game here.

A popular rebellion focuses tremendous energy from many quarters. It
has to WORK.

JON RAPPOPORT   www.nomorefakenews.com