Mopping up the raw-milk mob

LINNEKIN: Mopping up the raw-milk mob

Put down the ice cream and step away from the cow

Federal agents watched the home closely for a year, gathering evidence. Then, in a pre-dawn raid, armed members from three agencies swooped in.

No, this is not a retelling of the lightning U.S. commando attack in Abbottabad, Pakistan, that killed terrorist leader Osama bin Laden. Rather, the target of the raid late last month by U.S. marshals, a state police trooper and inspectors from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was Amish farmer Dan Allgyer of Kinzers, Pa. His so-called “crime” involved nothing more than providing unpasteurized, or raw, dairy milk to eager consumers here in the Washington area.

The sting operation against Mr. Allgyer’s Rainbow Acres Farm has touched a nerve around the country and across the ideological divide. Mr. Allgyer’s customers – including a soccer mom I know – are outraged. Former Sen. Fred Thompson, Tennessee Republican, took to Twitter recently to blast the raid, calling it a waste of time and resources and mockingly suggesting the FDA would do better to shut down the “many unlicensed lemonade stands” operating around the country. Author David Gumpert, writing at the left-of-center environmental website Grist, wondered whether those who took part in the raid felt “remorse or shame” over this “official effort to deprive people of food.” On May 11, Rep. Ron Paul, Texas Republican, introduced H.R. 1830, the Unpasteurized Milk Bill, which would end the FDA’s ban and permit the sale of raw milk across state lines.

What could possibly be the rationale behind this FDA action? The agency banned the interstate sale of raw milk in 1987. It says raw milk can contain harmful pathogens such as listeria and that pasteurized milk is safer.

No one disputes that pasteurization helps kill harmful pathogens. But where the FDA claims to see a mountain, most states see a molehill. Nearly 25 years after the FDA policy was instituted, just 11 states ban raw milk within their own borders.

Many critics question why the agency concerns itself with raw milk. After all, virtually any food can conceivably contain harmful pathogens – including beef, poultry, pork, seafood, fruits and vegetables. Yet the FDA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) permit the overwhelming majority of these products to be sold in their raw forms. For example, the USDA, which regulates beef, pork and poultry, permits their sale in raw and cooked forms. The FDA, which regulates seafood and eggs, likewise permits those to be sold raw or cooked.

Pathogens are hardly unique to raw food. Just last week, the USDA warned about the risks posed by eating pre-cooked deli meat. The USDA went so far as to urge at-risk populations such as the elderly not to eat sliced turkey, roast beef and other lunch meats unless they first reheat the meat to a “steaming hot” 165 degrees, according to USDA spokesman Neil Gaffney.

Like deli meat, raw foods aren’t some niche market, and buying food in its raw form doesn’t make one part of some underground movement. Anyone who has ever brought home a dozen eggs from a grocer’s shelves has purchased raw food. And once a consumer brings any food home, it’s up to the consumer – not the government – to decide how (or if) he or she wants to cook the food. The notion that the government would ban raw chicken, beef or eggs – or deli meat, for that matter – from store shelves may seem ludicrous. Seen in this context, the current raw milk ban is no less absurd.

Even if consumers were unaware of the risk involved in consuming a raw agricultural product like raw milk or raw beef, FDA and USDA guidelines, along with many state and local health codes, typically require warnings about the potential dangers of consuming raw or undercooked foods. Where a warning will suffice, a ban is inappropriate. The FDA’s extraordinary message when it comes to raw milk, though, is that the American people are too dim to read the very labels the agency requires.

Americans are smarter than that. And many who don’t consume raw milk nevertheless support the right of others to do so. After all, one needn’t choose to eat a raw food like sushi to think it should not be subject to a federal ban.

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Feds sting Amish farmer selling raw milk locally

Cite interstate commerce violation

By Stephen Dinan -The Washington Times

A yearlong sting operation, including aliases, a 5 a.m. surprise inspection and surreptitious purchases from an Amish farm in Pennsylvania, culminated in the federal government announcing this week that it has gone to court to stop Rainbow Acres Farm from selling its contraband to willing customers in the Washington area.

Feds cracks down on Amish farmers for selling raw milk

“I look at this as the FDA is in cahoots with the large milk producers,” said Karin Edgett, a D.C. resident who buys directly from Rainbow Acres. “I don’t want the FDA and my tax dollars to go to shut down a farm that hasn’t had any complaints against it. They’re producing good food, and the consumers are extremely happy with it.”

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Grassroots barter markets have a notorious reputation lately for fizzling out before they ever get a chance to shine. The reasons for this are sometimes complex, but if we are to be honest, usually the lion’s share of the blame goes towards the way in which they are often half-heartedly initiated. If the foundation of your network is not built on solid ground and a passionate desire for a better future, then that network will fail. In a world dominated for decades by fiat currencies and debt, in a world where private trade has become a novelty rather than a mainstay of local commerce, there is little room for error, or ego. Establishing a barter organization today is not just an act of self preservation in the face of a crumbling mainstream economy, it is, indeed, an act of revolution. For by doing so, you are stating loudly and with clarity that you will no longer be held enslaved by the corrupt financial labyrinth. That you will no longer participate in its trappings. That you will no longer play the game by their rules. By building your own system, you declare independence, and this is not something to be taken lightly.

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Cassandra Anderson
17 February 2011

Food is a market that will always exist. Many people are turning away from industrial farmed food, seeking healthier choices and getting back to the basics.

Victory gardens in America produced up to 40% of all vegetables consumed during World War II. Over 20 million home gardens, apartment rooftop plants and community plots produced 9-10 million tons of produce; equal to the amount of commercial production at that time. The population during the war years increased from approximately 132 million people in 1940 to 140 million in 1945. Current US population is approaching 311 million people.

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17 February 2011

According to G. Edward Griffin, alternative markets ARE free markets. Alternative markets are an alternative to what? Controlled markets that prevent prosperity.

Free markets are ruled by consumer demand and producer supply. Major markets today are NOT free markets. They are ruled by small groups that have been given the power to intervene in the free exchange of supply and demand. Those who wield this power usually claim that they are acting on behalf of the greater good of society but, the reality is that, often, they serve hidden agendas that benefit themselves or those or those they covertly serve.

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Collective Punishment for drinking raw milk

Is the FDA’s war on milk part of US strategy to ban all private food contracts?

An Inalienable Right to Risk Eating Natural Food
The essence of Raw Milk Revolution boils down to a chapter title: “When it comes to food, how much freedom should we have to take risks?” Government does not grant rights, but if we don’t assert them, it will trample them.
Given free reign, the FDA would deny the American people the right to believe as they wish, to eat as they wish, and to make private food arrangements outside the industrial food system. Legislation like S 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act, would give the FDA even more power to “modernize” foods by sterilizing them via heat, drugs and chemicals, or by secretly adding nanoparticles and genetically modified ingredients.

Helpful raw-milk-drinking mom threatened with prosecution
By David E. Gumpert
20 Dec 2010

What’s It Mean for a Suburban Mom to Become Target of Food Police?
In MN, Home Search, Questioning of Neighbors, Threat of Criminal Prosecution

For the last seven years, Rae Lynn Sandvig, a mother of four, has been helping a local dairy farmer, Michael Hartmann, distribute unpasteurized milk to 35 or 40 friends and neighbors in her suburban Minneapolis community of Bloomington.

Every two weeks, the farmer pulls up in her home’s driveway, one stop among half a dozen or so other homes in the metropolitan area that serve as distribution points, and hands out jars of raw milk to customers who’ve placed orders. Sometimes, Sandvig buys half a steer from the same farmer, and divvies it up among four to six friends. (The USDA allows consumers to buy meat directly from the farmer that has been sold live, “on the hoof” and then slaughtered in a non-USDA inspected facility — or on the farm — for their personal consumption under certain conditions.)

Sandvig gets nothing from this arrangement financially, she says. There is one big benefit, though. “I’ve stood out there with other moms when it’s 20-below-zero, and in 90-degree weather, and we’ve become a community. It’s the way life is supposed to work.”

It’s not been working well over the last six months, though. Sandvig has found herself a target of the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA), culminating in accusations over the past week that she is assisting in the illegal sale of raw milk. She has been threatened with “criminal prosecution or administrative penalties.”

By making Sandvig the first consumer to be caught up in the legal machinations, Minnesota seems to have opened a new chapter in the five-year-old war on raw milk. Up until now, government crackdowns around the country have focused entirely on farmers who run raw-milk dairies, along with managers of buying clubs and food clubs that help distribute milk, in states where its sale to humans is illegal. Raw-milk can be sold legally in certain states as pet food, or in so-called “herd shares.” (The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund has a good map of the breakdown by state).

While Minnesota is one of the states that allows its sale, the farmer whose milk Sandvig was distributing has been linked to illnesses and has been prohibited by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture from selling dairy products. Until Minnesota went after Sandvig, the assumption by all involved, including the FDA, seems to have been that consumers are off limits, representing a kind of red line in the struggle that has seen the FDA and Centers for Disease Control push hard to discourage raw-milk consumption.

The FDA, responding to a suit by the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund

arlier this year on behalf of five consumers around the country, challenging the federal prohibition on raw milk sales, trumpeted the fact that no consumers have been prosecuted. “The government has neither brought nor threatened to bring a single enforcement action against consumers who purchase unpasteurized milk,” it said [PDF].

Sign from a farm in Pennsylvania, where raw milk can be legally sold.

Last May, Minnesota public health officials believed they had linked Hartmann’s farm to five illnesses from raw milk, shortly after which the Minnesota Department of Agriculture “embargoed dairy products on the Hartmann farm, prohibiting movement or release of the products off the farm.” (Several more were later announced as being connected to the farm.)
“embargoed dairy products on the Hartmann farm, prohibiting movement or release of the products off the farm.” (Several more were later announced as being connected to the farm.)

A few weeks after the initial outbreaks, Sandvig’s problems began. Investigators from the MDA, accompanied by local police, showed up at her home one morning, presented her husband with a criminal search warrant, and spent two hours going through the family’s refrigerator and questioning her about whether she was reselling milk, meat, and other food. She was “terrified, horrified, traumatized” by the home search, breaking down in tears in front of the seven investigators and police rummaging through her kitchen.

The event seemed even more threatening when she learned an MDA investigator had visited the homes of three of her neighbors who had shared in the milk and beef Hartmann delivered, seeking specifics about her food distribution practices. She says the investigator threatened these consumers with subpoenas that would require them to testify unless they allowed him into their homes to answer questions and look into their refrigerators, and then sign an affidavit listing foods they had acquired via Sandvig. The neighbors have since clammed up to her, she says, but one told her the investigator was particularly interested in packages of meat labeled “Not for Re-sale” on which the farmer had printed Sandvig’s name. Meat that is slaughtered or processed in a non-USDA-inspected facility is labeled this way to prevent its retail sale.

Then, just a few days ago, Sandvig received a registered letter from the MDA accusing her of “assisting in the sale of raw milk from your home in Bloomington” and offering her an “opportunity to be heard” in an “administrative meeting…before the department decides what if any enforcement action it will take against you for operating a food business without a license,” most notably “selling raw milk and selling food from unapproved sources.” Enforcement actions could include criminal or administrative penalties, the letter stated.

The meeting was originally scheduled for last week but is now being re-scheduled for January, Sandvig says. The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund has agreed to represent her in the meeting and any proceedings.

An official of the MDA declined to comment on the case, except to point out that Minnesota law requires that targets of investigations be offered a chance to meet with agency officials and take issue with planned charges.

Hartmann has a long history of challenging Minnesota food laws. When prosecutors in his county charged him in 2002 with selling uninspected meat, he took the case to the Minnesota Supreme Court, and won a partial victory, based on a clause in the Minnesota constitution that allows farmers to “peddle” their food.

As a result of the June embargo on his farm’s products, Hartmann filed suit against the state, seeking a lifting of the embargo and the return of food the state had seized. He argued that the linkage the state made between illnesses and his farm was inconclusive, since tests on his farm’s milk had shown no pathogens. That led to a lengthy trial during the summer, attended by Sandvig and other Hartmann customers. The judge is due to issue a decision in the case before the end of this year.

The current raw milk situation has become complicated as well, because Minnesota agriculture officials have extended their investigation and actions well beyond seeking to limit Hartmann’s sales of milk and meat. For example, state and local officials raided a Minneapolis buying club, Traditional Foods Minnesota, last June, and shut it down, even though it had no known connection to Hartmann. The shutdown was attributed to local retail licensing problems, and the buying club recently re-opened with additional permits. Officials also placed an embargo on a Minnesota farmer, Alvin Schlangen, even though he, too, had no known connection to Hartmann. He says he just received a letter similar to Sandvig’s, inviting him to a meeting with the MDA, preparatory to the possible filing of charges.
The Hartmann case flared up again two weeks ago when two MDA officials confronted Michael Hartmann’s brother, Roger, and seized 400 gallons of milk in front of a suburban Minneapolis home (not Sandvig’s). About 40 Hartmann supporters quickly gathered and loudly scolded the two MDA inspectors who carted off milk samples and arranged for a tow truck to cart off the Hartmann truck; the scene was caught on video, and posted on YouTube.

Sandvig isn’t saying how she’ll handle the upcoming meeting with the MDA. “I have nothing to hide,” she says, adding she’s already told them her side of the story during the search of her home last June.

She has concluded that the campaign against Michael Hartmann is part of “a vendetta” by the state against the farmer, based on his previous challenges of state authority. Including her in the Minnesota food-rights dragnet represents “overreaching by the government, wanting licenses and registration for everything.”

She adds, “I am on my own personal journey to keep learning about food.”
She’ll also be learning much more about the legal system, as she may well become a test case in an ominous new front in the struggle for consumers’ right to choose food straight from the farm.

David Gumpert is the author of The Raw Milk Revolution: Behind America’s Emerging Battle Over Food Rights (Chelsea Green, 2009). He is also a journalist who specializes in covering the intersection of health and business. His popular blog has chronicled the increasingly unsettling battles over raw milk. He has authored or coauthored seven books on various aspects of entrepreneurship and business and previously been a reporter and editor with the Wall Street Journal, Inc. magazine, and the Harvard Business Review.

State-by-State* Review of Raw Milk Laws

DOA Confiscating Raw Milk in Minnesota
by Sami Grover, Carrboro 12.10.10

The footage below takes place in Minnetonka, Minnesota, and shows a raid by the Department of Agriculture (DOA) (which many onlookers seem to argue is pronounced “duh”…) and the Minnetonka police when farmer Roger Hartmann tried to distribute his raw milk to residents of the town. Apparently Hartmann’s delivery truck was blocked in by DOA vehicles from 7am until 1pm, when a tow truck arrived and hauled both the truck and the milk to downtown St Paul.

*Using a handicap sticker? Those 2 civil servants were lifting heavy milk jugs.

Police Begin “Guns Drawn” Raids on Organic Food Stores in California

Illegal Contraband, Raw Milk! Farmers Arrested, Wake Up America 16
Raw milk is illegal to sell in the USA. There are a number of people that drink raw cows milk because they believe there are number of health and wellness benefits from drinking it. Additionally there are number of products that can be made with raw milk including raw milk ice cream, raw milk cheese, raw milk yogurt, etc. People are actually being arrested for selling raw milk.

Is this really to protect the consumer or is it a conspiracy to protect the profits of the dairy industry?

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S. 510 “Food Modernization Safety Act” PASSED

*How much more of a clear blatant message can they send us that they DO NOT work for We The People!

S. 510 (FDA Food Safety Modernization Act) PASSED November 30, 2010

S.Amdt. 4697 to S. 510 (FDA Food Safety Modernization Act)

Vote Counts:
YEAs 39
NAYs 56
Not Voting 5

The Senate then agreed to final passage of S. 510, Food Safety Bill, as amended, by a vote of 73-25.

Alphabetical by Senator Name
Akaka (D-HI), Nay
Alexander (R-TN), Yea
Barrasso (R-WY), Yea
Baucus (D-MT), Nay
Bayh (D-IN), Yea
Begich (D-AK), Nay
Bennet (D-CO), Yea
Bennett (R-UT), Nay
Bingaman (D-NM), Nay
Bond (R-MO), Not Voting
Boxer (D-CA), Not Voting
Brown (D-OH), Nay
Brown (R-MA), Yea
Brownback (R-KS), Not Voting
Bunning (R-KY), Yea
Burr (R-NC), Yea
Cantwell (D-WA), Nay
Cardin (D-MD), Nay
Carper (D-DE), Nay
Casey (D-PA), Nay
Chambliss (R-GA), Yea
Coburn (R-OK), Yea
Cochran (R-MS), Nay
Collins (R-ME), Nay
Conrad (D-ND), Nay
Coons (D-DE), Nay
Corker (R-TN), Yea
Cornyn (R-TX), Yea
Crapo (R-ID), Yea
DeMint (R-SC), Yea
Dodd (D-CT), Nay
Dorgan (D-ND), Nay
Durbin (D-IL), Nay
Ensign (R-NV), Yea
Enzi (R-WY), Yea
Feingold (D-WI), Yea
Feinstein (D-CA), Nay
Franken (D-MN), Nay
Gillibrand (D-NY), Nay
Graham (R-SC), Yea
Grassley (R-IA), Yea
Gregg (R-NH), Yea
Hagan (D-NC), Nay
Harkin (D-IA), Nay
Hatch (R-UT), Yea
Hutchison (R-TX), Yea
Inhofe (R-OK), Nay
Inouye (D-HI), Nay
Isakson (R-GA), Yea
Johanns (R-NE), Yea
Johnson (D-SD), Nay
Kerry (D-MA), Nay
Kirk (R-IL), Yea
Klobuchar (D-MN), Nay
Kohl (D-WI), Nay
Kyl (R-AZ), Yea
Landrieu (D-LA), Nay
Lautenberg (D-NJ), Nay
Leahy (D-VT), Nay
LeMieux (R-FL), Yea
Levin (D-MI), Nay
Lieberman (ID-CT), Nay
Lincoln (D-AR), Nay
Lugar (R-IN), Nay
Manchin (D-WV), Nay
McCain (R-AZ), Yea
McCaskill (D-MO), Yea
McConnell (R-KY), Yea
Menendez (D-NJ), Nay
Merkley (D-OR), Nay
Mikulski (D-MD), Not Voting
Murkowski (R-AK), Nay
Murray (D-WA), Nay
Nelson (D-FL), Yea
Nelson (D-NE), Nay
Pryor (D-AR), Nay
Reed (D-RI), Nay
Reid (D-NV), Nay
Risch (R-ID), Yea
Roberts (R-KS), Yea
Rockefeller (D-WV), Nay
Sanders (I-VT), Nay
Schumer (D-NY), Nay
Sessions (R-AL), Yea
Shaheen (D-NH), Not Voting
Shelby (R-AL), Nay
Snowe (R-ME), Yea
Specter (D-PA), Nay
Stabenow (D-MI), Nay
Tester (D-MT), Nay
Thune (R-SD), Yea
Udall (D-CO), Yea
Udall (D-NM), Nay
Vitter (R-LA), Yea
Voinovich (R-OH), Nay
Warner (D-VA), Yea
Webb (D-VA), Nay
Whitehouse (D-RI), Nay
Wicker (R-MS), Yea
Wyden (D-OR), Nay
Vote Summary By Senator Name By Vote Position By Home State

Grouped By Vote Position
YEAs —39
Alexander (R-TN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bayh (D-IN)
Bennet (D-CO)
Brown (R-MA)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Feingold (D-WI)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Kirk (R-IL)
Kyl (R-AZ)
LeMieux (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
McCaskill (D-MO)
McConnell (R-KY)
Nelson (D-FL)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Snowe (R-ME)
Thune (R-SD)
Udall (D-CO)
Vitter (R-LA)
Warner (D-VA)
Wicker (R-MS)
NAYs —56
Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Begich (D-AK)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Brown (D-OH)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Cochran (R-MS)
Collins (R-ME)
Conrad (D-ND)
Coons (D-DE)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Hagan (D-NC)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Inouye (D-HI)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Lugar (R-IN)
Manchin (D-WV)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shelby (R-AL)
Specter (D-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Udall (D-NM)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)
Not Voting – 5
Bond (R-MO)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brownback (R-KS)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Vote Summary By Senator Name By Vote Position By Home State

Grouped by Home State
Alabama: Sessions (R-AL), Yea Shelby (R-AL), Nay
Alaska: Begich (D-AK), Nay Murkowski (R-AK), Nay
Arizona: Kyl (R-AZ), Yea McCain (R-AZ), Yea
Arkansas: Lincoln (D-AR), Nay Pryor (D-AR), Nay
California: Boxer (D-CA), Not Voting Feinstein (D-CA), Nay
Colorado: Bennet (D-CO), Yea Udall (D-CO), Yea
Connecticut: Dodd (D-CT), Nay Lieberman (ID-CT), Nay
Delaware: Carper (D-DE), Nay Coons (D-DE), Nay
Florida: LeMieux (R-FL), Yea Nelson (D-FL), Yea
Georgia: Chambliss (R-GA), Yea Isakson (R-GA), Yea
Hawaii: Akaka (D-HI), Nay Inouye (D-HI), Nay
Idaho: Crapo (R-ID), Yea Risch (R-ID), Yea
Illinois: Durbin (D-IL), Nay Kirk (R-IL), Yea
Indiana: Bayh (D-IN), Yea Lugar (R-IN), Nay
Iowa: Grassley (R-IA), Yea Harkin (D-IA), Nay
Kansas: Brownback (R-KS), Not Voting Roberts (R-KS), Yea
Kentucky: Bunning (R-KY), Yea McConnell (R-KY), Yea
Louisiana: Landrieu (D-LA), Nay Vitter (R-LA), Yea
Maine: Collins (R-ME), Nay Snowe (R-ME), Yea
Maryland: Cardin (D-MD), Nay Mikulski (D-MD), Not Voting
Massachusetts: Brown (R-MA), Yea Kerry (D-MA), Nay
Michigan: Levin (D-MI), Nay Stabenow (D-MI), Nay
Minnesota: Franken (D-MN), Nay Klobuchar (D-MN), Nay
Mississippi: Cochran (R-MS), Nay Wicker (R-MS), Yea
Missouri: Bond (R-MO), Not Voting McCaskill (D-MO), Yea
Montana: Baucus (D-MT), Nay Tester (D-MT), Nay
Nebraska: Johanns (R-NE), Yea Nelson (D-NE), Nay
Nevada: Ensign (R-NV), Yea Reid (D-NV), Nay
New Hampshire: Gregg (R-NH), Yea Shaheen (D-NH), Not Voting
New Jersey: Lautenberg (D-NJ), Nay Menendez (D-NJ), Nay
New Mexico: Bingaman (D-NM), Nay Udall (D-NM), Nay
New York: Gillibrand (D-NY), Nay Schumer (D-NY), Nay
North Carolina: Burr (R-NC), Yea Hagan (D-NC), Nay
North Dakota: Conrad (D-ND), Nay Dorgan (D-ND), Nay
Ohio: Brown (D-OH), Nay Voinovich (R-OH), Nay
Oklahoma: Coburn (R-OK), Yea Inhofe (R-OK), Nay
Oregon: Merkley (D-OR), Nay Wyden (D-OR), Nay
Pennsylvania: Casey (D-PA), Nay Specter (D-PA), Nay
Rhode Island: Reed (D-RI), Nay Whitehouse (D-RI), Nay
South Carolina: DeMint (R-SC), Yea Graham (R-SC), Yea
South Dakota: Johnson (D-SD), Nay Thune (R-SD), Yea
Tennessee: Alexander (R-TN), Yea Corker (R-TN), Yea
Texas: Cornyn (R-TX), Yea Hutchison (R-TX), Yea
Utah: Bennett (R-UT), Nay Hatch (R-UT), Yea
Vermont: Leahy (D-VT), Nay Sanders (I-VT), Nay
Virginia: Warner (D-VA), Yea Webb (D-VA), Nay
Washington: Cantwell (D-WA), Nay Murray (D-WA), Nay
West Virginia: Manchin (D-WV), Nay Rockefeller (D-WV), Nay
Wisconsin: Feingold (D-WI), Yea Kohl (D-WI), Nay
Wyoming: Barrasso (R-WY), Yea Enzi (R-WY), Yea
Vote Summary By Senator Name By Vote Position By Home State

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Please call or email your US Senators now and tell them both to oppose S. 510.

I use the tag “URGENT” because this atrocious bill, which would regulate small farms out of business, and would stick the FDA’s tentacles into local farmers markets, is now on the US Senate floor and open for vote, potentially as early as today. I am not sure exactly when it will be voted on (sometime between today and 60 days from today), but to be on the safe side

Call Your US Senator NOW to Oppose S. 510 the
“Food Modernization Safety Act”

Contact your two US Senators TODAY or as soon as you see this.

When you write or call, don’t bother trying to teach them about the Constitution. Most of them know what they are doing and simply don’t care. Instead, tell them to oppose this bill or else – and that means you will mark them for defeat in the next primary. Tell them they shouldn’t even worry about the next general election because you will see to it that they won’t even get past the primary because you will do what the Tea Party just did to some sell-out Senators during the recent primary – you will support some fresh-faced constitutionalists the Senator has likely never heard of, and you and thousands of other constitutionalists in your state will do all you can to see that the sitting Senator is sent packing in the primary. And tell them if they vote for this bill, you don’t even care whether that challenger is even likely to win in the general election. All you will care about is kicking them out.

There are many orgs who have written analysis of this bill and why it is so dangerous to local farmers, food co-ops, small organic growers, and farmers markets. See the below write up by Natural News for details.

See also:
Food Freedom
Decentralize, Grow Your Own, Buy Local.

BREAKING: Senate votes cloture on S 510 – must now be voted on in 60 days

And here is the John Birch Society write up here:

All of those write ups make good points, but I think the best reason to oppose this act is that it claims the power to regulate the growing and selling of food that doesn’t even cross state lines. Just what does that have to do with interstate commerce? Nothing. No more than a gun made in Montana, and sold in Montana, has anything to do with interstate commerce. We should oppose this on constitutional grounds alone.
But add to that the already documented abuse of faceless, nameless bureaucrats from DC, who lord it over local farmers who have utterly no redress, and then factor in the FACT that the huge corporate food producers are behind this bill and donate millions of dollars to the Senators who are pushing it.

The Founders, especially Jefferson, intended that American farmers be sovereigns on their own land, in sovereign states, and not subject to the control of a distant Congress or massive government agency which that farmer had no real control over. That is why we are supposed to have a dual sovereignty system, where the states retain the power to regulate the daily affairs of the people, not the national government. As Madison said in the Federalist Papers:

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government, are few and defined.Those which are to remain in the State Governments are numerous and indefinite.The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce …The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects, which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberty, and property of the people; and the internal order, improvement and prosperity of the State. – James Madison, Federalist 45

You, your neighbors, and local farmers shouldn’t even have to worry about what some pencil-neck paper-pusher in DC thinks of you or your produce. At most, that is the business of your county and state, not the feds, just as Madison promised. Let’s make it so. The first step is to defeat this bill, but whatever the outcome in the Senate, we need to use the power of our county sheriffs and our state legislatures to interpose themselves between the people and unconstitutional acts by the DC elites. First stop, kill it in the Senate. Next stop, nullify it in the states.

For the Republic,

Stewart Rhodes

Senate Bill S 510 Food Safety Modernization Act vote imminent: Would outlaw gardening and saving seeds
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
by Mike Adams

This tyrannical law puts all food production (yes, even food produced in your own garden) under the authority of the Department of Homeland Security. Yep — the very same people running the TSA and its naked body scanner / passenger groping programs.
This law would also give the U.S. government the power to arrest any backyard food producer as a felon (a “smuggler”) for merely growing lettuce and selling it at a local farmer’s market.
It also sells out U.S. sovereignty over our own food supply by ceding to the authority of both the World Trade Organization (WTO) and Codex Alimentarius.

Senate bill S 510 vote imminent – procedural vote passes 74-25

(NaturalNews) U.S. Senate Bill S 510 is now on the Senate floor where a vote is expected shortly. Yesterday, the Motion to Invoke Cloture passed on a vote of 74-25 (see how they voted, below), sending the bill forward for a final vote perhaps as early as today..
US Senate offices are experiencing a huge backlash of grassroots opposition to the bill — called the Food Safety Modernization Act — as virtually every health freedom organization, family farm group and even dietary supplement companies have aligned to oppose this new bill. It is being called “The most dangerous bill in United States history” and would thrust America into a new Dark Ages of FDA tyranny over seeds, foods, herbs, gardens and nutritional supplements.

Opposition to the bill has been widespread. For example, the John Birch Society issued this alert yesterday:

Senate Bill 510 has already passed committee and is on the Senate calendar. It calls for enhanced expansion of FDA authority over small farms, ranches, and other food producers, establishes burdensome administrative requirements for large and small operations, and arbitrary legal authority to recall “unsafe medications,” the definition of which is not clearly established; if in line with the global standard set by Codex Alimentarius, “unsafe medications” could extend to dietary supplements and herbal products. There is language that currently exempts from heavy regulation dietary supplement manufacturers and packagers. However, the FDA and its agents are notorious for interpreting regulations their own way.

Take Action: Click here to sign the John Birch Society petition opposing S.510.

The John Birch Society insists that “My right to produce, distribute, and consume the foods of my choice is part of my right to life and liberty under the Constitution.”

I happen to agree. The FDA has no business telling us we can’t buy raw milk, or we can’t save our own garden seeds or grow organic produce and sell it at the farmer’s market.

How they voted so far
Here’s how the senators voted on the motion to send S.510 to a full floor vote: (this is a procedural vote to move the bill forward so that it can be voted on for final passage)

Who voted in FAVOR of moving S.510 forward

Akaka (D-HI)
Alexander (R-TN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Begich (D-AK)
Bennet (D-CO)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Brown (R-MA)
Burr (R-NC)
Burris (D-IL)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Collins (R-ME)
Conrad (D-ND)
Coons (D-DE)
Corker (R-TN)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Enzi (R-WY)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagan (D-NC)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Johanns (R-NE)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
LeMieux (R-FL)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Lugar (R-IN)
Manchin (D-WV)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (D-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Thune (R-SD)
Udall (D-CO)
Udall (D-NM)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (D-VA)
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)

Who OPPOSED S.510

Bennett (R-UT)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Graham (R-SC)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Kyl (R-AZ)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Nelson (D-NE)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Wicker (R-MS)

All of you who live in states where senators voted in favor of this need to call your U.S. Senate offices today — right now — and urge them to oppose this nefarious bill.

Call the Capitol Switchboard and ask to be directly connected to your Senator’s office: 202-224-3121

We are about to lose our food freedoms over the bill, because unless more pressure is brought to bear, it looks like this bill will soon pass — and we will be thrust into a new era of FDA tyranny over the food supply.

More…

Senate Bill S 510 Food Safety Modernization Act vote imminent: Would outlaw gardening and saving seeds

By by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com

In addition, the Cornucopia Institute recently sent out an urgent call-to-action email containing the following information:

How to protest Senate Bill 510

1) Go to Congress.org and type in your zip code in the box in the upper right hand corner.
2) Click on your Senator’s name, and then on the contact tab for their phone number. You can also call the Capitol Switchboard and ask to be directly connected to your Senator’s office: 202-224-3121.
3) Once connected ask to speak to the legislative staff person responsible for agriculture. If they are unavailable leave a voice mail message. Be sure to include your name and phone number.

Give them this message in support of the “Tester Amendment” which would exempt small farms from S.510:

“I am a constituent of Senator___________. I ask that he/she support the Tester Amendment to the food safety bill. The Tester Amendment will exempt the safest, small, owner-operator farms and food facilities and farmers who direct market their products to consumers, stores or restaurants. Food safety legislation should not create inappropriate and costly regulatory barriers to family farms and the growing healthy food movement in the drive to crack down on corporate bad actors. Please support the Tester Amendment and market opportunities for small and mid-sized family farms, and small food processing facilities.”

You may also wish to explain that you oppose the Food Safety Modernization Act in its entirety, and it is a destructive, freedom-crushing law that will destroy the future of food in America.

Organizations that took a position on the
S.510 – FDA Food Safety Modernization Act
A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to the safety of the food supply.

29 organizations support this bill
14 organizations oppose this bill

At OpenCongress

Sponsor
Senator
Richard Durbin
D-IL
Co-Sponsors (20)
o Sen. Lamar Alexander [R, TN]
o Sen. Jeff Bingaman [D, NM]
o Sen. Richard Burr [R, NC]
o Sen. Roland Burris [D, IL]
o Sen. Robert Casey [D, PA]
o Sen. Saxby Chambliss [R, GA]
o Sen. Christopher Dodd [D, CT]
o Sen. Michael Enzi [R, WY]
o Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D, NY]
o Sen. Judd Gregg [R, NH]
o Sen. Thomas Harkin [D, IA]
o Sen. Orrin Hatch [R, UT]
o Sen. John Isakson [R, GA]
o Sen. Edward Kaufman [D, DE]
o Sen. Edward Kennedy [D, MA]
o Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D, MN]
o Sen. Robert Menéndez [D, NJ]
o Sen. Ben Nelson [D, NE]
o Sen. Tom Udall [D, NM]
o Sen. David Vitter [R, LA]

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By now everyone has seen crisscrossing streaks of white clouds trailing behind jet aircraft, stretching from horizon to horizon, eventually turning the sky into a murky haze. Our innate intelligence tells us these are not mere vapor trails from jet engines, but no one yet has probed the questions: who is doing this and why. With the release of this video, all of that has changed. Here is the story of a rapidly developing industry called geo-engineering, driven by scientists, corporations, and governments intent on changing global climate, controlling the weather, and altering the chemical composition of soil and water — all supposedly for the betterment of mankind. Although officials insist that these programs are only in the discussion phase, evidence is abundant that they have been underway since about 1990 — and the effect has been devastating to crops, wildlife, and human health. We are being sprayed with toxic substances without our consent and, to add insult to injury, they are lying to us about it. Do not watch this documentary if you have high blood pressure.

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There are many dramatic photographs and video clips of chemtrails on the
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AEROSOL CRIMES & COVER UP (aka Chemtrails)

“Chemtrail” Aircraft Photos

This is a spraying device, but quite innocuous. It’s on an NKC-135A (55-3128) with the refueling boom modified to spray water. This used by the air force to test icing of planes in flight.
Original photo at Airliners.net

This documentary produced by chemtrail researcher Clifford Carnicom is a must see and an excellent research tool.

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Chemtrails
According to a report published August 28th, 2006 in The Idaho Observer recent lab reports found the following in samples of chemtrail fall-out:
bacteria including anthrax and pneumonia, 9 chemicals including acetylcholine chloride, 26 heavy metals including arsenic, lead, barium, mercury and uranium, 4 molds and fungi, 7 viruses, 2 cancers, 2 vaccines and 2 sedatives.

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G. Edward Griffin talks about new CHEMTRAIL film

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Chemtrails in Mohave County AZ & Agenda 21
by Gianluca Zanna

11/11/09 Update: “Unsolved Mysteries” or proof U.S.A. tested using RAIN to infect AMERICAN

Council on Foreign Relations on Planetary Geoengineering:
“Add more small reflecting particles in the upper part of the atmosphere”.

Finally, “PUBLIC LAW 95-79 [P.L. 95-79] TITLE 50, CHAPTER 32, SECTION 1520 “CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WARFARE PROGRAM” “The use of human subjects will be allowed for the testing of chemical and biological agents by the U.S. Department of Defense, accounting to Congressional committees with respect to the experiments and studies.” “The Secretary of Defense [may] conduct tests and experiments involving the use of chemical and biological [warfare] agents on civilian populations [within the United States].” -SOURCE- Public Law 95-79, Title VIII, Sec. 808, July 30, 1977, 91 Stat. 334. In U.S. Statutes-at-Large, Vol. 91, page 334, you will find Public Law 95-79. Public Law 97-375, title II, Sec. 203(a)(1), Dec. 21, 1982, 96 Stat. 1882. In U.S. Statutes-at-Large, Vol. 96, page 1882, you will find Public Law 97-375.

Congress passed a National Health Bill based upon the Fascist Model

Congress passed a National Health Bill based upon the Fascist Model
and sent it to the White House for signing today.

http://www.cuttingedge.org/newsletters/newsalert.htm

Private insurers remain in place, but the Government steps in with heavy regulation. This Health Care system is NOT Socialism, nor will it ever be, for the planned economy and health program of the New World Order is Fascism.

NEWS BRIEF: “House passes sweeping health care reform 219-212″, Boston Herald, 22 March 2010

“The most sweeping health-care overhaul in more than four decades was approved last night by triumphant House Democrats, extending insurance coverage to an estimated 32 million Americans by 2019 – and supercharging an already highly polarized political atmosphere.”

Indeed, this Fascist Health Care Law is probably the greatest intrusion of the Federal Government into a private sector since the New Deal days of President Franklin Roosevelt. Since Barack Obama has confessed his ardent admiration for Franklin Roosevelt, we should not be too surprised that Obama’s plans mirror the programs of Roosevelt.

While we have not had the opportunity to study this new Health Care Law, I would not be surprised to discover that it is essentially the same bill that Hillary Clinton created in the early days of Bill Clinton’s presidency. Hillary’s health care plan was deemed so radical and so socialist that it went down to defeat in flames and Hillary disappeared from public sight for a very long time.

But, now, America is so much farther down the road to the New World Order that the time has come to pass Hillary’s radical plan.

Let us examine the reality that this plan is not Socialism, but Fascism.

“The final bill, largely modeled after Massachusetts’ own near-universal health-care program, extends coverage to most of the uninsured, bans insurers from dropping policyholders who become sick and increases Medicare drug benefits. It also places unprecedented regulations on insurers, prohibits lifetime caps on the amount of money that can be paid out on policies and imposes new restrictions on annual caps.”

You can see that private insurers remain in place, still owned by private interests. However, the Federal Government “places unprecedented regulations on insurers”. This combination of private ownership of companies plus heavy government regulation, equals Fascism. Had the Congress passed the “Public Option” of government takeover of the insurance companies, then we would have had Socialism and a whole lot more real trouble!

You see, by leaving the insurance companies in private hands, you keep the expertise of running health insurance in the hands of the private owners. They continue to do what they have always done, i.e., run the health care insurance industry. Inexperienced government bureaucrats are not taking over running the entire program, which would have happened if the plan was Socialism. And, believe me, that would be a total disaster.

The Cutting Edge understanding that Fascism was going to be the model of the new Health Care program is thus confirmed. Now, Health Care joins the bankers, regular insurance industry, and the automaking industry as being transferred from Private Enterprise to Fascism.

Welcome to the New World Order!

States’ Rights Is Rallying Cry for Lawmakers

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/us/17states.html?hp

By KIRK JOHNSON
Published: March 16, 2010

Whether it’s correctly called a movement, a backlash or political theater, state declarations of their rights — or in some cases denunciations of federal authority, amounting to the same thing — are on a roll.

In Utah, a bill by Representative Carl Wimmer, a Republican, would require the state to sign off on any federal health reform.

Gov. Mike Rounds of South Dakota, a Republican, signed a bill into law on Friday declaring that the federal regulation of firearms is invalid if a weapon is made and used in South Dakota.
On Thursday, Wyoming’s governor, Dave Freudenthal, a Democrat, signed a similar bill for that state. The same day, Oklahoma’s House of Representatives approved a resolution that Oklahomans should be able to vote on a state constitutional amendment allowing them to opt out of the federal health care overhaul.
In Utah, lawmakers embraced states’ rights with a vengeance in the final days of the legislative session last week. One measure said Congress and the federal government could not carry out health care reform, not in Utah anyway, without approval of the Legislature. Another bill declared state authority to take federal lands under the eminent domain process. A resolution asserted the “inviolable sovereignty of the State of Utah under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution.”

Some legal scholars say the new states’ rights drive has more smoke than fire, but for lawmakers, just taking a stand can be important enough.
“Who is the sovereign, the state or the federal government?” said State Representative Chris N. Herrod, a Republican from Provo, Utah, and leader of the 30-member Patrick Henry Caucus, which formed last year and led the assault on federal legal barricades in the session that ended Thursday.

Alabama, Tennessee and Washington are considering bills or constitutional amendments that would assert local police powers to be supreme over the federal authority, according to the Tenth Amendment Center, a research and advocacy group based in Los Angeles. And Utah, again not to be outdone, passed a bill last week that says federal law enforcement authority, even on federal lands, can be limited by the state.

http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/

“There’s a tsunami of interest in states’ rights and resistance to an overbearing federal government; that’s what all these measures indicate,” said Gary Marbut, the president of the Montana Shooting Sports Association, which led the drive last year for one of the first “firearms freedoms,” laws like the ones signed last week in South Dakota and Wyoming.

In most cases, conservative anxiety over federal authority is fueling the impulse, with the Tea Party movement or its members in the backdrop or forefront. Mr. Herrod in Utah said that he had spoken at Tea Party rallies, for example, but that his efforts, and those of the Patrick Henry Caucus, were not directly connected to the Tea Partiers.

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/t/tea_party_movement/index.html

And in some cases, according to the Tenth Amendment Center, the politics of states’ rights are veering left. Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin, for example — none of them known as conservative bastions — are considering bills that would authorize, or require, governors to recall or take control of National Guard troops, asserting that federal calls to active duty have exceeded federal authority.

“Everything we’ve tried to keep the federal government confined to rational limits has been a failure, an utter, unrelenting failure — so why not try something else?” said Thomas E. Woods Jr., a senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, a nonprofit group in Auburn, Ala., that researches what it calls “the scholarship of liberty.”
Mr. Woods, who has a Ph.D. in history, and has written widely on states’ rights and nullification — the argument that says states can sometimes trump or disregard federal law — said he was not sure where the dots between states’ rights and politics connected. But he and others say that whatever it is, something politically powerful is brewing under the statehouse domes.

Other scholars say the state efforts, if pursued in the courts, would face formidable roadblocks. Article 6 of the Constitution says federal authority outranks state authority, and on that bedrock of federalist principle rests centuries of back and forth that states have mostly lost, notably the desegregation of schools in the 1950s and ’60s.

http://www.senate.gov/civics/constitution_item/constitution.htm

“Article 6 says that that federal law is supreme and that if there’s a conflict, federal law prevails,” said Prof. Ruthann Robson, who teaches constitutional law at the City University of New York School of Law. “It’s pretty difficult to imagine a way in which a state could prevail on many of these.”

And while some efforts do seem headed for a direct conflict with federal laws or the Constitution, others are premised on the idea that federal courts have misinterpreted the Constitution in the federal government’s favor.
A lawsuit filed last year by the Montana Shooting Sports Association after the state’s “firearms freedom” law took effect, for example, does not say that the federal government has no authority to regulate guns, but that courts have misconstrued interstate commerce regulations.

National monuments and medical marijuana, of all things, play a role as well.

Mr. Herrod in Utah said that after an internal memorandum from the United States Department of the Interior was made public last month, discussing sites around the country potentially suitable for federal protection as national monuments — including two sites in Utah — support for all kinds of statements against federal authority gained steam.
And at the Tenth Amendment Center, the group’s founder, Michael Boldin, said he thought states that had bucked federal authority over the last decade by legalizing medical marijuana, even as federal law held all marijuana use and possession to be illegal, had set the template in some ways for the effort now. And those states, Mr. Boldin said, were essentially validated in their efforts last fall when the Justice Department said it would no longer make medical marijuana a priority in the states were it was legal. Nullification, he said, was shown to work.

Whether the political impulse of states’ rights and nullification will become a direct political fault line in the national elections this fall is uncertain, said Mr. Woods of the von Mises institute.
But in Utah, at least, a key indicator is coming much sooner. The party caucuses to determine, among other things, whether candidates will face primary elections, are to be held next Tuesday, and Mr. Herrod said the states rights’ crowd would attend and push for change.

“Those politicians who don’t understand that things are different are in big trouble because a few people showing up to caucus can have a big influence,” Mr. Herrod said.

A spokeswoman for Gov. Gary R. Herbert, a Republican — who signed a firearms law like South Dakota’s last month declaring exemption from federal regulation for guns made and used within the state — said Mr. Herbert was still studying the new batch of bills passed this week and had not yet made decisions about signing them.

US Healthcare Summit – Thursday 2/25/2010

Dog and Pony show at the Blair House in Washington, DC. Lots of smoke

US Healthcare Summit – Thursday 2/25/2010

The meeting will be open to the press and streamed at www.WhiteHouse.gov/live

On Thursday C‑SPAN3 will show day-long LIVE coverage of the White House Health Care Summit starting at 10am ET
Thursday, February 25, 2010, 10:00AM EST.

Progressives Obama, Reid, Pelosi to push Socialism agenda using Government Heathcare system.

WHITEHOUSE LIVE

February 25, 2010 10:00 AM EST
A Bipartisan Meeting on Health Reform
Washington, D.C.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/live

JOIN THE LIVE CHAT

VISIT WHITEHOUSE.GOV

“This is my heart, it’s my health, it’s my choice.”

DOCTOR’S ORDERS
See who signed Declaration of Health Care Independence
Bachmann: ‘I’m not shocked that so many people believe in this document’

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=126034

February 23, 2010
By Chelsea Schilling © 2010 WorldNetDaily

Bachmann presents the following 10 points of agreement in her declaration:

We, therefore, the People and Representatives of the United States of America, do solemnly Publish and Declare that health care reform, as a matter of principle, must:

* Protect as inviolate the vital doctor-patient relationship;

* Reject any addition to the crushing national debt heaped upon all Americans;

* Improve, rather than diminish, the quality of care that Americans enjoy;

* Be negotiated publicly, transparently, with genuine accountability and oversight;

* Treat private citizens at least as well as political officials;

* Protect taxpayers from funding of abortion and abortion coverage;

* Reject all new mandates on patients, employers, individuals or states;

* Prohibit expansion of taxpayer-funded health care to those unlawfully present in the United States;

* Guarantee Equal Protection under the law and the Constitution;

* Empower, rather than limit, an open and accessible marketplace of health care choice and opportunity.

See who signed Declaration of Health Care Independence
Bachmann released the following list of all 96 lawmakers who have signed the declaration as of today:

Rep. W. Todd Akin, R-Mo.
Rep. Steve Austria, R-Ohio
Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn.
Rep. Spencer Bachus, R-Ala.
Rep. J. Gresham Barrett, R-S.C.
Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett, R-Md.
Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas
Rep. Gus M. Bilirakis, R-Fla.
Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah
Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.
Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Mo.
Rep. Jo Bonner, R-Ala.
Rep. John Boozman, R-Ark.
Rep. Charles Boustany, R-La.
Rep. Paul C. Broun, R-Ga.
Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, R-Fla.
Rep. Michael C. Burgess, R-Texas
Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind.
Rep. John R. Carter, R-Texas
Rep. Bill Cassidy, R-La.
Rep. Howard Coble, R-N.C.
Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Colo.
Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla.
Rep. K. Michael Conaway, R-Texas
Rep. Ander Crenshaw, R-Fla.
Rep. John Abney Culberson, R-Texas
Rep. Geoff Davis, R-Ky.
Rep. Nathan Deal, R-Ga.
Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr., R-Tenn.
Rep. Mary Fallin, R-Okla.
Rep. John Fleming, R-La.
Rep. J. Randy Forbes, R-Va.
Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz.
Rep. Scott Garrett, R-N.J.
Rep. Phil Gingrey, R-Ga.
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas
Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas
Rep. Sam Graves, R-Mo.
Rep. Brett Guthrie, R-Ky.
Rep. Ralph M. Hall, R-Texas
Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash.
Rep. Dean Heller, R-Nev.
Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas
Rep. Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich.
Rep. Sam Johnson, R-Texas
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa
Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Ga.
Rep. John Kline, R-Minn.
Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo.
Rep. Robert E. Latta, R-Ohio
Rep. John Linder, R-Ga.
Rep. Frank D. Lucas, R-Okla.
Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, R-Mo.
Rep. Cynthia M. Lummis, R-Wyo.
Rep. Donald A. Manzullo, R-Ill.
Rep. Kenny Marchant, R-Texas
Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C.
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash.
Rep. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon, R-Calif.
Rep. Candice Miller, R-Mich.
Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla.
Rep. Jerry Moran, R-Kan.
Rep. Sue Wilkins Myrick, R-N.C.
Rep. Randy Neugebauer, R-Texas
Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif.
Rep. Pete Olson, R-Texas
Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind.
Rep. Thomas E. Petri, R-Wisc.
Rep. Joseph R. Pitts, R-Penn.
Rep. Todd Russell Platts, R-Penn.
Rep. Bill Posey, R-Fla.
Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga.
Rep. Adam Putnam, R-Fla.
Rep. David G. Reichert, R-Wash.
Rep. David P. Roe, R-Tenn.
Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif.
Rep. Thomas J. Rooney, R-Fla.
Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La.
Rep. Jean Schmidt, R-Ohio
Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr., R-Wisc.
Rep. John B. Shadegg, R-Ariz.
Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Pa.
Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas
Rep. Mark E. Souder, R-Ind.
Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla.
Rep. John Sullivan, R-Okla.
Rep. Lee Terry, R-Neb.
Rep. Glenn Thompson, R-Pa.
Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Kan.
Rep. Patrick Tiberi, R-Ohio
Rep. Michael Turner, R-Ohio
Rep. Zach Wamp, R-Tenn.
Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, R-Ga.
Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C.
Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va.

Earlier this week, Bachmann said the Obama administration is conducting backroom deals on bills and refusing to broadcast negotiations on CSPAN as pledged. She said health-care legislation must not “force Americans to violate their conscience by having to pay for abortion coverage for other Americans.” She added that U.S. citizens must not be obligated to pay for health insurance for illegal aliens.

Bachmann also warned that any health-care plan should not add to federal or state deficits. She shared the following charts printed in the Feb. 2 issue of Congressional Quarterly Today revealing that the federal deficit under the Obama administration is expected to widen to a record $1.6 trillion in fiscal year 2010 – exceeding 10 percent of the total output of the economy for the first time since World War II:

Click on the graph to enlarge

“This nonpartisan graph shows what America’s future will be if we continue down the road on runaway spending under President Obama,” Bachmann said.

She said it represents a future with a declining standard of living so severe it will be unlike anything the nation has ever known. Bachmann challenged Americans to take a close look at the projected debt levels America will be embracing.

“If people see this graph, they will know from there what to do, very clearly, this November,” she said. “They need to turn out of office people who agree with President Obama’s economic policies, and they need to replace them with people who agree with our founders and our Declaration of Independence and Constitution that we are a constitutional republic. We cannot drown our nation and our people in debt, and we can’t force upon them tax increases so egregious that we will never again know true prosperity.”

She said American’s should hold their lawmakers’ feet to the fire and ask them whether they agree with the 10 constitutional conservative principles.

“Go on the offense. That’s what we’re trying to do,” Bachmann challenged Americans. “We believe that members of the House and Senate need to answer to their constituents, whether they agree or disagree with this as a beginning platform going forward with health care. The American people have clearly repudiated what President Obama and the Democrats have put forward thus far.”

Bachmann recalled how active and vocal citizens were during Obama’s town-hall meetings last year.

“We saw the American people come out to town halls and forums all last summer,” she said. “They picked up their phones and called their representatives and senators. They talked to neighbors and family members and found common ground in the principles we have laid out here, and I stand firm with the thousands of Americans that want to be the sole decision makers in their health-care needs.”