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FDA
Breaks Law to Halt Public Protest of Draconian Supplement
Law
By Mike Adams with
Commentary by Jim Moore
MAY 1, 2007
© 2007 by
The Phoenix Foundation
Just how far will this administration go and how many
laws will it thumb its nose at to destroy democracy and
enrich the drug company fat cats?
Today the FDA violated federal guidelines requiring a
90-day period for public comment on a Big Brother law that
has had its name changed three times to confuse the public,
and has cut off that mandatory public comment period
retroactively, according to published reports.
I hope some group with enough legal representation
and/or money immediately files a lawsuit. This is quickly
becoming a police state!
FDA
hoodwinks public over CAM Guidelines comment period,
slams door shut on public comments one month early
The FDA has slammed the
door shut on accepting public comments over its
contentious "CAM Guidelines" that
threaten to destroy natural medicine by
classifying virtually all health-enhancing foods,
juices, nutritional supplements and functional
foods as "unapproved drugs." NewsTarget
has acquired emails from an FDA employee and key
author of the CAM Guidelines. This email contains
statements that directly contradict the FDA's own
website and reveal a tactic designed to silence
public commentary by retroactively declaring the
comment period to be closed even while the FDA's
own documents state the period should continue for
another 30 days.
Check it out yourself: The FDA website says the
comment period ends May 29, 2007 (click
here to see the screen capture). But in an
email received today by NewsTarget, the FDA's
Philip L. Chao claims "...the entry (for
which you provided the link) was mistakenly
changed by an employee in mid-April, and we will
correct that error soon. Thus, internet media
reports claiming that FDA has extended the comment
period to May 29 are NOT correct."
Thus, the public comment period for CAM Guidelines
is now closed, one month ahead of what the FDA's
own website provides as the comment closing date.
And this is explained as being due to a
"mistake" by an FDA employee that will
be retroactively corrected, only after the public
comment period has been officially closed.
Covert tactics at
the FDA
NewsTarget editors believe these actions on the
part of the FDA are not merely accidental. They
are deliberate, and they follow a pattern of
deception that appears to be designed to sneak CAM
Guidelines under the radar and avoid public
scrutiny. Consider this:
• The first draft of the CAM Guidelines was
issued by the FDA on the day after Christmas,
2007, but the agency waited until February 26 to
post them in the Federal Registry.
• The Guidelines state the public will have a
"90 day comment period" in which to post
comments on the proposal, but the initial closing
date for public comments was posted as April 30 --
leaving just two months for comments, not three as
explained in the Guidelines themselves.
• When the public learned of these documents
thanks to investigative reporting by the health
freedom community (credit goes to Rima
Laibow, Ralph Fucetola and others who are
staying on top of this issue), and filed tens of
thousands of complaints with the FDA, the agency
initially capitulated and changed the comment
period to May 29. This is the comment period shown
in this
screen shot (click to view) (also shown above),
taken May 1st.
• But even as the health freedom community was
rallying its efforts to encourage further public
comments on the CAM Guidelines, the FDA today
announced the May 29 extension was a
"mistake" and the window for public
comments is now over.
It's a tactic much like rigging the electronic
voting machines to make the voters think their
opinion counts. At the FDA, the top priority seems
to be creating the illusion of openly
listening to the public while, in reality, using
every means possible to thwart the public's will.
By relying on deceitful tactics like the one being
reported here, FDA is clearly operating in bad
faith.
The FDA appears to
be subject to no law
This is how the FDA operates: Deceive the public
by making them think the agency is listening to
reason, then suddenly change the rules and leave
the public out to dry. The agency operates as if
it is subject to no law, rule or regulation of its
own. It lies to the public, defends the profits of
pharmaceutical companies, and ultimately operates
with apparent legal immunity.
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In fact, U.S. lawmakers
think the FDA is doing such a great job that they are
about to reward the agency with even more money,
expanding its powers and deepening its financial ties
with Big Pharma. The bill in question (click
here for the story) is being renamed on
practically a daily basis. It started as the Prescription
Drug User Fee Act, was renamed the FDA
Revitalization Act of 2007, and has just now
been transformed into the Enhancing Drug Safety
and Innovation Act of 2007.
Does it all seem bewildering? A little too much to
track it all? That's the whole point: Distract the
public and then steal away the health freedom of
Americans under the cover of confusion. It's a
brilliant strategy, given that so many Americans have
so little time to actually investigate these issues,
much less take action on them. And while lawmakers,
Big Pharma and the FDA are popping smoke to conceal
their tactical movements, the citizens of our
so-called "free" nation are having their
freedoms systematically stripped from them, right
under their noses, spearheaded by the very lawmakers
they elected to "represent" them.
(Most NewsTarget readers already know this, but true
public "representation" in Congress is a
joke. Lawmakers only represent commercial interests,
not the public. There are a few exceptions such as
Rep. Ron Paul and Sen. Charles Grassley who are both
fighting the FDA on many fronts.)
The bottom line from this event is simply this: We
have learned today that, yet again, we cannot trust
the FDA's own statements on its website.
Everything the FDA says or posts is apparently
subject to retroactive change, without notice, and
without any oversight whatsoever.
What we need right now is an FDA Office of
Internal Affairs -- an Eliot Ness of modern
medicine... someone who can march into the quagmire
of modern medical corruption and start making
criminal arrests. Until that happens, we are all
going to continue to live under a system of FDA
tyranny, where the truth is outlawed, free
speech is censored, and natural health practitioners
are increasingly attacked for daring to help patients
heal.
Thanks goodness for the internet, or you'd never
hear a word about any of this.
FDA
hoodwinks public over CAM Guidelines comment period,
slams door shut on public comments one month early
About the author: Mike Adams is a
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