Friday, August 5, 2011

Rise of the State - "Food for Thought", no pun intended. "FDA Goons & the 2nd Amendment" (excerpts)


Put your ear to the tracks'n hear the train a comin'... -- rfh
FDA Goons and the Second Amendment                        (exerpts -- rfh)
Posted on Food for Freedom on August 4, 2011
     On July 16, the US Food and Drug Administration posted a libelous release linking a foodborne pathogen to a South Carolina raw dairy before confirming whether or not such a link existed.  Two weeks later, the FDA determined that Tucker Adkins Dairy products were free of all contaminants but has still not issued a retraction at its webpage.
     "How do we get our reputation back?"  That's what Tommy and Carolyn Adkins asked the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund. (FTCLDF)
     Without a retraction at the web page, they can't.  What struck me most about the recent Rawesome raid was the absolute inaction by those who witnessed it.  No one tried to stop the cops or protect their food supply.  They complained, yes; but no one actually tried to stop the unconstitutional seizure and destruction of safe and healthy food products.
     One woman even said, "We should have a citizen's arrest here."  Well, why didn't she?  More likely, though, they are thoroughly convinced that law supersedes human rights.  Heaven forbid they should actually have to get physically involved when protecting their natural and inalienable rights.  Have none of them read A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn?
     Merely complaining doesn't get the job done.  Tyranny is brutal and resistance is messy, and the meeting of those two ideologies is often bloody.
     Despite laws claiming the unconstitutional power to enter your home without a warrant, would you let that happen?
     Maybe next time goons show up to seize and destroy food that has sickened no one, people will assert their Second Amendment rights and protect their food supply.  This is exactly why that right was written into the US Constitution – to protect us from tyranny.
     Yeah, some of us will get arrested and some of us might get shot if we confront armed raiders.   But eating factory foods is killing most of us anyway – a slow, painful, expensive death that enriches the pharmaceutical industry and FDA coffers.
     Should we die on subservient knees complaining, while allowing these raids to proceed?  Or should we stand up and risk being arrested or shot for defending our inalienable right to eat the foods with which we evolved?
     In this 2009 piece, A Progressive View on Gun Rights: 2A All the Way, I go into more reasons why the Second Amendment is important.   To the list of quotes there, I would add: "Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God." ~ Thomas Jefferson
Rawesome Raided Again!  Farmers and private food club owner arrested for selling fresh milk
video source: http://youtu.be/lI1gvPmA_c8     About 20 armed agents from various local, state and federal agencies, coordinated by the US Food and Drug Administration, staged another raid on fresh foods sold in California at a Ventura County farm and at Rawesome Foods, a private buying club providing members with unadulterated, unpasteurized milk and dairy products, among other items.
     Healthy Family Farms owner Sharon Palmer and one of her employees, Eugenie Bloch, were arrested, along with James Stewart, the operator of Rawesome Foods located in Venice, California.
     A protest is planned for tomorrow's arraignment hearings (Thursday, August 4) at Los Angeles Superior Court, Criminal Justice Center, 210 W. Temple Street. Organizers are asking protesters to arrive at 7:45 am.
     The FDA raid included agents from the California Franchise Tax Board; the CA Department of Food and Agriculture's Milk and Dairy Food Safety Branch and the department's Division of Measurement Standards; the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office; the LA County Dept. of Public Health; the Ventura County Sheriff's Department, the Ventura County Dept. of Public Health; the LA Police Department and the LA Dept. of Building and Safety.
     Palmer is charged with nine counts of criminal conspiracy and operating without a license, while Stewart is facing 13 counts.
     This latest arrest marks the fourth raid on Sharon Palmer, who has been continually harassed for providing products that humans have consumed for thousands of years, but which now is regulated under laws designed to put the small fresh food operator out of business and promote the profits of the genetically modified, drugged, adulterated product of Big Dairy.
     Agents stole computers, business records and thousands of dollars in product from these honest, hard working citizens, whose products have sickened no one.
     This is the second raid on Rawesome Foods, following the international scandal last year when jackboot thugs with badges broke into the private premises with their guns drawn.
     The raid follows a recent report by retired pathologist Ted Beals, MD,  based on Centers for Disease Control numbers, which revealed that an estimated 9.4 million people drink raw milk in the US, while 42 get sick each year from contaminated product. This amounts to six-millionths of a percent who become sick from raw milk.
     Let there be no doubt that the federal government is intent on destroying the health food industry by criminalizing foods and supplements that have not been genetically modified, processed or adulterated with nanoparticles, chemicals or drugs. They serve their corporate masters in the pharmaceutical and agro-industrial sector, who profit from making us sick.
     Defend these fresh food farmers and suppliers. Attend the protest if you can, support local foods that are produced safely and humanely, and write your local media and legislators about these unconstitutional attacks on your right to eat food of your choice.
Here's another video, this from a Rawesome volunteer who advises that armed agents seized all their product, even produce:
Robert Harrold August 5, 2011 at 4:13 am | Reply
You are right on the money!  The Rise of the State is no longer just an old talking point about Nazi Germany.  Many many 'quasi-military like' police raids are occurring more and more often across the U.S. Even, in our neck of the woods! …often with tragic results – usually injuring or killing innocent civilians attempting to defend themselves from unidentified intruders who have no respect for the Constitution.