MLM DISTRIBUTOR RIGHTS MARCH ON WASHINGTON Freedom FDA

DISTRIBUTOR RIGHTS ASSOCIATION RENEWS HEALTH FREEDOM FIGHT VOW!

The DRA Votes To March On D.C. To Support The new Health Freedom Bill.

NEW H.R. 2117

The original Health Freedom Bill was drafted by one of our Distributor Rights Legal Advisors and an expert FDA Attorney, Jonathan Emord with input and funding from Youngevity a DRA Company Founder. Our Rod and Marcie Cook (DRA Chairman and Treasurer) flew in to D.C. and joined the Rally for the introduction of H.R. 4282. This was the old bill that expired with the 2006 Congress. It had over 40 Congressman supporting it. Essentially our bill has been re-introduced in this session of Congress as H.R. 2117. The DRA board took action to:

1. Officially provide “Gonzo” all out support for H.R. 2117

2. The board voted to continue planning for the "March On Washington" when we get a mirror bill in the Senate. This to be a peaceful march.... Demonstrate in front of the FDA Campus........and then head up to the Hill.............When? When Jonathan Emord and Ron Paul thinks it will do the most good!

3. We have to keep up the good fight on this even through a Presidential election that slows all D.C. action. We have to plan for a “March on Washington For Health Freedom.

4. The DRA will work with other Health Freedom groups to get this bill to FLY! Tell Your Congress person to Co-Sponsor the Health Freedom Protection Act, H.R. 2117. The Bill the DRA supported from conception in 2005 HR4282 has now been re-introduced by Congressman Ron Paul as H.R. 2117.

The FDA is silly, capricious and acting the behest of Pharmaceutical Drug Lords. It is illegal for your company or you to use to use scientific research in support of a nutritional. If you use honest truthful research information from the National Institutes of Health, your company can be shut down! The only way you can is to run it through the FDA. That takes $500,000 over three years and fighting every time they reject your valid claim. This truly is anti-public good by not allowing reasonable and factual health claims, the rights of Americans to learn about natural products through truthful, science-based health claims is routinely stifled to the detriment of Health and Health Freedom in the United States.

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COALITION FOR NUTRITIONAL FREEDOM

OF SPEECH... INTRODUCES FDA CONTROLS

The Health Freedom Protection Act New 2007 H.R. 2117 (old) H.R. 4282

A brave group called “The Coalition to End FDA and FTC Censorship” has been formed by over 50 supplement companies and individuals (including the MLM WatchDog and MLM Distributor Rights Association) to create and boost House Bill H.R. 2117 (old H.R. 4282).

In a strong protest of the nutritional care supporters above showed dissatisfaction with the FDA’s handling of health claim petitions. A group of House members (see below) has introduced legislation that would reduce the FDA’s authority to deny or severely restrict them.

The Health Freedom Protection Act H.R. 2117 (old H.R. 4282) also addresses related industry complaints of heavy handedness by the Federal Trade Commission by restricting the commission’s policing authority over dietary supplement advertising.

Introduction of the legislation (HR 2117) now in 2007 follows several FDA decisions to either deny outright the use of large well documented petitioned health claims for lacking adequate scientific substantiation (some had 4’ high piles of good scientific documentation). They have “ruined” some legitimate claims with disclaimers such as “highly unlikely” to describe a nutritional supplement relationship to a reduced risk of a disease that was true!

The bill represents the most concerted legislative effort yet to correct what many public health promoters believe is FDA’s unwillingness to implement the landmark Pearson vs. Shalala ruling as the courts intended. The FDA has ignored Federal Court rulings. Under the “Pearson Ruling,” the FDA must allow dietary supplement health claims that do not meet its regular significant scientific agreement proof standard... if disclaimers make them truthful and nonmisleading!

In a Nov. 10 floor speech, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) said his bill would restore the free speech rights of consumers “to receive truthful information regarding the benefits of foods and dietary supplements by codifying the First Amendment standards used by federal courts to strike down (FDA) efforts to censor truthful health claims.” The bill “also stops the (FTC) from censoring truthful health care claims,” Paul said.

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Among a long list of restrictions on FDA’s authority, the bill would require the agency to allow a disease claim unless the FDA can prove that there is no scientific evidence whatsoever to support it. This is putting the shoe on the other foot! The FDA would have to limit disclaimers to no more than three concise sentences. It would prohibit the FDA’s waiving conflicts of interest for members of its food advisory panels considering nutrient claims This would keep “Drug/Pharmaceutical employees from attacking nutritional claims.

Bill H.R. 2117 (old H.R. 4282) regarding the FTC, would prohibit the FTC from even initiating a deceptive advertising investigation unless it possesses a preponderance of evidence to show that an ad is actually false and misleading. Before holding a nutritional advertiser guilty, the FTC would have to prove that consumers would actually be misled by an ad.

Initial Congress Persons Cosponsoring the bill are Represenatives: Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), Dan Burton (R-Ind.), Walter Jones (R-N.C.), Rob Bishop (R-Utah), John Duncan (R-Tenn.), Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.) and Jeff Miller (R-Fla.)

Congressman Paul said Nov. 10 2005 when he introduced HR 4282 (H.R. 2117) that “FDA bureaucrats are so determined to frustrate consumer access to truthful information that they are even evading their duty to comply with four federal court decisions vindicating consumers’ First Amendment rights to discover the health benefits of foods and dietary supplements.”

Your MLM WatchDog says, the FTC has turned our nations “innocent until proven guilty” rights upside down by requiring supplement manufacturers to satisfy an unobtainable standard of proof that their statement is true. The FTC’s standards block innovation in the marketplace and cause harm to the public.

As examples... HR 2117 (old 4282) would reverse previous FDA decisions by allowing disease claim relationships for well known common sense claims, some of which could improve or save 10’s of 1000s of lives! Examples of such badly needed claims are:

omega-3 fatty acids and coronary heart disease

omega-3 fatty acids and sudden death heart attack

Saw palmetto and benign prostatic hyperplasia!

Glucosamine or chondroitin sulfate and osteoarthritis

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TAKE ACTION TODAY! SEND PETITIONS - JOIN THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON!

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Rod Cook the MLM Watchdog!

FDA & BIG DRUGS COMPANIES – NO FAITH!

An Oct 2005 Harris poll shows that only nine percent (9%) of the American public thinks the pharmaceutical industry tells the truth. 91% don’t think they are honest and trustworthy! Reasons your editor knows why:

1. FDA approved Vioxx killed 55,000 people of heart attacks and other complications. This was a massacre terrorists can only dream about! Sadly, the war in Iraq has gotten a little over 2000 of our troops killed. Turn the FDA over to the military (a 1998 plea I made in the old MLM Insider) If Army Generals got 55,000 people killed as the FDA did from “friendly fire”, the military would hang the Army Generals in the court yard of the Pentagon at dawn!

2. No, it is emerging that anti-depressants touted as the "great glory" are having “hidden” side effects. Oh great... what else are Big Drug companies AND the FDA hiding??

3. We see drug prices manipulated according to countries that people live in. The drug companies are sucking the blood out of American retirees and people without full coverage health insurance. Every time someone has to give up food for drugs (to help them stay alive), an intense hate develops for drug companies.

4. The drug companies plead the extra charges in the US are for research. Research on what? The main research is on "new money" drugs. A new pill for erectile dysfunction? Oh great! We are out of antibiotics that work. If the bird flu doesn’t kill millions, the antibiotic resistant germ epidemic (the plague is coming) will. Viruses? Drug companies gave them up years ago! No big money... lot of cost in basic research. No, better to make penis drugs!

5. One of the big secrets leaking out, has Congress passed laws so that drug companies could pay extra "hurry up" fees, so the FDA can add staff to research and approve new drugs? The drug companies made billions $$$, FASTER! The "hurry up now fees" pay for about 20% of the jobs at the FDA. If a doctor knows that his fat, high level, Civil Service (big money - big perks - hard to fire) paycheck is funded by drug companies, is it going to make them mad? Throw out Vioxx? Why?

6. I do see one win for the drug companies! Yeah... a loss for us! CNN (big drug ads) hardly mentioned (one day maybe) the 55,000 killed by Vioxx. CNN = Constantly Negative News! They have now driveled on about the Sky Marshalls shooting the nut case for 3 days! They rattle on about the NO death toll (months) and the Iraq death toll (years), but they never bring up 55,000 DEAD AMERICANS killed by Big Pharma and their Vioxx Ads on CNN ( + others).

7. Pfizer is one of the big drug companies crying for pity because cutting its workforce. Hey schmucks, no pity here, it's hard for Pfizer to hide its 2005 profits of be $8 billion! Pity?.. how about refunds?"

YOUR EDITOR ROD COOK ASKS,

“HOW DID THE DRUG COMPANIES GET AN APPROVAL RATIING AS HIGH AS 9%?

SEE THE NEXT PAGE - Where you too young in the 60's and 70's to join any kind of march on Washington D.C. ? Here is your change for a peaceful way to change the laws of this nation!

A LAW TO HELP ALL MLM NUTRITIONAL COMPANIES!

DO YOU WANT TO HELP RUN A MARCH ON WASHINGTON House Bill H.R. 4242

would YOU like to:

1. Do hourly training to marchers (before they visit House and Senate Offices) along with

2. Work registration for the Marchers before training sessions the day before.

3. Make and Issue Security ID Badges after each hourly training session?

3. Work on the Mall and by House and Senate Buildings as a Guide

4. Come in 2 days early to work on Information Packs and folders

5. Other!

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THE SAGA OF J.I. RODALE