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Ron Paul Introduces 3 Bills Designed to Restore Free Speech to Health
Ron Paul Introduces 3 Bills Designed to Restore Free Speech to Health
Author: Ethan Huff August, 2009 Source: Natural News
In recent years, numerous companies have been targeted, raided, and even shut down by the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for making health claims about the products they
sell. These federal agencies operate outside the realm of constitutional legitimacy and thus have pejoratively
muzzled free speech concerning natural health products and their health benefits for decades. In an effort to
restore constitutional freedom of speech, Congressman Ron Paul of Texas has introduced three bills which
would help dismantle the web of corruption that censors legitimate health claims and truthful information about
foods, herbs, and supplements that prevent, combat, or otherwise remediate disease.
Some readers may remember back in mid-2008 when the FTC performed a witch hunt against 130 companies
and one non-profit religious group who made claims about their products' effectiveness in treating cancer. The
FTC ordered that these entities remove all claims and testimonials and issue a statement to all their customers
that drugs and radiation are the only useful and proven treatments for battling cancer and that none of the
products or ingredients sold by these companies were helpful in preventing or treating illness.
Similarly, in 2005 the FDA threatened to raid cherry orchards who posted legitimate, peer-reviewed scientific
studies on their websites about the health benefits of cherries, claiming that the dissemination of any information
correlating cherries to health would cause the cherries to become unapproved drugs subject to seizure.
There have also been countless raids, including one back in January on a company who postulated that its
health products treated depression and other illnesses. What resulted was the arrest and detention of the
company's owner by U.S. Federal Marshals for speaking the unapproved truth.
As lunatic as all of this sounds, this type of behavior has become normal operating procedure at the FDA and
FTC whose unrestrained power continues to escalate into increasingly tyrannical control over free speech. As
such, Rep. Paul's three bills aim to end the illegitimate censorship of free speech and restore constitutional
freedom of speech in natural health. Below are their summaries and information about how to support them.
HR 3394, The Health Information Protection Act, inhibits the FTC from acting against any entity for
communicating the health benefits of its products unless the FTC presents "clear and convincing" evidence that
those statements are false. In concordance with the Fifth Amendment, the burden of proof concerning an
accusation of a false claim is to fall upon the accuser (FTC) to determine, with legitimate evidence, that a claim is
false before demanding its removal. As it stands, the FTC has reversed the Fifth Amendment by preemptively
and arbitrarily restraining communication without any evidence or reason while demanding that the accused
party prove its claim to be true. HR 3394 will reinforce the already lawful Fifth Amendment that establishes the
burden of proof upon the FTC to present a legitimate case before impeding any lawful communication. It will
restore the freedom to communicate nutrient-disease health claims freely.
Similarly to HR 3394, HR 3395, The Health Freedom Act, will remove the unconstitutional FDA power of "prior
restraint" over all nutrient-disease relationship claims. In other words, free speech health claims will no longer be
universally banned but will be permitted. The burden of proof will properly and lawfully fall upon the FDA to
establish "clear and convincing" evidence against a claim, after it has been made, if it believes a claim is false.
The First Amendment of the Constitution was designed to protect the free speech of the people from the federal
government imposing "prior restraint" on speech, the very thing the FDA has instated as the foundation for its
operating procedure. This bill will preserve the proper and lawful prosecution of those who make false claims,
but it will require the government and its agencies, particularly the FDA, to establish legitimate evidence against
a claim that it believes to be false prior to taking any action against any person or entity rather, effectively
restoring the First Amendment supremacy over the FDA.
Finally, HR 3396, The Congressional Responsibility and Accountability Act, addresses the roughly 90% of
federal government law that is enacted not by Congress, as is mandated in the Constitution under the
non-delegation doctrine, but by unelected bureaucratic agencies such as the FDA and FTC. As such, it would
prohibit any law created by these agencies from being enacted without first being passed by Congress in
concordance with Article I of the Constitution. HR 3396 will restore constitutional government by returning the
responsibility of legislating law to Congress which will in turn protect the public from rogue federal agencies who
tend to overstep their bounds and tyrannize the people.
While these bills mostly reinforce what is already provisioned in our Constitution, they represent the potential for
reform by pinpointing specific areas for which our federal government and its agencies have unlawfully violated
their roles and tyrannized people by outlawing free speech, particularly health speech. It is time to put these
unelected bureaucracies in their place by supporting Rep. Ron Paul's health freedom bills.
To find out more about the bills and to contact your representatives, please visit the following Life Extension
action links:
HR 3394: The Health Information Protection Act
HR 3395: The Health Freedom Act
HR 3396: The Congressional Responsibility and Accountability Act
Sources:
Health and Government Reform Bills by Congressman Ron Paul May Help Preserve Your Health Freedoms - Life
Extension
Daniel Chapter One (DC1) Fights Back
As We See It: FDA Threatens to Raid Cherry Orchards
About the author
Ethan Huff is a freelance writer and health enthusiast who loves exploring the vast world of natural foods and
health, digging deep to get to the truth. He runs an online health publication of his own at
http://wholesomeherald.blogspot.com.
Author: Ethan Huff August, 2009 Source: Natural News
In recent years, numerous companies have been targeted, raided, and even shut down by the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for making health claims about the products they
sell. These federal agencies operate outside the realm of constitutional legitimacy and thus have pejoratively
muzzled free speech concerning natural health products and their health benefits for decades. In an effort to
restore constitutional freedom of speech, Congressman Ron Paul of Texas has introduced three bills which
would help dismantle the web of corruption that censors legitimate health claims and truthful information about
foods, herbs, and supplements that prevent, combat, or otherwise remediate disease.
Some readers may remember back in mid-2008 when the FTC performed a witch hunt against 130 companies
and one non-profit religious group who made claims about their products' effectiveness in treating cancer. The
FTC ordered that these entities remove all claims and testimonials and issue a statement to all their customers
that drugs and radiation are the only useful and proven treatments for battling cancer and that none of the
products or ingredients sold by these companies were helpful in preventing or treating illness.
Similarly, in 2005 the FDA threatened to raid cherry orchards who posted legitimate, peer-reviewed scientific
studies on their websites about the health benefits of cherries, claiming that the dissemination of any information
correlating cherries to health would cause the cherries to become unapproved drugs subject to seizure.
There have also been countless raids, including one back in January on a company who postulated that its
health products treated depression and other illnesses. What resulted was the arrest and detention of the
company's owner by U.S. Federal Marshals for speaking the unapproved truth.
As lunatic as all of this sounds, this type of behavior has become normal operating procedure at the FDA and
FTC whose unrestrained power continues to escalate into increasingly tyrannical control over free speech. As
such, Rep. Paul's three bills aim to end the illegitimate censorship of free speech and restore constitutional
freedom of speech in natural health. Below are their summaries and information about how to support them.
HR 3394, The Health Information Protection Act, inhibits the FTC from acting against any entity for
communicating the health benefits of its products unless the FTC presents "clear and convincing" evidence that
those statements are false. In concordance with the Fifth Amendment, the burden of proof concerning an
accusation of a false claim is to fall upon the accuser (FTC) to determine, with legitimate evidence, that a claim is
false before demanding its removal. As it stands, the FTC has reversed the Fifth Amendment by preemptively
and arbitrarily restraining communication without any evidence or reason while demanding that the accused
party prove its claim to be true. HR 3394 will reinforce the already lawful Fifth Amendment that establishes the
burden of proof upon the FTC to present a legitimate case before impeding any lawful communication. It will
restore the freedom to communicate nutrient-disease health claims freely.
Similarly to HR 3394, HR 3395, The Health Freedom Act, will remove the unconstitutional FDA power of "prior
restraint" over all nutrient-disease relationship claims. In other words, free speech health claims will no longer be
universally banned but will be permitted. The burden of proof will properly and lawfully fall upon the FDA to
establish "clear and convincing" evidence against a claim, after it has been made, if it believes a claim is false.
The First Amendment of the Constitution was designed to protect the free speech of the people from the federal
government imposing "prior restraint" on speech, the very thing the FDA has instated as the foundation for its
operating procedure. This bill will preserve the proper and lawful prosecution of those who make false claims,
but it will require the government and its agencies, particularly the FDA, to establish legitimate evidence against
a claim that it believes to be false prior to taking any action against any person or entity rather, effectively
restoring the First Amendment supremacy over the FDA.
Finally, HR 3396, The Congressional Responsibility and Accountability Act, addresses the roughly 90% of
federal government law that is enacted not by Congress, as is mandated in the Constitution under the
non-delegation doctrine, but by unelected bureaucratic agencies such as the FDA and FTC. As such, it would
prohibit any law created by these agencies from being enacted without first being passed by Congress in
concordance with Article I of the Constitution. HR 3396 will restore constitutional government by returning the
responsibility of legislating law to Congress which will in turn protect the public from rogue federal agencies who
tend to overstep their bounds and tyrannize the people.
While these bills mostly reinforce what is already provisioned in our Constitution, they represent the potential for
reform by pinpointing specific areas for which our federal government and its agencies have unlawfully violated
their roles and tyrannized people by outlawing free speech, particularly health speech. It is time to put these
unelected bureaucracies in their place by supporting Rep. Ron Paul's health freedom bills.
To find out more about the bills and to contact your representatives, please visit the following Life Extension
action links:
HR 3394: The Health Information Protection Act
HR 3395: The Health Freedom Act
HR 3396: The Congressional Responsibility and Accountability Act
Sources:
Health and Government Reform Bills by Congressman Ron Paul May Help Preserve Your Health Freedoms - Life
Extension
Daniel Chapter One (DC1) Fights Back
As We See It: FDA Threatens to Raid Cherry Orchards
About the author
Ethan Huff is a freelance writer and health enthusiast who loves exploring the vast world of natural foods and
health, digging deep to get to the truth. He runs an online health publication of his own at
http://wholesomeherald.blogspot.com.