Senate's Rigged Passage of S.510 Most Restrictive Yet Against Health Freedom

[Optimus]

U.S. Passes Most Restrictive Legislation Yet Against Health Freedom



PreventDisease
December 1, 2010

The United States Senate has passed the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (S.510) yesterday by a vote of 73 to 25 demonstrating a clear mandate to destroy health freedom in America.

The House of Representatives approved a different version of the food safety bill in 2009; however, the bill’s sponsor Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) said the House has agreed to adopt the Senate version, bypassing the need for a conference to integrate the two bills. Once approved, the bill will move on to President Barack Obama for his signature.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will now have more power to police all food companies under the bill. It gives the FDA unprecedented powers to preclude the public’s right to grow, own, trade, transport, share, feed and eat each and every food that nature makes.

The bill will now:

- end United States sovereignty over its own food supply by insisting on compliance with the WTO, thus threatening national security.

- allow the government, under Maritime Law, to define the introduction of any food into commerce (even direct sales between individuals) as smuggling into “the United States.”

- impose Codex Alimentarius on the US, a global system of control over food. It allows the United Nations (UN), World Health Organization (WHO), UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the WTO to take control of every food on earth and remove access to natural food supplements.

- remove the right to clean, store and thus own seed in the US, putting control of seeds in the hands of Monsanto and other multinationals, threatening US security.

- allow the government to mandate antibiotics, hormones, slaughterhouse waste, pesticides and GMOs.

- use food crimes as the entry into police state power and control. The bill postpones defining all the regulations to be imposed; postpones defining crimes to be punished, postpones defining penalties to be applied.  It removes fundamental constitutional protections from all citizens in the country, making them subject to a corporate tribunal with unlimited power and penalties, and without judicial review. It is (similar to C-36 in Canada) the end of Rule of Law in the US.

Bill S. 510 essentially will strengthen all the forces that have led to the consolidation of the food supply in the hands of a few industrial food producers, while definitively harming small producers who give consumers the choice to buy fresh and health local foods.

Here are the names of the 73 US Senators who sold out the American public’s right to grow and sell crops from their own gardens and farms without government oversight, regulation or permission.

The November 30, 2010 US Senate vote on S-510, the FDA Food Modernization Safety Act:

Alabama
Nay      AL       Sessions, Jefferson [R]
Nay      AL       Shelby, Richard [R]
Alaska
Yea      AK      Begich, Mark [D]
Yea      AK      Murkowski, Lisa [R]
Arizona
Nay      AZ       Kyl, Jon [R]
Nay      AZ       McCain, John [R]
Arkansas
Yea      AR       Lincoln, Blanche [D]
Yea      AR       Pryor, Mark [D]
California
Yea      CA       Boxer, Barbara [D]
Yea      CA       Feinstein, Dianne [D]
Colorado
Yea      CO       Bennet, Michael [D]
Yea      CO       Udall, Mark [D]
Connecticut
Yea      CT       Dodd, Christopher [D]
Yea      CT       Lieberman, Joseph
Delaware
Yea      DE       Carper, Thomas [D]
Yea      DE       Coons, Chris [D]
Florida
Yea      FL        LeMieux, George [R]
Yea      FL        Nelson, Bill [D]
Georgia
Nay      GA      Chambliss, Saxby [R]
Nay      GA      Isakson, John [R]
Hawaii
Yea      HI        Akaka, Daniel [D]
Yea      HI        Inouye, Daniel [D]
Idaho
Nay      ID        Crapo, Michael [R]
Nay      ID        Risch, James [R]
Illinois
Yea      IL         Durbin, Richard [D]
Yea      IL         Kirk, Mark [R]
Indiana
Yea      IN        Bayh, Evan [D]
Yea      IN        Lugar, Richard [R]
Iowa
Yea      IA        Grassley, Charles [R]
Yea      IA        Harkin, Thomas [D]
Kansas
Not Voting       KS       Brownback, Samuel [R]
Nay      KS       Roberts, Pat [R]
Kentucky
Nay      KY      Bunning, Jim [R]
Nay      KY      McConnell, Mitch [R]
Louisiana
Yea      LA       Landrieu, Mary [D]
Yea      LA       Vitter, David [R]
Maine
Yea      ME      Collins, Susan [R]
Yea      ME      Snowe, Olympia [R]
Maryland
Yea      MD      Cardin, Benjamin [D]
Yea      MD      Mikulski, Barbara [D]
Massachusetts
Yea      MA      Brown, Scott [R]
Yea      MA      Kerry, John [D]
Michigan
Yea      MI       Levin, Carl [D]
Yea      MI       Stabenow, Debbie Ann [D]
Minnesota
Yea      MN      Franken, Al [D]
Yea      MN      Klobuchar, Amy [D]
Mississippi
Nay      MS      Cochran, Thad [R]
Nay      MS      Wicker, Roger [R]
Missouri
Not Voting       MO      Bond, Christopher [R]
Yea      MO      McCaskill, Claire [D]
Montana
Yea      MT      Baucus, Max [D]
Yea      MT      Tester, Jon [D]
Nebraska
Yea      NE       Johanns, Mike [R]
Yea      NE       Nelson, Ben [D]
Nevada
Nay      NV       Ensign, John [R]
Yea      NV       Reid, Harry [D]
New Hampshire
Yea      NH      Gregg, Judd [R]
Yea      NH      Shaheen, Jeanne [D]
New Jersey
Yea      NJ        Lautenberg, Frank [D]
Yea      NJ        Menendez, Robert [D]
New Mexico
Yea      NM      Bingaman, Jeff [D]
Yea      NM      Udall, Tom [D]
New York
Yea      NY      Gillibrand, Kirsten [D]
Yea      NY      Schumer, Charles [D]
North Carolina
Yea      NC       Burr, Richard [R]
Yea      NC       Hagan, Kay [D]
North Dakota
Yea      ND      Conrad, Kent [D]
Yea      ND      Dorgan, Byron [D]
Ohio
Yea      OH      Brown, Sherrod [D]
Yea      OH      Voinovich, George [R]
Oklahoma
Nay      OK      Coburn, Thomas [R]
Nay      OK      Inhofe, James [R]
Oregon
Yea      OR       Merkley, Jeff [D]
Yea      OR       Wyden, Ron [D]
Pennsylvania
Yea      PA       Casey, Robert [D]
Yea      PA       Specter, Arlen [D]
Rhode Island
Yea      RI        Reed, John [D]
Yea      RI        Whitehouse, Sheldon [D]
South Carolina
Nay      SC       DeMint, Jim [R]
Nay      SC       Graham, Lindsey [R]
South Dakota
Yea      SD       Johnson, Tim [D]
Nay      SD       Thune, John [R]
Tennessee
Yea      TN       Alexander, Lamar [R]
Nay      TN       Corker, Bob [R]
Texas
Nay      TX       Cornyn, John [R]
Nay      TX       Hutchison, Kay [R]
Utah
Nay      UT       Bennett, Robert [R]
Nay      UT       Hatch, Orrin [R]
Vermont
Yea      VT       Leahy, Patrick [D]
Yea      VT       Sanders, Bernard
Virginia
Yea      VA       Warner, Mark [D]
Yea      VA       Webb, Jim [D]
Washington
Yea      WA      Cantwell, Maria [D]
Yea      WA      Murray, Patty [D]
West Virginia
Yea      WV      Manchin, Joe [D]
Yea      WV      Rockefeller, John [D]
Wisconsin
Yea      WI       Feingold, Russell [D]
Yea      WI       Kohl, Herbert [D]
Wyoming
Nay      WY      Barrasso, John [R]
Yea      WY      Enzi, Michael [R]


Sources:
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/senateS510finalvote30nov10.shtml
http://www.foodproductdesign.com/news/2010/11/senate-passes-historic-food-safety-reform-bill.aspx
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-30/broadest-food-safety-overhaul-in-70-years-approved-by-senate-in-73-25-vote.html
http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2010/04/24/s-510-is-hissing-in-the-grass/#more-1828

[Optimus]

Hapless Senator Admits Obvious: Political Process a Rigged Game
http://www.infowars.com/hapless-senator-admits-obvious-political-process-a-rigged-game/
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
November 30, 2010

Colorado Democrat Senator Michael Bennet made the mistake of admitting what many of us already know – the political process in the district of criminals is a rigged game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aDZy6zWeio&feature=player_embedded

“It’s all rigged. The whole conversation is rigged,” said Bennet over an open C-Span mic during debate on the Food Safety Act. “The fact that we don’t get to a discussion before the break about what we’re going to do in the lame duck. It’s just rigged.”

Soon after Bennet made his comment, an aide realized the C-Span microphone was open and switched it off. Senate floor microphones are usually turned off during debate.

Bennet Chief of Staff Guy Cecil told The Daily Caller that the senator stands by his comments. “The whole process being rigged against having a real conversation about tax cuts, the estate tax and the defense authorization. We’re not having a lot of those conversations. It’s just a symptom of Washington being broken,” Cecil said outside the Senate chamber.

The political process is not broken. It is working exactly as the elite want. Taxes, defense authorization, and virtually every other political issue taken up by Congress is decided by the financial elite well before it is discussed on the Senate floor. Congress is a dog and pony show designed to make the plebs believe they live in a democracy where they actually have a say.

“While people have recognized for more than 150 years that the rich and powerful often corrupt individual officials, or exert undue influence to get legislation passed that favors their interests, most Americans still cling to the naive belief that such corruption is exceptional, and that most of the institutions of society, the courts, the press, and law enforcement agencies, still largely comply with the Constitution and the law in important matters,” the Constitution Society noted in 1994.

They expect that these corrupting forces are disunited and in competition with one another, so that they tend to balance one another…. Mounting evidence makes it clear that the situation is far worse than most people think, that during the last several decades the U.S. Constitution has been effectively overthrown, and that it is now observed only as a façade to deceive and placate the masses. What has replaced it is what many call the Shadow Government. It still, for the most part, operates in secret, because its control is not secure.

Occasionally the shadowy machinations of the secret government and the elite are exposed, as in the case of Michael Bennet’s comments.

The corporate media, of course, ignored Bennet’s comment. The Washington Examiner and the Grand Junction Sentinel reported the story, but across the corporate media the story received a stony silence.

Instead of reporting how the political system really works, the corporate media continues to orchestrate high-tech bread and circuses and high definition distractions.

[egypt]

This is so serious.  Take into consideration the attack on persons with farms, 6 fruit trees or more (California) and the Amish = serious.

Time to repeal this stupid legislation.  How can they tout "scarcity" and at the same time, prevent self-sufficiency.  Obviously they are so "elite" they are out-of-touch with reality and think eggs come from the help's silver plate.  They have become madmen in their seriously unreal lifestyle & environment.

Love, e