"Politics for Dummies"
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04-27-07 UPDATE: The FDA has extended the comment period on this proposed regulation until May 29, 2007. If you haven't added your comments, there's still time for you to do that! Frankly, this one is too important for you not to...

The federal government continues to work toward the regulation of...everything. While that's a slight exaggeration (for the moment, anyway), it's a smaller one than you might think. An article in today's online issue of WorldNetDaily.com says that "Feds eye control of vitamins, supplements — even water!" In fact, under the regulations being proposed, even rocks (that's right — rocks) would be regulated as "medical devices" if they were used in the course of massage therapy. You'd potentially have to see a doctor to get a prescription for vegetable juice, and couldn't take a little Vitamin C any time you felt a cold coming on without another expensive visit to a clinic. Anyone worried about the cost of health care should be concerned. Anyone worried about their ability to make their own choices connected to their own health should be worried.

The truth is that this measure bears all the appearances of being a fabulously rich financial gift to pharmaceutical companies with scarcely a veneer of "it's for your own good." The FDA will be accepting comments on Docket: 2006D-0480 - Draft Guidance for Industry on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Products and Their Regulation by the Food and Drug Administration (click here for a pdf copy of the regulations). Lady Liberty urges you to take the time now to do what you can to help stop this needlessly invasive and arguably unhealthy regulation from getting any further than it already has. While you're at it, she'd suggest you also contact your political representatives. If the FDA can't be stopped by public protest, then our last chance to avoid this appalling regulatory boondoggle is to urge Congress to do its duty to protect our rights. (Exp. 05-29-07)

Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO) is urging friends and supporters to take a good, hard look at one of the ugliest anti-gun bills in a long, long time. JPFO writes: "The gun-prohibitionists are taking full advantage of last weeks' horrific killings at Virginia Tech University to push more "gun-control" legislation in the form of HR 297, The NICS Improvement Act of 2007. Introduced back in January by Representative Carolyn McCarthy (aka the 'Queen of Gun Control'), HR 297 is intended among other things to dangerously broaden the definition of 'mental illness' for the purpose of denying firearms purchases."

Nobody is suggesting that anyone representing a clear and present danger to themselves or others should be handed a loaded firearm. But under HR 297, millions of us could fall into a comparable category that would prohibit us from owning firearms for life. While the JPFO is an educational rather than a political organization and thus doesn't endorse or oppose legislation per se, Gun Owners of America (GOA) is under no such restriction and it's made its position abundantly clear. Where is the National Rifle Association on all this? Believe it or not, it's backing HR 297. With the demands of the usual victim-disarmament contingent combining with the NRA, it's more important than ever that you take quick and forceful action against HR 297.

The GOA has posted on its web site a good deal of information and recommendations regarding HR 297 — including a sample letter for your political representatives — and Lady Liberty endorses GOA's advice wholeheartedly. Read the information for yourself, and see if you don't agree. And then pick up your pens, pick up your telephones, and do something. (Exp. 05-31-07)

Lady Liberty's Suggestion to Activists:
Consider a "Get US Out of the UN" sticker on your mail, especially when you write to Congress! Small envelope stickers, along with bumper stickers, brochures, and much more are available from:

Take action against the infringement of your rights:

Airport security has become needlessly intrusive, trampling on your civil rights without apology, and doing virtually nothing to improve security in exchange. So consider this next time you fly:

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