I know a long email, but its important that we all support this fight------

May 29, 2004

For the whole world of consumers of natural health care products. Please be

patient and read this, and then please pass on to as many health care

professionals and friends as possible. Thanks for your patience . ANNE UK

Subject: Dastardly Doin's Down Under: Action Plan for New Zealand HF

Fighters.... Rest of World Take Notice

> IAHF Webmaster: Whats New, Asia, New Zealand/Australia...What to Do, Codex

>

> IAHF List: [New Zealanders go directly to http://www.healthcharter.org.nz/

or skip directly to Action Plan Below]

>

> EVERYONE REGARDLESS OF COUNTRY: PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!! WE MUST HELP OUR

FRIENDS IN NEW ZEALAND- THEIR BATTLE IS OUR BATTLE- HERE IS WHY:

>

> See article MASSIVE MULTINATIONAL ASSAULT on ALTERNATIVE MEDICINES

> http://joevialls.altermedia.info/subliminalsuggestion/vitamins.html

>

> In 2003, under totally false pretenses the Australian so called

" Therapeutic Goods Agency " (their FDA) yanked 1,363 different product lines

off Australian health food store shelves without a single solitary product

assay to demonstrate that any of these safe products were the least bit

dangerous.

>

> This was a full scale nuclear strike against consumers right to access the

dietary supplements of their choice, and it was generated under the cover of

a fiasco called the " Pan recall " wherein the largest supplement manufacturer

in Australia, Pan Pharmaceuticals, was stripped of its manufacturing site

license and totally shut down just because an OTC motion sickness drug they

were selling called Travacalm caused some problems.

>

> Travacalm's active ingredient, dymenhydranate, is a known hallucinogen-

and its effects have been thoroughly described on websites which

recreational drug users peruse.

>

> An appropriate TGA response to the Travacalm problem would have been to

pull all products containing dymenhydranate off the market and to ban them

completely, but because motion sickness drugs similar to Travacalm are

manufactured by a slew of politically powerful multinational pharmaceutical

companies which use the TGA and its international counterparts as trade

associations to suppress the use of dietary supplements- that reasonable

course of action was not followed.

>

> What happened instead was truly nauseating: the shut down of Pan was used

to fuel a massive media circus condemning allegedly " unsafe " dietary

supplements- and its against THIS BACKDROP that the tiny island nation of

New Zealand is fighting as I type this for its very SURVIVAL as a sovereign

nation.

>

> I have come to truly admire New Zealand and its people. They're ruggedly

independent, and to them, their hulking gigantic neighbor is about as

popular as a parahna in a hot tub.

> Some of you may think that what's happening in Australia and New Zealand

is " irrelevant " to you because you live in Canada, or America, or Europe-

but if you think that, you're not seeing the globalists game clearly enough

and I urge you to keep reading.....

>

> THE JOINT THERAPEUTIC TREATY (JTA) MUST BE URGENTLY OPPOSED BY VITAMIN

CONSUMERS IN NEW ZEALAND.... AND ALL OVER THE WORLD!

>

> Where one of us is in chains, NONE of us are free. Yesterday I spoke with

McIver, an alternative practitioner in New Zealand, and a board

member of the New Zealand Charter of Alternative Health Practitioners.

>

> He's filled me in that its IMPERATIVE that everyone in New Zealand write

to, fax, email and call the LABOR MPs on the list below, because any day now

the NZ Parliament will get around to voting on whether or not to RATIFY the

Joint Therapeutic Treaty (JTA) with Australia, which would create ONE set of

regulations (Australia's mindless pharmaceutical regs which allowed the Pan

debacle to occur) for BOTH countries.....

>

> Fortunately for the Kiwis on the IAHF list, the Opposition Parties of New

Zealand have been refusing (thus far anyway) to ratify this Treaty, so at

least until now, it does not yet have the force of law inside New Zealand,

but that could change, and if it does, New Zealand vitamin consumers will be

in SERIOUS trouble. [sEE ACTION PLAN BELOW!!]

>

> WAKE UP CALL FOR VITAMIN CONSUMERS WORLD WIDE!!

> Last summer, in total violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and

Freedoms (Canadian equivalent to the US Constitution), Canada's vitamin

regulations were forcibly harmonized to Australian law while most Canadians

paid no attention, falsely believing they'd won a health freedom " victory "

in 1997 with the " third category. "

>

> Trueman Tuck of Friends of Freedom in Canada

http://www.friendsoffreedom.org/ has been making a valiant effort to push

bill C-420 through Parliament, but it doesn't look as though they have time

to get it through because a Canadian election will be held in the near

future this summer. FoF also has a legal effort to overturn the illegal

regs, however. If you're in Canada, I urge you to send the action letters on

the FoF website in to your MPs and also to forward this alert to vitamin

consumers world wide, especially if you have friends or family in New

Zealand.

>

> Americans can't ignore Canada's having harmonized its vitamin law to

Australia's because Canada is our northern flank- and with the FTAA

breathing down our necks in our hemisphere threatening to be a carbon copy

of the EU Dictatorship, we can't afford to ignore whats going on around us

because " harmonization " of the laws is occurring world wide via many means-

including, but not limited to CODEX.

>

> Americans should never forget that at the recent Codex meeting in Montreal

of the Committee on Food Labeling, the US Codex Delegate stabbed our nation

in the back by wrongly turning his back on the South African proposal which

could have blown Codex wide open and which was in sync with US vitamin law.

Thus none of us can afford to be complacent about anything happening in the

world today on the health freedom front and ALL of us must donate to the

Alliance for Natural Health's lawsuit to overturn the EU Food Supplement

Directive via http://www.alliance-natural-health.org due to the political

clout wielded by the EU at CODEX. As goes the EU, so goes the WORLD- but we

must see the Global Chessboard fully.... which brings me back to the

>

> DASTARDLY DOIN's DOWN UNDER: ACTION PLAN FOR ALL KIWIS TO MOVE ON NOW!!!

>

> Yes its True Australian Harmonisation will destroy Natural Therapies and

Small Businesses.

>

> By Signing the " Joint Therapeutic Agency " (JTA Treaty) The N Z Government

will

> give away to Australia The " Regulation of Therapeutic Products. "

>

> Your Government will effectively " Destroy Free Access by New Zealanders "

to

> Dietary Supplements and Therapeutic Products from world wide sources.

>

> Over 6,000 products will be banned or locked out of the New Zealand

market.

>

> Forcing up to 200 small business to close.

>

> Up to 95,000 New Zealanders involved in manufacturing, importing,

supplying,

> distributing, marketing, retailing and direct selling will loose their

jobs.

>

> To find out more and what action you can take

> Surf to :- www.healthcharter.org.nz

> or scroll down for Health Freedom Action Plan

>

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>

> Health Freedom

>

> - Action Plan -

>

> Government Attack on the Freedom of Health Choice

>

> Dietary Supplements Outlawed?

>

> The Joint Therapeutic Treaty (JTA) will outlaw New Zealanders access to

thousands of dietary supplements (at least 6,000 safe healthy dietary

supplements will no longer be available).

>

> New Zealand's global access to new and innovative products will be

repressively restricted by the JTA Treaty, effectively banning new products.

>

> The cost of dietary supplements under the JTA Treaty will escalate and in

some instances production costs will more than double.

>

> Loss of thousands of Jobs?

>

> Thousands of New Zealanders (up to 95, 0000 in the healthcare industry)

involved in manufacture, export, distribution and retailing of safe healthy

dietary supplements will be forced out of business. Employees will lose

their jobs because of excessively high JTA Treaty registration and

compliance cost by an Australian dominated bureaucracy that restricts free

trade in safe healthy dietary supplements.

>

> Safe Dietary Supplements?

>

> New Zealand Medsafe, in their submission to the Parliamentary Health

Select Committee, without scientific proof and a reliance on tabloid

newspaper articles, set out a table that when analysed indicated that under

a half of a percent of the available dietary supplements were perhaps

unsafe. Medsafe maintained that dietary supplements must be regulated in the

same way as inherently unsafe prescription pharmaceutical medicines are

regulated by the Australian Therapeutic Goods Authority. The facts are that

in twenty years dietary supplements have not been the cause of a single

death in New Zealand (in the same period there were 100,000 prescription

drug deaths in New Zealand Public Hospitals). Medsafe has not taken any

steps to rectify this unnecessary death situation.

>

> Your government is giving away your basic human right to take care of your

own health and the health of your children and loved ones.

>

> Your government is determined to give away your right to Freedom of Health

Choice and self determination

>

> Your Government has totally ignored its own Health Select Committee

recommendations and is ready to sign the JTA Treaty surrendering health

sovereignty to the Australian controlled Joint Therapeutic Agency Treaty.

>

> To preserve your Health Freedom of Choice you need to take action TODAY

and to encourage EVERYONE you know to take action TODAY.

>

> Photocopy this Action Plan and distribute to all your contacts.

>

> Take action TODAY - Tomorrow will be too late

>

> Action steps:

>

> Members with internet access should go to the Charter website and download

the Government Members List .csv file, which also includes email addresses.

This file should import into most Address Books and is very convenient for

Mail Merging and forwarding a number of emails.

>

> www.healthcharter.org.nz

>

> Forward letters to Government Members of Parliament.

>

> Be sure to include the date and your return address

>

> Be formal and polite but firm.

>

> Include a formal salutation such as the following.

>

> " Rt. Hon Doe MP

>

> Dear Sir or Dear Madam "

>

> as the case may be.

>

> Next include a heading. Use your creative talents to create a heading that

highlights your opinion.

>

> Some examples:

>

> Save Our Supplements.

>

> NO Lock Out of Dietary Supplements and Health Care Products.

>

> Vote No to the JTA Treaty.

>

> Say No to Aussie Rules.

>

> Support New Zealand Small Health Businesses.

>

> Preserve New Zealand's Health Sovereignty.

>

> Protect New Zealand's Health Freedom of Choice.

>

> Do Not Sell Out Our Health to Australian Domination.

>

> Australia to Dictate New Zealand Health-NO WAY!

>

> What should you say?

>

> The most important and attention grabbing statement for members of

parliament is;

>

> I will not vote for you or your Party if you support the JTA Treaty.

>

> Next important;

>

> Describe who you are and individualise your letter

>

> Use one of the following as a guideline and modify the content.

>

> I am a practitioner with a large number of clients who rely on my practice

for their primary corrective and preventative health care.

>

> I am employed in the health sector and the JTA Treaty will be detrimental

to my continued employment.

>

> I work full time (or part time) with dietary supplements and the JTA

Treaty will force me out of work.

>

> I run a small business and the JTA Treaty will ruin my business.

>

> My family and I rely on access to a wide range of dietary supplements to

maintain our health status. Our extended family and friends also rely on

dietary supplements.

>

> I am a student and I am totally opposed to any infringement on my Freedom

of Choice in Health Care.

>

> I am a solo parent and rely on natural healthcare to keep my family

healthy.

>

> I am a voting New Zealander and am passionate and determined in regards to

my human right of freedom of choice and self determination in health care.

>

> I am a.(one of the above).......and the JTA Treaty will remove my right of

access to my cultural and Traditional Medicines.

>

> I am of Maori descent and the JTA Treaty will deny me the right to access

Traditional Maori Medicine.

>

> I am of Maori descent and the JTA Treaty illegally contravenes my rights

as sealed under the Treaty of Waitangi

>

> I am (a Pacific Islander -Chinese - Indian - Philippino - Malaysian, etc

the JTA Treaty will deny me the right to access Traditional Medicine of my

choice.

>

> Be creative and add any other pertinent information.

>

> Caution: Do not fall into the trap of arguing individual aspects of the

JTA Treaty.

>

> The main effort must be to get the message across that a large segment of

the New Zealand electorate is opposed to the JTA Treaty.

>

> The Last Paragraph is most important:

>

> Most important

>

> I require your reply stating how you will vote on the JTA Treaty within

the next seven days.

>

> Special Note:

>

> Above all your letter needs to be polite, but firm. Your main message

needs to that your vote is at risk. This is the main message that

parliamentarians understand.

>

> If you do not receive a reply in seven days.

>

> Forward another letter strongly requesting a reply.

>

> Important:

>

> Do not forget to sign your letter. Double check for spelling or

grammatical errors. Make sure your letter is dated.

>

> Make sure that your letters are addressed to individual members of

parliament by name.

>

> Members of parliament do not take any notice of form letters; this is why

your letters must be individualised to be effective.

>

> Effective Methods:

>

> Out of all the ways to communicate with Members of Parliament a letter is

the most effective.

>

> A letter forwarded to members of parliament does not require a postage

stamp if addressed to;

>

> Freepost Parliament

>

> PO Box 18888

>

> Wellington

>

> Fax the Members of Parliament

>

> Sending a fax is the next most effective method. Unfortunately a large

number of faxes can tie up the members fax machine and office staff and be

very annoying. Faxes do however get attention and can be very effective,

especially a large number of faxes.

>

> Email

>

> Sending emails is the easiest and most convenient method.

>

> Unfortunately emails can be easily

>

> deleted or if the subject line of a number of emails are all the same

diverted to the recycle-rubbish bin.

>

> However if enough emails are forwarded they must have an impact.

>

> The main object of the - Health Freedom Action Plan - is to get the

message across to Members of Parliament that there is a large section of the

population that will be adversely effected if they vote in favour of the JTA

Treaty.

>

> So what is the best method to get your message across?

>

> The simple answer - All Of The Above.

>

> So start writing today. The future of your health, your family's health

and the health of generations not yet born are at risk from the JTA Treaty.

>

> This Government has been guilty of enacting a number of legislative

changes without adequate consultation with electors. They need to be

informed that they have gone too far. With your assistance we just may

obtain a more open approach to the creation of useful and supportable

legislation. We need a democratic government that takes notice of the wishes

and aspirations of the people.

>

> Spread the Word

>

> Inform clients, Neighbors, friends and all contacts including Talk Back

Radio, about the negative effects of this Treaty and that the Government and

the Ministry of Health are bulldozing this Treaty through Parliament and

only their action can stop it.

>

> To recap some main points

>

> The Health Select Committee will report back to Parliament on May 25th.

>

> It is not known as to how soon Government will take action on the JTA

Treaty, but it is understood that Government is committed to adopting the

Treaty regardless of the high level of opposition by New Zealand electors.

>

> Under the JTA Treaty

>

> Australia will have absolute and total control over the health of all New

Zealanders.

>

> The Freedom of choice and self determination in health will be abolished.

>

> Practitioner Only remedies will be no longer available.

>

> 6,000 or more health products will no longer be available.

>

> Small health related businesses will be forced to close.

>

> 96,000 thousand jobs will be at risk.

>

> Do not submit to the chains of Australian domination.

>

> TAKE ACTION TO DAY

>

> The above action plan is presented by The New Zealand Charter of Health

Practitioners Incorporated for the " Health Freedom of Choice for all New

Zealanders. "

>

> First Name

> Last Name

> E-mail Address

> Business Street

> Business Fax

>

> Hon Rick

> Barker MP

> rbarker@...