Fw: Throat Crushed by Plastic Bullet- How to Stop the Police State & Codex

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Subject: Throat Crushed by Plastic Bullet- How to Stop the Police State &

Codex

> IAHF Webmaster: Breaking News, Anti FTAA, Codex Oversight

>

> IAHF List: Please read the article below about Laferriere, who was

shot in the throat by a plastic bullet at the protest in Quebec City against

the Free Trade Area of the Americas, (which

> threatens to impose a European Union styled dictatorship in the Western

Hemisphere to crush the sovereignty of the USA, Canada, Mexico, Central and

South America. Via the FTAA, the

> pharmaceutical industry intends to force our hemisphere to harmonize to

the EU Vitamin Directive and Codex.

>

> The Draft Agreement for FTAA could take a few years before it is

finalized, and we have no say in what goes into it even though the US Trade

Representatives office would have us believe

> we do. They do post notices in the Federal Register calling for comments,

but this is just as much of a FARCE as it is when the FDA calls for comments

on their positions on Codex. Having

> been on the US Codex Delegation (and been kicked off for being a

whistleblower), I can tell you that FDA ignores all of our comments. In

fact, they ignore efforts by Congress to reign in their

> actions at Codex, and they do as they're told to do by their

pharmaceutical paymasters.

>

> So..... in the face of this evil, what can we do? Go and protest and get

shot in the throat by a plastic bullet like Lafierrire was or worse?

Get shot in the head by a real bullet and killed like a

> protestor at the G-8 Summit was in Italy?

>

> How can we stop this evil " race to the bottom " in which all of our rights

have been slated for destruction, along with the sovereignty of all nations

as a global police state emerges ever more

> rapidly in the aftermath of the 911 CIA psyop against the world?

>

> How can we preserve our access to dietary supplements, when most American

vitamin companies don't even GRASP that there IS a threat to their business,

and NOT just to their European

> business? Can we awaken these companies in time? We have to try.

>

> I have moved to Blacksburg VA in an effort to get badly needed assistance

to produce a video that explains the Codex vitamin issue. There is a video

lab here at Virginia Tech University, and I

> hope someone can show me how to do video editting and somehow I need to

learn the rudiments of production. I am still in a process of unpacking and

getting settled in, but wanted you to

> know I have no disappeared from the face of the earth. Laferriere is

going to awaken a lot of people through his experience of being shot in the

throat. For every action there is an exact

> and opposite reaction, and opposition to the New World Odor is growing

daily as more and more people keep waking up and fighting back. Please read

the article below and forward it to more

> people. Also read The Secret Team- How the CIA Controls the World by Col.

L.Flether Prouty, USAF Ret http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/ST/

>

> Anyone can sign up for the IAHF list at http://www.iahf.com - the list

will soon be operational again like it was before. Please make a donation to

assist me with this work. We can't stop Codex

> by submitting comments to the FDA, they don't give a damn what we want. We

can only stop Codex by awakening more people so they can see the threat,

then we can exert countervailing

> political pressure globally against criminal enterprises such as the FTAA

and CODEX. Everyone in America must get armed--- with information.

>

> Hammell

> International Advocates for Health Freedom

>

>

>

> http://www.stopftaa.org/news/news_throat.html

> Silenced by a Plastic Bullet

>

> His throat crushed, Laferriere wants justice for the

pain he's suffered

>

> By TOOKER GOMBERG

>

>

> ste.-claire-de-bellechasse, quebec -

> -I'm sitting in Laferriere's basement apartment, and

his cellphoneis ringing. He looks at it to see who's calling. He doesn't

answer.

> Hecannot speak.Democracy is about the right to speak out,

but our country is now responding to peaceful protestors with unprecedented

> clouds of toxic tear gas and a new form of repression:

plastic bullets.

>

> The cop who fired at Laferriere was no more than 20 feet

away from him, near the wall surrounding the Summit of the Americas in

Quebec

> City. The bullet hammered into his throat, crushing his

larynx, which contains the vocal chords, as well as the trachea, the

thumb-thick wind

> pipe that brings air to the lungs. [ Laferriere, with

a steel plate in his throat, holds the plastic bullet that hit him.]

>

> He now has a steel plate in his throat and breathes

through a small metal hole. He speaks in a faint whisper and with

difficulty, wincing at

> the pain from the 6-inch stainless steel pipe stuck in

his throat.

>

> Every breath burns.

>

> " It's like someone is grabbing me by the throat and

trying to choke me. How could a cop do this to me? " he asks angrily, holding

up a white

> 4-inch piece of plastic -- the very bullet that hit him.

>

> " Here, take it, knock it against your head lightly, " he

tells me. It's hard, like a rock. " That's what hit me squarely in the

throat. It was

> travelling at 300 feet per second. And somehow I had the

reflex to reach down and grab it and put it in my pocket. "

>

> In the corner of his living room sits a table stacked

with hospital supplies, packages of plastic tubing and a machine to suck out

the liquids

> that build up in his lungs. " I am going through two boxes

of Kleenex per day. It's not every day that you can find it on sale.

>

> " I can't go swimming or take a bath. I have a hole in my

throat. I can't even make love -- I can't get excited. I have to remain

calm. "

>

> ***

>

> As the Summit of the Americas story moves from front page

to invisible,one story sticks in my mind. A man was shot in the throat by a

> plastic bullet. What happened to him?

>

> NDP MP Svend 's office sends me an article about

Laferriere, and I search the Quebec City daily newspaper Le Soleil for info.

I call

> one of the journalists who has been writing about the use

of plastic bullets, and from him I get the number of 's hospital room. I

call

> repeatedly over many days, but there's no answer.

Eventually, I learn that he has left the hospital.

>

> One of the articles mentions the town he lives in:

Ste.--de-Bellechasse. I scan the 600-plus Laferrieres in the province

listed at

> Canada411.ca, but none matches the town. No leads.

>

> I then search the town name and have just one hit: a

company that makes tractor bodies. The person who answers tells me that

used

> to work at the foundry in town, and gives me that number.

>

> The receptionist is friendly, but company policy dictates

that she cannot give me his number. She's happy to deliver my messages to

,

> though, who agrees to what turns out to be a three-hour

interview.

>

> I walk through the still graffitied streets of Quebec

City, and then hop a boat across the wide mouth of the St. Lawrence River to

Levis. A

> local bus and a taxi carry me 45 kilometres, first

through the globalized landscape of Tim Hortons and 99-cent Jr. Whoppers,

and then past

> rolling fields of corn and hay. I'm left on a quiet

street in front of a four-plex.

>

> Down the stairs, I'm welcomed into 's home, where he

lives alone, the sunlit walls decorated with small paintings he did as a

child. He's

> proud of his youthful talent and shows me a 20-year-old

clipping from a La Tuque newspaper that recognized his childhood skill.

>

> Later, we leaf through the piles of more recent

clippings. This time he's front page, with a bullet.

>

> ***

> The Summit was barely a month ago, but so much has

changed for aferriere since he heard on the news that 25,000 people were

expected

> for a march in Quebec City. " It was a beautiful day, and

I wanted to be part of something large like that -- a once-in-a-lifetime

experience, " he

> says.

>

> " My mother saw me leave home that morning, and all I had

was swimming goggles, a spare bandana and a bottle of water. I am not a

Hell's

> Angel!

> I am not violent. I have no dossier. I'm clean. "

>

> On Saturday afternoon he stood alongside other protestors

on Boulevard some 20 feet from a double or triple row of fully decked-out

riot

> police. Nothing much was happening. It was calm.

>

> Then, all of a sudden, clack, clack, clack, the cops

started firing tear gas canisters at the protestors. " There was absolutely

no reason for

> the cops to start firing that tear gas. "

>

> The gas was so thick, he couldn't see the person next to

him. Some people ran, others got angry. He mimed his outrage. " I went like

this, "

> he explains. First the middle finger, then a finger

pointed at his head. Fuck you, what you're doing is crazy, he was saying,

but without

> words.

>

> Suddenly, he was doubled over in pain, on the ground. " My

hand no longer worked. What did they do to me? I didn't know what hit me. "

>

> Without thinking, he grabbed an empty tear gas canister

that was lying nearby and was about to pitch it at the cops. It never left

his hand.

>

> " I tried to speak, but nothing came out. "

>

> There was blood streaming out of his mouth. Gobs of

blood. People around him were panicking. Others shouted for a medic. The Red

Cross

> called for an ambulance. Laferriere could barely breathe.

>

> Before the ambulance arrived, police fired more tear gas

in their vicinity. They had to evacuate him. The ambulance was directed to a

> different location, and from there Laferriere was rushed

to the hospital. Since then, he's been bawling. Bawling like a baby.

>

> ***

>

> Who fired the shot? And will he face the music? " For

attempted murder a

> person should get 15 years, " Laferriere tells me.

>

> After caring for him for two weeks, one of Laferriere's

nurses, Sylvie, confessed to him that her husband is a cop and that he was

on duty

> during the Summit. After a couple of minutes of silence,

Laferriere asked: " Did I deserve that bullet? "

>

> Lawyers have been hovering, offering to help him pro

bono. " They know I will win and that they will make money, " he says. But

he's not

> rushing into a legal battle just yet. " I am not just

> going to charge the Quebec Police or the RCMP. I'm going

after the cop who shot me. I want to see the cop who shot me in front of

me. "

>

> For now, he drives. In the last few days he's travelled

1,200 kilometres. Next month he'll go under the knife again. Then, if all

goes well, he'll

> go travelling. " There are so many things to see across

Canada, " he says. " The CN Tower is in Toronto, right? Where is Niagara

Falls? "

>

> They succeeded in crushing Laferriere's voice. Will

you use yours to speak out against the chemical and military attack against

> peaceful protestors?

>

> NOW | MAY 17 - 23, 2001 | VOL. 20 NO. 3

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