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First Health Care, Next the Food Supply
The American Thinker ^ | November 17, 2010 | Michael Geer

Posted on 11/17/2010 2:09:17 AM PST by Scanian

Just because the duck is lame doesn't mean it can't still do terrible damage to American freedom. Our new Congress, especially the new House, isn't yet seated, and this current Congress can still wreak terrible havoc on our rights if not stopped.

Case in point: Senate Bill 510, believed to be coming to the floor Wednesday, November 17 (pending). This is the food safety version of ObamaCare. Reading the thing will make your head hurt for all its cognitive dissonance. Trying to winnow out its complexity and hidden empowerments is stultifying.

Introduced by Dick Durbin of Illinois, the bill has moved through the usual phases of amalgamation and deal-making. The monstrosity advancing to the floor on Wednesday is not so much "food safety" as it is the decadence of the rights of small farmers, hobbyist food producers, garden-variety farmers markets, and your average small producer of foodstuffs. Under the rubric of safety, this Senate proposes a bill that establishes such new and sweeping powers over how you and I produce and consume foodstuffs that even the Pew Charitable Trusts are calling S510 a clear and present danger. National Health Freedom says,

"It is a dangerously broad regulatory bill giving extensive discretionary power to the FDA over the entire food supply chain without proper checks and balances to avoid abuse of power;

"It would impose one-size-fits-all-regulations on thousands of small and mid-sized farmers, small-scale local farms and food producers, and would drastically burden, to extinction, basic natural and organic food suppliers, thus endangering the lives of Americans who depend on local wholesome foods..."

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut; US: Georgia; US: Illinois; US: Iowa; US: New Hampshire; US: New Mexico; US: New York; US: North Carolina; US: Tennessee; US: Utah; US: Wyoming
KEYWORDS: codex; dickdurbin; food; foodsafety; geneticallyaltered; gmo; lameduck; notfoodsafety; senatebill510
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To: Scanian

Dick Durbin’s efforts at promoting an American genocide puts Pol Pot and the Nazis to shame!


81 posted on 11/17/2010 6:39:22 AM PST by Redleg Duke (We didn't limit out, but we nailed a bunch of RATS!)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

That’s the type of thing that the pubbies need to bring up again and again just to get it on the record who the bad guys are.


82 posted on 11/17/2010 6:41:56 AM PST by Scanian
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

You heard it right! Have your yard sales this year. If I have a yard sale the gov. will not know about any sales - cash only. Just have to watch out for the county cops stopping by!


83 posted on 11/17/2010 6:41:56 AM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

We don’t see/hear everything here-—that’s for sure.

But that is news to me and sounds bizarre.

The only way some of the things I’ve seen mentioned here lately could be regulated/enforced would be to set up a national snitch network, a lá Nazi Germany through the SA, Hitler Youth, League of German Maidens, etc.

Spy and snitch on your neighbors, parents, and relatives! Whoopee-doo! Maybe that’s the real purpose behind the “civilian security force as well-equipped as the military” which has sort of fallen off the radar in recent months.


84 posted on 11/17/2010 6:47:11 AM PST by Scanian
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To: Scanian

Obama’s radical takeover is surreal. Not one reporter ever asked him outright if he even read the damned bill!

He knows the radicalism in ObamaCare. Why doesn’t he read the entire bill on TV instead of blaming Bush and making excuses?

They’re trick is to repeat one thing about it over and over the patients bill of rights and all get healthcare which did not work. Alinsky is wearing off.The GOP had best step up to the plate and no more freaking games.


85 posted on 11/17/2010 6:49:18 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: BillM

... Food stamps”

They like to use the term “Independence Card”. Yeah, independence. Control hunger and you control the masses. Reminds me of the movies like Soylent Green where everyone is hungry and mass suicides are the norm. I truly don’t believe for one minute that people will stop gardening BUT this Bill could then outlaw the sale/distribution of seeds. No seeds = no gardens. A Black Market of seeds will then results. Just a thought.


86 posted on 11/17/2010 6:50:01 AM PST by momtothree
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To: Red_Devil 232

This seems to be an issue that even conservatives and libbies can agree on. We should post this on some lefty sites and get them calling their congresscritters too.

I am going to send it to my sister. She is a new age, Obama nut...but even she wouldn’t like this over-reach of the federal government.


87 posted on 11/17/2010 6:53:17 AM PST by penelopesire (Let The Congressional Hearings Begin!)
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To: Scanian

Back when fools were listening to the radical thug...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt2yGzHfy7s

BTW:Fact check denies Obama meant anything by this; but Obama just wanted to double up the peace corp. I have some land for sale is La.that is dry and never been in a cane if anyone believes that.


88 posted on 11/17/2010 6:56:07 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

FactCheck LIE!


89 posted on 11/17/2010 6:59:20 AM PST by Scanian
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To: 9YearLurker
What are they thinking?

They're thinking about power and nothing else. This is the way Germany went down.

It's government vs. the people, just like in 1770.

90 posted on 11/17/2010 6:59:41 AM PST by meyer (Hey Obama - It's the end of the world as you know it.... ..... and I feel fine!)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

I don’t believe Fact Check that Obozo was just talking about the peace corps! Why would they need to be as well funded and just as powerful as our Military?


91 posted on 11/17/2010 7:02:53 AM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Scanian; bamahead; ChocChipCookie; sickoflibs; greyfoxx39; Arthur Wildfire! March; 2Jedismom; ...

Ping to all who love to live their lives without the control of the government trying to protect us from ourselves.


92 posted on 11/17/2010 7:10:30 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: michael savage; 09Patriot; abigail2; Avoiding_Sulla; BellStar; b4its2late; Blue Turtle; ...

Savage nutrition and food ping. Big mommy gov’t knows whats best for you.


93 posted on 11/17/2010 7:15:21 AM PST by dynachrome ("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
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To: Scanian
If you have a decent rep or even a dirtbag lib, let them hear your mouth.

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Not to make excuses for inaction but know that my rep Pomroy, a soundly defeated lame duck Rat is and has been next to impossible to contact and does not respont to negative impput.

94 posted on 11/17/2010 7:20:21 AM PST by Lion Den Dan
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To: metmom

Done-—that article has made the rounds today.

I’m amazed Beck hasn’t mentioned it...though he did talk about a 30% increase in food prices.


95 posted on 11/17/2010 7:20:33 AM PST by Scanian
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To: metmom

“Protecting us from ourselves” is only the snake oil that the true “ruling class” uses to get the wannabe ruling class on board.
After all, “we’re good people”, and “only want to help those who really have no business making their own decisions”.

It’s a subtle, Luciferian lie.
Not only does it play to the sheeperals need to feel superior and significant,
it also fools them into believing they’re MORALLY superior for “caring” while those who oppose them “don’t care”.


96 posted on 11/17/2010 7:21:22 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: Scanian

Emailing Rush, hannity et al RIGHT NOW.

Get to the phones, FReepers. When the government shoves us, let’s shove right back.


97 posted on 11/17/2010 7:35:10 AM PST by snowrip (Liberal? You are a socialist idiot with no rational argument.)
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To: metmom

Look up Codex Alimentarius.


98 posted on 11/17/2010 7:35:23 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Lion Den Dan

Call end email ANYWAY, then call Beck and Rush, then email some friends and tell them to pass it along.


99 posted on 11/17/2010 7:40:29 AM PST by snowrip (Liberal? You are a socialist idiot with no rational argument.)
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To: rusty millet

Chambliss isn’t up for re-election till 2014 and Isakson till 2016—they’re thinking we’ll never remember by then.


100 posted on 11/17/2010 7:44:18 AM PST by Sal (CBS is the FORGERY STATION!)
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