Rawesome Food raid videos begin to emerge from the scene where federal terrorists vandalized raw milk business

(NaturalNews) From the SWAT-style armed raid on the raw milk buying club known as Rawesome Foods , clandestine video footage is starting to emerge. Although the footage is shaky and low quality (from a cell phone), it shows law enforcement thugs stealing raw milk, cheese, vegetables and even mangos from the Rawesome Foods store and loading them up into a large truck. NaturalNews was sent these videos by people on the scene. Watch them at: http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=A5A53BF2F844A0BB9FE1BD9C20E51684 The same people from the raid also told us that they witnessed law enforcement pouring all their raw milk down the drain . Essentially, the cops, FDA and CDC were engaged in VANDALISM against a health food business. Make no mistake: This is law enforcement engaged in acts of terrorism against small farmers and honest raw foods retailers. These are mob-style tactics of intimidation, business disruption, cash confiscation and inventory destruction. Chicago gangster mobs couldn’t have done a better job! Watch these videos yourself and you’ll see some of what happened on the scene. More videos and photos are being sent to NaturalNews, and we will keep you posted on this story. Again, the short video of raw footage is available at: http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=A5A53BF2F844A0BB9FE1BD9C20E51684 Keep following NaturalNews for more breaking news on this story. We will also announce an upcoming protest planned in L.A.

Rawesome Food raid videos begin to emerge from the scene where federal terrorists vandalized raw milk business

(NaturalNews) From the SWAT-style armed raid on the raw milk buying club known as Rawesome Foods , clandestine video footage is starting to emerge. Although the footage is shaky and low quality (from a cell phone), it shows law enforcement thugs stealing raw milk, cheese, vegetables and even mangos from the Rawesome Foods store and loading them up into a large truck. NaturalNews was sent these videos by people on the scene. Watch them at: http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=A5A53BF2F844A0BB9FE1BD9C20E51684 The same people from the raid also told us that they witnessed law enforcement pouring all their raw milk down the drain . Essentially, the cops, FDA and CDC were engaged in VANDALISM against a health food business. Make no mistake: This is law enforcement engaged in acts of terrorism against small farmers and honest raw foods retailers. These are mob-style tactics of intimidation, business disruption, cash confiscation and inventory destruction. Chicago gangster mobs couldn’t have done a better job! Watch these videos yourself and you’ll see some of what happened on the scene. More videos and photos are being sent to NaturalNews, and we will keep you posted on this story. Again, the short video of raw footage is available at: http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=A5A53BF2F844A0BB9FE1BD9C20E51684 Keep following NaturalNews for more breaking news on this story. We will also announce an upcoming protest planned in L.A.

Massive public protest announced against government-sponsored terrorism of Rawesome Foods in California

(NaturalNews) As promised, a massive public protest is now being announced to give the members of the public an opportunity to voice their outrage against today’s arrest of three raw foods advocates who are all being charged with conspiracy . The protest will be held at the LA County Courthouse located at: 210 West Temple, Division 30 Los Angeles Arrive there at 7:45 am to join the protest, which needs to be in full swing early , because the court hearing for James is scheduled at 8:30. Please keep your protests non-violent in nature and bring your signs, shirts and more. LA newspapers and media have already indicated they will be on scene. NaturalNews video journalists will also be on the scene filming whatever goes down. Videos will be posted on www.NaturalNews.TV Bring your own cameras, too, and record your own photos and videos. Please post on NaturalNews.TV and we will likely link to your video in upcoming coverage of this event. We apologize for the very short notice of this public protest, but we are publishing details about this story as quickly as we can. The story is breaking big and has already reached millions of listeners on the Alex Jones Show (www.InfoWars.com) and millions of readers through the Drudge Report (www.DrudgeReport.com), which has linked to NaturalNews as the breaking news source for this story. Once the mainstream media starts covering this story, they will twist it around and LIE about it as they always do. NPR already did a hatchet job on this group following a previous raid. Only independent media (like NaturalNews) can be trusted to bring you the honest story on this without some corporate or government agenda. There are already misinformed accusations that Rawesome Foods was not licensed as a retail business. But that’s incorrect information: Rawesome Foods is a private buying club and not a retail business that’s open to the general public. People can’t just walk in off the street and shop there like a regular grocery store. Thus, Rawesome does not have to be licensed like a regular grocery store. They are a private buyer’s club. What went down in Venice, California today was clearly an act of government-sponsored terrorism against innocent citizens who are only “guilty” of selling healthful foods that are in huge demand by happy, healthy members (customers). That the selling of healthful raw milk cannot even be tolerated by the thuggish, corrupt government criminals who run the state of California (and the federal government) today is a powerful statement of just how much freedom we’ve already lost… and how hard we’re all going to have to fight back against tyranny to restore our basic food freedoms . Watch NaturalNews for more developments on this story, and thank you for spreading the word about this latest assault on food freedom in America.

Amazing food facts: The seed of a peach contains an almond-like nut containing the anti-cancer medicine laetrile

(NaturalNews) Peaches, nectarines, plums, apricots and almonds are all closely related fruit trees with very similar pits. In all these fruits, the pit must be broken open to reveal the almond-shaped kernel within. In fact, this is what almonds actually are: the kernel within the pit of the fruit of the almond tree! The kernels of all these species contain high concentrations of a chemical known as laetrile . It’s also known as amygdalin or vitamin B-17. Research has shown that laetrile induces programmed cell death in cancer cells while leaving healthy cells alone. It’s sort of like Mother Nature’s chemotherapy except that it doesn’t make you suffer the way man-made synthetic chemotherapy does. Laetrile appears to work because the nutrient is actually composed of four separate molecules: two of glucose , one of benzaldyhide and one of cyanide . The latter two chemicals are toxic, but are bound up in a non-bioavailable form. Cancer cells contain an enzyme that healthy cells do not, known as beta-glucosidase . This enzyme actually breaks apart the component pieces of laetrile, and the cell is poisoned by a combination of benzaldyhide and cyanide. Healthy cells do not undergo this effect, which is why they remain unaffected by laetrile. The medical establishment, learning about this natural “chemotherapy” that killed cancer cells and didn’t even require a prescription, quickly began to attack it by spreading lies about the dangers of laetrile. The FDA, long an enemy of healing through nutrition, banned laetrile in 1971. Highly toxic chemotherapy substances, however, remain perfectly legal and continue to kill hundreds of thousands of people every single year. (Most people who “die from cancer” are actually killed by chemotherapy and radiation, not from the cancer itself. “Cancer survivors” are people who miraculously survive chemotherapy.) G. Edward Griffin wrote a sensational book on this subject called World Without Cancer: The Story of Vitamin B17 . It’s available on Amazon.com at http://www.amazon.com/World-Without-Cancer-Story-Vitamin/dp/0912986190 More information is also available at www.VitaminB17.org Source: 25 Amazing Facts About Food , authored by Mike Adams and David Guiterrez. This report reveals surprising things about where your food comes from and what’s really in it! Download the full report (FREE) by clicking here . Inside, you’ll learn 24 more amazing but true facts about foods, beverages and food ingredients. Instant download of the complete PDF. All 25 facts are documented and true. Sources for this story include: http://www.naturalnews.com/027088_cancer_laetrile_cure.html http://www.naturalnews.com/025427_almonds_nuts_weight.html

No felony charges to be filed against American hero who gave TSA agent an ‘enhanced’ pat down

(NaturalNews) Yesterday, NaturalNews reported that 61-year-old Yukari Miyamae had been taken into custody after allegedly giving a US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agent an “enhanced” pat down of her own. A true American hero, Miyamae will reportedly not have felony charges filed against her, according to a CBS 4 Denver report, however she could still face local misdemeanor charges in her hometown of Longmont, Colorado. Upon being assaulted by several TSA agents for refusing to be irradiated by the naked body scanner or sexually assaulted with a pat down, Miyamae allegedly grabbed the breasts of one of a TSA agent and twisted them. She was subsequently arrested on potential charges of sexual assault, and released the following day (http://www.naturalnews.com/033048_TSA_agents_sexual_assault.html). Miyamae, a frequent air traveler who is a self-employed translator, author, and radio producer, apparently tried to explain to TSA agents that she did not want to go through the naked body scanner because of excessive radiation exposure, and instead would prefer to just go through the normal metal detector. She also requested not to be pat down because it violates not only the US Constitution, but also her personal privacy. The agents, of course, refused her request, and immediately began to approach and surround her in a threatening way. Miyamae apparently became concerned and panicked about how the agents were treating her, and her lawyer says she felt “endangered and threatened based upon prior traumatizing security pat downs [and] repugnance at the prospect of being touched again in such a violent and undignified manner.” So her response was to push the approaching female TSA agent away from her, and give the agent a dose of her own medicine by grabbing her breasts and twisting them. Apparently the rapid spread of the story — as well as several Facebook groups with several thousand supporters rallying in support of Miyamae — have led authorities to back off and let Miyamae go with no charges filed against her. After all, what she did is no different than what thousands of TSA agents across the US do to millions of air travelers every single day. But Miyamae’s supporters are hoping that Longmont officials will acquit her as well, and that no further action will be taken against her. The Facebook group “Acquit Yukari Mihamae” has more than doubled its number of supporters since NaturalNews published the first story on this issue yesterday, jumping from 1,834 to 4,247 as of this writing (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Acquit-Yukari-Mihamae/193771357344518). Miyamae’s personal friends have also set up a “Yukari Miyamae Legal Defense Fund” Facebook page to support her as well (http://www.facebook.com/YukariDefense). Though she has not yet made an official statement to the public, Miyamae stated in a recent “tweet” on Twitter that both police statements and “Fox coverage” have “not depict[ed] accurately what happened to me on July 14th at Phoenix Airport in Maricopa county [sic], Arizona.” Sources for this story include: http://denver.cbslocal.com/2011/07/19/no-felony-charges-for-longmont-woman-in-tsa-groping-case/

Oak Park drops charges against home gardener Julie Bass, but hits her with two other misdemeanor crime charges

(NaturalNews) Shortly after my interview with Julie Bass yesterday on the Alex Jones Show (www.PrisonPlanet.TV), the city of Oak Park, Michigan dropped the current charges against Julie Bass. This is being reported on Julie’s blog: http://oakparkhatesveggies.wordpress.com “Our attorney went into court this morning to file a motion. While he was there, someone told him the charge against the garden was dropped. Wow. Nobody called us. Nobody called our lawyer. This has got to be the strangest case of dropping charges I have ever heard of. so, they wouldn’t let him file his motion, and when they showed him the paperwork, it was signed by another judge, from another place, who we have never even heard of. Weird weird weird.” Of course it’s weird! Because this is all a tactic of the tyrannical bureaucrats to make the public pressure about this story go away while they plot a new way to punish Julie Bass for daring to stand up against them. You can bet the city officials there are already scheming on ways to wait 30 days for all this to die down and then reinstate the same charges against her . One indication of what’s happening here is that the papers dropping the charges were signed by another judge “from another place” as Julie says. That means an order has come down from a higher judge to dismiss this case and try to end the public outcry against the city of Oak Park. What this indicates is that the local officials in Oak Park had to be overridden by a higher court authority because at the local level, they were just too ego-invested in the whole thing to let it go. Meanwhile, the public pressure was mounting. NaturalNews led the charge on this issue, publishing the emails and phone numbers of Oak Park city bureaucrats, resulting in thousands of phone calls and email complaints being lodged against the officials there (thank to YOU and your action!). Then we took the story to the Alex Jones show yesterday and had Julie on the air, reaching a nationwide audience of millions of listeners (in real time), which had another huge impact. Plus, I released a hilarious satire video of Kevin Rulkowski, the city planner from Oak Park, Michigan, who has now been immortalized in a Monty Python-style video satire that’s getting rave reviews. Watch it at: http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=3A4B88066D390F0EA7C2664E371269D3 Or YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNsIdOxzwZg Alex Jones has posted an update commentary on the Julie Bass victory, you can view that at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nVK6-dwklA&feature=player_profilepage As Alex reminds us, when we stand up against tyranny, we WIN! City now enforcing dog licensing violations against Julie It is important to remember that the city can reinstate the charges against Julie at any time . So this is not a permanent victory. This is a tactic used by the city to try to make the public pressure go away. As Julie writes on her blog: “We weren’t actually cleared of any wrongdoing. The charges have not been settled in a way that gives us any assurance at all of them not coming back the second the media spotlight is off of Oak Park.” And even as they were dropping the charges against Julie for her front yard garden, they reinstated charges against her regarding the licensing of her dogs. Julie says she already paid the fine for the licensing of her dogs, but they are now dragging her into court and charging her with two misdemeanors related to her dog licenses. So now she’s facing not just 90 days in jail, but 180+ days in jail for something related to her dog licenses. And she explains on her blog: “On a dumber note, the city has decided to reinstate the case about our dog licenses. When they came over and saw we didn’t move the garden after their warning, they added a ‘no license’ charge for our 2 dogs. We went within the week to pay for licenses and even paid late fees, and when we came to court the prosecutor asked to see the documentation that it had been taken care of. So, he wrote a few notes, it seemed like everything was taken care of, and when I was in front of the judge nothing was mentioned at all about the dogs. In fact, nothing has been mentioned since then about the dog licenses, with the exception of a few blog readers who noticed the dog charges on the ticket and asked me about it. We thought the city just wanted the dogs to be vaccinated against rabies. Our vaccines for the dogs are now and have always been, current and up-to-date. We didn’t protest. We didn’t complain. We paid and we were done. or so we thought… So, the city still wants us to appear in court on the 26th of July. This time it will be for the dog licenses, which we have already taken care of. The dog charges are each a misdemeanor. So now we are up to misdemeanor x 2. This is the way tyrants work. When pressured, they’ll back off one thing, but then they will maliciously try their best to find some other way to make you pay. And if you embarrassed the tyrants, they will try to make you pay even worse. Let it be known that NaturalNews will continue to cover Julie’s story so that Oak Park officials cannot get away with punishing Julie for going public with the truth about what’s really happening there. If necessary, we will repeat our call for public protests against Oak Park city officials, and I’m sure there are tens of thousands of NaturalNews readers who want to stay updated on this story and make sure Julie is left alone by the tyrants of Oak Park, Michigan. So keep reading NaturalNews. We’ll stay in touch with Julie and do our best to make sure she is left alone by the city and allowed to grow her tomatoes in peace!

TSA lied: Agency still molesting young children after promising officials it would stop

(NaturalNews) After twice announcing that full-body pat downs would no longer apply to children under 12 years of age, John Pistole, Administrator of the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA), has officially been exposed as a liar. Just last week, the TSA molested and terrorized a six-year-old boy en route to Disneyland with his parents, which caused the boy to cry and say to his parents that he no longer wanted to go on the trip. Back in November, Pistole made an appearance on NBC’s TODAY Show in an attempt to quell outcry about the TSA’s invasive new procedures. At that time, he stated that the agency “heard the concerns that have been expressed and agree that children under 12 should not receive that pat down.” After making this announcement, however, the TSA continued to grope young children anyway, including the infamous pat down of the eight-month-old baby at Kansas City International Airport (http://www.prisonplanet.com/tsa-defends-pat-down-of-baby-stroller-set-off-explosives-alarm.html). Again in June, after being called upon by Congress to address the discrepancy between his statements and what was actually taking place, Pistole made another announcement concerning young children receiving pat downs — except this time he insinuated that they would, in fact, still be receiving them. However, he added a quip that “repeated efforts” would be made to not necessarily have to use pat downs on young children, whatever that means. These statements were made before lawmakers in the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee. So after first announcing that pat downs would not apply to young children, Pistole continued to allow them to occur anyway. Then roughly eight months later, Pistole changed his story in response to further outcry, and claimed that young children would still be subjected to pat downs if they triggered “screening anomalies” or other “security concerns,” which represents a complete contradiction to his initial statements about pat downs (http://thehill.com/blogs/transportation-report/tsa/168199-tsa-changing-pat-down-rules-for-children). Even Pistole’s most recent statements have been shown to be false, as an innocent young boy flying out of Washington’s SeaTac airport near Seattle was recently fondled by TSA agents after passing problem-free through the X-ray screening machine. Even though there were no “screening anomalies” or other “security concerns,” agents decided to target the young boy, and later claimed that they did so because he was carrying a harmless video game device. “They just treated him like he’s a terrorist,” said the boy’s father, Alex Long, to KING 5 News in Seattle. “He’s a six-year-old boy.” The family has filed an official complaint against the agency for the gross violation. Based on the false statements he twice made before lawmakers, and once in front of the entire world, concerning pat downs for children, Pistole can legitimately be charged for perjury and obstruction of justice, according to a recent InfoWars report. We can only hope that somebody actually will, and that justice will be served. Sources for this story include: http://www.infowars.com/tsa-chief-pistole-should-face-felony-charges-for-lying-to-lawmakers/ http://www.king5.com/video/featured-videos/Kirkland-family-says–125274814.html

New mind-altering drug capable of literally modifying your memories

(NaturalNews) Changing bad memories into good ones could be just a pill away, according to a new study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism . Researchers from the University of Montreal in Canada say that metyrapone, a drug that blocks the “stress hormone” cortisol, also appears to alter patients’ memories and minimizing their recollection of negative events — but is this actually a good thing? For their study, Marie-France Marin and her team evaluated the effects of metyrapone on a group of young men shown a slide show that documented the serious injury of a young girl. In it, the girl is building a birdhouse with her grandparents until a serious accident lands her in the emergency room. In the end, the girl is okay, but the details of her injury involve lots of blood and other disturbing imagery. Three days after viewing the images of this story, the team gave either a single 750 milligram (mg) dose of metyrapone, a double dose, or a placebo pill to the men in the group. None of the men knew which pill they received. The team then asked the men to retell the story of the girl as they recalled it, both right after receiving the pill, and again four days after taking the pills. The team found that the men who took the double dose of meyrapone remembered far less of the negative imagery than did the men taking the single or placebo dose. Men in the placebo group scored between 40 and 50 percent in their negative imagery memory test, while men who took the double dose of metyrapone scored around 30 percent. In explaining these results to Reuters Health, Marin and her team expressed their belief that because metyrapone artificially lowers cortisol levels, it interferes with the way the brain stores memories. These alterations appear to remove the emotional aspects from negative memories that give them a basis in reality, thus changing actual reality into a type of artificial fantasy world. Sources for this story include: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/26/us-drug-memories-idUSTRE74P89F20110526

TEPCO now confirms nuclear meltdown in Fukushima reactor No. 1

(NaturalNews) TEPCO has now publicly admitted it wasn’t telling the truth about the severity of the damage to Fukushima reactor No. 1. We’re now being told what we’ve suspected all along — that nuclear fuel rods in that reactor are totally exposed and have suffered a nuclear meltdown , releasing vast amounts of radiation comparable to Chernobyl. As Bloomberg now reports, the water level in reactor No. 4 is one meter below the fuel assembly itself. This means, of course, that the water isn’t high enough to cover the fuel rods, which is why those fuel rods have suffered a nuclear meltdown. (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-12/japan-suffers-setback-at-fukushima-after-no-1-reactor-s-fuel-rods-exposed.html) The Associated Press is also reporting that “other fuel has slumped to the bottom of the pressure vessel and is thought to be covered in water.” This statement is astonishing all by itself because it means the fuel rods were in a total meltdown hot enough to cause their metal containment cylinders to “slump” and melt their way down to the lower levels of the coolant pools. Notably, AP carefully avoids using the term “melt” and instead says the fuel rods “slumped.” This is all part of the AP’s determined downplaying of the Fukushima catastrophe (see below). Not surprisingly, as AP now reports, “The findings also indicate a greater-than-expected leak in that vessel.” But the laws of nuclear physics don’t care what you “expect,” you see. They don’t care about media spin or power company B.S. The laws of physics simply follow their natural course, regardless of what you hope they do. And in the case of Fukushima, the laws of physics led directly to a core fuel meltdown that now even the mainstream media cannot deny (although they still aren’t calling it a “nuclear meltdown”). As AP reports: Nuclear Industrial and Safety Agency officials said the new data indicates that it is likely that partially melted fuel had fallen to the bottom of the pressurized vessel that holds the reactor core together and possibly leached down into the drywell soon after the March 11 quake and tsunami that struck Japan’s northeastern coast. Undeniable meltdown What AP is describing, of course, is a nuclear meltdown . It doesn’t get any more obvious than this: The fuel reached melting temperature and melted down. Along with this, there would have had to be a massive release of radiation into the containment vessel, which just happens to have numerous holes in it that allow highly radioactive water to leak directly into the environment. No wonder TEPCO discovered its radiation detectors had all maxed out there and become non-functional. No wonder TEPCO had to selectively stop reporting radiation releases — it was in the middle of a Chernobyl-like core fuel meltdown! The Telegraph in the UK is refreshingly printing the truth on this story: “One of the reactors at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant did suffer a nuclear meltdown, Japanese officials admitted for the first time today, describing a pool of molten fuel at the bottom of the reactor’s containment vessel.” (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8509502/Nuclear-meltdown-at-Fukushima-plant.html) But the mainstream media in the U.S. has obviously been instructed by the White House to avoid using the term “nuclear meltdown” in describing what happened at Fukushima. There is a rather blatant downplaying of the facts going on behind the scenes at the media giants. Some of this spin can only be called blatant lies, by the way. In the same story linked above, AP claims “Unit 4 contained no fuel rods at the time of the earthquake…” Huh? No fuel rods in reactor No. 4? This what on Earth is this video showing? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKHWbgsLegw I love how the media admits it has been misreporting the truth of the situation all along, and then it comes up with new fairytale spin stories in practically the same sentence. They might as well just report, “There was no nuclear fuel in Fukushima at the time of the tsunami, and that’s why governments have stopped monitoring radiation levels.” TEPCO once again meets Murphy’s Law In any case, this sudden revelation that reactor No. 4 has already experienced a nuclear fuel meltdown is, not surprisingly, causing considerable setbacks to TEPCO’s plan to have the whole facility deactivated by Christmas. Just as NaturalNews publicly predicted, the Christmas shutdown plan was little more than a combination of fantasyland thinking and industry spin. “What this means is this is probably going to be a much more difficult cleanup than they originally planned for,” said particle physicist Paul Padley in a Bloomberg story (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-12/japan-suffers-setback-at-fukushima-after-no-1-reactor-s-fuel-rods-exposed.html). The government and Tepco “have consistently appeared to be underestimating the severity of the situation.” And that’s the story of modern science: Arrogant in its confidence over the laws of nature, yet utterly dishonest in reporting the truth when its Tower of Babel crumbles to the ground. No wonder the reputation of the conventional scientific community continues to plummet as people realize just how dangerous these people really are. Read my related story on this to learn the truth of how modern conventional science is based on a mindless, soulless, false belief that human beings have no free will or consciousness. And therefore, human beings are all expendable in science’s big experiments: Nuclear power, GMOs, vaccines and much more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032372_science_consciousness.html Sources for this story include: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_JAPAN_EARTHQUAKE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-05-12-08-28-30 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-12/japan-suffers-setback-at-fukushima-after-no-1-reactor-s-fuel-rods-exposed.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8509502/Nuclear-meltdown-at-Fukushima-plant.html

Public outcry leads to passage of amended SB 31 bill in North Carolina House, now on to Senate

(NaturalNews) Last week, NaturalNews broke the story about what appeared to be a covert attempt at further restricting health freedom in North Carolina. The original version of Senate Bill 31 would have increased the penalty for in-state, non-licensed practitioners of alternative medicine from a simple misdemeanor charge to a Class I felony charge (http://www.naturalnews.com/031953_medical_practice_licensing.html). But thanks to your support in bombarding the NC General Assembly with calls and letters of opposition, Rep. Jennifer Weiss from NC’s 35th district issued an amendment to the bill that was passed in the NC House last week by a vote of 112 – 5. And today, the NC Senate is set to vote, and most like pass, the amended version of SB 31. Though still considered to be a misdemeanor crime in NC, practicing any sort of medicine without a license — including non-licensed midwives, herbalists, and others who currently operate in NC — would have become a Class I felony under the original version of SB 31. However, the amended version now clearly states that only a person who “falsely represents himself or herself in any manner as being licensed, registered, and practicing,” when, in fact, they are not, will be reclassified as a felon (http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Applications/BillLookUp/LoadBillDocument.aspx?SessionCode=2011&DocNum=253&SeqNum=0). When NaturalNews readers and others began mounting a backlash against the bill, the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Eric Mansfield, stated to us that the intent of the original bill was never to go after non-licensed practitioners. In fact, he stated that the purpose of the bill was actually to help stop in-state frauds from getting away with pretending to be surgeons and doctors at hospitals. This, of course, is clearly a valid reason to pursue stricter penalties for such individuals. But the problem with the vaguely-worded original SB 31 is that it lumped honest, but non-licensed, practitioners of alternative medicine together with people who travel around and pretend to be doctors when they are not. Clearly there is a big difference between the two, and the author of the original bill apparently did not take into account the eventual consequences of such non-specific wording against the alternative medicine community. But based on all indications, the amended bill seems set to pass, representing a significant and tangible health freedom victory for which you played a significant role. None of this would have been possible without your persistent calls and emails to the NC General Assembly throughout the past week. Hundreds, if not thousands, of honest alternative medicine practitioners in NC can now rest easier knowing that they will not be re-categorized as felons within their state. Sources for this story include: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=sb+31&submitButton=Go

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