Senate GOP Betrayal on S.510 A Personal Response

Last last night, while pretending to debate the START treaty, the GOP in the US Senate betrayed their strongest supporters and, after promising us never to do so, gave unanimous consent to move the fake "food safety" bill (really, the "food control" bill) S.510 to the House for lame-duck passage.

Revised Action Item here: Tell the House "No!"
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5395

Why would the Senate GOP send this major increase in Federal power to the House now, when the GOP will take over that body in a couple weeks? That is a good question. The answer is that the GOP is bought-and-paid by BigAgBiz and the rest of the crony ant-free market companies that want to crush local, independent, natural food production and distribution!

The GOP has specifically betrayed the Tea Party, both major arms of which came out strongly against the bill. That is how powerful the economic interests are that directed this betrayal.

I should have known better than trust the GOP.

After being a Youth for Goldwater in '64 I became active in the GOP as a college student, even going so far as to vote for (I confess) Nixon the first time I was allowed to vote, in '68.

During the Summer of '69 libertarians were expelled from both SDS and YAF (Young American Foundation, formerly Young Americans for Freedom, but they dropped the Word) I was booted from YAF while other people were expelled from SDS).

I quit the GOP and worked with libertarian, taxpayer and health freedom people on issues like re-legalizing private ownership of gold (Ron Paul's first great victory for the Constitutional Republic); the Jarvis Tax Revolt, monetary policy, health and food freedom issues (all while practicing law for 36 years, www.VitaminLawyer.com) -- its been a busy few decades!

Then in '08 I rejoined the GOP at Ron Paul's call, to support his candidacy, in the hope that there might be one major party that could support the restoration of the Constitutional Republic. That was a forlorn hope. No tax-eater party will ever be able to rescue us from the fiscal disaster that looms closer every day.

I am now printing out the New Jersey online form to leave the GOP again. I'm re-registering as a member of the Libertarian Party. That's my personal response to the S.510 betrayal. And I'm sending the Speaker-Designate and the Senate Minority Leader emails -- withdrawing the consent of the victim!

Action item against S.510 linked from here: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=7824

Clearly, a serious transpartisan third-way needs to come together to stop the dead-end process of "government growing to meet the needs of a growing government..."

Only then can we stop the White House's Leninist program of "seizing the commanding heights of the economy" -- including nationalizing food production oversight. Only then can we hope to restore the Republic.

Revised Action Item here: Tell the House "No!"
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5395