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ONLY CRAZY PEOPLE DRINK RAW MILK?
For a moment, don't think about whether raw milk is safe or
dangerous, health-giving or harmful. Stop. There are wider implications
here. And they affect every citizen.
Here is my article, from August 5, 2011. The issues are still quite relevant.
The federal raid on Rawesome Foods in Venice, California, is
based on the insistence (with guns) that private citizens can't make
contracts with each other to buy and sell raw unpasteurized milk.
Some uninformed types believe the raid was solely focused on
the fact that Rawesome doesn't have a business license. But it is a
private club, and the last time I looked, a club doesn't need a license
to carry on its activities.
Do private citizens have the right to form an association, by
contract, and then engage in exchange of goods and services, among its
members, regardless of the opinion of the State?
Well, if we return to the basic document, the Declaration of
Independence, can we interpret the inalienable right to life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness without understanding that private
contracts are fundamental to this pursuit?
In the case of Rawesome, the government believes it can
garner wide public support, and therefore it feels confident its
prosecution will make no one nervous. Whereas, if the product Rawesome
club members were buying and selling was homemade oatmeal, the public
might balk and see the intrusion on Rawesome as invasive and quite
insane.
Speaking of which, the government is using what I call the The Crazy People Doctrine.
If more than, say, 60% of the American people believe
Rawesome is crazy, the government is good to go in court. If that wide
majority thinks raw-milk dealing would only be carried out by nutcases,
then the whole issue of whether private contracts are inviolate can be
set aside and dropped in the trash.
Well, we know government agencies have been warning the
public about raw milk for at least 70 years, and claiming that
pasteurized milk is wonderful and safe and scientific. So The Crazy
People Doctrine seems like a slam-dunk here, regardless of how the
specific charges against Rawesome's owner are worded.
"He's crazy, who cares whether we (the prosecutors) say he
was doing business without a license or was making a contract he had no
right to make."
And the public will say, "Find him guilty, he's a whacko. Nobody in his right mind would sell raw milk."
As usual, I'll resort to one of my analogies:
Let's say eight of us form a private club, and we buy and
sell, among ourselves, little gold balls of plant matter which, when
ingested, have been shown, invariably, to cause one-hour headaches. The
balls have been tested, over and over again, and amazingly, the verdict
is precise across the board. Eat a gold ball of this plant substance,
you get a one-hour headache.
And suppose the eight of us believe this activity of buying
and selling and eating the gold balls is part of our pursuit of
happiness. We'll assume responsibility for the headaches. Do we have the
right to have our club and engage in our activity---or does the
government have the legal power to destroy the club and prosecute us on a
criminal charge?
The government says, "Gold balls are food products for sale.
Therefore, they fall under our jurisdiction when it comes to the issue
of safety. Period."
The public says, "Put these crazies in jail, or in a mental institution, and drug them to the gills."
Government says, "Citizens have no fundamental and overriding
right to make private contracts among themselves. We can intercede at
any moment we choose to. Any rule or law we make automatically trumps
the so-called right to private contracts."
If we accept this judgment, then we are admitting that
private relationships are a thin illusion that can be swept away without
notice.
If you and your friends own a piece of land and build a
community vegetable garden there, and then exchange squashes and
tomatoes and grapes and cucumbers with one another, from your individual
plots, the government can send in a food safety inspector, he can walk
on your land, and he can decide whether your vegetables are legal. Your
contract with your friends is null and void and without meaning---and
always was.
If 50 of us form a health club, and buy and sell amino acids
among ourselves, and if we happen to have printed a sheet, for internal
distribution, claiming these products cure arthritis, the FDA could
invade our office, confiscate the products, and charge us with
practicing medicine without a license.
And if the public, by and large, believes we are "crazies," the government feels confident it will escape blowback.
You now, perhaps, see one clear reason for government/media/science propaganda: "creating convenient crazies."
Take, for instance, the arena of vaccines. If government
succeeds in outlawing all claimed parental exemptions from the jabs,
based on its own version of good science, how many people will rise up
and revolt? Versus how many will say refusing vaccines was always just
for Crazy People?
The Crazy People Doctrine, behind the scenes, is the standard
of prediction that government employs---and propaganda is the tool it
uses to manufacture perception about its targets...
So that the matter of private contracts is tossed into the garbage.
WHEN, IN FACT, CLEAR AND TRANSPARENT CONTRACTS AMONG CONSENTING ADULTS ARE THE BASIS OF A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC.
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Jon Rappoport
The
author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM
THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US
Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a
consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the
expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he
has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles
on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin
Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and
Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics,
health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world.
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