Jennifer Toone Corrigan, In Toone
Communication
401-861-5052
jtoone@intoone.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FTC
ATTACKS HEALTH CARE CONSUMER RIGHTS
TO
INFORMATION, CHOICE, AND SAFETY
Attempts to Block Daniel Chapter
One® from Providing
Vital Health Information
WASHINGTON, DC (August 11, 2008) –
Daniel Chapter One®, a national
Christian radio program and natural
healing ministry, today announced it
will head to court against the
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in a
fight to uphold its rights under the
United States Constitution. The
battle ensued when the FTC demanded
Daniel Chapter One immediately
desist from
providing the public with
information on natural alternatives
for sickness, especially cancer. If
successful, the Federal Trade
Commission attack on Daniel Chapter
One will limit health care
consumers' rights.
“If the FTC is successful in
silencing Daniel Chapter One,
individual consumers seeking to
improve their health and the health
of American society as a whole will
suffer important losses,” said
Attorney James S. Turner, lead
counsel for Daniel Chapter One.
The American consumer has rights to
information, choice, safety and
redress (the right to be heard).
Presented to Congress as the
Consumer Bill of Rights by President
Kennedy in March of 1962, these
rights form the backbone of
wellbeing for individual consumers
and for success of the American
market economy.
In terms of
free-flowing information, the FTC
mandates that consumers may only
receive health information from
producers and sellers that the FTC
has determined is proven by the
'science' it selects. No historical
knowledge, consumer experience, or
traditional practice satisfies FTC
demands. The FTC recognizes only
expensive double blind 'studies' as
support for health claims. Daniel
Chapter One has asked its lawyers,
and its lawyers have agreed, to
challenge this policy as violating
Daniel Chapter One's rights under
the U.S. Constitution.
By depriving consumer choice and the
right to hear sellers' knowledge
about health aspects of their
products, the one-size-fits-all FTC
health information standard deprives
consumer access to alternative
health approaches. If the FTC had
enforced this standard against
Daniel Chapter One® over the past
thirty years, hundreds of people who
provide testimony that Daniel
Chapter One products improved or
even saved their lives may not have
survived.
With regard to safety, the FTC
standard forces individual consumers
to use highly toxic chemical
products whose benefits, according
to its 'science,' outweigh their
toxicity. The FTC sets this
standard despite the fact that
regulators acknowledge they
routinely reverse approvals for many
of these dangerous products. The
FTC, with no staff scientists or
science capability, relies on old,
selective science. From both old and
new science, including genetics, the
truth is that biochemical
individuality makes one person's
potential poison another's possible
cure.
The Constitution allows individuals
to make potentially risky choices
for themselves. The FTC does not.
Instead, the FTC makes highly risky
choices for consumers who have no
way to object. Government and
business fight the consumer rights
battle between themselves. Consumers
have no voice. Most businesses sign
an agreement to say only what the
FTC permits because their overriding
goal is to sell products. Daniel
Chapter One's goal is to help people
honestly and the help of consumers
will be crucial to take this
historic stand.
If the
FTC has its way with Daniel Chapter
One, consumers will be denied useful
information, blocked from possibly
lifesaving choices, forced to use
dangerous products and have nowhere
to complain about their treatment.
This outcome stems from well
intentioned regulators attempting a
Herculean job – making people's
decisions for them – with minuscule
resources. It is time to bring the
government back into line with the
Constitution and the Consumer Bill
of Rights.
The public is urged to join Daniel
Chapter One in its journey to
preserve healthcare freedom.
Contributions may be to the Daniel
Chapter One® Legal Defense Fund at
http://www.danielchapteronefreedom.com