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PORTSMOUTH, RI (August 15, 2008) - Daniel Chapter One®, a national Christian radio program and natural healing ministry, today announced it has engaged In Toone Communication for national public relations and advocacy support in its fight against the Federal Trade Commission.

Daniel Chapter One may 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 that Daniel Chapter One immediately desist from providing the public 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.

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.

"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.

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.

• Safety. The FTC standard forces individual consumers to use highly toxic chemical products whose benefits, according to its 'science,' outweigh their toxicity.  The FTC says this while regulators acknowledge that they routinely reverse their approvals for many of these dangerous products. FTC, with no staff scientists or science capability, relies on old, selective science and 'quackbusters.' From both old and new science, including genetics, we know that biochemical individuality makes one person's potential poison another's possible cure.
• Redress. 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 they need the help of consumers to take this 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 we relieved them of the responsibility for running the lives of people who are perfectly capable of making their own choices. One benefit of this approach will be to bring the government back into line with the Constitution and the Consumer Bill of Rights.

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