Fwd: [MCM] Who were the five feds behind the raid on Rawesome Foods?

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NaturalNews publishes names of government agents who masterminded Rawesome Foods raid

Sunday, August 14, 2011
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all articles...)

(NaturalNews) The Rawesome Foods raid that took place August 3, 2011, is being publicly described by many as an act of "government terrorism" against innocents (http://www.naturalnews.com/033258_R...). And yet there has been very little information published about the names of the government instigators who masterminded these armed raids and oversaw the pillaging of Rawesome Foods and the destruction of tens of thousands of dollars worth of food.

Today, NaturalNews is publishing the names of five government agents who masterminded this raid and / or took part in the raid. This is all part of a campaign to protest these acts of government tyranny by sending emails, making phone calls, sending letters and otherwise making it very clear to these agents that We the People will not tolerate this kind of treatment.

As always, if you send emails to these people, keep the following important points in mind:

• Keep your emails civil. Be firm in your complaints but DO NOT make any threats or engage in illegal of threatening behavior against these individuals. NaturalNews does not condone acts or threats of violence.

• Remember that if you send them emails, they will have your email address, so in order to protect your privacy, it's always better to send emails from anonymous email sources such as Hotmail, Gmail, etc. Absolutely DO NOT send emails from your work or office email account.

• If you send emails or faxes, be sure to clearly state WHY you oppose these government actions against Rawesome Foods. Be clear in your message: Do you think the government has gone too far? Are you opposed to the government destruction of valuable food? Are you offended by the use of gun-toting, SWAT-style police officers as part of these raids? What specifically do you oppose in all this?

Why these individuals represent truly BAD government

Here are the top government agents involved in this raid. It's also worth noting that most of them have been waging a long-term WAR against raw milk over the past several years. Many of these government agents are the very same people responsible for campaigns of threats and intimidation against other raw dairy operations, both in California and around the country.

These people, in my opinion, represent the worst of runaway Big Government. They perfectly depict how government becomes an institution of evil that destroys private property, disrupts important resources in the food supply, denies infants and children important nutrition (raw goat's milk) and operates with extreme arrogance as if they are untouchable.

Your job is the help remind these people that we know who they are, and we're going to be keeping an eye on them from this point forward to make sure that they respect their role asservants of the People, not rulers over them.

It is crucial that government workers realize that when they are granted power by the People, they must exercise that power with discretion with the intention of serving the People, not conducting their own personal vendettas against individuals or small businesses they don't like.

Government agent #1: Scarlett Treviso

Helped mastermind the first raid on Rawesome Foods, and has been heavily involved in intimidation tactics against raw dairy farmers across California for years.

Scarlett Treviso, Senior Special Investigator, California Dept. of Food and Agriculture
Milk and Dairy Food Safety division
Office phone: 949-716-8913
Email: streviso@cdfa.ca.gov

See the first Rawesome Foods raid warrant, signed by Scarlett Treviso:
http://uncheeseparty.files.wordpres...

Milk and Dairy Food Safety offices around California (with phone numbers):
http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/ahfss/AHFSS_...

General contact info for California Dept of Food and Agriculture:
http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/Contact_Us.html

Google search on Scarlett Treviso:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Scar...

Government agent #2: Terrence Powell

Terrance Powell, Bureau Director, Specialized Surveillance & Enforcement Bureau of Los Angeles County Department of Public Health

Email: tpowell@ph.lacounty.gov
Workplace: 5050 Commerce Drive, Baldwin Park, CA 91706
Phone: (626) 430-5150
Fax: (626) 851-3758

General website: http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/

Government agent #3: Kelly Sakir

Kelly Sakir is the assistant DA of Los Angeles County.
http://www.avvo.com/attorneys/90012...
Phone: 213-582-3394

Kelly Sakir's boss is Steve Cooley:
Phone: 213-974-3512

Government website:
http://da.co.la.ca.us/

Read the LA County's collection of lies about raw milk -- and their gloating over their armed raid on Rawesome Foods -- at:
http://da.co.la.ca.us/mr/080311a.htm

Sandi Gibbons is the Public Information Officer for the LA County District Attorney's Office. She would also be another good person to call with your protest:
Phone: 213-974-3525

Government agent #4: Siobhan DeLancey

FDA Press Officer, participated in the investigation of Rawesome, covers Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, including food recalls.

DeLancey has been caught spreading grossly misleading information about raw milk to the New York Times, including the fear-mongering claim that drinking raw milk causes children to become "paraplegics." (Notice how she doesn't say that taking FDA-approved medications can cause you to DIE?)

Phone: 301-796-4668
Email: siobhan.delancey@fda.hhs.gov

Government agent #5: Michelle LeCavalier

Michelle is an Environmental Health Specialist III at the Department Of Health Services:
1501 Capitol Avenue, Suite 6001
Sacramento, CA 95814-5005

We could not locate an email for LeCavalier. If you can find one, let us know and we'll update this article with it.

Her boss is Jesus Urrutia, Chief EHS
6851 Lennox Ave. # 310
Van Nuys, CA 91405
(818) 902-4470

From this listing of district offices:
http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/eh...

The Director of Environmental Health for the County of Los Angeles is:
Angelo J. Bellomo
abellomo@ph.lacounty.gov
5050 Commerce Drive, Baldwin Park, CA 91706
Phone: (626) 430-5100
Fax: (626) 813-3000

You can also leave a message on the Environmental Health Emergency Hotline at (888) 700-9995

Or use their complaint form at:
http://admin.publichealth.lacounty....
(You can use this form to complain about Dept. of Public Health!)

Government mob boss: FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg

The real mastermind behind all this is, of course, the head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a rogue government agency that's widely engaged in acts of domestic terrorismagainst the American people (http://www.naturalnews.com/033280_F...).

The mastermind who plots the FDA's war against innocents is none other than Margaret Hamburg, the FDA Commissioner.

Phone number for her office: 301-796-5000
Main FDA number: 888-463-6332
Email address #1: margaretahamburg@aol.com
Email address #2: Margaret.Hamburg@fda.hhs.gov

Be sure to send to both!

Thanks go to this website for providing the emails:
http://tekgnosis.typepad.com/tekgno...

Take action now: Send emails and call these numbers to voices your complaints!

Previous protests organized by NaturalNews have been hugely effective at challenging tyrants and reminding them that they actions are completely unacceptable to freedom-loving Americans.

Your phone calls and emails to officials of Oak Park, Michigan helped Julie Bass win her freedom from the tyrants operating there (http://www.naturalnews.com/033186_J...).

Your complaints have also been heard loudly in Detroit Michigan where Maryanne Godboldo is facing multiple felony charges for refusing to medicate her daughter with psychiatric drugs: http://www.naturalnews.com/033295_p...

Now, your voice can make a measurable impact against the government agents involved in these outrageous actions against Rawesome Foods.

Join us in sending emails and making phone calls to voice your complaints against these out-of-control government bureaucrats -- people who I consider to be parasites on society who believe they rule by force (at the end of a gun) and run a totalitarianism dictatorship right here in America.

It's time to put these people in their place and make sure they know we are watching and paying attention -- and we will take action to protect our lives, our liberties and our pursuit of happiness, even in the face of total government oppression and intimidation.

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Fwd: [MCM] Armed federal agents raid a health food club, drag volunteer to jail

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Armed Federal Agents Raid a Health Food Club, Drag Volunteer to Jail

By Ari LeVaux, AlterNet
Posted on August 7, 2011, Printed on August 8, 2011

http://www.alternet.org/story/151933/armed_federal_agents_raid_a_health_food_club%2C_drag_volunteer_to_jail

August 3rd was a telling day for the U.S. government's role in controlling our food safety and food security. In Los Angeles, the Rawesome raw food club was raided by armed federal and state agents who arrested a club volunteer and seized computers, file folders, cash, and $70,000 worth of perishable produce. The bail for volunteer James Stewart, 64, was set at $121,000 -- higher than the bail amounts assessed to narcotics dealers and domestic abusers in the courtroom that day. And, in a rare move, Stewart was denied the right to use a bondsman.

Of the thirteen counts against Stewart, 12 regarded raw milk and products made from raw milk that were distributed to club members in a Rose Avenue warehouse. (The other count involved unwashed, room temperature eggs). No illnesses have been reported in the club's 12-year history. And if a problem were to occur with the club's food, members say, they would be able to quickly figure out the source. This was the second such raid on Rawesome, the first having happened in June of 2010.

In addition to the seizure of virtually every file, hard drive, wallet, post-it note and receipt in Rawesome's office, the search warrant also demanded seizure of "cheese, cream, milk, whey, yogurt, butter, kefir, dietary supplements, and any other product deemed necessary for testing."

It remains to be seen if the coconuts, watermelons and buffalo meat taken from the Rawesome Food Club, as seen in this YouTube video, will be tested. What could they possibly test it for? Raw milk contamination? More than likely this food will be tossed.

Lela Buttery, 29, a Rawesome member and part of the de facto support team that has coalesced around Stewart, says a bevy of high profile lawyers, including Charlie Sheen's attorney, have offered their services pro bono. Christopher Darden, who prosecuted OJ Simpson's civil suit, appeared at Stewart's arraignment just in time to get his bond lowered from $121,000 to $30,000 and strike a clause that prevented Stewart from using a bail bondsman.

Buttery says that when the bail amount was first read in court, it was almost comical. "We'd been watching child molesters and wife-beaters get [their bail set at] half that amount. James is accused of things like 'processing milk without pasteurization' and gets such a high bail amount... the felons in court burst out laughing."

Rawesome started 12 years ago as a small group of raw milk drinkers who would occasionally pool their money together for an order. Someone, often Stewart, would take the money to a local farm and score some fresh unpasteurized milk to be divided among the group. As more and more people joined, the club grew from a cooler in a parking lot to a rented storage space to the current warehouse. The inventory diversified as the club evolved, but the layout stayed minimal: in piles, barely labeled.

Rawesome members sign a form attesting "as a member of this private members-only club, I demand access to food that is 1) produced without exposure to chemical contaminants such as industrialized pesticides, fertilizers, cleansers or their gases; 2) complete with its natural unadulterated enzymes intact; 3) may contain microbes, including but not limited to salmonella, E.coli, campylobacter, listeria, gangrene and parasites; 4) the cows are grass-fed and the goats are pastured on a regular basis; 5) fowl are regularly given the opportunity to range outdoors and not fed soy products; and 6) eggs are unwashed and may have bacteria and poultry feces on them."

Last year's raid on Rawesome resulted in seizers of cash, computers and other equipment that have yet to be returned, says Buttery. It also resulted in Rawesome agreeing not to distribute raw milk from Santa Paula-based Healthy Family Farms, which had been supplying raw milk to Rawesome members.

California is one of the few states that allows the sale of raw milk, but only from dairies permitted by the state to do so. Healthy Family Farms, owned by Sharon Palmer, 51, had not kept up with its permitting, and Rawesome was ordered not to purchase HFF milk, which it didn't (Palmer disbanded the herd). Where the club does get its raw milk from is complicated, says Buttery, who mentions it is often stocked raw camel's milk. A biologist by trade, Buttery gushed about the immunoglobulin chemistry of raw camel's milk.

Although her dairy did not supply raw milk to Rawesome, Palmer and her employee Eugenie Bloch, 58, were also arrested on August 3, on nine counts including conspiracy to commit a crime and unlicensed business. Like Stewart they were initially held on bail amounts more appropriate for killers and rapists.

Later that day, as Stewart, Palmer, and Bloch languished in jail, Cargill issued a voluntary recall, 4 months after people began getting sick, of 36 million pounds of ground turkey traceable to its Arkansas plant. Cargill has a history of deadly outbreaks, is a major supplier to the nation's public school meal programs, and sells turkey under dozens of handles and brand names, none of which say "Cargill," reports Tom Philpott in Mother Jones.

Nobody at the plant or at Cargill has been charged with a crime.

While members of Rawesome who simply want to exercise their right to eat whatever they want to are getting bullied by armed multi-agency stings, our government agencies have no such powers of persuasion over corporations like Cargill. The USDA, which oversees the safety of meat products, can only issue "voluntary recalls" of products that have been infected with antibiotic-resistant pathogens.

And while the state of California and the federal government face unprecedented financial problems, considerable state and federal resources have been placed into an undercover investigation to root out information that nobody was trying to hide.

"Since the raid it's come out that we've been under investigation since June 30 of last year," says Buttery. "They've been monitoring us from unmarked vehicles, they have agents who have become members."

If the last week has taught us anything it's that raw milk advocates need better lobbyists in Washington D.C. How the courtroom drama plays out is anybody's guess, but Buttery doesn't think so many lawyers would be lining up to take on this case if it wasn't a winner. In the meantime, Stewart and his associates, and that space on Rose Ave in Venice, are prohibited from having anything to do with the exchange of raw milk. Which basically puts Rawesome out of business.

Or more accurately, out of cooperation.

Both Stewart and Bloch posted their bonds and were released by Friday, August 5th, but Palmer missed her arraignment that day. The mother of three children with a farm to take care of had been in jail since Wednesday, and her detention facility's transport got her to court too late for her arraignment. She'll have to wait until Monday, after five days in jail, for the opportunity to post bail.  

Ari LeVaux writes a syndicated weekly food column, Flash in the Pan.

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