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Blogger Could Be Thrown in Jail for…Writing About His Diet?

This is the sort of story you expect to come from a third world superstitious kleptopcracy – yet it happened here on American soil, in North Carolina, thanks to good old fashioned state-level bureaucracy. Reason Magazine brings us the bizarre and senseless story of Steve Cooksey, a former diabetic who put himself on the popular “Paleo” diet and decided to tell the world about his experiences only to have the North Carolina Board of Dietetics and Nutrition (yes, that exists) come down on him:

This past January the state diatetics and nutrition board decided Cooksey’s blog — Diabetes-Warrior.net — violated state law. The nutritional advice Cooksey provides on the site amounts to “practicing nutrition,” the board’s director says, and in North Carolina that’s something you need a license to do.

Unless Cooksey completely rewrites his 3-year-old blog, he could be sued by the licensing board. If he loses the lawsuit and refuses to take down the blog, he could face up to 120 days in jail.

The board’s director says Cooksey has a First Amendment right to blog about his diet, but he can’t encourage others to adopt it unless the state has certified him as a dietitian or nutritionist.

Just for clarification, these are some examples of the supposed “expert nutritional advice” Cooksey is offering (directly from his website):

Nutrition Blogger Steve Cooksey Could Spend 120 Days in Jail Just for Promoting Paleo Diet

Nutrition Blogger Steve Cooksey Could Spend 120 Days in Jail Just for Promoting Paleo DietNutrition Blogger Steve Cooksey Could Spend 120 Days in Jail Just for Promoting Paleo DietSo essentially, Cooksey was your typical opinionated blogger, who decided to let his enthusiasm for a particular dietary approach motivated him to dig up information his readers (presumably other diabetics like him) might find interesting, and debunk false claims by self-interested parties (like his post above about the American Diabetics’ Association).

He probably could have gone on doing this, if he hadn’t been so devoted to asking questions of the wrong powerful people. From the Carolina Journal:

Jan. 12, Cooksey attended a nutrition seminar at a church in Charlotte. The speaker was the director of diabetes services for a local hospital.

“She was giving all the wrong information, just like everyone always does — carbs are OK to eat, we must eat carbs to live, promoting low-fat, etc.,” Cooksey said. “So I spoke up.”

After the meeting he handed out a couple of business cards pointing people to his website.

Three days later, he got a call from the director of the nutrition board.

“Basically, she told me I could not give out nutritional advice without a license,” Cooksey said.

He said she also told him that his website was being investigated and gave him some suggestions about how to bring it into compliance.

If he does not go along, the board could file an injunction and “essentially shut the website down,” Cooksey said.

For those of you wondering how exactly Cooksey was “giving out nutritional advice,” it’s a distinction only an embittered bureaucrat could come up with. Fortunately, Mr. Cooksey has uploaded the full complaint on behalf of the board to his website, which includes some remarkably official looking Sharpie scrawls in the margins detailing their complaints. Some of the more absurd examples follow.

In response to a passage where Cooksey links to his meal plan:

Nutrition Blogger Steve Cooksey Could Spend 120 Days in Jail Just for Promoting Paleo DietAnd in response to Cooksey’s “Testimonials” page:

Nutrition Blogger Steve Cooksey Could Spend 120 Days in Jail Just for Promoting Paleo DietNow, in the interests of fairness, it should be noted that Cooksey’s site does include various suggested diet plans lifted directly from the Paleo diet, which he encourages users to try. However, this fact shows precisely why the distinction is so arbitrary: so long as you just say a particular diet is wonderful, or worked for you, you’re fine, but if you actually tell people to use it, you’re supplying nutritional advice. Never mind that the implication of any positive review of a product is that someone should use it.

And as if that weren’t enough, it seems Cooksey anticipated this objection and made sure to put a disclaimer at the bottom of every page of his website that says the following:

“I am not a doctor, dietitian, nor nutritionist … in fact I have no medical training of any kind.”

But says the bureaucrat responsible, that doesn‘t matter because he’s still trying to get people to trust him. One wonders when they will press charges against Amazon diet reviewers.

Nor is the diet in question – the “Paleo” diet – somehow revolutionary. In fact, it is a popular one with many people, nor is Cooksey the first to speak highly of it. He just happened to be the one who did it most comprehensively in North Carolina. And getting anyone to trust you without the Government’s say so down there is apparently a crime.

H/T: Boing Boing

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Comments (163)

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  • NewLife56
    Posted on April 26, 2012 at 6:43am

    Welcome to the United Socialist States of America

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  • reconmarine
    Posted on April 26, 2012 at 6:22am

    So you can’t post your dietary diary online portraying your daily events and successes with the diet without having to go to jail but Obama CAN post a FORGED birth certificate on an official White House website and things are cool. We have allowed too much government control of our lives and it’s time it stops.

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    • lordjosh
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 6:41am

      Tyranny in the name of safety. Shut It Down!

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 7:22am

      I teach people how i got off Insulin and meds with a ketogenic diet…Come get me…I dare you.

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    • nuttyvet
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 7:37am

      Recon- it’s not forged. I know there are a lot of us that really want it to be forgedo to get that “blow hard” out of office but birth ears feed right into the hands of tea party detractors. It makes us all looks silly.

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    • NC1
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 8:07am

      I had no idea we had such an office in our state and don’t know what its need is. Time to call the representatives.

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    • Maji
      Posted on April 27, 2012 at 1:00am

      Our last four governors in nc have been absolute crimminals.
      Unfortunately our present one is a “dumb” one…crimminal that is!
      Last election cycle we finally got the first repubican assembly in 100 yrs!

      They’ve for first time have balanced the budget and added teachers.
      They want to rid tenue for teachers and qualify them on merit.
      The libs are lossing their prespective minds!!

      We have a NAACP that is guided by a “sharpton”wanna-be!
      We are inundated with the want somthing for nothing followers of
      this group!!
      If you “sneeze” in church…it’s because you are a racist!!
      Whats so bad is someone will listen to them.

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    • ducatidave
      Posted on April 28, 2012 at 11:30am

      @ RECONMARINE…1. Obama’s birth certificate is not forged. 2. Even if it was, it has nothing to do with a civilian blogging a dietary plan without a state license to do so. 3. It’s CORPORATIONS that LOBBY for laws that govern rules affecting marketing, sales, research, and developement. 4. It’s a STATE matter, not a GOVERNMENT matter. 5. If you are a recon marine, then you swore an oath to serve your country and to obey the orders of your commander in chief, presidemt Obama. 5. If you reject your commander in chief while on active duty, then you are in violation of UCMJ code and can be tried for sedition. 6. If you are inactive and are bragging your military history, then you are insulting the integrity of the corp and its mission. I suggest you tread carefully in matters you obviously have no understanding about.

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  • APROUDVETERAN
    Posted on April 26, 2012 at 6:21am

    It drives me CRAZY that my lib friends put more reliance on our govt then they do themselves –I just cant understand their way of thinking !!! Do they not realize that the more govt we have in our lives, the more they control ever aspect of our lives?

    I was going to post a blog re my reversing my type 2 diabetes and how I did it !!
    Now I am not so sure I should do so and isn’t that stifling my Freedom of Speech?

    Let’s return our country back to where it was and start by defeating Obummer in 2012…..REGARDLESS of who the GOP candidate is we HAVE to vote for him…..Get out and VOTE folks !!

    aZ

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    • muddpuddle
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 7:30am

      Just wait till some encinom idiot reads this article and decides to sue that guy because the diet made her healthy, but the unintended consequence was having to get a job. That guy is in for a rough road.

      FYI. I’m in North Carolina. This post has no nutritional value and should not be taken orally.

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    • JustPeachy
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 7:35am

      Aproudveteran, thank you for your service to our country. We the people need to keep fighting for those freedoms for which you fought! We cannot afford to remain silent or sit down. This man had better fight those “charges” and WIN. We need GOOD lawyers on OUR side of this fence!

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    • oldguy49
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 8:38am

      it embarrassed moochell

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    • c0mm0nsense
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 8:44am

      APROUDVETERAN
      “It drives me CRAZY that my lib friends put more reliance on our govt then they do themselves –I just cant understand their way of thinking !!! …………”

      But you willing to Vote for a Lib for President Someone who support and votes for laws that strip you of your rights. just because they have a R behind their name “ REGARDLESS of who the GOP candidate is we HAVE to vote for him…” Maybe you should look at some of the voting records of People your voting for. Start with the Patriot Act, NDAA, S Amdt 1126 ,Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act, CISPA,SOPA, etc.

      But that would be “Crazy”

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    • Ruler4You
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 9:06am

      @COMMONSENSE

      I appreciate your argument. Point taken. However, to slow the bleeding some times you have to apply a tourniquet. Not always the best choice, but sometimes you have to do what you have to do.

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    • netmail
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 9:20am

      This article is living proof of how much we can trust institutions and corporations. Is truth their agenda? Heck no. Just Google ‘Paleo Diet’, consider the premise, and decide for yourself if it makes sense. It does to me. EVERYTHING seems to be working against the individual today and I’m suspicious of EVERY authority figure in our culture. Damn near have ‘dropped out’.

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    • Freedomluver
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:19pm

      Dr. Benjamin Rush MD –
      “Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an underground dictatorship… To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic and have no place in a republic… The Constitution of this republic should make special privilege for medical freedom as well as religious freedom.” Benjamin Rush, MD, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and personal physician to George Washington

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    • NC1
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 1:49pm

      North Carolina used to never be in the news unless one of our sports teams made the playoffs or one a championship or a hurricane hit our coast. Ever since Obammy got elected he’s spent way too much time down here, drawing unneeded attention. Now, with the help of Bev Perdue and the constant Democratic legislature my state has turned into some sort of socialist/communist testing ground. With crap like this and all the regulation and taxes we have in our state someone could easily mistaken it for a New England state or something. Getting really tired of it. My roots are very deep here and I don‘t won’t to leave it but its getting to a point where none of this crap makes much sense, just control and tax more. Why does this state need an office of diet and nutrition or whatever? I think back to that 4 year old several weeks ago that had to eat cafeteria crap food instead of their lunch from home. Ridiculous.

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    • ChewyBees
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 3:47pm

      Actually, if you wrote anything in an autobiographical sense, there is nothing they can do. Obviously this guy was presenting his opinions of how diet should work as recommendations and fact. That doesn’t change the fact that this is an over-reach of any government, but then again someone could post a 3 year blog on the benefits of ingesting drano, so there comes in the licensing scheme.
      A blog is not supposed to be an operation in commerce. His must have been otherwise there would be no case. Now, about a license. A license is something required for something that is otherwise illegal. Is recommending nutrition illegal? Who gives this ‘board’ an ounce of authority? Under these guidelines you might be required to be licensed to live (slavery) by an unaccountable and universally authoritative fictional bureaucracy (slave master).

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    • Traveler919
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 4:30pm

      This is all nonsense over nothing. The complaint was closed on April 9, 2012 and Cooksey has not told anyone so he can stay in the media spotlight. Nice self promotion Steve. Se the official letter here http://bit.ly/ItCz9P

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    • nighttrainno9
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 7:06pm

      I too am from NC, and the state is turning into a liberal cesspool.
      The yankees from the northeast have infiltrated Raleigh and Charlotte
      to the point where the state has become polluted with liberals. Thank God,
      Bev Perdue is not running for a second term, she is junk. Yankees are
      like hemmoroids ” when they come down and go back, it’s ok when
      they come down and stay, it’s painful”.

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    • ComradeAdam
      Posted on April 27, 2012 at 5:54am

      Rely on ourselves?! But the doctors like Atkins tell me to go on a low carb diet that kills people, we should trust them. I agree with the blogger, get rid of animal proteins(meat and diary) and you’ll get healthier and have stronger bones.

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  • sum1has2
    Posted on April 26, 2012 at 5:59am

    So basically you can’t put your diary up without government clearance on anything. Someone better warn Anne Frank, I know those people won’t like – OH WAIT!

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  • Magyar
    Posted on April 26, 2012 at 5:27am

    IRONY! OWEbama can outright lie, destort facts, manipulate the truth, hide his birth cert., steal from the taxpayer, sell guns to Mexican cartels, refuse to enforce federal law, but he’s not charge with anything!

    What’s wrong with this picture?

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  • TomSawyer
    Posted on April 26, 2012 at 5:08am

    So they think you need a license to say certain things? That is not freedom of speech. I think we should pass a law saying they can’t make it illegal to say something without a license.

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    • SLEUTH
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 5:32am

      states should take back their rights….end the Federal Govt and give the power back to ‘We The People’

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    • kaydeebeau
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 5:49am

      So how does this work? Because he lives in NC it is illegal for him to write this stuff but if he lived in Siberia it wouldn’t?

      Isn‘t NC the same place where the food police confiscate children’s home packed lunches and replace them with state approved food?

      Hey NC….might want to put a leash on your State Gov’t

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    • TexasIndependant
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 9:11am

      Wait till people start having shoot outs with these freedom hating americans… They will call them crazy people and say they are mentally unstable… when all the while they were instigating people towards violence will control measures designed for Cattle… eat where we tell you, what we tell you, and oh next spring we will move you to another pasture. Since when did treating people like live stock become so popular?

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    • TMink
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 4:36pm

      I read Why We Get Fat and What To Do About It which says the same things and backs it up with research. I have been eating on the Atkins diet and weight is falling off me. The government in NC is becomming more and more intrusive, that is where the PreK food police stories come from as well. Rise up NC, you have nothing to lose but your government shackles.

      Trey

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  • EP46
    Posted on April 26, 2012 at 4:46am

    Perhaps we can sue obama for ‘practicing as a potus’ without meeting the Constitutional requirement that he be a Natual born citizen ???

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  • Diane TX
    Posted on April 26, 2012 at 3:22am

    Oh geez! My mom was a life long type 1 diabetic (used to be called junvenile diabetes) and she figured out on her own what was good for her to eat. Carbs like potatoes and bread were bad. Protien like meat were good. She almost made it to age 83 without losing any of her fingers and toes, or her eyesight. She took care of herself. I remember her drinking alcholol ONCE in her life. The Socialist governent of Obame MUST GO in November! Let’s return the USA to the greatness it once was.

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    • hillbillyinny
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 6:56am

      @ diane: Congrats to your mom!!! A number of Type I and other diabetics know the solution–LOW TO NO CARBS, GOOD PROTEINS AND ANIMAL FATS (with ESSENTIAL fatty acids in them), good (low sugar) veggies, and limited fruits. Richard K. Bernstein, MD (and Fellow in nutrition and endocrinology), of the Hudson Valley area in NY has been teaching this for years!. At 77+ he is a type I himself (since age 14), and had to go back to medical school (at Albert Einstein in his 30′s), to become an MD (and nutritionally accredited) in order to teach his discoveries when he was an engineer in his thirties. He works (still!) primarily with diabetes and weight loss (no surgery!).

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_K._Bernstein

      http://www.diabetes-book.com/

      I have been following his plan for over two years now with EXCELLENT success with blood sugars, cholesterol, blood pressure and weight loss! It’s NOT MAGIC, it’s nutritional common sense!

      THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY **OWNS** OUR MEDICAL INDUSTRY!!! Our HIGH CARBOHYDRATE diet is what is CAUSING diabetes, obestity, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, etc.–carbs and beans (which are high in sugar!).

      I am in no way connected to Dr. Bernstein or any other program. I read his information ON LINE and with the (reluctant) help of my diabetes doctor started to use this program, SUCCESSFULLY!

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  • blazer809
    Posted on April 26, 2012 at 2:48am

    Hey, NC Libs…u should keep ur traps shut for a while. There’s a big map of government agencies getting ready to see the chopping block in 2013….Tip of the day is: shhhhhhhhhh!

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  • KyleD
    Posted on April 26, 2012 at 1:59am

    info@ncbdn.org
    http://www.ncbdn.org/contact_ncbdn/

    Their email and page where I got the email so you know I didn‘t just give you a random company’s address…give them hell.

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  • LeadNotFollow
    Posted on April 26, 2012 at 1:33am

    …
    The Government running amuck again.
    We have too much Government in our lives.

    Is Michelle Obama a licensed dietician?
    She’s constantly telling us how to eat.

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    • SgtB
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 1:41am

      Good point, let’s bring that cow up on charges right after we bust down the door to get her husband for traitorous acts against the sovereignty of this nation and the Citizens of which it is comprised.

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    • Salamander
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 4:07am

      Sounds like she ought to be outlawed in North Carolina!

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    • JUNEBUG8
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 5:59am

      Excellent point!

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    • Meyvn
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 8:21am

      She’s a failed attorney now practicing nutrition. I don’t see much difference here.

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  • Holy_Crap
    Posted on April 26, 2012 at 1:33am

    I have lost (38) pounds since last August. I went from 213 to 175 just by walking 2-3 miles per day and simply not taking a second helping. I did not DIET at any time. Will power is much more effective than any diet ever proposed.

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  • tzion
    Posted on April 26, 2012 at 1:28am

    How is he practicing nutrition if he’s not being paid? In my state I‘m fairly certain you only need to be a registered dietician if you’re working in specific fields where you are literally responsible for choosing what people will eat. All this guy is doing is offering advice that people aren’t obligated to follow.

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    • Skrewedretiree
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 1:38am

      Welcome to the New Amerika….the Obamanation.

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    • HorseCrazy
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 10:20am

      ridiculous isn’t it? but companies can advterise 24/7 their herbs for bigger boobs etc but he cannot write about his personal experience with diet and diabetes. just crazy.

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  • sacwoodpusher
    Posted on April 26, 2012 at 1:23am

    Hey, its a diet blog. Diets have proven not to work…over and over again. Is it all bull….yes….is it something the can prosecute for? I doubt it.

    My observation is that he should replicate the blog on servers outside of NC, and let them jail him. Think of the money he will make.

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  • SandyfromChesterfield
    Posted on April 26, 2012 at 1:22am

    Shouldn’t Michele be charged when she tells the taxpayers what to eat? What about Mayor Bloomberg saying you should not use salt? Are they nutritionists? I see big problems for them.

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    • Skrewedretiree
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 1:41am

      Well, Michele says she likes steak and arugula, as I recall.
      First, the PETA people seem to be strangely silent about the steak. Must think it’s a form of tofu.
      As for arugula…..what the hell is that? Is that a soul food thing? Sounds like the name of a sickazoid Roman dictator…
      Come to think of it, Obama sounds like a sickazoid Roman dictator.

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    • SingerGuy
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 4:21am

      Arugula is a spicy little leaf, which some describe as bitter and others characterize as having a “peppery-mustardy” flavor. Because it is so potent on its own, it is often mixed with milder greens to produce a nice balanced salad. It can also be sautéed in olive oil. You can substitute most any green for arugula, but the closest matches are Belgian endive, escarole, and dandelion greens. (Source: http://www.ochef.com/151.htm)

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  • Psychosis
    Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:56am

    @ the rights of billy

    you wont see any of the trolls commenting on this ………………it is first off, too intellectual of a topic, and second, media matters hasnt forwarded the correct rebuttal, hence the drones will remain silent

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    • SimpleTruths
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 1:32am

      Wrong on all accounts. Call me troll if it makes you feel good. Most importantly the point that is most interesting to me is that this matter is within State juristiction. I thought that was one of your central themes, decentralized goverment, States Rights.

      So here is a State exercising its Rights to define what the rules are within it’s confines. But since you don’t agree with the rules now the State is the problem. Then it will be the County, Parish, City, Township, Village, Neighborhood, Street, Neighbor,

      There’s no end to things that are disagreeable if you really look for them is there?

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    • KyleD
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 2:08am

      @Simpletruths

      The states are given the rights to pass laws that are not already numerated in the constitution and bill of rights. It’s an important distinction. A state just can’t pass any law wily-nilly, they have to first adhere to the constitution and bill of rights.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 2:23am

      @SIMP

      While preferring states rights over fed control, that is but one of my concerns.

      The main concern is the slow and deliberate creep of liberalism in to every facet of our lives, whether it be by the fed, or by the state. And it is running rampant in both. I do not care who is imposing it, just that it is being imposed…….period.

      Bev Perdue is a liberal hack, through and through. Remember when she offered up the suggestion that congressional elections might be best suspended for a couple of years so that representatives would feel free to vote on important issues without having to “worry” about reelection?

      Think maybe she doesn‘t like what she see’s in the cards?

      But nice try at deflecting…………I give you 2 1/2 stars.

      Here is a very informative article that you might find instructive. Probably not, but maybe.

      http://www.libertymind.com/index.php?page_id=291

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  • islamhater
    Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:54am

    It is gone and has been for a long time. People complain when people go to jail. Complain when other’s get off scott free. Our whole system is unamerican. There has not been an American in government since 1928. We just turned our back‘s and let the very people our family’s have fought and died against just walk right up and take it. FREEDOM. my soul is sick with shame… You tired of complaining yet?

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  • COFemale
    Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:44am

    But says the bureaucrat responsible, that doesn‘t matter because he’s still trying to get people to trust him.

    Would this apply to Obama also? He is trying to pass himself off as a President.

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    • Wolf
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:54am

      He’s also trying to pass himself off as a Constitutional scholar, an American citizen, and defender of the down trodden…

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  • pwatkins
    Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:41am

    Yep, this is NC folks and the buck stops with Gov. Purdue, well I will say all of our bucks go to her and she uses them where they stopped. I think Purdue and Obama have made a mini green communist gubmit in NC. NC is turning into the southern California.

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    • JohnofOregon
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 1:09am

      hey quit complaining. the communist that run this state of oregon are worse. If 3 unrelated people pray in an open field they can be fined and thown in jail. If 3 unrelated people pray in an open field and smoke pot……they have civil rights protections.

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    • hidden_lion
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 1:17am

      Actually, the buck will stop with the supreme court when he sues the state for violating his 1st amendment rights.

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  • Conservative_T-Rex
    Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:35am

    i would just countersue the gov’t. i wouldn’t use a lawyer either. just for fun.

    game/quiz for avid fox news watchers: http://www.sporcle.com/games/Bohnfather/fox-news-personalities

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  • rebelwuf
    Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:34am

    Got some serious carpetbagging and/or scalawagging going on there.

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    • Traveler919
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 4:28pm

      I agree and it is on Cooksey’s part. The complaint was officially closed on April 9, 2012 but he has failed to disclose that little fact. He is a self promoter trying to create a name for himself. her eis a copy of the letter if you do not believe me http://bit.ly/ItCz9P

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    • TheSoundOf Truth
      Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:22am

      Here is what I find interesting…

      Traveler19 is the only person promoting that link.

      That website has ONE page, and only one page. It is about this Steve guy and the complaint letter. Strangely enough, we all know the guys first and last name, but the name at the top of the letter is blotted out. Strange, huh?

      And…in the about section, there is no name of the person who made the blog, just a “wordpress” standard blurb. The blog simply attacks this Steve guy’s character, while making it clear that the author does not care whether the info is good or not. It is a simple assassination of character.

      In fact, it seems that Traveler19 is posting here under false pretenses, and is, in an ironic twist, *trying to promote his own blog* by saying someone else is shamelessly self promoting!

      So, what is the truth here?

      Either way, someone tried to silence this guy, and he fought back. Good for him. If he is trying to bring light to this topic, then he is 100% correct.

      And, he can’t practice nutrition without a license? Here is a funny fact: MD’s get 1 class on Nutrition. And… In dietician school, you go to school for 6 years, and yet you don’t take one cooking class. Dieticians are the clowns that promote the USDA food guide, which is a colossal failure.

      The last people you should trust for nutrition advice are dieticians. They are, without a doubt, the biggest wastes of tax-payer funded schooling in history. They are mere sales people

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    • PukinDog
      Posted on April 27, 2012 at 11:37am

      Traveler919 is David Ressler. Author of all these comments, and the blog link in question. The person is doing EXACTLY what he clams Mr. Cooksey to be doing, and my guess is that he is doing it on behalf of an interested party. I have no proof, but I would ask Mr Ressler (a North Carolina resident) to come clean and admit who he is working for in this one-man attempt via social media to make the story go away nice and clean for an agency that tried to remove the civil rights of an individual.

      What say YOU, Mr Ressler?

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    • Ironbug
      Posted on April 27, 2012 at 11:16pm

      Yes. Traveler919 (aka Jonathan Ressler) is CEO of a PR firm that represents Pepsi. Pepsi also happens to be a corporate sponsor of….wait for it….The American Dietetic Association. Coincidence? I’m sure he will say so.

      He has also posted messages across the internet trying to discredit Steve Cooksey using the names “Traveler212213” and “WanderingTraveler”

      He also is the creator of the website he keeps linking to.

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    • Traveler919
      Posted on April 28, 2012 at 2:01am

      I answered this already, but i will answer it again. I am the one posting this stuff and I have not hidden my name anywhere except where people use handles. If you look around you will see that I am posting with my name where it is allowed. I am not working for anyone other than myself and at this point it is a one man crusade, but it is not against what Cooksey is saying, but rather about what he is not saying – all the facts. Kind of like you guys are distorting them here.
      Let‘s look at SoundOf Truth’s comment where he says: “Strangely enough, we all know the guys first and last name, but the name at the top of the letter is blotted out. Strange, huh?”

      If you took the time to actually look at it, what I did was blurred his address, not his name. I don’t think it is right for me to give out his address on the internet so I blurred it. I did that out of respect for Mr. Cooksey’s privacy.

      I think you will also find that I clearly stated I was outraged when I though that they had tried to silence him but again, with some research, I found that was also not true. If you take the time to read the comments from the board that Cooksey posted, you will see that they never tried to silence him or violate any of his rights. They said he could express his opinion but could not advise people on what they should do specifically. I know you know all this already, so rather than continue on a rant without any real basis, I ask you to show me where they tried to sile

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    • Traveler919
      Posted on April 28, 2012 at 2:05am

      silence him.

      Further, if you look at the board’s comments they say…and I quote…

      “As previously stated you can provide information on your site, but cannot work one-on-one with individuals”

      You can provide information… means you can provide information. How can that be construed any other way?

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    • Traveler919
      Posted on May 1, 2012 at 2:40pm

      I am interested to hear your thoughts on this. http://bit.ly/KsPLJT

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  • TJexcite
    Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:31am

    Government does one job and it is to create more government. This is 100 years in the making and not one election could fix it. Only the rapture or a EMP whichever is first.

    Somewhere on someone desk is a 9 figure government program to teach people how to breath.

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  • Therightsofbilly
    Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:31am

    Hey JZS,

    Aren’t you always chiming in every third story, asking someone the following question?………….

    “Please, someone, anyone……..tell me please, what FREEDOMS have you been denied? What Freedoms are the evil liberals trying take from you……..seriously? WHAT FREEDOMS?”

    Yes, I think that’s you.

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  • spirited
    Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:11am

    Was he asking for money or selling anything???

    >What’s next? ==Not being able to talk without a license?

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    • What_Did_I_Miss
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 1:22am

      @spirited

      Do you have a license to ask that question?

      In fact all of you, unless you have an “opinion license”, back off!

      As for me, I’m waiting for a permit to apply for my license.

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  • Redwood Elf
    Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:10am

    Welcome to Soviet NorthCarolinastan! Show your papers please before blogging about what you had for lunch yesterday!

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