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Title: NC Board of Nutrition and Dietitians are Assholes who Hate Free Speech
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URL Source: http://www.diabetes-warrior.net/2012/04/27/letter/
Published: Jun 3, 2012
Author: Steve Cooksey
Post Date: 2012-06-03 10:09:28 by A K A Stone
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Views: 176
Comments: 2
I received a letter from the North Carolina Board of Dietetics and Nutritionists stating that I am in ‘substantial compliance’ with NC Law. The letter was dated April 9, 2012 and I received it April 20, 2012. If this is new to you, click here for the investigation post. In January, the state board opened an investigation into my blog and told me to stop advising people through my blog postings, publicly or in private. No matter if it was for compensation or for free. Essentially, the board told me that not only could I not charge people to talk about diet, I could not talk to my friends about diet. The board made it clear that talking about diet without a license is a crime and they could take me to court. In response to this investigation, I did three things: 1) stopped doing my published advice column. 2) took down my diabetes support package links. 3) and made my disclaimer more prominent. Additionally, I added a disclaimer at the bottom of every page. Because I complied with their order to stop speaking and to change what I say and what I publish, the board concluded that I am in substantial compliance and closed the investigation. All this means is that the board has violated my First Amendment rights by silencing me and altering how I express my opinions. My compliance is compliance with their violation of my rights, not an agreement between us that I was wrong and they were right. The letter actually threatens to keep monitoring me. I have absolutely no intention of complying with the board’s violation of my free speech rights. I intend to defend those rights, not only for myself, but for everyone. This is America and in America people should be free to give each other advice about things like diet. This isn’t the end of the fight, this is not over. It’s just the end of round one. THANK YOU ALL FOR ALL OF THE SUPPORT!!! … I will not back down and I will not waiver!
Poster Comment: Here is the assholes contact number. I would call them and give them a piece of your mind. Exercise your free speech. Who do these parasites think they are.
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#1. To: All (#0)
Someone get the message to Steve. Put anything you want to here. When they call me I will tell them to FUCK OFF!!!
No, it means the author voluntarily declined to exercise his first amendment right to free speech and silenced himself. They threatened and he didn't stand his ground and exercise his rights. His choice.
"If men through fear, fraud or mistake, should in terms renounce and give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the great end of society, would absolutely vacate such renunciation; the right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of Man to alienate this gift, and voluntarily become a slave." Samuel Adams, Rights of the Colonists, 1772
The letter actually threatens to keep monitoring me.
#2. To: A K A Stone (#0)
All this means is that the board has violated my First Amendment rights by silencing me and altering how I express my opinions.
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