Why is it illegal for communities to protect themselves from toxic harm?

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The supposed answer to that question is the Supremacy Clause of the US Constitution, Article 6, paragraph 2:

"This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding."

By inference, the individual states declare their own supremacy when local communities try to nullify or avoid state statutes.

Keep in mind that the US Constitution enumerates powers granted to the federal government, and reserves all other powers for the states or the people. But this restraint has been trampled on so many times it's barely visible under the tonnage of federal law and regulation.

Therefore, the Supremacy Clause becomes: "We, the federal government, can do anything we want to, and the states and the people are bound by it."

So...what happens when the people of a community decide that a medical drug or pesticide (see also this) or genetically modified organism or fracking chemical or vaccine is poisonous and must be banned?

The state preempts the community and if the state doesn't, the federal government will move in and assert its ultimate authority.

Take the case of Roundup or any of the pesticides that contain the toxic glyphosate. If the EPA or the USDA or the FDA decides glyphosate is harmless, and if their "science" is a sham, and if they are merely caving in to big corporations who want to sell it, the people would have no recourse.

"It's the law, and you have to submit to liver and kidney damage at the very least."

That's the absurdity.

If health and life aren't the basis of law, if they are ignored, if they are necessary sacrifices on the altar of federal or state control, then all bets are off.

For the past 25 years, I've been documenting exactly this: medical and scientific fraud that leads to great harm. This fraud is not only permitted, it's embodied in federal and state regulations.

I frequently cite Dr. Barbara Starfield's stunning review, "Is US health really the best in the world?" It was published on July 26, 2000, in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

At the time, Starfield was a widely respected public health expert working at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.

Her credentials and those of JAMA were impeccably mainstream.

She concluded that, every year, FDA-approved medical drugs killed 106,000 Americans. That adds up to over a million deaths per decade.

In the wake of her published review, and for the next nine years, as she told me in a 2009 interview, no one in the federal government approached her to help remedy this ongoing plague of destruction. Nor was she aware of any systematic remedial federal effort.

But you see, the FDA is a federal agency set up by federal law. It is tasked with approving all medical drugs as safe and effective before they are released for public use.

So if a local community decided, on its own, to ban a deadly medicine, its vote would be struck down from above.

"Suffer. Die. It's the law."

There are people who are happy to settle for choice. "As long as I'm free to refuse the medicine, I'm good. Let others take it if they want to."

But we're not talking about a choice between pears and oranges. We're talking about poison.

And despite recalls, lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies and heavy fines, the killing continues.

Therefore, on the basis of self-protection, a community has the right to enact a ban .

Unless self-protection must surrender to the System. Then we are looking at lawless government pretending to be lawful.

These phrases come to mind:

"...certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness..."

"...in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity..."

Making these goals come to fruition when communities are under toxic attack is impossible. Therefore, governments that support and enshrine such attacks are violating the very origin of laws.