The U.S. is a nation apparently interested in rights. One can hear much about human rights , equal rights, civil rights, children's rights, gay rights , animal rights, abortion rights , women's rights, special rights, etc.
Bureaucracies report that they are our benevolent benefactors and the guardians of our welfare.
With an apparent zeal for ensuring our individual rights, the government creates codes and policies which are rigidly enforced by their bureaucracies, thereby effectively nullifying the individual rights of the citizen. Case in point. The CAC has created a 'Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Use' which is currently scheduled to meet in Bonn, Germany, sometime in 1996. The German delegation to this committee has drawn up a proposal for this committee to adopt entitled 'Proposed Draft Guidelines for Dietary Supplements'. Commission regulations for dietary supplements would be binding on all countries covered by the GATT treaty.