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Bush plans forced
immunizations,
quarantines
by Robert Lederman
(718) 743-3722
[email protected]
November 4, 2001
[See quotes below]
(Links used in essays were current at time of
publication.)
If the Bush administration's
seeming incompetence in handling the anthrax issue and tendency to issue
conflicting statements generating confusion and papanic in the public has you
puzzled, perhaps this may shed a bit of light on what they are actually up to.
The CDC (Center for Disease Control) has drafted a model law which will
require forced vaccinations of all Americans, imprisonment and quarantine of
those who refuse to submit to vaccination, seizure of property and other
drastic measures (see three news articles below).
Vaccination is one of the most controversial
aspects of medicine. While the official position of the medical establishment
is that vaccination is a foundation of public health policy, thousands of
doctors and hundreds of millions of people worldwide consider it to be a
leading cause of disease, neurological damage, learning disabilities and
death and to be ineffective in conferring immunity.
The Bush administration has numerous direct ties to
vaccine and drug manufacturers and many of Bush's cabinet members are former
drug company executives. The Bush family also has more than a seventy year
long documented involvement with eugenics and population control.
To get a picture of where this is going read NY
Times 11/4/2001 DRUG INDUSTRY A Muscular Lobby Tries to Shape Nation's
Bioterror Plan Click Here for
Times article.
An excerpt from this long article.....
As that success shows, the pharmaceutical lobby,
which represents the nation's biggest drug makers, from Eli Lilly to Pfizer (news/quote)
to Merck (news/quote),
is both large and politically adroit and, if anything, more sophisticated
than when it gained fame in the early 1990's for helping to defeat the
Clinton administration health plan.
It has more lobbyists than there are members of
Congress — 625 who are registered. It had a combined lobbying and campaign
contribution budget in 1999 and 2000 of $197 million, larger than any other
industry. Now it is harnessing those resources to influence major policy
decisions being made by the Bush administration that may well influence
public health issues and industry profitability for years to come — much to
the dismay of many consumer groups and others.
. . . Because of the anthrax scare, and all the
attention given to Cipro, the anti-anthrax drug of choice, that access has
been enormous. In recent weeks, the chief executives and other top executives
of Merck, Bristol-Myers Squibb (news/quote),
Bayer, Pfizer, Eli Lilly and Johnson & Johnson (news/quote),
along with trade association officials, have been meeting regularly with Bush
cabinet members. On one occasion, with executives from other industries,
pharmaceutical executives met with President Bush in New York to discuss the
administration's response to terrorism. Drug company executives have offered
to send scores of industry scientists, now on their payrolls, to work in
government agencies in what the industry calls a gift to the nation, but
critics say it is both a conflict of interest and a way for the industry to
get a toehold in government.
In return, at these top-level meetings, industry
executives and lobbyists are seeking exemption from antitrust regulations,
reduction of the timetable for getting new drugs to market for treating the
ills of biological warfare, and immunity from lawsuits for any vaccines they
develop to combat bioterrorism. The administration, those in the meeting say,
has offered other help, asking the pharmaceutical executives to identify the
regulatory barriers they would like to see eliminated for this fight.
Last Wednesday, for instance, a dozen industry
lobbyists and executives, among them Peter R. Dolan, chief executive of
Bristol-Myers, and Raymond V. Gilmartin, chief executive of Merck, met for an
hour and a half in the Roosevelt Room of the White House with Tom Ridge, the
director of homeland security. According to one person at the meeting, Mr.
Ridge was so impressed with what the industry executives said that he
responded: "I'm grateful for your offers of assistance. I accept."
That , according to the meeting's participant,
reflected "a true partnership between the federal government and
America's pharmaceutical companies."
From CNN.com
October 31, 2001
CDC releases draft of public health
law
(Click
here for original article)
ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- A model law drafted for
states at the request of the federal government would give authorities broad
powers to close buildings, take over hospitals and order quarantines during a
biological attack.
The draft, commissioned by the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention and made public Tuesday, provides a template for
states to respond to the release of a deadly agent like smallpox or Ebola.
Whether to adopt such a law is up to state legislatures. If any did, state
officials could take drastic steps -- including controlling the sale of food
and gas and condemning contaminated buildings -- to prevent mass casualties
from an outbreak.
"The current laws are hopelessly
antiquated," said
Lawrence Gostin, a professor of law and public health at Georgetown
University and the draft's principal author. "They predated all of
the modern threats to the public health. Many of them are probably
unconstitutional."
Even before September 11, the federal government
wanted states to update their public health laws, some of which date to the
19th century.
The CDC asked public health and law specialists at
Johns Hopkins and Georgetown universities, who were writing the draft, to put
it on a fast track because of the terrorist attacks and the anthrax outbreak.
The 40-page draft would allow state public health officials to purchase as
many drugs as they see fit and ration them without getting approval from
other branches of government.
It also would give state authorities the right to
mandate medical testing of its citizens, to isolate people deemed a threat to
the public health and to order private doctors to do the testing. In a
bioterrorism emergency, states could seize hospitals, other property and
"communication devices" they believe are necessary to stop a
biological attack from killing huge numbers of people.
The draft tries to head off the concerns of civil
liberties groups over governmental control. It says citizens have the right
to the review of a court if they object to being forced into quarantine or
ordered to take a vaccine. The law would be triggered by the governor in the
event of bioterrorism or an epidemic that poses a substantial risk of
significant fatalities.
Because anthrax isn't contagious, the current
response has been chiefly about tracking the germ, treating the infected and
distributing antibiotics. A more contagious and deadly agent, such as
smallpox or Ebola virus, would require a much broader -- and faster --
response, possibly including mass vaccinations and quarantining entire
communities.
The draft has been delivered to the CDC for
tinkering. State government associations, including the National Governors
Association and the National Conference of State Legislatures, also
collaborated.
Boston Globe
10/31/2001
page D4
By Bloomberg News
WASHINGTON - States would be able to force
patients to take medication under model legislation outlining when and how
governors can use emergency powers to address public health crises such as
recent anthrax attacks. The model law, commissioned by the US Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, also would give people the right to appeal
states' decisions to quarantine or isolate them. Individuals with contagious
diseases, such as smallpox, wouldn't be able to appeal orders for treatment
or vaccination under the law.
State governments are concerned that laws are
inadequate to address new kinds of public health threats such as the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks on buildings in New York and Washington or the use of germ
or chemical weapons. Fifteen Americans have been infected with anthrax, a
deadly bacterial disease, and thousands more are taking antibiotics as a
precaution. Lawrence Gostin, chief author of the model law and a professor at
Georgetown University Law Center, said the academic panel that drafted the
proposal tried to balance the need to control disease with individuals' civil
rights - something he said isn't done under many current state laws. ''We
felt if we were too Draconian and didn't respect people's rights, that meant
the terrorists would win,'' Gostin said.
Emergency powers allow governors to suspend normal
government temporarily, letting states swiftly address disease epidemics or
natural disasters such as earthquakes. Legal and public health experts at Georgetown
University and Johns Hopkins University examined all states' emergency-powers
laws in crafting the model.
Under the model law, states could quarantine or
isolate individuals who are infected with a contagious disease, though the
patients would have the right to appeal that decision in court. The patient
would remain quarantined or isolated until the appeals process was exhausted,
Gostin said.
Patients could be forced to take medicines or
receive vaccines for contagious diseases that pose a public health threat,
such as smallpox, under the model law. Patients wouldn't be allowed to appeal
a state's decision, though the state would likely quarantine anyone who
refused to comply, triggering an appeals process, Gostin said. States would
avoid civil liberties violations if they enact laws that spell out penalties
such as the loss of public benefits, instead of incarceration, for patients
who refuse treatment, said R. Alta Charo, a professor at the University of
Wisconsin Law School."
For thousands of links on the dangers
of vaccines see these sites among many others on the net:
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http://vaccineinfo.net/
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http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/vaccine.htm
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http://thinktwice.com/global.htm
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http://www.cco.net/~trufax/menu/bio.html
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http://www.all-natural.com/riley.html
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http://www.vaccines.bizland.com/
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http://www.whale.to/vaccines.html
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http://www.google.com/search?q=vaccine+danger&btnG=Google+Search
Cipro alleged price fixing and Bioport anthrax
vaccine info (Click Here)
Author's Note: Recommending
a site or article should not be construed to mean I necessarily endorse all
of the views therein. Regardless of how one feels about the Bush and Giuliani
administrations, for Americans there can be no desirable outcome to this
situation other than America and NYC coming out on top, our troops coming
home safely and all terrorists, including our own, being brought to justice.
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Robert Lederman is an artist, a regular columnist
for the Greenwich Village Gazette [See: http://www.gvny.com/ for an extensive archive of Lederman
columns] The Shadow, The African Sun Times, The
Vigo-Examiner [see: http://www.vigo-examiner.com/archive.htm] and Street News,
and is the author of hundreds of published essays concerning Mayor Rudolph
Giuliani. Lederman has been falsely arrested 41 times to date for his
anti-Giuliani activities and has never been convicted of any of the charges.
He is best known for creating hundreds of paintings of Mayor Giuliani as a
Hitler like dictator.
Robert Lederman,
President of A.R.T.I.S.T.
(Artists' Response To Illegal State Tactics)
[email protected]
(718) 743-3722
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