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The first Homeland Security act introduced
in the 107th Congress took place seven months BEFORE the September 11, 2001
terrorist attacks, the Democrats notwithstanding. Max Thornberry, a
Republican from Texas, introduced a Homeland Security bill no one ever
reported, HR 1158 on April 1, 2001.
Seven months BEFORE 9/11, Thornberry urged transforming FEMA into "a
National Homeland Security Agency that would provide a central focal point
for other federal, state and local agencies in the event of a terrorist
attack.
Thornberry quoted the January 2001 Commission on National Security/21st
Century report by former congressmen Warren Rudman and Gary Hart who warned:
"The combination of unconventional weapons proliferation with the
persistence of international terrorism will end the relative invulnerability
of the U.S. homeland to catastrophic attack. A direct attack on American
citizens on American soil is likely over the next quarter century. The risk
is not only death and destruction but also demoralization that could
undermine U.S. global leadership."
Thornberry said H.R. 1158 would bring "the Coast Guard, the Customs
Service, and the Border Patrol under the umbrella of this Homeland Security
Agency as distinct entities. Each of these agencies is in Departments where
their mission is very different from the mission of the Department. Each of
them play an integral part in protecting our borders, yet there is not the
coordination we need." It would have also consolidated "a variety of
programs to protect critical information infrastructure that are now
scattered in a variety of places."
HR 1158 never got out of committee. Thirteen months later, on May 2, 2002
Thornberry tried again, introducing HR 4660 "A bill to establish the
Department of National Homeland Security and the National Office for
Combating Terrorism." On the same day, Democrat Senator Joseph Lieberman
introduced a bill in the Senate, S. 2452, entitled National Homeland
Security and Combating Terrorism Act of 2002, and the media still claims
Lieberman was the first to introduce a Homeland Security Act.
Neither bill was passed, but on June 24, 2002 Republican Majority leader
Rep. Dick Armey, with 103 co-sponsors including Rep. Thornberry, introduced
HR 5005, the Homeland Security Act of 2002 It passed the House a month later
on July 26, 2002 with 207 Republican votes and 88 Democrat votes and was
sent to the Senate.
On September 4, a month before the election, Sen. Joseph Lieberman,
introduced Amendment 4471 to HR 5005, totally gutting the House backed bill
and replacing it with the Democrat version of Homeland Security. The
Lieberman substitute for the House backed bill eliminated the flexibility in
the Republican bill. Under the Lieberman bill the President needed the
permission of the Congress and Labor Unions to even move workers around.
Also, doctors, nurses, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies administering
or making vaccines could be sued by patients with bad reactions to them in
the event of a bio-terrorist attack.
Senator Bill Frist, a Republican from Tennessee who is a physician,
addressed the medical provision, that the media and Democrats claim is
"pork" for favorite Republican contributors.
Frist warned that negative reactions to the smallpox vaccine, for
example, are well known: "I put smallpox among the most risky because we
know the side effects are that about 1 in a million people would die. If you
vaccinated 300 million people, about 300 would die. Ten times that number
would have serious side effects maybe encephalitis or many others that are
life threatening. As a matter of fact, probably 30, 40 times that many would
have a bad rash, many of which would cause hospitalization. So it is a
vaccine, in medical terms, with more potential side effects than others."
Of course, millions would die without the vaccines. But should or would
medical personnel be required, or expected to administer hundreds, or
perhaps thousands doses of vaccines knowing that perhaps hundreds of those
receiving the vaccine could sue them?
Senator Frist warned his fellow Senators: "I have a fear in talking to
health care providers and to the nurses who recognize, that vaccine is
important to life saving, but at the same time is subjected to these
unlimited lawsuits with punitive damages they just might say: I cannot
subject myself to giving a thousand of those doses, after looking at the
statistics´. That is the problem, that is why the smallpox provision has to
be in there."
Republican Senator John McCain and forty-six Democrat Senators insisted
that the provision protecting medical personnel be eliminated. Senator
McCain charged the provision "has no bearing whatsoever on domestic
security."
Fifty-two senators, including Democrats Zell Miller of Georgia, Mary
Landrieu of Louisiana, Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Independent Dean Barkley
of Minnesota, appointed by Governor Ventura, voted against the Lieberman
substitute and for the Administration´s version.
In the month between the introduction of Lieberman´s substitute amendment
and the election, the fact the Homeland Security Bill had not been passed
became a major issue in the Congressional election. Democrats demanded
collective bargaining rights for workers in the new Homeland Defense
Department and President George W. Bush said inflexible union protections
would "prohibit us from doing the job of protecting the American people."
The average voter has dealt with government agencies run by people who
can´t be fired. Most people are not impressed with the way they are treated
by IRS, or FEMA, or other agencies of Government. Do we really want a
Homeland Security agency run by labor unionists that not even the President
of the United States could fire?
The Democrats gave the voters the choice of supporting Labor Unions or
George W. Bush and the voters picked George W. Bush.
Democrats now are giving us the choice, in the event of a bio-terrorist
attack, between having trial lawyers or doctors and nurses available to help
us.
Sometimes I don´t think Democrats learn very fast.
To comment on this article or express your opinion directly to the
author, you are invited to e-mail Mary at
mmostert@bannerofliberty.com
.
November 27, 2002
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ABOUT THE
AUTHOR:
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Reports contributor and "Best of the Web" award-winning writer
Mary Mostert was involved in politics
before she was old enough to vote and in recent years she has researched,
written and edited articles for national talk show host Michael Reagan's
Information Interchange on the Internet, and for The REAGAN MONITOR, a
monthly newsletter. Her book,
Coming Home: Families Can Stop the Unraveling of America, was
published in 1996. Visit Mary's
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LEGAL ADVICE. THE DECISION WHETHER OR NOT TO VACCINATE IS AN IMPORTANT AND
COMPLEX ISSUE AND SHOULD BE MADE BY YOU, AND YOU ALONE, IN CONSULTATION WITH
YOUR HEALTH CARE PROVIDER.
"A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth."
-- Albert Einstein, letter to a friend, 1901
"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves, and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education."
-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to William C. Jarvis, September 28, 1820
"What's the point of vaccination if it doesn't protect you from the unvaccinated?"
-- Sandy Gottstein
"Who gets to decide what the greater good is and how many will be sacrificed to it?"