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Bush plans forced immunizations, quarantines
by Robert Lederman
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If the Bush administration's seeming incompetence in handling the anthrax issue and tendency to issue conflicting statements generating confusion and panic 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 http://www.nytimes.com
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 to Merck, 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 ex!
! ecutives and other top executives of Merck, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Bayer, Pfizer, Eli Lilly and Johnson Johnson, 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 ad!
! ministration, 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
CDC releases draft of public health law October 31, 2001
"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
