-Caveat Lector-
I note in the article below that BioPort, the ONLY producer of Anthrax
vaccine, on whose board of directors sits CFR member and former chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. William J. Crowe Jr
According to former Central Intelligence Agency military analyst Patrick
Eddington, the estimated $60 million worth of anthrax vaccine Bioport is
expected to produce for the Defense Department over the next five years
could just be the beginning.
�The Pentagon has a $322 million, 10-year program to develop at least
three, and perhaps as many as a dozen additional biological warfare
vaccines,� Eddington told ABCNEWS. �These have never really been tested, and
most importantly, no one has provided data to validate the threat.�
http://www.abcnews.go.com/onair/2020/2020_990312_anthrax_feature.html
Dave Hartley
http://www.Asheville-Computer.com
http://www.ioa.com/~davehart
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Subject: Human Experiments Ordered by Clinton on our SOLDIERS!
Subj: Human Experiments Ordered by Clinton
Date: 10/27/1999 3:05:08 AM Eastern Daylight Time
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (O. Gene Lovell)
> -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
> Clinton Orders Human Experiments
> By Timothy W. Maier
><A HREF=" http://www.insightmag.com/articles/story3.html
http://www.insightmag.com/articles/story3.html
>
> Executive Order 13139 is requiring military personnel to receive
> experimental vaccines not approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
> Courts-martial are pending.
>
> A day after Republican Rep. Chris Shays of Connecticut ended
congressional
> hearings on the controversial decision mandating the inoculation of 2.4
million U.S. troops against anthrax, President Clinton quietly signed an
executive order, or EO, that denies soldiers the right to refuse
experimental
vaccines.
>
> EO13139, titled "Improving Health Protection of Military Personnel
Participating in Particular Military Operations," caught Congress off guard
as it directed the Pentagon to disregard the authority of the Food and Drug
Administration, or FDA. The order authorized use of experimental vaccines --
t
hose not approved by the FDA and therefore illegal -- to be administered to
members of the armed forces without informed consent.
>
Some congressmen saw this as an attack by the president on the House
Government Reform subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs and
International Relations, where testimony indicated the Pentagon had violated
the FDA's procedures on how to administer the anthrax vaccine. Those
hearings
-- as well as others held by the full House Committee on Government
Reform --
had put the FDA on the spot for letting the Pentagon disregard sensible FDA
regulations.
The Pentagon wanted to administer the shots now and, as a result, long-range
studies were not conducted and an inadequate reporting system was set up to
hide the large number of adverse effects, critics charged.
>
> As a result of the unprecedented implementation of the vaccination
program, more than 1,000 troops are awaiting trial on a felony charge of
refusing to obey, hundreds more have left the armed forces and dozens have
been prosecuted.
>
> The FDA's failure to take a stand against the Pentagon has prompted a
group of concerned congressmen, led by Republican Rep. Walter Jones Jr. of
North Carolina, formally to complain to the agency. "The FDA didn't do its
job," says Jones, a member of the House Armed Services Committee. "Our men
and women are too valuable and they're not going to be guinea pigs."
>
> Jones, who has asked the Pentagon's inspector general to launch a probe
into the growing anthrax controversy, warns that Clinton's executive order
"might encourage more men and women to get out of the military. I think
Clinton did it to give cover to what the DOD [or Department of Defense] is
doing." And with the FDA having rolled over, Jones says, he is even more
determined to learn why the White House and the Pentagon doubled the
contract
of Michigan-based BioPort Corp., which manufactures the vaccine, from $25.7
million to $49.8 million and at the same time reduced the volume to be
delivered by 2.3 million shots (see "Why BioPort Got a Shot in the Arm,"
Sept. 20).
>
> The Pentagon has claimed the inoculation protects against all anthrax
strains, and BioPort made the same claim to Insight -- despite the fact that
an experiment at the Fort Detrick chemical and biological warfare center in
Maryland using guinea pigs showed nine of the 27 anthrax strains tested
killed 50 percent of the vaccinated subjects.
>
> Kwai-Cheung Chan, the director of the special studies and evaluations,
national-security and international-affairs division of the General
Accounting Office, testified before the House Government Reform Committee
that there have been no studies to "determine the optimum number of doses of
the anthrax vaccine. Although annual boosters are given, the needs for a
six-shot regimen and annual booster shots have not been evaluated."
>
> Chan's biggest criticism, however, involves the process in which the
vaccine was made. He notes the deficiencies that FDA identified in its
February 1998 inspection. "These fell into two categories: those that might
affect only one or a limited number of batches, and those that could
compromise the safety and efficacy of any or all batches." The facility was
as a result shut down in early 1998. BioPort is addressing the processing
problems, but the FDA has yet to approve its laboratory to produce the
controversial vaccine.
> Meanwhile, since Insight last reported on the anthrax vaccination, still
more troops and civilians have fallen ill after receiving the shots,
according to the FDA. From 1990 to Oct. 1, 1999, 425 reports of adverse
events associated with the anthrax vaccine have been reported. Critics argue
the incidents are being underreported because, unless the side effects
involve chills or fatigue, some doctors say they can't report the symptoms
(see "A Dose of Reality," Sept. 20).
>
> Mark Zaid, an attorney representing dozens of troops who refused to take
the
> mandatory anthrax inoculation, says, "There are big problems. Why, all of
a sudden out of nowhere, especially when the opposition to the program is
getting so much steam and criticism of the Department of Defense was running
rampant, does Clinton sign an executive order that assures DOD can implement
any experimental program it wants? This whole thing is DOD doing an end run
around the FDA. The FDA should step up to plate and do its job." The FDA may
be starting to take note, according to a September letter from the agency
obtained by Insight. The letter was written the day Shays' hearing ended.
Katheryn Zoon, director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research,
wrote to Assistant Secretary of Defense Sue Bailey:
>
> "Recently it has come to the agency's attention through congressional
sources that some troops may not be receiving the vaccine in accordance with
the schedule found in the approved labeling. As you know, the approved
anthrax labeling states that full immunization involves six doses of the
vaccine to be administered following the first dose at two and four weeks,
six months, 12 months and 18 months, with yearly boosters thereafter. This
schedule is the only regimen shown to be effective in protecting humans
against anthrax and is the only schedule approved by the FDA. Data received
by FDA from congressional sources indicate that a number of reserve and
active military personnel are receiving their anthrax vaccine dose
significantly later than the FDA approved schedule."
>
> In his order Clinton calls attention to the biological threat to which
troops might be subjected, saying soldiers could "potentially be exposed to
a
range of chemical, biological and radiological weapons, as well as disease
endemic to an area of operations." Defense Secretary William Cohen warned
recently on ABC's Nightline that it is not a question of whether we could
face a biological attack, it's a question of when.
>
> But neither the president's top intelligence expert in this field nor the
State Department are impressed by these claims. Richard Clarke, the
bioterrorism expert with the National Security Council, also said on
Nightline that he doesn't expect terrorists will turn to biological weapons.
"I don't believe it's a certainty at all," he said. "I know that there are
people who say it will eventually happen. But I think you have to remember,
there has to be motivation. Someone has to do it. And that someone has to
believe they can get away with it. They're not going to. If you look at our
history in the last five years, after every major terrorist incident we have
discovered the people who were involved. And even if they were on the other
side of the earth, and even if it was four years later or 10 years later, we
reached out and got them."
>
> In addition, the State Department has posted this statement on its
Website: "The Department of State has no information to indicate that there
is a likelihood of use of chemical or biological agent release in the
immediate future. The Department believes the risk of the use of
chemical/biological warfare is remote, although it cannot be excluded."
>
> Meanwhile, even though U.S. embassies are prime targets of terrorists,
the
State Department isn't requiring its employees to have the anthrax shot
before deployment. Jones called on the State Department to explain why it
was
not mandating the shot, and promptly was told it will take "four years to
get
that information." He then turned to House International Relations Committee
Chairman Ben Gilman of New York, who quickly fired off a letter to State
demanding action.
>
> Yet Clinton signed EO13139 to use experimental vaccines on U.S. troops
despite the scandals created by exposure of the secret use of experimental
vaccines ranging from administering LSD in the 1950s to the drug
pyriostigmine bromide, or PB, given to troops bound for the Persian Gulf
War.
PB, which protects against nerve gas, may be linked to some of the gulf-war
illnesses, according to the Rand Corp., a California-based think tank that
recently published a 385-page review of the drug.
>
> Maj. Thomas "Buzz" Rempfer of the Air Force Reserve says there may be
times
> when use of vaccines that have not been fully tested and FDA-approved may
be necessary and appropriate during great crisis. "But this capability for
our president is currently being jeopardized by the reckless mandatory
vaccination of all service members against anthrax," he says. "The threat is
not imminent and the integrity of the military institution is being
compromised to implement a strategic or blanket program that is doctrinally
unprecedented and unsound. The lack of trust we are breeding in the force
today could sacrifice our military's capability to protect our troops on a
tactical basis when threatened in the future."
>
> Copyright � 1999 News World Communications, Inc.
> - - - - - - - -
> Change can only come when we all realize that we have been tricked into
> giving away our power to those who would subvert the power we give them
for
> their own selfish greed. The time will come when we will take back that
> power, but the longer we sleep and do nothing, the harder it will be.
Life,
> Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness can only take place among a people
who
> are self governing and stand in their own integrity.
>
> This process will not be easy. It's going to take determination. It's
going
> to take hard work and sacrifice. It's going to mean giving up those
things
> that we have been led to believe are necessary.
>
> And not any less important is the need to acknowledge the lies that we
have
> allowed ourselves to be fooled by. The act of admitting "I WAS WRONG" is
> probably one of the hardest, yet most productive thing we can do to take
> that stand for personal responsibility. Each one of us are guilty. We can
> all but the blame on the "bad guys" for all the negativity that surrounds
> us. And indeed, they must be held accountable for their crimes against
> humanity and the Earth. But does that really solve the problem if we
allow
> another "bad guy" to take the place of the one we just punished?
>
> This is where our healing must begin. We are all guilty of the crime of
> non-action.
>
> The question I pose now is not, "Oh my gosh! Isn't this horrible what
"they"
> are doing to our people in the military?" My question is, "What are WE
going
> to do about it?"
>
> Are we going to sit by and wait for a "savior" to come and solve all our
> problems, or are we going to begin to take self responsibility and allow
the
> force of Creation to work with us and through us?
>
> If you answer with, "I am only one person. What can I do?" then we have
> already lost. That answer has gotten us nowhere.
>
> I will be working on this myself over the next few weeks.
>
> We must give our 100% support to those in the military who are willing to
> give it all up to stand in their integrity and refuse these experimental
> vaccines. These men and women are true heroes.
>
> -Deuce
> ICQ# 395993
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> The Harbinger
> http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Keep/4885/
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