Smallpox in America: Into the Garden of Delights<\/b>
\r\nBy\r\nJennifer Van Bergen
\r\nt\r\nr u t h o u t | Report (click to get original)\r\n<\/p>
Tuesday\r\n14 January 2003\r\n\r\n <\/p>
[Coleridge]\r\n said ... there were only three things which the government had brought into\r\n that garden of delights, namely itch, pox, and famine.<\/i>
\r\n --\r\n Ralph Waldo Emerson, English Traits<\/i>(1856)<\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n
We\r\nare told that there is new grave threat to our welfare. Smallpox.\r\n<\/p>
If\r\nwe are indeed in danger of a smallpox outbreak (which is contradicted by medical\r\ntestimony), the threat appears to be inflated.\r\n<\/p>
A\r\nfar more grave threat, however, is the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act (MSEHPA,\r\nMEHPA, or EHPA), portions of which were incorporated into the Homeland Security\r\nAct (HSA). The EHPA provides for forced vaccinations and confiscation or\r\ndestruction of personal property under the mere threat of a threat of an\r\noutbreak.\r\n<\/p>
Representative\r\nRon Paul (R.-TX.), who also is a medical doctor, writes:\r\n<\/p>
\r\n\r\n When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in\r\n essence accept that the state owns our bodies. The possibility that the\r\n federal government could order vaccines is real. Provisions buried in the\r\n 500-page homeland security bill give federal health bureaucrats virtually\r\n unchecked power to declare health emergencies.\r\n <\/p>
Specifically,\r\n it gives the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services _ in my\r\n view one of the worst of all federal agencies _ power to declare actual or\r\n potential bioterrorist emergencies; to administer forced\r\n \"countermeasures,\" including vaccines, to individuals or whole\r\n groups; and to extend the emergency declaration indefinitely.\r\n <\/p>
These\r\n provisions mirror those found in the Model Emergency Health Powers Act [MEHPA],\r\n a troubling proposal that was rejected by most state legislatures last year.\r\n That Act would have given state governors broad powers to suspend civil\r\n liberties and declare health emergencies. Yet now we're giving virtually the\r\n same power to the Secretary of HHS. Equally troubling is the immunity from\r\n civil suit granted to vaccine manufacturers in the homeland security bill,\r\n which potentially could leave individuals who get sick from a bad batch of\r\n vaccines without legal recourse.(2)<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Rep.\r\nPaul omits that the smallpox vaccine can be fatal. The MEHPA sounds almost like\r\nstate-sponsored population control. But this is not only population control via,\r\nsay, contraception. It is by state-mandated and enforced, vaccine-induced\r\nillness and death.\r\n<\/p>
That\r\nis frightening. In the name of fighting terrorism, we are now going to kill off\r\na small percentage of our own people.\r\n<\/p>
Health\r\nand welfare issues have traditionally been state issues. Since 1824, the\r\nso-called \"police power,\" which includes \"the authority to\r\nprovide for the public health, safety, and morals,\" has been the exclusive\r\nprovince of the states.(3)\r\n<\/p>
Sandy\r\nMintz, who writes on Vaccination News, states: \"The Homeland Security Bill\r\nas now written, however, appears to be an effort to circumvent states' rights,\r\nby federalizing declared emergencies related to \"public health\". It\r\nseems to have been decided that declaring a federal emergency using federal law\r\nwould allow states' rights to be by-passed.\" (4)\r\n<\/p>
She\r\ncontinues, \"This effort seems to be, at least in part, a reaction to the\r\nfailure of all states to pass, or in some cases to even consider passing thus\r\nfar, an MEHPA bill.\"\r\n<\/p>
Florida\r\nand The Model Emergency Health Powers Act<\/b>\r\n<\/p>
The\r\nMEHPA has been passed in only one state: Florida.(5) Adopted home of Jeb Bush.\r\nLand of electoral madness. Home to alligators and other swamp creatures. The\r\ngarden of delights.\r\n<\/p>
Joanna\r\nRohrback, a health activist in Broward County, Florida, who has been trying to\r\nraise awareness about the Florida EHPA, says: \"Some of the worst\r\nramifications would include forced vaccinations on the WHOLE population as well\r\nas the ability to seize our property and quarantine us.\"(6)\r\n<\/p>
Mintz\r\nwrites that the dubiously titled Model State Emergency Health Powers Act, which,\r\nas I understand it, is identical to the Florida EHPA, \"give[s] the power of\r\nlife and death over citizens to each state's governor.\"\r\n<\/p>
Mintz\r\ndelineates a few specific things the MEHPA does:\r\n\r\n \r\n <\/b><\/p>
1.\r\n Grant the governor of each state power to declare a \"public health\r\n emergency\" as defined in the act, with or without consulting anyone.\r\n (Article IV, Section 401)\r\n <\/p>
2.\r\n Require medical examination and\/or testing and force isolation or quarantine\r\n if it is deemed that refusal \"poses a danger to public health\".\r\n (Article VI, Section 602(c))\r\n <\/p>
3.\r\n Require treatment and\/or vaccination and \"isolate or quarantine\"\r\n those \"unwilling or unable\" to do so. (Article VI, (Article VI,\r\n Sections 603(a)(3) and 603(b)(3))\r\n <\/p>
4.\r\n Constitute as a misdemeanor, \"failure to obey these provisions\" (for\r\n examination, testing, isolation or quarantine). (Article VI, Sections 604(a)\r\n and 604(c))\r\n <\/p>
5.\r\n Provide that there be no liability for any \"State or local official\"\r\n causing harm to individuals in their efforts to comply with the provisions of\r\n the act, unless there is \"gross negligence or willful misconduct\".\r\n (Article VIII, Section 804(a))\r\n <\/p>
6.\r\n Provide for similar absence of liability for \"any private person, firm or\r\n corporation\" and their \"employees\" or \"agents\".\r\n (Article VIII, Section 804(b)(2) and 804(b)(3))\r\n <\/p>
7.\r\n Allow for the destruction of property without compensation if \"there is\r\n reasonable cause to believe that [the property] may endanger the public health\r\n pursuant to Section 501\". (Article V, Sections 506 and 507)\r\n <\/p>
8.\r\n Limit legal recourse. (Article VI, Section 605)\r\n <\/p>
9.\r\n Allow for \"the public safety authority (to) request assistance from the\r\n organized militia in enforcing the orders of the public health\r\n authority.\" (Article IV, Section 404).<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n
In\r\nother words, martial law. If you have not seen \"Minority Report\" or\r\nread Orwell's \"1984,\" you might want to do so now.\r\n<\/p>
The\r\nMEHPA, which was enacted as the Florida EHPA, is the model for those provisions\r\nin the Homeland Security Act that deal with emergency health issues.\r\n<\/p>
Conflicts\r\nand Dangers<\/b>\r\n<\/p>
Toni\r\nKrehel of Vaccine Awareness of Florida writes that the Center for Disease\r\nControl (CDC) \"attempted to rush anti-terrorism legislation through state\r\nlegislatures\" giving power to the state to impose \"medical procedures\r\non people, using any means necessary, including the kind of restraining methods\r\nthat law enforcement use to apprehend criminals (guns, militia).\"7\r\n<\/p>
Rohrback\r\nreports that the CDC, along with the National Health Institute, will be\r\nreceiving \"extraordinary funding\" under the Homeland Security Act.\r\nRohrback points out that, according to the Congressional Committee for\r\nGovernment Reform back in 1999, there were numerous \"conflicts of\r\ninterest\" in the CDC's endorsement of these laws. One blatant example is\r\nthat the \"Chairman of CDC's advisory committee until recently owned 600\r\nshares of stock in Merck, a pharmaceutical company with an active vaccine\r\ndivision.\"(8) That was 1999 and the conflicts of interest have continued.\r\n<\/p>
Dr.\r\nMarcia Angell, in an interview on ABC Lateline in which she discussed the\r\ncontrol that the drug industry has taken of medical research, said that the drug\r\ncompanies use medical researchers \"as though they were hired guns.\"\r\nResearchers are paid to do what these companies want them to do. \"[D]rug\r\ncompanies increasingly design the studies,\" and \"don't even let the\r\nresearchers see the data.\"(9)\r\n<\/p>
Dr.\r\nLeonard G. Horowitz, President and Publisher of Tetrahedron Publishing Group,\r\nwrote in a June 6, 2002 letter to a CDC Working Group: \"The little known\r\nfact is that the primary smallpox vaccine producers, Aventis and Baxter\r\ncorporations, or their parent companies, are highly untrustworthy. They have\r\nbeen implicated on more than one occasion in committing genocide. *** Both firms\r\nsettled out of court ...\"(10)\r\n<\/p>
Horowitz\r\nfurther remarks that \"Baxter is a subsidiary of American Home Products (AHP),\"\r\nand AHP, \"like Bayer, Hoechst and BASF, is a progeny of I.G. Farben -\r\nGermany's leading industrial organization that virtually directed the Third\r\nReich and Hitler's economic war engine.\" He adds that Aventis is a\r\nsubsidiary of Hoechst.\r\n<\/p>
Horowitz\r\npleads: \"Please, for the sake of millions of people, public healthy,\r\nmedical respectability, and the future of this great nation, DO NOT SUPPORT ANY\r\nPOLICY REQUIRING FORCED SMALLPOX VACCINATIONS.\"\r\n<\/p>
Dr.\r\nTom Mack of the University of Southern California School of Medicine, whose\r\n\"credentials include probably spending more time working up\r\npopulation-based outbreaks of smallpox than virtually anybody ever has,\"\r\nspoke at the Meeting of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices\r\non June 19-20, 2002. Remarking that \"I made the arrogant assumption that\r\nyou might actually be interested in my opinion about the three questions that\r\nare open to you, and so I'm going to give it,\" Dr. Mack said that \"were\r\nthere no smallpox eradication program, my guess is that smallpox would have died\r\nout anyway.\"<\/b>(11)\r\n<\/p>
One\r\nreport states that: \"By the 1920s, several British medical researchers\r\ndocumented that smallpox was not only more common among the VACCINATED, but that\r\nthe DEATH RATE from smallpox was actually higher among those who had been\r\nvaccinated.\"(12)\r\n<\/p>
Dr.\r\nMack states that the smallpox vaccine is \"the single most dangerous live\r\nvaccine.\"\r\n<\/p>
While\r\nthese doctors state that smallpox vaccinations are dangerous, they are also\r\nclear that the threat of bio-attacks is slim and that even if there is\r\nbio-attack, it can be readily contained and mass vaccinations thus are not\r\njustified.\r\n<\/p>
Dr\r\nMack -- asking, \"What do we expect if there were a terrorist\r\nintroduction?\" - concludes: \"I would expect a small number of cases. I\r\ndon't think suicide dissemination is a very likely possibility because of the\r\nseverity of the disease. I think that airborne spread would be relatively\r\ninefficient and I don't think many cases would occur.\"\r\n<\/p>
Informed\r\nConsent & Lack of Logic<\/b>\r\n<\/p>
The\r\nNational Vaccination Information Center (NVIC) maintains that Section 304 of the\r\nHomeland Security Act is the \"fulfillment of a federal plan in development\r\nfor several years to allow public health officials to force vaccination and\r\nmedical treatment on Americans without their informed consent while removing all\r\naccountability from drug companies and those who participate in enforcement of\r\nthe policy.\"(13)\r\n<\/p>
The\r\nlegal doctrine of \"informed consent\" requires that a person who is\r\nbeing subjected to any medical procedure be informed of the nature and risks of\r\nthat procedure so that s\/he can weigh the risks against the benefits and decide\r\nwhether to consent to allowing the physician to carry out the procedure.\r\n<\/p>
Medical\r\nprocedures, including vaccinations, involve some type of intrusion on the body,\r\nas well as various risks. Without informed consent, any medical procedure is\r\nactually technically a battery. In civil law, battery involves intentionally\r\n\"harmful or offensive\" touching of any part of the body. In criminal\r\nlaw, battery involves \"unlawful application of force to the person of\r\nanother.\"\r\n<\/p>
NVIC\r\nstates that \"a voluntary decision about whether to take the risk has been\r\nthe centerpiece of bioethics ever since the Nuremberg Code was adopted after\r\nWorld War II and the doctrine of informed consent was introduced into U.S. case\r\nlaw in 1957.\"\r\n<\/p>
Two\r\nmajor hospitals have already refused to vaccinate their employees because\r\n\"the risk of dangerous side effects of the vaccine and inadvertent\r\ntransmission to patients outweighs the remote threat of an attack with a\r\nvirus.\"(14) The Boston Globe reported that the decisions \"underscore\r\nthe reluctance of some health workers to return to a decades-old vaccine known\r\nfor its serious side effects. In rare instances, the vaccine has caused\r\nlife-threatening cases of encephalitis and some deaths.\"\r\n<\/p>
''There\r\nis a lack of logic to the current proposal,'' said Dr. Richard Wenzel, chairman\r\nof the department of internal medicine at Virginia Commonwealth. ''If our\r\ngovernment in all its intelligence thinks smallpox exists in enemy hands, why\r\nwould we creep up on that policy? We would rush to vaccinate everybody right\r\nnow.''(15)\r\n<\/p>
Military\r\nIntervention<\/b>\r\n<\/p>
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(Mr. Repost's note: FEMA\r\nDetention camp? See endnote below.)<\/span>\r\n<\/p> The\r\nMEHPA provides for military intervention. According to one news report:\r\n\"The Bush administration is taking initial steps to plan for a potential\r\nmilitary role in enforcing a massive quarantine, if smallpox or another highly\r\ncontagious virus were to break out somewhere in the United States.\"(16)\r\nRemark<\/span>ably, according to this report: \"The possibility of a biological\r\nattack on the United States is receiving increased attention as the nation\r\ncontemplates war against Iraq, which experts fear may have 'weaponized'\r\nsmallpox, anthrax or other biowarfare agents.\"\r\n<\/p> This\r\nreport also states that \"some federal officials, public health analysts and\r\nnational security experts anticipate a large-scale quarantine would almost\r\nsurely incite public panic and could require the use of federal troops to\r\nrestore order.\"\r\n<\/p> How\r\nironic.\r\n<\/p> The\r\nBush Administration says it is going to war with Iraq in order to ensure our\r\nsafety, but experts fear that Saddam may counterattack with bio-weapons, which\r\nmeans we must forcibly inoculate several million people here with a dangerous\r\nvaccine, causing mass panic that will require restoring order with the military.\r\n<\/p> This\r\nsurely is the way to make America safe.\r\n<\/p> Yesterday\r\nI, along with several other members of the ad hoc Broward Bill of Rights Defense\r\nCoalition, met with a County Commissioner here in Broward County to discuss\r\npassing a resolution asking for the repeal of the USA PATRIOT Act. This\r\nCommissioner told me that she was ready to give up the Bill of Rights in\r\nexchange for safety. She felt we were in grave danger. As an example of what she\r\nwould accept, she told me that an airport search was \"an unreasonable<\/i>\r\nsearch and seizure.\"\r\n<\/p> Search\r\nand seizure law is immensely complex and the \"rules\" for what is a\r\nreasonable search vary according to the context. Airport searches of persons\r\nentering the boarding area have been deemed constitutional since 1973, as long\r\nas the intrusiveness is limited by the administrative need (which is, in this\r\ncase, flight safety) and the passenger is able to avoid search by electing not\r\nto fly. Searches that are minimally intrusive and intended to protect passengers\r\nare not violations of the Fourth Amendment. More importantly, we do not give up\r\nANY individual rights by consenting to an airport search. (I am not discussing\r\nreports of excessively intrusive and embarrassing public searches that have\r\noccurred since 9\/11, which, in my opinion, are unreasonable as well as\r\nunnecessary.)\r\n<\/p> If,\r\nhowever, we allow such laws as the PATRIOT Act, the Homeland Security Act, and\r\nthe Emergency Health Powers Act to stay on the books, we HAVE thrown away our\r\nBill of Rights. We have made the United States Constitution a nullity.\r\n<\/p> This\r\nAdministration is taking us down a perilous road. This Administration is putting\r\nits own citizenry in grave danger. Forced vaccinations benefit only the\r\nproducers of those vaccines.\r\n<\/p> If\r\nwe genuinely want peace and safety, then unlawfully invading foreign lands,\r\nunlawfully assassinating targeted people overseas, unlawfully divesting our own\r\ncitizens of their rights and invading their persons -- in other words, violating\r\nthe most sacred and certain of domestic and international laws -- will not do\r\nit.\r\n<\/p> These\r\nunlawful methods cannot continue long without bringing world war. Bin Laden did\r\nnot attack us because we have a Bill of Rights. He attacked us, as he himself\r\ndeclared, because we had invaded sacred Muslim lands. There is no justification\r\nfor Bin Laden's attacks on innocent Americans, but neither is there any\r\njustification for the United States to invade lands that do not belong to it, or\r\nthe bodies of persons it does not and cannot ever own.\r\n<\/p> Our\r\nbodies belong to us, not our government. There is no genuine power without\r\nconsent. Any power obtained through force is illegitimate and eventually\r\nrebounds back on those who apply it.\r\n<\/p> While\r\nin the short term, Bush might maintain \"order\" (a term hauntingly\r\nreminiscent of the Nazi aphorism \"Alles in Ordnung\") by forcing his\r\nwill and his way on the world, it will not last, and we Americans will be the\r\nones to suffer for his mistakes.\r\n<\/p> There\r\nis no replacement for the Bill of Rights or the Constitution of the United\r\nStates. Whatever \"garden of delights\" we have enjoyed will be forever\r\nlost.\r\n<\/p> -------\r\n<\/p> 1\r\n(Into the Garden of Delights, From Title) Grateful thanks to Joanna Rohrback for\r\nher assistance in researching and writing about this topic. A health advocate\r\nand activist in Broward County, Florida, Ms. Rohrback is a former social worker\r\nwith the Florida Health & Rehabilitative Services and has a Bachelor of\r\nHealth Services, specializing in Health Administration, from Florida Atlantic\r\nUniversity. She heads the Citizen's For Democracy group in Broward and has a\r\npatented fitness program called Prancercise(r). Her report on the MSEHPA\r\n(hereafter Rohrback Report) is available at: http:\/\/63.206.217.42\/jvb\/reff.ART\/Model_to_Monstrosity.doc\r\nor via email from me.\r\n<\/p> 2\r\nhttp:\/\/www.mercola.com\/2002\/dec\/28\/government_vaccines.htm; http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/paul\/paul66.html\r\n<\/p> 3\r\nBarnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc. 501 U.S. 560 (1991)<\/b>. The landmark case that\r\ndetermined that states retain full authority to legislate in any field and to\r\nachieve any objective, subject only to the limitations imposed in the\r\nConstitution itself is Gibbons v. Ogden<\/b>, 22 U.S. (9 Wheat.) 1 (1824).\r\nChief Justice John Marshall wrote that such powers included \"that immense\r\nmass of legislation, which embraces every thing within the territory of a state,\r\nnot surrendered to the general government; all of which can be most\r\nadvantageously exercised by the states themselves. Inspection laws, quarantine\r\nlaws<\/b>, health laws of every description, as well as laws for regulating the\r\ninternal commerce of a state ... are component parts of this mass.\" In\r\n1827, Marshall dubbed this power \"the police power.\" Brown v.\r\nMaryland<\/b>, 25 U.S. (12 Wheat.) 419. In 1878, the Supreme Court decided that\r\nthe states may not bargain away their police power to corporations. Boston\r\nBeer Co. v. Massachusetts<\/b>, 97 U.S. 25. But not every state law enacted in\r\nthe purported interests of public health, safety, welfare, and morals, is\r\nautomatically presumed to be Constitutional. Where a police power enactment\r\ninfringes on rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights, a federal court may strike\r\ndown a state law. U.S. v. Carolene Products Co., 304 U.S. 144 (1938)<\/b>.\r\nAdditionally, the General Welfare Clause (Article I, section 8 of the U.S.\r\nConstitution) empowers Congress to \"collect taxes ... to pay the debts and\r\nprovide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States.\"\r\nThis has traditionally been interpreted as a federal taxing power only, but also\r\npermitted the Supreme Court in 1937 to sustain the Social Security Act. Steward\r\nMachine Co. v. Davis, 301 U.S. 548<\/b>.\r\n<\/p> 4\r\nhttp:\/\/www.vaccinationnews.com\/Scandals\/Nov_22_02\/Scandal43.htm (All citations\r\nto Mintz are to this URL.)\r\n<\/p> 5\r\nRohrback Report, p. 4.\r\n<\/p> 6\r\nEmail from Joanna Rohrback to JVB, 26 December 2002.\r\n<\/p> 7\r\nwww.know-vaccines.org\/bioterror5.html\r\n<\/p> 8\r\nRohrback Report, pp. 1 & 2. See this Report for other examples.\r\n<\/p> 9\r\nwww.vaccinationnews.com\/DailyNews\/August2001\/ConflictInt&Vax.htm (cited in\r\nRohrback Report, p. 2-3).\r\n<\/p> 10\r\nLeonard G. Horowitz to ACIP-NVAC Smallpox Working Group, CDC, June 6, 2002,\r\nwww.wahale.to\/a\/horowitz.html. See also: www.tetrahedron.org.\r\n<\/p> 11\r\nhttp:\/\/www.vaclib.org\/news\/drmack.htm\r\n<\/p> 12\r\nwww.vaclib.org\/basic\/twenty.htm (citing a 1993 book or article titled\r\n\"Vaccination\" by Dr. Viera Scheibner)\r\n<\/p> 13\r\nwww.909shot.com\/Newsletters\/spsmallpox.htm; http:\/\/ohsr.od.nih.gov\/nuremberg.php3\r\n(cited in Rohrback Report, p. 8) (further quotes from NVIC are from the same)\r\n<\/p> 14\r\nwww.globe.com\/dailyglobe2\/352\/nation\/2_large_hospitals_refuse_smallpox_shots-.shtml\r\n<\/p> 15\r\nId.\r\n<\/p> 16\r\nInside the Pentagon, Elaine Grossman, Dec. 12, 2002. (Posted on elist without\r\nURL.)\r\n<\/p> -------\r\n<\/p> Jennifer\r\nVan Bergen is a contributing writer for truthout. She has a law degree from\r\nBenjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York, and is a faculty member of the\r\nNew School University in New York where she teaches in the writing program. ========<\/p>\r\n \r\n Mr. Repost's notes:<\/span><\/p>\r\n \r\n Panic\r\ngraphic credit here, not on Truthout; in keeping with the fact that\r\nwhile terrorism is real, a nation infused with fear is in fact congruent with\r\nthe interests of the ruling elite, and conducive to utter stupidity among the\r\nmasses<\/span><\/p>\r\n \"Concentration Camp\" photo\r\nfrom internet site dedicated to researching FEMA detainment camps. Unclear\r\non authenticity of photo. Photo used on many websites, including Arizona\r\nIndymedia, where the picture above is taken. In any event, the FEMA\r\nprogram is not in doubt, and much documentation exists in the public\r\ndomain. For a recent article to get you on your way for further research, click\r\nhere. Also, see this\r\npage on Rex-84.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/gif","summary":"My title above, not the author of the Truthout editorial below..... Creep toward fascism (or run?). Vaccinations in the context of civil liberties. The ultimate rebuttal to proponents of Small Pox: "While these doctors state that smallpox vaccinations are dangerous, they are also clear that the threat of bio-attacks is slim and that even if there is bio-attack, it can be readily contained and mass vaccinations thus are not justified."","numcomment":1,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2003\/01\/panic1.gif","filesize":"4.4 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2003\/01\/26180.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2003\/01\/panic1.gif"}},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":26187,"heading":"the big picture sucks","article":" original: http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/analysis_patterson_011403_disaster.html<\/p>\r\n
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