CODE RED alert - U.S. Senate Bill Broadly Eliminates Liability For Vaccines And Drugs

October 21, 2005

- Chris Gupta

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Wednesday, October 19, 2005 10:53 PM

CODE RED alert - U.S. Senate Bill Broadly Eliminates Liability For Vaccines And Drugs

...."The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is calling the "Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of 2005"(S. 1873), which passed out of the U.S. Senate HELP Committee one day after it was introduced "a drug company stockholder's dream and a consumer's worst nightmare." The proposed legislation will strip Americans of the right to a trial by jury if harmed by an experimental or licensed drug or vaccine that they are forced by government to take whenever federal health officials declare a public health emergency......"true partnership" between the federal government, the pharmaceutical industry and academia to walk the drug companies... ....will operate in secret, exempt from the Freedom of Information Act and the Federal Advisory Committee Act, insuring that no evidence of injuries or deaths caused by drugs and vaccines labeled as "countermeasures" will become public"...Here is a perfect example of how supposedly democratic decisions are made by governments. Who in their right minds should even consider this let alone develop this blatant piece of legislation? Unless there is collusion with the industry. It is, yet again, sad to see another government usurped by the industry the very industry it pretends to regulate to protect the citizens.Only a corrupt government in the face of injuries from Vioxx, and anti-depressants etc. could dream up such a scheme for their cronies.If vaccines and drugs are so safe then why this?Please take action as per below.Thanks,Chris Guptahttp://tinyurl.com/7vwvs--------------E-NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL VACCINE INFORMATION CENTER Vienna, Virginia =========================================================================================NVIC Note: Yesterday we witnessed the Senate HELP Committee pass this bill out of sub-committee. It is critical that you take action today-immediately. This bill will go back to the committee for a final review on Thursday-October 20, 2005 and then go to the full Senate for a vote. Being led by Republican Richard Burr (R-NC) and being spurred by fears of avian flu, this bill was written and passed out of committee in a 24 hour period. Most members did not even have the final language in front of them. The version that passed will broadly eliminate liability for vaccines and drugs. Please read the press release, write to the members of the HELP committee, write to your own Senator and your own member of Congress. Pass this alert to your family, friends and other organizations you are involved with. Go to our website and take action right now! www.NVIC.org Don't wait for someone else to do it. This is a CODE RED alert to anyone who is concerned about forced vaccination and holding drug companies responsible for the products they create. WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is calling the "Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of 2005"(S. 1873), which passed out of the U.S. Senate HELP Committee one day after it was introduced "a drug company stockholder's dream and a consumer's worst nightmare." The proposed legislation will strip Americans of the right to a trial by jury if harmed by an experimental or licensed drug or vaccine that they are forced by government to take whenever federal health officials declare a public health emergency. The legislation's architect, Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), Chairman of the HELP Subcommittee on Bioterrorism and Public Health Preparedness, told the full HELP Committee yesterday that the legislation "creates a true partnership" between the federal government, the pharmaceutical industry and academia to walk the drug companies "through the Valley of Death" in bringing a new vaccine or drug to market. Burr said it will give the Department of Health and Human Services "additional authority and resources to partner with the private sector to rapidly develop drugs and vaccines." The Burr bill gives the Secretary of DHHS the sole authority to decide whether a manufacturer violated laws mandating drug safety and bans citizens from challenging his decision in the civil court system. The bill establishes the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency (BARDA), as the single point of authority within the government for the advanced research and development of drugs and vaccines in response to bioterrorism and natural disease outbreaks such as the flu. BARDA will operate in secret, exempt from the Freedom of Information Act and the Federal Advisory Committee Act, insuring that no evidence of injuries or deaths caused by drugs and vaccines labeled as "countermeasures" will become public. Nicknamed "Bioshield Two," the legislation is being pushed rapidly through Congress without time for voters to make their voices heard by their elected representatives. Co-sponsored by Republican Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN), Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY), and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Judd Gregg (R-NH), the legislation will eliminate both regulatory and legal safeguards applied to vaccines as well as take away the right of children and adults harmed by vaccines and drugs to present their case in front of a jury in a civil court of law. "It is a sad day for this nation when Congress is frightened and bullied into allowing one profit making industry to destroy the seventh Amendment to the Constitution guaranteeing citizens their day in court in front of a jury of their peers," said Barbara Loe Fisher, president of NVIC. "This proposed legislation, like the power and money grab by federal health officials and industry in the Homeland Security Act of 2002 and the Project Bioshield Act of 2004, is an unconstitutional attempt by some in Congress to give a taxpayer- funded handout to pharmaceutical companies for drugs and vaccines the government can force all citizens to use while absolving everyone connected from any responsibility for injuries and deaths which occur. It means that, if an American is injured by an experimental flu or anthrax vaccine he or she is mandated to take, that citizen will be banned from exercising the Constitutional right to a jury trial even if it is revealed that the vaccine maker engaged in criminal fraud and negligence in the manufacture of the vaccine." The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is legally responsible for regulating the pharmaceutical industry and ensuring that drugs and vaccines released to the public are safe and effective. Drug companies marketing painkillers, like Vioxx, and anti-depressants, which have resulted in the deaths and injuries of thousands of children and adults, are being held accountable in civil court while the FDA has come under intense criticism for withholding information about the drugs' dangers from the public. Since 1986, vaccine makers have been protected from most liability in civil court through the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act in which Congress created a federal vaccine injury compensation program (VICP) that offers vaccine victims an alternative to the court system. Even though the program has awarded nearly $2 billion to victims of mandated vaccines, two out of three plaintiffs are turned away. "The drug companies and doctors got all the liability protection they needed in 1986 but they are greedy and want more," said Fisher. "And the federal health agencies want more power to force citizens to use vaccines without having to worry about properly regulating them. If the Burr bill passes, all economic incentives to insure mandated vaccines are safe will be removed and the American people are facing a future where government can force them to take poorly regulated experimental drugs and vaccines labeled as "countermeasures" or go to jail. The only recourse for citizens will be to strike down mandatory vaccination laws so vaccines will be subject to the law of supply and demand in the marketplace. The health care consumer's cry will be: No liability? No mandates." The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) was founded by parents of vaccine injured children in 1982 and co-founders worked with Congress on the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986. For more information, go to http://www.nvic.org./ SOURCE National Vaccine Information Center Web Site: http://www.nvic.org Kathi Williams National Vaccine Information Center 421 Church St., Suite E Vienna, Va 22180 703-938-DPT3 www.NVIC.org =============================================News is a free service of the National Vaccine Information Center and is supported through membership donations. Learn more about vaccines, diseases and how to protect your informed consent rights http://www.nvic.org Become a member and support NVIC's work https://www.nvic.org/making%20cash%20donations.htm To sign up for a free e-mail subscription http://www.nvic.org/emaillist.htm NVIC is funded through individual membership donations and does not receive government funding. Barbara Loe Fisher, President and Co-founder.

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October 21, 2005

CODE RED alert - U.S. Senate Bill Broadly Eliminates Liability For Vaccines And

Drugs

.... " The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is calling the " Biodefense

and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of 2005 " (S. 1873), which passed

out of the U.S. Senate HELP Committee one day after it was introduced " a drug

company stockholder's dream and a consumer's worst nightmare. " The proposed

legislation will strip Americans of the right to a trial by jury if harmed by an

experimental or licensed drug or vaccine that they are forced by government to

take whenever federal health officials declare a public health emergency...

.... " true partnership " between the federal government, the pharmaceutical

industry and academia to walk the drug companies...

.....will operate in secret, exempt from the Freedom of Information Act and the

Federal Advisory Committee Act, insuring that no evidence of injuries or deaths

caused by drugs and vaccines labeled as " countermeasures " will become public " ...

Here is a perfect example of how supposedly democratic decisions are made by

governments. Who in their right minds should even consider this let alone

develop this blatant piece of legislation? Unless there is collusion with the

industry. It is, yet again, sad to see another government usurped by the

industry the very industry it pretends to regulate to protect the citizens.

Only a corrupt government in the face of injuries from Vioxx, and

anti-depressants etc. could dream up such a scheme for their cronies.

If vaccines and drugs are so safe then why this?

Please take action as per below.

Thanks,

Chris Gupta

http://tinyurl.com/7vwvs

--------------

E-NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL VACCINE INFORMATION CENTER Vienna, Virginia

================================================================================\

=========

NVIC Note: Yesterday we witnessed the Senate HELP Committee pass this bill out

of sub-committee. It is critical that you take action today-immediately. This

bill will go back to the committee for a final review on Thursday-October 20,

2005 and then go to the full Senate for a vote. Being led by Republican Richard

Burr (R-NC) and being spurred by fears of avian flu, this bill was written and

passed out of committee in a 24 hour period. Most members did not even have the

final language in front of them.

The version that passed will broadly eliminate liability for vaccines and drugs.

Please read the press release, write to the members of the HELP committee, write

to your own Senator and your own member of Congress. Pass this alert to your

family, friends and other organizations you are involved with. Go to our website

and take action right now! www.NVIC.org Don't wait for someone else to do it.

This is a CODE RED alert to anyone who is concerned about forced vaccination and

holding drug companies responsible for the products they create.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Vaccine Information Center

(NVIC) is calling the " Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act

of 2005 " (S. 1873), which passed out of the U.S. Senate HELP Committee one day

after it was introduced " a drug company stockholder's dream and a consumer's

worst nightmare. " The proposed legislation will strip Americans of the right to

a trial by jury if harmed by an experimental or licensed drug or vaccine that

they are forced by government to take whenever federal health officials declare

a public health emergency. The legislation's architect, Senator Richard Burr

(R-NC), Chairman of the HELP Subcommittee on Bioterrorism and Public Health

Preparedness, told the full HELP Committee yesterday that the legislation

" creates a true partnership " between the federal government, the pharmaceutical

industry and academia to walk the drug companies " through the Valley of Death "

in bringing a new vaccine or drug to market. Burr said it will give the

Department of Health and Human Services " additional authority and resources to

partner with the private sector to rapidly develop drugs and vaccines. " The Burr

bill gives the Secretary of DHHS the sole authority to decide whether a

manufacturer violated laws mandating drug safety and bans citizens from

challenging his decision in the civil court system. The bill establishes the

Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency (BARDA), as the single point

of authority within the government for the advanced research and development of

drugs and vaccines in response to bioterrorism and natural disease outbreaks

such as the flu. BARDA will operate in secret, exempt from the Freedom of

Information Act and the Federal Advisory Committee Act, insuring that no

evidence of injuries or deaths caused by drugs and vaccines labeled as

" countermeasures " will become public. Nicknamed " Bioshield Two, " the legislation

is being pushed rapidly through Congress without time for voters to make their

voices heard by their elected representatives. Co-sponsored by Republican Senate

Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN), Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions

Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY), and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Judd

Gregg (R-NH), the legislation will eliminate both regulatory and legal

safeguards applied to vaccines as well as take away the right of children and

adults harmed by vaccines and drugs to present their case in front of a jury in

a civil court of law. " It is a sad day for this nation when Congress is

frightened and bullied into allowing one profit making industry to destroy the

seventh Amendment to the Constitution guaranteeing citizens their day in court

in front of a jury of their peers, " said Barbara Loe Fisher, president of NVIC.

" This proposed legislation, like the power and money grab by federal health

officials and industry in the Homeland Security Act of 2002 and the Project

Bioshield Act of 2004, is an unconstitutional attempt by some in Congress to

give a taxpayer- funded handout to pharmaceutical companies for drugs and

vaccines the government can force all citizens to use while absolving everyone

connected from any responsibility for injuries and deaths which occur. It means

that, if an American is injured by an experimental flu or anthrax vaccine he or

she is mandated to take, that citizen will be banned from exercising the

Constitutional right to a jury trial even if it is revealed that the vaccine

maker engaged in criminal fraud and negligence in the manufacture of the

vaccine. " The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is legally responsible

for regulating the pharmaceutical industry and ensuring that drugs and vaccines

released to the public are safe and effective. Drug companies marketing

painkillers, like Vioxx, and anti-depressants, which have resulted in the deaths

and injuries of thousands of children and adults, are being held accountable in

civil court while the FDA has come under intense criticism for withholding

information about the drugs' dangers from the public. Since 1986, vaccine makers

have been protected from most liability in civil court through the National

Childhood Vaccine Injury Act in which Congress created a federal vaccine injury

compensation program (VICP) that offers vaccine victims an alternative to the

court system. Even though the program has awarded nearly $2 billion to victims

of mandated vaccines, two out of three plaintiffs are turned away. " The drug

companies and doctors got all the liability protection they needed in 1986 but

they are greedy and want more, " said Fisher. " And the federal health agencies

want more power to force citizens to use vaccines without having to worry about

properly regulating them. If the Burr bill passes, all economic incentives to

insure mandated vaccines are safe will be removed and the American people are

facing a future where government can force them to take poorly regulated

experimental drugs and vaccines labeled as " countermeasures " or go to jail. The

only recourse for citizens will be to strike down mandatory vaccination laws so

vaccines will be subject to the law of supply and demand in the marketplace. The

health care consumer's cry will be: No liability? No mandates. "

The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) was founded by parents of vaccine

injured children in 1982 and co-founders worked with Congress on the National

Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986. For more information, go to

http://www.nvic.org./

SOURCE National Vaccine Information Center Web Site: http://www.nvic.org

Kathi Williams National Vaccine Information Center

421 Church St., Suite E Vienna, Va 22180

703-938-DPT3 www.NVIC.org

=============================================

News is a free service of the National Vaccine Information Center and

is supported through membership donations. Learn more about vaccines, diseases

and how to protect your informed consent rights http://www.nvic.org

Become a member and support NVIC's work

https://www.nvic.org/making%20cash%20donations.htm

To sign up for a free e-mail subscription http://www.nvic.org/emaillist.htm

NVIC is funded through individual membership donations and does not receive

government funding. Barbara Loe Fisher, President and Co-founder.

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October 21, 2005

Wednesday, October 19, 2005 10:53 PM

CODE RED alert - U.S. Senate Bill Broadly Eliminates Liability For

Vaccines And Drugs