Say NO to forced vaccinations and other civil liberties violations

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Doctors: Bill allows forced vaccinationsPhysicians' group decries legislation establishing new Cabinet agencyBy Jon DoughertySaturday, November 16, 2002A physicians' group is among a growing number of critics imploring the Senate to scrap portions of a proposed homeland security bill they say will seriously undermine civil liberties and grant the federal government unprecedented and unconstitutional power.The American Association of Physicians and Surgeons said yesterday that one section of the legislation would allow the head of the Health and Human Services department to order Americans to receive potentially deadly smallpox vaccines against their will.The bill gives "the HHS secretary virtually unlimited powers to declare an emergency and order smallpox treatment that could include forced immunizations, detainment and quarantines," said AAPS.The 480-page bill passed the House Wednesday night on a 299-121 vote and is currently on the fast track to Senate passage. But as more details of the bill become known, the number of critics who oppose all or part of it also increase, including members of both parties as well as liberal and conservative analysts.New York Times columnist William Safire, in an editorial Thursday entitled, "You Are a Suspect," attacked the entire measure, claiming a provision in the bill that establishes a broad Defense Department-administered database of information on every American is akin to author George Orwell's book "1984.""To this computerized dossier on your private life from commercial sources, add every piece of information that government has about you passport application, driver's license and bridge toll records, judicial and divorce records, complaints from nosy neighbors to the FBI, your lifetime paper trail plus the latest hidden camera surveillance and you have the supersnoop's dream: a 'Total Information Awareness' about every U.S. citizen," Safire wrote.Called the Defense Department's Total Information Awareness program, it would be administered by a totally new department called the Security Advanced Research Projects Agency.AAPS said the dubious medical emergency language is contained in Section 304, titled, "Administration of Counter Measures Against Smallpox."The bill gives HHS authority to declare an actual or potential bio-terrorist incident while giving the secretary the power to "administer 'countermeasures'" like forced immunizations to "a category of individuals or everyone." Also, the bill gives HHS the power to "continually extend" the emergency declaration indefinitely, without Congress' consent."Also, if you are harmed" by the countermeasures, "you cannot sue or take any other civil remedy," AAPS said."This section will give the [HHS] secretary unlimited power to define a real or potential threat, to take any measures he decides and to do it for as long as he wants," said Kathryn Serkes, a spokeswoman for the group. "It's 'Alice in Wonderland' time again an emergency is just what [the secretary] says it is."Some lawmakers are also alarmed at the scope of the bill.The legislation "gives the federal government new powers and increases federal expenditures, completely contradicting what members were told about the bill," said Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, on the House floor before the vote Wednesday."Furthermore," he continued, "these new power grabs are being rushed through Congress without giving members the ability to debate, or even properly study, this proposal."I must oppose this bill and urge my colleagues to do the same," he said.Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., also opposes the legislation."We're making a huge mistake passing the bill at this time," he said Thursday. "There has not been a single hearing" on its contents.Expressing concern about the manner in which the bill was being fast-tracked, Byrd added: "If necessity is the mother of invention, then politics is the mother of bureaucracy."Other problems with the bill, AAPS says, "include centralized database provisions, airport security, unchecked power to Cabinet officials, extent of the new bureaucracy, concentration of power in the Executive Branch, suspension of the rule that prohibits secret advisory committee meetings, limited public access to information and failure to address border security and immigration issues, such as [the] tracking of foreign students."Serkes said the provision dealing with HHS reminds her of similar emergency legislation directed at empowering governors.The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act, WorldNetDaily reported in January, gives governors the power to order the collection of all data and records on citizens, ban firearms, take control of private property and quarantine entire cities, under the auspices of protecting "the health and safety of citizens from epidemics and bioterrorism," according to one analysis.The version of the bill either under consideration or adopted by the majority of states thus far was drafted in October 2001, just a month after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, by The Center for Law and the Public's Health at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins Universities, in collaboration with several other organizations."Just remove 'governor' from the old bill and insert 'secretary' and magically you have a federal bill that was firmly rejected by voters across the country," said Serkes.Of the homeland security measure, Serkes added: "We need an honest accounting of how this will work. It's too frightening to allow it to be rammed through."In response to some of the concerns, Senate Democrats are proposing amendments to the bill that would eliminate the liability protections in the House version for vaccine makers. The White House says it supports the amendments to an extent.White House spokesman Scott McClellan said yesterday there are provisions in the bill that "still allow people the right to compensation or the right to sue if they believe they've been harmed by the use of a particular vaccine." But, he said, the provisions "only require that individuals seeking compensation begin by seeking resolution through the Vaccine Injury and Compensation Program.""If an individual is not satisfied with the award that is offered through that system, then they always have the right to proceed and sue the manufacturer," he said. "But, in short, the vaccine manufacturers will still be subject to liability. We just want to close loopholes, where people can circumvent that process."http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29682

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Save Your Vaccination Rights: Tell Your Senators to Vote NO to Homeland Security Bill!

 

 

 

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If you:

 

 

Value your right to refuse vaccinations based on religious, medical or personal reasons

 

Do not want to allow the government to let Eli Lily off the hook for thimerosal-based vaccine-induced injuries and deaths

 

Want to maintain certain rights and freedoms if you are put into quarantine by the government

 

Then I urge you to email or phone your two U.S. Senators today and tell them to vote AGAINST the current Homeland Security Bill they are about to vote on!

 

Also, please use the feature in the upper-right corner of this page to pass this request on to everyone you know and ask them to do the same.

 

As long-time readers of the Mercola.com newsletter know, it is only in the most important situations related to health that I ask you to take such direct and immediate action. Telling your Senators to vote NO to the Homeland Security Bill certainly qualifies as important, and heres why:

 

In the Homeland Security Bill (see Title III, section 304 (start at page 74) of HR 5710), certain pork provisions added by certain politicians with special interests, often without any public/media awareness at all was inserted late in the bills life, and apparently without the knowledge of many members of the House of Representatives who already passed the bill on November 13.

 

One such piece of pork would give the Secretary of the HHS the authority to call for universal smallpox vaccination and other smallpox interventions with absolutely NO personal, NO religious and NO medical exemptions allowed! Youll also find by reading Title III, section 304 of the bill that there are NO guarantees for humane quarantine laws.

 

Yet another sneaky insertion into this bill would allow the pharmaceutical manufacturer Eli Lily to go scot-free regarding any injuries and deaths caused by their thimerosal-based vaccines... vaccines that contain mercury, in other words, and are likely at least partly responsible for the epidemic rise in autism, Alzheimers and other neurological disorders. Obviously a politician who thought this was a clever way to covertly pass his or her deal with a lobbyist added this rotten piece of pork; it has nothing to do with our nations security, except to cause us more harm.

 

Again, please contact your two U.S. senators click here to find your Senators contact information -- and tell them to vote against the current Homeland Security Bill, HR 5710, for the reasons stated above. If nothing more, write Vote NO to Current Homeland Security Bill, HR 5710 in an email subject line, cut and paste this article into the body of an email, and above it write As a resident of your state, I urge you to vote NO to the current Homeland Security Bill, HR 5710, for the following reasons: and then email it to your Senators.

 

The group PROVE (Parents Requesting Open Vaccine Education) was the first to inform me of this frightening pork in the Homeland Security Bill, and along with The Connecticut Vaccine Information Alliance (CTVIA), they have created a list of proposed amendments to HR 5710 that you can also forward to your Senators if you agree with these amendments.

 

If you do not agree with all of these amendments, you can forward those you do agree with to your Senators, or just contact your Senators and tell them NO to the current Homeland Security Bill because you:

 

 

 

Value your right to refuse vaccinations based on religious, medical or personal reasons

 

 

Do not want to allow the government to let Eli Lily off the hook for thimerosal-based vaccine-induced injuries and deaths

 

Want to maintain certain rights and freedoms if you are put into quarantine by the government

 

 

The proposed PROVE and CTVIA amendments are as follows:

 

 

H.R. 5710-Homeland Security Act

 

PROPOSED AMENDMENT 1:

 

SEC. 304. CONDUCT OF CERTAIN PUBLIC HEALTH-RELATED ACTIVITIES.

 

Insert:

 

(d) EXEMPTIONS FOR COUNTERMEASURES FOR CHEMICAL, BIOLOGICAL, RADIOLOGICAL, NUCLEAR AND OTHER EMERGING TERRORIST THREATS.

 

 

1. No citizen shall be forced to be vaccinated or receive medical treatments contrary to their own physician's or other health care provider's individual professional judgment.

2. No citizen shall be forced to be vaccinated or receive medical treatment contrary to their personal religious beliefs or practices.

3. No citizen shall be forced to be vaccinated or receive medical treatments that violate the judgment of the person's conscience.

4. Health care personnel shall not be forced to carry out orders contrary to the health care provider's conscientious beliefs.

5. A vaccine or medical treatment shall not be administered to any adult or child without the voluntary informed consent of the adult, the custodial parent or legal guardian of the minor child or ward, or the conservator of the individual to be vaccinated or medically treated.

 

(e) QUARANTINE OR ISOLATION IN RESPONSE TO CHEMICAL,BIOLOGICAL, RADIOLOGICAL, NUCLEAR AND OTHER EMERGING TERRORIST THREATS.

 

When a public health emergency has been declared relating to a communicable disease;

 

1. Citizens identified as being infected with the declared disease may be subjected to humane quarantine in order to prevent the spreading of disease.

2. Citizens identified as being exposed to the declared disease who claim a medical, religious, or conscientious exemption to vaccination or medical treatment may be subjected to humane quarantine for the duration of the incubation period of the disease in order to prevent the spreading of disease. Such citizens shall not be involuntarily quarantined with those who are infected or contagious.

3. Citizens claiming a medical, religious, or conscientious exemption who have not been identified as being exposed shall not be involuntarily quarantined.

4. Individuals or family members who regularly live together or where one person regularly provides essential support for another shall be permitted to stay together in either quarantine or isolation.

5. Custodial parents, legal guardians, or conservators of minor children, wards, or conservatees who may be quarantined or isolated shall be allowed to remain with their minor children, wards, or conservatees in quarantine or isolation.

6. Quarantine and isolation must be by the least restrictive means necessary to prevent the spread of a communicable disease to others and may include, but are not limited to, confinement to private homes.

 

PROPOSED AMENDMENT 2:

 

Strike SEC. 1714. CLARIFICATION OF DEFINITION OF MANUFACTURER.

Strike SEC. 1715. CLARIFICATION OF DEFINITION OF VACCINE-RELATED INJURY OR DEATH.

Strike SEC. 1716. CLARIFICATION OF DEFINITION OF VACCINE.

Strike SEC. 1717. EFFECTIVE DATE.

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Thank you for posting this Helen. Truly frightening. It doesn't

look to me like lawmakers are "alarmed" at the scope of the bill, when

they're passing it by such a huge margin. It's never been more clear

that our government's priorities are (in order of importance): 1) Expanding

its own power, 2) Increasing corporate profits, 3) Protecting citizens.

This bill is a boon for lawmakers who favor #1 and #2. Unfortunately,

Americans will buy congress's claim that #3 is being served above all,

because most still believe that vaccinations are beneficial. In reality,

if this bill becomes law, Americans will be poisoned, government power

will be expanded, and pharmaceutical profits will increase. We lose

all the way around.

Nora