Orchestrating Health Crises
by Mitchel Cohen
Z magazine, January 2003
Under legislation submitted to states
throughout the U. S., medical providers will be required to administer
smallpox vaccines to the population whether people want them or
not. Doctors will also fill out forms enabling the federal government
to track those inoculated with smallpox vaccines.
According to the sample forms in the legislation,
there are four different experimental vaccines. With a declaration
of public health "emergency" the vaccines will be mandatory;
several types will be genetically engineered and previously untested
on human beings; and states will establish what amounts to internment
or quarantine camps for those who have contracted smallpox (either
through exposure, or by reaction to the vaccine) or who refuse
to allow themselves to be vaccinated.
New York's version, which is similar to
that introduced in legislatures across the country, establishes
a Public Health Authority that may "isolate or quarantine...any
person whose refusal of medical examination or testing results
in uncertainty regarding whether such person has been exposed
to or is infected with a contagious or possibly contagious disease,
or otherwise poses a danger to public health."
The Bill goes on to say: "The Public
Health Authority may isolate or quarantine-persons who are unable
or unwilling for reasons of health, religion, or conscience to
undergo vaccination-or treatment. "
The hysteria generated around orchestrated
"health emergencies" has now gone from West Nile virus
to anthrax to smallpox. In each case, more and more authoritarian
infrastructure has been established that, without the hysteria,
would have been much more strongly opposed by most people.
In September 1999, New York City began
indiscriminately spraying toxic pesticides over urban areas, supposedly
to prevent the spread of West Nile viral encephalitis. However,
if the Centers for Disease Control's own assessment is to be believed,
West Nile virus threatened very few people. Far more people have
already been made sick, some seriously, from the pesticides being
sprayed (see www.nospray.org).
The policy to spray over urban populations
and ecosystems is now being promoted nationally by the Office
of Homeland Security and other federal agencies for areas that
have not even had any indication of West Nile Virus. They assert
that this is a means for fighting bio-terrorism, an absurd rationalization
for giving away millions of taxpayer dollars to the pesticide
industry and giant pharmaceutical corporations. It has also turned
out to be an essential component in establishing a 1984-type surveillance
infrastructure, in the name of "health" and "fighting
bio-terrorism." Absurd as the rationalizations are, every
urban area is being told to spray pesticides on its population
and environment, whether or not the area has experienced a West
Nile viral outbreak-just as they are being ordered to mass-inoculate
the citizenry for smallpox.
The author of that policy is Jerome Hauer,
former head of the Office of Emergency Management in New York
City, which oversaw the entire pesticide spray program. After
a stint with Kroll Associates, Inc., as coordinator of security
for the World Trade Center at the time of the attacks in 2001,
Hauer, with long ties to the U.S. military's secret biological
warfare development programs, now heads the new federal Office
of Public Health Preparedness. This office was created in October
2001 to get these involuntary programs in place under the auspices
of developing and coordinating federal plans to counter bioterrorist
attacks and manage public health crises.
Hauer counts on the political assistance
of "America's Mayor" and soon-to-be presidential candidate
Rudy Giuliani, whose national speaking tour is underwritten by
pharmaceutical companies headed by Eli Lilly. Written into the
now-passed Homeland Security Act is specific language limiting
Eli Lilly's and other pharmaceutical companies' liability from
lawsuits brought against them from people suffering negative reactions
to vaccinations. The smallpox vaccines have in the past proven
to be among the most dangerous. The vaccine has caused relatively
high incidences of serious illness and death.
Hauer is also one of the key individuals
to be promoting model legislation known as the Emergency Health
Powers Act, which has been introduced into state legislatures
across the country and that calls for the establishment of quarantine
facilities for those who fall victim to smallpox and other diseases,
as well as for those who refuse to take the vaccinations prescribed
for them.
Meanwhile, the unquestioning acceptance
of all aspects of these viral epidemic theories is resulting in
restrictions of civil liberties far beyond the actual damage the
diseases cause. Necessary discussions -about whether the viral
theory is even correct and whether it is West Nile virus that
has caused the 8 deaths attributed to it in the New York area
over 3 years and around 50 deaths overall across the country are
being suppressed.
Mitchel Cohen is the editor of Green Politix,
the national newspaper of the Greens/Green Party USA, and is a
founder of the No Spray Coalition.
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