Like It or Not, Americans May Now Receive Forced Immunizations

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Like It or Not, Americans May Now Receive Forced Immunizations

The controversial Homeland Security Act was recently approved

by the Senate and President Bush. What does this mean for Americans? It

means

that, if one man deems it necessary, we can all now be forced to receive

immunizations -- no personal, religious or medical exemptions allowed -- and

refusing to accept them is punishable by fine and imprisonment. Moreover, as

it

stands the bill protects pharmaceutical companies from potential liability

in

vaccine-related injury lawsuits.

The bill was passed under the guise of necessity for

protecting the population from impending bio-terrorism threats, and with a

promise that the special interest conditions, such as the one relating to

pharmaceutical companies above, would be revised early next year.

The concern is that corporate interests are overwhelmingly

influencing legislation in an already turbulent, post-9/11 environment,

raising

the questions of whose interests homeland security is serving, and does it

leave the public to fend for themselves?

Vaccinations were already an unsettling topic, even before

the passing of this new bill, with one of the most disconcerting aspects

being

the association of autism with pediatric vaccinations. The number of cases

of

autism in the U.S. tripled in the 90s, around the same time researchers

discovered that Thimerosal, a preservative found in many infant vaccines,

contained levels of mercury that were above those allowed by Environmental

Protection Agency guidelines.

Though the vaccines contained enough toxic mercury to cause

neural damage in children, many medical practitioners denied the

association.

However, in 1999 the FDA recommended that Thimerosal be removed from vaccine

formulas, which raised doubts about the vaccines¹ safety and created some

public and political support against pharmaceutical companies.

The recent bill makes it so that victims of mercury

poisoning, Gulf War Syndrome, cancers and the other slew of illnesses

potentially linked to vaccinations will have no legal recourse against the

pharmaceutical companies that produced the vaccines.

A related bill that also potentially limited the freedom of

Americans, the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act (MEHPA), was passed

in

December 2001. This law gave state legislatures the right to vaccinate

people,

enforce quarantines, seize and destroy property without any compensation and

ration medical supplies, food and fuel in emergency situations.

As of July 2002, 22 states have rejected or stalled the law

while 16 states and the District of Columbia have passed all or parts of it.

In

states where the law was passed, citizens will be charged with a crime if

they

refuse vaccinations.

The new Homeland Security Act takes the choice of whether

vaccinations are beneficial or harmful away from the individual. This

violation

of freedom takes away our right to decide what is best for our own bodies

and

leaves it in the hands of the federal government, and the special interest

groups that potentially control it.

GuerillaNews.Com November 20, 2002