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| The art of social control is an ancient one. If you're in
the rich and powerful class, how do you keep the rabble down? Throughout
history, fear has been the most effective tactic. Stir up your subjects
with a good scare, make them feel threatened in their very homes if possible,
and then offer them protection. The price? A little less freedom. And then
a little less, and a little less... But they'll feel safe! The only thing
that changes from era to era and culture to culture is the name given to
the monster under the bed. |
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Since September 11, that monster has had an Arab face. Picking monsters with brown skin is an old favorite of the U.S. elite. It's shameful that it still works. We've gotten one breathless update after another about where it might be and what "we" will have to do to defend ourselves while "we" hunt it down to kill it. And it could take a while, folks! Maybe the rest of our lives. In the mean time, we have to give up the freedoms we are allegedly safeguarding and not make a peep about it. "If you're not with us, you're with the terrorists." But wait, there's more! Those crazy terrorists will attack again!, the
government tells us. At any moment now! Or maybe not for a year or two...
But they will! And this next time, they might use bioterrorism: more anthrax
in the mail, or poison in the resevoirs, or... small pox. Small pox? Hasn't
that been a dead disease for over twenty years? Yes, no one has gotten
it since 1977, but it's still out there, in government laboratories, and
it could be stolen and sprung out on a hapless population without warning.
What do we do now? Why, vaccinate the whole population against it. What's
that, you say? Vaccinations have never actually been proven to stop a
specific disease, and in some cases cause outbreaks, immune-deficiency
problems, and sudden infant death syndrome? You crazy kook. You must be
readin' books by crazy furners or be a rightwingnut. |
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Currently, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) does not recommend using smallpox vaccines on members of the general public, but in the wake of September 11, is now considering a reversal of that policy. According to a CDC press release, the agency will be holding forums from June 6-11 in San Francisco, San Antonio, New York City, and St. Louis to garner comments from the public on the topic. Anti-vaccination activists are encouraging people to attend these forums and express their disagreement with the proposed change. In the same press release, CDC reveals that "by the end of this year or early 2003, DHHS [the Department of Health and Human Services] expects to have a stockpile of 286 million doses of smallpox vaccine-enough to protect every United States citizen, if needed." If you're against vaccination for whatever reason, why not just say "no" when the CDC comes knockin' on your door? Why fight them on this now? Because you might be forced to receive a vaccination when the time comes. A new piece of legislation called the Model Emergency Health Powers Act is being introduced to state legislatures across the country, and under its provisions, the governor of your state could order you to be vaccinated and imprison or fine you if you refused. Unconvinced? Want to know more? Read on....
CDC Smallpox Public Forums - their purpose: According to a May
30 media advisory, CDC "is hosting four public forums to provide
health professionals and the general public with information about smallpox
and smallpox vaccine, and to solicit comments on the use of smallpox vaccine
before and after a potential smallpox outbreak or bioterroist attack."
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"CDC and the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) have asked the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and the National Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC) to review the current U.S. smallpox vaccine recommendations. These two groups advise the CDC and DHHS on vaccine use and policies." "The last natural case of smallpox occurred in 1977. The ACIP currently
recommends that only scientists and laboratory personnel who work with
viruses related to smallpox be vaccinated with smallpox vaccine. The
ACIP does not currently recommend that any other people, including members
of the general public, be vaccinated prior to a confirmed case of smallpox.
By the end of this year or early 2003, DHHS expects to have a stockpile
of 286 million doses of smallpox vaccine-enough to protect every United
States citizen, if needed." [my emphasis] |
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"The ACIP-NVAC Smallpox Working Group review primarily involves three questions:
Whether or not smallpox vaccinations ever had positive effects is an open question. According to research: "The public is now getting lots of medical propaganda about the eradication of smallpox through vaccination. But in fact, the consensus among leading medical historians that have studied the question have maintained that the eradication of the zymotic, or 'filth' diseases, like cholera, dysentery, typhus, plague, in the past that are popularly attributed to mass vaccination campaigns, had actually been due to improvements in diet, hygiene, sanitary measures, non-medical public health laws, and to a host of new non-medical technologies, like refrigeration, faster transportation, removing horse manure from cities, and the like."
Concerns about vaccination - "Have we traded mumps
and measles for cancer and leukemia?" |
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Many people, including scientists and doctors, are concerned about the dangers of vaccinating people, especially children. For example, Robert Mendelsohn, M.D. writes: There is growing suspicion that immunization against relatively harmless childhood diseases may be responsible for the dramatic increase in auto-immune diseases since mass inoculations were introduced. These are fearful diseases such as cancer, leukemia. rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, Lou Gehrig's disease, lupus erythematosus, and the Guillain-Barre syndrome. An autoimmune disease can be explained simply as one in which the body's defense mechanisms cannot distinguish between foreign invaders and ordinary body tissues, with the consequence that the body begins to destroy itself. Have we traded mumps and measles for cancer and leukemia? |
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The Rev. Alan Phillips, Director of Citizens for Healthcare Freedom, in his "Dispelling Vaccination Myths: An Introduction to the Contradictions Between Medical Science and Immunization Policy", writes: Health authorities credit vaccines for disease declines, and assure us of their safety and effectiveness. Yet these assumptions are directly contradicted by government statistics, published medical studies, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports, and the opinions of credible research scientists from around the world. In fact, infectious diseases declined steadily for decades prior to mass immunizations, doctors in the U.S. report thousands of serious vaccine reactions each year including hundreds of deaths and permanent disabilities, fully vaccinated populations have experienced epidemics, and researchers attribute dozens of chronic immunological and neurological diseases that have risen dramatically in recent decades to mass immunization campaigns. And just in time, too. 'Cause here comes the Model Emergency Health Powers Act...
The dangers posed by the Model Emergency Health Powers Act The Model
Emergency Health Powers Act [PDF] (MEHPA) was
released
on October 30, 2001, shortly after the attacks of September 11. MEHPA
has been presented as a response to those attacks that attempts to safeguard
public health and safety in case of bioterrorism attacks against the United
States. The act would do this by granting enormous powers to state governors
to declare emergencies, force people to have medical exams, force individuals
to be vaccinated, treated or quarantined, and mobilize state militias
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Opposition to the MEHPA has emerged across the political spectrum, on the Right among anti-big gummit folks, and on the Left by the American Civil Liberties Union and by those advocating for natural living and against the chemical abuses of allopathic medicine. The Association
of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) is one organization that
has taken a
strong stance against MEHPA, and believes that "it is likely that
HHS [Department of Health and Human Services] will tie passage of the
Act to billions of dollars in federal funding: the usual method of bribery/coercion
to get States to pass legislation that would otherwise never be considered."
With former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson heading HHS, that's a distinct
possibility. Currently, the Act has been or will be introduced to a majority
of state legislatures around the country. |
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Tying it all together - a call to action With the CDC moving to allow smallpox vaccinations to be used on the general population, and with MEHPA a possible reality, we are living in very frightening times. The government has all but promised us another terrorist attack, possibly of a biochemical nature, at some point in the future. Taking advantage of the fear that would result, governors could use MEHPA to turn their states into little militarized zones. Social control through a "medical emergency". In some ways, this is worse than the USA PATRIOT Act: with MEHPA the corporate-government powers could take not only your freedom but your health. Naturally, the pharmaceutical industry stands to make a killing in a future where vaccinations or medications can be force-prescribed onto entire populations at once. Big Pharm pours lots of money into political campaigns to buy their influence -- millions and millions of dollars of it. What can I do?
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CDC Smallpox Public Forums - Where and when they will be held: Thursday, June 6, 2002 San Francisco, California Saturday, June 8, 2002 Tuesday, June 11, 2002
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No I, nor my sons, nor my daughter!!!!!Not us!!!!!!
Will it come from the same labs that can not get its anthrax products through quality control, but gets them to the army and collects its fees?
Will it come from the vats where ebola pox (ignore the man-it does not exist) was brewed,?
Or will it contain traces of the mouse pox, which after one small ( 'insignificant') gene manipulation was found to be nearly 100% fatal?
Or maybe they have a new and improved vat.
With your name and number on it.
Roll up your sleeve...citizen...
It's for your own good .
What you dont trust U.S. ?
None of the criticisms of vaccination are factual or well-founded.
Vaccines work and are greatly beneficial. This article is based on nothing but dangerous pseudoscience and quackery. Stuff like quotes from "The hygienic care of children" I expected to read in Nazi literature and not in an Indymedia feature.
Immunity is real, why doesn't the esteemed author try to live without his immune cells for a while?
Sensationalist trash reporting like this is distracting from the governments real motivations and goals.
Unfortunately for the author and the editors of SF Indymedia there is no vaccine against stupidity, yet.
But he and I and his brothers and friends all are of the same mind. Angry misfits arent going to remove that which our fathers and fathers fathers have died to construct and sustain for hundreds of years.
You are by your own definition the mud on my fenders. Water hose and stiff brush and you dont even exist.
Dont get all huffy about the Art Bell comparison. It was my understanding you two were very close. I guess I'm wrong about that. You must admit you two are very similar characters. Always looking away from reality to make your lives more interesting.
By all means, be skeptical about vaccinations. By all means, question *any* kind of healthcare policy which appears to be exploiting the current political climate (i.e. just have a look at who in our government is tied to firms currently producing smallpox vaccines) for the good of the few.
However, I really do think the jury is out on the usefulness of vaccines. There are a number of tricks used by the writers of these articles that you all should be aware of. One is to note that, in an epidemic, vaccinees often outnumber those that are not vaccinated. This is true. However, this does not support the conclusion that vaccines are therefore inneffective. The reasons for this are as follows:
i) Those vaccinated vastly outnumber those that aren't
ii) No vaccine is 100% effective (like most things in life)
If you compare numbers in a different way (like, for example, looking at the PERCENTAGE of infectees between the vaccinnees and not vaccinateds, you can always see that on average, vaccination will afford greater protection.
There is also a complete inaccuracy in the "Dispelling Vaccination Myths: An Introduction to the Contradictions Between Medical Science and Immunization Policy" article. The risk of dying from pertussis (whooping cough) is not one in several million. Recently, it has been as high as 2.9/100,000 (0.0029%). The adverse effects which the Rev. Phillips talk about certainly sound unpleasant (convultions) which his child has a 1:1750 chance of having. However, these side effects are just that, and all who have them go on to make a full recovery. Compare that to the chance of dying from (a preventible!) disease.
This is not to say that vaccines are safe. All procedures carry a risk, no matter how small. However, I feel that the articles and links above use pertinent issues to make illogical, irresponsible, and potentially dangerous points. We should all question the powers of the MEHPA. We should all investigate the risks of medical procedures and be informed. However, to equate all vaccinations as 'bad' is to throw the baby out with the bath water. To conclude, a good test of the effectiveness of a technique is to examine what happens when you cease to use it. This allows one to separate correlation (things happening at the same time, yet unrelated) from causation (the opposite). Those countries that have phased out vaccinations, such as sweden and japan, have noted rises of disease again that are significant when compared to the expected year-year random variation. Thus there is a great deal of evidence that vaccines are indeed causative in the prevention of disease.
1) Introduction, in the form of a first-person event. ie, "my friend/mother/dog was strolling around one day, when he/she stepped in a bucket of acid!!"
2) Search for facts. ie, "I was so scared this would happen to me/other loved one that I decided I needed to do some research, and I was shocked at what I found!! It turns out that a gang of thugs has been placing buckets of acid around residential areas in order to be evil!"
3) Conclusion. ie, "therefore, if you care about your life, PLEASE don't walk outside! If not for yourself, for your loved ones!" This step usually includes something like "and send this to everyone you know so they don't get hurt like my friend/mother/dog did!"
I don't mean to sound like a troll, but it really is true. Check out one of the various online "urben legends" sites.
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