- Details and background information posted at
http://www.communitycurrency.org/3-21.html
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- Oppose New Legislative Threat to Health and Democracy!
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- Calling activists to rally their opposition to the Emergency
Health Powers Act (In California- Bill 1763) in Sacramento at the Capitol
steps, March 21, 2002. We will rally, have a press conference, and then
visit our legislators, staff from 11:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m..
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- The California Bill, based upon Model Health Emergency
Health Powers Act, would allow the governor to declare a "public health
emergency", and without consulting with public health authorities,
law enforcement, the legislature or courts, to:
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- * Require any individual to be vaccinated. Refusal constitutes
a crime and will result in quarantine.
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- * Require any individual to undergo specific medical
treatment. Refusal constitutes a crime and will result in quarantine.
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- * Seize any property, including real estate, food, medicine,
fuel or clothing, an official thinks necessary to handle the emergency.
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- * Seize and destroy any property alleged to be hazardous.
There will be no compensation or recourse.
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- * Draft you or your business into state service.
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- * Impose rationing, price controls, quotas and transportation
controls. * Suspend any state law, regulation or rule that is thought to
interfere with handling the declared emergency.
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- Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson is
urging all State legislatures to adopt the Model State Emergency Health
Powers Act. HHS 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.
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- In California on January 8, 2002, Assembly Member Richman
introduced Bill 1763 Emergency Health Powers Act. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/)
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- This may serve the Bush Administration's aims, but bodes
ominously for democracy.
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- The Patriot Bill, the Anti-Terrorism Bill, the Homeland
Security Act were not written in the wake of September 11th but in anticipation
of a terrorist attack in the US. A violent military response "guaranteed
100%" that the U.S. would be the subject of "future terrorist"
attacks, the government and the media assured us. The anthrax scare proved
the predictions true, but unfortunately for the hawks in the Pentagon,
they were unable to place the blame on Iraq (which they dearly wished to
attack). Elements within the military intelligence community were most
likely responsible for the anthrax attacks on Democrats and the media.
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- The Center for Law and the Public Health was convened
on Oct. 5th to draft legislation to respond to the bioterrorism threat.
(The Center for Law and Public Health is run jointly by Georgetown University
Law School and Johns Hopkins Medical School, and was founded under the
auspices of the Center for Disease Control (CDC). CLPH was formed one month
prior to the 2000 Presidential election.) A revised version was released
on Dec. 21 containing more specific definitions of "public health
emergency" as it pertains to bioterrorism and biologic agents, and
includes language for those states that want to use the act for chemical,
nuclear or natural disasters.
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- As the Administration rattles its nuclear saber, bombs
innocent civilians, flagrantly violates International Law, shreds the Constitution,
veils itself in secrecy, admits the existence of an underground shadow
government to Congress, imprisons hundreds of innocent people because of
their ethnic background, blocks real inquiries into 9-11, while using "that
crime" to justify an endless war that enriches corporate elites, the
military, the oil companies, drug traffickers, more revelations of its
shady relationship with Enron, Bin Laden, Al Qaeda (not to mention a rigged
election in Florida) are emerging. Doubts surface about whose interests
will be served by the Model Emergency Health Powers Act. While condemning
and pursuing the Al Qaeda network where convenient, the National Post reported
Friday that
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- "Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network has
been active in the Balkans for years, most recently helping Kosovo rebels
battle for independence from Serbia with the financial and military backing
of the United States and NATO."
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- Just who benefits the most from terrorist attacks? Civilians
or the Military Industrial Complex and the Mulit-National Corporations
so bent on dismantling the democratic process and national sovereignty?
And who would benefit the most if another "bioterrorist attack"
occurred in the US? Why are the media and the US government trying to scare
the US public and discourage Congressional investigations of 9-11 and Enron?
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- Microbiologists around the world have been dying under
suspicious circumstances in the past several months. On November 12, 2001
DynCorp announced that its subsidiary, DynPort Vaccine, had been awarded
a $322 million contract to develop, produce, test, and store FDA licensed
vaccines for use by the Defense Department. DynCorp has been involved in
criminal activities and its former chairman was until recently, Herbert
Pug Winokur, who was the recent Chairman of the Enron Finance Committee.
(Details on this subject can be found at Mike Ruppert's website, in his
article "A Career in Microbiology Can be Hazardous to Your Health"
at http://www.copvcia.com/free/ww3/02_14_02_microbio.html)
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- It is hypocritical to "Wage War on Terrorism"
while one is funding, training, and engaging in Terrorist Acts at home
and abroad.
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- Contact your public officials and the media on this critical
issue, join us in Sacramento, California on Thursday March 21, 2002 to
make our voices heard, and to meet with our representatives and their staffs.
Contact Carol Brouillet at cbrouillet@igc.org to be part of our delegation,
to support our action and to endorse your opposition to California,s proposed
Emergency Health Powers Act.
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