July 24, 2008
Disclaimer: No one knows if the pandemic will be unleashed. Let us pray that it will not. However, we note with alarm that there are an increasing number of indicators suggesting that this Pandemic is being prepared to be used against us all using a variety of weaponized viruses. If our ringing of the alarm bells is successful, we will be spared – and we will have been wrong. Let us all devoutly hope that the Natural Solutions Foundation’s urgent and effective information dissemination is that successful.
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During the last week or so Natural Solutions Foundation has published information on the weaponization of the Avian Flu virus, an otherwise harmless (yes, harmless) organism. We also published information on the increasingly widespread Model State Emergency Powers Act. Some of you questioned this information so we publish references on the history and current status of this freedom-curtailing initiative adopted by many States which allows Governors to declare when it is a felony to resist vaccination and other treatments.
The Emergency Health Powers Act represents, in the eyes of the Natural Solutions Foundation, as great a threat as other, better known acts such as the Patriot Acts I and II, BIOSHIELD I and II and the Warren Act.
They serve as the backdrop for the dispersal of dread diseases and the supression of knowledge about protection and liberty.
The Natural Solutions Foundation opposes all such draconian and freedom-denying acts.
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From Wikipedia:
The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act (MSEHPA) is a proposal by the Center for Law and the Public’s Health, a joint venture of Georgetown University and Johns Hopkins University, to aid America’s state legislatures in revising their public health laws to, as proponents put it, more effectively control epidemics and respond to bioterrorism.
The proposal has been criticized for what has been called a “sweeping reach” that could be abused by governments.
The initial proposal was drafted at the behest of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by Lawrence O. Gostin, an attorney at the Washington, D.C., center, during the anthrax letter scare in fall 2001. It took him “three to four weeks’ to do so, he said.
The draft, dated October 23, 2001, was produced by Gostin without consultation from any of the various groups he listed on the title page as being “in collaboration with”, namely, the National Governors Association, the National Conference of State Legislatures, the National Association of Attorneys General, the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, and the National Association of City and County Health Officials. The claim of collaboration was an error, and a later version, dated December 21, 2001, made the revised statement on its title page that the law was a “draft for discussion … to assist” those organizations. [1]
The model act subsequently came under the aegis of the Turning Point National Collaborative on Public Health Statute Modernization to revise state health laws. On September 16, 2003, a third draft of the law was issued. On June 15, 2004. it won the 2004 Distinguished Achievement in Public Health Law Award from the Public Health Law Association.
The model act would revise some subjects covered by existing public health laws, such as reporting of contagious diseases, disposal of the dead, and quarantines.
Critics said, however, that it did so in such sweeping language that it “could turn governors into dictators” as the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons claimed, and Phyllis Schlafly called it “an unprecedented assault on the constitutional rights of the American people.”
The very definition of a “public health emergency,” which triggered the law’s provisions, critics said, was so broad that an influenza outbreak could qualify as an “emergency”. The LAMBDA Legal Defense and Education Fund feared it could lead to imprisonment of those with AIDS.
But attorneys Jason W. Sapsin, Stephen P. Teret; Scott Burris, Julie Samia Mair, James G. Hodge Jr, Jon S. Vernick and Gostin wrote in an article in the August 2002 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Assn., that “Provided those powers are bounded by legal safeguards, individuals should be required to yield some of their autonomy, liberty, or property to protect the health and security of the community.” [2] This is one of the classic uses of the police power of a sovereign state.
George J. Annas, a lawyer at the Boston University School of Public Health and the MSEHPA’s leading critic, said: “The Model Act seems to have been drafted for a different age; it is more appropriate for the United States of the 19th century than for the United States of the 21st century.” Annas said the law was unconstitutional.
As of April 15, 2006, 32 states have introduced 92 legislative bills or resolutions that are based upon or feature provisions related to the articles or sections of the act. Of these bills, 37 had passed. [3]
[edit] References
* George J. Annas. “Bioterrorism and Public Health Law” (letter). Journal of the American Medical Association. vol. 288 n. 21. December 4, 2002. 2685-2686.
* George J. Annas. “Bioterrorism, Public Health, and Civil Liberties.” New England Journal of Medicine. vol. 346, no. 17. April 25, 2002. 1337-1341. (Letters responding in vol. 347, no. 1, September 12, 2002.)
* George J. Annas. “Terrorism and Human Rights” In In the Wake of Terror: Medicine and Morality in a Time of Crisis. Jonathan D. Moreno, editor. Basic Bioethics Series. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2003.
* Joseph Barbera, Anthony Macintyre, Larry Gostin, Tom Inglesby, Tara O’Toole, Craig DeAttey, Kevin Tonat, and Marti Layton. “Large-scale Quarantine Following Biological Terrorism in the United States: Scientific Examination, Logistics, and Legal Leimits and Possible Consequences.” Journal of the American Medical Association. vol. 286, no. 21. December 5, 2001. 2711-2717.
* Ronald Bayer and James Colgrove. “Rights and Dangers: Bioterrorism and the Ideolgies and Public Health.” In In the Wake of Terror: Medicine and Morality in a Time of Crisis. Jonathan D. Moreno, editor. Basic Bioethics Series. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2003.
* John M. Colmers and Daniel M. Fox. “The Politics of Emergency Health Powers and the Isolation of Public Health.” American Journal of Public Health. vol. 93, no. 3. March 2003. 397-399.
* Larry Copeland. “CDC Proposes Bioterrorism Laws.” USA Today. November 8, 2001. 3A.
* Janlori Goldman. “Balancing in a Crisis?: Bioterrorism, Public Health, and Privacy.” In Lost Liberties: Ashcroft and the Assault on Personal Freedom. Cynthia Brown, editor. New York: The New Press, 2003.
* Lawrence O. Gostin. “Law and Ethics in a Public Health Emergency.” Hastings Center Report. vol. 32, no. 2. March-April 2002. 9-11.
* Lawrence O. Gostin, Jason W. Sapsin, Stephen P. Teret, Scott Burris, Julie Samia Mair, James G. Hodge, Jr., and Jon S. Vernick. “The Model State Emergency Powers Act: Planning for and Response to Bioterrorism and Naturally Occurring Infectious Diseases.” Journal of the American Medical Association. vol. 288, no. 5. August 7, 2002. 622-628.
* Lawrence O. Gostin and James G. Hodge, Jr. “Protecting the Public’s Health in an Era of Bioterrorism.” In In the Wake of Terror: Medicine and Morality in a Time of Crisis. Jonathan D. Moreno, editor. Basic Bioethics Series. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2003.
* Lawrence O. Gostin and James G. Hodge, Jr. “Public Health Emergencies and Legal Reform: Implications for Public Health Policy and Practice.” Public Health Reports. vol. 118, no. 5. September-October 2003. 477-479.
* Lawrence O. Gostin. “Public Health Law in an Age of Terrorism: Rethinking Individual Rights and Common Goods.” Health Affairs (Millwood). vol. 21, no. 6. November-December 2002. 79-83.
* “Legislation would let governors quarantine entire cities.” Knight Ridder News Service. November 7, 2001.
* Sharon Lerner. “A New Health-Emergency Law Raises Concerns for the Immune Compromised: Round Up the Unusual Suspects”. The Village Voice. January 2, 2002.
* William Martin. “Legal and Public Policy Responses of States to Bioterrorism.” American Journal of Public Health. Vol.94, Iss. 7. July 2004. 1093
* Thomas May. “Political Authority in a Bioterrorism Emergency.” Journal of Law, Medicine, and Bioethics. vol. 31, no. 1. Spring 2004. 159-164.
* Jane M. Orient. “Bioterrorism and Public Health Law” (letter). Journal of the American Medical Association. vol. 288 n. 21. December 4, 2002. 2686.
* “Outside Experts: Lawrence O. Gostin.” Government Executive. February 2004. 110.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSEHPA
Update: By 2002/3, numerous States had debated, and many had passed, provisions of the Model State Emergency Health Powers Acts. National Vaccine Information Center published this informative update. Information
2002/2003
What You Need to Know About The Proposed Model State Emergency Health Powers Act in Your State
The terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C. on September 11, 2001, and the subsequent threats of biological warfare against U.S. citizens have prompted calls by public health officials to prepare for mass vaccination campaigns for anthrax and smallpox. National vaccination programs targeting civilians, including children, are being proposed in model state legislation that would give public health officials the power to use the state militia to enforce vaccination during state-declared health emergencies. While it is critical for the U.S. to have a sound, workable plan to respond to an act of bioterrorism, as well as enough safe and effective vaccines stockpiled for every American who wants to use them, there are legitimate concerns about a plan which forces citizens to use vaccines without their voluntary, informed consent.
In this time of great sadness, fear and confusion, Americans have a choice to make; either we defend the individual freedoms our forefathers fought and died to give us, or we sacrifice those freedoms and let the terrorists win. What we choose to do will define who we are as a nation for many years to come.
When federal and state public health officials convince your Governor to declare a “public health†emergency, they want to be able to use the “state militia†to:
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take control of all roads leading into and out of your cities and state;
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seize your house, car, telephones, computers, food, fuel, clothing, firearms and alcoholic beverages for their own use (and not be held liable if these actions result in the destruction of your personal property);
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arrest, imprison and forcibly examine, vaccinate and medicate you and your children without your consent (and not be held liable if these actions result in your death or injury).
To view a copy of the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act:
http://www.publichealthlaw.net
To view the actual bills: www.vaccinationnews.com
The American Legislative Exchange Council is tracking the state activities of the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act. To view the details of each bill please visit the ALEC website, www.alec.org, Here are the results of their 2002 analysis:
States that had passed EHPA legislation: Arizona, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont.
StateBill #As of Date Action Taken
AZ: HB 2044 5/23/02 Passed House and Senate. Signed by Governor
CA: AB 1763 5/22/02 In Assembly Comm on Appropriations
CT: HB 5286 5/8/02 Passed the House. No home quarantine or conscientious obj www.ctvia.org. Adjourned
DE: HB 377 7/3/02 Passed House and Senate. Signed by Governor
FL: SB 1262 5/23/02 Passed House and Senate – Signed by Governor
GA: SB 385 5/16/02 Passed Senate Passed House Signed by Governor
HI: HB 2521 6/18/02 Passed House Passed Senate Signed by Governor
ID: HB 517 3/15/02 Passed House- Sent to Senate Comm on State Affairs – Adjourned, no carryover
IL: HB 3809 6/2/02 Adjourned No Carryover
IL: SB 1529 11/13/02 To Senate Comm on Rules
KS: SB 597 5/31/02 Died in Comm
KY: HB 108 4/15/02 Adjourned – No carryover
LA: HB 91 4/18/02 Passed House Passed Senate Signed by Governor
ME: HP 1656 4/11/02 Passed House and Senate. Signed by Governor
MD: HB 303 4/9/02 Passed House – and Senate Signed by Governor
MD: HB 234 4/9/02 Passed House – and Senate Signed by Governor
MA: SB 2194 11/26/01 Senate Comm on Ways and Means
MN: HF 3031 5/22/02 Passed by Senate Passed by House – Signed by Governor
MS: SB 2737 3/5/02 Passed Senate – Died in House Comm on Appropriations
MS: HB 1348 4/14/02 Adjourned – No carryover
MO: SB 712 5/17/02 Final Version no longer contained MSEHPA principles. Adjourned No Carryover
NE: LB 1224 4/19/02 Indefinitely Postponed
NV: Draft 3/19/02 Interim Legislative Comm on Health Care
NH: HB 1478 5/17/02 Passed House Passed Senate – Signed by Governor
NJ: SB 1042 2/21/02 Senate Comm Health
NM: HJM 34, SJM 62 2/14/02 Passed House and Senate
NY: AB 9508, 3/5/02 Amended in Assembly Comm on Health
SB 5841 3/4/02 Amended in Senate Comm on Health
NC: HB 4416 7/02/05 Signed by Governor
OK: HB 2765 5/23/02 Passed House Passed Senate-Conf Comm
PA: HB 2261 1/2/02 To House Comm on Veterans Affairs
SB 1338 3/11/02 To Senate Comm Public Health and Welfare
RI HB 7305 6/4/02 Adjourned
HB 7357 6/26/02 Vetoed by Governor
SD: HB 1304 2/25/02 Passed House and Senate, Signed by Governor
SC: HB 4416 7/02/02 Passed House Passed Senate Signed by Governor
TN: SB 2392 5/22/02 Passed Senate Passed House Signed by Governor
UT: HB 231 3/18/02 Passed House and Senate, Signed by Governor
VT: SB 298 6/12/02 Passed House Passed Senate Signed by Governor
VA: HB 882 2/8/02 Continued to 2003
WA: HB 2854 3/14/02 Passed House – Adjourned – no carryover
WI: AB 850 3/20/02 Passed Assembly- Failed to pass Senate Joint Resolution 1
WY: SB 67 3/13/02 Passed Senate – Adjourned – no carryover
http://www.nvic.org/ActionAlerts/what_you_need_to_know.htm
Update: July 2006
By 2006, the Act had been introduced in whole or part through 171 bills or resolutions in forty-four (44) states, the District of Columbia, and the Northern Mariannas Islands. Thirty-eight (38) states [AL, AK, AZ, CA, CT, DE, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, LA, ME, MD, MN, MO, MT, NV, NH, NJ, NM, NC, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WI, and WY] and DC have passed a total of 66 bills or resolutions that include provisions from or closely related to the Act. The extent to which the Act’s provisions are incorporated into each state’s laws varies.
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Maybe you take weight loss supplements and maybe you don’t. But protecting them, and the claims that the FDA recognizes are appropriate for them, has become a matter of urgency since GlaxoSmithKlein (GSK)has attacked the entire supplement industry through direct threat to our supplements and the entire supplement industry. GSK is using two arrows aimed at the heart of the supplement industry. A copy of the GSK attack is reprinted below this blog entry.
Two Pronged Assault
1. Restrict the information that helps people understand what a product does for them (and cripple the First Amendment while you are at it) and
2. Medicalize a category of concern for people taking the supplement and then make sure that the health indications and claims, as well as the supplement are “oozed over” into the drug category, raising their prices and driving their manufacturers out of business while more expensive drugs take their places in the customer’s shopping cart.
In my lecture “Nutricide ” ( http://tinyurl.com/2kvnvt ), I defined Nutricide as
1. The death of the body of knowledge of the relationship between health and food and
2. The death of large populations through the manipulation of the food supply.
GSK vs. The People
GlaxoSmithKlein, a large drug company, has decided to use the powerful tool called a “Citizens Petition” to attack both free speech and the supplement industry. The Citizens Petition is the same type of document that the Natural Solutions Foundation has filed twice with the US Government).
Sign the first Citizens Petition here ( http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?page_id=184 ) to demand the FDA stop illegal “HARMonization”. Our second Citizens Petition, like the current GSK one, has not been assigned a Docket Number (and, for that matter, has ours?) so you cannot comment on it yet. We will tell you how to do that shortly.
(By the way, if you are a supplement manufacturer and you are not very happy with the lobbying representation you are getting on Capital Hill, send us an email (ralph.fucetola@usa.net) with “PROTECTION” as the subject line to join the Health Freedom Alliance, a Wellness Industry 501 (c) 4 organization we have created just for you!)
By asking the FDA to define weight loss products as disease claims, they are protecting their failed over-the-counter weight loss product, alli , while striking a blow at the continued existence of the entire supplements industry. Once weight loss is a disease, not a condition, it will be treatable only through the use of tested drugs. Will insurance companies increase your rates if you need weight loss products? Possibly. After all, we understand that many insurance companies are co-owned by Big Pharma. More diseases, more drugs. More drugs, more profits.
Click here ( http://tinyurl.com/4txv62 ) to let Congress know your right to free speech and information about the relationship between health and supplements are important to you!
(If you want a copy of “Nutricide: the DVD”, click here ( http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?page_id=156 ).
Supplements Under Attack – Again!
GlaxoSmithKlein (GSK) makes drugs like Paxil and Avandia, the highly questionable diabetes drug which the FDA knew nearly 5 years ago increases heart attacks by nearly 43%. Covering itself, the FDA recently issued a warning to GSK about supressing data about the dangers of this supposed “block-buster” drug. Not long before that, the Senate Finance Committee found that GSK intimidated and coerced a well-known critic of Avandia to silence him from speaking out against it. And not long before that, there were serious allegations that GSK had supressed data on Paxil-related adult suicides.
GSK is also the maker of alli, the first over the counter weight loss drug. Alli has been associated with the development of aberrant crypt foci, widely believed to be associated with the development of colon cancer. It is also associated with fecal leaking, “wet gas”, diarrhea, and a sudden event where you could at any moment have an uncontrolled accidental bowel movement. Natural products are not associated with these hazards. So it would seem that anything GSK could do to silence the natural competition and grab a new market share would be welcome to its management and its shareholders.
In fact, here is what www.FDAlawblog.net has to say about the GSK Citizens Petition:
“the Citizens Petition asks the Agency (i.e., FDA, ed. ) to prohibit structure/function claims for dietary supplements that expressly or impliedly reference weight loss. In addition to claims that expressly reference weight loss, the petition contends that the following categories of claims should be prohibited: energy expenditure, modulation of carbohydrate metabolism, increased satiety or suppression of appetite, increased fat oxidation or reduced fat synthesis, and blockage of fat absorption. The petition acknowledges FDA’s longstanding position that weight loss claims are permissible structure/function claims. However, the petition urges FDA to change its position on the ground that: (1) recent evidence establishes that overweight is a risk factor for disease; (2) consumers believe that there is a relationship between weight loss and a reduction of risk of disease; (3) claims that a product will reduce a risk factor for disease are disease claims; (4) the use of ineffective therapies can divert consumers from safe and effective therapies such as GSK’s weight loss drug Alli; and (5) manufacturers of weight loss supplements should be forced to substantiate their claims through health claim petitions before going to market. Although the petition targets dietary supplements, the action it requests also would affect conventional foods.
The potential marketing value of the weight loss market and the food and dietary supplement industries’ major investment in weight loss products ensures that the petition will receive strong drug industry supported and vigorous food and dietary supplement industry opposition. Although the petition contends that the requested action will not require rulemaking, there are arguments that would support the need for rule making given FDA’s longstanding position that weight loss claims, as opposed to claims to treat obesity, do not imply disease treatment or prevention.”
Taking advantage of the tremendous power of the Citizens Petition, GSK is asking the FDA to classify weight loss claims made for dietary supplements as disease claims. While the distinction may seem small, what it means to your supplement access could be very bad, indeed. If the FDA finds for GSK, it will make it much easier to classify nutrients as drugs and much harder to make truthful and honest statements about the health benefits of supplements.
This is just another thrust to find yet another way to destroy the supplement industry NOT because it is bad or dangerous, but because just the opposite is true: drugs are dangerous and kill people. They are also very expensive.
Supplements are relatively cheap, very safe and do not kill people. They are, however, the greatest economic competitior to drugs and therefore the drug companies want them to disappear. They are, of course, very willing to help them do just that!
The rapidly growing weight loss sector of the supplement market in the US is about $1.3 Billion, or about $1 of every $25 spent on supplements and herbs annually. Many supplement companies depend upon these products for significant sales and staying afloat in a challenging market place.
I find it hard to see it as a coincidence that the alarming ” Trilateral Cooperation Charter ” ( http://www.fda.gov/oia/charter.html), signed February 27, 2004 fusing
* Health Products and Food Branch,Health Canada
* US Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human Services
* Federal Commission for the Protection from Sanitary Risks, Secretaria de Salud, Mexico
has decided that one of its very first priorities is eliminating so called health fraud by “enforcement action on Fraudulent weight loss products” ( http://www.fda.gov/oia/charter.html#appendixc ). The Trilateral Cooperation Charter defines fraud as “the false, deceptive, or misleading promotion, advertisement, distribution, sale, possession for sale, or offering for sale of products or provisions of services, intended for human use, that are being represented as being made safe and/or effective to diagnose, prevent, cure, treat, or mitigate disease (or other conditions), to rehabilitate patients or to provide a beneficial effect on health.” If you are hearing that as an invitation to destroy the supplement industry in the US, Mexico and Canada (also known as the North American Union/Security and Prosperity Partnership), you are hearing right.
Given the battle raging a round the right to make true and honest statements about the healing benefits of foods or food components, it would appear GSK’s attempt to silence its competitor is simply more of same. Codex wants to classify sharing any information about the health benefits of food and food components as “advertising”. The FDA wants to stifle the same information by calling it “health claims” or, in this case “disease claims”. The net result, if we allow them to have their way? Regulatory duct tape over our collective mouths if we dare to share information about how to get well and stay that way with natural products. Not today, not tomorrow and not any time after that!
Opportunity
Did I mention that the Natural Solutions Foundation is gearing up to go to the Codex Commission Meeting in Geneva in late June? Not only will we be there, but we expect to serve as advisers to a coalition of health friendly nations who have been preparing for the “push back” against the US on the issue of mandatory, species specific GMOs labeling.
As you know, the US forbids – FORBIDS – labeling any GM Foods. Most of the rest of the word is fiercely determined to have such labeling. The health friendlies are on the march!
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The CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics have succeeded in New Jersey so they are now after every child in America: vaccinate every child every year with flu shots that damage the immune system, may contain mercury, surely contain aluminum, formaldehyde, foreign protein, and actually don’t work most of the time. Apparently that sounds like a winner to the Big Pharma side of the house.
There are twists of logic that boggle the mind here. For example, although the CDC admitted within the last month that this year’s seasonal flu shot is only effective 40% of the time or less since the viruses in circulation are not the ones covered by the vaccine, there is no let up in the insistence that every child get vaccinated with this flu shot.
Consider, too, the rather astonishing quote from the article below:
“No deaths have been reported in New Jersey this season, but 16 children have been hospitalized with confirmed cases of flu, state
health officials said. Flu activity is currently characterized by the CDC as “widespread” in New Jersey.”
Does that mean that 16 kids with severe immunocompromise problems (say, kids on chemotherapy for cancer) or kids with HIV/AIDS got the flu and needed to be hospitalized and so every kid in the country needs to be vaccinated with a dangerous shot? What about the lost days and hours and lives of parents who have kids who have been vaccine injured and suffered brain injury, autism, asthma, or cancer? And what about the loss of parental rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States? Is that worth protecting the employers of New Jersey and the US from lost days of work by the parents whose kids get the flu (most often a cold, by the way)?
Apparently it does.
And then there is the rather weird “logic” of vaccinating kids yearly to protect their parents from loosing time from work (last year it was “vaccinate the kids to protect the elderly with whom they might come into contact”). You will note the same arguments used in New Jersey before the Health Commissioner declared that every child in the state, starting in infancy, would have to be vaccinated annually if they wanted to attend day care or go to school.
It is rumored in New Jersey that when Governor Corzine’s Stem Cell Therapy initiative failed to give the Big Pharma companies headquartered in that State the huge give away they were anticipating, he felt compelled to do something to help these companies (like Merck) want to stay in NJ. Reasoning that annual vaccination of kids might be a good gift to his Pharma Phriends, the Governor, who has been provided with all the scientific information needed to make it clear that this is a very, very bad idea, decided to go ahead anyway. A real “Man of the People”, as long as you are talking about Pharmaceutical investors and executives.
Read today’s entry into the “Vaccinate Every Kid Every Year” Propaganda campaign.
Compulsory vaccination is just part of the plans afoot for compulsory drugging. Please take all of the following Action Steps to protect your rights to make your own health decisions, not have them forced upon you by the Pharmaceutically controlled policy makers.
1. STOP COMPULSORY DRUGGING AND VACCINATION (http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=21835)
2. SUPPORT PHILOSOPHICAL EXEMPTIONS IN NEW JERSEY AND ALL OTHER STATES (http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=23087)
3. STOP SCHOOLS FROM FORCING DRUGS ON KIDS
(http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=18970)
4. PREGNANT AND NEW MOMS DON’T NEED FORCED DRUGGING THAT COULD INJURE OR KILL THEIR BABIES
(http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=23065)
These actions steps are vitally important in the movement toward passive helplessness in the face of Big Pharma domination of public policy toward active citizen control of our own health decisions.
Please support this change by taking the steps, letting everyone in your circle of influence know about them and making a recurring donation to the Natural Solutions Foundation by clicking here (http://www.Healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=189) to make your tax deductible donation.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
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CDC panel expands flu shot guidance: Children up to 18 should get vaccine
Thursday, February 28, 2008
BY ANGELA STEWART
Star-Ledger Staff
Every child up to the age of 18 should be immunized against the flu,
a federal advisory panel recommended yesterday.
The recommendation, made by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, would
increase the number of children receiving flu shots by 30 million a year. Children younger than 6 months are excluded.
It is expected to be approved by the CDC as early as this spring and
become the agency’s official policy for the 2008-2009 flu season.
“We don’t expect any issue with this recommendation,” said Curtis
Allen, a CDC spokesman.
The CDC’s previous recommendation was that children from 6 months to
5 years of age or those with chronic conditions that put them at high
risk of complications needed to be immunized.
Allen said the expanded recommendation — which would be advisory but
likely influential — is pri marily aimed at protecting healthy
children of all ages against the flu, but noted it will also offer
residual benefits to others.
“The logic is there are children in this 6-month to 18-year-old age
group who are in schools where we know a lot of influenza
circulates,” he said. “When a child becomes sick, a parent also has
to stay home and out of work, which is lost productivity. Once a
child is vacci nated, this will help protect others in their
household and the community from influenza.”
A representative of the American Academy of Pediatrics applauded the
recommendation, saying there are many children with conditions like
asthma who should be getting immunized but aren’t.
“We know that the vaccine is the best method for preventing influenza
and its potential severe complications,” said Henry Bern stein, a
member of the academy’s committee on infectious diseases and chief of
pediatrics at Dartmouth Medical School in New Hampshire
Children have among the highest rates of flu of any age group,
according to the CDC, with more than 20,000 kids under the age of 5
hospitalized each year nationwide. So far this flu season, 22
children across the country have died from flu-related illness, Allen
said.
No deaths have been reported in New Jersey this season, but 16
children have been hospitalized with confirmed cases of flu, state
health officials said. Flu activity is currently characterized by the
CDC as “widespread” in New Jersey.
Maria Spina of Colonia, whose 7-month-old daughter, Carlee, received
a flu shot yesterday at the office of Nutley Pediatrics, said she
thought the recommendations made sense.
“I think any mother would worry if their child got really sick with
the flu,” Spina said.
Richard Marcus, who immu nized Spina’s baby yesterday, said many
parents take vaccine preventable diseases “very, very, lightly.”
“It’s seen as something that doesn’t affect their children, that is
until they have an episode,” Mar cus said. “Then they become firm
believers.”
Alissa Kanowitz, who was a founder of a group called Families
Fighting Flu, lost her 4-year-old daughter Amanda in 2004 to the flu.
Amanda was not immunized, as the CDC at the time only recommended
shots for children up to 23 months. Two years ago, the recommendation
was expanded to include children up to age 5.
“Today’s vote really sends a strong message about just how se rious
influenza is,” said Kanowitz, a New York City resident.
This fall, New Jersey will become the first state in the nation to
require flu shots for infants and children entering licensed day care
centers or pre-schools. The state Public Health Council passed that
recommendation despite protest from anti-vaccine groups and oth ers
who oppose what they view as government usurping parental authority.
State Epidemiologist Eddy Bresnitz said that while he embraces the
new recommendations, New Jersey has no plans to make them mandatory.
Bresnitz, however, said he sends out an annual letter through schools
encouraging parents to have their children im munized against the flu
and will mention the CDC recommendations next fall.
Sue Collins, who co-founded the anti-vaccine advocacy group New
Jersey Alliance for Informed Choice, called the CDC’s new “blanket”
recommendation for pediatric flu shots a bad idea.
“I think the risks and side ef fects and unproven safety and effi
cacy studies do not warrant this,” said Collins, a mother of two who
lives in Long Hill. “The biggest thing is there is no data on how all
these vaccines react with each other.”
State and federal health officials, as well as most doctors, be lieve
the flu vaccine is safe for children, but many parents have raised
objections about the fact it contains thimerosal, a mercury-
containing organic compound used as a preservative in some multi-dose
vials of vaccine.
But there is flu vaccine doctors can order that is free of the
preservative, although it costs slightly more than the traditional
vaccine. Children, starting at 24 months, also have the option of
receiving a flu nasal spray instead of a shot.
“Thirty years ago…Merck’s aggressive chief executive Henry Gadsden told Fortune magazine of his distress that the company’s potential markets had been limited to sick people. Suggesting he’d rather Merck to be more like chewing gum maker Wrigleys, Gadsden said it had long been his dream to make drugs for healthy people. Because then, Merck would be able to “sell to everyone.” Three decades on, the late Henry Gadsden’s dream has come true.”
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Mothers, unborn babies and infants are the next group to “sell to”. If Congress has its way, every pregnant mother and her unborn baby, every new mother and her (perhaps) nursing infant in the US would be someone to “sell to”, not just by Merck, but by the entire pharmaceutical industry. Click http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=23065(http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=23065) to tell your Senators and Representatives that pregnant and new moms do not need drugging with meds that increase suicide and homicide and harm babies. Let them know that mental health decisions – like all health decisions – are a private matter, not a government one.
A new and shameless market ploy called “The Mother’s Act”, S 1375 IS (http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?p=527), would make them the next market success by compelling screening and “offering” “appropriate” treatment which includes, as the bottom line, drugs. The bill was originally proposed in response to the death by suicide of Melanie Stokes, a pharmaceutical rep.who took her own life by leaping from a balcony several stories off of the ground. Contrary to popular understanding it was not post-partum depression that killed Melanie, but the numerous antidepressant drugs she was taking, which the FDA confirmed double the suicide risk.
In my professional opinion as a Child, Adult and Adolescent Psychiatrist and in my opinion as a health freedom advocate, the so-called “Mother’s Act” represents an act of aggression against mothers, babies and liberties, all at the same time. Pregnant woman and infants, along with new mothers and their babies, are an untapped market for psychoactive drugs like anti-depressants and anti-psychotics. There is an excellent reason that they are an untapped market for these drugs. Because they are so dangerous for these groups of people, these drugs, like most others, have been strictly off limits for pregnant and nursing moms and their babies.
But no longer. If Senators MENENDEZ (D-NJ), DURBIN (D-IL), SNOWE (R-ME), BROWN (D-OH), DODD (D-CT), and LAUTENBERG (D-NJ) have their way, pregnant mothers will be “screened” for tendencies toward “postpartum blues”, “depression” and “psychosis” and offered medications if they show any such tendencies. Another new market opened for the Pharma Pholks!
To my knowledge, this would bring to eight the number of pieces of Federal Legislation which make it possible to compel people living in the United States of America to take medication or set the stage for state compulsion to take those meds. The mis-named Patriot Act, Patriot Act II, BioShield, BioShield II, BioShield III, New Freedoms Initiative, No Child Left Behind and now the “Mother’s Act”.
Picture this scenario: a mother to be confesses to being nervous, worried, anxious or concerned about the impact of the coming baby (Signs of mental health in my book, by the way). A nurse, social worker, “counselor” or doctor turns her concern into pathology on a “screening tool” called a piece of paper (or computer screen). Mom’s public medical record (there are no confidential medical records in the US any longer unless you go to a physician who has exempted him/herself from HIPAA, [Health Insurance Privacy and Accountability Act] and pay for the services yourself) now states that she has a mental illness. Next, she will be “offered” drugs to “help her” with her normal feelings. These are the proverbial drugs for the worried well. What happens if they decide not to take them? Could mothers be forcibly imprisoned or held in a psychiatric facility? Of course they could. How about moms who have already given birth: could the same happen to them or could they loose custody of their children if they decided not to take the advice of the screener and take meds? You bet. Consider the invasive and unconstitutional losses of parental rights when parents do not medicate their kids. Consider the cases where chemotherapy or Ritalin (c) or Zoloft (c) or whatever have been forced upon kids and grown ups. Consider the forcible vaccination – and re-vaccination – of 2,700 Prince George’s County (MD) poor, mostly black children (1100 of whom had already been vaccinated fully but whose records had been lost by the school (according to its own admission).
Consider this fact: the March of Dimes advises against the use of these drugs in pregnant women since they can cause birth defects. Consider, too, the fact that the numerous psychiatric drugs which the woman who killed herself in the post partum period, Melanie Stokes, a pharmaceutical rep. (who took her own life by leaping from a balcony several stories off of the ground) doubled her risk of suicide according to the FDA while being a post partum mom did no such thing.
According to the officers of “Unite”, an organization opposing this legislation and the use of all other psychiatric medications,
“To simply screen women for post-partum mood disorders and ensure that they get “treatment,” we would be setting families up for the expectation of tragedy and increasing the chances of that actually happening when we refer them to medical “professionals” who are oblivious to the negative mind-altering effects of psychiatric drugs. A popular opinion among medical caregivers these days is that “post-partum mood disorders” must be a sign of an underlying biochemical imbalance and would be corrected with drugs.
Current drugs used on post-partum women include SSRIs, atypical antidepressants, and even antipsychotic drugs. These pose a significant risk to the immediate safety and health of women as well as their children and families. SSRIs carry a black box warning for suicide and the most popular one, Effexor (the same med. Andrea Yates was taking when she drowned her 5 children), has the words “homicidal ideation†listed as a side effect. “Nearly every recent case of infanticide which has made news can be clearly linked back to a psychiatric drug. These drugs endanger babies and mothers.”
Additionally, the drugs can be extremely addictive and also pose a risk to nurslings or babies exposed in subsequent pregnancies. Some babies have died from SIDS linked to drug exposure from pregnancy or nursing; others have experienced coma, seizures, GI bleeding, heart defects, lung problems, and many babies died before reaching full term or soon after birth” when their moms have been exposed to these drugs.
The bill does not address the fact that studies show that biological agents (antidepressants for example) cited in the bill and already prescribed to pregnant women can cause congenital heart birth defects where children have had to undergo open-heart surgeries to correct this. Also, some babies are being born with organs outside their bodies, requiring immediate surgery.”
Never mind that these drugs are untested in large scale use during pregnancy and are listed as drugs to avoid while pregnant and nursing. Never mind that the March of Dimes and the Physician’s Desk Reference (PDR) advise avoiding these drugs during those time. Never mind that the American Academy of Pediatrics cites an article which says, “Our knowledge [of the impact of psychiatric drugs on the fetus] will remain limited because prospective, randomized, and well-controlled investigational studies on the risks of exposure to psychoactive drugs during pregnancy are neither feasible nor ethical” in its Policy Statement on the Use of Psychoactive Medication During Pregnancy and Possible Effects on the Fetus and Newborn.
They also state, “Potential adverse effects for the fetus and the neonate include: 1) structural malformations, 2) acute neonatal effects including intoxication and neonatal abstinence syndromes, 3) intrauterine fetal death, 4) altered fetal growth, and 5) neurobehavioral teratogenicity. Neurobehavioral teratogenicity encompasses long-term central nervous system defects that result in delayed behavioral maturation, impaired problem solving, and impaired learning. Physical malformations do not necessarily accompany the functional deficits. Chronic in utero exposure to drugs may result in intoxication or tolerance postnatally. Neonatal drug withdrawal symptoms may occur when drug exposure ceases at birth. Specific and supportive therapy may be required if the newborn displays signs of continued drug effects or withdrawal. Long-term developmental and neurologic follow-up is appropriate, including consideration for referral to centers for national databases (eg, Teratology Information Services and Motherisk Program).” But never mind. A market is a market and this one is nearly virgin since the drugs in question have had posted warning advising their avoidance in pregnancy and nursing.
And what a market it is! The text of the bill states that although “The causes of postpartum depression are complex and unknown at this time” (which means that treatment designed to suppress the symptoms without dealing with the cause is a poor way to go), the market is vast since, ” Baby blues afflicts up to 80 percent of new mothers, postpartum depression occurs in 10 to 20 percent of new mothers, and postpartum psychosis strikes 1 in 1,000 new mothers.”
I am a Psychiatrist. I am trained in Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatry and I have a bias. I believe that drugs are dangerous and, in the case of psychiatric drugs, outstandingly dangerous, often causing long-term damage to the nervous system and other organs which are then treated with more drugs since the signs of drug toxicity are virtually identical to the reasons the patient was given the drug(s) in the first place, only more so. These drugs, increasingly used on the vulnerable nervous systems of younger and younger children with no deep understanding of their impact on the developing brains and bodies are poorly tested, vastly oversold and represent a huge profit center. Their only problem, from the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, is that there are large markets which are currently untouched. Once these drugs are administered, for whatever reason, they tend to become a legal habit supplied by your friendly pusher, your doctor. Although your pusher may be well-intentioned, his/her information about the safety and efficacy of these toxins (and make no mistake: they are known brain and liver toxins with a hefty dollop of endocrine disruption, pancreatic destruction and liver damage throw in for good measure) comes from the very people who make a profit from his/her use of these substances.
There is now, following nearly endless revelations in Congressional hearings, leaked information, legal actions against drug companies, etc., a clear patter of corruption and collusion to place dangerous drugs on the market and keep them there between the FDA and the manufacturers of these compounds.
With the collusion of the FDA, information on the dangers of these drugs, their tendency to increase suicidal and homicidal behaviors and their addictive impact are suppressed or minimized while new markets are sought out to allow the dream of Henry Gadsen to come true.
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