Mintz delineates a few specific things the MEHPA does:
Grant the governor of each state power to declare a "public health emergency" as defined in the act, with or without consulting anyone. (Article IV, Section 401)
Require medical examination and/or testing and force isolation or quarantine if it is deemed that refusal "poses a danger to public health". (Article VI, Section 602(c))
Require treatment and/or vaccination and "isolate or quarantine" those "unwilling or unable" to do so. (Article VI, (Article VI, Sections 603(a)(3) and 603(b)(3))
Constitute as a misdemeanor, "failure to obey these provisions" (for examination, testing, isolation or quarantine). (Article VI, Sections 604(a) and 604(c))
Provide that there be no liability for any "State or local official" causing harm to individuals in their efforts to comply with the provisions of the act, unless there is "gross negligence or willful misconduct". (Article VIII, Section 804(a))
Provide for similar absence of liability for "any private person, firm or corporation" and their "employees" or "agents". (Article VIII, Section 804(b)(2) and 804(b)(3))
Allow for the destruction of property without compensation if "there is reasonable cause to believe that [the property] may endanger the public health pursuant to Section 501". (Article V, Sections 506 and 507)
Limit legal recourse. (Article VI, Section 605)
Allow for "the public safety authority (to) request assistance from the organized militia in enforcing the orders of the public health authority." (Article IV, Section 404).
In other words, martial law. If you have not seen "Minority Report" or read Orwell's "1984," you might want to do so now.
The MEHPA, which was enacted as the Florida EHPA, is the model for those provisions in the Homeland Security Act that deal with emergency health issues.
Conflicts and Dangers
Toni Krehel of Vaccine Awareness of Florida writes that the Center for Disease Control (CDC) "attempted to rush anti-terrorism legislation through state legislatures" giving power to the state to impose "medical procedures on people, using any means necessary, including the kind of restraining methods that law enforcement use to apprehend criminals (guns, militia)." (7)
Rohrback reports that the CDC, along with the National Health Institute, will be receiving "extraordinary funding" under the Homeland Security Act. Rohrback points out that, according to the Congressional Committee for Government Reform back in 1999, there were numerous "conflicts of interest" in the CDC's endorsement of these laws. One blatant example is that the "Chairman of CDC's advisory committee until recently owned 600 shares of stock in Merck, a pharmaceutical company with an active vaccine division."(8) That was 1999 and the conflicts of interest have continued.
Dr. Marcia Angell, in an interview on ABC Lateline in which she discussed the control that the drug industry has taken of medical research, said that the drug companies use medical researchers "as though they were hired guns." Researchers are paid to do what these companies want them to do. "[D]rug companies increasingly design the studies," and "don't even let the researchers see the data."(9)
Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz, President and Publisher of Tetrahedron Publishing Group, wrote in a June 6, 2002 letter to a CDC Working Group: "The little known fact is that the primary smallpox vaccine producers, Aventis and Baxter corporations, or their parent companies, are highly untrustworthy. They have been implicated on more than one occasion in committing genocide. *** Both firms settled out of court ..."(10)
Horowitz further remarks that "Baxter is a subsidiary of American Home Products (AHP)," and AHP, "like Bayer, Hoechst and BASF, is a progeny of I.G. Farben - Germany's leading industrial organization that virtually directed the Third Reich and Hitler's economic war engine." He adds that Aventis is a subsidiary of Hoechst.
Horowitz pleads: "Please, for the sake of millions of people, public healthy, medical respectability, and the future of this great nation, DO NOT SUPPORT ANY POLICY REQUIRING FORCED SMALLPOX VACCINATIONS."
Dr. Tom Mack of the University of Southern California School of Medicine, whose "credentials include probably spending more time working up population-based outbreaks of smallpox than virtually anybody ever has," spoke at the Meeting of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices on June 19-20, 2002. Remarking that "I made the arrogant assumption that you might actually be interested in my opinion about the three questions that are open to you, and so I'm going to give it," Dr. Mack said that "were there no smallpox eradication program, my guess is that smallpox would have died out anyway."(11)
One report states that: "By the 1920s, several British medical researchers documented that smallpox was not only more common among the VACCINATED, but that the DEATH RATE from smallpox was actually higher among those who had been vaccinated."(12)
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