Oppose the Emergency Health Powers Act!]
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2002 12:40 am
Dear All,
altho the following is a political notice to me, it brings to the fore the level of attack on individuals to chose their own health protocol. it follows on the passage of a sweeping piece of legislation in europe that prevents natural vitamins an herbs to be sold over the counter (i have not read the bill for accurate wording). i passed along notice of this legislation about a week ago just prior to the eu vote. i think members of this list will be interested in this newest level of developement
tanya
Subject: Oppose the Emergency Health Powers Act!
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 14:18:11 -0800
From: Carol Brouillet
Reply-To: stoptheWTO@topica.com
To: stoptheWTO@topica.com
The latest assault on democracy is going on in all of the state legislatures. This is what we are doing in California- some states have already passed similar measures, the pressure will mount upon the others. This needs to be exposed and resisted!
Oppose New Legislative Threat to Health and Democracy!
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..
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:
· Require any individual to be vaccinated. Refusal constitutes a crime and will result in quarantine.
· Require any individual to undergo specific medical treatment. Refusal constitutes a crime and will result in quarantine.
· Seize any property, including real estate, food, medicine, fuel or clothing, an official thinks necessary to handle the emergency.
· Seize and destroy any property alleged to be hazardous. There will be no compensation or recourse.
· Draft you or your business into state service.
· 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.
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.
In California on January 8, 2002, Assembly Member Richman introduced Bill 1763 Emergency Health Powers Act. ( http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ ) This may serve the Bush Administration's aims, but bodes ominously for democracy.
The Patriot Bill, the Anti-Terrorism Bill, the Homeland Security Act were not written in the wake of September 11,th 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 intellegence community were most likely responsible for the anthrax attacks on Democrats and the media.
The Center for Law and the Public Health was convened on Oct. 5 th 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.
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
"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."
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?
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 )
It is hypocritical to "Wage War on Terrorism" while one is funding, training, and engaging in Terrorist Acts at home and abroad.
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.
More Background on Emergency Health Powers Act (MEHPA).
California's Emergency Health Powers Act, AB 1763, as introduced 1/8/02, follows the national model (MEHPA) fairly closely.
We hope that this legislation (state Emergency Health Powers Acts) be defeated, especially in California, where laws, programs, and experienced agencies are already in place to deal with emergencies that could affect public health. However, outright defeat could prove to be very difficult given some important factors such as:
* the number of very powerful groups which have already endorsed the MEHPA
* the political makeup of various legislatures
* the complexities of the issues, which most legislators will not understand, such as interaction with current laws
* the general popular concern about doing something regarding terrorism
* the millions of federal dollars being made available to the states on condition of having specified programs in place at the state level
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AAPS (American Academy of Physicians and Surgeons) ANALYSIS
MODEL EMERGENCY HEALTH POWERS ACT (MEHPA) TURNS GOVERNORS INTO DICTATORS
12/3/2001
This Act grants unprecedented and unchecked powers to the Governors of the 50 States.
AAPS ANALYSIS
REVISED DRAFT OF MODEL STATE EMERGENCY HEALTH POWERS ACT (DEC. 21) STILL A PRESCRIPTION FOR TYRANNY
The "new" Model State Emergency Health Powers Act (December 21 version) has apparently been modified to remove those provisions that attracted the most dissension.... This appears to be a disingenuous effort to mute criticism while making little substantial change in the proposal.
URL: http://www.aapsonline.org/
[obtain by clicking on 1) Legislation; 2) Model State Emergency Health Powers Act (MSEHPA) - 12/10/2001]; 3) the specific document
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AAPS December 2, 2001 Action Notice
To State, Local, and Specialty Medical Society Officers and Staff:
Under pressure from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, your state legislature will probably be considering the Model Emergency Health Powers Act (MEHPA), which would give the Governor unprecedented, dictatorial powers in the event that he decided to declare a "public health emergency."
URL: http://www.aapsonline.org/legis/medsocemer.htm
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Emergency Measures
States grapple with methods for dealing with bioterrorism
The suspension of traditional American civil liberties, no matter how necessary or temporary, is a serious issue. So is the prospect, no matter how unlikely, of thousands of Americans suffering from a deadly epidemic. The reform of state public-health laws is under way. How well those reforms balance these two issues may one day affect our lives, health and freedoms in a profound way.
URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... hwatch.DTL
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Health bill endangers civil rights
Bush pushes plan to expand control in bioweapon attack
The administration wants all 50 states to adopt a law allowing public health authorities to take over hospitals, seize drug supplies, quarantine people exposed to infectious pathogens, draft doctors to treat them, force patients to be vaccinated, and order police to restrain residents from leaving contaminated areas.
URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 232750.DTL
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NUREMBERG CODE
The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, over-reaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision.
URL: http://ohsr.od.nih.gov/nuremberg.php3
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AAPS Resolution Concerning Mandatory Vaccinations
Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
"BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED: That AAPS calls for a moratorium on vaccine mandates and for physicians to insist upon truly informed consent for the use of vaccines."
URL: http://www.aapsonline.org/testimony/vacresol.htm
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The Vaccine Reaction
Special report - Winter 2002
SMALLPOX AND FORCED VACCINATION:
WHAT EVERY AMERICAN NEEDS TO KNOW
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.
The terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C. on September 11, 2001 and the subsequent threats of biological warfare against US 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 US 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.
Barbara Loe Fisher
URL: http://www.909shot.com/smallpoxspecialrpt.htm
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
January 25, 2002
Contact: HHS Press Office (202) 690-6343
BIOTERROR FUNDING PROVIDES BLUEPRINT TO BUILD A STRONG NEW PUBLIC HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE
On Jan. 10, President Bush signed appropriations legislation providing $2.9 billion for HHS, a ten-fold increase in the department's funding for bioterrorism preparedness. As the lead federal agency in preparing for the bioterrorism threat, HHS will work closely with states, local government and the private sector to build the needed new public health infrastructure, and to accelerate research into likely bioterror diseases.
HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson has committed to providing funds rapidly, while ensuring full accountability for the new spending. He announced a first installment of more than $200 million in funding for state and local resources, to be made available by Jan. 31.
URL: http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2002pres/20020125.html
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Friday, Jan. 25, 2002
Contact: HHS Press Office (202) 690-6343
FEDERAL FUNDS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE BEGINS TO FLOW TO STATES
HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson announced today plans for the release of the first installment of more than $200 million in funds from the more than $1 billion in bioterrorism money designated for states to help prepare their public health infrastructures to respond in the event of a bioterrorism attack.
URL: http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2002pres/20020125a.html
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Thursday, Jan. 31, 2002
Contact: HHS Press Office (202) 690-6343
HHS ANNOUNCES $1.1 BILLION IN FUNDING TO STATES FOR BIOTERRORISM PREPAREDNESS
HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson today sent letters to governors detailing how much each state will receive of the $1.1 billion to help them strengthen their capacity to respond to bioterrorism and other public health emergencies resulting from terrorism. The money will allow states to begin planning and building the public health systems necessary to respond.
States will be permitted to begin immediately spending up to 20 percent of their allotments, so as to avoid delay in starting preparedness measures. The remaining 80 percent of the $1.1 billion in state funds will be released once complete plans have been received and approved.
URL: http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2002pres/20020131b.html
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American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)
URL: http://www.alec.org/
[The status of the Emergency Health Powers Act in each State is also available on this web site.]
ALEC Concerns about the MEHPA:
Strips individuals and families of their rights and liberties at the expense of government
Represents unnecessary and duplicative legislation given existing state natural disaster statutes
Provides a number of potential legal loopholes for trial lawyers to extort
Grants overly sweeping takings rights to the government
Fails to consider individual state needs
Consolidates broad power to Public Health Officials, most of whom are unelected
Erects barriers to states ability to respond, slowing down response times
Utilizes vague language to define key concepts, including when an emergency can be declared
Grants additional, duplicative due process rights for quarantined persons
Allows public health authorities to ration drugs and other items, but does not specify the manner in which these items would be rationed
Ignores potential costs, both dollar and human.
For additional information please contact:
Sandy Bourne at (202) 466-3800 ext. 245 or
Jennifer King at (202) 466-3800 ext. 229
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Selected Laws currently in the California Emergency Services Act
Except as noted, all sections below are from the California Government Code
California's laws (Codes and Regulations which implement the Codes) can be accessed at the following web sites:
Codes: http:// www.leginfo.ca.gov/calaw. html
Regulations: http:// ccr.oal.ca.gov /
8566. The Governor is empowered to expend any appropriation for support of the California Emergency Services Act to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
8567. (a) The Governor may make, amend, and rescind orders and regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter. The orders and regulations shall have the force and effect of law. Due consideration shall be given to the plans of the federal government in preparing the orders and regulations. The Governor shall cause widespread publicity and notice to be given to all such orders and regulations, or amendments or rescissions thereof.
(b) Orders and regulations, or amendments or rescissions thereof, issued during a state of war emergency or state of emergency shall be in writing and shall take effect immediately upon their issuance. Whenever the state of war emergency or state of emergency has been terminated, the orders and regulations shall be of no further force or effect.
(c) All orders and regulations relating to the use of funds pursuant to Article 16 (commencing with Section 8645) shall be prepared in advance of any commitment or expenditure of the funds.
Other orders and regulations needed to carry out the provisions of this chapter shall, whenever practicable, be prepared in advance of a state of war emergency or state of emergency.
(d) All orders and regulations made in advance of a state of war emergency or state of emergency shall be in writing, shall be exempt from Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2, but shall be subject to the approval of the Emergency Council. As soon thereafter as possible they shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State and with the county clerk of each county.
GC 8571. During a state of war emergency or a state of emergency the Governor may suspend any regulatory statute, or statute prescribing the procedure for conduct of state business, or the orders, rules, or regulations of any state agency, including subdivision (d) of Section 1253 of the Unemployment Insurance Code, where the Governor determines and declares that strict compliance with any statute, order, rule, or regulation would in any way prevent, hinder, or delay the mitigation of the effects of the emergency.
[for reference: UIC §1253. An unemployed individual is eligible to receive unemployment compensation benefits with respect to any week only if the director finds that:
(d) He has been unemployed for a waiting period of one week as defined in Section 1254, unless this waiting period has been waived pursuant to Section 8571 of the Government Code.]
GC 8572. In the exercise of the emergency powers hereby vested in him during a state of war emergency or state of emergency, the Governor is authorized to commandeer or utilize any private property or personnel deemed by him necessary in carrying out the responsibilities hereby vested in him as Chief Executive of the state and the state shall pay the reasonable value thereof. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, the Governor is not authorized to commandeer any newspaper, newspaper wire service, or radio or television station, but may, during a state of war emergency or state of emergency, and if no other means of communication are available, utilize any news wire services, and the state shall pay the reasonable value of such use. In so utilizing any such facilities, the Governor shall interfere as little as possible with their use for the transmission of news.
8586. The Governor shall assign all or part of his powers and duties under this chapter to the Office of Emergency Services. The Director of the Office of Emergency Services shall appoint pursuant to the State Civil Service Act such employees as are needed.
8587. During a state of war emergency, a state of emergency, or a local emergency, the director shall coordinate the emergency activities of all state agencies in connection with such emergency, and every state agency and officer shall cooperate with the director in rendering all possible assistance in carrying out the provisions of this chapter.
In addition to the powers herein designated, the Governor may delegate any of the powers vested in him under this chapter to the Director of the Office of Emergency Services except the power to make, amend, and rescind orders and regulations, and the power to proclaim a state of emergency.
Art. 13. State of Emergency
8625. The Governor is hereby empowered to proclaim a state of emergency in an area affected or likely to be affected thereby when:
(a) He finds that circumstances described in subdivision (b) of Section 8558 [[see below]] exist; and either
(b) He is requested to do so (1) in the case of a city by the mayor or chief executive, (2) in the case of a county by the chairman of the board of supervisors or the county administrative officer; or
(c) He finds that local authority is inadequate to cope with the emergency.
8626. Such proclamation shall be in writing and shall take effect immediately upon its issuance. As soon thereafter as possible such proclamation shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State. The Governor shall cause widespread publicity and notice to be given such proclamation.
8627. During a state of emergency the Governor shall, to the extent he deems necessary, have complete authority over all agencies of the state government and the right to exercise within the area designated all police power vested in the state by the Constitution and laws of the State of California in order to effectuate the purposes of this chapter. In exercise thereof, he shall promulgate, issue, and enforce such orders and regulations as he deems necessary, in accordance with the provisions of Section 8567.
8627.5. (a) The Governor may make, amend, or rescind orders and regulations during a state of emergency that temporarily suspend any state, county, city, or special district statute, ordinance, regulation, or rule imposing nonsafety related restrictions on the delivery of food products, pharmaceuticals, and other emergency necessities distributed through retail or institutional channels, including, but not limited to, hospitals, jails, restaurants, and schools. The Governor shall cause widespread publicity and notice to be given to all of these orders and regulations, or amendments and rescissions thereof.
(b) The orders and regulations shall be in writing and take effect immediately on issuance. The temporary suspension of any statute, ordinance, regulation, or rule shall remain in effect until the order or regulation is rescinded by the Governor, the Governor proclaims the termination of the state of emergency, or for a period of 60 days, whichever occurs first.
8628. During a state of emergency the Governor may direct all agencies of the state government to utilize and employ state personnel, equipment, and facilities for the performance of any and all activities designed to prevent or alleviate actual and threatened damage due to the emergency; and he may direct such agencies to provide supplemental services and equipment to political subdivisions to restore any services which must be restored in order to provide for the health and safety of the citizens of the affected area. Any agency so directed by the Governor may expend any of the moneys which have been appropriated to it in performing such activities, irrespective of the particular purpose for which the money was appropriated.
8629. The Governor shall proclaim the termination of a state of emergency at the earliest possible date that conditions warrant. All of the powers granted the Governor by this chapter with respect to a state of emergency shall terminate when the state of emergency has been terminated by proclamation of the Governor or by concurrent resolution of the Legislature declaring it at an end.
Circumstances describing an emergency referenced in GC 8625
8558. Three conditions or degrees of emergency are established by this chapter:
(a) "State of war emergency" means the condition which exists immediately, with or without a proclamation thereof by the Governor, whenever this state or nation is attacked by an enemy of the United States, or upon receipt by the state of a warning from the federal government indicating that such an enemy attack is probable or imminent.
(b) "State of emergency" means the duly proclaimed existence of conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the state caused by such conditions as air
pollution, fire, flood, storm, epidemic, riot, drought, sudden and severe energy shortage, plant or animal infestation or disease, the Governor's warning of an earthquake or volcanic prediction, or an earthquake, complications resulting from the Year 2000 Problem, or other conditions, other than conditions resulting from a labor controversy or conditions causing a "state of war emergency," which, by reason of their magnitude, are or are likely to be beyond the control of the services, personnel, equipment, and facilities of any single county, city and county, or city and require the combined forces of a mutual aid region or regions to combat, or with respect to regulated energy utilities, a sudden and severe energy shortage requires extraordinary measures beyond the authority vested in the California Public Utilities Commission.
(c) "Local emergency" means the duly proclaimed existence of conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the territorial limits of a county, city and county, or city, caused by such conditions as air pollution, fire, flood, storm, epidemic, riot, drought, sudden and severe energy shortage, plant or animal infestation or disease, the Governor's warning of an earthquake or volcanic prediction, or an earthquake, complications resulting from the Year 2000 Problem, or other conditions, other than conditions resulting from a labor controversy,
which are or are likely to be beyond the control of the services, personnel, equipment, and facilities of that political subdivision and require the combined forces of other political subdivisions to combat, or with respect to regulated energy utilities, a sudden and severe energy shortage requires extraordinary measures beyond the authority vested in the California Public Utilities Commission.
Art. 17. Privileges and Immunities
8655. The state or its political subdivisions shall not be liable for any claim based upon the exercise or performance, or the failure to exercise or perform, a discretionary function or duty on the part of a state or local agency or any employee of the state or its political subdivisions in carrying out the provisions of this chapter.
8659. Any physician or surgeon (whether licensed in this state or any other state), hospital, pharmacist, nurse, or dentist who renders services during any state of war emergency, a state of emergency, or a local emergency at the express or implied request of any responsible state or local official or agency shall have no liability for any injury sustained by any person by reason of such services, regardless of how or under what circumstances or by what cause such injuries are sustained; provided, however, that the immunity herein granted shall not apply in the event of a willful act or omission.
8660. No other state or its officers or employees rendering aid in this state pursuant to any interstate arrangement, agreement, or compact shall be liable on account of any act or omission in good faith on the part of such state or its officers or employees while so engaged, or on account of the maintenance or use of any equipment or supplies in connection with an emergency.
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Excerpts from the California Health and Safety Code
The following references in the California Health and Safety Code are indicative of the fact that California laws currently deal with most of the same issues as the proposed new Emergency Health Powers Act, such as:
* contagious, infectious, and communicable diseases
* acquisition and disposition of contaminated property
* isolation and quarantine of individuals and groups of individuals
* identification reporting of contagious, infectious, and communicable diseases
Section 120130 requires the establishment of a listing of reportable diseases, requires prompt reporting and allows isolation or quarantine for any case of contagious, infectious, or communicable disease.
Section 120135 allows the Department of Health Services to establish and maintain places of quarantine or isolation.
Section 120145 allows the Department of Health Services to quarantine , isolate, inspect, and disinfect persons, animals, houses, rooms, other property, etc.
Section 120150 allows the Department of Health Services to destroy such household goods, furnishings, materials, clothing, or animals.
Section 120190 requires each health officer to immediately report every case of a disease designated for immediate reporting by the department.
Section 120250 requires all physicians, nurses, clergymen, attendants, owners, proprietors, managers, employees, and persons living with, or visiting any sick person who is ill of any infectious, contagious, or communicable disease, to promptly report that fact.
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From an activist friend-
I suspect that what went "disastrously wrong" with this CIA operation was that they bungled the setting-up of hard links between the anthrax and Iraq. But our black-budget boys are far from finished. I expect a major bioterror operation in a matter of weeks with convenient Iraqi fingerprints all over it. With a horrible US death toll that will justify nuking Baghdad (Alas, Babylon), profitable war in perpetuity, and martial law at home. To serve as a "smoking gun," our boys probably have lined up a few fervent Iraqi stooges that will be involved at the last stages of the operation. I wouldn't be surprised if the script calls for a chase and capture of the stooges to be covered by live TV news, given that we're a TV-oriented society.
A tricky part of such an operation - i.e., enlisting stooges of a desired nationality to be caught red-handed - is successfully hiding the CIA/German hand. This, I suspect, is what went wrong with the 1995 Oklahoma City operation - the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building. Evidently they successfully enlisted a couple of Iraqi stooges, who were conveniently "seen with" Timothy McVeigh, so the bombing would play out as an "Iraqi terrorist" drama. So what went wrong? Why was it instead declared the work of lone, derranged, "domestic terrorist" McVeigh? My answer - too many people learned of the central role of Bundeswehr counterintelligence specialist Lt. Andreas Strassmeir. "Andy" had been hanging out in the area casing buildings for a few years. In 1992, three years before the Murrah bombing, he was stopped by the Oklahoma State Police on a minor traffic violation, and they found in his locked briefcase (the police were forced to break the lock) plans for making a fuel-fertilizer bomb (the kind used in the Murrah bombing) and papers relating to Strassmeir's negotiations to buy two Boeing 747's from Lufthansa Airlines. Even though the FBI wrote a report on this information after the Murrah bombing, unbelievably, Strassmeir was never questioned by the FBI. He was quickly, silently whisked out of the country. Andreas Strassmeir was the son of German high politico Guenter Strassmeir, who, along with George H. Bush, played a central role in German reunification. [Did you know that the day chosen to bring down the Berlin wall was a sacred Nazi holiday - Nov. 9, "Blutzeuge" (Day of Blood)?] Guenter was Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Secretary of State, i.e., his right-hand man, and also a high official in the German CIA, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND). Kohl, before money scandals prompted his replacement, had "...chosen nationalists and extremists as members of his government. Several deputy ministers and CDU leadership officials in Kohl's inner circle have been linked to organizations seeking to retake parts of Poland, the Czech Republic and Russia as parts of a greater Germany." Excerpt from
http://burn.ucsd.edu/archives/ats-l/1996.Jan/0091.html
Incidentally, in 1999 Bill Clinton awarded his staunch soul-mate Kohl with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, this nation's highest civilian honor, for "...championing ...deeper European integration and human dignity for all people." Excerpt from:
http://www.usembassy.ro/USIS/Washington ... eur518.htm
Regarding our government's next devastating attack on us, someone whose opinon I highly value suggested that the govt. may be planning it for Eastertime, as this would best feed the "Islam vs. Christianity" drama that the govt. is creating while denying it. Given these and similar grim realities, I suggest we stay tuned for the live TV chase/capture, and in the meantime investigate who's buying options on body bags.
From- http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/internatio ... =288522002
Anthrax attacks may have been CIA test gone wrong
John Innes
AN AMERICAN expert last night claimed last autumn's anthrax attacks may have been the result of CIA research which went disastrously wrong.
At the same time, health ministers of the G7 countries and Mexico met in London and agreed to carry out an international exercise to test reactions to a biological, chemical or radio-nuclear terrorist incident.
Barbara Rosenberg, the director of the Federation of American Scientists' Chemical and Biological Weapons Program, raised the possibility that the CIA could have ordered a "field trial" on the possible effects of delivering anthrax through the mail and the contents could have been used by whoever was responsible for the anthrax attacks.
Dr Rosenberg told the BBC's Newsnight: "Some very expert field person would have been given this job and it would have been left to him to decide exactly how to carry it out.
"The result might have been a project gone badly awry if he decided to use it for his own purposes and target the media and the Senate for his own motives as not intended by the government project."
Dr Rosenberg claimed the culprit had knowledge both of the law and of the detective work it would need for him to be caught. She said: "This person knows a lot about forensic matters, knows exactly what he can be prosecuted for and what he can get away with and I think he had some personal matters that he might have wanted to settle, but I think in addition that he felt that bio-defence was being underemphasised for some time in the past."
Carol Brouillet
http://www.communitycurrency.org/9-11
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Palo Alto, California
tel. 650-857-0927
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altho the following is a political notice to me, it brings to the fore the level of attack on individuals to chose their own health protocol. it follows on the passage of a sweeping piece of legislation in europe that prevents natural vitamins an herbs to be sold over the counter (i have not read the bill for accurate wording). i passed along notice of this legislation about a week ago just prior to the eu vote. i think members of this list will be interested in this newest level of developement
tanya
Subject: Oppose the Emergency Health Powers Act!
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 14:18:11 -0800
From: Carol Brouillet
Reply-To: stoptheWTO@topica.com
To: stoptheWTO@topica.com
The latest assault on democracy is going on in all of the state legislatures. This is what we are doing in California- some states have already passed similar measures, the pressure will mount upon the others. This needs to be exposed and resisted!
Oppose New Legislative Threat to Health and Democracy!
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..
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:
· Require any individual to be vaccinated. Refusal constitutes a crime and will result in quarantine.
· Require any individual to undergo specific medical treatment. Refusal constitutes a crime and will result in quarantine.
· Seize any property, including real estate, food, medicine, fuel or clothing, an official thinks necessary to handle the emergency.
· Seize and destroy any property alleged to be hazardous. There will be no compensation or recourse.
· Draft you or your business into state service.
· 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.
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.
In California on January 8, 2002, Assembly Member Richman introduced Bill 1763 Emergency Health Powers Act. ( http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ ) This may serve the Bush Administration's aims, but bodes ominously for democracy.
The Patriot Bill, the Anti-Terrorism Bill, the Homeland Security Act were not written in the wake of September 11,th 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 intellegence community were most likely responsible for the anthrax attacks on Democrats and the media.
The Center for Law and the Public Health was convened on Oct. 5 th 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.
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
"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."
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?
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 )
It is hypocritical to "Wage War on Terrorism" while one is funding, training, and engaging in Terrorist Acts at home and abroad.
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.
More Background on Emergency Health Powers Act (MEHPA).
California's Emergency Health Powers Act, AB 1763, as introduced 1/8/02, follows the national model (MEHPA) fairly closely.
We hope that this legislation (state Emergency Health Powers Acts) be defeated, especially in California, where laws, programs, and experienced agencies are already in place to deal with emergencies that could affect public health. However, outright defeat could prove to be very difficult given some important factors such as:
* the number of very powerful groups which have already endorsed the MEHPA
* the political makeup of various legislatures
* the complexities of the issues, which most legislators will not understand, such as interaction with current laws
* the general popular concern about doing something regarding terrorism
* the millions of federal dollars being made available to the states on condition of having specified programs in place at the state level
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AAPS (American Academy of Physicians and Surgeons) ANALYSIS
MODEL EMERGENCY HEALTH POWERS ACT (MEHPA) TURNS GOVERNORS INTO DICTATORS
12/3/2001
This Act grants unprecedented and unchecked powers to the Governors of the 50 States.
AAPS ANALYSIS
REVISED DRAFT OF MODEL STATE EMERGENCY HEALTH POWERS ACT (DEC. 21) STILL A PRESCRIPTION FOR TYRANNY
The "new" Model State Emergency Health Powers Act (December 21 version) has apparently been modified to remove those provisions that attracted the most dissension.... This appears to be a disingenuous effort to mute criticism while making little substantial change in the proposal.
URL: http://www.aapsonline.org/
[obtain by clicking on 1) Legislation; 2) Model State Emergency Health Powers Act (MSEHPA) - 12/10/2001]; 3) the specific document
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AAPS December 2, 2001 Action Notice
To State, Local, and Specialty Medical Society Officers and Staff:
Under pressure from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, your state legislature will probably be considering the Model Emergency Health Powers Act (MEHPA), which would give the Governor unprecedented, dictatorial powers in the event that he decided to declare a "public health emergency."
URL: http://www.aapsonline.org/legis/medsocemer.htm
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Emergency Measures
States grapple with methods for dealing with bioterrorism
The suspension of traditional American civil liberties, no matter how necessary or temporary, is a serious issue. So is the prospect, no matter how unlikely, of thousands of Americans suffering from a deadly epidemic. The reform of state public-health laws is under way. How well those reforms balance these two issues may one day affect our lives, health and freedoms in a profound way.
URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... hwatch.DTL
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Health bill endangers civil rights
Bush pushes plan to expand control in bioweapon attack
The administration wants all 50 states to adopt a law allowing public health authorities to take over hospitals, seize drug supplies, quarantine people exposed to infectious pathogens, draft doctors to treat them, force patients to be vaccinated, and order police to restrain residents from leaving contaminated areas.
URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 232750.DTL
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NUREMBERG CODE
The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, over-reaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision.
URL: http://ohsr.od.nih.gov/nuremberg.php3
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AAPS Resolution Concerning Mandatory Vaccinations
Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
"BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED: That AAPS calls for a moratorium on vaccine mandates and for physicians to insist upon truly informed consent for the use of vaccines."
URL: http://www.aapsonline.org/testimony/vacresol.htm
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The Vaccine Reaction
Special report - Winter 2002
SMALLPOX AND FORCED VACCINATION:
WHAT EVERY AMERICAN NEEDS TO KNOW
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.
The terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C. on September 11, 2001 and the subsequent threats of biological warfare against US 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 US 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.
Barbara Loe Fisher
URL: http://www.909shot.com/smallpoxspecialrpt.htm
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
January 25, 2002
Contact: HHS Press Office (202) 690-6343
BIOTERROR FUNDING PROVIDES BLUEPRINT TO BUILD A STRONG NEW PUBLIC HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE
On Jan. 10, President Bush signed appropriations legislation providing $2.9 billion for HHS, a ten-fold increase in the department's funding for bioterrorism preparedness. As the lead federal agency in preparing for the bioterrorism threat, HHS will work closely with states, local government and the private sector to build the needed new public health infrastructure, and to accelerate research into likely bioterror diseases.
HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson has committed to providing funds rapidly, while ensuring full accountability for the new spending. He announced a first installment of more than $200 million in funding for state and local resources, to be made available by Jan. 31.
URL: http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2002pres/20020125.html
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Friday, Jan. 25, 2002
Contact: HHS Press Office (202) 690-6343
FEDERAL FUNDS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE BEGINS TO FLOW TO STATES
HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson announced today plans for the release of the first installment of more than $200 million in funds from the more than $1 billion in bioterrorism money designated for states to help prepare their public health infrastructures to respond in the event of a bioterrorism attack.
URL: http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2002pres/20020125a.html
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Thursday, Jan. 31, 2002
Contact: HHS Press Office (202) 690-6343
HHS ANNOUNCES $1.1 BILLION IN FUNDING TO STATES FOR BIOTERRORISM PREPAREDNESS
HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson today sent letters to governors detailing how much each state will receive of the $1.1 billion to help them strengthen their capacity to respond to bioterrorism and other public health emergencies resulting from terrorism. The money will allow states to begin planning and building the public health systems necessary to respond.
States will be permitted to begin immediately spending up to 20 percent of their allotments, so as to avoid delay in starting preparedness measures. The remaining 80 percent of the $1.1 billion in state funds will be released once complete plans have been received and approved.
URL: http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2002pres/20020131b.html
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American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)
URL: http://www.alec.org/
[The status of the Emergency Health Powers Act in each State is also available on this web site.]
ALEC Concerns about the MEHPA:
Strips individuals and families of their rights and liberties at the expense of government
Represents unnecessary and duplicative legislation given existing state natural disaster statutes
Provides a number of potential legal loopholes for trial lawyers to extort
Grants overly sweeping takings rights to the government
Fails to consider individual state needs
Consolidates broad power to Public Health Officials, most of whom are unelected
Erects barriers to states ability to respond, slowing down response times
Utilizes vague language to define key concepts, including when an emergency can be declared
Grants additional, duplicative due process rights for quarantined persons
Allows public health authorities to ration drugs and other items, but does not specify the manner in which these items would be rationed
Ignores potential costs, both dollar and human.
For additional information please contact:
Sandy Bourne at (202) 466-3800 ext. 245 or
Jennifer King at (202) 466-3800 ext. 229
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Selected Laws currently in the California Emergency Services Act
Except as noted, all sections below are from the California Government Code
California's laws (Codes and Regulations which implement the Codes) can be accessed at the following web sites:
Codes: http:// www.leginfo.ca.gov/calaw. html
Regulations: http:// ccr.oal.ca.gov /
8566. The Governor is empowered to expend any appropriation for support of the California Emergency Services Act to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
8567. (a) The Governor may make, amend, and rescind orders and regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter. The orders and regulations shall have the force and effect of law. Due consideration shall be given to the plans of the federal government in preparing the orders and regulations. The Governor shall cause widespread publicity and notice to be given to all such orders and regulations, or amendments or rescissions thereof.
(b) Orders and regulations, or amendments or rescissions thereof, issued during a state of war emergency or state of emergency shall be in writing and shall take effect immediately upon their issuance. Whenever the state of war emergency or state of emergency has been terminated, the orders and regulations shall be of no further force or effect.
(c) All orders and regulations relating to the use of funds pursuant to Article 16 (commencing with Section 8645) shall be prepared in advance of any commitment or expenditure of the funds.
Other orders and regulations needed to carry out the provisions of this chapter shall, whenever practicable, be prepared in advance of a state of war emergency or state of emergency.
(d) All orders and regulations made in advance of a state of war emergency or state of emergency shall be in writing, shall be exempt from Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2, but shall be subject to the approval of the Emergency Council. As soon thereafter as possible they shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State and with the county clerk of each county.
GC 8571. During a state of war emergency or a state of emergency the Governor may suspend any regulatory statute, or statute prescribing the procedure for conduct of state business, or the orders, rules, or regulations of any state agency, including subdivision (d) of Section 1253 of the Unemployment Insurance Code, where the Governor determines and declares that strict compliance with any statute, order, rule, or regulation would in any way prevent, hinder, or delay the mitigation of the effects of the emergency.
[for reference: UIC §1253. An unemployed individual is eligible to receive unemployment compensation benefits with respect to any week only if the director finds that:
(d) He has been unemployed for a waiting period of one week as defined in Section 1254, unless this waiting period has been waived pursuant to Section 8571 of the Government Code.]
GC 8572. In the exercise of the emergency powers hereby vested in him during a state of war emergency or state of emergency, the Governor is authorized to commandeer or utilize any private property or personnel deemed by him necessary in carrying out the responsibilities hereby vested in him as Chief Executive of the state and the state shall pay the reasonable value thereof. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, the Governor is not authorized to commandeer any newspaper, newspaper wire service, or radio or television station, but may, during a state of war emergency or state of emergency, and if no other means of communication are available, utilize any news wire services, and the state shall pay the reasonable value of such use. In so utilizing any such facilities, the Governor shall interfere as little as possible with their use for the transmission of news.
8586. The Governor shall assign all or part of his powers and duties under this chapter to the Office of Emergency Services. The Director of the Office of Emergency Services shall appoint pursuant to the State Civil Service Act such employees as are needed.
8587. During a state of war emergency, a state of emergency, or a local emergency, the director shall coordinate the emergency activities of all state agencies in connection with such emergency, and every state agency and officer shall cooperate with the director in rendering all possible assistance in carrying out the provisions of this chapter.
In addition to the powers herein designated, the Governor may delegate any of the powers vested in him under this chapter to the Director of the Office of Emergency Services except the power to make, amend, and rescind orders and regulations, and the power to proclaim a state of emergency.
Art. 13. State of Emergency
8625. The Governor is hereby empowered to proclaim a state of emergency in an area affected or likely to be affected thereby when:
(a) He finds that circumstances described in subdivision (b) of Section 8558 [[see below]] exist; and either
(b) He is requested to do so (1) in the case of a city by the mayor or chief executive, (2) in the case of a county by the chairman of the board of supervisors or the county administrative officer; or
(c) He finds that local authority is inadequate to cope with the emergency.
8626. Such proclamation shall be in writing and shall take effect immediately upon its issuance. As soon thereafter as possible such proclamation shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State. The Governor shall cause widespread publicity and notice to be given such proclamation.
8627. During a state of emergency the Governor shall, to the extent he deems necessary, have complete authority over all agencies of the state government and the right to exercise within the area designated all police power vested in the state by the Constitution and laws of the State of California in order to effectuate the purposes of this chapter. In exercise thereof, he shall promulgate, issue, and enforce such orders and regulations as he deems necessary, in accordance with the provisions of Section 8567.
8627.5. (a) The Governor may make, amend, or rescind orders and regulations during a state of emergency that temporarily suspend any state, county, city, or special district statute, ordinance, regulation, or rule imposing nonsafety related restrictions on the delivery of food products, pharmaceuticals, and other emergency necessities distributed through retail or institutional channels, including, but not limited to, hospitals, jails, restaurants, and schools. The Governor shall cause widespread publicity and notice to be given to all of these orders and regulations, or amendments and rescissions thereof.
(b) The orders and regulations shall be in writing and take effect immediately on issuance. The temporary suspension of any statute, ordinance, regulation, or rule shall remain in effect until the order or regulation is rescinded by the Governor, the Governor proclaims the termination of the state of emergency, or for a period of 60 days, whichever occurs first.
8628. During a state of emergency the Governor may direct all agencies of the state government to utilize and employ state personnel, equipment, and facilities for the performance of any and all activities designed to prevent or alleviate actual and threatened damage due to the emergency; and he may direct such agencies to provide supplemental services and equipment to political subdivisions to restore any services which must be restored in order to provide for the health and safety of the citizens of the affected area. Any agency so directed by the Governor may expend any of the moneys which have been appropriated to it in performing such activities, irrespective of the particular purpose for which the money was appropriated.
8629. The Governor shall proclaim the termination of a state of emergency at the earliest possible date that conditions warrant. All of the powers granted the Governor by this chapter with respect to a state of emergency shall terminate when the state of emergency has been terminated by proclamation of the Governor or by concurrent resolution of the Legislature declaring it at an end.
Circumstances describing an emergency referenced in GC 8625
8558. Three conditions or degrees of emergency are established by this chapter:
(a) "State of war emergency" means the condition which exists immediately, with or without a proclamation thereof by the Governor, whenever this state or nation is attacked by an enemy of the United States, or upon receipt by the state of a warning from the federal government indicating that such an enemy attack is probable or imminent.
(b) "State of emergency" means the duly proclaimed existence of conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the state caused by such conditions as air
pollution, fire, flood, storm, epidemic, riot, drought, sudden and severe energy shortage, plant or animal infestation or disease, the Governor's warning of an earthquake or volcanic prediction, or an earthquake, complications resulting from the Year 2000 Problem, or other conditions, other than conditions resulting from a labor controversy or conditions causing a "state of war emergency," which, by reason of their magnitude, are or are likely to be beyond the control of the services, personnel, equipment, and facilities of any single county, city and county, or city and require the combined forces of a mutual aid region or regions to combat, or with respect to regulated energy utilities, a sudden and severe energy shortage requires extraordinary measures beyond the authority vested in the California Public Utilities Commission.
(c) "Local emergency" means the duly proclaimed existence of conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the territorial limits of a county, city and county, or city, caused by such conditions as air pollution, fire, flood, storm, epidemic, riot, drought, sudden and severe energy shortage, plant or animal infestation or disease, the Governor's warning of an earthquake or volcanic prediction, or an earthquake, complications resulting from the Year 2000 Problem, or other conditions, other than conditions resulting from a labor controversy,
which are or are likely to be beyond the control of the services, personnel, equipment, and facilities of that political subdivision and require the combined forces of other political subdivisions to combat, or with respect to regulated energy utilities, a sudden and severe energy shortage requires extraordinary measures beyond the authority vested in the California Public Utilities Commission.
Art. 17. Privileges and Immunities
8655. The state or its political subdivisions shall not be liable for any claim based upon the exercise or performance, or the failure to exercise or perform, a discretionary function or duty on the part of a state or local agency or any employee of the state or its political subdivisions in carrying out the provisions of this chapter.
8659. Any physician or surgeon (whether licensed in this state or any other state), hospital, pharmacist, nurse, or dentist who renders services during any state of war emergency, a state of emergency, or a local emergency at the express or implied request of any responsible state or local official or agency shall have no liability for any injury sustained by any person by reason of such services, regardless of how or under what circumstances or by what cause such injuries are sustained; provided, however, that the immunity herein granted shall not apply in the event of a willful act or omission.
8660. No other state or its officers or employees rendering aid in this state pursuant to any interstate arrangement, agreement, or compact shall be liable on account of any act or omission in good faith on the part of such state or its officers or employees while so engaged, or on account of the maintenance or use of any equipment or supplies in connection with an emergency.
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Excerpts from the California Health and Safety Code
The following references in the California Health and Safety Code are indicative of the fact that California laws currently deal with most of the same issues as the proposed new Emergency Health Powers Act, such as:
* contagious, infectious, and communicable diseases
* acquisition and disposition of contaminated property
* isolation and quarantine of individuals and groups of individuals
* identification reporting of contagious, infectious, and communicable diseases
Section 120130 requires the establishment of a listing of reportable diseases, requires prompt reporting and allows isolation or quarantine for any case of contagious, infectious, or communicable disease.
Section 120135 allows the Department of Health Services to establish and maintain places of quarantine or isolation.
Section 120145 allows the Department of Health Services to quarantine , isolate, inspect, and disinfect persons, animals, houses, rooms, other property, etc.
Section 120150 allows the Department of Health Services to destroy such household goods, furnishings, materials, clothing, or animals.
Section 120190 requires each health officer to immediately report every case of a disease designated for immediate reporting by the department.
Section 120250 requires all physicians, nurses, clergymen, attendants, owners, proprietors, managers, employees, and persons living with, or visiting any sick person who is ill of any infectious, contagious, or communicable disease, to promptly report that fact.
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From an activist friend-
I suspect that what went "disastrously wrong" with this CIA operation was that they bungled the setting-up of hard links between the anthrax and Iraq. But our black-budget boys are far from finished. I expect a major bioterror operation in a matter of weeks with convenient Iraqi fingerprints all over it. With a horrible US death toll that will justify nuking Baghdad (Alas, Babylon), profitable war in perpetuity, and martial law at home. To serve as a "smoking gun," our boys probably have lined up a few fervent Iraqi stooges that will be involved at the last stages of the operation. I wouldn't be surprised if the script calls for a chase and capture of the stooges to be covered by live TV news, given that we're a TV-oriented society.
A tricky part of such an operation - i.e., enlisting stooges of a desired nationality to be caught red-handed - is successfully hiding the CIA/German hand. This, I suspect, is what went wrong with the 1995 Oklahoma City operation - the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building. Evidently they successfully enlisted a couple of Iraqi stooges, who were conveniently "seen with" Timothy McVeigh, so the bombing would play out as an "Iraqi terrorist" drama. So what went wrong? Why was it instead declared the work of lone, derranged, "domestic terrorist" McVeigh? My answer - too many people learned of the central role of Bundeswehr counterintelligence specialist Lt. Andreas Strassmeir. "Andy" had been hanging out in the area casing buildings for a few years. In 1992, three years before the Murrah bombing, he was stopped by the Oklahoma State Police on a minor traffic violation, and they found in his locked briefcase (the police were forced to break the lock) plans for making a fuel-fertilizer bomb (the kind used in the Murrah bombing) and papers relating to Strassmeir's negotiations to buy two Boeing 747's from Lufthansa Airlines. Even though the FBI wrote a report on this information after the Murrah bombing, unbelievably, Strassmeir was never questioned by the FBI. He was quickly, silently whisked out of the country. Andreas Strassmeir was the son of German high politico Guenter Strassmeir, who, along with George H. Bush, played a central role in German reunification. [Did you know that the day chosen to bring down the Berlin wall was a sacred Nazi holiday - Nov. 9, "Blutzeuge" (Day of Blood)?] Guenter was Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Secretary of State, i.e., his right-hand man, and also a high official in the German CIA, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND). Kohl, before money scandals prompted his replacement, had "...chosen nationalists and extremists as members of his government. Several deputy ministers and CDU leadership officials in Kohl's inner circle have been linked to organizations seeking to retake parts of Poland, the Czech Republic and Russia as parts of a greater Germany." Excerpt from
http://burn.ucsd.edu/archives/ats-l/1996.Jan/0091.html
Incidentally, in 1999 Bill Clinton awarded his staunch soul-mate Kohl with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, this nation's highest civilian honor, for "...championing ...deeper European integration and human dignity for all people." Excerpt from:
http://www.usembassy.ro/USIS/Washington ... eur518.htm
Regarding our government's next devastating attack on us, someone whose opinon I highly value suggested that the govt. may be planning it for Eastertime, as this would best feed the "Islam vs. Christianity" drama that the govt. is creating while denying it. Given these and similar grim realities, I suggest we stay tuned for the live TV chase/capture, and in the meantime investigate who's buying options on body bags.
From- http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/internatio ... =288522002
Anthrax attacks may have been CIA test gone wrong
John Innes
AN AMERICAN expert last night claimed last autumn's anthrax attacks may have been the result of CIA research which went disastrously wrong.
At the same time, health ministers of the G7 countries and Mexico met in London and agreed to carry out an international exercise to test reactions to a biological, chemical or radio-nuclear terrorist incident.
Barbara Rosenberg, the director of the Federation of American Scientists' Chemical and Biological Weapons Program, raised the possibility that the CIA could have ordered a "field trial" on the possible effects of delivering anthrax through the mail and the contents could have been used by whoever was responsible for the anthrax attacks.
Dr Rosenberg told the BBC's Newsnight: "Some very expert field person would have been given this job and it would have been left to him to decide exactly how to carry it out.
"The result might have been a project gone badly awry if he decided to use it for his own purposes and target the media and the Senate for his own motives as not intended by the government project."
Dr Rosenberg claimed the culprit had knowledge both of the law and of the detective work it would need for him to be caught. She said: "This person knows a lot about forensic matters, knows exactly what he can be prosecuted for and what he can get away with and I think he had some personal matters that he might have wanted to settle, but I think in addition that he felt that bio-defence was being underemphasised for some time in the past."
Carol Brouillet
http://www.communitycurrency.org/9-11
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Palo Alto, California
tel. 650-857-0927
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