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Subject: [electroherbalism] CODE RED alert - U.S. Senate Bill
Broadly Eliminates Liability For Vaccines And Drugs
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 22:53:51 -0400
From: Chris Gupta
chrisgupta@alumni.uwaterloo.ca
Reply-To:
electroherbalism@yahoogroups.com
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..."The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is calling
the
"Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of
2005"
(S. 1873), which passed out of the U.S. Senate HELP Committee
one day
after it was introduced "a drug company stockholder's dream and
a
consumer's worst nightmare." The proposed legislation will strip
Americans of the right to a trial by jury if harmed by an
experimental or licensed drug or vaccine that they are forced by
government to take whenever federal health officials declare a
public
health emergency...
..."true partnership" between the federal government, the
pharmaceutical industry and academia to walk the drug
companies...
....will operate in secret, exempt from the Freedom of
Information
Act and the Federal Advisory Committee Act, insuring that no
evidence
of injuries or deaths caused by drugs and vaccines labeled as
"countermeasures" will become public"...
Here is a perfect example of how supposedly democratic decisions
are
made by governments. Who in their right minds should even
consider
this let alone develop this blatant piece of legislation? Unless
there is collusion with the industry. It is, yet again, sad to
see
another government usurped by the industry the very industry it
pretends to regulate to protect the citizens.
Only a corrupt government in the face of injuries from Vioxx,
and
anti-depressants etc. could dream up such a scheme for their
cronies.
If vaccines and drugs are so safe then why this?
Please take action as per below.
Thanks,
Chris Gupta
http://tinyurl.com/7vwvs
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E-NEWS FROM THE <
http://www.nvic.org>NATIONAL
VACCINE INFORMATION
CENTER Vienna, Virginia
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NVIC Note: Yesterday we witnessed the Senate HELP Committee pass
this
bill out of sub-committee. It is critical that you take action
today-immediately. This bill will go back to the committee for a
final review on Thursday-October 20, 2005 and then go to the
full
Senate for a vote. Being led by Republican Richard Burr (R-NC)
and
being spurred by fears of avian flu, this bill was written and
passed
out of committee in a 24 hour period. Most members did not even
have
the final language in front of them.
The version that passed will broadly eliminate liability for
vaccines
and drugs. Please read the press release, write to the members
of the
HELP committee, write to your own Senator and your own member of
Congress. Pass this alert to your family, friends and other
organizations you are involved with. Go to our website and take
action right now! www.NVIC.org Don't wait for someone else to do
it.
<
http://www.nvic.org/ActionAlerts/S1873.htm>This
is a CODE RED
alert<
http://www.nvic.org/ActionAlerts/S1873.htm>
to anyone who is
concerned about forced vaccination and holding drug companies
responsible for the products they create.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Vaccine
Information
Center (NVIC) is calling the "Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine
and
Drug Development Act of 2005"(S. 1873), which passed out of the
U.S.
Senate HELP Committee one day after it was introduced "a drug
company
stockholder's dream and a consumer's worst nightmare." The
proposed
legislation will strip Americans of the right to a trial by jury
if
harmed by an experimental or licensed drug or vaccine that they
are
forced by government to take whenever federal health officials
declare a public health emergency. The legislation's architect,
Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), Chairman of the HELP Subcommittee
on
Bioterrorism and Public Health Preparedness, told the full HELP
Committee yesterday that the legislation "creates a true
partnership"
between the federal government, the pharmaceutical industry and
academia to walk the drug companies "through the Valley of
Death" in
bringing a new vaccine or drug to market. Burr said it will give
the
Department of Health and Human Services "additional authority
and
resources to partner with the private sector to rapidly develop
drugs
and vaccines." The Burr bill gives the Secretary of DHHS the
sole
authority to decide whether a manufacturer violated laws
mandating
drug safety and bans citizens from challenging his decision in
the
civil court system. The bill establishes the Biomedical Advanced
Research and Development Agency (BARDA), as the single point of
authority within the government for the advanced research and
development of drugs and vaccines in response to bioterrorism
and
natural disease outbreaks such as the flu. BARDA will operate in
secret, exempt from the Freedom of Information Act and the
Federal
Advisory Committee Act, insuring that no evidence of injuries or
deaths caused by drugs and vaccines labeled as "countermeasures"
will
become public. Nicknamed "Bioshield Two," the legislation is
being
pushed rapidly through Congress without time for voters to make
their
voices heard by their elected representatives. Co-sponsored by
Republican Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN), Senate
Health,
Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Mike Enzi
(R-WY),
and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Judd Gregg (R-NH), the
legislation will eliminate both regulatory and legal safeguards
applied to vaccines as well as take away the right of children
and
adults harmed by vaccines and drugs to present their case in
front of
a jury in a civil court of law. "It is a sad day for this nation
when
Congress is frightened and bullied into allowing one profit
making
industry to destroy the seventh Amendment to the Constitution
guaranteeing citizens their day in court in front of a jury of
their
peers," said Barbara Loe Fisher, president of NVIC. "This
proposed
legislation, like the power and money grab by federal health
officials and industry in the Homeland Security Act of 2002 and
the
Project Bioshield Act of 2004, is an unconstitutional attempt by
some
in Congress to give a taxpayer- funded handout to pharmaceutical
companies for drugs and vaccines the government can force all
citizens to use while absolving everyone connected from any
responsibility for injuries and deaths which occur. It means
that, if
an American is injured by an experimental flu or anthrax vaccine
he
or she is mandated to take, that citizen will be banned from
exercising the Constitutional right to a jury trial even if it
is
revealed that the vaccine maker engaged in criminal fraud and
negligence in the manufacture of the vaccine." The federal Food
and
Drug Administration (FDA) is legally responsible for regulating
the
pharmaceutical industry and ensuring that drugs and vaccines
released
to the public are safe and effective. Drug companies marketing
painkillers, like Vioxx, and anti-depressants, which have
resulted in
the deaths and injuries of thousands of children and adults, are
being held accountable in civil court while the FDA has come
under
intense criticism for withholding information about the drugs'
dangers from the public. Since 1986, vaccine makers have been
protected from most liability in civil court through the
National
Childhood Vaccine Injury Act in which Congress created a federal
vaccine injury compensation program (VICP) that offers vaccine
victims an alternative to the court system. Even though the
program
has awarded nearly $2 billion to victims of mandated vaccines,
two
out of three plaintiffs are turned away. "The drug companies and
doctors got all the liability protection they needed in 1986 but
they
are greedy and want more," said Fisher. "And the federal health
agencies want more power to force citizens to use vaccines
without
having to worry about properly regulating them. If the Burr bill
passes, all economic incentives to insure mandated vaccines are
safe
will be removed and the American people are facing a future
where
government can force them to take poorly regulated experimental
drugs
and vaccines labeled as "countermeasures" or go to jail. The
only
recourse for citizens will be to strike down mandatory
vaccination
laws so vaccines will be subject to the law of supply and demand
in
the marketplace. The health care consumer's cry will be: No
liability? No mandates."
The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) was founded by
parents
of vaccine injured children in 1982 and co-founders worked with
Congress on the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986.
For
more information, go to
http://www.nvic.org./
SOURCE National Vaccine Information Center Web Site:
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http://www.nvic.org>
http://www.nvic.org
Kathi Williams National Vaccine Information Center
421 Church St., Suite E Vienna, Va 22180
703-938-DPT3 <
http://www.NVIC.org>www.NVIC.org
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