Congress is looking at a bill protecting drug makers from liability in new vaccines if the government orders people to take the medication or
vaccination as part of a "public health emergency." The law also establishes the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency (BARDA) to be
the center of biomedical research within the government. This agency will operate independent from government, and thus not be subject to the Freedom
of Information Act or any other federal level controls. The bill passed committee one day after its introduction and it is now being quietly pushed
through Congress.
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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."
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There currently is no vaccine being manufactured specifically for the Avian Flu, mainly because there is no recognized human strain of the virus yet.
This bill hints at coming plans for mass vaccinations, and it also hints at the risks that will be involved. Not to mention, a semi-secret
government agency conducting the "research" and overseeing the operation? Talk about your conspiracy fodder...
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[edit on 31-10-2005 by RogerKint]