Senate Hearings on Anthrax/AVIP-1 in Every 500 persons VAERS form!

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Senate Hearings on Anthrax/AVIP

1 in EVERY 500 persons receiving this vaccine has filled an adverse

reaction form!!!!

AVIP = Anthrax Vaccine Implementation Program....

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Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 22:49:34 -0400

From: " Dr. Meryl Nass "

<mnass@...>

Senate Hearing on AVIP--details

The list of the witnesses at the Senate Armed

Services Committee hearing

on anthrax vaccine next Thursday 4/13/00

includes:

Adm. , DIA--on the imminent threat

Rudy deLeon --one of the AVIP architects

Dave Oliver--Principal Deputy Under Secretary

of Defense for

Acquisition, Technology and Logistics

Maj Gen Randall L. West--Special Advisor to

the Under Secretary of

Defense on Anthrax and Biological Defense

Matters

ASG Blanck, D.O.-- major proponent of

the anthrax vaccine program

since the Gulf War

Jane Henney, MD--FDA Commissioner, who will

presumably certify the FDA's

lack of concern with the vaccine

Carol Shuster, GAO representative, associate

director, National Security

Preparedness Issues

Note that the actual scientists at Fort

Detrick (USAMRIID) who do the

research and best understand the vaccine,

including Dr. Arthur

Friedlander, have never been put on a single

one of these panels. (I

suspect they know too much, and might tell

the truth when questioned by

Congressmembers.)

Please spread the word to everyone you are

close to. Please send out a

message to your networks: call every Senator

on the SASC from your

states and tell them your opinion about the

anthrax vaccine; tell them

if you know people who have been made ill by

it; request a more balanced

panel. Note the items below:

1) Unproven safety as reflected in the BRAND

NEW Institute of Medicine Report

report just released this week.

2) The trail of half-truths told repeatedly

by DoD re: AVIP

3) This disastrous impact on morale and

retention in the a/d, guard and reserve force

<B>4) The underreported/unknown numbers of

chronically ill people. (Currently one in

every 500 vaccine recipients has filed a

VAERS or had their medical provider file one

for them, a phenomenal number)</B>

5) The likelihood of future AVIP victims (a

la Agent Orange and Gulf War Syndrome) who

will be reporting to the VA for treatment of

disorders which can be prevented NOW (and

seeking service-connected disability).

Note also the following organizations which

support ending the AVIP:

1. Family Research Council (400, 000 members

-- Best Comprehensive/Concise background,

yet:

www.frc.org/military/mp99k1mf.html

Research Council Paper on AVIP

2. Doctors for Disaster Preparedness

3. American Public Health Association

www.apha.org/

50,000 members/125 years of service

American Public Health Association's

Governing Council has approved

the following as one of its 41 new policies:

(from APHA newspaper, The

Nations Health, Dec.99/Jan.00, p. 20) " Urges

the Department of Defense to

delay any further immunization against

anthrax using the current vaccine or at

least to make immunization voluntary.

Recommends that a commission of military

and nonmilitary public health experts be

formed to review evidence on effectiveness

and safety of the current vaccine and to

advise whether the current immunization

program should be continued. "

4. Association of American Physicians and

Surgeons:

www.aapsonline.org/aaps/

click on testimony in left subject column

The AAPS written statement to Congressman

Shay's committee is about item # 9 on the

list of testimonies)

5. Air Force Sergeants Association (Website:

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208.194.177.32/default.htm

Their actual letter is at the end of this

email. It takes a different approach in

saying members of Congress should also get

the vaccine if they support the program; that

they are far more at risk

6. Association of Civilian Technicians

(National Guard group,

bargaining power of 27,000 -- voted at their

national convention last year to

support anthrax vaccine opposition bills HR

2548 and 2543).

Website with anthrax

www.actnat.com/anthrax1.htm

7. Soldiers for the Truth (several editorials

against the vaccine, latest published piece:

sftt.org/updates/991207.shtml

December 7, '99 Newsletter. Very informative

and persuasive.

This is Colonel Hackworth's

organization - The retired Army Colonel who

witnessed our abandonment of South Vietnamese

a the end of that war and became an author on

military subjects

8. The American Legion

www.legion.org/99resolutions.htm

SOLUTIONS of the 81ST NATIONAL CONVENTION

(check a little more than

2/3 down this long list under their National

Security Committee for Resolution #99N187)

9. Reserve Officer's Association (80,000

members

www.roa.org/legislation/resolutions.html

ADOPTED BY THE NATIONAL CONVENTION -- about

3/4 of the way down on this site,

Resolution 99-8 at the bottom recommends

against using the current

stockpile, although it promotes vaccine

defense in general.)

10. National Gulf War Resource Center, Inc.,

Their director has

testified frequently before Congress and at

their annual conference last year,

they called for an end to the AVIP. Click on

Resolution #99-9 at this

site:

ngwrc.org/About/Resolutio...utions.htm

Conference Resolutions

11. The Madison Project,

www.jamesmadisonproject.o...xpage.html

Mark Zaid has made numerous statements on the

AVIP)

Others groups whose officials have made

remarks of concern:

1. Vietnam and Gulf War Veterans Association,

( Nichols)

2. Public Citizen (Ralph Nader's Group)

quoted in AP article on latest Bioport

facility failure

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Air Force Sergeants Association Letter on the

Anthrax Vaccine

A CALL FOR NATIONAL LEADERSHIP

This association has received numerous

communications from enlisted >>

and commissioned members of the Air Force who

are concerned about the

mandatory Department of Defense anthrax

vaccination program. It is impossible

for this association, based upon the data

presented, to totally support this

program or to fully join with those who

oppose it. However, we do join with

those--hopefully you are in

tha group--that recognize that what is

happening is not good for our Armed

Forces. I’m suggesting that it is time for

congressional action

sponsoring legislation urging all

congressional members to step forward and

voluntarily take the anthrax inoculations--as

a sign of moral leadership on this

issue and, perhaps of greater importance, to

promote the well-being of this

nation.

As you know, the mandatory anthrax

inoculation issue has, to some

degree, impacted the morale of our Armed

Forces and is threatening to our

military readiness, especially the reserve

forces. However, the anthrax threat

should clearly be viewed as a national

security concern as well. I believe

that the likelihood of the use of anthrax as

a weapon would most likely occur

in the context of terrorist action.

Terrorists are far more likely to target

the leaders of this nation at all levels,

including the members of the

executive, legislative and judicial branches

of our government. Such an attack

could occur at home or as our leaders and

ambassadors travel abroad.

Safeguarding our national leaders is

extremely important to this nation; we need

to

be prepared. If the anthrax vaccine being

mandated by the defense

department is safe and effective, it is

clearly in the nation’s security interests

for al national leaders to receive these

inoculations.

Further, your stepping forward to voluntarily

subscribe to this

medical regimen would demonstrate that our

government is not subjecting our

servicemen and women to unnecessary,

non-battlefield risks that they

themselves would not also be willing to take.

If Congress and the

administration is not willing to undergo

these shots due to concern

about the vaccine’s safety and effectiveness,

morality would dictate that the

program should immediately stop for service

members.

Therefore, I ask you to set the right tone of

national leadership by

sponsoring a resolution urging that our

national leaders, including

yourself, are protected just as are our

military members. The potential for an

anthrax attack is not limited to the

battlefields of this world. I ask you to

move now, not only to demonstrate to all

military members that those who

lead this nation and send them to war also

believe in this anthrax vaccine

program and its importance, but also to

protect our congressional leaders. The logic

that dictates

implementation of a program for force

protection also applies to the protection of

those who lead our nation.

We appreciate the difficult job you do. I

urgently request your commitmen and a

positive response which we will share with

our members. As always, the members of this

association are ready to support you on

matters of mutual interest.

Sincerely,

(SIGNED)

JAMES D. STATON

Executive Director

Air Force Sergeants Association

The Senate Armed Services Committee Members:

Warner (Virginia)

Committee Chairman

REPUBLICANS

Strom Thurmond (South Carolina)

McCain (Arizona)

Bob (New Hampshire)

M. Inhofe (Oklahoma)

Rick Santorum (Pennsylvania)

Olympia J. Snowe (Maine)

Pat (Kansas)

Wayne Allard (Colorado)

Tim Hutchinson (Arkansas)

Jeff Sessions (Alabama)

DEMOCRATS

Carl Levin (Michigan) Ranking Democrat

M. Kennedy (Massachusetts)

Jeff Bingaman (New Mexico)

C. Byrd (West Virginia)

S. Robb (Virginia)

ph I. Lieberman (Connecticut)

Max Cleland (Georgia)

L. Landrieu (Louisiana)

Jack (Rhode Island)

The committee phone number is 202 224-3871

(Republicans) and 202

224-9337 (Dems)

**THANK YOU FOR ACTING VIGOROUSLY NOW TO MAKE

YOUR VIEWS KNOWN ABOUT

THIS PROGRAM**

Meryl Nass, MD

Our Anthrax information web site:

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To visit Dr. Meryl Nass's web site, go to:

www.anthraxvaccine.org

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