Virginia TaxPayers Assoc/Model Health Law

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" In another action, the VTA warned state senators and delegates against quick

passage of a Model State Emergency Health Powers Act now being processed by

state governors. " This act, after unilateral gubernatorial declaration of a

public health emergency by executive order, would grant overwhelming,

unlimited powers to a 'Public Health Authority.' Such an authority would

have police powers to force vaccinations, take over hospitals and confiscate

private stockpiles of drugs. Those who refuse to be vaccinated or receive

medical treatment would be charged with a misdemeanor and imprisoned until

the state of emergency was declared over.

" A comprehensive plan required under the act would give a commission of

appointees powers not spelled out in the act itself and not reviewable by

state legislators. There are no detailed criteria for what constitutes an

'emergency', and one case of smallpox is likely to be considered an epidemic.

Experience with other similar executive agencies shows they often ride

roughshod over inherent rights of the people. "

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ASSEMBLY HELP

IN EXITING UN

The Virginia Taxpayers Association said today the upcoming General Assembly

" must help push United States withdrawal from the United Nations to stop

irreversible advance of global taxation next March. "

A high level Panel on Financing for Development will present a document at a

world conference in Monterey, Mexico at that time, which will pave the way

for the UN to impose its own tax. A new Global Taxing Authority and Economic

Security Council also are to be created.

Rep. Ron , (R-Tex.) has already introduced the American Sovereignty

Restoration Act of 2001 (HR 1146), to end U. S. membership in the UN. The

VTA wants a Virginia General Assembly joint resolution in January calling on

Congress to pass 's bill.

The state taxpayer organization pointed out " Once a UN tax is in place, the

world government body will have all the money to do anything it wants,

regardless of what the U. S. contributes or says. Documents have already

been circulated to end the U. S. veto in the Security Council.

" The UN has done nothing to help the United States win the war in

Afghanistan. All that has been won to date has been done by a small coalition

created and directed by the U. S. itself, acting independently. After the

apparent rout of the Taliban, it has been the U. S. that is effectively

seeking to assemble an Islamic government in Afghanistan. And the UN

certainly will not stop terrorism against Americans by the international bin

Laden organization and others in other countries.

" Further, the power-hungry UN is actively pushing forward the Kyoto 'global

warming' protocol threatening the U. S. energy supply, despite Bush's

withdrawal from the treaty. The treaty will become international law when

it's ratified by 50 nations -- with or without the U. S. That may be before

the Rio+10 celebration in Johannesburg, South Africa next summer. "

The VTA added that UN-related treaties increasingly affect operations of

state and local governments. " Our agencies are expected to follow UN

guidelines in land use, family matters and treatment of prisoners, " the VTA

said. " Yet our state legislators have no input in these international

agreements designed to change our Virginia laws. The only way to keep our

representative government is to get out of this one-world dictatorship. "

The VTA noted that its widely distributed criticism of Gov. Jim Gilmore for

declaring Oct. 24 United Nations Day in Virginia in 2000 " was followed by

Gilmore's canceling such an unpopular proclamation this year. "

The association blasted Virginia's Republican delegation in Congress for

" voting us into a police state by passing the frightful USA 'PATRIOT'

anti-terrorism bill (HR 3162). This terrible act totally trashes the Fourth

Amendment against illegal searches and seizures. It allows government agents

to search a person's home in absence of the owner, without any notification

whatever, and seize whatever they want.

" The bill's definition of 'terrorism' is so broad that it allows all kinds of

domestic organizations to be designated as 'terrorist', and leads to

large-scale investigations of American citizens for 'intelligence' purposes.

Thus it threatens First Amendment rights of all citizens who criticize the

government. And almost all House members who hastily voted for the bill

hadn't even read it, since copies deliberately were not made available. "

In another action, the VTA warned state senators and delegates against quick

passage of a Model State Emergency Health Powers Act now being processed by

state governors. " This act, after unilateral gubernatorial declaration of a

public health emergency by executive order, would grant overwhelming,

unlimited powers to a 'Public Health Authority.' Such an authority would

have police powers to force vaccinations, take over hospitals and confiscate

private stockpiles of drugs. Those who refuse to be vaccinated or receive

medical treatment would be charged with a misdemeanor and imprisoned until

the state of emergency was declared over.

" A comprehensive plan required under the act would give a commission of

appointees powers not spelled out in the act itself and not reviewable by

state legislators. There are no detailed criteria for what constitutes an

'emergency', and one case of smallpox is likely to be considered an epidemic.

Experience with other similar executive agencies shows they often ride

roughshod over inherent rights of the people. "

President Bush's about-face on immigration control since Sept. 11 " signals

that the VTA has been right all along in opposing invasion of this country by

illegal aliens across the Mexican border, " the VTA said. " But the

administration's plans to interview 5,000 aliens in this country are totally

inadequate against terrorism in the face of several million illegals already

here.

" Moreover, the U. S. is wide open to terrorist containers coming in to this

country on railroads and into our ports. Meanwhile patriotic Americans are

subjected to long delays at airports by baggage inspectors who are often

uninvestigated aliens themselves. "

The VTA also pointed out that its strong opposition to patrolling of American

skies by foreigners in NATO AWACS planes has been notably echoed by public

opinion. " After we issued a press release Oct. 8 blasting this further

expansion of one-world government over us, an

Oct. 12 poll in the solidly pro-administration Mike Reagan web site showed

that 90 percent of the 3,672 respondents agreed with us, " the VTA said.

To cover the shortfall in the state budget, the VTA called on the General

Assembly to conduct an in-depth examination of the commonwealth's Combined

Annual Financial Report. Page 36 of the 252-page CAFR for the fiscal year

ended June 30, 2000, excluding all local government CAFRs, discloses total

state government assets of 86.7 billion, annual income from which is not

reported. " No state retiree has ever suffered or had his/her future

threatened by all the 'raids' the government has carried out against the

Virginia State Retirement System, " the VTA said. A national campaign to

disclose extraordinary surpluses in all government coffers is explained in

detail on www.CAFRman.com.

Proposals by state motor vehicle authorities and others for a national

identification card for all citizens via the driver's license were condemned

by the VTA as " obvious steps toward a totalitarian state. In Pennsylvania,

government extremists have even introduced a bill making it a crime for

anyone to be caught out in public without ID papers, " the VTA pointed out.

The association called on Congress to reject " an alarming new thought

control " bill to establish a " Department of Peace " (HR 2459) introduced by

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio). " This would not only mix a massive new

federal bureaucracy into domestic family relationships but would constitute a

further unconstitutional gun-grabbing entity, " the VTA said. " It would also

become an additional propagandist for the UN and take over senior

responsibilities of the State Department. "

(END of Release)

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Washington Times November

5, 2001

Attack on Bill of Rights

Nat Hentoff

With most Americans unaware, the Congress of the United States,

yielding to the pressure of the U.S. attorney general and the president, have

passed an anti-terrorism bill in one of the worst breakdowns in the

legislative process in the history of our representative government.

The fault lies not only with the closed-door perpetrators, but also

with the members of the Senate and the House — fully aware of this hijacking

of representative democracy — which voted for this backroom heist (337-79 in

the House and 96-l in the Senate).

This is a betrayal of trust by Congress at a time when we are indeed

fighting a vicious enemy hiding in many countries, and among us. What we are

fighting for, as the president has often said, are the freedoms we represent

to a world threatened by fascist terrorists.

Before the entire House and Senate had voted on this anti-terrorism

bill, the House Judiciary Committee had resisted the attorney general's

demand that his legislation be passed within one week. Insisting on a more

careful response was a remarkably bipartisan coalition — including liberals

Barney and Maxine Waters and conservatives Bob Barr and House Majority

Leader Dick Armey.

After actual deliberation, the House Judiciary Committee — by a 36-0

vote — had passed a version of Mr. Ashcroft's proposal that restored some

elements of the Bill of Rights. Radical expansion of electronic surveillance

was curbed, and the government was prevented from conducting secret searches

without any timely notice of what was taken.

But late at night, behind closed doors, House Speaker Dennis Hastert

and other Republican leaders, together with emissaries from the White House,

scuttled the Judiciary Committee's bill. On Oct. 12, without most members

having had time to even read the new 175-page bill, the House passed it

overwhelmingly. Dreier, chairman of the Committee on Rules, smoothly

said it wasn't the first time a bill had been passed that the members had not

read. He did not tell us this with any note of disapproval.

Democrat Obey of Wisconsin, less of a euphemist than Mr. Dreier,

accurately called this slick maneuver " a backroom quick fix. " He added: " Why

should we care? It's only the Constitution. "

Mr. was not engaging in hyperbole when he charged that this

subversion of representative government was " the least democratic process for

debating questions fundamental to democracy I have ever seen. A bill drafted

by a handful of people in secret, subject to no committee process, comes

before us immune from amendment. "

But House Judiciary Committee Chairman Sensenbrenner — who had

initially agreed that the House Judiciary Committee had acted responsibly by

curbing the excessive governmental powers demanded by the attorney general —

told the nation that this new, steamrolled bill did not diminish the freedoms

of " innocent citizens. "

Considering the broad definition of terrorism in the bill, there is a

serious question as to whether the presumption of innocence holds. What does

" influence the policy of government by intimidation " mean?

Also, late at night, behind closed doors, Senate leaders and members of

the administration put together a similar scattershot anti-terrorism bill

that was hastily and obediently passed by a vote of 96-1. The sole dissenter,

defending the Bill of Rights, was Feingold of Wisconsin.

As Mr. Feingold said while his colleagues marched in lockstep: " It is

crucial that civil liberties in this country be preserved. Otherwise, I'm

afraid terror will win this battle without firing a shot. "

The combined House and Senate bills widen and deepen electronic

surveillance of anyone involved in an investigation; allow the FBI and the

CIA to share information, thereby expanding the CIA's power over Americans at

home; and allow previously secret grand jury proceedings to be shared by law

enforcement and intelligence agencies without a court order. There's more,

including FBI secret searches without timely notice of what was taken, as

I'll indicate in a future column. But the crucial question is: How many

Americans care what is happening to their liberties? Does the Constitution

matter? The new anti-terrorism law, signed by the president, is the worst

attack on the Bill of Rights since World War I.

Nat Hentoff is a columnist for The Washington Times. His column runs on

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