FW: Something here on smallpox vax

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Welcome to the Pure Water Gazette email newsletter, Issue #21.

There are many new articles up on the Gazette's website.

First, there's a bold new Tiger Tom " write the caption " contest. Just go to

http://www.pwgazette.com and the contest's ugly reality will be staring you

right in the face.

Then, there's a superb new article by Arundhati Roy. You will remember her

piece from a previous email Gazette, " The Algebra of Infinite Justice. " It

was memorable for me because it drew some heavy commentary. It's still at

http://www.pwgazette.com/infinitejustice.htm if you missed it. The Roy

article that just went up is the outstanding " War Is Peace, " and it's at

http://www.pwgazette.com/warispeace.htm Arundhati Roy is a novelist,

essayist, film maker, and passionate activist from India. She is no ordinary

writer. Her first novel, The God of Small Things, won the coveted Booker

Prize and has sold six million copies. You'll like " War Is Peace " (unless,

of course, it makes you very angry, and I can't guarantee that it won't.)

Also new:

Tiger Tom's new piece on " Corporate Patriotism, " --rude, as usual, and

lavishly illustrated, at http://www.pwgazette.com/ttcorporatepatriotism.htm

Several new short pieces in Hardly Waite's " Quick Take " Series at

http://www.pwgazette.com/hardlyquicktakes.htm

The first part of the Gazette's war series that I call " The Enemy " is now

complete. It's at http://www.pwgazette.com/theenemy.htm It consists of a

series of pictures (stolen at much trouble, I might add, mainly from foreign

websites since censorship has made pictures of Afghani citizens scarce)

with brief comments. Please look it over. The second series is in

preparation.

Another great addition to the site is Barbara Loe Fisher's long study on

smallpox. Smallpox, for reasons unknown, is assumed to be a likely

terrorist weapon, so it has been much in the news. Barbara Loe Fisher is

one of America's most knowledgeable and respected vaccination researchers.

She is co-founder and president of the National Vaccine Information Center.

She is co-author of DPT: A Shot in the Dark (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,

1985; Warner, 1986; Avery, 1991), a book that has had much influence on US

vaccination policy. . She is also author of The Consumer's Guide to

Childhood Vaccines (NVIC, 1997) and editor of THE VACCINE REACTION and The

Vaccine Hotline newsletters.

Vaccination is one of those complicated many-faced issues that never goes

away. It is, among other things, a health issue, a human rights issue, and

a financial issue. As a health issue alone, it comprises such basic

questions as do vaccines really work? (the medical community would like you

to take this on faith, but there's considerable room for doubt); and, if

they work, do the benefits justify the risks of side effects?; and, if they

do indeed prevent the targeted disease, is the total effect on human health

really a plus? Does preventing measles justify an epidemic of asthma and

autism?

Barbara Loe Fisher's brief article below addresses the human rights

question. Although it has always seemed to me that there can be no more

basic and essential human right than the right to protect oneself and one's

loved ones from unwanted medical intrusion, most " rights " organizations

steer clear of the issue. The ACLU, for example, will spare no effort to

protect your right to not hear a high school band play " Nearer My God to

Thee, " but probably won't offer much help against a Nazi school

administrator bent on forcing you to hand over your child for an unwanted

DPT shot. Barbara Loe Fisher's entire article, " Smallpox and Forced

Vaccination: What Every American Needs to Know, " is available on the

Gazette's website at http://www.pwgazette.com/warispeace.htm and I urge you

to look it over. It contains a good, readable history of smallpox and the

vaccination plus lots of information relevant to the current " bioterrorism "

controversy.

The brief piece below is excerpted from the longer article on the website.

EDITORIAL: Vaccinating America at Gunpoint

by Barbara Loe Fisher

Like every American, I never imagined that I would experience the kind of

shock and horror that came on September 11 with the terrorist attacks on New

York and Washington, D.C. While our world has changed forever, there are

some things that never change. Truth does not change. What it means to be

free does not change.

In response to the fear and anxiety that still hangs like a bad dream

over our nation, in the mad scramble to " do something " to make Americans

feel safe again, government officials employed by the Centers for Disease

Control (CDC) have stepped forward to suggest that they and their state

health department counterparts are the only ones who can keep us safe

whenever they decide there is a " public health " emergency - if only we will

give them the power to use the state militia to arrest, quarantine and

forcibly vaccinate and medicate us. Not satisfied with that, they also want

the power to seize our private property, including our homes, as well as our

telephones, fax machines, computers, cars, fuel, food, clothing, firearms,

prescription drugs and the alcoholic beverages in our refrigerator. Just in

case you were thinking you could make it to the border before the public

health militia comes to get you, they want the power to take over all roads

in and out of your city and s!

tate, too.

And to make sure they can't get sued by anyone for anything they do, they

are asking for total legal immunity for destroying your property or killing

you or your children when they enforce the law. They are joined in this

quest by the drug companies making " bioterrorism " vaccines, like the

notoriously reactive smallpox vaccine never tested for safety in clinical

trials. Not only are the drug companies demanding that Congress give them

total legal immunity for all vaccine-induced injuries and deaths, they are

also demanding that the bioterrorism vaccines they produce be exempt from

normal federal safety and efficacy standards.

What is wrong with this picture?

Certainly, America should have enough smallpox vaccine or other

" bioterrorism " vaccines for everyone who voluntarily wants to use them: but

not ones that haven't been properly tested. Certainly, America should have a

sound, workable emergency plan in place in the event of a bioterrorism

attack: but not one that places the life and liberty of the majority of

citizens in the hands of an elite few, who will have the power to take both

from citizens without their consent.

This CDC-funded and initiated legislation treats us like runaway slaves

in need of subjugation. The law's proposed elimination of the informed

consent principle, which has governed the ethical use of medical

interventions that can injure or kill ever since the Doctor's Trial at

Nuremberg after World War II, is clear indication that public health

officials want the sole authority to decide who will live and who will die

and under what conditions.

No state of emergency in a free society justifies the sacrifice of the

most sacred human right: the right to voluntarily decide what you are

willing to risk your life for or your child's life for. What it means to be

free doesn't get more basic than that.

I have said many times during the past decade, that if the state can tag,

track down and force citizens to be injected with biologicals of unknown

toxicity today, then there will be no limit on what individual freedoms the

state can take away in the name of the greater good tomorrow. Now, tomorrow

is here.

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 do will define who we are as a nation for many years

to come.

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