New bill gives protection to drug manufacturers!

12-27-5
Well, the Defense Appropriations Bill for 2006 has now been passed by both houses of Congress. Bill Frist, at the last minute, inserted language that gives vast protections to drug companies and the US government itself.

Piecing various reports together (the major media have been almost completely silent), here is the situation.

The Secretary of Health and Human Services---a cabinet post under the president---can declare a medical emergency on any pretext, for any reason. This declaration would be an alert. There is a serious disease outbreak that threatens the US. Or---such an outbreak may be coming soon. The outbreak could be labeled epidemic or pandemic or just outbreak. Or actual or impending or potential bio terror attack.

Once the Secretary of HHS makes his declaration, certain rules apply. ANY countermeasure to such a threat (a drug, a vaccine) would be protected from legal liability. In other words, if people are injured by the medications or killed, no one can sue. No one can sue the drug manufacturers or the government.

We're talking about a shield for old or new drugs or vaccines. Suppose, for example, there are 10 drugs the government decides constitute countermeasures to threat A: aspirin, smallpox vaccine, doxicillin...

All protected. All companies protected.

The only exception: if a drug company is proven to have injured people WITH INTENT. This means assault or murder. Try showing that in a courtroom.

Tomorrow, the Sec. of HHS could say: AVIAN FLU REPRESENTS A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES. THEREFORE, I AM DECLARING A MEDICAL EMERGENCY. THE FOLLOWING DRUGS AND VACCINES (INCLUDING NEW FUTURE DRUGS) ARE OFFICIAL COUNTERMEASURES TO THE IMMINENT OUTBREAK....

No recourse. No review. No appeal. It's a done deal.

Now, from everything I can see, a "companion" Bill, SB1873, which has passed out of committee on to the floor of the Senate and awaits debate and vote, will establish, among other things, MANDATED DRUGS AND VACCINES (you have to take them) for actual or potential outbreaks, epidemics, pandemics, bio-terror threats.
from:
http://www.nomorefakenews.com/

well I wanted to see what this was all about... so here are some more links...

National Vaccine Information Center
http://www.909shot.com/legs.htm

Senate Bill 1873 - introduced by Senator Burr (R-NC) has passed the Senate Subcommittee on Bioterrorism and is quickly speeding to the full Senate for a vote. This bill will give broad liability protections to companies who manufacture vaccines and drugs for use in an emergency.
http://www.909shot.com/ActionAlerts/S1873.htm

House Bill 3970 - introduced by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) will provide liability protection for certain pandemics and countermeasures.
http://www.909shot.com/ActionAlerts/HR3970.htm

Senate Bill 3- introduced by Senator Frist (R-TN) would provide financing, patent extensions and complete liability protection for vaccine manufacturers. This bill would pre-empt state laws where mercury bans have been passed and forbid states from passing future laws. It also provides for a national databank to be created using data from registries which would create a national data tracking system. The bill incorporates an increase in the death benefit for soldiers killed in action.
http://www.909shot.com/SB3Home.htm
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Read S1873 & Read HR3970
http://www.nationalautismassociation.org/pdf/biodefenseact.pdf

Read Senate Bill 3
http://www.909shot.com/Senate%20Bill%20%20S%203.pdf