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To: Rick McDougall who wrote (33696)	12/28/2003 11:19:01 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 89467

Rick. It appears the FDA is bought and paid for by self-serving interest groups including the AMA. "The FDA's delay (on Propranolol) cost 60,000 lives during the six-year wait for approval." Yet they approve Ritalin for children - mostly boys - and most of the boys who shot classmates at their high schools had been on Ritalin. And it took them forever to approve the French abortion pill - probably because doctors didn't want to relinquish the abortion cash cow. Did the FDA approve the s0-called anthrax vaccine for troops? It doesn't work, there is no such thing. This forced innoculation of troops rivals Nazi Germany in its scope by experimenting on hundreds of thousands of citizens. These people are court-martialed if they refuse to allow the govt to poison them. Pentagon Wants to Resume Experimental Anthrax Shots Thom Shanker New York Times nytimes.com Posted 12/27/2003 1:08:00 AM The Justice Department has asked a federal district judge here to withdraw his preliminary injunction halting the military's mandatory anthrax vaccination program, or at least limit his ruling to the six plaintiffs whose suit prompted it. .... "The vaccine as being used is experimental in nature and therefore unlawful unless informed consent is given," Mr. Zaid said. "So to argue that this decision should only apply to those six individuals does a real injustice." U.S. Asks Judge to Lift His Ban on Pentagon's Anthrax Vaccination Program WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 — The Justice Department has asked a federal district judge here to withdraw his preliminary injunction halting the military's mandatory anthrax vaccination program, or at least limit his ruling to the six plaintiffs whose suit prompted it. The department's motion is the Bush administration's first legal response to the injunction, issued on Monday and barring the Pentagon from "inoculating service members without their consent." The motion, which promises to be just one step in a long court battle, seeks clarification of whether the injunction applies solely to the six plaintiffs, each identified only as John Doe. If not, it asks that the judge reconsider, arguing that the suit was not filed on behalf of all military personnel. "Plaintiffs never pursued this case as a class action," says the motion, which states later, "An award of preliminary injunctive relief to anyone other than the six Doe plaintiffs before the court would be wholly without justification." The document is dated Wednesday, and a copy of it was provided by Mark S. Zaid, one of the plaintiffs' lawyers. Most federal offices in Washington were closed Friday, and the Justice Department spokesman on duty said he had no comment about the motion. Mr. Zaid said the motion was "understandable from the legal standpoint" but was "completely absurd from a policy standpoint." He acknowledged that the plaintiffs' case had not been filed as a class action but said it had been "styled on behalf of all similarly situated persons" in the armed forces and among Pentagon civilians required to take the vaccine. One option now, he said, would be to try to have the suit certified as a class action. Or, he said, it may be refiled, "adding in every single person's name who doesn't want to take the shot." "The vaccine as being used is experimental in nature and therefore unlawful unless informed consent is given," Mr. Zaid said. "So to argue that this decision should only apply to those six individuals does a real injustice." The Pentagon announced Tuesday night that it was at least temporarily halting its program of administering the anthrax vaccine, until the legal situation was clarified. Even so, Pentagon officials continue to defend the vaccine as safe, effective and necessary for national security. "This is an important force-protection program," Bryan Whitman, the deputy Pentagon spokesman, said Friday. "The safety and efficacy of this vaccine has been looked at by medical experts, both inside and outside the United States government. They have agreed that this is an effective vaccine against all forms of anthrax." In issuing the injunction, the judge, Emmet G. Sullivan, said the vaccine used in the Pentagon's mandatory program had been approved by the Food and Drug Administration to protect against skin exposure to anthrax but not against anthrax that is inhaled, a far greater threat on the modern battlefield. Defense Department officials countered by saying the F.D.A. had provided guidance that allowed the Pentagon to conclude that the vaccine was effective against inhaled anthrax. Lawyers for the plaintiffs say nearly 500 active-duty members of the armed services have refused the vaccine, with close to 200 court-martialed as a result. From 500 to 1,000 pilots and flight personnel have left the Air National Guard or Reserves rather than take the vaccine, the lawyers say. Pentagon officials say that although several hundred military or civilian personnel declined the vaccine in the initial years after the program was begun in 1998, only 10 have refused it since June 2002, when the program was accelerated after supply problems had been resolved. Since then, 600,000 to 700,000 military or Pentagon civilian personnel have received the vaccine, Defense Department officials say.

To: Rick McDougall who wrote (33696)	12/28/2003 11:22:33 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

So now, mad cow disease in this country has been brought to light. And yet, the government is trying to figure out a way to blame it on Canada so that the US beef industry can continue exporting tainted meat around the world: If U.S. officials determine the sick cow was imported from Canada and its offspring has been destroyed, they could protect the American beef trade from economic fallout, said Michael Stumo, an attorney for the Organization for Competitive Markets, a nonprofit group in Nebraska whose mission is to ensure fair markets for farmers. But investigators have not yet found where the sick cow was born. U.S. officials have repeatedly said the food supply is safe because the cow's brain, spinal cord, and lower part of the small intestine — where the disease is found — were removed before it was sent for processing. usatoday.com Oh brother, these guys are scrambling to revise history.

To: Rick McDougall who wrote (33696)	12/28/2003 11:42:21 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 89467

From one in 10,000 to one in 500, autism is on the rise. By simply removing thimerasol from vaccines given babies, autism can be eliminated. Injecting babies with known poisons is criminal. Look at the FDA findings though - who is paying them off? Recent and Future FDA Action FDA has been actively addressing the issue of thimerosal as a preservative in vaccines. Under the FDA Modernization Act (FDAMA) of 1997, the FDA conducted a comprehensive review of the use of thimerosal in childhood vaccines. Conducted in 1999, this review found no evidence of harm from the use of thimerosal as a vaccine preservative, other than local hypersensitivity reactions (Ball et al. 2001). fda.gov