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| Military Vaccine Action Committee and National Gulf War Resource Center join in
letter to President Bush, Congress
The Military Vaccine Action Committee (http://www.mvacpac.org) has
joined with the National Gulf War Resource Center
(http://www.NGWRC.org) in an open letter to President Bush protesting
immunity for vaccine manufacturers on behalf of service members and
veterans.
In addition, this ad - http://www.adscripts.com/mvec/soldie~1.pdf -
ran today in the Congressional Daily. Both groups are also sending this
letter to members of Congress:
http://www.adscripts.com/mvec/vetera~3.doc We invite you to use the
letter as your own protest as well, and to add your signature to it. As
the folks at the National Vaccine Information Center have reminded us,
we are in the 11th hour on this, and need to take action now.
For those of you who are civilians, you're getting this information
because this is now also a civilian issue. At the same time that the
BioShield act provides for mandatory inoculation of civilians with
bioterrorism vaccines if an emergency is declared, this bill in
Congress now - S1873 - would provide complete immunity to vaccine
manufacturers in event that their products cause illness, injury, or
death; and provides for a new government agency to operate in complete
secrecy. We really need to speak out THIS WEEK.
Dear Member of Congress:
As leaders of veterans' organizations, we have seen firsthand the
injuries and deaths caused by the mandatory vaccinations of service
members. Because of this, we ask you to oppose any effort to include
liability protections for the pharmaceutical industry in the Department
of Defense Appropriations Conference Report that do not at the same
time provide protections for service members and other first responders
who will be significantly affected by the administration of a dangerous
or experimental drug or vaccine.
Last week it was reported that the Pentagon failed to inform Congress
of more than 20,700 troops who were hospitalized after receiving the
anthrax vaccine. Despite learning this information, members of Congress
are still pushing to add language to the Department of Defense
Appropriations Conference Report that would provide virtual immunity to
drug companies without creating any kind of compensation system to help
service members and first responders who suffer debilitating injuries
as a result of a drug or vaccine.
Not only is this language fundamentally unfair to the men and women of
the Armed Forces, it puts them at further risk by taking away all
financial incentives for drug companies to produce safe, fully-tested
drugs and vaccines, creating a greater chance that unsafe drugs and
vaccines will be administered to our Armed Forces.
Also upsetting are the undemocratic and dishonest maneuvers the
Congressional leadership have used to provide the drug industry these
special protections. These kinds of sweeping liability protections
have never been debated or passed in either the United States House of
Representatives of the Senate. They are the result of backroom, late
night deals.
Instead of using funding for the military as cover to pass wholesale
immunity for the pharmaceutical industry that actually puts our service
members in harm's way, Congress should be working to help members of
the Armed Forces injured by vaccines receive immediate and adequate
medical care, and to prevent similar problems from occurring in the
future.
This is an opportunity for members of Congress to back up their words
of support for our troops with actions by rejecting this liability
protection for negligent drug makers.
Alan
"Can't you see we're still here,
Can't you see we're still here,
Singing loud; Singing clear,
We shall not go under,
We're still here."
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