Autism and Homeland security

Are Vaccines A Matter of National Secruity?
The last four sections for the historical Homeland security Act, the largest restructuring of the government since 1947, doesn’t deal with middle eastern terrorist groups, or new security measure in the case of emergency. No it deals with something that most people have trouble connecting the dots too. Vaccines, and more importantly the Companies that make them.

A last minute provision was added to the already 470 plus pages of the bill. It was add so late that most members of congress didn’t even know it was added, and it was far too late to debate weather or not it deserved to be included in the bill.

Eli Lilly
Sections 1714, 1715, 1716, and 1717 protect companies like Eli Lilly a global pharmaceutical company from lawsuits by removing liability for any injuries that may be the result of any vaccines they manufacture. Including the very controversial Thimerosal ( Thimerosal contains 49.6% mercury, the second most toxic metal known to man) used as a preservative in many vaccines that were given to kids from birth to about 18 months of age.

At the time the bill was being presented to Congress, Eli Lilly had come under intense pressure for the possible link between autism and Thimerosal in vaccines. A public movement was in the process to file suit against the pharmaceutical giant, and other companies that gave vaccines to kids, while knowing they contained toxic levels of mercury.

Eli Lilly was aware of the concerns resulting from Thimerosal exposure since the early 1940’s and was advised by its own Medical Science Department in 1967 that the claim “Non-toxic” be removed from its Thimerosal labels. Lilly’s own materials safety data sheet acknowledges that exposure in children may cause mild to severe mental retardation and that mercury poisoning may occur.

Amazingly FDA in over 70 plus years since Thimerosal was first used in vaccines, has never order Eli Lilly to conduct safety test even though there are concerns about it’s toxicity and it’s allergic properties

Vaccine Bills
The idea of a vaccine bill isn’t new, Senator Bill Frist’s Vaccine Bill S 2053 , was defeated in July 2002. Oddly enough the provision added to the Homeland Security Bill was worded exactly like that of Frist’s bill, a aide even mentioned that it was a different font then the rest of the Homeland Security Act, and it looked like someone cut it out and pasted it into the new bill.

Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona characterized the provision as “among the most inappropriate” in the homeland security legislation that has “no bearing whatsoever on domestic security.”

It is important to note that former President Bush sat on the Lilly board in the late 1970’s. The White House budget director, Mitchell E. Daniels Jr., is a former Lilly executive. Sidney Taurel, the company’s chairman and chief executive, was appointed in June 2007 by President Bush to serve on a presidential Homeland Security Advisory Council.

So What Does Autism Have To Do With Homeland Security?
Rep. Dick Armey, was the one who add the provision saying “It’s a matter of national security, We need their vaccines if the country is attacked with germ weapons.”

Armey stats the United States can not afford to have pharmaceutical companies sued, it would force them out of business. If they were found guilty of a link between Thimerosal and autism, the settlement could be in the billions. And what about our military, don’t they need vaccines when they go over sea’s, even though now there is suspect that Gulf War Syndrome is caused by Thimerosal in the massive amounts of vaccines that are mandatory for soldiers.

Armey said he “did it, and was proud of it”,, though it does seem convenient that a provision was sneaked into the Homeland security Act by someone who is set to retire at the end of the year, so Armey won’t have to deal with any back lash.

My point is not to try and prove that thimerosal causes autism, My point is to draw attention to what the pharmaceutical industry is doing to avoid responsibility.

Links
> democracy now
> foundation for health choice
> map cruzin
> pla
> in these times
> CBS News
> Down load Homeland Security Act