Great! The President declares a national emergency and he's "playing." God knows the risk of Obama being criticized is more important than being honest about a plague.
On Oct 26, 7:25 pm, Hollywood <[email protected]> wrote: > Daniel, > > The President is just playing CYA. Better he be criticized for being > too cautious and concerned than NOT being concerned enough about > public health issues. He knows full well that no matter what he does, > or does not do, certain people are going to be critical. That simple. > > On Oct 26, 3:52 pm, Daniel Seigler <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Makes one wonder --just what's going on??! > > > NaturalNews) President Obama's declaration of a national pandemic emergency > > is "no cause for alarm," reported the mainstream media throughout the > > weekend. The declaration is nothing more than a "precaution," they say. > > "It's really more a continuation of our preparedness steps," said Anne > > Schuchat, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's > > National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, in a USA Today > > story. > > > In other words, there's not really any emergency at all. So why declare a > > national emergency in the first place? The media reports this was done to > > allow hospitals to bypass federal regulations concerning the setting up of > > large-scale triage sites -- emergency medical camps quickly constructed to > > deal with large numbers of sick people. > > > But at the same time, H1N1 isn't causing large-scale sickness. As USA Today > > reported, an expert on infectious disease, P.J. Brennan (the chief medical > > officer for the Penn Health System at the University of Pennsylvania in > > Philadelphia) said, "The public ought to take some solace, some relief in > > this. It's not a suggestion that things have deteriorated in any way. In no > > way is the virus more severe or more difficult to manage." > > > So let me get this straight. The H1N1 virus remains mild. The CDC reports > > that swine flu infections already peaked out in mid-October. There have > > been no new developments in swine flu that would be cause for alarm and no > > reason to suspect huge numbers of sick people flooding into the hospitals. > > And yet, for some reason, the Obama administration has declared a national > > pandemic emergency specifically for the purpose of speeding the ability of > > hospitals to process large masses of sick people through emergency medical > > triage tents? > > > What are these people not telling us? > > > Something doesn't add up here. Why would the U.S. Government need to > > declare a national emergency to enable hospitals to handle a flood of sick > > people when there is no flood of sick people (and the pandemic seems to be > > fizzling out)? > > > This is more like the kind of preparation you might expect in advance of a > > biological terrorism attack, not for a flu that appears no more dangerous > > than the seasonal sniffles. > > > The National Emergencies Act and FEMAMeanwhile, the media ignores the rest > > of the story about what dangerous powers a declaration of a national > > emergency puts into play. As reported here on NaturalNews, this declaration > > effectively ends many civil liberties in America and, at least on paper, > > puts the U.S. Government in the position of having the legal authority to > > force vaccinations on the entire population at gunpoint (if they wanted to). > > > The National Emergencies Act passed in 1976 has some peculiar realities > > attached to it. In particular, as Wikipedia reports: > > > A federal emergency declaration allows the United States Federal Emergency > > Management Agency (FEMA) to exercise its power to deal with emergency > > situations ... Typically, a state of emergency empowers the executive to > > name coordinating officials to deal with the emergency and to override > > normal administrative processes regarding the passage of administrative > > rules. > > > Got that yet? By declaring a national emergency, Obama invokes a set of > > laws that not only override important sections of the U.S. Constitution, > > but that also activate FEMA to take charge of "responding" to the emergency. > > > Now we know why they need all those emergency medical tent camps near the > > hospitals. FEMA's in charge! And if FEMA handles the swine flu pandemic in > > the same way the agency handled the Hurricane Katrina disaster, we may > > indeed need all those emergency triage tents after all. > > > Those of you who have been following the ongoing march to destroy the > > freedoms of the American People already know about FEMA camps. These aren't > > Boy Scout field trip camps; they're detention centers designed to hold > > large numbers of people for "emergency" purposes. Many theories abound on > > what these FEMA camps might be used for (www.campFEMA.com) > > (http://www.globalresearch.ca/index....). > > > They could conceivably be used to quarantine people who are infected with a > > dangerous pandemic virus. On the other hand, they might also be used to > > isolated and detain people who refuse to be vaccinated against any declared > > pandemic. Under the National Emergencies Act and related U.S. Law, FEMA > > would have two years of near-total control over the civilian population, > > during which people could be subjected to forced vaccinations, mandatory > > searches of their homes, gunpoint detainment and "involuntary > > transportation" to a FEMA detainment facility, and so on. > > > I'm not saying they're going to do all this, but they could if they wanted > > to! > > > And that's not freedom. Real freedom means you have the guaranteed right to > > be safe from being detained, or arrested without cause, or injected with a > > government-mandated chemical. Under a declaration of a national emergency, > > your "freedom" is at the whim of those who maintain police state powers > > over you. You're only "free" if they decide to refrain from exercising the > > power they have over you. It's the same kind of freedom you might get as a > > peasant in some Medieval kingdom where the king says, "You're free to go." > > > Now, some of these freedom-restricting actions might conceivably be > > justifiable if a truly dangerous pandemic virus were sweeping through the > > population killing millions, causing huge disruptions in the national > > infrastructure and threatening the nation with a partial or total shutdown > > of essential services. But that is not happening here. H1N1 is a mild virus > > that rates astonishingly low on the severity scale. If H1N1 were a > > hurricane, it would be little more than a "tropical depression." It is not > > a category five hurricane, nor a phase six pandemic. Virtually everyone who > > is exposed to H1N1 generates their own antibodies and cures themselves > > naturally. According to hospital reports, those who have died from the H1N1 > > virus are almost exclusively people who were already suffering from > > preexisting conditions that compromised their health such as asthma or > > extreme obesity. > > > By any measure, H1N1 as currently configured appears to present no > > extraordinary threat to the health of the population. So once again, we > > must ask: Why declare a national emergency and initiate a FEMA response to > > something that's not really an emergency? > > > Why I'm concernedFor the first time in this whole pandemic situation, I'm > > concerned. Not due to the virus itself, because that's a mild virus that > > presents no real threat to the population at large. I'm concerned about > > what we don't know might be going on behind the scenes here. > > > These preparations for large-scale medical triage tents and the emergency > > activation of FEMA have me worried that the American people aren't being > > told the whole story. Perhaps a terrorist organization is planning on > > releasing a wildly dangerous mutation of H1N1 in some major U.S. city. Or > > perhaps some vaccine maker is, in fact, that terrorist organization. (The > > best way to sell more vaccines would be to release a mutated form of H1N1 > > into the population and scare up some more sales...) > > > Or maybe, as some creative thinkers have suggested, the vaccine itself IS a > > bioweapon, and the U.S. government is preparation for large-scale > > fatalities it expects to see soon. > > > Or maybe these are just fleeting, dark visions from crazy people, and the > > U.S. government is a benevolent organization with all our best interests in > > mind, and they're jumping through these bureaucratic hoops to make sure > > there are plenty of hospital beds to go 'round just in case more people get > > really sick. > > > But even that explanation doesn't hold water. A "national emergency > > declaration" isn't necessary to waive hospital tent rules. Obama could have > > easily accomplished the same thing with an Executive Order, without having > > to invoke the National Emergencies Act or put FEMA in charge at all. > > > He chose the emergency declaration for a specific reason. I guess we'll all > > have to wait and see what that real reason turns out to be. > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > New Windows 7: Find the right PC for you. Learn > > more.http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pc-scout/default.aspx?CBID=wl&ocid=P... > > > imstp_animation_monkey_en_020908.gif > > 55KViewDownload --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
