-Caveat Lector-
From
http://www.sonic.net/~doretk/Issues/00-03-SPR/thelie.html
}}}Begin
Spring 2000 -- NCX
THE LIE CONTINUES:
When Congress asked that anthrax vaccine shots for soldiers be
discontinued until more research is done, the Pentagon said no.
Soldiers can still be court-martialed for refusing the vaccine. The
following articles are reprinted from 1998 and 1999.
ANTHRAX OTHER SMALL FAVORS
by Hank Roth
ADMIRAL WILLIAM J. CROWE, JR., former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, is making a lot of money selling anthrax vaccine. If it smells
fishy, it isn't because the Admiral spent so much time at sea. He
mostly steered his career from desk to desk, as an aide to admirals,
a White House assistant, staff officer, Ambassador, graduate student,
Pentagon planner, and top dog at JCS.
Intervac L.L.C., of which Retired Adm. William J. Crowe, Jr. is
director--a pharmaceutical investment firm in Maryland--under the
newly formed BioPort Inc., bid $25 million to buy the Michigan
Biologic Products Institute. The offer included $3.25 million in cash
at closing, $12.1 million in secured notes, $4.6 million in rabies
vaccine and immune globulin donations to the state, and $5 million in
royalties over five years. Adm. William J. Crowe, Jr. was the former
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Reagan administration.
BioPort has negotiated with the DoD to make enough anthrax vaccine to
inoculate everyone in the military. You figure it out. There are 2.4
million US military personnel. That translates into millions of
dollars (about $130 mil.), and they have to be revaccinated on an
annual basis. Nice job if you can get it.
The lab he bought, opened in 1926, is the ONLY SOURCE OF ANTHRAX
VACCINE IN THE NATION. By the way, it was a state-owned lab, which
the Admiral acquired. A real sweet deal.
How does one get to do that? Well, for one thing, you have to be nice
to the President. Adm. William Crowe, a Republican, endorsed Gov.
Bill Clinton when he ran for president. He gave Clinton the boost he
needed when other Republicans were attacking his draft record. Crowe
said this about his pal: I served in uniform for 47 years . . . I
know and have worked with many others who didn't serve in uniform,
including a number of key national security figures in the Bush
administration. That fact never affected my ability to work with them
or my high regard for them.
Crowe was appointed by Ronnie Reagan to the nation's top military job
in 1985 and served during the first part of Georgie Bush's term. His
endorsement of Clinton paid off in spades. Or, I should say in
anthrax.
How safe is anthrax vaccine? DoD claims it is very safe and
necessary, but the Department of Health in Britain said it was a
problem in the Gulf War because of its simultaneous use with
pertussis vaccine. Combining the vaccines, according to the Brits,
caused severe medical conditions. There are a lot of sick veterans
from the Gulf with Gulf War illnesses, and the causes are still not
known.
In the Gulf, American soldiers were used as guinea pigs for
combinations of drug vaccines, including the anthrax vaccine, with
reckless disregard to 400,000 U.S. troops, charged Senator John D.
Rockefeller. 150,000 were given an anthrax vaccine. So, since when
has the DoD been fair with veterans? Remember Agent Orange, Radiation
Veterans, and all those other cover-ups?
Over the next few years the military will vaccinate every soldier
against anthrax. Is this a good thing? The army considers anthrax to
be the major biological warfare threat to the military.
The vaccination program consists of a series of six shots
administered over an 18-month period. Annual boosters of the vaccine
are needed to maintain immunity.
Because it takes 18 months to administer the full round of shots, and
because of personnel turnover and mobility, the Army estimates a 7-8-
year period to vaccinate all personnel. The immunizations are
mandatory.
--reprinted from the Spring 1999 NCX
ANTHRAX DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN
by Gary Novak
THE INVESTIGATIVE UNDERWORLD of the government has been waging a
disinformation campaign for several years. For example, a news weekly
listed each of the supposed terrorist weapons and the cost of
producing them. For ten or twenty thousand dollars, terrorists could
supposedly kill hundreds of thousands of persons with botulism toxin,
anthrax, nerve gas, etc. Sixty Minutes said the weapons could be
produced in someone's backyard in a five-gallon bucket. They said
anthrax spores released from a boat on the Hudson River could kill
four hundred thousand persons in New York City. Here's the truth of
the matter.
Anthrax is nothing but propaganda. It will never be used successfully
as a terrorist weapon, and probably never as a military weapon.
Anthrax is a livestock pathogen. There are anthrax spores in the
ground in rural areas, because they survive for about twenty years.
They have no effect upon humans, because a few anthrax spores cannot
create an infection.
Anthrax
