While I too am opposed to forced vaccination, this case is possibly being mis-represented. The ruling of the Judge was, to my knowledge only as to claims raised, which were by 6 serviecemen and women. The ruling does properly apply to them. It may not, given its role in the Federal judicial scheme of things allow him to make a ruling as to ANY Service person not a Party to the action. The fault for this 'escape clause' most likely lies witht the Attroneys representing the case for the Plaintiffs and not the Judge. It may be corrected by the filing of a class-action, but not until then. This will give the Govt. years to force the vaccine until they can get back in Court for new hearing. As difficult as it is, I must say I think the Judge ruled properly on procedural grounds and the fault lies in other Service persons not joining the suit to seek clas-action certification prior to now. No one wants to put their neck out for justice but want to let the other guy stand and fight then share the benefits of his efforts. Well now they too must stand up individually and be courageous as these Plaintiffs were and assert their rights or lose them. I have to think the Attorney knew this could happen. Feel free to comment or e-mail: wahkonta@graffiti.net blog on.
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BETRAYAL!
FEDERAL JUDGE “FLIP-FLOPS” ON FORCED
ANTHRAX SHOTS – NOW SAYS ONLY THE SIX
PLANTIFFS IN LANDMARK SUIT ARE
COVERED – ALL OTHER U.S. MILITARY
CAN BE GUINEA-PIGGED AT WILL – WHO
GOT TO THE JUDGE? TOTAL REVERSAL
OF LOGIC – OUTRAGED READERS DECRY
BETRAYAL – “WE WILL CONTINUE THE
FIGHT,” SAYS LAWYER MARK ZAID
In a stunning reversal of a ruling he handed down just two weeks ago, a federal judge on Jan. 7 gave the government the “green light” to resume forced anthrax shots on this nation’s armed forces.
Last Dec. 22, Judge Emmet G. Sullivan decried the Pentagon’s demand that the “experimental” so-called anthrax “vaccine” be administered to all members of the military, on pain of court-martial or dismissal from the service.
Several thousand service-members have bravely refused the shots and suffered punishment, ranging from dishonorable discharge to prison terms, after declining to risk their health and that of family members. Others have died or been crippled for life after suffering severe reactions from the mandatory inoculations.
THE JUDGE DOES AN “ABOUT-FACE” ON JUSTICE
In Judge Sullivan’s former ruling, he used the term “guinea-pigging” to emphasize the Pentagon’s capricious attitude towards the safety and well-being of our armed forces.
Now the judge, who has performed one of the most shameful “flip-flops” in judicial history, doesn’t talk any more about “guinea-pigs” or the rights of Americans in uniform not to be the object of an experimental drug.
Sullivan cites a December 30 statement by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that the “vaccine” works just fine and is no harm to anyone, as the basis for his shameful retreat from honor and justice.
TRUSTING THE GOVERNMENT TO TELL THE TRUTH
Oddly enough, the judge acknowledged he is “highly suspicious” of the “timing” of the FDA announcement, coming on the heels of his original order banning further use of the shots on troops without their informed consent.
But a government attorney told Sullivan he was prepared to “swear on a stack of Bibles” that the shots are “safe.” So the judge claimed that – and the FDA’s specious claim the vaccine was OK – was enough to reverse his order. Sure! That’s it.
Such “reasoning” is no comfort to the millions of Americans, who have waged a bitter and expensive battle against the anthrax shot $CAM, (see our related story: “GREED AND GUINEA PIGS” below) which has done more than anything else to undermine morale and retention in our military.
NO LOGIC IN REVERSAL OF POSITION
The judge now says only the six plaintiffs in the case are safe from being forced to take the shots. We at MilitaryCorruption.com wonder why suddenly, everyone else in uniform can be browbeaten into submitting to the inoculations, while six other Americans in the military are spared? There is no logic in what the judge has done. If the shots are a danger to six, why not others?
Hundreds of outraged e-mails have poured into our mailbox blasting Sullivan for his “flip-flop” and the government (and Bush Administration) for yet another “slap in the face” to the nation’s armed forces.
[Veterans who overwhelmingly supported Bush in the 2000 election were shocked and angered to find Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld “leading the charge” to maintain the unfair and illegal “disabled veterans tax” – based on the 100 year-old policy of Concurrent Receipt – whereby disabled vets lose one dollar from their retirement pension for ever dollar they receive in disability payments.]
With Judge Sullivan lifting the ban on forced shots, the government avoids the sticky question of what to do with all the service members whose lives were utterly destroyed by court-martial and loss of career when they stood up and said “NO” to being experimented on.
The Army, Navy, Marine and Air Force physicians who participated in this outrage – one notable exception being courageous Air Force Capt., Dr. John Buck – should have remembered and followed The Hippocratic Oath, sworn to by all doctors everywhere: “First, do no harm.”
READERS REACT – ATTORNEY VOWS TO “FIGHT ON”
“Put Sullivan’s name up there with Benedict Arnold, Brutus and Judas Iscariot,” said one angry Marine who e-mailed us from Camp Pendleton, Calif. “Who got to him?” asked a reader from Kirtland AFB in New Mexico. “This is doubly cruel,” said a female sailor from Norfolk, Va., “for Judge Sullivan gave us hope that justice might prevail.” And an Army lieutenant from Ft. Benning, Ga. wrote: “This latest development will only sink morale lower, if that is possible.”
Mark Zaid, lead attorney for the anti “forced anthrax shot” forces, vowed to try for a class action suit when he appears before Judge Sullivan next week.
“This is far from over,” he told MilitaryCorruption.com. “We will continue the fight no matter what."
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