Model Emergency Health Powers Acts?

[Th1onein]

The “model” is a generic statute, intended to be enacted by the individual states. As “suggested,” the individual state health personnel could ultimately wind up under the control of the federal government; expected to act as a police force. Their ‘emergency powers’ would be Gestapo in nature, including the power to arrest people who refuse to take prescribed “immunizations,” or carting them off to “Quarantine Camps.”

Anyone ever heard of this? Have these acts been passed?

[tom_paine]

1. Yes. If those Raygun-era Ollie North written "laws" ever come into use

Then grease your {THIS POTION REDACTED BY ORDER OF HOMELAND SECURITY} and get ready to {THIS POTION REDACTED BY ORDER OF HOMELAND SECURITY}.

Because it will be too late by that time.

[Mandate My Ass]

2. They sneaked it in under the radar

The feds tried bribing and threatening the states with economic repercussions if they didn't pass it "as is." Some states flat out refused to pass it and others watered it down. Then they just put it into the HOmeland Security Bill at the last minute. It's one piece of scary legislation.

It gives HHS secretary unchecked powers and leaves citizens without legal remedy for harm suffered by untested vaccines.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/02/11/20_homeland.html

One hastily added amendment to the Homeland Security bill, for example, which was rumored to have been added at the White House's request, is the provision under which pharmaceutical companies would be protected from lawsuits. Currently, 150 lawsuits have been filed against vaccine manufacturers, alleging that mercury preservatives within measles, mumps and rubella vaccines caused their children's autism (the New York Times recently dubbed this "the not-so-crackpot autism theory"). This amendment, which has nothing to do with Homeland Security, would limit compensation to $250,000. Paul Wellstone's amendment which would prevent companies who avoid paying US taxes by moving offshore from contracting with the Homeland Security Department was removed.

Even more sinister, however, is that new provisions reintroduce proposals which were previously rejected by most states in last years' Model State Emergency Health Powers Act (MEHPA). Calling for mandatory vaccination, MEHPA allows for confiscation of real estate, food, medicine and other property; and outlines plans to herd afflicted citizens into stadiums. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson urged state legislatures to adopt the act, providing all the proof conspiracy theorists needed to prove that the U.S government was using 9/11 to impose a reign of tyranny. The mysterious deaths of 15 microbiologists following the attacks didn't help.

Yet according to the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons, under this Homeland Security provision, MEHPA would be all but reborn under section 304, subsection C of the bill. Tommy Thompson would be given sweeping powers to unilaterally declare an emergency and order forced vaccinations, detainment and quarantines. Bemoaning that the provision was "snuck into the bill at the last minute," Rep. Ron Paul (R, TX) said, "It is hard to think of a more blatant violation of liberty than allowing government officials to force people to receive potentially dangerous vaccines based on hypothetical risks."