So much for that much-ballyhooed removal of mercury from children’s vaccines:
At the end of last year, President Bush signed the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREPA), granting blanket immunity to pharmaceutical companies for vaccine-induced injuries. The measure is a carte blanche for industry, allowing it even to reintroduce mercury in vaccines that are currently clean, and under the behest of the World Health Organization, to continue shipping tainted vaccine to the “developing world.”….
It removes the right to due process and judicial review for persons injured by vaccines, thus granting a virtual license to kill. Under the new law, companies making vaccines can be grossly negligent and act with wanton recklessness and still escape liability as long as they can show that their misconduct wasn’t “willful.”
It is impossible to conceive of a lower standard for the drug companies or a higher burden of proof for injured parties.
The refusal of the drug companies to take responsibility for the products they produce, and the complicity of the highest levels of government in their refusal, will diminish public confidence in the entire US vaccination program…. The PREPA also preempts the laws of states like California that have passed legislation outlawing mercury in childhood vaccinations. Meanwhile, the CDC continues to send its henchmen into state legislatures around the country in attempts to abort measures banning mercury.
If vaccines were actually safe for children, then why is it necessary to excuse manufacturers from the the same liability for which manufacturers of every other consumer product are responsible? If vaccines were safe, why would it be necessary to forbid those who have demonstrably been injured by them from exercising what is supposed to be their unalienable right to due process of law?
The grassroots of the progressive left are hopelessly wrong about their prescriptions, advocating as they do more of the disease as its prospective cure. It is ironic that they nevertheless manage to correctly identify high-ranking Republicans here as fascist villians who are using claims of the collective good as an excuse to channel vast sums to their friends in the pharmaceutical industry. But if they think that Democrats would handle the situation any differently if they were in power, they are sadly mistaken.