Richard T. Moore (D-Uxbridge), Senate Chairman of the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Health Care and the Special Senate Committee on National Health Reform, writes that the latest target of anti-government advocates is Senate Bill No. 2028, a pandemic and emergency preparedness plan that gives officials authority to quarantine individuals if necessary:
This summer, vividly and loudly dominating our TV news and print media, America witnessed a raucous display of distrust of our own elected government in the health care town hall meetings. The President and Congress are seeking to expand access to affordable health insurance, and therefore health care, to all Americans. But some of our fellow citizens, skeptical of anything government does, demonized those who tried to explain the proposals before Congress and shouted down explanations rather than engage in a reasonable discussion of the problems and possible solutions.
The anger over health reform efforts by the national government to help Americans expand their right to life, health and happiness has, apparently spilled over to Massachusetts in the form of anger at efforts under discussion in the state government to protect the rights of all citizens during a time of public health emergency. For more than a century, government has had extraordinary powers to respond to an epidemic, and it has generally exercised those powers responsibly. However, legislation aimed at modernizing and refining those powers to preserve individual liberty while protecting everyone from epidemic has been seen by some as more “big brother” government.
“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” is one of the most famous phrases in America’s Declaration of Independence. These three aspects, which are listed among the inalienable rights that we all enjoy, are based on the writings of English philosopher John Locke. Locke expressed the fundamental belief that “no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.”
However, just saying the words doesn’t guarantee that we have, or can keep, these rights. Each of us must stand up for our rights and the rights of others. In our democracy, we expect our government to preserve, protect, and defend those rights.
Around September 11 each year since 2001, we remember events when a small group of terrorists tried to take those rights away. In fact, they did deprive several thousand innocent civilians and dedicated emergency responders of their lives, health, liberty and possessions. A few months later, one or more individuals tried, once again, to deprive Americans of their inalienable rights when letters containing the deadly Anthrax was mailed to media and government offices. Some postal workers who handled those letters became ill and died.
Most of us believe that our government has, or should have, the authority and the responsibility to take necessary actions to protect us from those who are intent on harming or killing us or depriving us of our liberties. We also expect that our government will take steps to protect us and our loved ones from the spread of deadly viruses or the consequences of natural disasters, even if protecting all of us might temporarily limit our individual freedoms. After all, while we all have basic rights as Americans, most of us understand that we also have a fundamental responsibility not to harm anyone by our individual actions or decisions.
We have conferred on our government the resources and the authority to protect us when society is threatened as with the threat of a major disease epidemic on the magnitude of the Great Influenza Epidemic. That epidemic killed thousands of Massachusetts residents in 1918. In recent months, there have been numerous reported cases of a virus called H1N1, or Swine Flu, that have renewed health concerns and we expect our government to offer protection.
Although Massachusetts, and other state governments, has the authority to require us to be vaccinated, no one has proposed that vaccination for any flu be mandatory. Certainly, there is no H1N1 vaccine currently approved for use, but even when a vaccine becomes available no one is planning to require that we all get vaccinated. Nevertheless, under existing law – upheld as constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in the landmark case of Jacobson v. Massachusetts [197 U.S. 11 (1905), mandatory vaccination is deemed “a legitimate exercise of the state’s police power to protect the public health and safety of its citizens.” The state has the authority to vaccinate, but has stated that it will not mandate such action in the case of H1N1.
In an effort to protect all of us from any arbitrary abuse of this authority, legislators and public health experts began to review state public health emergency laws in 2001 following the Anthrax experience. Leading legal and public health scholars from around the nation worked under the guidance of the Georgetown Law School Center for Public Health Law along with public health experts from Johns Hopkins University Medical School to draft a model act to guide state efforts to update public health laws that, in most cases, had not been reformed since the 1918 Influenza Epidemic. To date 45 states have introduced bills in their legislatures based in whole or in part on the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act, and 38 states have passed those bills, including many Northeast states. The Act has become one of the most widely used models for public health legal reform ever.
In Massachusetts, the Department of Public Health, the Massachusetts Medical Society, the Massachusetts Hospital Association, the Massachusetts Public Health Association, and others have been working with legislators for the past eight years to craft a bill to update public health emergency preparedness statutes in light of the views of today’s society. As the bill has been developed, it has had several well-attended public hearings and formal debate in both branches of the Legislature. It has been improved with each responsible criticism. The bill under consideration attempts to narrow the current broad state public health authority to protect individual liberties while protecting the rights of all citizens in the spirit that John Locke espoused that “no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.”
Contrary to what some have been saying in the media and in blogs, the bill – Senate Bill No. 2028 – does NOT mandate vaccination. It does say that if public health officials believe that vaccination is the recommended prevention measure, and someone does not want to be vaccinated to protect themselves and those around them, the public health officials MAY order that they be isolated or quarantined. While some states ordered quarantines last spring because of H1N1 virus, Massachusetts health officials did not. In fact, throughout the last century, public health officials have used their emergency powers sparingly and responsibly.
The “Pandemic Public Health Emergency Preparedness” bill would allow arrest or entry into property for violations of quarantine, but only if there is “probable cause.” This is a high standard defined by numerous court decisions over the years, and those officials who abuse or ignore that standard get into serious trouble. The bill actually sets a framework of standards in place to narrow the sweeping emergency powers that are already in place so that individuals have legal protection from abuse by any government official. While some who distrust any government are opposing passage of this bill, if they fully understood its purpose and studied the bill in the context of existing law, they ought to be calling for its swift passage rather than protesting and demonizing those who advocate for the law.
Admittedly, no law is perfect or is universally applicable regardless of the circumstances. We are all subject to the errors of being human. Therefore, if there are legitimate concerns with the bill, they can be considered in the coming weeks as the Massachusetts House debates the issue. Even if the bill is passed and signed by the Governor, the bill – as with most complex legislation – will need to have regulations drafted to implement its provisions, and public hearings will give people another opportunity for input. The facts are that those of us who are advocating responsible public health emergency preparedness are not acting out of any nefarious, “big brother” mentality, but out of a genuine concern for protecting the health and lives of all citizens without arbitrary restrictions on the rights of any one citizen. Debate on the issue should focus not on personal and slanderous attacks on individuals, but on the merits of the legislation. A debate on the merits and the substantive issues is another American right, outrageous personal attack against others is not a respected means of dissent – at least not up to now in America!
The language of Senate bill #2028 does not define what an emergency is, except that it is an event that is “detrimental to the public health”. A level 6 pandemic level is based on infectivity and not virulence. Yes, people get infected very rapidly with H1N1 but the great majority of people recover without incident with much lower mortality than the seasonal influenza. However, the big problem is, that the classification of pandemic level 6 is enough to declare a state of emergency and impose state usurpation of basic freedoms. It contains language that can lead the state to mandate vaccination, seize property ,institute fines and imprison Americans for failure to comply. So basically they are saying they won’t do these things but meanwhile they are acquiring the power to do them. Very interesting and dangerous.
Why are we making more laws that can be abused or misinterpreted when we already have law presidence on the books? Example if someone that has been diagnosed with AIDS/HIV and they knowingly spreads the disease to other people without their knowledge this person can be arrested and charged with existing criminal law. Politicians feel that in order to appeal to their constituents they must make more laws to allay unfounded concerns and at the same time grab more power from the people by, as this administration has so nicely put it as, not letting a crisis go to waste. We as Americans also are to blame because we allow baffoons to get into office and then get too hypnotized with American Idol to pay attention to our political process and the gradual loss of our liberties.
PS Your article is remaniscent of the articles published prior to Hitler’s takeover of nazi Germany. The phrase “Homeland Security” was big then too. Be students of history, in order not to repeat the mistakes of the past.
The vaccine will cause debilitating and chronic symptoms or death to those with blood types A, B & O. These blood types have damaged DNA and weakened immune systems.
The blood type AB is the normal healthy blood type with normal DNA and immune system.
For explanation see: http://www.unveilingthem.com/PoisoningOfMankindCopperDeficiency.htm
C.A. Bouthillier
I do not know if I have ever read such doublespeak and disinformation in my life as is put forth in this opinion. Somehow your liberties are protected by the government depriving you of same? What kind of fools is this piece directed to? Fortunately, there are more ways to get accurate and life-saving information than our good old “trusted” news sources.
Good luck. Not one of my colleagues will take this shot. We never do with the standard flu, why would we now? The darn vaccine is worse than the flu. I asked the RN that was giving them if she was going to have one, and she just laughed and said “um no.”
Not to mention this silliness of
“It does say that if public health officials believe that vaccination is the recommended prevention measure, and someone does not want to be vaccinated to protect themselves and those around them, the public health officials MAY order that they be isolated or quarantined.”
Those around them? Wake up people. If the vaccine supposedly makes you safe, then those not taking it are no threat to those who do. So there is no reason to ever make it mandatory.
Wake up America.
MassLiberty Preservation Association Quarantines Senator Richard T Moore
Senator hides in his Beacon Hill office while aides struggle to answer questions about his S.2028 forced vaccinations bill
State Senator Richard T Moore, who authored the draconian S.2028 forced vaccination bill, doesn’t like to face tough questions from informed constituents. On Wednesday Moore successfully dodged a group of concerned parents, hiding out in his office for nearly an hour while his office clerks struggled to answer basic questions about his far-reaching legislation.
Moore’s aides parroted the same lie that Moore himself has been telling the mainstream media: “This bill would NOT force vaccinations on anyone.” While this statement may be technically true, it omits the key fact that the bill would impose stiff fines and even imprisonment (quarantining) for people who refuse the vaccine. That means coercion would indeed be used against us if this bill passes.
Another lie being spread by Moore and his staff is that they already have the power to force medical treatments on the public in an emergency anyway; and that all S.2028 would do is add “due process” to those existing laws. Trouble is, no one from Moore’s office was able on Wednesday to articulate which “due processes” are missing from the current laws.
Given that Deval Patrick and his Beacon Hill gang actually believes they have the power to trample our basic constitutional right to choose our own medical treatments, the only “pandemic” bill that ought to be considered seriously by our representatives would be one that renders null and void any “laws” that supposedly give government the “right” to force-vaccinate.
What’s evidently needed on Beacon Hill is a bill that reaffirms the definition of “inalienable.”
Join us this Saturday in Uxbridge to demand the impeachment of Senator Richard T Moore, for his treachery against the state constitution and our basic human right to choose our own medical treatments.
What are you thinking, this is like a horror movie. Anyone know anything about the 1976 swine flu “Vaccines”? Only one person died from that flu while 25 died from the shot
“Those who sacrafice liberty for security deseve neither, and lose both” – Benjamin Franklin
What is the authors agenda? No individual would ever truly support this bill, so I suspect the author is either a politician or a big pharma employee who is tired of the backlash they feel as they try to impose tyranny upon us.
If this is “legislation aimed at modernizing and refining those powers to preserve individual liberty” then I am a green cow from Mars. The author is a sneaky, lying little wussy.
Who wrote this piece of anti constitution, anti American, totalitarian, pro big pharma/public “health”, propaganda?
You know that spreading propaganda and lies is just as punishable as the treason it is in service to, yes?
Think on that.
So Americans are getting ‘raucous’ are they? (The patriots and revolutionaries whom we celebrate every July 4 got pretty ‘raucous’ too, as I recall…and the elitist establishment didn’t like it then either, and hastened to demonize them…)
About time, I’d say, and past time, for the apathetic and dumbed-down American public to wake up, smell the coffee, turn off the tube, and start to educate themselves – first, by ignoring the MSM’s “Disney version” (which includes NPR’s faux alleged ‘alternative’ sic ‘news’) and seeking REAL people-to-people news online.
Yes, it is WAY past time to protest the take-over of our government by huge financial banking/ corporate interests; way past time to make our displeasure known at having our country taken from us (in all but name) by bought-off and controlled fat cats in ‘our’(sic) government who are violating their oaths of office by failing to serve the people of the United States and instead following, and inflicting upon us against our will, unstated agendas of a ’shadow government’ and its puppet ‘leaders,’ implementers, and enforcers.
So they’re from the government and they’re here to help… this time, trying to “help Americans expand their right to life, health and happiness” — even if Americans are in no uncertain terms REJECTING that ‘help’? I thought this was supposed to be govt of/by/for the people…
Do ya think maybe Americans wouldn’t be so hopping mad if they didn’t smell a rat? If they hadn’t seen their expressed wishes ignored by government, time after time? If they hadn’t seen their standard of living falling, falling, falling? If govt. wasn’t waging expensive wars all over the globe… if govt wasn’t taking over half of their earnings by taxation and inflation and always pushing that figure up… if govt wasn’t passively allowing millions of illegals to come into the country and burden the welfare roles… if government was not involved with secretive groups like the Bilderbergers, Trilaterals, and CFR, that are moving towards destruction of national sovereignty and imposition of an authoritarian NWO that leaves the populist voice out of the loop and is to be governed by fat cat insider buddies and pals in the corporate/banking world?
If the people are mad, it is way overdue and for pressingly valid reasons.
For starters, we need to abolish the Fed and get back to Constitutional money (gold, silver) and as a nation live within our means.
And we need to bring back production to this country. We need to produce goods! That is how to ‘fix’ the economy. How can govt. think any good can come of running this huge national debt? This health care plan will be run entirely in the red, like most of govt. now is and long has been. This goes beyond fiscal irresponsibility; it is fiscal madness … unless that is, the plan is to break the country and subsume it into a global monopoly govt. … are these government suits just nuts… or are they smart like a fox….? Judge only by results… and actually I don’t think they are nuts… or stupid… so that leaves…
“…help Americans expand their right to life, health and happiness”
Their right to heath and happiness, eh? I think the author meant to refer “right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. How convenient that they exchanged “health” for “liberty”. BTW mandating that people have health insurance does not “expand access to affordable health insurance, and therefore health care”. It’s gunpoint disease care.
Here’s how articles like this are written. Some bigwig called someone into their office last week. They specifically chose someone they knew to be a spineless, pathetic retard. Then they paid brief lip service to their “cause” (which is about protecting people 100% of the time). They asked whether the author would be willing to write an “editorial” for them to help support this agenda. “Yes, sir, right away sir!” was the authors reply. “You just tell me what to think, sir and I will ridicule anyone who thinks differently!”.
This is the time to take on the New World Order. Get together with your neighbors, fellow parents and relatives and make a pact with them to refuse the shots in mass. Make them them show themselves for the true traitorous tyrants they are. A few stinking elite punks behind the New World Order will collapse like the cowards they are if the whole world stands against them. Not to sound Marxist but, We have nothing to lose but our chains!
Kirk Patrick your comment at Sept 12th 4:07pm was exactly perfect. thumbs up
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This article is full of lies and propaganda. It misrepresents government’s intentions and distorts the opposition to further encroachments on liberty. the author is clearly a fascist who has absolutely no respect for the natural rights of humankind.
The fascist writer “Commonwealth” is smart enough to not use their real name. Pretty smart considering the Second Amendment was enacted exactly for this sort of power grab, NOT hunting. Masscops.com seems to agree!
Senator, the State has no right to attempt any of this. Remember you are not “Officials”, you are servants who take an oath to uphold the Constitution. What you seek to do goes far beyond the authority that is granted to you, no matter how “good” your intentions may be.
You have no right to vaccinate anybody. You have no right to enter the premises of someone who has committed no crime. You have no right to take a sick person from their home. There are laws against assault. There are laws against battery. There are laws against kidnapping.
In your proposal you recognize these crimes and civil offenses but you provide immunity from liability to the functionaries who would do your bidding.
I will grant you that the State should be able to quarantine a person in his own domicile and perhaps may arrest the person should he venture out of quarantine and risk the public health. That’s as far as I would go.
I am definitely pro-government, but my government was founded to protect the rights of all the citizens. You would be better suited for a position in China or Cuba.
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The Anthrax attacks came from our own army chmical labs! Due to this and the USS Liberty, Operation Northwoods, Operation Gladio and many other false flag operations I no longer expect the government to protect me and my family. I expect the government to contiue to use terror attacks as a pretext to expand it’s power, until the people rise up and make them quit. Check out Charlie Sheen’s recent letter to Barrack Obama. Let’s figure out the truth before we use terror attacks to start more wars or take away more individual rights!
I don’t have time to take off of work and come down to the state capital and complain about EVERY corrupt slimy deal you thieving politicians are working on. Let me just say that there will be serious resistance if you try forcing needles in me or my family.
NO MORE. WE ARE SICK…OF YOU
This article is trash. I hope you enjoy the toxic IV cocktail your benevolent government will require you take while protecting your freedoms. I’m just wondering if you have actually thought through to the very end result for an individual who refuses a forced vaccination. What is the delineation you draw between freedom and tyranny? Is it when they haul off or kill 5% of the population, 20 %, or 80%?
Big Pharma government shills are spotted from 3000 miles away. Our rights are “NOT” relinquishable, they are inalienable, look it up ignoramus! The WHO is not going to dictate to us!
CORRECTION: The attempt was made to establish as by the doctines of John Locke: “Life, Liberty, and Property.” However, Benjamin Franklin made it “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness” on the basis of Gottfried Liebniz. The Declaration and the US Constitution are the establishment of the American front against John Locke’s barborous doctrines.
Sir, you don’t even understand the US Constitution and Declaration.
http://american_almanac.tripod.com/cameral.htm
Link above to:
THE ROOTS OF THE AMERICAN SYSTEM:
From Cameralism, to the American System of Economics
I agree that previous administrations (not all) have handled some public health issues responsibily. But the problem now, is that this administration and its supporters have completely lost credibility.
What a disgusting piece of drivel designed to confuse the flouridated, mercury damaged mind. Fortunately, as all the excellent comments above clearly show, there are numerous wide-awake, intelligent people who are not fooled by this type of blatant propaganda. The game being played on the American people is called tip-toe totalitarianism… take away a little bit of freedom everyday and hopefully no-one will notice. Well, news flash! We have noticed and your game is up!
I’M GENUINELY IMPRESSED BY THE LEVEL OF AWARENESS HERE. IT WAS NOT LONG AGO THAT ONLY ONE OR TWO PEOPLE WOULD HAVE BEEN CRITICAL OR EVEN SEEN THROUGH THIS. SO FOR ALL THE OTHER CONTRIBUTORS AT “COMMONHEALTH” YOU MIGHT WANT TO CATCH UP TO THE REST OF THE COUNTRY. OUR UNITED CONCERNS ARE THAT OF ATTENUATED H5N1 AND H1N1, SQUALENE, AND MERCURY IN VACCINES, AND THOSE REPONSIBLE WHO ARE BAXTER, AND BAYER PHARM.
I am very happy to see all these people that have finally awakened. There is hope for the Republic after all.
Contact your local sheriff. His job description includes upholding YOUR constitional rights. Ask him if he intends to do his job pursuing your rights, or does he plan on taking them away. It’s a simple question that deserves an answer.
Google the Sherrif Project and Sherrif Mack. Find out who your local Oath Keepers are.
http://www.usa1911.com/
I just don’t trust the government… I guess I must have an ‘attitude problem.’ I guess those ‘Camp FEMAs’ my evil conspiracy theorist neighbor told me about are for people like me… people who have read that the NWO elites (in their own words)are just itching to reduce the global population … by several millions, actually. And last I heard, none of THEM was volunteering to set a good example and go first…
Now this health care plan that that new handsome boy wonder Prez. is pushing so hard, I heard that there are elements of ‘triage’ somewhere in those thousand pages than none of those backing the legislation have bothered to read… meaning that, medical care might be denied to some… maybe your mom, your grandpa… but not to worry … they will be given ‘death counseling’… I think that’s what it’s called… maybe something fancier and nicer sounding….
The fact that all this bothers me makes me ‘paranoid’ I guess …. and a ‘conspiracy theorist.’
So now ‘my’(sic) government wants – maybe is going to FORCE – me and my kids to take these vaccines, with squalene (cause of Gulf War Illness, it turns out), and mercury, and formaldehyde,and aluminum, and live viruses in them… and these are just SOME of the things they ADMIT are in these ‘mystery shots’ of theirs. Gee, I sure HOPE the shots are safe… because I will have NO LEGAL RECOURSE if I or my kids are sickened, suffer permanent damage, or or are killed as a result of taking them… they already passed a special ‘law’ about that…
But I guess I am a BAD person, because somehow all of this gives me a real hard time, and I am feeling like the sound and the picture are just not matching up here… I guess I better go and turn on that TV news and be told again, just exactly what to think about all this…
It is great to see all the people who really see this for what it is. Your county sheriff has the power to overturn any federal or state mandates. Your county sheriff has more power than the president of the united states when it comes to you and protecting your freedoms under the constitution…
In the now infamous words of Rep. Wilson “You lie!” That’s about a good an example as you can find of Orwellian “double-speak.” I’ve got some beach front property just east of Cape Cod, wanna but some?
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It’s easy to see that Mr. Moore is a self serving moron, portraying any citizen who does not capitulate to the governments plans to foist their ideas and opinions on us as radicals. Listen up Mooreon, when the people are loud it is because our employees, those leaders who work for us, are turning their deaf ear to we their employer.
I think the best way to fix this mess is to vote out, recall or impeach every politician who’s set themselves so high up on a pedestal that they can no longer hear us. VOTE THEM OUT so they can get real jobs and get back to their roots’
Furthermore, since they won’t hear any talk of term limits for their jobs, how about we impose our own term limits on all of these self serving politicians, so that they’re removed from office before they get the chance to grow rich by giving our tax dollars away to those who didn’t earn it.
The more I read of things like this police state being staged in MA, the more I become convinced that it’s all part of a bigger picture, and whether an influenza pandemic ever occurs or not the powers that be may use these plans against the people because they’ll already be established when a turmoil of any kind develops. If you’ve learned nothing else about the Demonicrats and the Obama administration you should’ve learned by now that they’re all about controlling the population. Besides Obama’s Marxist mentor Saul Alinsky, too many of Obama’s close associates were either communists, terrorists, anti-establishment, radicals or haters of the American way of life. For example; when you see Black Panther Party members, led by Muslim leader Malik Shabazz, standing outside of voting locations – openly brandishing weapons, and they’re not charged with any crime, you’d better know that the fox is running the hen house and you and justice are merely obstacles to be overcome.
Okay, listen up, here’s a place where you’ll find stories that Lauer, Couric, CNN, or the NY Times won’t offer you. I’ll admit that there are some ‘out there’ stories on this website, but if you want to read stories related to this police state being proposed by MA and other states, I strongly suggest that you go to http://www.infowars.com. You’ll read about things such as spermicides and cosmetics found in H1N1 experimental vaccines, vaccines that some are talking about making mandatory. How can this be? What you may be unaware of is that vaccine makers were given protection from lawsuits by a bill passed GWBush. I’m sure Bush never envisioned things like this, but nevertheless this is where we are now. Read the articles and discern for yourself what is right or wrong.
And the eternal excuse for all this is 9/11. When most people know now that the events of that day according to the official story are questionable and require an independent review and investigation. Denial and riducule is not working anymore. The dam is about to crack…..
1.) CommonHealth is probably a paid government shill.
2.) There is absolutely NO evidence for the use of this vaccine. There is a ton of evidence against it.
3.) This is actually just another government bailout, paid for by the taxpayers… and given to the pharmaceutical industry.
4.) Politicians either can’t read or they just don’t take the time to read the bills they pass. Fourth graders would do a better job of running this country, other than a few in the house.
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[...] pandemic and disaster preparation and response in the commonwealth. 4 agosto ’09. Cf. Moore, RT. Critics rage as state prepares for flu pandemic. 11 septiembre ’09. WBUR [...]
[...] pandemic and disaster preparation and response in the commonwealth. 4 agosto ’09. Cf. Moore, RT. Critics rage as state prepares for flu pandemic. 11 septiembre ’09. WBUR [...]
[...] and disaster preparation and response in the commonwealth. 4 agosto ’09. Cf. Moore, RT. Critics rage as state prepares for flu pandemic. 11 septiembre ’09. WBUR [...]