(NaturalNews)
President Obama's declaration of a national pandemic emergency is "no cause for
alarm," reported the mainstream media throughout the weekend. The declaration is
nothing more than a "precaution," they say. "It's really more a continuation of
our preparedness steps," said Anne Schuchat, director of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory
Diseases, in a USA Today story.
In other words, there's not really any emergency at all. So why declare a
national emergency in the first place? The media reports this was done to allow
hospitals to bypass federal regulations concerning the setting up of large-scale
triage sites -- emergency medical camps quickly constructed to deal with large
numbers of sick people.
But at the same time, H1N1 isn't causing large-scale sickness. As USA Today
reported, an expert on infectious disease, P.J. Brennan (the chief medical
officer for the Penn Health System at the University of Pennsylvania in
Philadelphia) said, "The public ought to take some solace, some relief in this.
It's not a suggestion that things have deteriorated in any way. In no way is the
virus more severe or more difficult to manage."
So let me get this straight. The H1N1 virus remains mild. The CDC reports that
swine flu infections already peaked out in mid-October. There have been no new
developments in swine flu that would be cause for alarm and no reason to suspect
huge numbers of sick people flooding into the hospitals. And yet, for some
reason, the Obama administration has declared a national pandemic emergency
specifically for the purpose of speeding the ability of hospitals to process
large masses of sick people through emergency medical triage tents?
What are these people not telling us?
Something doesn't add up here. Why would the U.S. government need to declare a
national emergency to enable hospitals to handle a flood of sick people when
there is no flood of sick people (and the pandemic seems to be fizzling out)?
This is more like the kind of preparation you might expect in advance of a
biological terrorism attack, not for a flu that appears no more dangerous than
the seasonal sniffles.
The National Emergencies Act and FEMA
Meanwhile, the media ignores the rest of the story about what dangerous powers a
declaration of a national emergency puts into play. As reported here on
NaturalNews, this declaration effectively ends many civil liberties in America
and, at least on paper, puts the U.S. government in the position of having the
legal authority to force vaccinations on the entire population at gunpoint (if
they wanted to).
The National Emergencies Act passed in 1976 has some peculiar realities attached
to it. In particular, as Wikipedia reports:
A federal emergency declaration allows the United States Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA) to exercise its power to deal with emergency situations
... Typically, a state of emergency empowers the executive to name coordinating
officials to deal with the emergency and to override normal administrative
processes regarding the passage of administrative rules.
Got that yet? By declaring a national emergency, Obama invokes a set of laws
that not only override important sections of the U.S. Constitution, but that
also activate FEMA to take charge of "responding" to the emergency.
Now we know why they need all those emergency medical tent camps near the
hospitals. FEMA's in charge! And if FEMA handles the swine flu pandemic in the
same way the agency handled the Hurricane Katrina disaster, we may indeed need
all those emergency triage tents after all.
Those of you who have been following the ongoing march to destroy the freedoms
of the American People already know about FEMA camps. These aren't Boy Scout
field trip camps; they're detention centers designed to hold large numbers of
people for "emergency" purposes. Many theories abound on what these FEMA camps
might be used for (www.campFEMA.com
) (
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index....).
They could conceivably be used to quarantine people who are infected with a
dangerous pandemic virus. On the other hand, they might also be used to isolated
and detain people who refuse to be vaccinated against any declared pandemic.
Under the National Emergencies Act and related U.S. law, FEMA would have two
years of near-total control over the civilian population, during which people
could be subjected to forced vaccinations, mandatory searches of their homes,
gunpoint detainment and "involuntary transportation" to a FEMA detainment
facility, and so on.
I'm not saying they're going to do all this, but they could if they wanted to!
And that's not freedom. Real freedom means you have the guaranteed right to be
safe from being detained, or arrested without cause, or injected with a
government-mandated chemical. Under a declaration of a national emergency, your
"freedom" is at the whim of those who maintain police state powers over you.
You're only "free" if they decide to refrain from exercising the power they have
over you. It's the same kind of freedom you might get as a peasant in some
Medieval kingdom where the king says, "You're free to go."
Now, some of these freedom-restricting actions might conceivably be justifiable
if a truly dangerous pandemic virus were sweeping through the population killing
millions, causing huge disruptions in the national infrastructure and
threatening the nation with a partial or total shutdown of essential services.
But that is not happening here. H1N1 is a mild virus that rates astonishingly
low on the severity scale. If H1N1 were a hurricane, it would be little more
than a "tropical depression." It is not a category five hurricane, nor a phase
six pandemic. Virtually everyone who is exposed to H1N1 generates their own
antibodies and cures themselves naturally. According to hospital reports, those
who have died from the H1N1 virus are almost exclusively people who were already
suffering from preexisting conditions that compromised their health such as
asthma or extreme obesity.
By any measure, H1N1 as currently configured appears to present no extraordinary
threat to the health of the population. So once again, we must ask: Why declare
a national emergency and initiate a FEMA response to something that's not really
an emergency?
Why I'm concerned
For the first time in this whole pandemic situation, I'm concerned. Not due to
the virus itself, because that's a mild virus that presents no real threat to
the population at large. I'm concerned about what we don't know might be going
on behind the scenes here.
These preparations for large-scale medical triage tents and the emergency
activation of FEMA have me worried that the American people aren't being told
the whole story. Perhaps a terrorist organization is planning on releasing a
wildly dangerous mutation of H1N1 in some major U.S. city. Or perhaps some
vaccine maker is, in fact, that terrorist organization. (The best way to sell
more vaccines would be to release a mutated form of H1N1 into the population and
scare up some more sales...)
Or maybe, as some creative thinkers have suggested, the vaccine itself IS a
bioweapon, and the U.S. government is preparation for large-scale fatalities it
expects to see soon.
Or maybe these are just fleeting, dark visions from crazy people, and the U.S.
government is a benevolent organization with all our best interests in mind, and
they're jumping through these bureaucratic hoops to make sure there are plenty
of hospital beds to go 'round just in case more people get really sick.
But even that explanation doesn't hold water. A "national emergency declaration"
isn't necessary to waive hospital tent rules. Obama could have easily
accomplished the same thing with an Executive Order, without having to invoke
the National Emergencies Act or put FEMA in charge at all.
He chose the emergency declaration for a specific reason. I guess we'll all have
to wait and see what that real reason turns out to be.