The federal government exposed Indians to smallpox

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“Some variation of the measure is likely to be considered in virtually every state next year, forcing lawmakers to grapple with the right balance between civil liberties and emergency health powers in a new age of biological terrorism,” commented the Post.

An irony?

It is no secret that in the 1800s with blankets intentionally contaminated with the disease. Indians had no immunity to smallpox and smallpox epidemics severely diminished their ability to job function email list prevent the white man from taking over their land. Less than 200 years later, smallpox is back. This time the exposure will be from needles, not blankets and this time the epidemics will be among all Americans so that their ability to prevent the federal government from taking their land (and their freedom) will be severely diminished.


The first post-Sept. 11 biological scare was over anthrax. We were told to take the over-priced patented trade name antibiotic Cipro before symptoms of anthrax are apparent. The CDC's own Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) (Dec. 15, 2000) said that “antibiotics are....not effective against the spore form of the organism.” It also said that use of antibiotics before symptoms develop retards the maturation of the spores. “After discontinuation of antibiotics, the remaining spores [can] overwhelm the immune system and disease [can] develop.”