Big Pharma Vs. the People

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National Coalition of Organized Women

 

September 10, 2005

phone: 917 804-0786

Contact: Dannemann, Director

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Hollywood Shakes Up Politics & Big Pharma

The Constant Gardener Gains Grassroots Support

 

The National Coalition of Organized Women (NCOW) is

organizing grassroots health freedom networks to promote the new

Hollywood movie, " The Constant Gardener " . Grassroots lobbyists are

hitting the streets and the members of Congress with flyers and

materials urging people and politicians to address the real life

implications of issues raised in this film - namely the disastrous

public health consequences that have come with Big Pharma's influence

over government regulators.

 

The movie begins with a subtle reference to AIDS when Tessa

(Rachel Weisz), a grassroots activist in Africa, discovers that a

pharmaceutical company is testing unapproved, dangerous drugs on the

African population - and hiding fatal adverse reactions by burying

the victims. " It is interesting, how the movie begins with an

inference to AIDS " , commented NCOW Director Dannemann. " Most

people might miss the subtle reference, which is why I point it

out, " Ã, she added.

 

Project Bioshield passed last year giving unfettered

authority to the Dept. of Defense to mandate the vaccination of

military and civilians

 

According to Dannemann, The Constant Guardian is not fiction

and accurately portrays the real-life relationship between public

health policy makers and Big Pharma. " These are the people who have

been empowered to medicate us at gunpoint, " Dannemann stated.

 

Among the real life issued raised by the movie is the

widespread, government-approved use of humans as test subjects for

medical experimentation without their knowledge or consent.

 

Last year the Congress passed Project Bioshield I, giving the

Dept. of Defense (DoD) and the Dept. of Human Health Services (HHS)

authority to arbitrarily declare national emergencies. Bioshield

gives these agencies broad authority to mandate use of untested,

unlicensed and unproven biodefense vaccines on both military

personnel and civilians. The DoD has already invoked this authority.

Based on the " belief " that Iraq " may " expose our troops to a

weaponized form of anthrax, the DoD declared an emergency (which is

still in effect) and forced the untested anthrax vaccine on military

personnel. (Mil Vax).

 

Testing unapproved drugs is happening right here in the

United States

 

Dannemann warns that medical experimentation is not limited

to military personnel. " Big Pharma is testing drugs on our children

and elderly right here in the United States with experimental AIDS

cocktails to foster children, " Ã, Dannemann stated. (www.ahrp.org)

Another example is the introduction of Fluarix, an investigational

new drug from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). Though not yet licensed for use

in the U.S., HHS has purchased 1.2 million doses of Fluarix,

apparently for pre-approval testing among unsuspecting populations of

flu shot-recipients.

 

An entire generation has been damaged by the childhood

vaccine program

 

Another issue raised by The Constant Gardener is the public

health disaster triggered by the nation's childhood vaccination

policy. For the past 20 years the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)

has been " recommending " the injection of our children with vaccines

containing dangerous levels of mercury and other known toxins. " An

entire generation of our children received 22 of these vaccines by

the time they were two years old. The result is that nearly 20

percent of the children entering school today have Autism, ADD, ADHD,

hyperactivity and/or depression and are being prescribed psychiatric

drugs like Ritalin, Zoloft, Paxil, Prozac, Zyprexia, Wellbutin and

Adderall, " said Dannemann (www.ProgressiveConvergence.com).

 

Dannemann observed that the kids such as those involved in

the Columbine killings, Chris Pittman at the age of 12 (who shot his

Grand parents and burned down the house) and a vast number of suicide

victims were on these medications. " An estimated eight million

children are on psychiatric drugs today, " she said.

(www.drugawareness.org)

 

Big Pharma using Teen Screen and the New Freedom Commission

to directly market psychotropic drugs to students

 

Perhaps the most serious and pressing question begged by the

revelations of The Constant Gardener is how those in government and

industry are now authorized to screen all America's children for

mental illness.. " TeenScreen and the New Freedom Commission in no

more than a thinly veiled strategic marketing tool for the

pharmaceutical industry, authorizing the use of the public school

system as a marketing medium for their drugs " says, Ms. Dannemann.

 

During its last session, the U.S. Congress approved the

presidential executive order to fund a program that would screen

America's children for mental illness. This year it will survey, mis-

diagnose, label, report and force school aged children into the arms

of health professionals who routinely prescribe these dangerous

medications.

 

Independent researchers point out that the majority of

symptoms expressed by this generation of children is mercury

poisoning. " Rather than pointing the finger at the real problem (the

20 years of injecting our children with toxic amounts of mercury),

the government agency administrators mask their complicity and dumb

down our children by forcing them to take dangerous and addictive

psychotropic drugs. Teen Screen must be stopped by parents this

year " , insisted Dannemann. www.psychsearch.net/teenscreen.html.

 

Project Bioshield II, currently in the Senate, is

protectionist legislation for Big Pharma

 

Rather than reducing Big Pharma's influence over public

health policy, the U.S. Senate is currently entertaining legislation

that will dramatically increase drug makers' ability to continue

using hapless Americans for medical research. Senators Hatch,

Lieberman and Brownback have constructed a 157-page bill (S.975)

giving big Pharma congressional protection and privileges such as

special patent and liability protection, anti-trust and visa

exemption and special tax incentives. " Upon reviewing S.975, it

becomes obvious that these three senators represent Big Pharma, not

the people " , Dannemann said.

Dannemann is convinced that The Constant Gardener will raise

public awareness that government's public health policies are

contrary to Americans' health and well-being. She is also confident

that those injurious policies will change when the people

collectively refuse to be the unwitting subjects of medical

experimentation.

 

 

Dannemann

Director, National Coalition of Organized Women

www.ProgressiveConvergence.com

917 804-0786