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Bushs risky flu pandemic plan - The Boston Globe

Reasonablib rated 36 months agoFeatured Review
"Bush's risky flu pandemic plan" The real reason he is touting the flue terror is to declare marshal law without having to declaring it. Am I crazy? No, FEMA is now the most powerful government agency. Once a disaster has been declared they don't need permission to declare curf...

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Reasonablib rated 36 months ago
"Bush's risky flu pandemic plan" The real reason he is touting the flue terror is to declare marshal law without having to declaring it. Am I crazy? No, FEMA is now the most powerful government agency. Once a disaster has been declared they don't need permission to declare curfews, detain people without trial, and use military troops to enforce what ever they deem necessary. The Hurricane disasters were used to test FEMAS ability to control the public wile they sold off now dead residents land to corporations who had lined the politicians pockets. The bird flue problem allows `Bush and Co.' to give more of are tax dollars to the pharmaceuticals who have failed the `free market' and the Pentagon. The Market doesn't work for vaccines. Instead government sponsored research, development and production should be implemented instead of government giveaways. The Republican-led Congress just slid $3.9 billion into the latest military funding bill to cover epidemic preparedness in case the Bird Flu evolves into a human flu. "On Tuesday, Bush raised the possibility of using the military to quarantine affected areas in the United States in the event of an avian flu outbreak." "I take this issue very seriously. The people of the country ought to rest assured that we're doing everything we can," --- Bush said during a White House news conference." "Bush called together the heads of major vaccine companies "to press ahead to expand our manufacturing capacity for a vaccine to address this risk," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Thursday."