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Subject: NEW HAMPSHIRE: MOTHER FORCED TO HAVE CHILD VACCINATED
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 17:03:11 -0800
From: "Jonathan Saturen"
To: [email protected]

Vaccine Police Force Mother to Have Child Injected

According to a recent report from the National Vaccine Information Center, a single mother living in New Hampshire reported that a policewoman, a detective and state social service worker showed up unannounced at her home armed with a court order and forced her to submit her son to a DPT injection. The forced injection came after she had taken her son to the emergency room a few days earlier for a minor burn from a wood stove, and had mentioned that her son had never received any vaccines. The hospital notified state health authorities. A nurse at the hospital had insisted that her son get a tetanus injection and an injection of immune globulin (even though it was not medically indicated because there was no puncture). When the group came to the woman's house, a social worker held down the child while a nurse injected him with DPT toxoid. For several days after the medical assault on her child, the child was hyperactive, "acted like a different child", could not sleep at night, and within a week he had a fever and was ill. This child had previously been ill only TWICE in his life.

The woman, Terra Newton, commented that "I feel like I have been violated and that I am living in a Police State. If it is not my constitutional right to protect my son from this kind of violence, then you might as well throw the constitution out the window." She is looking for a lawyer to represent her. "I want to take this as far as I can legally go. This is America, not Communist China."

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A letter from S.J. Manch, taken from the Konformist, which clearly shows one of the reasons why India will eventually side with China and Russia against the USA, and the looming World Trade War.

Jan 11, 2000

Mr Mike Moore
Director General
World Trade Organization.

Dear Mr Moore,

We have tolerated enough.

For several years now, the people of India have been a mute witness to the systematic effort of the rich countries to recolonise the developing world under the garb of free trade.

Over the years, the WTO has legitimised under TRIPs the steal, grab and plunder of biological wealth and traditional knowledge from India. Your patent laws have been designed to facilitate biopiracy from the biodiversity rich countries. We are aware that almost 90 per cent of India's estimated 45,000 plant species and 81,000 animal species are already stored illegally in the United States.

To protect the economic interests of a few million farmers on either side of the Atlantic, the WTO has reached an Agreement on Agriculture, which is aimed at marginalising the 550 million Indian farmers and putting the country's food security at an unmanageable risk. For us, the survival of our small and marginal farmers, forming the backbone of the economy, is as essential as protecting the democratic traditions of this great nation.

A majority of the small-scale industries in India have already closed down. The pharmaceutical sector, which made available medicines within easy reach of the people, is at the verge of closure. Multi-national companies, which your organisation essentially represents, have already embarked on the process of loot and repatriation of resources. And if the past tradition is any indication, we know that after you quit the WTO, you too will join one of these companies. Your interest in furthering the cause of these companies is, therefore, obvious.

As if this is not enough, you are bringing in labour, environment and multilateral investment within the gambit of the WTO. In any case, Seattle has clearly demonstrated that you are merely a pawn in the hands of the United States. Unabashedly, you addressed joint press conferences with the US Trade Representative. You behaved as if she was your boss. You threw all the democratic norms to wind by permitting the US to hijack the global forum. The WTO is, as a placard being carried by a protestor on the streets of Seattle read: "Wicked Trade Organisation."

Your agents in India, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), perpetuate the unequal doctrine on unsuspecting and gullible masses. For your kind information, many of the people you support have already sucked the national exchequer dry. For instance, the non-performing assets of the nationalised banks in India, milked dry by a few industrialists, stand at a staggering Rs 5,00,000 million !!

The WTO protects the criminals. We cannot allow this to go on forever. Let this be a warning from the people of India. We will not allow a global system, which actually protects and supports the rich and the powerful at the cost of the lives of millions of poor and hungry. Mahatma Gandhi has taught us that tolerance of injustice is a crime. We will, therefore, no longer accept any sort of coercion, threat and injustice.

You are perhaps aware that we have had a long history of driving out the pirates and the colonial masters. And we will do it once again, if need be.

From

Swadeshi Jagran Manch
Bhartiya Mazdoor Sangh
Akhil Bhartiya Vidayarthi Prishad
Bhartiya Kisan Sangh
Laghu Udyog Bharati
Swamajvadi
Abhiyan

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Readers will remember I called the IMF a Rapacious Beast. Here is another's view, also from the Konformist Newsletter, to support that label. Read and weep:

From ACERCA: Action for Community & Ecology in the Rainforests of
Central America
POB 57
Burlington, VT 05402 USA
(802)863-0571
(802) 864-8203 Fax
Email: [email protected]
http://www.acerca.org

ACERCA is a project of the Alliance for Global Justice and a member of the Native Forest Network

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank are the architects of the world economy, and spawned the WTO. In Seattle, the heads of the three institutions issued a joint statement saying, "The IMF, the World Bank and the WTO will continue to work together closely, under our Cooperation Agreements to help increase the coherence of economic policy-making."

We must make our demands for economic justice heard. We are bringing thousands of activists to Washington for the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings (April 16-17, 2000). Finance ministers from around the world will be in Washington to ratify their plans for the expansion of elite, corporate power. We need to share the spirit of Seattle with them.

contact:

50 Years Is Enough Network
1247 E. Street SE
Washington, DC 20003
202 544 9355
202 544 9359 Fax
Email: [email protected]
www.50years.org

What are the IMF and World Bank?

The IMF and World Bank have been empowered by the governments which control it, led by the rich countries of North America, Japan, and Western Europe (the "Group of 7," which holds over 40% of the votes on their boards), with imposing economic austerity policies in the countries of the so-called "Third World" or "global South." Once Southern countries build up large external debts, as most have, they cannot get credit or cash anywhere else and are forced to go to these international institutions and accept whatever conditions are demanded of them. None of those countries has emerged from their debt problems; indeed most countries now have much higher levels of debt than when they first accepted IMF/World Bank "assistance."

The IMF/World Bank conditions - "structural adjustment programs" - force Southern countries to promote sweatshops, exports to rich countries, and high-return cash investment. The resulting increase in international commerce - corporate globalization - led to demands by corporations and investors for ways to lock in their privileges and protection against the perceived danger of governments seizing assets or imposing new regulations. The WTO was the answer to those demands, an institution whose secret tribunals can overrule national laws if they are found to violate the rights of corporations.

The World Bank is best known for financing big projects like dams, roads, and power plants, supposedly designed to assist in economic development, but which have often been associated with monumental environmental devastation and social dislocation. In recent years, about half of its lending has gone to programs indistinguishable from the IMF's: austerity plans that "reform" economic policies by suffocating the poor and inviting corporate exploitation.

Although the IMF finally got some of the criticism due it with the East Asian financial crisis (where it imposed austerity programs on South Korea, Indonesia, and Thailand), the two institutions continue to be the chosen tools of the political and business elites for ruling the global economy, and run, to one degree or another, about 90 Southern countries' economies. These countries are forced to adopt policies even more committed to deregulation and withdrawal of government from insuring public welfare than those in the U.S. Considering how impoverished many of these countries were to start with, the effects of these policies have been predictably devastating. We may read sometimes about the "successes" of "emerging market" economies, but the wealth being generated goes to very small segments of the populations, and much of it ends up in the North. The great majority of the people of the South are enduring increased poverty, decreased access to basic services, and decreased control over their own economies.

How -- and why -- do the structural adjustment programs (SAPs) that the IMF & World Bank impose create conditions that multinational corporations desire and that devastate most people in the Southern countries? A look at the most common SAP conditions show how economic "advice" is used to maintain the interests of the wealthy at the expense of continued suffering for the bulk of the people.

IMF / WORLD BANK CONDITION
IMPACT ON ELITE (Corporations, Investors, Wealthy)
IMPACT ON POOR

Cut Social Spending: Reduce expenditures on health, education, etc.
[IMF claims it is now making sure such spending goes up, but often it's to put in place systems to collect fees.]

* More debts repaid, including to World Bank and IMF.
* Increased school fees force parents to pull children -- usually girls -- from school. Literacy rates go down.
* Poorly-educated generation not equipped for skilled jobs
* Higher fees for medical service mean less treatment, more suffering, needless deaths.
* Women, already overburdened, must provide healthcare and caretaking for family members.

Shrink Government: Reduce budget expense by trimming payroll and programs.

* Fewer government employees means less capacity to monitor businesses' adherence to labor, environmental, and financial regulations
* Frees up money for debt payments
* Massive layoffs in countries where government is often the largest employer
* Makes people desperate to work at any wage

Privatization: sell off state-owned enterprises: factories, mines, telecommunications, electricity, water

( Invitation to corruption, as enterprises are sold to friends of government officials at bargain prices.
( Bargains for corporations, which take advantage of "fire-sale" prices
( New owners bust unions, impose harsh conditions
( Layoffs / unemployment
( Raise prices & fees for services, even basic ones like water and health
( Reduce provision of services where not profitable Increase Interest Rates: to combat inflation, increase interest charged for credit and awarded to savings
( Investors find country a profitable place to park cash, though they may pull it out at any moment
( Small farmers and businesses can't get capital to stay afloat.
( Small farmers sell land, work as tenants or move to worse lands.
( Businesses shut down, leaving workers unemployed

Eliminate Regulations on Foreign Ownership of Resources and Businesses

* Multinational corporations can purchase or start enterprises easily
* Countries compete for foreign investment by offering tax breaks, low wages, free trade zones
* Once in the country, corporations can turn to WTO for enforcement of "rights"
* Control of entire sectors of economy can shift to foreign hands
* Governments offer implicit pledges not to enforce labor and
environmental laws.

Eliminate Tariffs: Stop collecting taxes on imports; these taxes are often applied to goods which would compete with domestically-produced goods

* Allows foreign goods easy access to domestic markets
* Makes luxury items cheaper for those in the country
* Allows country to comply with WTO agreements
* Makes it harder for domestic producers to compete against better-equipped and richer foreign suppliers
* Leads to closure of businesses and layoffs Cut Subsidies for Basic Goods: Reduce government expenditures supporting reduced cost of bread, petroleum, etc.
* Frees up more money for debt payments
* Raises cost of items needed to survive
* Most frequent flashpoint for civil unrest

Re-orient Economies from Subsistence to Exports: Give incentives for farmers to produce cash crops (coffee, cotton, etc.) for foreign markets rather than food for domestic ones; encourage manufacturing to focus on simple assembly (often clothing) for export rather than manufacturing for own country; encourage extraction of valuable mineral resources

* Produces hard currency to pay off more debts
* Law of supply and demand pushes down price of commodities as more countries produce more, meaning guaranteed supply of low-cost products to export markets
* Local competition eliminated for multinational corporations
* Increased availability of low-cost labor
* Law of supply and demand pushes down price of commodities as more countries produce more, meaning local producers often lose money
* Best agricultural lands devoted to cash crops; poorer land used for food crops, leading to soil erosion
* Food security threatened
* Women often relegated to gathering all food for family while men work for cash
* Makes country more dependent on imported food and imported manufactured goods
* Forests and mineral resources (oil, copper, etc.) over-exploited, leading to environmental destruction and displacement

So Why Do Countries Agree to SAPs?

SAPs are anti-democratic in more than one way. The institutions are correct in saying that the plans are formulated in part, and agreed to, by the governments. But the government officials involved are usually limited to the Finance Ministry and the Central Bank, usually among the most conservative, Northern-educated, and wealthy members of the government -- in other words, those most likely to agree with IMF economics and benefit from the policies. In many cases even they feel coerced into going along with IMF/World Bank demands. If they don't cooperate, the consequence can be a complete cut-off of credit because other lenders follow the lead of these institutions.

With such unpopular policies, it is the rare government that can "sell" structural adjustment to its people, especially after 20 years of similar failed policies. The slogan "short-term pain for long-term gain" sounds hollow when people have heard it for a whole generation. SAPs encourage instability in democratic countries by forcing elected governments to institute measures that de-legitimize them. Indeed, the IMF prefers dictatorships to democratic governments, because dictators can more successfully impose SAPs. And once the rules are in place the WTO extends the attack on democracy by overruling any regulations that corporations claim interfere with their right to profits.

The fact that institutions based in Washington and largely controlled by the U.S. Treasury Department have been starving peoples around the world for two decades is a scandal. That people in the U.S. are barely aware of the fact is a disgrace.

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As you now appreciate, it is too late to change the world.
The Plan is proceeding to totally eradicate this abomination.

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