When * was out there pushing his smallpox plan to vaccinate anyone and everyone, including troops, public health workers, first responders, hospital personnel.... then reports of serious post-vaccine reactions and adverse heart effects in previously healthy people started appearing in the newspapers around the country.
Didn't mean to digress, but whenever a potentially dangerous or lethal vaccination is pushed by politicians onto a population, in the face of a relatively low existing risk of outbreak of the disease, and without documented evidence of an actual disease outbreak, and without demonstrated safety of the vaccine, it is a good reason to refuse it.
And once again, in foisting this on a population by capitalizing on unwarranted fear, we see that the same cast of characters stand to benefit.
This article I kept from truthout from 2003:
Smallpox in America: Into the Garden of Delights
By Jennifer Van Bergen
t r u t h o u t | Report
Tuesday 14 January 2003
(Coleridge) said ... there were only three things which the government had brought into that garden of delights, namely itch, pox, and famine.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, English Traits(1856)
We are told that there is new grave threat to our welfare. Smallpox.
If we are indeed in danger of a smallpox outbreak (which is contradicted by medical testimony), the threat appears to be inflated.
A far more grave threat, however, is the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act (MSEHPA, MEHPA, or EHPA), portions of which were incorporated into the Homeland Security Act (HSA). The EHPA provides for forced vaccinations and confiscation or destruction of personal property under the mere threat of a threat of an outbreak.
Representative Ron Paul (R.-TX.), who also is a medical doctor, writes: (more at link)
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/011503A.jvb.smlpox.htm