Petition for The Congress of the United States to Investigate Toxic Biological and Chemical Exposures of the American People by the MilitaryÐMedicalÐIndustrial Complex The greatest threat to American democracy, President Dwight Eisenhower cautioned, is the ÒmilitaryÐindustrial complex.Ó Recently published U.S. Government documents show some of the largest military weapons contractors have secretly conducted medical experiments on military and civilian populations from World War II to virtually the present. Despite official assurances to the contrary, investigations and stockpiling of biological weapons (BW) has continued over the past sixty years in the United States. The international Geneva Accord, outlawing such activity, signed by Richard Nixon in 1971, and accompanied by his pledge to discontinue all American ÒoffensiveÓ BW experiments including the development, testing, and stockpiling of lethal biologicals, has been repeatedly violated. Our first glimpse at the magnitude of these violations occurred during the 1975 Frank Church Congressional Investigation of the Central Intelligence AgencyÕs (CIAÕs) illegal storage and use of deadly biological agents for Òcovert operations.Ó Central Africa was the site of such espionage at that time. Today, it is the heart of the African AIDS belt and close to ground zero for the initial Ebola virus outbreaks as well. Following the Church Commission hearings, more false safety assurances were issued. In August 1997, it was learned that the U.S. Army, with hurried approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), conducted illegal AIDS vaccine experiments on uninformed and non-consenting military personnel enroute to the Gulf War. These risky, if not deadly, inoculations were conducted on behalf of pharmaceutical industry interests. As a result, published scientific evidence now shows that tens of thousands of Gulf War veterans were injured. Thousands carry an AIDS virus gene recombined with a common infectious vaccine contaminant known as mycoplasma. Grossly overlooked by the mainstream media, evidence indicates this new Gulf War Syndrome (GWS) epidemic is now spreading to civilian populations as well. Whereas political events in the Middle East have increased the risk of biological attacks effecting world populations; that Iraq received much of its biological weapons arsenal from the U.S.; that Iraqi chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction can be readily produced for low cost in any large kitchen regardless of periodic U.S. and U.N. weapons inspections; and that the growing plague of GWS caps a long history of U.S. militaryÐmedical experiments, including biological weapons tests of agents including E. coli, anthrax, botulism, AIDS, Ebola viruses and more, and Whereas vaccines developed to prevent infectious diseases by stimulating the immune system have exposed military and civilian populations to lethal, or potentially deadly, biological and chemical agents, and that currently the FDA cannot, and does not, adequately assure the safety and efficacy of vaccines, and Whereas a growing body of scientific evidence now links a variety of relatively new immune system related disorders including AIDS, several forms of malignant cancer, chronic fatigue immune dysfunction (CFIDS), fibromyalgia, Gulf War syndrome, lupus, multiple schlerosis (MS), some forms of rheumatoid arthritis and diabetes, autism, sudden infant death (SIDS), asthma, hay fever, allergies, and other ailments to vaccines and vaccine induced injuries, and Whereas major militaryÐmedical industrialists, including the vaccine manufacturing company, and documented U.S. Army BW contractor, Merck and Company (currently Merck, Sharp & Dohme), manufactured the vaccines during the early 1970s that, according to documented scientific evidence, most plausibly initiated the AIDS epidemic in New York CityÕs homosexual males and Black Central African villagers, and Whereas the chief developer of these hepatitis B vaccines, Dr. Maurice HillemanÐthe 1997 recipient of the Sabin Gold Medal of Honor Award by President ClintonÐhas admitted on tape importing AIDS virus in contaminated monkeys destined for use in MerckÕs human vaccine trials; and despite this, the Clinton administration has recently ÒmandatedÓ the hepatitis B vaccine also be given to twelve-hour-old infants whose immune systems are still immature, and Whereas historic political and financial ties link Merck, Rockefeller affiliated institutions, and the most powerful directors of the militaryÐindustrial complex, and Whereas approximately 10,000 American hemophiliacs developed AIDS as a result of tainted blood supplies that were knowingly processed with the AIDS virus (HIV) by the New York City Blood BankÑa major blood industry supplier arising from the Community Blood Council of Greater New York assembled by Laurance Rockefeller and likewise funded by the Rockefeller family fortune, and Whereas the Rockefeller family largely established the cancer industry during the 1920s, along with a virtual monopoly over American medicine by funding the fraudulent Flexner Report to Congress that vilified traditional preventive and natural healing methods as opposed to more lucrative and far more risky drug-based methods of disease care, and Whereas Laurance Rockefeller was Chairman of the Board of the memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and a trustee of the Sloan Foundation, at the time materials used to manufacture viruses functionally identical to HIV flowed between Sloan virologists and the National Cancer InstituteÕs (NCIÕs) leading AIDS expert, Dr. Robert Gallo, and Whereas the population reduction objectives for the United States have been determined and published in the March/April 1996 issue of Foreign AffairsÑthe esteemed politically influential publication of the Rockefeller directed Council of Foreign Relations. This source urges a 50 percent reduction of Americans over the next twenty-five years as a realistic goal, and Whereas the Rockefeller Foundation, Merck Fund, and Sloan Foundation are among the leading funding sources for world population reduction, and the earliest financial supporters of Planned Parenthood-World Population, New York, NY, and the Population Council of New York, the later of which was established principally by Rockefeller efforts, and Whereas the most recent cancer rate projections by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the American Cancer Society, indicate cancer will strike the same percentage of Americans targeted for population reduction, that is, one out of two people over the next twenty-five years. PAINFULLY OBVIOUS is the fact that as people become ill, vast fortunes are being made by the same militaryÐmedicalÐindustrialists who continue to spread biological and chemical toxins by various means and routes. Moreover, as our family members and friends die, this serves their population reduction objectives. Indeed, this suspicious ÒcoincidenceÓ of socio-political and medical economic outcomes, as well as the agents and agencies promoting and funding them, deserves urgent attention and immediate independent scientific, U.S. Justice Department, and Congressional scrutiny. . Therefore, on the basis of frequent disregard for citizensÕ right to informed consent during medical experimentation, and the current Òmandatory,Ó potentially deadly, vaccination of largely uninformed and non-consenting school children, college students, health workers, military personnel, and even newborn infants, WE DEMAND: 1. Government and Industry Accountability regarding vaccine risks and injuries. 2. The repeal of the deplorable National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, and 3. The right to refuse vaccinations without persecution, threatened access to schools and workplaces, or loss of jobs. We, the undersigned citizens of your district, believe that sufficient evidence of illegal, unethical, and immoral human experimentation and unwitting intoxications have occurred, and continue today, to justify independent scientific, U.S. Congressional, and Justice Department investigations. We therefore respectfully petition you to initiate, expedite, and/or support these investigations, and enact legislation to limit toxic biological and chemical exposures of the American people by militaryÐmedical industrialists. Signatures: _______________________________________________________________________ (Please e-mail, fax, or mail the above petition to American legislators and citizens. If you are not sure of who your state and federal representatives are, link to http://www.leggs.com:80/articles/legal/articles/links.html) This petition has been initiated by Tetrahedron, Inc. a nonprofit educational corporation in cooperation with the National Health Federation. 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