DIRECT ORDER! (Democracy Now! 06-04-03) Anthrax Vaccine PT.5

Direct Order: An Award-Winning Documentary Tells the Story of Members of the Military who were Ordered Against their Will to Take the Controversial Anthrax Vaccine.

Video Headlines from June 2003.

Federal regulators last week approved a plan by biotechnology company, VaxGen to test its experimental anthrax vaccine on about 100 people.

The human volunteers will be injected with the experimental vaccine to see if its safe and produces the desired immune response.

VaxGen was awarded a $13.6 million federal contract to begin work on the anthrax vaccine. The company is applying for two more anthrax vaccine contracts. The contracts are expected to be awarded later this year for advanced testing and manufacturing of 25 million doses.

In the last few years, a number of published studies have linked anthrax vaccination to the development of Gulf War Syndrome, among them a study in the British medical journal the Lancet. Hundreds of soldiers have refused the shots after evidence emerged that the vaccinations are connected to a variety of illnesses.

But then the Bush administration went on the offensive. The Pentagon funded an Institute of Medicine study which concluded in March 2002 the anthrax vaccine is safe and effective against all anthrax strains and routes of infection. Its conclusions were based on unpublished researchalso funded by the Pentagon.

The story doesnt stop there. Bioport, the nations sole, licensed anthrax vaccine lab has repeatedly failed FDA inspections which found among other things, contamination.

The FDA cleared BioPorts manufacturing plant to begin producing the vaccine again in January 2002months after the letters containing anthrax were sent to Congress and news organizations. Bioport was also allowed to distribute the 500,000 doses of the vaccine already in stock. The vaccine was offered to some postal workers and others who were exposed. But most refused to take it.

The anthrax vaccine is mandatory for all military service members assigned to high-risk areas. At least part of the six-shot series, which takes a year and a half to administer, has been given to about 700,000 service members. It will be eventually administered to all 2.5 million service members.

Since 1998, when the vaccinations began, nearly 500 active-duty service-members have refused the vaccine, and more than 100 have been court-martialed. According to government figures, approximately 500 to 1,000 pilots and flight crew members have quit, resigned or transferred from the Air National Guard or reserves rather than take the vaccine.

Award-winning documentary Direct Order tells the story of members of the military who were ordered against their will to receive the controversial anthrax vaccine.

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[athletejmv85]

Thank you for this documentary. I went through this also. I could not walk and had trouble speaking. I went from 205lbs at 5'8" being able to run 11:00 two miles and benching up to 405lbs to 157lbs in a little less than a month. I also had severe cramping, vertigo and panic attacks from severe migraines and spouts of lost vision. I never felt so betrayed in my life as a dedicated Soldier since the age of 17yrs old. I'm now medically retired from the Army at 26yrs old. I still have no closure.

[CCAAASSSCCAAAA]

You're very welcome.Posting these kind of videos drive me nuts. At one point I love the documentaries (if done in a factual manner) but at the same it's a very hard/jagged pill to swallow MOST of the time because the topics that are being covered are very serious and nothing that the main stream media will touch.

I usually get very emotional while watching these kind of films, but what keeps bringing me back is that I'm a lover of truth and like seeing both sides of EVERY story.

[usmcoth]

Bending WHO over backwards? Following "inappropriate orders." Don't forget "the White Coat Project" Veterans. But BIOPORT got fed money. When I was at the Loma Linda VA they said I had 7 of 9 of the precursors for Agent Orange (but I wasn't in Vietnam). Ironically I was not in the gulf either. I touched SCUD missile fragments that were brought back and was one of the 1st Marines on the PGW illness registry.

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@usmcoth Dang.. =(



[Wildrosestands]

The best way to overthrow a powerful nation with a strong army, is to draw it's defenders away from home with a false war. Then you attack and decimate the ecomony and the army. They have no intention of defending our defenders. In truth, it is very apparent that they want them all out of the country or dead.. The overthrow is almost complete.

But we still maintain the Power to take these contract corporate