Remember the good old days when the biggest worries you had when you became ill centered on such questions as: “Will I get better?” and “When will I get better?” The Internationalists have determined that it is not enough merely to worry about getting sick — you should also be left wondering whether the outbreak of an illness may be exploited to reduce your nation’s resistance to suspension of its constitutional liberties, and even the rule of law.

A report at TheFluCase.com (“WHO publishes plans to take over the whole of society in pandemic emergency”) might sound bizarre, but an actual examination of the guidelines reveals some quite frightening recommendations in the World Health Organization’s document. (The May 2009 draft of the “Whole-of-Society Pandemic Readiness” document may be downloaded here; the July 2009 version is available here.)

At the outset of the guidelines, it is made clear that the fundamental concern in play throughout these guidelines is not the mitigation of disease, but the preparation of the whole of society for continuing to function during a pandemic:

These guidelines focus on non-health sector mitigation actions and aim to help WHO member states in the process of revising their existing national pandemic preparedness plans to better include all sectors of society.

Thus, for example, Section 6 (“Government Leadership Role”) sets forth the basic role of coordination provided by the “central governments” of various nations during a pandemic:

6.1    Central governments should provide the information and framework for the planning which must take place across all sectors of society. While all sectors of society are involved in pandemic preparedness and response, central governments are responsible for leadership, communication, and coordination. National inter-ministerial pandemic preparedness committees should map out the central government’s roles, responsibilities, and chain of command and designate lead agencies. Governments should actively promote the preparedness of the private sector. Plans should build on existing national disaster management approaches and institutions and be regularly revised as circumstances change and new information becomes available.

However, the view of “central governments” expressed by the WHO ignores the niceties of such pesky documents as the U.S. Constitution, which expressly limits the role of the federal government. When discussing such planning, it is very clear that a ‘one size fits all’ approach is fundamentally flawed.

The WHO guidelines takes an even more alarming turn when examining precisely what actions various “key line ministries” of the “central government” should take in the case of a pandemic:

6.4    Key line ministries need to develop business continuity plans to limit disruption. For some ministries, these plans should be both inward-looking (to ensure the ministries themselves can deliver their key functions) and outward-looking (ensuring that planning is taking place across their sector).

• Ministries of Defence should consider what military assets should be brought to bear in the event of a pandemic and how to mobilize them.
• Ministries of Transportation should minimize infection risks and staff absences in vital transportation, air, and sea ports and loading and unloading facilities, to enable continued supply of medicines and food.
• Ministries of Finance should plan to maintain essential cash, credit, banking, payment, international funds transfers, salary, pension, and regulation services in the face of significant absenteeism, and conduct testing of systemic resilience to pandemic risk.
• Ministries of Justice should consider what legal processes could be suspended during the pandemic and make alternative plans to operate courts during pandemic. They should also consider measures to minimize the spread of infection in prisons and other institutions under their authority.

It is interesting to note that the first order of business under consideration is to determine what role will the military have during a health crisis. The purported role for the Department of Defense would certainly run counter to the Posse Comitatus Act, unless the next logical step beyond declaring war on a tactic (War on ‘Terror,’ anyone?) is to declare war on a disease.

The recommendations for “ministries of justice” is to determine what elements of justice may be dispensed with during a ‘crisis’: “...consider what legal processes could be suspended during the pandemic...” Actually protecting against the spread of the disease within prisons (“and other institutions under their authority” — the mind reels to think what can be hidden in so vague a clause) is a secondary matter.

In point of fact, none of the “key line ministries” designated in the WHO guidelines have anything to do with health care per se and thus the guidelines are only tangentially related to mitigating the suffering of the people. Instead, they are based on maintaining order during a declared ‘crisis.’

The July version of “Whole-of-Society Pandemic Readiness” actually made the role of international organizations even more explicit than earlier drafts. An interesting amplification comes in the WHO guidelines for “central governments” to prepare for such a crisis. The May draft suggests:

6.5    Table-top and simulation exercises and drills at all levels are the best way to test, validate, and improve pandemic preparedness plans.

The final version makes the guidelines more explicitly linked to WHO and “international organizations”:

6.5    Table-top and simulation exercises and drills at all levels are the best way to test, validate, and improve pandemic preparedness plans. Tools developed by WHO or international organizations and adapted to local circumstances may be useful for a quick review to identify gaps during the pandemic response mode.

In part, one may view such recommendations as self-serving; every bureaucracy wants to prove its own relevance, and that the WHO would recommend the use of its own tools in preparing for a pandemic could be viewed in such a light. But the “legal aspects” portion of the guidelines which continue the alarming tone of previous portions of the guidelines:

8.5    In a pandemic situation, Governments may need to take regulatory measures in three main areas:

• health policy and organization,
• public order and individual liberties, and
• labour and economic issues.

Again, an area of great importance to the authors of the guidelines is the issue of the regulation of individual liberties. And 8.6 continues on this theme:

8.6    It is recommended that Governments should lead a cross-sectoral process to identify the legal issues related to a pandemic and should mobilize relevant participants to undertake four sets of actions:

Identify the relevant existing measures and regulations and how they need to be modified for a pandemic.

Identify the gaps in the existing legal system with regards to coping with a pandemic or similar major crisis. [Emphasis added.]

Prepare in advance necessary legal texts, with a view to either implementing them in advance or to having them ready when a pandemic starts. Plans should be made for when such new regulations would need to be ratified and implemented.

Develop the mechanisms to be able to implement and comply with the International Health Regulations.

The last clause may be the most significant: Have the mechanisms in place to comply with the orders of the International Health Regulations. The laws of the nation are thus subverted by the regulations issued by an international bureaucracy. The entire legal system is to be prepared for a sudden ‘adjustment’ of its entire legal system during a pandemic “or similar major crisis” as instructed by such regulations.

But a Constitution which is overthrown by a ‘crisis’ is no constitution at all.

Rt. Rev. James Heiser has served as Pastor of Salem Lutheran Church in Malone, Texas, while maintaining his responsibilities as publisher of Repristination Press, which he established in 1993 to publish academic and popular theological books to serve the Lutheran Church.  Heiser has also served since 2005 as the Dean of Missions for The Augustana Ministerium and in 2006 was called to serve as Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of North America (ELDoNA). An advocate of manned space exploration, Heiser serves on the Steering Committee of the Mars Society. His publications include two books; The Office of the Ministry in N. Hunnius' Epitome Credendorum (1996) and A Shining City on a Higher Hill: Christianity and the Next New World (2006), as well as dozens of journal articles and book reviews.

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rprew said:

	The ONLY pandemic the one worlder's need to be concerned about... And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image. - Revelation 16:2 Preserve our freedom. Preserve out constitution. Get the US out of the UN, and the UN out of the US.
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DDW said:

	I've said it before And I say it again: Not only do we need to get these United State out of the U.N., but we also need to get the U.N. out of these United States. That building should be completely and utterly demolished and the ground it sets on should be scraped right down to the earth.
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Thomas Paine said:

FluCase: Good resource Thanks for siting the FluCase Website in your article. The creator of that Website: Jane Bergermeister is as good as any American Patriot the way she is fighting the NWO. She started the website after filing criminal charges against Baxter Corp in Austria for tainting a vaccine with the live Bird flu virus and distributing it to 7 labs around Europe. Thank God one lab tested it first on Ferrets. They all died.

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